Announcing the 6th Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Top 50 Finalists

Listed below are the 50 finalists of the 6th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, selected from roughly 2,500 applications. Congratulations to these talented finalists and thanks to all for submitting this year. It was an especially competitive year, with a record number of applicants and exceptional writing samples. We look forward to discovering this year's recipients!
Up to four emerging TV or film screenwriters will receive the ScreenCraft Fellowship, which includes an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles, lodging at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and a week of meetings, mentorship and personal introductions to studio executives, literary agents, managers and producers including Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, and more.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the top 10 finalists and grand prize winners on July 10th, here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries for the 2020 season, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Top 50 finalists:
(No) Sex Required | Mexi Gremillion |
A Girl I Used to Know | Maria Edible |
A Man's Castle | Joseph Whaley |
Albatross Gardens | Lee Whitten |
American Justice | Monique Peek |
Bad Jew | Adi Blotman |
Beanstalk | Aarthi Ramanathan |
Big Kids | Ella Gabriel |
C U Next Tuesday | Kimberley Gonsalves & Michele Yeo |
Chicago Overcoat | Abby LaMarre |
Concrete Jungle | David Kushner |
Critical Mass | Tom Radovich |
Dark Horizons | Carlo & Erin Carere |
Disorderly | Martin Ingle |
Elsa Miller's Monster Manual | Brian Otting |
Fernando | Adam Lujan |
Ferocity | Kevin Bachar |
Finding Cumberbatch | Ivan Tsang |
Flying High | Janine DeMaria |
Group | Josh Sullivan |
Guts n' Glory | Kat Sieniuc |
I'm Not Okay (I Promise) | Annie Nishida |
Joppatowne | Michael Mirabella |
Kiss & Makeup | Liz Thompson |
Mother Tongue | Ann Rosen |
Newsers | Jennifer Kim |
On Probation | Sergio Cámara |
Orientation | Rebecca Jordan Smith |
Pacific Standard Time | Alex Calleros |
parts | Craig Page |
Peculiar Animals | Obiageli Odimegwu |
Queenside | Federico Manachino & Jessica Romagnoli |
Roomies | Gareth Wronski |
Second Helpings | James Gulian |
She can fly too | Ushmey Chakraborty |
Shoshanna | Justin Olstein |
Sophie & Valentina | Lucy Luna |
Student Visa | Paul Chang |
Terminal | Kate Gleason |
The Bronte Girls | Caroline Kelly Franklin |
The Christmas Eve Party | Menelek Lumumba |
The Dance of the Bull | Alex Hodgson |
The Danger Inside | Tyler Rabinowitz |
The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
The Last Canadian Virgins | Evan Rindler & Jon Rizik |
The Long Road | Elie El Choufany |
The Night Witches | Steven Prowse |
The White Mouse | Molly Gardner |
Three Sisters | Jen Gutierrez |
Under an Olive Tree | Tara Atashgah |
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