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.

"At the Gates" by Vir Srinivas
Genre: Historical

Hannibal crosses the Alps with his army into Italy in 218 BC, triggering an existential war with the Roman Republic, as the determined Scipio rises to challenge the brilliant Carthaginian general.

"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.
"HELP" by William Miesmer
In a dystopian future where workers must travel from one farm to another in order to survive, Lia, a young prodigy farmer, begins a new job and her life suddenly seems to improve. But as she is drawn deeper into the world of her wealthy and powerful employers, what started as paradise...
"Dinner for Two, Dinner with Three" by Bryant
Genre: Horror
"The Real Thing" by Matthew Papadopoulos
Genre: Comedy

A virgin college student creates his virtual perfect girlfriend but then meets her real-life lookalike who is anything but perfect and must grow up fast or fall into ‘the rabbit hole' forever.

"Agency Episode 1 "Nuts!"" by Don McKinney
Genre: Drama

When the genius co-founder of the last independent ad agency in California dies in a car accident, two factions of execs with very different visions for the future of the company slug it out, but one side has a potent weapon: the co-founder’s secret heir.

"Man Without Heart" by Linda
Genre: Drama

An unknowingly neurodivergent and emotionally blind man navigates true love at drama school, then the horrors of the Falklands War. But when years later he finds himself in an unhappy marriage and confesses he doesn’t know what love feels like, he must learn to understand his emotions or he will

"Blue Chip Red" by Jason White
Genre: Comedy

A hard-drinking, middle-aged golf bum faces down his personal demons and self-doubts when he finds himself the unlikely last hope for a college golf team trying to survive against an unscrupulous oil tycoon.

"Callers to Our World" by Salvatore Bono
Genre: Sci-fi

A treasure hunter fights to prevent Earth’s destruction from a celestial war in an altered future, but when a sociopath's greed rears its ugly head, time-travel becomes a battlefield.

"The Smallest Ways" by James Greenall
Genre: Drama

A darkly comic exploration of collapsing friendships

"ORAC ELLE" by Frank Monteleone
Before her 50th birthday, a successful Investment Banker receives a Gold Coin from a strange Shaman, propelling her back in time 23 years ago only to discover she’s next in line to be a Delphic Oracle Priestess that can clearly see the future.
"TRAPPED IN PLAIN SIGHT (aka THE PUZZLE)" by Tammy Klembith
Genre: Fantasy

In a quest for answers about his father's mysterious disappearance, a 20-something hacker finds himself trapped inside a jigsaw puzzle, where he struggles to stay alive while his friends have to finish the puzzle in the real world in order to free him.

"Dust on Dirt" by Adele Smaill
Ensnared in a lethal game of cat and mouse in the wilderness, a young woman forces a small-time smuggler to reckon with his past as she hunts down her would-be killers.
"The Hunting Grounds" by Parker Sack
50,000 years in the past, in the wake of a brutal famine, a tribe sets out on a quest for a new home. Little do they know, they're headed towards something far more dangerous...
"The James King Version" by David Schroeder
Genre: Historical

The true story of one of history’s most remarkable double lives. After blond, blue-eyed Clarence King dined with presidents, scaled mountains, and served as the first director of the U.S. Geological Survey, he successfully posed as an African American Pullman porter to be with the love of his life.

"Simon Son Of Star" by Ronen Tregerman
Genre: Action

When one man raises his sword against the world's biggest empire in a quest to free his land and people, he embarks on an heroic battle against all odds and carves it onto the pages of history for millenniums to come. Part history part legend this 2000 year old tale is a made for Hollywood story.

"Silver" by Ian
Women have been going missing, and the Police are doing nothing about it. With the world going to hell around her, Detective Silver will keep fighting to find the truth.
"Salva" by Aaron Garcia
When an artistic but depressed young boy gets in an accident after the death of his father, he becomes trapped in a surreal coma land inspired by Salvador Dali’s artwork that helps him learn to deal with his grief and encourages him to use his artistic gift.
"Liebe Lise" by Luke Hart-Moynihan
After losing her job and legal status, Austrian-Jewish physicist Lise Meitner struggles to escape 1938 Nazi Germany while her work leads towards an earth-shattering discovery -- nuclear fission, the key to the atomic bomb.