Parents’ Savior (Script) by Carl J Chan – Nominee, EuroCine Film & Screenwriting Festival

Parents’ Savior (Script) by Carl J Chan – Nominee, EuroCine Film & Screenwriting Festival

The EuroCine Film & Screenwriting Gala Festival, now in its ninth year, announced its finalists for various categories on July 30.

Carl J Chan’s Parents’ Savior (Script) was nominated for the grand final. The winners will be announced on October 9.

I love art - because I believe in love and freedom—all with a spirit of gratitude, humility, and divine curiosity .

——Carl J Chan

Parents’ Savior By Carl J Chan

In a city ruled by obedience, one doctor becomes a savior to the parents—and a nightmare to their children.

Inspired by real events, Parents’ Savior is a haunting screenplay that explores the terrifying world of a youth “treatment center” where electric shocks, forced confessions, and psychological manipulation are used to “correct” disobedience. Internet addiction, teen romance, or simply refusing to obey—every minor rebellion becomes grounds for punishment under the watchful eye of Director Yang Xin, a man praised by the government and worshipped by desperate parents.

Told through the eyes of four teenagers caught in this brutal system, the story unflinchingly exposes how institutional violence hides beneath the masks of tradition, morality, and love. What begins as a parent’s hope for discipline spirals into the destruction of identity, trust, and family itself.

Both a work of social critique and psychological realism, Parents’ Savior is a powerful cry against totalitarianism in its most intimate form—the family.