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.

"Loupes" by Ferit Atalay
Genre: Drama

The series follows Ava Li and her co-residents in elite surgical sub-specialties at Southern Texas Memorial prying patients from the jaws of death on a daily basis, all while demonstrating the grit, determination, and cost it takes to be the apex of medical specialists.

"The Magic Pill" by LauraJutah Johnson

After years of accumulating success and wealth in Hollywood, an unhappy actor is given a way to find his purpose in life through a little white pill.

THEME SONG: More Heart, Less Attack (by NeedToBreathe)

"A Legendary Journey" by Deborah Blouet Blouet

A sassy tourist is flung back to Ancient Greece, where she must embark on a quest and rescue a Queen with her newly forged friends.

"Loreful, Good & Evil" by Simon Frederick Frederick
Genre: Crime

Show: Detectives for a branch of SIS solve regular crimes committed by irregular criminals. The magical and fantastical.
Pilot: A child witnesses a murder and is assaulted. But claims the assailant had sharp teeth and claws. The police aren’t interested, therefore detectives Cohen & Musa step in.

"Winter at Medora Downs" by Anne Rouen

It's 1987 and Sarah, a young Sydney schoolteacher, is desperate to escape the violent control of her fiancé by moving to an Outback station to become a governess for two orphaned children. She soon finds herself enmeshed in a complex love triangle where she begins to fear for her life.

"FARSIGHT" by Dom Hayes Hayes
Genre: Crime

FARSIGHT: Putting Artificial Intelligence into policing and the fear of God into villains.

"Lies in Bone" by Natalie Symons
Genre: Crime

A teenage girl named Frank moves to a forgotten Pennsylvania steel town, where she is forced to uncover the unimaginable truth about her father’s involvement in murders committed twenty years apart, and the disappearance of his six-year-old brother in 1963.

"O.R.B.: 300A.L. - The Last Known Prophecy" by Lai May Senn Lai
Genre: Sci-Fi

In the distant future, where the most significant discovery of the millennium was that humans are either souls or orbs, a man builds an underground allegiance of "soul-humans" and plots a worldwide genocide of all "orb-humans" to evolve the soul-race.

"Monet & Oscar: The Essence of Light" by Joseph Byrd

A historically accurate story of the friends, family, and life of Claude Monet, the man behind his art told through the eyes of his fictional son and gardener.

"Rude Awakening" by jacquelinejames James

Hilary, is fifty-five, has never married and lives her widowed mother. A shocking discovery on her mother's death would have derailed her, if it had not been for the support of her friends. Instead she is finally freed from her mother's shadow and slowly begins to become her own person.

"Little Rebel" by Rachel Newman Newman
Genre: Drama

A young female vet, done with bad men and life in the fast lane, wants to prove to her long-suffering parents her rebellious past is over but when she chooses to follow her heart she risks messing up yet again.