2008 PAGE Award Winners Announced
The winners of the fifth annual PAGE International Screenwriting Awards competition have now been announced, and the judges have awarded this year's $10,000 Grand Prize to Mike Amato of Franklin, Massachusetts for his stunning drama/thriller HONOR BOUND. Logline: Rape victim Rana Samwar is hiding. From her own family. Tonight they will travel 6,000 miles to murder her, and her only hope is a racist FBI Agent about to lose his job. Honor Killings have come to America.
The judges have also presented Gold, Silver, and Bronze Prizes in ten different genre categories. The complete list of winners is as follows:
GRAND PRIZE
HONOR BOUND
Mike Amato
Franklin, Massachusetts
ACTION/ADVENTURE
Gold Prize
WORDS OF WAR
Nancy Noever
Los Angeles, California
Silver Prize
CAGE
Philip Landa
Belmont, Massachusetts
Bronze Prize
AIR AND SPACE
Coert Voorhees
Houston, Texas
COMEDY
Gold Prize
MINDBENDER
Nicholas Horwood
London, England
Silver Prize
THE SMART MONEY
Alexander Gradet
Brooklyn, New York
Bronze Prize
ATOM BRAVO
Rob Rex
Los Angeles, California
DRAMA
Gold Prize
CONFESSIONS OF A HEADHUNTER
Bill Dubuque
St. Charles, Missouri
Silver Prize
FIREWORKS
Hannah Robinson & Jonathan R. Hall
London, England
Bronze Prize
TRAIN RENOIR
Scott Cramer
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
FAMILY FILM
Gold Prize
FRANK DRISCOLL, FAIRY PRINCESS
Lee Arcuri
Santa Monica, California
Silver Prize
PRINCESS FROG
Richard Carr
Columbus, Ohio
Bronze Prize
ALICE BENEATH THE WAVES
Eoin Rogers
Dublin, Ireland
HISTORICAL FILM
Gold Prize
HIS FAIR LADY
Russell Sommers
Los Angeles, California
Silver Prize
DATSUN SAVES
Robert Arnett
Norfolk, Virginia
Bronze Prize
JALLIANWALA BAGH
Nidhi Verghese
Los Angeles, California
SCIENCE FICTION
Gold Prize
EDEN'S AIR
Steve Warren
Austin, Texas
Silver Prize
DARK MOTH
Dongmin Cha
Seongnam-city, South Korea
Bronze Prize
FUTURE PAST
Brenda Pressnall
Loveland, Colorado
THRILLER/HORROR
Gold Prize
THE MEMORY SHELF
Troy Taylor
Beaumaris, Victoria, Australia
Silver Prize
SOMNIPHOBIA
Michael Brody & Jessica Brody
Franktown, Colorado
Bronze Prize
PEEKER
Stephen Carter
Van Nuys, California
SHORT FILM
Gold Prize
DEBRIS
Lisa Cole
Los Angeles, California
Silver Prize
A LOST AND FOUND BOX
OF HUMAN SENSATION
Martin Wallner
Augsburg, Germany
Bronze Prize
MORTIMER SMEDLEY'S INVENTION
Scott & Paula Merrow
Albuquerque, New Mexico
TV DRAMA PILOT
Gold Prize
I.A.D.
V.J. Boyd
Dallas, Texas
Silver Prize
LOS ANGELES
Andrew Gerngross
Venice, California
Bronze Prize
THE SOCIOLOGY OF CRUSADERS
Jennifer Ruisch
Dallas Center, Iowa
TV SITCOM PILOT
Gold Prize
CONTROL ALT DELETE
Simeon Goulden
London, England
Silver Prize
CONSULTANTS
Ethan Kruger
Los Angeles, California
Bronze Prize
CABBAGETOWN
Terry O'Brien
Mount Albert, Ontario, Canada
Updated: 10/01/2008
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ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
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.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
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.
