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Two of Jon LaPoma’s Scripts Advance in Evolution Mallorca Film Fest

September 27th, 2016

Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length dramas SOFI’S JOURNEY and THE WAY BACK HOME are semifinalists in the 2016 Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival.

SOFI’S JOURNEY:

An obsessive-compulsive twenty-one-year-old Peruvian woman, hoping to find love and relief from her mental illness, travels from Lima to the USA on a work-abroad program and takes a job at a small ski resort in Montana (GIRL, INTERRUPTED meets MARIA FULL OF GRACE). SOFI’S JOURNEY has won 8 awards/honors including 3rd place in the 2015 River Bend Film Festival and Honorable Mention in the 2014 Indie Gathering Film Festival.

THE WAY BACK HOME:

A young boy who loves animals must cope with his father’s insistence that he’ll someday work in the slaughterhouse that’s employed the men of their family for the last several generations (KES meets BILLY ELLIOT). THE WAY BACK HOME has won 18 awards/honors, including the Grand Jury Prize of both the 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest and the 2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest, and the Grand Prize of the 2014 London Film Awards. It’s also ranked in the top 2% of the over 2,700 screenplays listed on MovieBytes.com.

LaPoma’s ten scripts have won 98 total awards/honors since 2013.

LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO a Finalist in Southern California Screenplay Competition

September 14th, 2016

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s feature-length coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is a finalist in the 2016 Southern California Screenplay Competition. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO is ranked in the top 2% of the more than 2,700 scripts listed on MovieBytes.com and has won 26 awards/honors.

LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO Ranked 10th on MovieBytes.com

April 3rd, 2015

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is ranked 10th in the Romance category of MovieBytes.com’s “Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts.”

Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, WOLVERINE HOTEL) is attached to direct.

THE WAY BACK HOME a Finalist in the 2014 Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest

February 4th, 2015

Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length screenplay, THE WAY BACK HOME, is a finalist in the 2014 Beverly Hills Screenplay Contest. This is the 7th honor the script has received in the past year, including the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest, the Grand Prize at the 2014 London Film Awards, and 3rd place at the Chicago Screenplay Contest (drama category). THE WAY BACK HOME can be seen as a mix between KES and BILLY ELLIOT, and has been described as “A story that will stay with you and make you look in the mirror” by Summit Talent and Literary Agency. It’s currently ranked in the top 7% of the nearly 2,500 scripts listed on MovieBytes.com.

DELLWOOD Ranked 9th on MovieBytes “Top Ten” List

December 16th, 2014

Jonathan LaPoma’s coming-of-age drama, DELLWOOD, is ranked 9th in the “Urban” category of MovieBytes.com’s “Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts” page. DELLWOOD follows a group of young boys who use a city basketball court as an escape from the various forms of abuse they suffer growing up in the economically, but not spiritually, depressed city of Buffalo, New York. DELLWOOD is a cross between STAND BY ME and THE BASKETBALL DIARIES.

Jonathan LaPoma Interviews with MovieBytes

November 7th, 2014

After winning the Grand Jury Award in the 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest for THE WAY BACK HOME and “The New York Award” in the 2014 West Field Screenwriting Awards for A NOBLE TRUTH, Jonathan LaPoma interviews with MovieBytes. The Hollywood Screenplay Contest interview can be found here, and the West Field interview here.

Jonathan has won 1st place in three separate competitions in a little over a month.