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
Post Your Script Here!Green Planet
Ten children with no memories wake up on the mysterious Green Planet-a cosmic academy between worlds, where they must find their spiritual totems, uncover their past lives, and stop an ancient demonic empress before her vengeance destroys not only them but the very balance of the Universe.
Open a Can of Worms (Open the Can)
Detectives descover the body of young woman.
HARBINGER
Detective Sandy Marone feels the weight of the world come crashing down on her shoulders as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of another senior citizen, one of several over the past few months.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman discovers a hidden photograph in the family album of a murdered WWII survivor, she becomes the target of a decades-old conspiracy linking Nazi fugitives, a secret escape flight from Germany, and a deadly cover-up that kills to protect its secrets.
MEON - Heart of the Galaxy
Without warning Earth is immersed for 20 long seconds in an inter-cosmic wall of light.
and The Devil called!
The Devil visits God`s chosen-one five times, and with the gift of a book to get her in [to parliament] `and you will be my bride` gives dates the world will end but she rejects him, so with his tri-step-headed charcoaled alien goons he examines her brain for answers.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale, a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn or hide - no 'out'.
Eternal Blessings
Haunted by the ghosts of a notorious religious sect, a dying woman travels back in time to see if she can break their curse and prevent them from crashing her afterlife.
YOU'VE SAVED MY LIFE
Modern medicine is wonderful. Too bad if you disagree.
VICKI IN VIEWLAND
Vicki's crush for Jay has her falling head over heels, dropping her in the fantasy world of Viewland, where she must defeat all types of idiotic people and their foolish views in order to return home to Jay and newfound knowledge.
