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Logline: After their teenage son accidentally kills a woman with his car, an estranged American family living in Saudi Arabia must cover up the crime and attempt to get out of the country before the local authorities and the victim’s sister catch up to them.

Logline: When a disgraced ex-cop witnesses the alien abduction of his son, the government frames him for murder in order to cover it up. Now, pursued by a relentless agent from a shadowy organization, he must work with his estranged wife to break into a top secret warehouse filled with recovered alien technology in order to expose the truth and get his son back.

Logline: Determined to spend more time with his daughter, a bumbling divorcee volunteers to chaperone a camping trip for her Girl Scouts troop, but is quickly in over his head when they get stranded in the wilderness and run afoul of dangerous felons.

Logline: A young widower who runs a business catfishing people on behalf of disgruntled exes, luring unsuspecting strangers into online romantic relationships, and hits it off with a woman who finds his job fascinating, but their romance is derailed when he’s hired to catfish someone who appears to be his dead wife.

Logline: A small South Carolina town loses its only employer when a mill closes, causing the town council to try to find a way to move the state line in order to take advantage of tax breaks in Georgia that would bring them a new car plant and save their livelihoods.

Logline: Franz Schubert’s struggles to be recognized as a composer as dissension rises against the oppressive government of the 19th Century Hapsburg Empire.

Logline: The producers of a show that baits sexual predators and exposes them on television are violently targeted by a group of pedophiles they previously caught, and one of their young “decoys” must survive a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after she reels in a psychopath that may be her sister’s kidnapper.

Logline: After he posts a negative review of a laxative online, causing the company that produced it to go bankrupt, a young go-getter is hunted down by the product’s creator, who wants to ruin his life.

Logline: A 32-year-old divorce attorney desperate to have a baby starts bedding random men in order to get pregnant, but her plan backfires when she meets the man of her dreams, and her actions could come back to haunt her.

Logline: A closeted high school football player is forced to volunteer at a retirement community after getting in trouble with the law, where he forms an unlikely friendship with an elderly veteran mourning the loss of his long time male partner.

The Launch Pad Feature Competition, alongside our exclusive competition partners Vertigo Entertainment, Twin Padres Productions, ESA, and Bellevue, are incredibly thrilled to announce the 2016 Launch Pad Feature Competition’s Top 10.

Launch Pad Feature alum Jacob Isser has signed with Eric Williams of Zero Gravity Management. His feature script H.O.V. (High Occupancy Vehicle), described as Horrible Bosses meets The Hangover, landed in the Top 10 of the 2014 Launch Pad Feature Competition.

Described as The Hunger Games meets The Purge, Newell’s manuscript tells the story of what happens when all the parents of a remote island community begin to murder their children for no apparent reason, and the 17-year old girl who must fight to save her younger brothers from the people who are supposed to love and protect them.

Launch Pad alum Sarah Acosta has signed with Amanda Burnett and Josh Hornstock at UTA. Acosta’s script Eclipsed landed her in the Top 5% of the 2015 Pilots Competition.

Recent TB Recommends writer Michael Moskowitz has signed with Lee Stobby and Derrick Eppich of Lee Stobby Entertainment. His feature script Wyler earned the TB Recommends honor yesterday.

We are excited to announce the feature script Wyler from Michael Moskowitz is the latest to earn the TB Recommends Honor from the Tracking Board. The feature script, is a Hollywood biopic that is sure to get the attention of people across the industry.

Michael Moskowitz’s biopic drama Wyler, about anti-Semitism in the golden age of Hollywood, has become the first TB Recommends of 2017!

With several A-List talent packages circling, Sony stepped in to close a deal and mark the first sale of the ongoing 2016 Launch Pad Feature Competition!

Following several months of reading, re-reading, debating, and tallying scores from our fourth year of the Launch Pad Feature Competition, we, alongside our exclusive competition partners are incredibly thrilled to announce the 2016 Launch Pad Feature Competition’s Top 25.

Following several months of reading, re-reading, debating, and tallying scores from our fourth year of the Launch Pad Feature Competition, we, alongside our exclusive competition partners are incredibly thrilled to announce the 2016 Launch Pad Feature Competition’s Top 50.

Jay Riedl, a Launch Pad Alum from our 2016 Launch Pad Pilots Competition, has signed with APA. This follows her pilot Snark landing in the Top 25 of last year’s competition and a first signing with Echo Lake Entertainment.

After several months of reading, debating and tallying, we, alongside our exclusive competition partners Vertigo Entertainment, Twin Padres Productions, ESA, and Bellevue, are incredibly thrilled to announce the 2016 Launch Pad Feature Competition’s Top 75.

Launch Pad Pilot Competition alum Caitlin McCarthy has netted herself on the Top 100 Indie Writers in the World in a new book out by Del Weston and Theresa Weston. The book is the first of two taking readers on a trip through the minds, creativity processes, and lives of some of the most incredible screen and scriptwriters working today.

The Tracking Board and its partners Scott Free Productions, Energy Entertainment, and Inkshares are proud to announce the winners of the Inkshares Publishing Prize for our inaugural Launch Pad Manuscript Competition.

David Luz, who made it into the Top 25 of the Launch Pad Manuscript Competition with Tallok, has signed with Kathy Muraviov of The Muraviov Company

Launch Pad writer and alumni Julia Cooper, who wrote the Phantasmagoria pilot script for this year’s pilots competition, has signed with Laura Leonard and Meredith Bajana of Grandview.

Logline: After her husband leaves her unexpectedly, a 1960s housewife moves to Arizona where she befriends a closeted gay bartender, and the two scheme to enter a national pageant for the most perfect American couple.

Logline: After being exiled from her community, a young Iranian girl with leprosy moves to a leper colony in Karachi, where an aid worker helps her obtain entry into the United States, only to discover that the company sponsoring her trip has ulterior motives.

Logline: A group of teenagers with historically important ancestors are kidnapped by a criminal mastermind and forced to take a drug that allows them to enter their ancestral memories and change the past.

Logline: After moving to Singapore following her father’s death, a teenage girl gets kidnapped by aliens and brought to an elite military academy in space. Upon discovering that her father founded the school years earlier, she unravels a web of secrets and gets dragged into an intergalactic conflict.