Palm Springs International Names Diversity Contest Winners
Alicia's Lu's "I ❤️ Wuhan" has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards Diversity Contest. The Best TV Script Contest Winner has also been announced.
Contest judges analyzed scripts submitted by writers from England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, Ukraine, Australia, Spain, Portugal, India, Germany, Finland, West Indies, South Africa, as well as nearly every state in the U.S.
Best Screenplay
Alicia Lu
"I ❤️ Wuhan"
When a young Chinese-American girl falls in love with Wuhan amid the COVID outbreak, she unearths a buried secret that upends her mother’s life, forcing them to confront old wounds, new betrayals, and the battleground that is middle school.
Best TV Script
Dion Aralihalli
"You Remind Me Of--"
Luis Ramirez has a problem: everyone insists he looks exactly like movie star Evan Cole. Harmless flattery escalates into surreal identity distortion, and a growing sense that his own face is no longer his.
Updated: 01/26/2026
Additional Contest Info: Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitch Deck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Contest
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.
