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!Happy New Year, Mr. Kates! (Hoilday/Dramedy/Magical Realism)
A contemporary holiday tale about a grumpy old man who resides in the memory unit of nursing home, and is presented with a gripping bargain by a mystical stranger: the chance to swap his inconsequential life for that of a lost child’s, one snowy New Year's Eve.
The Confession (Elevated Horror/Drama/Thriller)
A shy eight-year-old Catholic girl commits a petty crime to have a
Radioland! (Coming of Age/Psychological/Comedy/Drama/Memoir
A naïve 12-year-old boy, falls in love with a fantasy, learns the truth about his fatally flawed hero -- a 1960s Top 40 radio deejay -- and discovers the bittersweet
Bewitching Hitler: The Coven that Beat the Nazis and Saved the Wolrd! (Historical Fiction/Dramedy/Romance - based on actual events.)
A plucky UK/New Forest Witch Coven conjure an ancient magic spell to prevent Hitler from winning World War II.
One, Second Summer (Young Adult/Romance/Sci-Fi/Dramedy)
Second Summer on Cape Cod is usually a quiet time, until a spaceship of wacky extraterrestrials come to visit, and two fearless tween-agers, determined to meet them, find out why.
BOOM!Town (Parody of Crime/Mob Story/Dramedy)
After a bloody car bombing, a blown-off human foot lands on the roof of a retired, cash-poor mob cleaner who schemes to extort the Mafia Don that ordered the hit, unaware his wacky plan may help the FBI catch the cut-throat gangster.
The Tortured Journey of Wounded Souls
In antebellum Virginia, after a white woman is raped and her husband is killed while fleeing to Philadelphia, she has to depend on a proud young slave she considers inferior to protect her on the perilous trek north while hotly pursued by bandits and slave catchers.
ARCHIVAL
When a down-on-his-luck reporter is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a legendary statesman, he gains access to the presidential library of a disgraced politician— only to find himself trapped in a violent hostage siege.
LINCOLN PLACE
In 2001, a struggling stand-up comic relocates to Brooklyn, where a rundown brownstone full of misfits and a haunted past force him to confront his demons — onstage and off.
Misguided Illusions
In the world of Drag Queens, there's a fine line between fantasy and reality.
