Santa Barbara Names Diverse Outreach Winners
Marcela Cobb, Izzie Mantese, and Minki Kim have been named the winners of the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Diverse Writers Outreach Competition for Fall, 2025.
Best Screenplay Winner
Marcela Cobb
"Work the Inside"
A 34-year-old gay art therapist, haunted by grief and family pressures, is forced to confront her past and embrace her true self—transforming pain into hope and strength, and finding courage to rebuild her life.
Best TV Script Winner
Izzie Mantese
"Burnout"
After a drug incident gets her kicked out of college a newly-sober young woman moves into an all-women’s Los Angeles sober living house, where she must grapple with her past demons while rebuilding her life
Best Short Script Winner
Minki Kim
"6 Seconds"
To escape the crushing uncertainty of her life, a desperate woman must decide whether to embrace the ultimate certainty: a six-second glimpse into her own death.
Updated: 01/23/2026
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.
