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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!Many Happy Returns
Two simple-minded brothers work part time at a science lab and find machinery in an unauthorized area that unknowingly transports them to Spain years before their time.
THE TORTOISE AND THE HEIR
It is a mismatched battle between the high-tech resources available to Charlene, the power behind the throne of a large corporation, and Stram, a lone wolf San Francisco private investigator using tried and true low-tech methods as they race to find the final heir, and chase across California, with Stram straining to keep the last heir safe.
THE BEAUTY OF THE RODEO
A former rodeo queen returns home after thirty years, but her attempt to fit back in is further complicated by the arrival of the daughter she secretly placed for adoption.
Eternal Blessings
A dying woman must break the spell of her former Indian guru -- or risk having him follow her into the afterlife.
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A couple may lose their home for failing to follow a local ordinance: lawns be mowed every two weeks; even when it’s under two feet of snow!
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.
Nina and Flossie
Three European sisters, in their 70's, scheme to dump a dead body that the eldest shot in the middle of the night as a result of a break-in.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
