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.

"Lost Time" by Jessica Ruehrmund
Genre: Comedy

Driven by thirtysomething malaise, an offhand wish sends a normally grounded woman and her unsuspecting friend on a strange, lively journey.

"Meet Les!" by Carl Burcham
Genre: Family

LES STONE is the youngest member of a famous Texas cattle and livestock ranch but when he announces he has become vegan and wants them to convert too, all hell breaks loose. Convincing diehard carnivores to swap meats for beets might just tear apart this close-knit family, especially after Les opens

"THE DREADGATE BOOK" by Alex Sobol
A folk horror/drama/thriller TV series about two clever girls who will have to survive a supernatural ordeal in order to save their hometown and their souls.
"Qualifying" by Thomas Black
A once promising athlete and teacher seeks to rebuild his life through the minor leagues of beach volleyball
"Something Wicked" by Allison Hanna
Genre: Fantasy

A witch, uninterested in inheriting his family's evil legacy, is forced to confront his destiny when his evil mother kidnaps his girlfriend.

"Fish Net Stockings" by Nick Marciano
A suicidal psychopath relentlessly torments a mother, her daughter and an entire police force with violence, murder and deception in order to achieve ever lasting notoriety
"Red Danube" by David Gluck
Genre: Historical

A charismatic art dealer lets his guard down, revisits a painful past, and uncovers a haunting betrayal perpetrated by the least likely antagonist during his youth in a Nazi concentration camp.

"Wolf Candy" by Richard Stringham
Genre: Horror

For a sheltered, suburban teen girl, a fun night out on the town turns into a ferocious fight for survival when she becomes the target of her abusive, drug-addled neighbor-turned-werewolf.

"Honey" by Lauren Certo
A young girl battles with mental health issues as she prepares for her SAT's.
"The Funny Farm" by Robert Ward
Genre: Horror

An indestructible, wisecracking demon terrorizes and kills the parents of a farm girl who hides in a bolted cellar… but after the demon extricates her, he falls in love with her while she figures out the way to kill him.

"Off The Rails" by Alex Lane
Genre: Action

When a suicidal Hollywood writer ends up on the run after a shooting, it’s up to his agent and a stranded Malibu police detective to track him down before a vengeful mercenary does.

"Dark Holds, a James Bond movie set in the 1950s" by Marko Josic
Genre: Action

Early 1950s, James Bond, teaming up with a young consular attache, has to sink a cargo ship trafficking weapons, but the young attache's fiancee is in charge of a humanitarian delivery traveling on it.

"Ghostboy" by Robert Kelly McAllister
Genre: Drama

Suffering under the thumb of an abusive stepfather, a twelve-year-old pines for his erstwhile dad while the increasingly intolerable situation pushes him to a breaking point — and into the realm of fantasy.

"Nightfall" by Matt Curtsinger
Genre: Sci-fi

A scientist races to restore oxygen levels and sunlight to a dying world, only to send it into eternal darkness.

"Running in Place" by Gary Blackwood
Genre: Drama

A former Olympic athlete, sidelined by motherhood, struggles to gain acceptance for women in the male-dominated sport of Highland Heavyweight Games.

"The Illuminated People" by Edel Dmytro Oksamyt
Genre: Comedy

The horrible lives of a few troubled young people link together on their quest to search for a device that can answer any question in the world.

"The Lost Camp" by Connor Etter
Three boys at a sleepaway summer camp discover an abandoned, Old West town that is home to a dark spirit with intent on vengeance.
"BLEEDTHROUGH" by Tammy Klembith
Genre: Horror

A woman who goes to great lengths to contain the trauma from her past, despite the constant gaslighting from her estranged family, ultimately realizes that it can’t be controlled.

"Ranger" by Allen Baldwin & Jane Ackermann
When a mysterious woman shows up at his Maine home, an elderly survivor of America’s indigenous boarding school system must reckon with his supernatural past, while trying to convince his daughter that it even happened at all.
"Reboot" by Robert Rhyne Rhyne
Two teenage boys, one grieving the recent death of his neo-Nazi father, and the other the son of a prophetic Jewish rabbi, must bury their hate for each other when they become the unlikely survivors of a mass extinction event.