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 Third Testament" by Stephen Leavy Jones JONES

A child born of prophecy will bring the Third Reich to their 'Final Solution' in order to destroy her. Only a ragtag group of misfits, with abilities they cannot understand, can save her from the clutches of the Nazis and the otherworldly forces of 'The Three' who require her soul.

"Identifiable" by Julia Tvardovskaya
Genre: Sci-Fi

Identifiable takes you into a world where just by looking at you, an individual can learn everything about you. But Rory Walsh’s life has been narrated through the lens of someone else. How can he create his own identity when everything that people see is a version of him that doesn’t exist?

"Right Hand 2 God" by elchristof Long

After a daring escape in the thick of the Civil War, a slave must decide if vengeance is the price for freedom.

"Dead Sun: Lady of Londinium " by Astor Steele Curran

In the future London moves underground and turns goth. Blood becomes thicker than water.

"His (Vampire Swords)" by Astor Steele Curran

She doesn't know it yet but she is his. And there is no escape from eternity by his side.

"Knight of Swords" by Astor Steele Curran

A beautiful girl. A sword. A Vampire & the quest of a lifetime.

"The Madison Gap" by PatriciaDonovanNZ DONOVAN

Lexi's perfect life unravels as dark family secrets are revealed, and she learns how insidiously truth can be perverted, and that exposing those secrets can drive a person to the brink of murder.

"The Collections" by PatriciaDonovanNZ DONOVAN
Genre: Drama

It's 2041, humanity is in crisis, and Claris Millar knows that once you enter one of the government’s Collections Depots you never come out. If she’s to survive, she must take control of her own fate before an authoritarian state decides it for her.

"Romeo" by Camryn Chandrruangphen
Genre: LGBT

When a naïve art student becomes intrigued by a lonely dancer, He starts to realise just how complex this boy’s life is. Can he ever be ready for that? Façades are never what they seem...

"Lockdown! Tragedy at the Middle School" by LauraJutah Johnson

When 8th grade teacher, Heidi Moore, finds herself face-to-face with the gunmen who've taken her school hostage, she must make the biggest decision of her life: hide or fight back.

THEME SONG: Fragile (by Sting)

"Rara Avis" by Julie Swift Swift
Genre: LGBT

Rara Avis is a historical fiction epic that takes readers on a ten-year journey through the eyes of a young, gay, American architect living in Victorian England. Colin Sewell experiences life as both architect ahead of his time and as the object of affection by more than one man (and woman).

"Manyeo" by Astor Steele Curran

The Manyeo will dance across the ice to save the world from the dead. Only the Devil's son can help her succeed.

"Savage" by Astor Steele Curran

The sons of Mafia always get what they want. Korean born, Dae-Hyun wants his new stepsister and he is going to take her, even if he has to start a war to do it.

"The Eternal Shadows: Shadows Rising" by Camryn Chandrruangphen
Genre: Fantasy

As a corrupted man strives to eradicate a race of superhumans, one of them is forced to gather a team of her kind to defend their tribe and honour.