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.

"The Legend of Moses Pace" by Alexander LeGrand
The life story of the Wild West's nastiest and most murderous bastard gunslinger is told by those lucky enough to have survived his rampage.
"Sands of Lanikai" by Greg Blair
Genre: Drama

In the days leading up to Pearl Harbor, a young man new to Hawaii falls in love with a local girl and pursues the mystery of his grandfather's life and death.

"The Dark Easy" by Michael Crame
Genre: Fantasy

Martin and The Hat, collect overdue fines and books for a New Orleans occult library. In Chicago to collect from a guy who's skipped town, they’re caught in a power struggle with a wanna-be gangster, a sociopath occultist who’s Martin’s old boss, and a vengeful daughter of an ancient French family

"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.

"Liars" by Charlene Clarke-Todoruk
When the world’s population begins to see lies as a physical manifestation, a puff of red smoke, relationships, families, the world of social media, practically any social interaction, turns into a visible falsehood; it started slowly with a single word.
"Ceyenne: Woman of Medicine (pilot - supernatural thriller)" by Sophia Lee
A half-Cherokee medical doctor exercises her newly discovered healing gift of soul-mergence on a serial killer inmate whom her step-brother is using as a guinea pig for an experimental pharmaceutical.
"The Engine" by Bruna Pias
A friendless 13 year old nerd investigates his estranged grandmother's race car driving past and superhuman abilities during the English summer of 1996.
"TV Town Pilot Part 1 & Part 2: The Gang Gets Welcome kits. Or A TV Town Royale with Cheese" by David Leskin
Genre: Animated

In what sounds like the setup to a bad joke, a warrior-monk, 2 podcasters, and an amnesiac are transported to TV Town, a land where pop culture is real, in a quest to save the universe, defeat a monster, and get home.

"The Last American Gay Bar" by Kristian Day
Genre: Historical

A three-part miniseries telling the story of the rise and fall of gay bars in America through the eyes of three red state institutions.

"The Incumbents" by KARAN TALWAR Talwar
Genre: Drama

The individual trails and tribulations of an interracial political family in West London over the course of two weeks.

"Avenging Ava" by William Lindstrom
Genre: Drama

When his fourteen-year-old daughter is brutally attacked by a serial pedophile who has long escaped capture, he becomes a fugitive himself in pursuit of the assailant to exact a certain fathers justice before turning him over to authorities

"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