David M Hinds
Author, Screenwriter and Accidental Filmmaker
David in situ on Dartmoor National Park, England at the setting of Tasered, his new darkly comedic psychosexual thriller.
David M Hinds’ 2023 spec feature screenplay
Tasered
LOGLINE: After a celebrity therapist known online as The Happiness Angel is tasered, she experiences the real-life taser-related disorder EXCITED DELIRIUM. She develops a compulsion to attack her lovers mid-act, electrifying her sex life and transforming her into a dangerous Jekyll and Hyde-type personality.
The Happiness Angel
… is the identical twin sister of Tasered under an alternative title inspired by the protagonist’s YouTube followers.

Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel
The Happiness Angel, Candy Towne, vents her frustration with the screenwriter David M Hinds in this multi-award winning two-minute teaser/trailer spoof video.





















International Film Festival Screenplay Awards
Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel Award Winner Submissions - FilmFreeway
Travancore International Film Awards November 5, 2023 | ![]() |
THE GREAT BRITAIN SILVER SCREEN AWARDS October 30, 2023 |
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Filmzen International Film Competition September 28, 2023 | ![]() |
Miami Film Critic Award November 12, 2023 | ![]() |
8 & Halfilm Awards September 12, 2023 | ![]() |
Dubai International Cine Carnival September 5, 2023 | ![]() |
World Film Carnival - Singapore August 23, 2023 | ![]() |
From: FilmFreeway Support <support@filmfreeway.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 at 18:28
Subject: Re: Thank you Ashton for your prompt and kind recent support
To: David Hinds <david@davidmhinds.com>
Hi David,
It's no problem at all, there's no need to limit your number of times reaching out to us.
We can confirm the 63 total Award Winner statuses and have attached that file for you.
We can confirm 8 award wins for TASERED featuring THE HAPPINESS ANGEL as well. This file is also attached for you.
Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Best,
Ashton
FilmFreeway Team
support@filmfreeway.com
All Award Winner Submissions - FilmFreeway
Cannes World Art Festival November 1, 2023 | ![]() |
Travancore International Film Awards November 5, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
THE GREAT BRITAIN SILVER SCREEN AWARDS October 30, 2023 | ![]() |
Filmzen International Film Competition September 28, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
Miami Film Critic Award November 12, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
David Film Festival October 29, 2023 | ![]() |
Frida Film Festival October 9, 2023 | ![]() |
Cannes World Art Festival November 1, 2023 | ![]() |
Hollywood on the Tiber Film Awards September 16, 2023 | ![]() |
8 & Halfi lm Awards September 12, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
Dubai International Cine Carnival September 5, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
World Film Carnival - Singapore August 23, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
French International Modern Film and Script Festival September 5, 2023 | ![]() |
New Wave International Script & Film Festival November 13, 2023 | ![]() |
Berlin International Screenwriting Festival September 14, 2023 | ![]() |
Filmatic Filmfare October 10, 2023 | ![]() |
Naples Film Awards September 10, 2023 | ![]() |
Rome Movie Awards August 12, 2023 | ![]() |
Golden Wheat Awards July 30, 2023 | ![]() |
Dona Paula International Film Awards July 1, 2023 | ![]() |
The Singapore International Competition July 10, 2023 | ![]() |
Oxford Script Awards May 18, 2023 | ![]() |
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Online August 12, 2023 | ![]() ![]() |
New York Screenwriting Awards March 20, 2023 | ![]() |
Golden Draft Awards January 30, 2023 | ![]() |
London International Screenwriting Competition February 27, 2023 | ![]() |
Oxford Script Awards February 6, 2023 | ![]() |
Page Turner Screenplays December 25, 2022 | ![]() |
Golden Wheat Awards September 15, 2023 | ![]() |
Close Film Festival October 24, 2022 | ![]() |
Venus Community Awards August 20, 2022 | ![]() |
New York Movie Awards July 5, 2022 | ![]() |
Florence Film Awards July 5, 2022 | ![]() |
Stanley Film Awards July 11, 2022 | ![]() |
Sweet Democracy Film Awards July 9, 2022 | ![]() |
8 & Halfi lm Awards July 11, 2022 | ![]() |
Best Script Award - London August 22, 2022 | ![]() |
Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival June 18, 2022 | ![]() |
Hamburg Indie Film Festival September 5, 2022 | ![]() ![]() |
Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival June 6, 2022 | ![]() ![]() |
Golden Eagle International Film Festival May 30, 2022 | ![]() |
International Manhattan Film Awards July 1, 2022 | ![]() |
Indie Cine Tube Awards July 7, 2022 | ![]() |
Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival June 18, 2022 | ![]() |
Golden Sparrow International Film Festival May 15, 2022 | ![]() |
Oniros Film Awards® - New York May 6, 2022 | ![]() |
Paris Art and Movie Awards, PAMA August 21, 2022 | ![]() |
WorldFest-Houston International Film Awards April 19, 2022 | ![]() ![]() |
Kosice International Film Festival May 16, 2022 | ![]() |
Oniros Film Awards® - New York January 6, 2022 | ![]() |
European Cinematography AWARDS September 10, 2023 | ![]() |
Prague International Film Awards April 3, 2022 | ![]() |

David and his wife Tatiana at the Paris Art and Movie Awards, Summer 2022.
The Happiness Angel wins best feature script at the Paris Art and Movie Awards, summer 2022
Hollywood Latest
Ashley Scott Meyers SYS Screenplay Assessment: THE HAPPINESS ANGEL
This is is an extract from the latest Hollywood assessment dated 07/03/2023.
Title: THE HAPPINESS ANGEL
Overall Grade*: recommend
The reader graded your screenplay in 6 categories:
- Concept: recommend
- Characters: recommend
- Structure: recommend
- Marketability: recommend
- Tone: recommend
- Craft: recommend
A note about our grading system: The 'pass, consider, recommend' grading system is very typical in Hollywood, which is why we adopted it for the contest. You can look at the grades like this:
Pass means the reader thought the screenplay needs quite a bit of work.
Consider means the reader thought there were some interesting/well executed things about the screenplay, but it still needs some work before it is ready for production.
Recommend means the reader thought the screenplay is well written and needs little work, if any, to be ready for production.
Thanks,
Ashley Scott Meyers
info@sellingyourscreenplay.com
Tasered Synopsis

LOGLINE: After a celebrity therapist known online as The Happiness Angel is tasered, she experiences the real-life taser-related disorder EXCITED DELIRIUM. She develops a compulsion to attack her lovers mid-act, electrifying her sex life and transforming her into a dangerous Jekyll and Hyde-type personality.
Inspired by true events, TASERED (together with its associate title THE HAPPINESS ANGEL) is a multi-award-winning feature screenplay with BEST THRILLER and BEST COMEDY wins at WorldFest Houston – established 55 years ago – plus 61 other 2022/23 International Film Festival outright wins during development. This phenomenal award-winning run has been independently verified by FilmFreeway.
TASERED fires into high-stakes conflict through a captivating opening scene in the Dartmoor National Park: 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. Layers of deceit and mystery are at play in this inciting incident. The ambiguity, twists and turns set the tone for the misinterpretation and espionage to come. Determined to rescue the ‘hostage’, Candy gives chase in her car. There’s a confrontation and a crash! The husband – referred to as the ‘kidnapper’ – is killed and Candy’s key contradiction is exposed: she’s reckless, yet selfless!
The heart of this female-led, darkly comedic thriller set in the UK lies in the psychosexual powerplay between its main cast. In Hollywood speak, Candy Towne – The Happiness Angel – is a tough-as-nails Erin Brockovich denouncing the taser industry with Basic Instinct's Catherine Tramell lurking inside her, Killing Eve-style.
Candy’s mental instability is a fascinating juxtaposition to her success as a wellness influencer. She’s a 30-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.
I am an award-winning (Daily Express Award for Innovation, 1993) stress management consultant specializing in problems of the subconscious mind. Professionally, I know these characters inside out... They rock!
My first in a series of health books – and still in print today – After Stroke, published by Thorsons (UK) in 2000 and HarperCollins (USA) in 2001 featured in an episode of BBC TV’s Cornish Chronicles; on ITV’s This Morning show with Richard Madeley, and on Channel 5 TV News.
My lifetime of mental health expertise is invested in TASERED. With mental health problems at an all-time high, the unique premise and dynamic characters in this high concept, cross-genre screenplay should connect and appeal to both young and older adults in today’s interconnected digital world.
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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