Oaxaca Film Festival

Jonathan LaPoma's award-winning script, A Noble Truth, is a finalist in the 2014 Beverly Hills International Film Festival. A Noble Truth has won the following awards: -Rated SR - Socially Relevant Film Festival, 2014 - Top Four...

Jonathan LaPoma's multi-award-winning coming-of-age drama, A NOBLE TRUTH, is a finalist in the 2014 Awareness Fest in LA. This festival aims to bring "...awareness and to open eyes to some of our world's pressing issues: Ecological,...

Jonathan LaPoma's multi-award-winning, coming-of-age drama DELLWOOD is an official selection of the 2014 Oaxaca Film Festival. DELLWOOD has been dubbed, a mix between THE BASKETBALL DIARIES and STAND BY ME, and continues to receive praise via...

Quarterfinalist 2009 -- Writers on the Storm Screenplay Contest (Top 100 of over 1000 entries) for "The Minstrel      Finalist 2011 Smashcut Screenplay Contest for "The Minstrel"; (Top 10 in Fantasy Genre, Top 100...

Jonathan LaPoma's multi-award-winning coming-of-age drama, A NOBLE TRUTH, won 1st prize in the 2014 Awareness Film Festival's "scripts that inspire" competition. The festival's goal is to show "films that do more than...

Todd Sorrell's SILENT RESCUE continues its success story run as a Finalist in screenplay competition at the 2013 Oaxaca Film Festival (results recently released). 

Laughing Fire Press will publish Jonathan LaPoma's feature-length coming-of-age screenplay, A NOBLE TRUTH, in various electronic formats available for purchase at www.laughingfire.com in early 2015. In the past year, A NOBLE TRUTH...

The Mountain Film Festival has awarded Jonathan LaPoma's coming-of-age drama, A NOBLE TRUTH, honorable mention in its 2015 screenwriting competition. A NOBLE TRUTH follows two friends who take a road trip throughout America in search of what...

The Twister Alley International Film Festival has chosen Jonathan LaPoma's award-winning coming-of-age drama, A NOBLE TRUTH, as a finalist in their 2015 screenwriting competition. This is the script's 12th award. A NOBLE TRUTH will be...

Jonathan LaPoma's award-winning feature-length drama A NOBLE TRUTH is now available for purchase on Amazon.com and on the Laughing Fire Press website (www.laughingfire.com). A NOBLE TRUTH follows two estranged friends who take a road trip...

Official Selection ~ The Lake Effect, Feature Script

Jonathan LaPoma's feature-length coming-of-age drama THE WAY BACK HOME is an official selection of the 2015 Oaxaca Film Festival. This is the third consecutive year one of LaPoma's screenplays has been selected to this festival. THE WAY BACK...

Ed Vela's dramedy screenplay: "The Mortality Game" is a Finalist for the Grand Prize in the Oaxaca Film Festival's Screenplay Contest. Vela will not be able to attend the Festival but hopes for a positive outcome for his script.

Flying Tiger by David Bryant Perkins makes its way into the Oaxaca International Film Festival. Based on the AVG's (whose P-40's had the shark faces painted on) first mission in China, Perkins merges The Inn of the 6th Happiness with...

Jonathan LaPoma's dark, character-driven drama THE WAY BACK HOME is a top 12 finalist in the 2015 Oaxaca Film Festival's Global Script Challenge screenwriting competition. There were about 1,000 submissions to this year's festival. THE...

Michael's feature adaptation of Winona LaDuke's novel "Last Standing Woman," has been chosen an official selection of Oaxaca Film Fest 15 Global Script Challenge.  Movie Maker magazine calls the Oaxaca Fest...

Historical drama, thriller taking place in the early days of Franco's fascist regime has recieved international acclaim.

As of now LUANA, Danielle Erlich's prequel to the multi-award-winning screenplay LEGACY has been selected 10 times, nominated 6 times, and won 1 award. Logline: After her parents are murdered, the last dragon whisperer — a 16 yr old grieving...

Jonathan LaPoma's gritty coming-of-age short drama, A SACRIFICE TO THE GOD OF THE BLUES, is a finalist in the 2019 Oaxaca Film Fest. The script is competing in the "Best Legacy" and "Best Overall Script" categories. This is the script's 10th...

Michael Gonzalez's feature script RAISED advances to the Top 10 list of Finalists for "Best Urban" and is also in competition for the main award of "Best Overall Script" at the 2019 Oaxaca Film Festival's Global Script Challenge in October.

FLAT-RATE FRANK, Jeffrey Howe's historical coming of age drama, advanced to the quarterfinals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. It also entered the semifinal round at the Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices competition.

Teenage lovebirds have the power to start a revolution. The concept for Matthew Sadowski's WILD GEESE was inspired when a friend of his came out as trans and started transitioning. “It’s just how I was programmed" was her response to the...

Nominated "Best Screenplay" at the FIlm Festival. No winner was announced as the Festival was cancelled at the lat minute due to a massive earthquake.

The television pilot Hell Hound: The Legend of Robert Johnson received three nominations at the Oaxaca FilmFest including Best Horror Script, Best Original Concept and Best Global Script, the festival's top award. As one of the top film festivals in...

Tween sitcom about a Roman goddess reassigned as the goddess of teenagers wins the Teleplay Award in the 2022 Oaxaca Film Festival. Part of the submission process was to create a short pitch video to accompany the script once it made it to the...

The time for "Voices" to come to the screen is now! Mental health figures prominently in our current social environment. A great true story to help an audience better understand severe mental illness and erase the stigma.