Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length, coming-of-age drama THE WAY BACK HOME is a finalist in the 2017 Cannes Screenplay Contest. This is the script’s 21st award/honor and LaPoma’s 119th overall.
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THE WAY BACK HOME, Finalist in Cannes Screenplay Contest
April 4th, 2017THE WAY BACK HOME, Semifinalist in SoCal Screenplay
March 19th, 2017Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length coming-of-age drama THE WAY BACK HOME is a semifinalist in the 2017 Southern California Screenplay Competition. This is the script’s 20th award/honor and LaPoma’s 117th overall.
LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO Advances to Finals in Hollywood Screenplay Contest
October 5th, 2016Jonathan 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 Hollywood Screenplay Contest. This is the script’s 28th award/honor and LaPoma’s 100th overall.
LaPoma’s script THE WAY BACK HOME won the Grand Jury Prize of the 2014 Hollywood Screenplay Contest.
Two of Jon LaPoma’s Scripts Advance in Evolution Mallorca Film Fest
September 27th, 2016Jonathan 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.
Two of Jon LaPoma’s Scripts Advance in Creative World Awards
August 6th, 2016Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length scripts THE WAY BACK HOME and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova, have advanced through the first round of the 2016 Creative World Awards.
Both scripts are ranked within the top 2% of the more than 2,700 screenplays listed on MovieBytes.com.
LaPoma’s scripts have won 89 awards/honors in various international screenwriting competitions.
Jon LaPoma Places Two Scripts in Los Angeles CineFest
March 4th, 2016Los Angeles CineFest has chosen Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts SANDLEY and THE WAY BACK HOME as official selections of their 2016 contest. LaPoma has won 78 awards/honors at various international screenwriting competitions in the last two years.
FilmMakers International Advances Two of Jon LaPoma’s Scripts
January 23rd, 2016The FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards has advanced Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts THE WAY BACK HOME and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova) to the quarterfinals in their 2015 competition. Both scripts are ranked in the top 2% of the more than 2,600 screenplays listed on MovieBytes.com.
LaPoma’s seven screenplays have won 71 awards/honors in the last two years.
Jon LaPoma Places Two Scripts in California Film Awards
December 31st, 2015The California Film Awards has awarded Jonathan LaPoma’s scripts THE WAY BACK HOME and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova) as the 5th place winner and a finalist, respectively, of their 2015 competition. LaPoma’s scripts have won 69 awards/honors in the last two years.
Two of Jon LaPoma’s Scripts Advance in FilmMakers International
December 16th, 2015Jonathan LaPoma’s script LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova, and THE WAY BACK HOME, have advanced to the second round of the 2015 FilmMakers International Screenwriting Awards.
JON LAPOMA WINS LONDON FILM AWARDS FOR SECOND TIME
December 16th, 2015The London Film Awards has selected Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s romantic drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), as the Grand Prize winner of their 2015 Feature Screenplay category. This is the second consecutive year LaPoma has won the Grand Prize in this competition, winning with his script THE WAY BACK HOME last year. His scripts have won 67 awards/honors in the last two years. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO can be seen as BEFORE SUNRISE meets EVEN THE RAIN.
Patricia Chica (CERAMIC TANGO, WOLVERINE HOTEL) is attached to direct.