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.

"Dust on Dirt" by Adele Smaill
Ensnared in a lethal game of cat and mouse in the wilderness, a young woman forces a small-time smuggler to reckon with his past as she hunts down her would-be killers.
"The Hunting Grounds" by Parker Sack
50,000 years in the past, in the wake of a brutal famine, a tribe sets out on a quest for a new home. Little do they know, they're headed towards something far more dangerous...
"The James King Version" by David Schroeder
Genre: Historical

The true story of one of history’s most remarkable double lives. After blond, blue-eyed Clarence King dined with presidents, scaled mountains, and served as the first director of the U.S. Geological Survey, he successfully posed as an African American Pullman porter to be with the love of his life.

"Simon Son Of Star" by Ronen Tregerman
Genre: Action

When one man raises his sword against the world's biggest empire in a quest to free his land and people, he embarks on an heroic battle against all odds and carves it onto the pages of history for millenniums to come. Part history part legend this 2000 year old tale is a made for Hollywood story.

"Silver" by Ian
Women have been going missing, and the Police are doing nothing about it. With the world going to hell around her, Detective Silver will keep fighting to find the truth.
"Salva" by Aaron Garcia
When an artistic but depressed young boy gets in an accident after the death of his father, he becomes trapped in a surreal coma land inspired by Salvador Dali’s artwork that helps him learn to deal with his grief and encourages him to use his artistic gift.
"Liebe Lise" by Luke Hart-Moynihan
After losing her job and legal status, Austrian-Jewish physicist Lise Meitner struggles to escape 1938 Nazi Germany while her work leads towards an earth-shattering discovery -- nuclear fission, the key to the atomic bomb.
"Trader Bay" by Trey Wickwire
Genre: Adventure

Three hundred years in the future, a young woman carves her way through a world full of pirates, steam engines, and secret societies in order to avoid war.

"The Hazard Room" by Mike Cymanski
When a professional thief’s best friend is murdered by the son of a billionaire during a botched heist, she puts together a team of grifters to create a long con that will destroy him financially and emotionally.
"Marcel" by David Soll
An emotionally stunted tech bro is recruited to help launch a new product based on his late brother's work: a wearable helmet that livestreams the subconscious. It's a chance to get his career going again and win back his ex girlfriend, but he'll have to deal with more insight than he ever imagined.
"Naked to the Night" by Henry Myers
Genre: Drama

After serving fifteen years in prison for a murder he did not commit, a one-time infamous after-hours club operator fights to find a way to reclaim his life, and avoid returning to the nightlife he left behind.

"The 40" by MB Stevens
Genre: Sci-fi

An ex-con who works as a minimum wage fry cook in the Midwest is depressed, broke, and dissatisfied with his options. He reluctantly attends a church service for his fiancé and ends up meeting a God who gives him the ability to physically heal forty people because it’s his favorite number

"Inside" by Martin Tylicki
Genre: Drama

Scarlett imagines what the day of her Calculus II final will be like. When she awakens that morning, her pre-conceptions are soon proven wrong.

"Vincent and Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood" by Frank Gaimari
Genre: Historical

An unsuccessful painter, Vincent van Gogh, plummets into the realms of madness after being rejected by his homosexual lover.

"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

בס"ד
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"