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.
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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
Festival | Project Title | Notification Date | Judging Statues | Category Name |
Cineverse International Film Festival | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | October 05, 2024 | Award Winner | Best Trailer/Teaser |
International Network Film Festival | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | February 20, 2024 | Award Winner | ALL categories |
No Country for Old Films | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | December 20, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Micro Short |
Miami Film Critic Award | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | November 11, 2023 | Award Winner | Trailer/Teaser (5 Minutes or Less) |
Travancore International Film Awards (TIFA) | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | November 05, 2023 | Award Winner | ALL POSSIBLE CATEGORY AWARD CONSIDERATION FOR SHORT FILM |
THE GREAT BRITAIN SILVER SCREEN AWARDS | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | October 30, 2023 | Award Winner | Trailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less) |
THE GREAT BRITAIN SILVER SCREEN AWARDS | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | October 30, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Actress (Fiction) (Any Length) |
Filmzen International Film Competition | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | September 28, 2023 | Award Winner | Trailer/Teaser (5 Minutes or Less) |
8 & Halfilm Awards | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | September 12, 2023 | Award Winner | Commercial/Promotional Video |
Dubai International Cine Carnival | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | August 30, 2023 | Award Winner | Trailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less) |
World Film Carnival - Singapore | Tasered featuring The Happiness Angel | August 23, 2023 | Award Winner | Trailer/Teaser (5 minutes or less) |
International Awards during development prior to completion in January 2025 - The Happiness Angel
Festival | Project Title | Notification Date | Judging Statues | Category Name |
Best International Motion Pictures | The Happiness Angel | December 05, 2023 | Award Winner | Script on Social Issues |
Miami Film Critic Award | The Happiness Angel | November 11, 2023 | Award Winner | Best International Feature Script |
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Online Festival | The Happiness Angel | November 06, 2023 | Award Winner | NEO NOIR WRITING |
Travancore International Film Awards (TIFA) | The Happiness Angel | November 05, 2023 | Award Winner | ALL POSSIBLE CATEGORY AWARD CONSIDERATION FOR SCREENPLAY |
Cannes World Art Festival | The Happiness Angel | November 01, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Original Concept |
Cannes World Art Festival | The Happiness Angel | November 01, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Feature Script |
Frida Film Festival | The Happiness Angel | October 09, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Filmatic Filmfare | The Happiness Angel | October 08, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Social Screenplay of the Season |
Hollywood on the Tiber Film Awards | The Happiness Angel | September 16, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Berlin International Screenwriting Festival | BISF | The Happiness Angel | September 14, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Feature Screenplay |
Naples Film Awards | The Happiness Angel | September 10, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Dubai International Cine Carnival | The Happiness Angel | August 30, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
World Film Carnival - Singapore | The Happiness Angel | August 23, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Rome Movie Awards | The Happiness Angel | August 12, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Golden Wheat Awards | The Happiness Angel | August 11, 2023 | Award Winner | BEST SCREENPLAY - (All Submitted Projects will compete) |
The Singapore International Competition | The Happiness Angel | July 11, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Original Screenplay |
Dona Paula International Film Awards | The Happiness Angel | July 01, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Screenplay |
Oxford Script Awards | The Happiness Angel | May 18, 2023 | Award Winner | Best FEATURE Screenplay |
New York Screenwriting Awards | The Happiness Angel | March 20, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Screenplay/ Comedy |
London International Screenwriting Competition | The Happiness Angel | February 27, 2023 | Award Winner | Screenplay (Judged on first 10 pages) plus full studio-style coverage of whole script |
Golden Draft Awards | The Happiness Angel | January 30, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Screenplay |
Page Turner Screenplays | The Happiness Angel | December 25, 2022 | Award Winner | FIRST 15 - NOTES ON YOUR FIRST 15 PAGES |
Golden Wheat Awards | The Happiness Angel | September 20, 2022 | Award Winner | GOLDEN WHEAT AWARDS - (All Submitted Projects will Compete) |
Hamburg Indie Film Festival | The Happiness Angel | August 20, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Unproduced Feature script |
Venus Community Awards | The Happiness Angel | August 20, 2022 | Award Winner | Main Category |
Paris Movie Awards | PAMA | The Happiness Angel | August 01, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Feature Script |
8 & Halfilm Awards | The Happiness Angel | July 11, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Sweet Democracy Film Awards | The Happiness Angel | July 09, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Florence Film Awards | The Happiness Angel | July 05, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
New York Movie Awards | The Happiness Angel | July 05, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival | The Happiness Angel | June 18, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Screenplay |
Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival | The Happiness Angel | June 06, 2022 | Award Winner | Best screenplay |
Golden Eagle International Film Festival | The Happiness Angel | May 30, 2022 | Award Winner | BEST FEATURE SCRIPT / SCREENPLAY |
Oniros Film Awards - New York | The Happiness Angel | May 06, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Feature Script |
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival | The Happiness Angel | March 31, 2022 | Award Winner | Screenplay - Comedy - Dark or Black Comedy |
International Awards during development prior to completion in January 2025 - Tasered
Festival | Project Title | Notification Date | Judging Statues | Category Name |
Swiss Screenwriting and Cinematic Summit | Tasered | March 18, 2024 | Award Winner | ALL CATEGORIES |
International Network Film Festival | Tasered | February 20, 2024 | Award Winner | Original Screenplay |
Best International Motion Pictures | Tasered | December 05, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
David Film Festival | Tasered | November 29, 2023 | Award Winner | BEST DRAMA - (All Submitted Projects will compete) |
L.A. Neo Noir Novel, Film, & Script Online Festival | Tasered | November 06, 2023 | Award Winner | BEST SCREENPLAY |
New Wave International Script & Film Festival | Tasered | November 01, 2023 | Award Winner | Best LGBTQ Screenplay |
Filmzen International Film Competition | Tasered | September 28, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Original Screenplay |
8 & Halfilm Awards | Tasered | September 12, 2023 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
French International Modern Film and Script Festival | Tasered | September 04, 2023 | Award Winner | Best Psychological Screenplay |
Oxford Script Awards | Tasered | February 05, 2023 | Award Winner | Best FEATURE Screenplay |
Hamburg Indie Film Festival | Tasered | August 20, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Feature Script |
Best Script Award - London | Tasered | August 18, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script (over 61 pages) |
Stanley Film Awards | Tasered | July 11, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
European Cinematography AWARDS (ECA) | Tasered | July 08, 2022 | Award Winner | BEST SCREENPLAY |
Indie Cine Tube Awards | Tasered | July 07, 2022 | Award Winner | Best screenplay |
International Manhattan Film Awards | Tasered | June 20, 2022 | Award Winner | Best comedy |
Krimson Horyzon International Film Festival | Tasered | June 18, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Screenplay |
Dreamz Catcher International Film Festival | Tasered | June 06, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Scriptwriting |
Golden Sparrow International Film Festival | Tasered | May 15, 2022 | Award Winner | Best Feature Script / screenplay |
Kosice International Film Festival | Tasered | April 30, 2022 | Award Winner | Feature Script |
Prague Film Festival | Tasered | March 31, 2022 | Award Winner | Action Screenplay |
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival | Tasered | March 31, 2022 | Award Winner | Screenplay - Horror / Thriller / Mystery |
Oniros Film Awards® - New York | Tasered | January 06, 2022 | Award Winner | Best 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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