David in situ on Dartmoor National Park, England at the setting of Tasered, his new darkly comedic psychosexual thriller.


David M Hinds’ 2023 spec screenplay


Tasered

After a celebrity therapist known online as The Happiness Angel is Tasered, she develops a compulsion to attack her lovers mid-act. She sets out to cure her affliction with fatal results.


The Happiness Angel

… is the identical twin sister of Tasered under an alternative title inspired by the protagonist’s millions of YouTube followers.

The Happiness Angel, Candy Towne, vents her frustration with the screenwriter David M Hinds


International Film Festival Screenplay Awards

SCREENPLAY AWARDS OUTRIGHT WINS FOR TASERED
Oniros Film Awards New York
December 2021
WINNER – BEST THRILLER SCRIPT
WorldFest Houston
2022
PLATINUM WINNER – BEST THRILLER
Golden Sparrow Awards
May 2022
WINNER – BEST FEATURE SCRIPT/SCREENPLAY
Košice International Film Festival
May 2022
WINNER – BEST THRILLER SCREENPLAY
Prague International Film Awards
Spring 2022
WINNER – BEST ACTION SCREENPLAY
Stanley Film Awards
June 2022
WINNER – BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Best Script Award – London
Summer 2022
WINNER – BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENPLAY
International Manhattan Film Awards
2022
WINNER – BEST COMEDY
Hamburg Indie Fest
2022
WINNER – BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
European Cinematography Awards
2021 - 2022
WINNER – BEST SCREENPLAY
Oxford Script Awards
February 2023
WINNER – BEST PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENPLAY

 


David and his wife Tatiana at the Paris Art and Movie Awards, Summer 2022.

SCREENPLAY AWARDS OUTRIGHT WINS FOR TASERED’S ALTERNATE TITLE “THEHAPPINESS ANGEL”


WorldFest Houston
2022
SILVER WINNER – BEST COMEDY
Oniros Film Awards New York
April 2022 
WINNER – BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT
Oniros Film Awards New York
April 2022 
WINNER – BEST THRILLER SCRIPT
Oniros Film Awards New York
April 2022 
WINNER – BEST 1ST TIME SCREENWRITER – FEATURE
Golden Eagle Film Festival
May 2022
WINNER - BEST FEATURE SCRIPT / SCREENPLAY
8 & HalFilm Fellini Festival Italy
June 2022
WINNER - BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SCRIPT
Sweet Democracy Film Awards
June 2022
WINNER – BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Florence Film Awards
June 2022
SILVER WINNER - BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
New York Movie Awards
June 2022
WINNER – BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
World Webfest Mania
August 2022
WINNER - BEST FEATURE SCREENPLAY
Venus Community Awards
August 2022
WINNER - BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD
Hamburg Indie Fest
Summer 2022
WINNER – BEST UNPRODUCED FEATURE SCRIPT
Paris Art & Movie Awards
Summer 2022
WINNER - BEST FEATURE SCRIPT
Page Turner Screenplays
December 2022 
WINNER – THE 100 
Golden Draft Awards
January 2023
WINNER – FEATURE SCREENPLAY AWARD

The Happiness Angel wins best feature script at the Paris Art and Movie Awards, summer 2022

Tasered – The Pitch…

Strange things can happen when you’re Tasered…

LOGLINE: After a celebrity therapist known online as The Happiness Angel is tasered, she develops a lethal compulsion to attack her lovers mid-act.

In Hollywood speak, Candy is a tough-as-nails Erin Brockovich with Basic Instinct's Catherine Tramell lurking inside her.

The heart of this screenplay lies in the psycho-sexual powerplays among its main cast.

Candy struggles to regain her sanity, beat a murder rap and manage her love life as she wages a onewoman David and Goliath war against taser industry mogul Zalika Rose.

Some of this screenplay has actually happened in real life.

David is an award-winning UK stress management consultant and national franchisor specialising in problems of the subconscious mind. His lifetime of mental health expertise is invested in TASERED that is market-ready right now


Tasered Synopsis

After a celebrity therapist known online as The Happiness Angel is tasered, she develops a lethal compulsion to attack her lovers mid-act.

In this darkly comedic, psycho-sexual thriller set in the UK, a 50,000-volt hit from a police taser damages stress management therapist Candy Towne. It electrifies her sex life and transforms her into a dangerous Jekyll and Hyde-type personality. She experiences the real-life taser-related disorder EXCITED DELIRIUM.

Candy is a 25-year-old high-profile dame with an embarrassing problem, regular clients and a weekly vlog to post. Her performance is sharp and sexy with a temperament and a tongue quicker than her brain.

Inspired by true events, TASERED (along with its alternate title THE HAPPINESS ANGEL) is a multi-award-winning female-led feature screenplay (WorldFest Houston – established 55 years ago) + 22 other film festival outright wins during development in 2022-2023.

The action jump-starts in the Dartmoor National Park where Candy, acting as a good Samaritan and triggered by past trauma, mistakes a young married couple participating in a kidnap/hostage sex romp for the real deal. Determined to rescue the hostage, Candy gives chase in her car. There’s a confrontation and a crash! The husband is killed and Candy’s key contradiction is exposed: she’s reckless, yet selfless!

The widow, Scarlett Snow, reveals herself to be a super-fun villain who pops up in all kinds of strange situations. She has a web of relationships with other cast members, allowing for interesting betrayals and truly malicious behaviour. When the police show up on Dartmoor, Scarlett accuses Candy of murder, but later, she falls in love with Candy. There’s an intricate push-pull between them. Scarlett is a stunning Gothic hedonist, able to tempt and blackmail Candy, whilst Candy - preppy and conventional - does her best to maintain order.

Candy struggles to regain her sanity, beat a murder rap and manage her love life as she wages a one-woman David and Goliath war against taser industry mogul Zalika Rose.

The heart of this screenplay lies in the psycho-sexual powerplays among its main cast. In Hollywood speak, Candy is a tough-as-nails Erin Brockovich with Basic Instinct's Catherine Tramell lurking inside her.

I’ll fucking make you love me if it kills me, says Candy to her emotionally unavailable beloved mental health entrepreneur Jason Wood, in an early scene. By FADE OUT she does and it does. Jason, shackled to his iron bed, is at the mercy of Candy’s lethal compulsion. Pleasure, and then agony grip the couple...

Candy seems unstoppable when, in the pivotal moment of overcoming her lethal compulsion, a police helicopter appears alongside Jason’s penthouse master bedroom’s French windows. A police marksman aboard the aircraft shoots Candy in a Zalika-inspired set-up. Glass shatters and cascades. Candy recoils from the bullet to her chest. Her legs slam back against the bed. She catapults, face down, back into Jason’s outstretched and tethered arms. He groans as she crash-lands on top of him.

A poignant lament escapes her lips, “Love you. Sorry.”

With mental health problems at an all-time high, the unique premise and dynamic characters featured in this high concept thriller should appeal to both young and older adults in today’s interconnected digital world.

The screenwriter is an award-winning stress management consultant and national franchisor specialising in problems of the subconscious mind. (Daily Express Award for Innovation in Franchising, 1993). His lifetime of professional experience is the bedrock of this screenplay that features mental health in a highly-original, visual, and entertaining way. His lifetime of mental health expertise is invested in TASERED that is market-ready right now.

Biography - David M Hinds

David is a Stress Management Consultant by profession and the subconscious mind is his area of expertise. In 1987 David turned his pilot stress management practice into an award-winning nationwide franchise. By 1994 the enterprise had grown to 92 consultancies, and David had made his first million pounds.

But then he did something that no stress manager should ever do...

He suffered a stroke that paralysed one side of his body from mouth to foot while still in the prime of life. Three days later, in hospital, he had another stroke; this one was serious. 

He lost everything: his business, his house, the jet-set lifestyle, the fast cars and the fast women, but he was not prepared to settle for life in a wheelchair. Adopting stress management techniques that he had once used to help his clients to overcome their psychological problems, he made a full recovery over a four-year period while convalescing in the Cornish fishing village of Polperro.

After recovering from the two major strokes and a sub-clavian bypass operation, David wrote the non-fiction self-help book After Stroke, which was first published in the UK in February 2000 by Thorsons, in the USA by HarperCollins, and in Japan by Sun Choh with sales of 20,000 copies in the UK alone.

After Stroke was also picked up by the media, and David’s story was a full-page feature in the Sunday Express Colour Magazine. He was also interviewed on BBC TV, Channel 5 News, and ITV’s THIS MORNING programme with Richard and Judy. Richard Madeley, live on TV, described the book as “excellent”. 

Eoin Redahan of The UK Stroke Association described the book as “A warm and motivating read.” 

Sir Peter J Morris, FRCS, FRS, Nuffield Professor of Surgery, University of Oxford, who wrote the foreword, stated that After Stroke was “Invaluable not only for people who have had a stroke but also for their carers.”

David is the author of a series of professional stress management training manuals for industry, Countdown to Love, and The Little Book of Recovery, as well as Beat Depression, published by Hodder and Stoughton, with an Arabic edition by Jarir. He lives with his wife, Tatiana, a mathematician and teacher, in Plymouth, Devon.  

In 2023 - after 7 years perfecting his latest screenplay through 12 major re-writes - David will commence marketing TASERED (THE HAPPINESS ANGEL) to the film industry.


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The author and his wife at the Paris Art & Movie Awards

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Previous Published Work

In the Media

Click here to view the David M Hinds TV Interview on This Morning with Richard & Judy - 3rd February 2000

Copyright

WGA Registration Number:  2128360

Library of Congress United States

Copyright Registration:  PAu 4-098-739
Copyright Witness (UK) Reg:  284691426


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