Over the past eight 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:
- 67 Winners have optioned or sold their winning scripts
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63 Winners have acquired representation
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55 Winners have landed screenwriting assignments
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40 Winners have projects in production, aired or released
In addition, as a result of their placement in the PAGE Awards competition, dozens of our Finalists and Semi-Finalists have optioned their screenplays, been offered representation and/or landed writing assignments, as well.
So even if you don’t win a prize, just by entering the contest you may well win a career!
In the latest news…
- 2011 Grand Prize winner Pat White has been signed by Brandy Rivers at Magnet Management, and Pat is now developing the book version of her award-winning script Escape for publication.
- 2011 PAGE Award winner Laurelei Ballard has been signed by PAGE Judge Sammy Montana, and Laurelei’s Bronze Prize-winning TV Pilot This Town has been optioned by Fox Studios, with Paul Schiff and Tai Duncan attached as Executive Producers.
- After reading Will Jess’s PAGE Award-winning script Breaking Zero, John Will of Torn Sky Entertainment has hired the 2011 Silver Prize winner to develop a new feature project for his company.
- Ray Liotta stars in the 2010 Bronze Prize-winning thriller Bad Karma, by Steve Allrich. Produced by Zero Gravity Productions and directed by Suri Krishnamma, the movie was recently filmed in Australia and is now in post-production. It will be distributed by Anchor Bay Films.
- After his 2010 win, Gold Prize winner John Scott III was signed by CAA, and his award-winning script Maggie is currently in pre-production. John has also landed two high profile writing assignments: adapting the Tad Williams novel “Otherworld” for Warner Bros. and adapting Isaac Asimov’s “Caves of Steel” for Twentieth Century Fox.
- 2010 Grand Prize winner R. Scott Shields recently completed a new high-concept sci-fi assignment for Hydraulx Entertainment. Scott is repped by Brent Travers of Ascend Entertainment.
- Paper Trail, by 2010 Gold Prize winners Louis Rosenberg and Joe Rosenbaum has just been picked up by Sidney Kimmel, and Louis and Joe’s spec Mindplay recently sold to Echo Lake. Louis and Joe are repped by PAGE Judge Eric Williams of Zero Gravity Management.
- 2009 Gold Prize winner Robert Sudduth is now working as a staff writer on the new ABC series GCB. Rob was signed by Adesuwa McCalla of MetaMorphic Management shortly after his PAGE win.
- Trigger Street Productions and American Original Pictures are now on board to produce Alex Hollister’s 2009 Silver Prize-winning action script Shotgun Cinderella. Alex also recently landed an assignment to adapt a DC/Vertigo graphic novel for the screen. Alex is repped by PAGE Judge Jeff Belkin of Foremost Films.
- Radar Pictures is on board to produce and finance the 2009 PAGE Award-winning thriller/horror flick Endangered, by Mark Kratter. Mark was also hired by producer Stephen L’Heureux of Solipsist Films to adapt the graphic novel “Gray Area” for the screen.
- Matthew McConaughey is attached to star in the 2008 Gold Prize-winning drama Confessions of a Headhunter (now titled The Headhunter’s Calling), by Bill Dubuque. And Jake Gyllenhaal is attached to star in Bill’s spec The Accountant. Bill is repped by Zero Gravity Management.
- The new sitcom Spy, created and written by 2008 Gold Prize winner Simeon Goulden, is currently airing on SKY 1 HD in the U.K. and is available in the U.S. on Hulu. Simeon is repped by the Curtis Brown Agency in London.
- The medieval buddy comedy Knight Knight, by 2008 Gold Prize winner Nicholas Horwood, is now in post-production, produced by Hermit Films in the U.K., and Nick’s new short film Funday premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in September. Nick is represented by Matt Connell at Berlin Associates and Geoff Alexander at 6-17 Management.
- The 2008 Silver Prize-winning short film script A Lost and Found Box of Human Sensation, by Martin Wallner, has been produced by Lailaps Pictures and Dancing Squirrel in Munich, Germany. Voiced by Joseph Fiennes and Ian McKellan, this stunning animated short is now racking up awards on the international film festival circuit.
- The 2007 PAGE Award-winning drama Donovan’s Echo, by Jim Cliffe and Melodie Krieger, was filmed on location in Vancouver, starring Danny Glover and Bruce Greenwood, directed by Jim Cliffe. The movie is being distributed by Union Pictures.
- 2007 Gold Prize winner Marc Conklin was commissioned to write the new feature Memorial Day (aka Souvenirs), which is currently in post-production. The movie was shot on location in Minnesota, starring James Cromwell and Jonathan Bennett.
- The 2007 PAGE Gold Prize-winning family film The Bologna Rainbow Highway is being produced by Harry Ufland. Writers Amy Garcia and Cecilia Contreras also have two films in the works with Beloved Pictures: their spec script Dear Eleanor and their screen adaptation of the Y.A. phenomenon “The Daring Book for Girls.”
- Christian Parkes’ 2006 Silver Prize winning script The God Bringer (now titled P.O.V.) has been optioned by The Film Department, and his spec Pyramid has been picked up by Mandalay. Christian is repped by PAGE Judge Jeff Belkin of Foremost Films.
- 2005 Silver Prize winner Janet Lin has been promoted to co-producer of the FOX TV series Bones. Janet is repped by the Gersh Agency.
- Adam Balsam’s 2005 PAGE Award-winning sitcom Present Tense was optioned by James Brown, who also recently directed Adam’s new short film Best Dramatic Short. Adam’s animated feature adaptation Dorothy of Oz is currently in post-production, voiced by an all-star cast that includes Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, Kelsey Grammer and Patrick Stewart.
You can view trailers and clips from movies and TV shows written by some of our past winners on our YouTube Channel. And you can read more news from our past winners here…