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Palm Springs Names Winter Contest Winners
Angela Manfredi's Middlescence has been named the Winter, 2026 Best Screenplay winner of the Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay
Angela Manfredi
"Middlescence"
A small town radio host accidentally live streams a disastrously funny hookup that goes viral, and she must choose between hibernation or reinvention.
Best TV Script
Dion Aralihalli
"Ballsy"
Zain is a burnt-out creative at a chaotic ad agency where all workplace footage is auto-recorded and analyzed by the company’s own malfunctioning AI.
Best Short Script
Tom Pickard
"Spa 'n Counter"
A rule-bound Korean spa manager must defuse a cultural clash when a transgender woman is mistaken for a man in the women’s steam room.
Updated: 04/25/2026
Additional Contest Info: Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitch Deck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Contest
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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