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Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length comedy DIPLOMATIC AMMUNITY! is a semifinalist in the 2017 Monthly Film Festival. DIPLOMATIC AMMUNITY! follows a struggling Hollywood screenwriter who recruits his former best friends to help him write a script about a series of pranks they pulled in high school that led to the end of their friendship.
Jonathan LaPoma’s latest feature-length script, DIPLOMATIC AMMUNITY!, advanced to the quarterfinals in the 2017 Monthly Film Festival. This is the script’s first award/honor and LaPoma’s 112th overall.
The Monthly Film Festival has selected Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s character-driven coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), as an official selection of their October-November screenplay contest.
Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, WOLVERINE HOTEL) is attached to direct.
The Monthly Film Festival has chosen Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length, character-driven drama THE WAY BACK HOME as an official selection of their October-November competition. This is the script’s 12th award/honor.