Jonathan Levine

snatched-excerptAfter her boyfriend dumps her, a spontaneous woman in her 30s persuades her ultra-cautious mom to accompany her on a vacation to Ecuador. At Emily’s insistence, the pair seek out adventure, but suddenly find themselves kidnapped. When these two very different women are trapped on this wild journey, their bond as mother and daughter is tested and strengthened while they attempt to navigate the jungle and escape.

Logline: A college graduate must move back home to help out after his mother is faced with a cancer relapse and his father is diagnosed with ALS.

Logline: A look at inner-city school I.S. 318, where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level and also happens to have the best junior high school chess team in the country.