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.

"The Thing in the Wall" by Emily Redinbo
Genre: Horror

When a new mom moves to a house with her partner and baby, she's haunted by an inescapable evil that craves everyone she loves.

"SUMMONED" by Tammy Klembith
Genre: Sci-fi

After an accident in the desert puts her estranged brother in a coma, a woman travels to the town of Sedona, Arizona only to find herself in the middle of an out of this world conspiracy that causes her own life to be in jeopardy.

"Ineffable" by Marcus McGee
Genre: Sci-fi

When a group of scientists and engineers team up with the world’s elite to create a global monitoring system with covert aims to keep alternative energies forever at bay, their children are left to guide humanity back into the light once the Earth is plunged into solar darkness by their parent’s

"Speak English" by Kieran Angelini
Genre: Comedy

An ambitious cardsharp is blackmailed into marrying a wacko gangster’s klepto girlfriend so she won’t be deported — then puts his life in even greater danger by falling in love with the guy's hot-blooded wife.

"Code 10-22" by Jamila Hayes
Genre: Horror

Strange things have begun since a quiet white man moved into a neighborhood, primarily inhabited by minorities. He brings a different man home every other night, but Irene never sees anyone leaving. Once she connects that the people who have gone missing, are the ones she's witnessed going into her

"Hack Need" by David Schroeder
Genre: Comedy

Ensnared in a billion dollar bitcoin heist, a computer technician and her wife use their wits — and some wicked lacrosse skills — to outmaneuver the Russian mafia, a corrupt cop and a murderous boss to stay out of prison and protect their daughter’s life.

"Nobody's Heroes" by Michael Elliott
Two lifelong friends, a Vietnam-combat-shattered Marine and an anti-war activist wanted by the FBI, join forces to flee to Canada. A vengeful FBI agent pursues and corners them in a small Vermont border village that ends in a life-or-death struggle. "Catch Me if You Can" meets "We Were Soldiers".
"Catch !" by Paul Rosengren
Genre: Family

Logline: Young female quickly-rising-up-the-ranks agent is teamed with an older curmudgeon I-just-want-to-make-it-to-retirement agent to go undercover as a baton twirler and her dad to stop an assassination at the US baton twirling championships – an assasine seeking to destroy the world, or at

"This is the end" by ROMAN JENNI
Genre: Sci-fi

Title: “This is the end” 
Extraterrestrials are ordered to destroy the Earth. They foolishly collide with a meteorite and crash to Earth. 
To repair their spaceship, they need the help of Holger Svensson. They secretly plant a probe in his ear to talk to him. 
The spaceship, the size of a marble

"Love to Go" by Bernhard Riedhammer
Genre: Drama
A lonely retiree mourning his late wife tries to find new connections and turns to a dating website called “Love to Go.”
"Yokai" by Kit Modica
A mythical Japanese warrior is mysteriously brought to present-day Los Angeles to finish the battle he thought he had ended centuries before.
"Bingo Hollabouth" by Francesco Capussela
Genre: Other

A Black zookeeper finds himself mixed up with all the wrong people as he navigates his way through the seedy underbelly of white criminality in 1958 Boston.

"In the Blood of Kings" by Reid Brooks
Genre: Drama

In this re-imagining of the High Middle Ages, a succession crisis is triggered between the eight sons of a prodigious king who, with his father, united the northern kingdom of the Angles, Franks, Celts, and Northmen.

"Los Abandonados/The Abandoned" by Mel Nieves
Genre: Drama

The changing landscape of a working-class neighborhood doesn’t only mean the tearing down of buildings made of brick and cement, but the demolishing of a community built with the blood and flesh of people who once dreamed of a better life.

"Animals Outchea: NightLong" by Richard Kanneh
Genre: Drama

A former detective Black lab takes a stroll into the sordid night time habits of a District Attorney mouse as his driver/escort. The night yields many horrors for the ex-cop dog as he is haunted by decisions from both his past and present.

"Mandy's Gone" by Kamila Stopyra
The mysterious disappearance of a diplomat's daughter from a Moroccan hotel prompts both foreigners and locals to push their own agendas.
"Internal Security" by Stefan Alexander
When journalist, Ina, sets out to find missing refugees, she stumbles upon the traces of a political conspiracy stretching from IS- Iraq to the highest echelons of German politics.
"The Guns at Cowra" by Vir Srinivas
In World War II, over 1000 Japanese POWs held in Australia will stop at nothing to flee their captors and uphold their fanatical sense of honour. To stop the reckless and fatal escape attempts, the leader of the Japanese soldiers is driven to orchestrate a daring plan for a mass breakout.
"TRANSFERENCE" by Johnny Gilligan
When a disabled female neuroscientist wakes up in the re-purposed body of a female death row inmate, she fights to stop her new government owners from weaponizing her.
"The Most Dangerous Woman" by John Cicco
A determined public health official does everything in his power to stop a passionate chef from causing a typhoid epidemic in the early 1900s. A biopic about MARY MALLON, also known as TYPHOID MARY.