The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Announces Spring Contest Winners
Voices, by Susan Klos, has been named the Spring, 2022 Winner of the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. Earl Javorsky won the Best TV Pilot award for his script, Charlie Minor. The Best Short Script winner was Undecided, by Francesca Scotti-Goetz.
Best Screenplay
Voices
by Susan Klos
A single mother struggles to balance a business and family life with a new romance as her daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Best TV Pilot
Charlie Miner
by Earl Javorsky
Charlie Miner, a heroin-addicted PI, wakes up looking down at his own body at the LA County morgue. Now he has a murder to solve: his own.
Best Short Film Script
Undecided
by Francesca Scotti-Goetz
A timely piece as three parallel conversations debate the abortion issue and whether or not to keep a pregnancy.
Updated: 05/15/2022
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Love in the Time of Likes
When social media influencer Jules Novatech falls for Nico Montavista — heir to the Old Hollywood dynasty her tech-mogul father has feuded with for fifteen years — a single viral kiss ignites a media firestorm, forcing both families to choose between decades of pride and the one thing neither empire can control: their children's happiness.
Brit Out of Water
A broke London accountant inherits a crumbling Southern inn — and accidentally inherits everything that comes with it.
Xanadu Shores III - Rescuing Atlas
“Rescuing Atlas” the Trilogy’s peak begins when an astrophysicist - megalomaniac and boat racing enthusiast, operating from his island, becomes hell-bent on blackmailing the world.
Xanadu Shores II: All That Glitters
The "Xanadu Team get duped by a nefarious jeweler in a casino robbery, leading to an international conspiracy disguised as an art heist.
Xanadu Shores - First 14 pages
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds as four friends become entrapped after one is kidnapped in a compromising situation, during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, greed and lustful revenge, alertly pursued by an agent along with his comely banker by land air and sea, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC) Eight Central Characters.
Proof of Concept; introduces the eight central characters in an intense office situation before the action unfolds after a pilot’s girlfriend gets kidnapped during a gold heist, leaving clues for his friends to follow, unknowingly chased by a capricious agent and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Xanadu Shores - The Pilot
"Xanadu Shores - The Pilot". A spy thriller unfolds as four friends become entrapped after one is kidnapped in a compromising situation, during a gold heist leading to an adventurous crime story encompassing fraud, greed and lustful revenge, alertly pursued by an agent along with his comely banker by land, air and sea, explosively culminating on the island of Xanadu Shores.
Contortions
A man dying on a sofa confronts a procession of ghostly figures—his wife and friends—whose surreal, contorted interactions reveal a hidden chain of guilt, betrayal, and family catastrophe.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman uncovers a hidden photograph tied to a murdered WWII survivor, her search for the truth exposes a forgotten escape—and those determined to keep history buried.
