A young woman fights to save her grandfather’s seditious puppet show while dealing with two brothers, once her childhood friends, now part of the authoritarian regime, one a suitor, the other a traumatised soldier who brings the puppets to life.
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.
"WHISTLEBLOWER" by T erry Morgan
Jim Smith, an ex-British politician, forced to flee abroad after threatening to expose massive fraud in international aid returns to renew his campaign. An international political thriller and study of an eccentric man who steadfastly refuses to fit into the stereotype of a modern politician.
"Visionary" by Claire Merchant
After getting corrective eye surgery, twenty-four-year-old high school teacher Cassia Reid opens her eyes to find that her vision is a lot better than she expected. Without her glasses, she can now see how people will die.
"Paralyzed Without Fear" by JACQUE Dunkle
When a young daredevil's dreams are crushed by paralysis in a motorcycle crash, he faces life like he does fear - head on. Defying all odds, he goes rogue with his own ingenious life-risking plan to salvage his broken life and fulfill the dream of having a family, no matter what the cost.
"Day 3" by Bill Birney
A truly unbelievable break comes to a cynical, washed-up actor when he refuses to do a death scene on the last day of a movie shoot.
"The Back Door" by Bill Birney
When a journalism student at a community college, interviews for an intern job she isn’t expecting to get thrown in the deep end.
"Killer in the Crowd " by Phil Johnson
Live music is in her blood, but as the death threats arrive, she fears there’s a killer in the crowd. Can teacher Cath take her mother’s place, and front her mum’s old band to inspire four ageing woman punks to catch a killer, and solve the mystery of what really happened to her missing mother?
"The Man Who Couldn't Stay Dead" by mayfly Read
A man is murdered in Italy. Hours later a boy is born in England with facial scars. He grows up with nightmares of being murdered. As an adult, he goes to Italy to find his killer using images from his nightmares. He then digs up his own body to retrieve the valuable object that is buried with it.
"The Come Up" by AlbieCullen Cullen
After being set up defense attorney Billy Sunday finds himself performing work release on the grounds crew of his nemeses' country club. For revenge Sunday bands together with a misfit crew of recovering addicts and migrant workers to exploit the club's annual high stakes “Four-Ball” Championship.
"Shooting Blanks" by oliviarosegarden Rose
"In a world where all boys are sterilised at birth; a man must meet the conditions of a formidable panel of women to have 'The Fix' reversed and marry the girl of his dreams."
"SILVERMANE" by Georges le Macon
Hunting the St. Lawerence Strangler, Dr. Bethany Lomax begins to believe there is a psychic link between herself and Canada’s most prolific child murderer.
"Safe & Sound" by Danielle Singleton
When Amy Millhouse and her sorority sisters travelled to Mexico for vacation, they never expected what would be waiting for them: sun, sand, and a drug cartel holding the girls ransom for everything they were worth – and more.
"Do No Harm" by Danielle Singleton
America's blood supply is supposed to be secure. But what would happen if it weren't? If a serial killer decided to hijack the tens of thousands of blood transfusions that occur daily, spreading an illness that killed everyone it touched?
"Every Star in the Sky" by Danielle Singleton
He's the son of an English Lord. She's a daughter of the American South. His family won't let her join their world. She won't let him give it all up for her. Can Richard and Rebecca's love stand the test of time and circumstance? Or will the ocean between their two worlds tear them apart forever?
"The Distillery - Raising the Bar" by Adir Golan
A Englishman in Hawaii operates an illegal distillery under cover of an actual legal one, clashing swords with a corrupt councilman who runs the liquor scene in town. Meanwhile, he does all he can to win over the councilman’s soon to be daughter-in-law.