David in situ on Dartmoor National Park, England at the setting of 'The Happiness Angel’, his new darkly comedic psychosexual thriller.


David M Hinds' 2025 feature screenplay THE HAPPINESS ANGEL


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 won during script development prior to completion in January, 2025.

From: FilmFreeway Support <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 at 18:28
Subject: Re: Thank you Ashton for your prompt and kind recent support
To: David Hinds <[email protected]>

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 

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David and his wife Tatiana at the Paris Art and Movie Awards, Summer 2022.
International Awards for my micro trailer - TASERED featuring THE HAPPINESS ANGEL
FestivalProject TitleNotification DateJudging StatuesCategory Name
Cineverse International Film FestivalTasered featuring The Happiness AngelOctober 05, 2024Award WinnerBest Trailer/Teaser
International Network Film FestivalTasered featuring The Happiness AngelFebruary 20, 2024Award WinnerALL categories
No Country for Old FilmsTasered featuring The Happiness AngelDecember 20, 2023Award WinnerBest Micro Short
Miami Film Critic AwardTasered featuring The Happiness AngelNovember 11, 2023Award WinnerTrailer/Teaser (5 Minutes or Less)
Travancore International Film Awards (TIFA)Tasered featuring The Happiness AngelNovember 05, 2023Award WinnerALL POSSIBLE CATEGORY AWARD CONSIDERATION FOR SHORT FILM
THE GREAT BRITAIN SILVER SCREEN AWARDSTasered featuring The Happiness AngelOctober 30, 2023Award WinnerTrailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less)
THE GREAT BRITAIN SILVER SCREEN AWARDSTasered featuring The Happiness AngelOctober 30, 2023Award WinnerBest Actress (Fiction) (Any Length)
Filmzen International Film CompetitionTasered featuring The Happiness AngelSeptember 28, 2023Award WinnerTrailer/Teaser (5 Minutes or Less)
8 & Halfilm AwardsTasered featuring The Happiness AngelSeptember 12, 2023Award WinnerCommercial/Promotional Video
Dubai International Cine CarnivalTasered featuring The Happiness AngelAugust 30, 2023Award WinnerTrailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less)
World Film Carnival - SingaporeTasered featuring The Happiness AngelAugust 23, 2023Award WinnerTrailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less)

International Awards during development prior to completion in January 2025 - The Happiness Angel
FestivalProject TitleNotification DateJudging StatuesCategory Name
Best International Motion PicturesThe Happiness AngelDecember 05, 2023Award WinnerScript on Social Issues
Miami Film Critic AwardThe Happiness AngelNovember 11, 2023Award WinnerBest International Feature Script
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Online FestivalThe Happiness AngelNovember 06, 2023Award WinnerNEO NOIR WRITING
Travancore International Film Awards (TIFA)The Happiness AngelNovember 05, 2023Award WinnerALL POSSIBLE CATEGORY AWARD CONSIDERATION FOR SCREENPLAY
Cannes World Art FestivalThe Happiness AngelNovember 01, 2023Award WinnerBest Original Concept
Cannes World Art FestivalThe Happiness AngelNovember 01, 2023Award WinnerBest Feature Script
Frida Film FestivalThe Happiness AngelOctober 09, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
Filmatic FilmfareThe Happiness AngelOctober 08, 2023Award WinnerBest Social Screenplay of the Season
Hollywood on the Tiber Film AwardsThe Happiness AngelSeptember 16, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
Berlin International Screenwriting Festival | BISFThe Happiness AngelSeptember 14, 2023Award WinnerBest Feature Screenplay
Naples Film AwardsThe Happiness AngelSeptember 10, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
Dubai International Cine CarnivalThe Happiness AngelAugust 30, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
World Film Carnival - SingaporeThe Happiness AngelAugust 23, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
Rome Movie AwardsThe Happiness AngelAugust 12, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
Golden Wheat AwardsThe Happiness AngelAugust 11, 2023Award WinnerBEST SCREENPLAY - (All Submitted Projects will compete)
The Singapore International CompetitionThe Happiness AngelJuly 11, 2023Award WinnerBest Original Screenplay
Dona Paula International Film AwardsThe Happiness AngelJuly 01, 2023Award WinnerBest Screenplay
Oxford Script AwardsThe Happiness AngelMay 18, 2023Award WinnerBest FEATURE Screenplay
New York Screenwriting AwardsThe Happiness AngelMarch 20, 2023Award WinnerFeature Screenplay/ Comedy
London International Screenwriting CompetitionThe Happiness AngelFebruary 27, 2023Award WinnerScreenplay (Judged on first 10 pages) plus full studio-style coverage of whole script
Golden Draft AwardsThe Happiness AngelJanuary 30, 2023Award WinnerFeature Screenplay
Page Turner ScreenplaysThe Happiness AngelDecember 25, 2022Award WinnerFIRST 15 - NOTES ON YOUR FIRST 15 PAGES
Golden Wheat AwardsThe Happiness AngelSeptember 20, 2022Award WinnerGOLDEN WHEAT AWARDS - (All Submitted Projects will Compete)
Hamburg Indie Film FestivalThe Happiness AngelAugust 20, 2022Award WinnerBest Unproduced Feature script
Venus Community AwardsThe Happiness AngelAugust 20, 2022Award WinnerMain Category
Paris Movie Awards | PAMAThe Happiness AngelAugust 01, 2022Award WinnerBest Feature Script
8 & Halfilm AwardsThe Happiness AngelJuly 11, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script
Sweet Democracy Film AwardsThe Happiness AngelJuly 09, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script
Florence Film AwardsThe Happiness AngelJuly 05, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script
New York Movie AwardsThe Happiness AngelJuly 05, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script
Krimson Horyzon International Film FestivalThe Happiness AngelJune 18, 2022Award WinnerBest Screenplay
Dreamz Catcher International Film FestivalThe Happiness AngelJune 06, 2022Award WinnerBest screenplay
Golden Eagle International Film FestivalThe Happiness AngelMay 30, 2022Award WinnerBEST FEATURE SCRIPT / SCREENPLAY
Oniros Film Awards - New YorkThe Happiness AngelMay 06, 2022Award WinnerBest Feature Script
WorldFest-Houston International Film FestivalThe Happiness AngelMarch 31, 2022Award WinnerScreenplay - Comedy - Dark or Black Comedy




International Awards during development prior to completion in January 2025 - Tasered
FestivalProject TitleNotification DateJudging StatuesCategory Name
Swiss Screenwriting and Cinematic SummitTaseredMarch 18, 2024Award WinnerALL CATEGORIES
International Network Film FestivalTaseredFebruary 20, 2024Award WinnerOriginal Screenplay
Best International Motion PicturesTaseredDecember 05, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
David Film FestivalTaseredNovember 29, 2023Award WinnerBEST DRAMA - (All Submitted Projects will compete)
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Online FestivalTaseredNovember 06, 2023Award WinnerBEST SCREENPLAY
New Wave International Script & Film FestivalTaseredNovember 01, 2023Award WinnerBest LGBTQ Screenplay
Filmzen International Film CompetitionTaseredSeptember 28, 2023Award WinnerBest Original Screenplay
8 & Halfilm AwardsTaseredSeptember 12, 2023Award WinnerFeature Script
French International Modern Film and Script FestivalTaseredSeptember 04, 2023Award WinnerBest Psychological Screenplay
Oxford Script AwardsTaseredFebruary 05, 2023Award WinnerBest FEATURE Screenplay
Hamburg Indie Film FestivalTaseredAugust 20, 2022Award WinnerBest Feature Script
Best Script Award - LondonTaseredAugust 18, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script (over 61 pages)
Stanley Film AwardsTaseredJuly 11, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA)TaseredJuly 08, 2022Award WinnerBEST SCREENPLAY
Indie Cine Tube AwardsTaseredJuly 07, 2022Award WinnerBest screenplay
International Manhattan Film AwardsTaseredJune 20, 2022Award WinnerBest comedy
Krimson Horyzon International Film FestivalTaseredJune 18, 2022Award WinnerBest Screenplay
Dreamz Catcher International Film FestivalTaseredJune 06, 2022Award WinnerBest Scriptwriting
Golden Sparrow International Film FestivalTaseredMay 15, 2022Award WinnerBest Feature Script / screenplay
Kosice International Film FestivalTaseredApril 30, 2022Award WinnerFeature Script
Prague Film FestivalTaseredMarch 31, 2022Award WinnerAction Screenplay
WorldFest-Houston International Film FestivalTaseredMarch 31, 2022Award WinnerScreenplay - Horror / Thriller / Mystery
Oniros Film Awards® - New YorkTaseredJanuary 06, 2022Award WinnerBest Thriller Script

THE HAPPINESS ANGEL: Synopsis

Before disaster strikes, two psychotherapists—both accidental killers—must disarm each other’s trauma trigger. One is an emotionally damaged vlogger known as THE HAPPINESS ANGEL, and the other is a sex-crazed millionaire. This is a hot, female-led, UK-set, modern-day Jekyll and Hyde story fired into action by a 50,000-volt police taser.

The inner workings of the human psyche spring to life in this high-concept, multi-award winning, darkly comedic psychological thriller with echoes of A BEAUTIFUL MIND, JEKYLL AND HYDE, and BBC TV’s KILLING EVE.

FADE IN Candy, The Happiness Angel—smarting from her mentor’s unrequited love—“I’ll fucking make him love me if it kills me,” she says in her opening vlog amid the tranquillity of the Dartmoor National Park. Disturbance! She sees a young woman dragged backwards by her curly red hair and thrown into a car. Rushes to her aid. Car Chase. Confrontation! Mayhem. Abductor killed. Police arrive. Scarlett—aka ‘the Hostage’—a lesbian minx/super-fun villain and main antagonist, screams, “She just murdered my husband. I saw it!” Our heroine is tasered.

The 50,000-volt hit triggers the rare but real-life taser-related disorder, Excited Delirium, capable of disturbing sufferers in bizarre and violent ways. Candy develops a compulsion to throttle her lovers mid-act, electrifying her sex life and transforming her personality, Jekyll and Hyde-style!

From her cell, Candy appeals to her mentor, Jason, for help. He’s in the middle of a 3-in-a-bed orgy. Jason sends his high-powered lawyer to Plymouth. Scarlett drops her murder allegation. She falls in love with Candy and seduces her. At the height of ecstasy, Candy throttles Scarlett. Before blackmailing Candy, Scarlett says, “Maybe that taser shot fucked with your brain!”

The psychosexual powerplay between protagonist and antagonist is stylised with 3-way split screens of “Good Candy,” “Bad Candy,” and “Her Finger Movements” that depict Candy’s psychological struggle and internal conflict. During a callous act when Scarlett and Candy dance on the late husband’s grave followed by sex against the tombstone, the split screen echoes KILL BILL and its murderess victims. A priest appears and breaks up the near-death throttling of Scarlett. She utters—in a very hoarse voice—“See you in court, bitch!” Candy’s High Court trial proceeds interspersed with traumatic backstory in flashback. Jason gives compelling testimony for her defence. Candy makes a powerful enemy of taser industry mogul, Zalika!

Candy’s one-woman taser industry investigation is explored at both psychological and socio-political levels. True life references to Dr. Zian Tseng’s research and the police killings of Robert Dziekanski in Canada, and Andrew Pimlott in Britain (who burned to death in a taser fireball) gives this script authority in its political and commercial critique.

Jason’s extravagant Fitzrovia penthouse is where Candy finally achieves the love from Jason that we know she craves from her livestream in the opening scene. It is also where internal and physical conflicts explode, with a climactic ending in the pivotal moment of Candy winning over her lethal compulsion. Scarlett dies a violent—albeit comedic—death. Candy and Jason make love together for the first time. The bed session is fused with psychodynamic healing in harmony with the reverberations of Ravel’s masterpiece *BOLERO* to help exorcize the throttling compulsion. *(OUT OF COPYRIGHT—NO FEES TO PAY.)* On the cusp of success—disaster! Their concentration is interrupted by a whirring sound. A Metropolitan Police helicopter hovers off the balcony.

Blinded by a ray of sunlight, Candy acts suspiciously. Sharpshooter aboard the helicopter fires. Candy’s fate—indeed, her life—is in the balance for reasons related to an ancient first edition (1609) of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (featured in every act) connected to Jason’s first love who perished under his car. There’s unfinished business here! Jason is devastated. The audience, on tenterhooks. Candy is helicoptered to hospital with gunshot wounds at FADE OUT.

TRUE FACTS: The taser industry together with police misuse of the stun gun are responsible for thousands of taser-related deaths worldwide according to Reuters News Agency. Also, taser spike contact to the head can cause brain damage as well as the more common cardiac complications from shots to the chest, research published in the Canadian Medical Journal has concluded. All this with a weapon that was originally marketed to police services as non-lethal!

Despite the shocking statistics above, the intensely funny tone with which Candy approaches the taser industry makes for an accessible story about modern life.

BIO—I am a former stress management consultant specializing in problems of the subconscious mind. I am also an author and self-made millionaire from the licensing of 92 consultancies based on my award-winning pilot practice. I won the Daily Express Award for Innovation in Franchising in 1993. The protagonist’s backstory is a fictitious but true-to-life fusion of the toughest trauma cases I ever worked out. The exhaustion from which, possibly brought on the two major strokes I suffered in 1995. My first health book, AFTER STROKE published in February, 2000 by Thorsons (HarperCollins)—and still in print today—featured in an episode of BBC TV’s Cornish Chronicles, on ITV’s famous This Morning show with host Richard Madeley, and on Channel 5 TV News.

Right now, in the West, mental health is going downhill fast! Can THE HAPPINESS ANGEL’s determination to win the heart of her beloved Jason and regain her sanity following outrageous misfortune compounded by her own shortcomings play a pivotal role in educating, enthralling, and whetting audiences’ appetites for a sequel? I hope so because her plight will surely resonate with multigenerational audiences cross-culturally. DMH. January, 2025.

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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

STOP PRESS - Read the Editor's sensational Note about Tasered!

Download the lead editorial in FILMMAKERLIFE Magazine

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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