2019 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on December 4, 2019
Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay, selected from over 700 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this internationally-beloved genre and to have received a slate of compelling screenplays.
This year's jury is comprised of producers and executives at MGM Studios, Bad Robot, Paramount, XYZ Films, and Skydance Media.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the semifinalists, finalists, and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the quarterfinalists:
| ... a chance of rain | Patrick Green & Alan C. Beard |
| #StopSilver | Will Bigham |
| 555 Willamette | Dre Aguirre |
| A Rare Earth | James Morgan |
| A White and Savage Land | Alex Rivers |
| Accidental Superhero | Mithra Alavi |
| Agent Pierce: City on Fire | Rocky Jo |
| AKLA-RA: The Quest for the Capra Crystal | Brad Wozny |
| Amazon Queen | Liz Storm |
| American Blacktop | Dave Trainor |
| And You, Cassius | Bridget Buxton |
| Anti-Hero | Mark Fogarty |
| Auggie and the Big Tree | Kerry Ann Reid |
| Autorun | Dave Bowers & Justin Parker |
| Avalanche | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Bare Metal | Jess Gupta |
| Between the Lives | Victoria Lyttle |
| Beyond Logic | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Black Friday | Jonathan Dillon |
| Black Market | Chris Lee |
| Black Tiger | Karl Mather |
| Blackbirds | Amber Brown |
| Blackstone Jack and the Island of the Warshadows | Michael Hahn |
| Blood Sisters | Michael Hardy |
| Blood Harvest | George Nadareishvili |
| Blue Treasure | Ben Ockrent & Stevan Filipovic |
| Bonding | Mark Griffin |
| Boost | Andrew Ferguson |
| Bristlecone | Brandon Bongar |
| Buccaneers of the Asteroid Belt | Jeff Racho |
| Call Out | Nir Shelter |
| Cash from Chaos | Patrick Daly |
| Chó | Jon Shaivitz |
| Cheap Action | Mark Gunnion |
| Children on The Edge of Forever | Roberto Fuertes |
| Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
| Christmas Versus Silicon Valley | Matthew Conlin |
| Class Warfare | Barry Ambrose & Juan Castro |
| Cold Storm | Bonnie Carini |
| Cold-Rock County | Elliot Seidel |
| Confessions of a Former Teen Superhero | Keith Hartman |
| Connections | Jabir Mohamed |
| Copycat | Ryan Anker |
| Cul De Sac | Alex von Hofmann |
| Dark Ivory | Rohan Everingham |
| Darklands | Paul Sheridan |
| Darryn the Bold and The Sword of Boldness | Justin Best |
| Daventure | Adrian Popa |
| Demon City | Michael Tracy |
| Devil's Pitch | Todd Zing & Irish Rivera |
| Doom Squad | Jackson Murray |
| Dragon Girl | Michael Tracy |
| Dreadlands | Josh Mendoza |
| Dream City | Tyler Jones & Kirby Draper |
| Eagle Trace | Rebecca Shapiro & Shawn DePasquale |
| EcoFront | John McHale |
| Elektron | Javier Juan Lorente |
| Evening, Master Parsley | Michael Colucci |
| Fair Cash | Dawid Aniola |
| Far Down Below... | Christopher Condon |
| Fence Off | Karolyn Szot |
| Few And Far Between | Rachael Beauchamp |
| Ford | Andrew Judge |
| Freefall | Denise Meyers |
| From Rio With Love | Alexia Verbeke |
| Fruit Boots | Michael Moynihan |
| Geeks | James Barnes |
| Ghosts of Carlisle | Jeffrey Davidson |
| GIRL | Patty Papageorgiou-Axford |
| Girl of the Palio | Melissa Birks |
| Girls Night Out | Brian King |
| Go West! | Lindsay Jaeger |
| Grand Sierra | Nicolas Scroggins |
| Guerrero | Juan Bernardo Minerva |
| Guns and Grace | Odin Ozdil |
| HardHead | Madeline Noboa |
| Hero of the Good Land | Logan Shaw |
| Highlandman | George Cagala |
| Hominine | Skatz Baxter |
| HR - Human Resource | Jen Grubbs |
| Hunt for the Lost Secret of Eden | Thomas Zmiarovich |
| Hurricane Tara | Kyle Curry |
| Hybridize | Michael Cahill |
| In the Footsteps of Thaddeus Thackeray | Adam McDaniel |
| Isomorph | Brian King |
| Jack Milton | Michael Tracy |
| Just Drive | Meshal Alsaleem |
| Kidding and Killing | Peter Gazdag |
| Killtown | Adam Marko-Nord |
| Klefti Means Thief | Miranda Filippides |
| Landscapes of Fear | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Last Desert | Gabriel Moura |
| Late Check Out | Neil Battle |
| Little Red | Justin Lewis |
| Magnet | Bill Hanson |
| Man in the Arena | Keon Hedayati |
| Manta Ray (Invisible) | Mitchell Nyberg |
| Mars Run | Mitch Ward |
| Mescalero | Anderson Boyd |
| Monster Baiters | Aaron Strongoni & Deena Adar |
| Moura | Sathish Easwaralingam |
| My Son, the Spy | Michael Soll |
| Never Going Back Again | Chloe Grinstead |
| Ninja: The Resurrection | Robert Yahnke |
| Ocean Effect (Today is Your Day) | Heather Farlinger |
| On a Dark Matter | John McDermott |
| Once Upon a Crime: Sunset City | Angelo Dania |
| Once Upon a Crime: Motor City | Angelo Dania |
| One Kill | Curt McCray & Kent McCray |
| One Mile East | Mohummad Humza Elahi |
| One Tough Mother | James Lakas |
| Pacific Violent | Micah Lockhart |
| Paradise Strikes | Kyler Boudreau |
| Peacekeepers | Alison Hogge |
| PERFECT | Alan C. Beard |
| Pests | Shaun McLaughlin |
| phase III | Stephen Pace |
| Praetorian | Brian King |
| Pray with a Bullet | Julius Galacki |
| Preimmortals | Tara Downs |
| Preserve Our Souls | Christopher Hooton |
| Read | Nicole Feste |
| Reborn | Darko Mitrevski |
| Red Seven Out (Formerly Af*ckinstan) | Jim Maceda |
| Redacted | David Mitsuoka |
| Rich Bitches | Philip Hall & Erin Fredman |
| Robert De Niro Is Killing Me | Greg Olliver |
| Robyn Hood Outlaw Princess | John Reynolds |
| Rock & Angel | Brian King |
| Run | Travis Seppala |
| Sacred Animals | Martin Matthews |
| SEAL Catch | Tracy Schumer |
| Seeker One | Michael Filonczuk |
| Sex Bot | Gilbert Cuevas & Nicola Buffkin |
| Shadows Beyond | Gregory Mandarano |
| Siege of Man | Sean Park |
| Silver or Lead | Timothy Paul Driscoll |
| Silver Or Lead | Charlie Newton & Kaaren Ochoa |
| Sirens | Ryan Lange & Rory Menteer |
| Soldiers of Martial Law | Alex Tackett |
| State of Men | salim salajee |
| Streamweavr | Kendall Castor-Perry |
| Subhuman | Brian King |
| Tangent | Nick Wildash & Matt Wildash |
| Terminal Kill | Tony Armer |
| The Alternate | Dennis Luu |
| The Arena | Maria Sigrist & Russell Whitfield |
| The Blue Nile | Richard Bailey |
| The Curse of The Romanovs | Staton Rabin |
| The Devil's Own Day | Robert Redford |
| The Devil's Symphony | Scott Hamilton |
| The Distance | Arvid Swedrup |
| The Dynamiter | Mark Miller |
| The Emerald Triangle | Ben Bigelow |
| The End of the Pier | Evan Laughlin |
| The Eye of Jupiter | Michael Soll |
| The Fifth Prisoner | Lynn Esta Goldman |
| The Fire Captain | Marc Messenger |
| The Floating World | Michael Rhodes |
| The Ghosts of Le Griffon | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Henchman | Ian Oliphant |
| The Hidden Room | Marvin Townsend |
| The Hotel Barbers | Daniel Woburn |
| The Last Swordsman | Deven Spencer |
| The Last Word | Matt Taylor |
| The Longest Halloween: The Hunt for the Forever Kingdom Amulet | Greg Gilman & Frank Wood |
| The Lost Treasure of the Mayans | Julius Galacki |
| The Mystery of the Hornet Ghost Lights | Craig Proudley & Kelly Chen |
| The Night Coach from Sonora | Hilary Van Hoose |
| The Odyssey Part 1: The Man of Twists and Turns | August Xiayi Palmer |
| The Only Shot | Lynn Amato |
| The Orphan | Darien Harte |
| The Patriotic Hitman | Alex Beattie |
| The Peggy C | John Winn Miller |
| The Sauce Was Worth It | Luke Guidici |
| The Shetlander | Martina Muhoberac |
| The Traveling Wilburys | Alexander Miarli |
| The Unquiet Grave | Andrew Wankier |
| The Weather Upsets Her | Daniel Gallant |
| The White Company | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| The World That Time Forgot | Mike Rogers |
| There Are No Heroes | Jeremy Engel |
| There Were 11 | Kyle Scimone |
| Tiger in Home, Jackal in Woods | Jacob Brown |
| Treasure Hunt | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| Two Dog Night | Cameron Webb |
| Unforgivable Sinner | Rick Omi |
| Vampire Strippers Must Die! | Keith Hartman |
| Vanna Viking | Michael Hahn & Elisabeth Meurer |
| Venus | Harlow Tweedy |
| Warrior in the Confines | Patrick Mulderrig |
| White Rabbit | Bob Cousins |
| Whiteout | Bryan Holm |
| Without Wings | Jacob Crotinger |
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