Julie Johnson Oliver
Award Winning Author
Multiple Winner
Hard Ride Home
Stuck in rural Idaho, a young girl witnesses the 1965 civil rights movement from afar, sees the prejudice in her own family and friends, and risks her life to help an Indian girl on the Reservation.
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Winning Accolades from:
2023 Winner LDSPMA - Screenplay
Cynosure International Film Festival
Fresh Voices Screenwriters' Screenplay Competition
Moondance International Film Festival
LA Femme International Film Festival
StoryPros International Screenplay Competition
PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Big Break International Screenwriting Competition
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Rip Van Winkle
An original screenplay inspired by Washington Irving's beloved folktale. The story of a beloved, lazy, happy-go-lucky man who escapes his shrewish wife to go hunting in the Kaatskill Mountains; where he hobnobs with the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew. He falls asleep for what seems like one night but wakes up 20 years later to a very changed world.
Semi-Finalist:
DesertScape International Film Festival
The Andorra Combination
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When girls go missing in her California town, a young police detective disobeys orders, placing herself in danger by acting as bait. Once in Spain and on the trail of the girls, she realizes she's being used as a pawn in a diabolical European syndicate. She must call on all her strengths in the life and death battle to defeat The Combination intent on ruling the global economy.
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Kilaua Kids
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A fairly normal family of elderly siblings take a dream trip to Hawaii where their widowed sister is swept off her feet by a dashing island Casanova. Their youngest brother is kidnapped and held for ransom and the siblings must defy age, arthritis, lack of drug-trade knowledge and kidnap etiquette in this life and death battle in Paradise.
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It's South Pacific meets It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
in this zany ensemble comedy.
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