Palm Springs Names Spring, 2024 Contest Winners
Rowan Grey Sutherland's State of Being has been named the winner of the Spring, 2024 Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards. The Best TV and Best Short Script winners have also been announced.
Best Screenplay
State of Being
Writer: Rowan Grey Sutherland
A quirky, socially inept, but brilliant computer hacker, completely unsuited to the world of espionage, is recruited as an FBI field agent, and thrust into a deadly game wherein he must use his unique skills to survive as he attempts to foil the plans of a diabolical syndicate planning to assassinate the American President.
Best TV Script
The Writers Room
Writer: Richard Martin Powell
Characters created by the writers of a failing soap opera suddenly appear on the writers' screens, totally unscripted, demanding a voice in what will be written for them. The characters spin out of control with lives unknown to the writers.
Best Short Script
We Will Never Be
Writer: Alfred Thomas Catalfo
A young rock star's older self appears to prevent him from making a decision that will ruin his life.
Best Movie Trailer
The Fostered
Director Gunnar E.Garrett, Ritchie Greer
A dysfunctional couple adopts a deeply disturbed set of twins.
Updated: 07/26/2024
Additional Contest Info: Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards & Pitch Deck-Sizzle Reel-Trailer Contest
ScriptLinks
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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.
Eternal Blessings
After taking up residence at her Indian guru's commune, a woman’s loyalty is pushed to the brink when she’s asked to help assassinate a commune rival.
525 PERUGIA WAY
A troubled vice detective is pulled into a deadly game of secrets and sabotage when a clandestine meeting between Elvis Presley and The Beatles turns into a murder scene.
Osali
Osali is about a ghost of a witch who was murdered during the Salem witch trials.
Sting
Sting is about a solar flare that hits Earth in the distant future and sends the world into an apocalypse.
Arch Angel
Arch Angel is about Michael, the general of Heaven's Angel Army.
The life once lived
The life not lived is about a scientist named Doctor Conners who created a memory device called Ganesha that can allow people to remember who they were in a past life.
Out of time
Out of time is about a struggling musician who runs into a disgraced talent agent from Hollywood.
Only Human
Only human is about a homeless man that doesn't know he's really a Dog.
Sword of Might
Sword of might is about a cursed Sword that gives special abilities to whoever wields it.
