Santa Barbara International Names Summer, 2024 Contest Winners
Susan Sweeney's The Widow of Summit Springs has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the 2024 Santa Barbara International Screenwriting Competition. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay
Susan Sweeney
"The Widow of Summit Springs"
A young heiress seeks help from a father-son detective duo to escape the wrath of her stepmother. As the detectives work to protect the heiress, they uncover the stepmother's web of deceit and the family's dark past.
TV Script
Andrew Chiaramonte
"Starstruck Galileo"
The scientist and philosopher Galileo Galilei is found guilty of heresy for his scientific theories and is sentenced to a life sentence of house arrest.
Short Script
Mackenzie Breeden & Riley Scott
"Praying Mantis"
A Confederate soldier takes shelter in the isolated cabin of two women who now find themselves at his mercy until they turn the tables.
Updated: 10/21/2024
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their questionable neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other twisted souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A tongue-in-cheek view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an amazing magician at securing compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
Jeb
In the wake of Stonewall, Yale professor John Boswell races against time and his own mortality to uncover hidden truths in history, sparking a battle between erasure and acceptance and inspiring a cultural revolution.
Xanadu Shores II:
In “All That Glitters”, the four friends from “Xanadu Shores-The Pilot,” form the "The Xanadu Team," offering security and transportation by land, sea and air, soon involving themselves with a nefarious jeweler and his charming assistant during an island gem heist, which escalates to international espionage and an end of world scenario led by a wealthy megalomaniac bent on global domination in "Rescuing Atlas.
