"DUE DILIGENCE" SELECTED FOR SCRIPT SUMMIT and OREGON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL!

DUE DILIGENCE is a drama that has been selected by the Script Summit and the Oregon Short Film Festival.

The logline for DUE DILIGENCE is, Cold War powers collide when a paper mill sells but Wall Street, the Mob, and Soviet spies should have read Stephen King before enraging supra-natural forces in rural Maine.

The synopsis for DUE DILIGENCE: So long as sulfur could be smelled in the air, life was good at the Maine paper mill town near the Canadian border, as it had been for generations. But when a greedy private equity firm from Wall Street descended on it, everything changed. There are now three powerful factions contending for control of the paper mill, and none care about the community and its people. But soon Russian sleeper agents (embedded KGB spies), The Mob, and Wall Street will meet an even greater force when a casino is built on reclaimed land inhabited by Father Sebastian Rale, a Jesuit missionary killed by the colonists in 1724 for his efforts to protect indigenous Native Americans in Maine.

THINK OF DUE DILIGENCE AS: The Americans meets Billions and The Sopranos with a slice of Stephen King

Many thanks to the judges as my scripts have made it into 12 major contests, with five as finalists!

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Jonathan Yates is the host of, "The Culture of Sports", a show that focuses on its business, community, economic, educational, philosophical, and political features.

He has degrees from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Georgetown University Law Center; and has also matriculated at the U.S. Naval War College and The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Much of his career was spent working for Members of Congress and state legislators in positions such as Chief of Staff, General Counsel, Legislative Director, Press Secretary, and Legislative Assistant. Twice he was granted "Top Secret" clearance in accordance with his duties on Capitol Hill. In the private sector, he was General Counsel for a publicly traded corporation and Assistant Washington Counsel for a major trade association. He has taught courses on government, business-government relations, and national security policy.

Thousands of his interviews and pieces under his byline on politics, sports and other topics have appeared in media outlets such as CNBC, NPR, American Politics, Atlantic Community Quarterly, Baltimore magazine, Baltimore Sun, Boston Herald, Buffalo News, Charlotte Observer, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, CollegeAD, Des Moines Register, Detroit News, Foreign Policy, Fuels & Lubes, The Gazette, Hartford Courant, Houston Chronicle, Investor's Business Daily, Legal Times, Michigan Law Weekly, New York Times, News American, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sports History Weekly, Tallahassee Democrat, Toronto Daily Mail, USA Today, and The Washington Post, among others.

Five of his scripts have been selected as finalists with 12 overall making it in major contests.

Here is his reporter reel...

Here is his reporter reel...