Santa Barbara Names Fall Contest Winners
The Full Vampire, by Hunt Holman & Charlie Matthes, has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the Fall, 2025 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Competititon. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script Winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay Winner
Hunt Holman & Charlie Matthes
"The Full Vampire"
When a sharp-eyed Catholic school senior sees her neighbor and her own mom turn vampire, she’s recruited by a foul mouthed nun to hunt the biter and stop her dad from going “full vampire”.
Best TV Script Winner
Caitlin Cronenberg & Jessica Ennis
"Germaphobe in a Sex Club"
A 34-year-old sex-addicted germaphobe plunges into a two-year obsessive relationship so consuming it destroys the woman she once was.
Best Short Script Winner
P.J. Palmer
"If You Go"
After her young son collapses from a sudden neurological event, a mother remains at his bedside while he drifts through a quiet, unseen world of his own.
Updated: 01/22/2026
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE JEWEL OF AFRICA
An African holiday turns into the "Safari from Hell!"
THE QUEEN'S MARK
Guy Sheridan, an English Blue Blood, runs afoul of the Crown and looses his love, his priveleged life, and his liberty.
and The Devil called!
The Devil visits God`s chosen-one five times and with a book to get her into parliament "and you will be my bride" and gives dates the world will end, but she rejects him.
Doors of Miracles
A young woman trembles as she thanks God anticipating another disaster when The Light of Heaven descends upon her projecting her past the Universe to Heaven to return with supernatural powers, miracles, and God speaks.
My Greatest Enemy--Myself! Episode 3: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell's rising doubts about his friends have disastrous results.
Only You Can Help Her. EPISODE ONE/PILOT: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
When a boy's mother vanishes after a car crash, he's thrust into a perilous quest.
A DAY AT THE RODEO
A wealthy, widowed New York socialite, and a know-it-all preacher enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” the widow’s wayward daughter who has fallen for a young bull rider.
BORDERLINE JUSTICE
Rita Fuentes, a fiery, attractive Latina social worker introduces Martin Wilkins, a law-and-order judge, to the violent, politically charged world of power, money, illegals, and life for the drug mules--like Demetria Plascentia, and his foolish new son-in-law, Antonio Borja--he condemns daily in his courtroom.
AND WE WERE LEFT DARKLING
As Wallenberg and Eichmann play chess, they confront the question of whether humans worship the God of Love, or the replacement God of Macht or Power.
THE QUISLING
A young lawyer defends a wanted terrorist from international extradition.
