Palm Springs Names Contest Winners
Jocelyn Jacobs You Can't Take It With You has been named the winner of the 2025 Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitch deck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Contest.
Best Screenplay
You Can't Take It With You
Writer: Jocelyn Jacobs
A New York writer heads to her late mother's Berkshire estate expecting a windfall. Instead, the weekend with estranged siblings detonates in a darkly funny, bruising reckoning
Best TV Script
Sally White
writer: Katrina Jaxson
She's a black med student, eight months pregnant, dodging bill collectors and family drama. The baby? Not hers. She's a paid surrogate. Her uterus? Five-star rated.
Best Short Script
Wasspringa
WRITER: Molly Greville
On a fraught long weekend aboard her parents' sailboat, twenty-something Liv tries to text her way into a new romance while finally coming out to her brittle WASP family.
Updated: 10/26/2025
Additional Contest Info: Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitch Deck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Contest
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!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
LAST LAUGH
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APPLE from the TREE
A brilliant FBI agent hunts a self- styled artist-killer whose crimes-and msterious hold over a young family-prove that evil can be inherited as well as learned.
THE SCRIPT, A CELTIC TALE
A mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.
Xanadu Shores: Proof of Concept (PoC) Eight Central Characters.
Proof of Concept Logline, introduces the eight central characters in an intense office situation before the the action unfolds later that day when four friends become enmeshed in a heist, kidnapping and escape plot, chased by a capricious Fed and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea, culminating explosively on Xanadu Shores - The Trilogy.
Eternal Blessings
A young woman joins an alluring new-age sect only to find herself an unwitting accomplice in a murder plot.
FULL CONTACT — Price of Redemption
FULL CONTACT — Price of Redemption is a pulse-pounding Sports Thriller about a fearsome Championship-obsessed linebacker who struggles to defeat an unhinged mind-controlling manipulator fueled by grief and madness in a game of sudden death.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
Xanadu Shores First 5 Scenes
Four friends become enmeshed in a gold heist which escalates to kidnapping chased by a capricious Federal agent and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea, culminating explosively on Xanadu Shores-The Trilogy.
Fish Fetish
What happens when you mix compulsion with alcohol? A horrific, fast paced story of abuse and revenge inspired by "Tales From The Crypt"
