John William Blaney

CEO at Bridge of Gold Entertainment LLC
Screenwriter

Arlington, Virginia

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About John

I am a gold mine of jaw-dropping experiences. As a U.S. diplomat and ambassador, I was a nuclear arms negotiator, in Embassy Moscow as the USSR was disintegrating, at the United Nations, worked with and befriended Nelson Mandela, in charge of many crises (see the IPA's gold medal winning, The Embassy A Story of War and Diplomacy, by Dante Paradiso), on Wall Street during the financial crisis, consultant on crisis management to governments and firms, and started it all out as an Army officer.

Presently, I head up a small, start-up company, Bridge of Gold Entertainment LLC, which writes both fictional and non-fictional screenplays. Listed below are the awards of our company's non-fictional flagship script ("The Embassy" aka "The Bridge of Gold"). We also offer fictional screenplays, such as "The Demon Stone" (horror, five accolades), and our newest screenplays, RE-LIFE (sci-fi/horror), and "2020" (animation/drama), one accolade.

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The Embassy Budget: $30M+ | Historical ⋄ Thriller A handful of Americans and Africans risk it all on a mission to stop a civilian massacre when a ruthless rebel army storms the capital of an equally murderous warlord President-- a thrilling true story.
The Demon Stone Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror In braided narratives, The Demon Stone spins a terrifying story about the spiritual and political forces that incite the basest, bloodiest and most frightening of human behaviors
Re-Life Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror A Wall Street billionaire coopts his closest friends, steals and murders to engineer the first successful brain transplant. But a new identity can't hide his growing depravity.
2020 Drama ⋄ Animation As COVID unfolds, two old men (a Vietnam veteran and a former diplomat) seek solace in computer gaming. They join an international tribe of much younger gamers whose members must fight for survival online, and in the real world.

Credits

Liberia's Civil war (2003)
Documentary by National Geograhic myself Shows some of the successful actions I took on the battlefield and elsewhere to end the war in Liberia in 2003.

Awards

""The Embassy" aka "The Bridge of Gold" Finalist LA International Screenplay, both in 2021 and 2020
Semifinalist, LA International Screenplay 2022
Semifinalist, Scriptapalooza 2021
Quarterfinalist, Screencraft True Story & Public Domain 2020
Semifinalist, Filmmatic-Inroads Fellowship 3rd
Semifinalist, The Academy Nicholl Fellowship 2018
Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2018
Lead author, Christopher Datta
Top Overall 1% of discoverable projects on Coverfly
"The Demon Stone" Finalist, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Season 4
Quarterfinalist, The Script Lab-TSL 2021
Quarterfinalist Screencraft Horror Competition 2020
Quarterfinalist LA International Screenplay Awards 2022
Quarterfinalist Filmmatic Horrow Screenplay Awards Season 6
Christopher Datta author
“2020” Semifinalist, LA International Screenplay Awards 2023
John Blaney author