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!Behind The Veil
Film Noir. Los Angeles, 1947. A private detective struggles with moral inequities as he assists a corrupt federal judge's efforts to contact his estranged, gay son.
Charlie Chan Island Mystery
The great Chinese-Hawaiian detective, Charlie Chan, returns to solve several cases of murder on a tropical island.
Not Over Yet
Six young people may not escape the heinous crime they committed 10 years ago as children.
Howlingween 5: Trip Along
Fate has dealt another terrible hand to the Forran family.
Kuga's Way
A dog sees its human mentor kidnapped and goes on a journey to find him, along the way meeting humans in dire need of help.
We Were Young Once
A highly principled and attractive teenage girl finds neither her principles nor attractiveness sufficient to meet life's challenges.
Twelve Less
Twelve teenagers survive a plane crash, which at first was thought to be caused by a structural flaw.
Howlingween 4: Beastly Mist
A surprisingly intelligent swarm of flesh-eating insects is terrorising a small tourist community in Florida, leaving skeletons in its wake.
Glorious Revolution
2056: a new world order. Four prisoners attempt to escape execution by exploiting the judge's weakness for one of them.
On Board
A "ship of fools" indeed: madcap teenagers, a lush head of security, a priest who loves riddles, a captain off death-row, a martial artist challenging a boxer — and a serial killer.
