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.

"FARSIGHT" by Dom Hayes Hayes
Genre: Crime

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

"Orphan Road" by Judy Lundquist

Heartbroken over the betrayal of her boyfriend, a 51 year old woman suffering from corporate burnout sets out to work at an orphanage in a remote village in South America. When her bad judgment triggers a horrific event, she battles between leaving or discovering why she must stay.

"Where Are We Tomorrow?" by TaviTaylorBlack Black

In the world of rock 'n' roll touring, pregnancy is not an option.

"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.

"Where the Chameleon Goes" by Mark le Claire

Set on the Spanish Costa del Sol just before the 1960s tourist boom, a group of resistance fighters in the mountains are still waging war against the Franco regime. With the civilians caught in the middle of all the violence, betrayal and revenge , this is film with a tragic love story at its heart.

"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.

"The Choice " by Rachel Sunley
Genre: Drama

Daughter discovers mothers involvement in the 1968 Paris riots and realises her own emotional struggles of overcoming convention in matters of the heart.

"Sonata" by Rachel Sunley
Genre: Drama

Overshadowed by violent family discord, debilitating illness and shattered dreams two friends make a desperate plan to escape the harsh realities of a mining town in the 1990's.

"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.

"Should It Be This Hard" by Nina Winther Winther

When the OB/GYN’s perfect plan to get pregnant shatters and her pregnant frenemy pops back into her life, she struggles to care for her pregnant patients while dealing with her jealousy and unstable hormones.

"Aurora Borealis" by Nina Winther Winther
Genre: Fantasy

When the adventurous Sami girl runs off to the deserted Finnmarksvidda, where she meets Mother Earth, but when the world goes under because of global warming, she must find back to the heritage in order to rescue Mother Earth and save the world.

"the library of forgotten technology" by Nina Winther Winther

When a phobic retriever learns about her dying grandmother's secret, she must find and destroy an ancient book leading to a hidden library before a tribe of warriors get to it.

"The Trucker" by Nina Winther Winther

When a female border agent discovers her father tangled up with the cartel she tries to take down, she delivers a semi-truck full of drugs to take down the cartel and the rival cartel that tries to steal it.

"HIGH GROUND" by Rick Lee

Esther is a reclusive eccentric who lives without lights, phone, radio, or television. She believes herself to be an EMF hypersensitive, one who suffers pain in the presence of electromagnetic fields. And, she tells Margaret; she is under nightly attack by searing radiation of an unknown source.

"SpermBoy" by Mark Dollard Dollard
Genre: Horror

13 year old Dylan is having a tough time at middle school. An exposure to a mysterious chemical creates a creature that acts out Dylan’s revenge fantasies and wreaks havoc on his school.

"Hellfire" by Mark Dollard Dollard
Genre: Horror

A downtrodden journalist, investigating missing homeless people, discovers mind controlling vampires are attempting to take over her city.

"Daisy Chain" by Justine Gilbert

Nothing was as it seemed. In the dying days of the Gilded Age, Daisy Suckley, sixth cousin, secret lover and alternative wife to Franklin Roosevelt, tells of the women behind the man: their animosities, liaisons and ambitions that sought to bear influence. Who really had the President's ear?

"The Making of Herman Faust" by Michele E. Gwynn
Genre: Crime

A routine late-night traffic stop in Berlin leads to the acquisition of a high-profile defector and unleashes a deadly biological weapon. The fate of the west now rests in the hands of one rookie cop.