FOUR SCRIPTS NOMINATED FOR BEST IN CATEGORY!
Many thanks to the Oregon Short Film Festival for nominating the following four of my scripts for best in category:
BEST DRAMA SCREENPLAY: "DUE DILIGENCE": Script Summit...Oregon Short Film Festival
Logline: 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.
BEST ROMANTIC COMEDY: "SEOUL TRAIN WITH BLONDE CORNELIUS":...Oregon Short Film Festival...New York Movie Awards
Logline: Immigrating from Korea to Chicago for opportunity, he was inspired by Dennis Rodman's blonde hair and Soul Train’s Don Cornelius to create a show blending K-pop with rap.
BEST DARK DRAMA SCREENPLAY: "LAST MEAL": Top Ten Ranking for Thriller on Coverfly...Script Summit...The Red List
Logline: Host of hit television series that snares pedophiles is a serial killer who makes it personal with select "guests" to avenge his missing sister.
BEST COMEDY: "THE SCRIPT WHISPERER":...New York Movie Awards...Oregon Short Film Festival
Logline: A script consultant prospers by improving scripts for clients in ways that resolve their relationship issues as his love life becomes even more challenging.
Five of my scripts have been picked as finalists at major contests, with twelve making it as official selections.
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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 at major contests.
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