Santa Barbara Names Spring, 2024 Diverse Writer Award Winners
Barry Putt's Omeed's Tapestries has been named the Best Screenplay Winner of the Spring, 2024 Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards Diverse Writers Outreach. The Best TV Script and Best Short Script winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay
Barry Putt
"Omeed's Tapestries"
An Iranian, same-sex couple seeks to migrate from their homeland to a country where they will be able to live a peaceful life as their authentic selves.
Best TV Script
Celine Foster
"Flop Era"
After her co-founder boyfriend publicly torpedoes their company and their relationship, a Type-A perfectionist must rebuild her life with the help of her dysfunctional college besties.
Best Short Script
Karla S. Bryant
"Kodachrome"
The established relationship between two siblings unexpectedly changes after their mother's death.
Updated: 07/24/2024
Additional Contest Info: The Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Hapless Fu
A happy-go-lucky Asian cop in LA loses his confidence, self-respect, job and girl after an embarrassing incident ruins him.
Fidelity Clause
A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, now she has to grasp a world of torment; her cheating psychiatrist husband blurs the line between Psychotherapist and Psycho, when he resorts to mind games and unscrupulous schemes, intent on framing her of adultery and escaping his vows free & clear.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other despicable souls) after their third offense.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Xanadu Shores III Rescuing Atlas
The Xanadu Team, their credibility restored after rescuing Natalia and the painting, are recruited to recover the plans to save the world from a rogue aerospace engineer.
Xanadu Shores (20pgs) - "The Pilot" - 9.16.25
Logline: Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Alien Olympics
A brilliant alien teenager, gifted with a high IQ and extraordinary speed, has always excelled academically on her home planet.
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 baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
