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!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.
