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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: 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
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A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
Attachment In (Pilot)
An ancient being is summoned to fight an evil entity but first both have to attach within a human body at birth, grow up and navigate life before meeting in an epic battle where winner takes all.
Between The Flames
Wildfires are the least of her worries, when a college athlete lands a job on a Hotshot Crew in the 80's where she meets her best friend plus two love interests who want her for very different agendas during an intense drought year.
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.
PAPER TRAIL
When a young Army MP becomes a private investigator after he inherits his Grandfather’s storefront in a small town in the mountains of Colorado; his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new one he must forever keep from his fiancée.
THE AMAZING TOOTHBRUSH
A 11yr old boy receives a special toothbrush.
