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.

"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.

"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?