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Traces of Eden
Writer: Barbara West
GENRE: Sci-Fi/Adventure/Faith
WINNER: 2024 New York Script Awards: Best Sci-Fi Script
FINALIST: Kairos Screenwriting Competition
Log Line:
A restless treasure hunter journeys to an uncharted, mystical isle in search of a legendary trove, but a devastating shipwreck claims his son and crew--catapulting him to a hidden world reminiscent of the primordial Garden of Eden where wonders and secrets challenge everything he believes about loss, destiny, and the divine.

Diamond Debris
Writer: Barbara West
GENRE: Mystery/Drama
Log Line:
A secret buried decades ago, in a beach town long forgotten, unwittingly changes the past and future for a disillusioned young man and an inquisitive orphan girl whose paths converge in an emotional collision that alters both of their destinies.

Coal Dust Dreams
Writer: Barbara West
GENRE: Mystery/Music/Drama-Thriller
WINNER: 2024 Best Feature Script: Venice International Film Festival
FINALIST: 2025 Your Script Produced! 4th Edition Int'l Screenwriting Competition
Log Line:
A young man, drawn into a deadly Appalachian feud, disappears into the wilderness and is forced into an alliance with a tough runaway who knows the backwoods better than anyone, but as boundaries blur, buried histories surface, and danger closes in, every choice is a gamble--and the brutal code of the hills will decide whether they escape the mountain’s grip or vanish inside it forever.

Edge of the Rainbow
Writer: Barbara West
Genre: Family/Mystery/Drama
WINNER 2024 - Berlin International Screenwriting Festival
FINALIST: Beverly Hill Int'l Film Festival and 2025 U.K. Cambridge Script Festival
LOG LINE:
A forgotten note, found seven decades later, spurs two teens to help a man grappling with an unknown past uncover his tangled origins as a lost child of the Holocaust.

A Star in the East
Writer: Barbara West
Genre: Faith/Music/Drama/Christmas
LOG LINE:
An unconventional pastor, given the impossible task of reviving an aging, dwindling congregation brings in a praise band and as he fights to keep the peace the discord intensifies, and he loses his job but uses the setback to kickstart a music ministry that shakes up the skeptics and turns resisters into believers.

Somewhere Heavenward
Writer: Barbara West
GENRE: Family/Mystery/Drama
Log Line:
After two siblings are uprooted to a run-down old farm with a new stepdad in the middle of nowhere, all they want is a way out—until they uncover a mysterious treasure in a forgotten field, turning their unwanted detour into an adventure that just might change everything.

Tech Rebels
Writer: Barbara West
GENRE: Comedy/YA/Drama
Log Line:
After hacking the school’s security system and turning their teachers into viral stars, three student filmmakers trigger a teacher-versus-student showdown that threatens to destroy the school--or make legends of them all.