Roberta M Roy

Unique traits: Licensed speech language pathologist turned award winning novelist/scriptwriter.

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• Who's Who Listing
• IMBdPro
• Coverfly Credits
• ISA International Screenwriters Association
• Amazon Author Page
• Film Freeway Credits

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  Just No Beyond Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Drama Environmentalist interior designer Alyssa May struggles with the looming question of plastic in her life, taking one small step despite recognizing there is no beyond.

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  Jolt Survival Series Script 1 of 10 - Emergence Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi ⋄ Romance Innocent of the momentous nuclear meltdown about to befall them, not far from a nuclear power plant, a family contends with a mother’s fears of a nuclear meltdown while in a distant mountain village, a struggling artist works to manage his relationships with his girlfriend of many years and a disapproving father.

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  Almost By Design Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama A young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer of schools must leave home when her web of reality forces her to risk seeking employment with upper class homeowners as an interior home decor designer in faraway New York City.

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  Just in Time Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Comedy Determined to succeed as a web designer, their having collided on entering her new place of employment. a delightful young woman downplays an interested salesman’s efforts to engage.

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  JOLT: A SAGA OF SURVIVAL EPISODE 10 - 2022: THE NEW NOW Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Family In a world marked by climate change, political discord, war, and the end of COVID masking, the Matters sons look to their futures; their mom does therapy with a boy and a girl with autism; their dad adapts to his left side blindness; and all observe the effects of climate change and wonder what the future will bring politically.

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  It Takes a Village Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi ⋄ Romance The lives of a retired military man, a striving artist, and his citified girlfriend of many years are disrupted when a distant meltdown causes forced migrants fleeing nuclear fallout to overrun their small mountain village and they take the lead in organizing a community response.  

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  Jolt: A SAGA OF SURVIVAL More Complex Pilot Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Star crossed lovers and a retired veteran meet the needs of forced migrants fleeing radiation fallout as a once close-knit family reunites; as time passes, the story morphs to current day historical fiction in which autism and traumatic brain injury treatment and the need for the use of nuclear fusion to replace nuclear fission in the effort to reduce climate change are explored.

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  The Morning After the Morning After - Feature Budget: $1M - $5M | Historical ⋄ Family Faced with their own individual life challenges, a family must also adjust to living in a time of political unrest, welcome an influx of immigrants, and cope with the effects of climate change.

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  Family Matters Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama A somewhat distant nuclear meltdown separates the Matters family as forced migrants fleeing fallout overrun a mountain village where, led by an artist and a retired veteran, residents scramble to meet the newcomers' needs.

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  Yell'n'Tell Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Animation Recalling how his cousin pinches him and denies doing so and having witnessed a girl being bullied, a brave five-year-old uses his wise mother's practical but inventive advice to help solve his bullying dilemma.

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  HOME AGAIN 2020: A STORY OF SURVIVAL - A FEATURE Budget: $100K - $1M | Historical ⋄ Drama More than a year after a nuclear meltdown the Matters family reunites as Lou rehabilitates from TBI and COVID-19 forces Mary, an SLP, to work distantly with children with autism during political upheaval and climate change. A current times historical novel.

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  Jolt Survival Tele Series Simpler Pilot for 10 Hour Long Episodes Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Romance Star crossed lovers and a retired veteran join to meet the needs of forced migrants fleeing radiation fall out as a once close-knit family struggles to reunite.

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  Just Take a Breath Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance New to the newsroom a happily married young woman, struggles to avoid risking her marriage when she experiences an unexpectedly strong attraction to a just met co-worker with whom she will be working regularly.

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  JOLT: A SAGA OF SURVIVAL- FEATURE ONE OF TWO: MAGDUM HEIGHTS MELTDOWN Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama The occurrence of a nuclear meltdown separates the Matters family while in the distant mountains two military veterans organize a point of distribution to meet the needs of the forced migrants fleeing fallout that overrun their small village.

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  JOLT: A SAGA OF SURVIVAL - FEATURE TWO OF TWO: LOCHLEE RESPONDS Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Relationships change when the residents of a small village must set up a point of distribution to decontaminate, feed, house, clothe, and medically care for the hundreds of forced migrants.

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  TWO CLOSE: A STORY OF SURVIVAL- A FEATURE Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Romance Dirty bombs and the threat of nuclear fallout separate the Matters family; Mary recuperates from radiation sickness and her husband fights right-side brain damage and amnesia while their sons survive on the road. (observable violence/conflict minimal)

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  Yell'n'Tell en francais Budget: $0 - $100K | Family ⋄ Animation Logline: Après avoir été témoin de l’intimidation d’une fille, un courageux enfant de cinq ans utilise les conseils pratiques mais inventifs de sa mère sage pour l’aider à résoudre son dilemme de l’intimidation.

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  Yell'n'Tell en espanol Budget: $0 - $100K | Animation Recordando cómo su primo le pellizca y niega haberlo hecho y habiendo presenciado cómo acosaban a una niña, un valiente niño de cinco años recurre a los consejos prácticos pero ingeniosos de su sabia madre para resolver su dilema de acoso escolar.

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  When COVID Came Budget: $0 - $100K | Experimental COVID arrives and in silence, a mourning woman living alone copes in isolation, masks as needed, and is eventually vaccinated after which only then is she able to welcome others into her home.

• Film Buzz Festival London Finalist
  (2024)

• Paris Lady Moviemakers Festival Semi Finalist
  (2024)

• Seattle Filmmaker Awards Semi Finalist
  (2024)

• Seattle Filmmaker Awards Winter 2024 – Best Feature
  (2024)

• Paris Lady MovieMakers Festival 2024 – Best Feature
  (2024)

• Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest! Semi Finalist
  (2024)

• The Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitchdeck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Festival. QuartFina
  (2024)

• Pitch Now Screenplay Competition (Season 5) Quarterfinalist
  (2023)

• Phoenix Shorts Semifinalist
  (2023)

• New Tirj Screebwrutubg Awards Honorable Mention
  (2023)

• New York International Women Festival Semi-Finalist
  (2023)

• Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest! Quarterfinalist
  (2023)

• Dallas Shorts - Twice a Semi-Finalist
  (2023)

• Dallas Movie Awards Festival Semi-Finalist
  (2023)

• Sidney Indie Short Festival Semi-Finalist
  (2023)

• Wiki: The World's Fastest Screenplay Contest! Honorable Mention
  (2023)

• Tamizhagam Internationals Film Festival 2023 – Best Feature
  (2023)

• Third on the Red List for Sci-fi Book Manuscripts
  (2022)

• Semi-finalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition
  (2022)

• Quarterfinalist in Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
  (2022)

• Vail Film Festival Quarterfinalist
  (2022)

• ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Semifinalist
  (2022)

• ScreenCraft Film Fund Second Rounder
  (2022)

• Script Summit Finalist
  (2022)

• Chicago Screenplay Awards Selected
  (2022)

• Gold Medal for Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/ Humanitarian)
  (2021)

• Silver Medal for Multicultural Fiction in Jenkins 2021 International eLit awards
  (2021)

• Pitch Now Screenplay Competition (Season 4) Quarterfinalist
  (2021)

• Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry Silver
  (2020)

• Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award Bronze
  (2011)

• University of Michigan

• University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• University at Albany, SUNY