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.

"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.

"The Ancient Chronicles: The Newborn" by Richard A. Delgado
Genre: Thriller

After the massacre of his entire family by a reckless immortal. Leonardo is forced to face his own mortal past, and his immortal future while seeking vengeance.

"All You Can Carry" by Max Orkis
A family man defies his loved ones and stays in a war zone to care for his abusive mother-in-law as he chooses between life and honor.
"A Scary Thought" by Bryan Lewandowski
The ghost of a junkie torments the friends and family of a teenager through their thoughts. And the only way to survive is to abuse substances.
"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.