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
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ScriptLinks
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The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
Burning Old Man
A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.
Attachment In (Pilot)
An ancient being is summoned to fight an evil entity but first both have to attach within a human body at birth, grow up and navigate life before meeting in an epic battle where winner takes all.
Between The Flames
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In Between The River
Katie (on the spectrum) thinks her nomadic family is normal but as she transitions from child to teenager; her father Donald is frequently absent, her mother Judy tries too hard to hold them together and her older brother Kyle hides a secret that eventually surfaces to expose the family illusion.
PAPER TRAIL
When a young Army MP becomes a private investigator after he inherits his Grandfather’s storefront in a small town in the mountains of Colorado; his first case reveals a town full of secrets, including one that destroyed his family years before, and a new one he must forever keep from his fiancée.
THE AMAZING TOOTHBRUSH
A 11yr old boy receives a special toothbrush.
The Paper Route
On the eve of his 16th birthday, a teenager makes a discovery that could be his ticket out of his hellish small town life, but it means leaving his younger brother behind.