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.

"Glass Rekindlers" by Yelitza Prada Breen
Genre: Sci-fi

A teenage glass artist fights to save her father after he falls ill, while alien beings arrive and offer to help her make glass sculptures if she helps them obtain the positive emotions' energy they need to save their own families.

"Mutiny In The Dugout" by Rod Kent
Genre: Comedy

Lured home to his dying father’s bedside, Charlie finds himself at the center of a righteous mutiny by Little League ballplayers while coaching his dad’s team to the Youth League World Series. After a typical day of coaches cursing, booing from the stands, and out-of-control parents fighting in the

"OF ALL THE GAMES" by Ellis Bahl
Against her brother's wishes, a recently disabled young woman finds her calling in the toxic world of esports. When her teammate is SWATTED IRL, she must figure out whodunnit before she ends up the killer's next victim.
"The Law of Talion" by Bob Corley
Genre: Thriller

Small-town technophobic detective pairs with a tech-savvy FBI consultant to investigate a murder, their dissimilar styles clashing as they search for a killer not bound by mortal rules.

"Warrior Warrior - Feature" by Brian Michaels
​Based on a true story, a shy 19-year-old with a physically abusive father finds himself on a path of self-destruction after becoming a male stripper to support his medical school ambitions.
"A 20th Century Odyssey: Return To Zion" by Sarah Cohen
Genre: Drama

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2000 years ago Jews were exiled from their land and scattered among the nations of the world, creating the Jewish diaspora. Biblical prophecy promised that in the distant future they would be returned to their land. This is the true story of how one secular Jewish family was "picked up"

"Jingle Bell Rock" by Curt Samlaska, MD, FACP, FAAD
A desperate mother of a severely handicapped child tries to win a Jingle Bell Rock radio contest to support her child. Along the way a mysterious benefactor comes to her rescue.
"How to Destroy the World" by Don Donahue
Genre: Drama

When a disgraced billionaire moves to Antarctica to plot his revenge on the world, everything is going according to plan until he receives an unexpected visit from the only person who might be able to stop him… his mother.

"Myriad Backyard Graves" by Jamie Eubanks
A young woman vanishes during a camping trip. A light aircraft disappears off radar. Others go missing without a trace. The one commonality is the location—an area of the Vermont wilderness where a mysterious experiment is underway.
"LOVELY BIG BUFFALO_(Bufala Grande Bella)" by Tiffani Davis
Genre: Drama

Two strangers - a Black American and an Italian Jew, stuck in an Italian airport during the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, peel away the layers of preconceived biases and discover striking similarities in their family history.

"The Guardian's Legacy | Book 1 Coin of Time series" by Luciana Cavallaro
One magical coin can change a life. Two can change the world.
"The Riveter" by Tristan Venture
Genre: Musical

World War II - A young biracial orphaned woman works as a Riveter in a factory for the war effort. When she receives a letter from a friend at the orphanage she sets off on a journey across the country to find her birth mother. Torn between her civic duties with the advent of the women’s movement in

"Major Hacker's War" by Steve Blame
When the Allies discover that the Nazi butcher of the French Resistance is gay, they send in WW2’s first queer spy unit to entrap him. But when Klaus Leinenbach takes a liking to the unit's leader, closet case Major Mike Hacker, the success of Operation Pink Beret depends on Mike coming to terms
"Max!" by Scott Boxenbaum
Genre: Comedy

A 13 year-old bar mitzvah boy eschews being a preppy cool kid to be an unlikely punk rock singer in 1979.

"House on Fire" by Donald Mitchell
The true story of a young doctor battling to save millions from a terrifying virus.
"Land of the Freed" by Junior Jensen
Genre: Drama

Yearning for life in Emancia, the thriving African country established by emancipated slaves in the 1800s, struggling Americans vie to leave their reservation controlled by the power-hungry Indigenous, bringing to life dark secrets of the past.

"Words of Reasonable Wisdom" by Shaun Guzman
Genre: Drama

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"Minister Speer" by Sven Anarki
During a series of tense interviews, an up-and-coming ambitious young reporter tries to make a charming former high-level Nazi with an airtight alibi admit he knew about the holocaust all along.
"Midnight Wake" by Lana Van De Mark
Genre: Thriller

A troubled teen struggles to break free from his self-destructive lifestyle when he breaks into an abandoned funeral home with his friends and falls prey to a deranged mortician with a dark past.

"Poser" by Michael
In order to be taken seriously as a rapper, white suburban burnout Paul Ross seeks out "struggles" in order to validate his raps.