PAGE Award Winners in the News
Now in its fourth year, the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition has rapidly become one of the most important sources for new screenwriting talent within the Hollywood community and worldwide. Since receiving their awards, many of the contest’s winning screenwriters have landed writing assignments, secured representation, and signed option agreements on their winning scripts, and several PAGE Award winners now have movies in various stages of production and release.
Among the most recent PAGE success stories:
The 2004 Gold Prize-winning short ABSOLUTE ZERO, by Aussie screenwriter Alan Woodruff, has completed production and is currently on the international film festival circuit. The movie recently won the jury prize for Best Short Film at the Trimedia Festival (USA), and it will also be screened this year at Rebelfest (Canada), Golden Lion (Africa), the Chennai Film Festival (India), and the Durango Film Festival (USA).
A few weeks after the 2006 PAGE Awards were announced, Silver Prize-winning TV writer Davah Avena was signed by the Kaplan, Stahler, Gumer, Braun Agency.
After a flurry of interest, Lisa Yoffee has optioned her 2006 Gold Prize-winning family film JEKYLL & HEIDI to L.A. producer Bob Abramoff.
Point Zero Pictures has just optioned the dark comedy spec KEEPSAKE by 2005 Bronze Prize winner Drina Connors Kay. Kay was also recently hired by Point Zero to write a feature based on an idea by producer/director Miklos Philips.
2004 Gold Prize winner Jennifer Vandever has optioned the film rights to her novel THE BRONTE PROJECT to New York-based Orchard Pictures. The book was originally published by Random House and Three Rivers Press, and is now on sale at Amazon.com. Nisha Ganatra is attached to direct the film.
The comedy feature JUPITER LANDING, by 2006 Bronze Prize winner Zack Van Eyck, is now available on DVD through Netflix, as well as at: www.jupiterlandingthemovie.com. Van Eyck’s new comedy script THE EIGHTH HOUSE is slated for production this summer in Salt Lake City, produced by Chad Russey. And Van Eyck also just sold his fifth short film script, THE MESSENGER, to producer Gil Pinon. Pinon is scheduled to shoot the movie this spring in southern Germany.
Entries are now being accepted in the 2007 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition. The regular entry deadline for this year's contest is this Thursday, March 15th, and late entries will be accepted through April 30th. Over $25,000 in cash and prizes will once again be presented to the winning screenwriters in nine different categories, along with extensive publicity and industry exposure.
Updated: 03/12/2007
Additional Contest Info: 2025 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping.
She Curses Like a Sailor
The culture of women and cursing is discussed at this art opening in New York.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest killed in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante assassinating violent domestic abusers (and other wretched souls) after their third offense.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
The Coyote
When a Native American scholar and a graduate student unearth a mysterious tomb, they find it contains a Navajo god and soon find themselves embroiled in a cosmic battle between good and evil with the fate of humanity at stake.
The Umpire Has No Balls
A fiery young woman who has baseball running through her blood and can call the game better than anyone starts her journey through the umpire ranks to achieve her one goal in life – becoming a major league baseball umpire.
All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
The Xanadu Team in their second outing become pawns in a complicated gem heist, involving a beautiful Russian woman and her nefarious employer after a boat of stolen jewelry explodes.
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