Page Turner Awards is delighted to announce our 2023 Screenplay Award finalists, shown in random order!
Please join us in congratulating these rising stars by leaving them a comment at the bottom of their finalist submission. Click 'see more' to read their submission. And you can also congratulate the finalists in our forum.
Wherever you see duplicate faces, it's not a mistake, those writers are to be applauded for having more than one submission reach the finals!
Find entrants by adding a first name or surname into the search box below, don't search with both first name and surname.
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Rod Kent for "Mutiny In The Dugout"
Rod Kent started his career in computers in high school by getting a job at a top secret government laboratory after hacking into their computers to do homework…and getting caught. This led to a top secret clearance and finding out where Martians are buried in Area 51. After graduating, he went on
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George Basiev for "SOLICE"
Born Nov. 23 1985 in Vladikavkaz, Russia to Inna Tedeeva, who was just a freshman at the time in a Moscow University and Boris Basiev, an aspiring actor at the VGIK drama school. He has Ossetian and Alani ancestry. George spent much of his youth in Brooklyn and graduated from Grover Cleveland H.S.
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Andrew Poschner for "The Remnant Faithful"
Drawn to the arts at a young age, Andrew quickly embraced his love of writing and film. The goal for all of his screenplays is to produce scripts with unique opportunities to showcase character development, extensive world building, and a balance between practical and digital effects. Above all, he
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Jimmy Prosser for "Korean Shooter"
Jimmy Prosser is a writer/director from Los Angeles. He is a graduate of New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, where his pilot for the limited series "John & Meryl" was selected by NYU Tisch faculty as the Outstanding TV Drama Thesis. The
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Amy Allen for "ZEPHYR"
Amy began her career as a Casting Director in New York City where her office served as East Coast Casting for Paramount. From character development to dialogue, Amy’s writing is informed by her years reading with and directing actors. Her projects have found success in well-respected screenwriting
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KEVIN MACHATE Machate for "Gloomy Sunday"
Kevin has directed eight short films and his credits as a producer have exceeded 50 at the time of this writing. His recent works include three short series starring Golden Globe and Tony Award winner Barry Bostwick and Saturn Award Winner Doug Jones, and a short musical/educational video starring
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John Munn for "Adventures in Serial Killing"
John Munn is a native of Washington State and is married to his wife of over fifteen years who inspires him to write every day. His two boys, Jack and Max, are his world. He has also lived in the United Kingdom, for a short period, where he studied literature and attended college at the University
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Michael Bezushko for "The Last Doctor"
Growing up in Europe before moving back to the USA in his late teens, Michael enjoys bringing an outsider perspective to high-concept genre stories. A graduate of UCLA's Professional Program in Screenwriting, Michael enjoys writing elevated horror, action-comedies, and grounded science fiction. A
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Tim Auld for "Minotaur"
A writer/director whose short films have been selected for various festivals, most notably Palm Springs International. In 2022 he directed a pilot for a 6-part television series which is currently in post production. Tim is determined to make meaningful action films that his wife and daughter would
Tyler Blomstrom-Moore for "Devoid"
Tyler is a writer, filmmaker and producer based in San Francisco, CA. With a degree in Screenwriting from San Francisco State University, Tyler has worked in the film industry for 10 years. Tyler's writing style is high-concept, high-brow. Always tasteful, never pretentious. Exploring genres and
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Andrew Essig for "The Dive"
Andrew Essig was born in Cincinnati, Ohio but moved to Los Angeles after earning a degree in screenwriting and producing from Ohio University. In LA, he co-produced a half dozen comedy skits as one half of the What a Guy Media creative team, as well as a couple short films that have performed
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Micah Sloat for "Wake the System"
Micah Sloat is best known for starring in the micro-budget hit PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. Combining that successful franchise with his degrees in philosophy and psychology, as well as his extensive background in the occult, he's currently creating and co-hosting PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE PODCAST for
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Peter Roach for "Rainier"
I write sci-fi/fantasy screenplays. Aliens, abductions(no anal probing), interspecies romance(Kirk did it), all that wonderful stuff. Well, that and a whole dollop of fantasy thrown in. I have been told “ your stuff is so different” but, I can only do me. I spent a bazillion years developing
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Florence Ordesh for "The Teacher"
Florence is a writer and actor, raised in Ireland, currently living in Los Angeles. She has worked in the film industry for over a decade, performing in hit TV shows such as Dublin Murders, Foundation and Departure.
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Katy Dore for "PIPER"
Katy Dore is a screenwriter and director living on California’s Central Coast. Katy creates TV and film projects with relatable stories and social relevance. Her historic drama TV series about Mary Ellen Pleasant, is currently in pre-production with Quincy Jones Productions, Flavor Unit and Goldmann
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Leila Murton Poole for "The Ghostodians"
Leila's writing and filmmaking journey started when she travelled from the UK to New Zealand without flying. Inspired by all the stories she found, she decided to pursue film and applied for Sydney Film School in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Having won awards for her films and writing, she can
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Tim Cairns for "Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe never."
I'm the son of a kidney transplant recipient and I wrote, 'Maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe never' because I wanted to tell a more relatable story about organ donation. Not one about miracles, or second chances or waking up in a bathtub full of ice in a war-torn country. My writing background is
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Steven Vincent for "Mary in the White Room"
I’m a full time and life long practitioner and teacher of the yogic arts currently living and working in a spiritual community in central California. For me, writing and creating are an integral part of the process of spiritual life and development. Realizing my inner inspiration and my unique
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Bill Taylor for "The Summer We Ran"
Bill Taylor is an award-winning queer filmmaker who is committed to telling stories deeply rooted in the human condition. After making a slew of independent short and feature projects, he’s currently looking for representation to take his career to the next level. He’s at home writing in Drama
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Dylan Wilson for "Absolute Hallways"
Dylan Wilson is an independent screenwriter and published short story author based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dylan hopes to one day pursue a career in professional wrestling once they find a way to make it not hurt so much.
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Link York for "Missing the Point"
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Josh Michaels for "Phantom Walls"
Scintillating sci-fi & historical fusion drive my storytelling. No period-accurate dramas on societal norms here. Instead, try a WW1 body horror about a scientist secretly experimenting on missing soldiers. Wait, that's the plot of my screenplay Phantom Walls. (Screencraft 2023- Finalist). I've also
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Michael Richter for "Only Apparently Real"
Michael is an award-winning screenwriter and producer, and Facebook’s former Chief Privacy Officer. Michael writes, directs, and produces elevated genre and prestige projects for film and television. He is currently producing Only Apparently Real based on an award-winning screenplay which he wrote
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Rodolfo Salas for "Here Lies Tommy"
Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Salas was born in Brownsville, Texas. His childhood was spent in a hundred-year-old house that stood in poverty. His wild imagination allowed him to escape from his impoverished upbringing. As his social and academic knowledge grew, so did his appreciation for storytelling and film
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Rachel Leighson for "The Bender Girls"
Rachel Leighson is a bi-coastal writer, actor, and singer. Writing credits include: Little Egg, Big World (honorary mention for the 2022 Jane Chambers award in feminist playwriting), Blood on My Mother's Apron (nominated for nine 2021 Broadway World awards, including best new play), The Scarcity of
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Annique Arredondo for "Scene Queen"
Annique Arredondo is an outspoken Latinx screenwriter, filmmaker, and social activist who, growing up along the border of San Diego, was never Latin enough for the Latinxs, or American enough for the Americans. Her goal: to convey a fresh perspective on what it means to be bicultural, female, and
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LOUISA for "LICKERISH"
I am a former journalist, publisher, TV producer and media executive, now writing books (crime fiction) and TV scripts (comedy and drama). I am a Brit, now based in Sydney, Australia.
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Joey Pelletier for "Allagash"
Born in Maine, I've lived in Los Angeles, New York, Massachusetts and Ireland for stretches. I'm inspired by the real people in my life, love to research to enrich my projects beyond what I've got in my own head, and find the comedy in the serious.
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Thomas for "Pangea"
T. C. Smith's career was launched when he won the Nicholl Fellowship. He has written for the big screen, the small screen and the stage. He has worked for Fox Television, Fox Family Films, ABC, Disney, the Disney Channel, Warner Brothers and Showtime. He co-wrote and co-starred in the controversial
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D.E. Jackson for "The Tide"
Condemned to writing by audition room butterflies, now serves consecutive sentences in Portland, Oregon. Influences include Shepard, Beckett, Mamet, Pinter, and Stoppard.