Jonathan LaPoma

Author / Screenwriter / Songwriter

Posts Tagged ‘Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts’

HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS Wins 3rd in Las Vegas Screenplay Contest

Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length black comedy HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS won 3rd in the Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (comedy category). HARM FOR THE HOLIDAYS is currently ranked 2nd in the GLBT and 9th in the Comedy categories of Moviebytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts, and has won 15 awards/honors in the last year. This is LaPoma’s 118th overall award/honor.

LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO an Official Selection of Pasadena Film Fest

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s feature-length character-driven romantic drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is an official selection of the 2016 Pasadena International Film Festival. This is the script’s 20th award/honor, and LaPoma’s 71st overall. LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO can be seen as EVEN THE RAIN meets BEFORE SUNSET and is ranked in the top 2% of the more than 2,600 scripts listed on MovieBytes.com.

 

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

DELLWOOD a Diamond Award Winner at California Film Awards

Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length coming-of-age drama DELLWOOD is a finalist in the Diamond Award category of the 2015 California Film Awards. DELLWOOD follows a successful, but unhappy, novelist who reluctantly returns to his childhood town to attend a friend’s funeral. While there, he reminisces about his experiences as a child playing basketball on a city court to escape from emotional abuse, and he understands himself and the theme of his next project more clearly. DELLWOOD can be described as STAND BY ME meets THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, and it’s the 7th ranked Urban screenplay in MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts section.

LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO, OFFICIAL SELECTION OF ALBUQUERQUE FILM FEST

Jonathan LaPoma and Natalia Porras Sivolobova’s romantic coming-of-age drama, LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (LAND THAT I LOVE), is an official selection of the 2015 Albuquerque Film Festival & Comic Con.

LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO follows a 30-year old half-Mexican, half-American woman who returns to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico after failing to make it as a dancer in New York, and struggles with where she truly belongs. It’s currently ranked at #6 in the Romance category of MovieBytes.com’s Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts section and can be seen as BEFORE SUNRISE meets EVEN THE RAIN.

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

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

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.

 

DELLWOOD Ranked 9th on MovieBytes “Top Ten” List

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.