"THIS WON'T HURT" SELECTED FOR OREGON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

About six months ago, December 2019, I started writing scripts and entering festivals. The first script I wrote made it as a finalist in two competitions, quarter-finalist in another, was selected for another, along with being the #1 family script for Coverfly.  Five had made it as finalists with 12 being selected overall for major contests. THIS WON'T HURT is an action pilot for television that is an official selection of the Oregon Short Film Festival.

The logline for THIS WON'T HURT: There's big bucks rewards for terrorists and criminals so a former SEAL prospers with his company that provides prison medical care and injects inmates with tracking chips as part of vaccinations to profit by collecting bounties from the data transmitted by the implanted devices until a virus is unleashed that results in a global pandemic.

THIS WON'T HURT by inspired by the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi whose identity was ascertained by DNA taken from his underwear. Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn just fled arrest in Japan with a huge reward now offered. The CIA gave vaccinations in Pakistan to get DNA from Bin Laden’s children. The Coronavirus pandemic is also the topic of episodes, from the pilot, making THIS WON'T HURT very timely!

Think of THIS WON’T HURT as “Mandalorian” and “Zero Dark Thirty” along with “Midnight Run.”

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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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