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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!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
In the wake of a terrifying and traumatic encounter with RUTHLESS characters, a 14 year old minister - mourns his twin sister, and scorns the GOD he once fervently praised.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
A cautious investigator is none the less drawn in, along with four other heirs, by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, they’re sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
MAN OUT OF COUNTRY
Pilot log line: An Iranian classical guitar teacher in a small Cali town, afraid of losing connection with his teens, decides on a daily ritual to bring his family closer.
JOE 'BOBCAT' CLAY
A knowingly clueless ex-football star's plans of early retirement are thwarted when he becomes a first-time father at 50.
The Stolen Manuscript
A Private Eye is hired to find a famous Horror author, one of Baltimore's own, and his latest manuscript.
Tender Nightmare
In the 1950s in St. Petersburg, Florida, four eleven-year-old boys (two sets of twins, one Identical), attempt to track down the source of several mysterious murders in town, finding themselves tangled in the web of a Nazi cabal.
In the Cards
In this inspirational drama, world's collide when a down-to-earth girl next door piques the interest of a rough-around-the-edges men's club president.
FULL CONTACT
is a high-octane Action Thriller about a fearsome Championship Bowl-obsessed linebacker who struggles to defeat his sworn enemy, an unhinged psychopath hellbent on taking everything & everyone he cherishes in his life.
NOCTURNE'S RAINBOW
Kids and their dogs find the Rainbow Bridge in a snowstorm.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy.. A twisted view of the ineptness of modern day psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
