George Johnson

Professor of Screenwriting
Screenwriter

Kamloops, Canada

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About George

George M. Johnson is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. His screenplay The
Wonder was a Finalist in the British Independent Film Festival Competition and in the Script
Doctor Contest of Contest Winners Competition in L.A.. His screenplay Peace Pledge won the
Wildsound Screenplay Competition, received Honorable Mention in the Euroscript Screenplay
Competition and the New Renaissance Film Festival (London), and was an Official Finalist in
the Cannes Screenplay Contest. His screenplay Painter in the Storm was recently a Semi-Finalist
in the International Screenwriters' Association Emerging Screenwriters Competition, and his
screenplay Boomerangst was recently a Semi-Finalist in the Page Turner Screenplay
Competition. His play Mockus was successfully produced to sold-out audiences by Chimera
Theatre in Kamloops in February of 2017, and Jupiter Theatre in Calgary will be producing it
post-pandemic. It was a second-rounder in the 2019 Austin Film Festival Playwriting
Competition. His comedy Still Life With Nudes has won several awards, including
the Ottawa Little Theatre’s Gladys Cameron Watt Award and the Regina Little Theatre’s
National Playwriting Competition. It was performed in Regina and Texas
and published in Ryga: A Journal of Provocations and in the U.S.A. by ArtAge Senior Resource
Center. His most recent book is Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature:
Grappling With Ghosts (Palgrave, UK). His picture book How Hope Became An Activist (Dixi,
UK) has just been published and another, Marisa and the Mountains will be published in
February (Simply Read). In 2019 he received the Y.M.C.A. Peace Medal for his social justice
work and writing. Johnson is a Professor of Screenwriting and Chair of English at Thompson
Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing and
literature. He and his wife have two children.

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Peace Pledge Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Historical A disillusioned First World War veteran, challenged by a reckless Anglican priest, reluctantly fights for peace against fascists in 1930s Britain, losing both friends and family but gaining a second chance in love. Based on the true story of Canon Dick Sheppard and the Peace Pledge Union, the strongest pacifist movement in history.
Boomerangst Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy After his wife kicks him out, a disillusioned, impulsive baby boomer forms a retirement commune in remote Toad Valley with his former high school rock band mates to get back to the garden of his youthful ideals of going green. They dig up more dirt almost than they can handle before uniting and rocking out against a mining company threatening to expropriate their land.
The Hampdenshire Wonder Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Mystery An ambitious Edwardian journalist finds himself fighting to protect an uncannily precocious boy whose deformity might actually be a link to discovering the origin and true meaning of life.
Painter in the Storm Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Historical A rebellious young man wars with himself and others in his quest to paint the unworthy subject of Canada’s raw wilderness, but in Algonquin during the First World War he clashes one too many times with inhabitants, including a German-American spy. Based on the true story of Canada’s most misunderstood and mythologized painter Tom Thomson, who mysteriously died aged 39 at Canoe Lake in 1917.