Over the past six years, the PAGE Awards competition has earned a reputation for discovering and promoting some of the most talented new screenwriters from across the country and around the world. Since receiving their Awards, many of our winning writers are now building careers in the industry:

48 Winners have optioned or sold their scripts
41 Winners have acquired representation
30 Winners have landed screenwriting assignments
24 Winners have projects in production, aired or released

In addition, as a result of their high placement in the PAGE Awards competition, dozens of our Finalists and Semi-Finalists have optioned their scripts and/or acquired representation. So even if you don’t win a prize, just by entering the contest, you may win a career!

In the latest news…

• Radar Pictures is now attached to produce and finance the 2009 PAGE Silver Prize winning thriller/horror flick Endangered, by Mark Kratter. Mark has also been hired by producer Stephen L’Heureux of Solipsist Films to adapt a graphic novel for the screen.
• Two-time PAGE Award winner Sean Mick has been signed by Mark and Erick Williams of Zero Gravity Management. Sean’s 2009 Bronze Prize-winning action script Resurrection Run and his 2005 Gold Prize-winning screenplay Silencer are both in development.
• 2009 Silver Prize winner Alex Hollister has been signed by Jeff Belkin at Foremost Films.
• 2009 Silver Prize winner Fawaz Al-Matrouk shot his PAGE Award-winning short film To Rest in Peace in Kuwait last December. The movie premiered on the Paramount Studios lot on May 13th.
• 2008 Gold Prize winner Lisa Cole won a Hollywood F.A.M.E. Award for the VH1 rock documentary she wrote and directed, Do it for the Band: The Women of the Sunset Strip. Lisa also has a new feature in development with her husband, Mark Monroe, who just won this year’s Academy Award for his documentary The Cove
• The 2008 Gold Prize-winning TV sitcom pilot Control Alt Delete, by U.K. scribe Simeon Goulden, has been optioned by Company Pictures. Simeon is now represented by the Curtis Brown Agency in London.
• The 2008 Silver Prize-winning drama Fireworks, by Hannah Robinson and Jonathan R. Hall, has been optioned by Concept Entertainment, with Hannah contracted to direct. Hannah and Jonathan are now represented by Frank Wuliger at the Gersh Agency and PAGE Judge Joe Riley at Eyes on the Road Management.
• The 2008 Silver Prize-winning short film A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation, by Martin Wallner, is being produced by Dancing Squirrel GbR and Lailaps Pictures at the Trixter production facilities in Munich, Germany. The animated short is being voiced by Joseph Fiennes.
  
• Leslie Rabb of RPM International has signed both 2008 Gold Prize winner Nancy Noever and 2008 Silver Prize winner Robert Arnett.
• 2008 Silver Prize winners Michael and Jessica Brody have been signed by manager Margery Walshaw. Jessica’s debut novel The Fidelity Files was released last year by St. Martin’s Press, and the book was recently optioned to Marina Grasic (executive producer of Crash, Alpha Dog, Smart People).
• 2007 Gold Prize winner Marc Prey was recently commissioned to write the new feature Souvenirs, which is scheduled to go into production in July in southern Minnesota. Acclaimed actor James Cromwell is slated to star.
• The 2007 PAGE Gold Prize-winning family film The Bologna Rainbow Highway is being produced by Harry Ufland, with Jamie Babbit attached to direct and Marcia Gay Harden to star. Writers Amy Garcia and Cecilia Contreras also have another film in the works with director Garry Marshall, Dear Eleanor, starring AnnaSophia Robb and Abigail Breslin.
• Shady Creek, by 2007 Silver Prize winner Russell Gilwee, was optioned by Sarah Knight of Jo Films and the movie is now in pre-production. Russell was subsequently hired to write another script for Jo Films, McNeil Island, which is slated for a late 2010 shoot, and he recently completed Well of Life for Momentum Productions. Russell’s PAGE Award winning script Palace of Tears is currently being packaged by a London talent agency.
• A few weeks after winning the 2007 PAGE Grand Prize, John Arends was signed by legendary L.A. agent Barry Perelman. John was also hired by producer Ernst-August Schnieder and Fortune Films to do a rewrite on a new sci-fi script.
• After his PAGE victory, Jimmy Miller was signed by Gayla Nethercott at Buchwald & Associates and his 2007 Gold Prize-winning drama Slugger was optioned by Barn Door Pictures. Acclaimed actress/director Mary Stuart Masterson is attached to direct.
• The made-for-TV holiday film All I Want for Christmas, by 2007 Gold Prize winner Marc Prey, premiered on the Hallmark channel, directed by Harvey Frost and starring Gail O’Grady. Marc has also had several of his other scripts optioned and produced, and he has just been appointed to the Michigan Film Advisory Council.
• 2006 Grand Prize winner Scott LaCagnin has been signed by PAGE Judge Mike Kuciak at Samurai MK.
• 2006 Silver Prize winner Sang Kyu Kim is now a story editor on the TNT series Hawthorne. Sang wrote this season’s third episode “Road Narrows.”
• 2005 Silver Prize winner Janet Lin is now a story editor on the FOX TV series Bones. Janet’s most recent episode “The X in the File” aired January 14th.
• 2005 Bronze Prize winner Philip Daay was recently hired to write two indie features, and his sci-fi script Scionic is now being published by Arcana Comics as a graphic novel.
• Adam Balsam’s 2005 Silver Prize-winning sitcom pilot Present Tense has been optioned by James Brown, who discovered the script on InkTip. Adam was also recently hired by Alpine Pictures to do a rewrite on Dorothy of Oz, an animated feature voiced by Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, and Martin Short.
• 2005 Bronze Prize winner Dylan Costello was commissioned to write a documentary about climate change which was screened for world leaders at the Copenhagen summit in December. (View the documentary.)
• The 2004 PAGE Gold Prize-winning short film Absolute Zero, by Aussie writer Alan Woodruff, has completed production and is garnering awards at film festivals around the world.

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