Santa Barbara International Names Summer Contest Winners
Lisa Hickey has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the 2025 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Summer Competition. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script Winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay Winner
Lisa Hickey
"It's What You See"
A recovering alcoholic becomes obsessed with a football star’s murder, launching a mission to exonerate his imprisoned wife.
Best TV Script Winner
Liane Rozzell
"Reclaiming Justice"
When a respected community leader demands a restorative justice process, an unseasoned facilitator navigates grief and politics to deliver accountability outside the courtroom
Best Short Script Winner
Andrés Mejia & Jonah Ocuto
"Lluvia de Peces"
A young Honduran mother is forced to compete for her daughter's citizenship on a brutal and dystopian game show—against her hardest competition yet.
Updated: 10/21/2025
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Doc Savage: Dark Empire
In the shadow of World War II, Doc Savage, the legendary Man of Bronze, embarks on a daring mission to dismantle Nazi superweapons, rescue the woman he loves, and confront a dark legacy tied to his own past — all while battling the forces of tyranny and fighting for the future of humanity.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
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 bizarre 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 science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric 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 absolute 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.
JENNA'S GONE
Jenna’s missing, the only clue is horse tracks leading into the desert, and the untried deputy and an exceptional hunting guide tracking after her both suspect the other of a role in her disappearance
