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Santa Barbara Awards Names Winter Contest Winners
Katrina Naficy's Driving Eugene has been named the Winter Competition winner of the Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script Winners have also been announced.
Winner: Best Screenplay
Katrina Naficy
"Driving Eugene"
After hitting rock bottom, Katy accepts a job driving her terminally ill uncle across the country. The unlikely pair gives way to a strange and profound bond.
Winner: Best TV Script
Alissa Slawnikowski
"Violet"
Darkly comedic half-hour dramedy about digital addiction, maternal guilt, and what happens when validation from strangers feels more intimate than your own kitchen table.
Winner: Best Short Script
Tayebe Babaei
"When the Veils Dance"
A Kurdish mother returns from captivity to her family with her a three-year-old son, born of rape. But her homecoming comes at a price: to be accepted, she must abandon the child.
Updated: 04/22/2026
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!THE MONGREL, pilot for THE COMING MORROW series
A virus is decimating the male population making most impotent.
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 gorgeous 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 finding 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.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
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