docker run -v : [Errno 2] No such file or directory - docker

Question

I'm trying to run
docker run --rm -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws \
-v $(pwd)/scripts:/root/scripts \
--link "${DYNAMO_CONTAINER}:localhost" \
amazon/aws-cli dynamodb batch-write-item \
--request-items file:///root/scripts/sampledata.json \
--endpoint-url http://localhost:8000
The error I am getting is
Error parsing parameter '--request-items': Unable to load paramfile file:///root/scripts/sampledata.json: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/scripts/sampledata.json'
I have also tried
docker run --rm -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws \
-v $(pwd)/scripts:/root \
--link "${DYNAMO_CONTAINER}:localhost" \
amazon/aws-cli dynamodb batch-write-item \
--request-items file:///root/scripts/sampledata.json \
--endpoint-url http://localhost:8000
and
docker run --rm -v ~/.aws:/root/.aws \
-v $(pwd)/scripts:/root \
--link "${DYNAMO_CONTAINER}:localhost" \
amazon/aws-cli dynamodb batch-write-item \
--request-items file:///root/sampledata.json \
--endpoint-url http://localhost:8000
On the last one I'm still getting a No such file... error although with a different path.
The structure of the host scripts directory is
scripts
├── sampledata.json
└── other.sh
What am I doing wrong... ?