Screenplay Award 2022

The Page Turner Award's Screenplay Award is for screenwriters who want to place their writing in front of film producers, and for authors who would like to see their books adapted to film.

"A8450, M.D." by Shia Labeouf
When a Jewish pathologist Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, is sent to work for 'Angel of Death' Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz, he struggles to maintain his humanity as he is forced to endure the horrors of the Holocaust.
"A Legend's Story: Volume One" by Michael Bouey

A man’s family is murdered and the world later abolishes laws and guns to where crime is legal in a political dystopian environment. The president now running this world like this is the same individual that killed the man’s family decades before. Will he set out for revenge?

"Reflections of Intimacy" by Jewel Mensah
Genre: Poetry

What does intimacy mean to you? Reflections of Intimacy is a theoretically artistic and photojournalistic exploration into the subject and practice of intimacy; and the path of connection it opens.

"The Ghost of Pembroke Lodge" by Olga Holtz

Inspired by true events. A ghost's violent visit deals a final blow to the deteriorating marriage of the world's most famous rationalist.

"Deliverance" by Olga Holtz
Genre: Sci-Fi

While a human suspects his sex robot of cheating, the machine becomes self-aware and joins a powerful robot resistance.

"The Untamed" by Olga Holtz

Held captive by her rapist during the Vietnam War, an undaunted woman finds an extreme way to regain her freedom.

"A Labour of Love" by Olga Holtz

Striving to restore the epic film NAPOLEON, an obsessed English film-maker sacrifices all - money, personal life, career - to his idol: the delusional genius director of the mutilated masterpiece, who sabotages the restoration. Based on a true story.

"Liars" by Charlene Clarke-Todoruk
When the world’s population begins to see lies as a physical manifestation, a puff of red smoke, relationships, families, the world of social media, practically any social interaction, turns into a visible falsehood; it started slowly with a single word.
"Ceyenne: Woman of Medicine (pilot - supernatural thriller)" by Sophia Lee
A half-Cherokee medical doctor exercises her newly discovered healing gift of soul-mergence on a serial killer inmate whom her step-brother is using as a guinea pig for an experimental pharmaceutical.
"The Engine" by Bruna Pias
A friendless 13 year old nerd investigates his estranged grandmother's race car driving past and superhuman abilities during the English summer of 1996.
"TV Town Pilot Part 1 & Part 2: The Gang Gets Welcome kits. Or A TV Town Royale with Cheese" by David Leskin
Genre: Animated

In what sounds like the setup to a bad joke, a warrior-monk, 2 podcasters, and an amnesiac are transported to TV Town, a land where pop culture is real, in a quest to save the universe, defeat a monster, and get home.

"The Last American Gay Bar" by Kristian Day
Genre: Historical

A three-part miniseries telling the story of the rise and fall of gay bars in America through the eyes of three red state institutions.

"The Incumbents" by SKT SKT
Genre: Drama

The individual trails and tribulations of an interracial political family in West London over the course of two weeks.

"Avenging Ava" by William Lindstrom
Genre: Drama

When his fourteen-year-old daughter is brutally attacked by a serial pedophile who has long escaped capture, he becomes a fugitive himself in pursuit of the assailant to exact a certain fathers justice before turning him over to authorities

"Myriad Backyard Graves" by Jamie Eubanks
A young woman vanishes during a camping trip. A light aircraft disappears off radar. Others go missing without a trace. The one commonality is the location—an area of the Vermont wilderness where a mysterious experiment is underway.
"LOVELY BIG BUFFALO_(Bufala Grande Bella)" by Tiffani Davis
Genre: Drama

Two strangers - a Black American and an Italian Jew, stuck in an Italian airport during the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, peel away the layers of preconceived biases and discover striking similarities in their family history.

"The Guardian's Legacy | Book 1 Coin of Time series" by Luciana Cavallaro
One magical coin can change a life. Two can change the world.
"The Riveter" by Tristan Venture
Genre: Musical

World War II - A young biracial orphaned woman works as a Riveter in a factory for the war effort. When she receives a letter from a friend at the orphanage she sets off on a journey across the country to find her birth mother. Torn between her civic duties with the advent of the women’s movement in

"Major Hacker's War" by Steve Blame
When the Allies discover that the Nazi butcher of the French Resistance is gay, they send in WW2’s first queer spy unit to entrap him. But when Klaus Leinenbach takes a liking to the unit's leader, closet case Major Mike Hacker, the success of Operation Pink Beret depends on Mike coming to terms....
"Max!" by Scott Boxenbaum
Genre: Comedy

A 13 year-old bar mitzvah boy eschews being a preppy cool kid to be an unlikely punk rock singer in 1979.