Santa Barbara International Names Spring Contest Winners
Ryan Gielen's The Everything Game has been named the winner of the Spring, 2025 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. The Best TV Script and Bet Short Script Winners have also been announced.
Winner: Best Screenplay
Ryan Gielen
"The Everything Game"
A grief-stricken 12 year-old gamer tries to secretly keep the memory of his mother alive deep inside an AI-based video game until his failed-inventor uncle steals the game to sell, forcing the young boy to run away from home and into the adventure of a lifetime.
Winner: Best TV Script
Brennan Cusak
"Badlands Women's Clinic"
In the aftermath of a school shooting a group of parents wait for news of their children's fate. As they come together they are unaware that one of them is the shooter's mother. Out of the tragedy come moments of love, support and in the end, compassion.
Winner: Best Short Script
Alex Mehta
"The Inheritance of Purpose"
A Professor's endless search transforms into Hitchcockian visual poetry when a supernatural child teaches him that democracy's survival depends not on finding the past - but by protecting its fragile walls against a tide that's ever rising.
Updated: 07/23/2025
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!All That Glitters (excerpt) From The Novel: Xanadu Shores
In their second outing The Xanadu Team becomes deceptively involved by a nefarious jeweler after an island gem heist, lured by a beautiful woman soon escalating to international espionage.
Xanadu Shores: (PoC) The Super Spy Series
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller.
Screenplay Pilot for Xanadu Shores: The Super Spy Series
A pilot becomes entrapped when his girlfriend is kidnapped during a gold heist.
Lolita
A Puerto Rican seamstress becomes firebrand revolutionary Dolores ¨Lolita Lebrón¨, masterminds the 1954 U.
I Hear You
An insecure and belligerent boss struggles with his marriage and hearing impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, he must find a way to reconcile his relationships and save his career.
Consumed
Trapped in a basement after an apocalyptic earthquake, a grieving wife fights off a horde of parasitic monsters, unaware that her God-fearing husband has already decided her fate.
Misfortune Cookies
Accidentally killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, an oafish redneck teenager and her misfit friends begin dying one by one when the chef's ghost returns from the grave, killing them in gruesome fortune cookie-themed ways.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
Tar Pits
Forced to take sides in a centuries-old intergalactic war, a veteran soldier and her scientist ex-wife bond with giant alien warriors in a final battle that will decide the fate of humanity.
CIRQUE D' ETOILES
*** Russian astronaut, thrown out of the space program, hijacks a space taxi going to the International Space Station.
