Santa Barbara Names Spring Contest Winners
Daniel William Pero's Dire Straits III: Choke Point has been named the Spring, 2024 Winner of the Santa Barbara Screenplay Competition. TV and Short Script winners have also been announced.
Winner: Best Screenplay
Daniel William Pero
"Dire Straits III: Choke Point"
A former Special Forces war hero and Governor of Michigan, now President of the United States, must make controversial and emotional decisions that will impact her marriage, radical Islamists in the Persian Gulf, and a potential conflict with China in the South China Sea.
Winner: TV Script
Chad Hutson
"Life Through the Lens"
A talented photojournalist obsessed with winning the Pulitzer must choose between his pursuit of the award or being the father he never had after being abandoned as a boy.
Winner: Short Script
Brendon Richards
"Lament"
A young man is confronted by a supernatural entity which feeds upon his regrets and desires.
Updated: 07/19/2024
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL
To stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention.
GALERIJ
As an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade.
DEAD STATES
A group of resilient small town teens struggle to carve out a new future after a series of TEOTWAWKI events crush the U.
Rod Knock
A newly single man encounters many comical mishaps in his work and social life, but he must prove himself worthy to his deriding buddies and his Latino lady friend.
THE WETTEST SPRING
In the late 1980's, Kurt Maxwell battles puberty and locker room myths, a family in the midst of dissolving, and on top of everything else, he must conquer Date Math at middle school.
THE LIGHT MAN
A woman at a music festival passes off two children to the light toy vendor.
PRETTY
Who can you trust when everyone loves you to death? When a trophy wife is manipulated by spouse and friends, she better find a way look out for herself or lose everything -- including her life.
Time Travel: Many Happy Returns
Two simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time.
CLEAN LIVING
When her actor boyfriend delays marriage claiming money woes, Isabel tries to turn her inherited Smalltown cleaning service into a quick buck.
