2008 PAGE Awards Call for Entries
Entries are now being accepted in the fifth annual PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition.
The PAGE Awards have become one of the most important sources for new screenwriting talent within the Hollywood community and worldwide. Many PAGE Award winners have gone on to land writing assignments, secure representation, and sign option agreements on their winning scripts, and several now have movies in various stages of production and release.
In the latest news:
Amy Garcia and Cecilia Contreras, authors of the 2007 Gold Prize winning family film AMELIA EARHART AND THE BOLOGNA RAINBOW HIGHWAY, have just been signed by ICM and manager Marti Blumenthal.
Larry Postel’s 2005 Grand Prize winning Christmas comedy X-MAS FILES was sold to a 3-D animation company in India and the film is now in production. Larry also recently optioned his spec script KID SPAGHETTI to Eric Pham of Phame Factory.
2004 Gold Prize winner Danny Howell has just optioned his new feature VISIONS to producer Michael Grais (POLTERGEIST, GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!)
2006 Gold Prize winners Scott Perlman and Leo Simone have optioned their new spec BREAK FREE to Emmy-nominated producer Mitchell Galin (DUNE, THE NIGHT FLIER, THE STAND).
Eric Stein and Michael S. Bandy have inked a deal with Candlewick Press to publish their 2005 Bronze Prize-winning short script WHITE WATER as a children’s picture book.
Radar Pictures has signed on to produce and co-finance Christian Parkes’ 2006 Silver Prize winning action flick THE GOD BRINGER.
And Shohreh Aghdashloo (THE HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG, X-MEN) has signed on to star in Sarah Skibinski’s 2005 Gold Prize winning drama GO AHEAD, BACK UP.
The 2008 PAGE Awards competition promises to be bigger and better than ever. This year, the judges will present over $30,000 in cash and prizes to the winning writers in ten different genre categories, including a $10,000 Grand Prize. Most importantly, the contest is judged entirely by working professionals in the film and television industry, so by entering the competition all contestants have the opportunity to get their scripts read by Hollywood professionals currently in search of new talent.
Updated: 12/10/2007
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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