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PAGE Award Winning Writers Build Careers in the Industry
Now in its fifth year, the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition continues its track record of success, discovering and promoting some of the most talented new screenwriters from across the country and around the world. Since receiving their prizes, many PAGE Award winning writers have landed script assignments, secured representation, and signed option agreements on their work, and several now have movies in various stages of production and release.
In the latest news:
The new horror flick THE GRAVE, written by 2007 Silver Prize winner Jack Davidson, is currently in pre-production with producers Paul Carran and Liz DiFiore of Film Factory New Zealand. Stuart Orme (THE PUPPET MASTERS) is attached to direct.
Anne Sagel has just optioned her 2007 Bronze Prize winning thriller THE COLLECTOR to Polaris Productions in Los Angeles. The prodco has also optioned scripts by PAGE finalists Matthew Andrews and Jason Arnopp.
2005 Gold Prize winner Lynn Esta Goldman has just finished writing a new musical drama for a producer in South Africa, and she recently optioned one of her spec scripts to an L.A. film director.
2006 Silver Prize winner Sang Kyu Kim has written several episodes of a network TV show and is now a member of the WGA. Sang was also accepted into the CBS Writers Mentoring Program.
2006 Bronze Prize winners Mike Calvert and Gary Hershberger have been hired to adapt the book 'Only in America' based on a true life adventure. The writing team is repped by Principal Entertainment.
And 2007 Grand Prize winner John Arends has been hired by producer Ernst-August Schnieder and Fortune Films to do a rewrite on a new sci-fi script. John was just signed by the Barry Perelman Agency.
Several other PAGE Award winners have also recently acquired representation:
2007 Gold Prize winner Marc Conklin has been signed by Beloved Management/Beloved Pictures. 2005 Bronze Prize winner Martin McSweeney has been signed by the Blake Friedman Agency in London.
2005 Bronze Prize winner Rob Frisbee is now repped by Brian Spink at Benderspink Management.
And 2007 Gold Prize winner Jimmy Miller is repped by Gayla Nethercott at Don Buchwald & Associates and Josh McGuire at Washington Square Arts.
This year the PAGE judges will present awards to 31 screenwriters in ten different genre categories. The winning writers will receive over $30,000 in cash and prizes, including a $10,000 Grand Prize, as well as extensive publicity and industry exposure for their winning scripts.
The regular entry deadline for the 2008 PAGE Awards competition is Saturday, March 15th. Late entries will be accepted through April 15th. For more information, please visit: http://www.InternationalScreenwritingAwards.com
Updated: 02/27/2008
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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