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!Hapless Fu
A happy-go-lucky Asian cop in LA loses his confidence, self-respect, job and girl after an embarrassing incident ruins him.
Fidelity Clause
A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, now she has to grasp a world of torment; her cheating psychiatrist husband blurs the line between Psychotherapist and Psycho, when he resorts to mind games and unscrupulous schemes, intent on framing her of adultery and escaping his vows free & clear.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other despicable souls) after their third offense.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Xanadu Shores III Rescuing Atlas
The Xanadu Team, their credibility restored after rescuing Natalia and the painting, are recruited to recover the plans to save the world from a rogue aerospace engineer.
Xanadu Shores (20pgs) - "The Pilot" - 9.16.25
Logline: Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Alien Olympics
A brilliant alien teenager, gifted with a high IQ and extraordinary speed, has always excelled academically on her home planet.
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 baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
