ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced

Listed below are the quarter-finalists of the inaugural ScreenCraft Sci-Fi Screenplay Contest, culled from over 800 submissions. We're excited to be exploring this genre, and to have received a slate of such wildly imaginative screenplays.
Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semi-finalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages!
2114 by James Edward Lee & Raymond Vincent Proca
A Better You by Nick Norman-Butler
Abinitia by Carol Costello Allen
Action Is The Color Yellow by Arlene Leigh Cox & Joshua Cox
After The Fall by Zimra Yetnikoff
A.I. P.I. by Ian Patrick Williams
Alien Cousins by Patrick K. Gamble
Alien Rendezvous 9 by Darlene Inkster
A Little Favor by Russ Meyer
A Man Named Gunn by Keith Melcher
Any Place But Here by Tina Steffan
Arcadia League by Ari Dassa
Ardent by Joseph S. Ramunni
Area 51 by Dylan Brann
Aredina 3 by Tim Baldwin
Are You Dreaming? by Phil Singleton
Ash Serpents by Klaus Hoch
Assist by Linda Rumney
Automaton by Zane Hensel
Becoming Kaon by Omar Mora
Big Big Cats by Andy Greskoviak
BioPunks by Royce Adkins
Black Ice Below by Peter Fraser
Blackvoid by Joseph Greenberg
Blind Spot by Graham Parke
Blockworld by Jeff Haber (story by David Capurso and Jeff Haber)
Bloodlines: Geneva’s Tale by Christopher Robertsson
Blue Book by Wayne Parker
Bridgehead: Flight Corps Academy by Steve Moody
Brown Owl by Christopher Ready
Building Time by Brian James Crewe (story by Brian James Crewe and Hugh Aodh O'Brien)
Burnt Orange Sky by John Paul Russo
Cargo Unknown by Jeff Debing
Catch The Devil by Martin Blinder
Chaos by Kevin P. Taft
Chennai 2040 by Vishnu Sekar
Cities by James Jackson
Climbers by Alexander Julian III
Cockpit Liberty Or Death by Jesse Griffith
Crater by Luke Pimentel
Crossing The Line by Lawrence Seliski
Crunch Time by Byron C. Bellamy
Dante by Tiara Luten
Daydreamer by Kaleb Hauge
Desire Hackers by Arasteh Honarvar & Brian Sherwin
Destiny’s Vessel by Suzanne Lutas
Digitalia by Brian Dyko
Dimensions, Part 1 by David Sheperd
Dreamwalkers: Awakening by Michelle Daniel
Drone War by Tina Field Howe
E-Den by Laura Villandre
E-Den by Mark Robertson
Elementals by David F. McQuillen
Elle by Kaitlin Puccio
Eurydice # 5 by Christopher Runyon
Evitable by Jack Matosian
Final Dawn by Micheal McAlexander
Fix by Nathan Wilcoxen & Amy Greischar
Flux by Britt Pitre
Fractal by John Pallas
Fragged by David A. Smith
Future Perfect by Peppy Barlow
Gaia by Autumn Laskey
Galactic Gold Rush by Curt Burdick & Scott Burdick
Galápagos by Lukas Hassel
Gamed! by Ann Clark & Jeffrey Hilton
Garbage Men Of The Wasteland by Derek McHenry
Gaze Towards Infinity by Phillip E. Hardy (story by Zane W. Levitt and Phillip E. Hardy)
Genesis Rising by Helena Derett
Godbodies by Roi Costa
Golden Years by Timothy O'Rawe
Gravity Jump 5 by Peter Shanelaris
Guardian by Kevin M. Keller
Guinea Pigs by Rich Figel
Handyman by Tim Westland
Harold The Peaceful by Sebastian van Hoek
Harvester by Larry D. Hansen and Stephanie Carlisi (story by Barry Carlisi)
Haven by John Cruz & Mark Dormitorio
Haven by Marshall Kiernan
Haven’s End by Greg Austin
Hawk Moon by Cal Athan
Heavy Gravity by Mike Davidson
Henrietta’s Odyssey by Luqman Raymond Whittinger
Herbs by Alexandru Chelaru
Heroine by Michael Tolosa
Heroman by Timucin Leflef
High Def Nine by John Kestner
High Ground, High Silver by John Shea
Homestead by Viet Huynh
How To Catch A Time Traveler by Graham Parke
Humanity by Robert Bo Forehand
Humunks by Patrick Gamble
Immortal by Natalie Metzger
Imperium by Michael Pedicelli & Michael Kuzenka
Implant by William Taylor
Insolitus by Chad Janes
Into The Darkness by Will Saunders
Into The Unknown by Nicola Ralph
Ironbound by Pete Cafaro
ISS by Robert Rioux
Jingletown by Dale Trujillo
Jupiter by Richard H. Moon
Keeper Of The Chair by Fil Marchese
Keeping Time by Nathan Zoebl
Killer Blow by Al Kalman
Killing The Reapers by Jeff Debing
Liberty Or Death by A.M. Nicholas
Life To Life by Terri Sissman
Live, From The Milky Way by Joe Borriello
Lock Eyes by Bodine Boling
Looking For God by Omar Mora
Lyra by Djochoua Belovarski & Nick Bennet
Mammalian Advocate by Winston Huff
Manifest Destiny by Michael Pedicelli & Michael Kuzenka
Manipufate by A.J. Schmitz
Manly Guys Club by David Ernesto Vendrell (story by David Ernesto Vendrell, Matt Hawksworth and William Connor Devlin)
Map Of The Universe by Joshua Rebell
Maria 3.0 by Blake Andrew
Mars Project by Nancy Duff
Mean Machines by Jeremy Enis
Mecha by Jonathan Stevenson
Megalopolis by Moutaz Jad
M.E.L. by Daniel Albino
Mind Mirror by Matt Eskandari & Mike Hultquist
Misfits From Planet X by Corneliu Mitrache
Mission Scheherazade by Gary Wallach
Monkeydog by Gabriell DeBear Paye
MotherShip by Roi Costa
Mr. Tom by Kirk Weddell
Needles by Michael E. Bierman
Netfire by Kostadin Georgieff
New York Times by Robert Michael Simon
Nightshade by Phyllis Heltay
Node by James Mixon
No Heroes, Only Survivors by Shawn Levy
No Man’s Land by Karsten Freeman
No Man’s Land by Michelle Davidson & Jeffrey R. Field
Not In Time by James M. De Vince
Odds Against Tomorrow by George L. Dickinson
Oliver Clark & The Future Unknown by Nick Shepherd & Toni Wynne
Original Man by Benjamin Onyango
Origins by Hooman Hassani
Orpheus by Michael Stark & Terrell T. Garrett
Pandarras by Shirley Wilson
Pangaea by Kevin Patrick O’Such
Paradigm Shift by Holli Castillo
Payola by Edward Klau
Pin0cchi0 by Justin Calen Chenn
Pixie Magellan by Palmer Rubin
Preincarnation by Kendall Castor-Perry
Project Veritas by Eric Floreto
Pulp Science Fiction by Ron Podell
Random Acts Of Violence by Joseph Neibich
Reality Show by Don Hofmeister
Reciprocity by Jennifer Packard
Reclaim by Jocelyn Osier
Rectify by Tom Garfinkel
Red Coat by Preston Geer
Red Rock by Scott Hamilton and Peter J. Hamilton
Replica by Sharon Moore
Reset by Salvatore Brienik
Residual by The Brothers Lynch
Resonate by April Rouveyrol
Retribution by Joe Faultersack
Richmond Correctional by Terence Brody
Rise Of The Phoenix by Ann Marie Williams
Rockhands by J.R Rasmussen
Rogue Synapse by Tyler Werrin
Save Our Souls by Leighton Dean
Savior by Bo Sanders
Scorpius by Gisli Agnar Bogason
Scrapper by Ryan Albertson
Shadow Eye by Nathan Wilcoxen
Shadow People by Fernando Ortiz
Shadowmen by Julie Merrick
Shadow Skies by Jason LaShea
Shift by James Jackson
Shift by Sergio LoDolce
Sides by Joseph Moore
Signal To Noise by Cris Graves
Silence by Dylan S. Phillips
Simuverse by Mike Normandia
Sirius by PJ Hart
Sisyphus by Jeffrey Ryan Morales
Skyburner by David Baugnon
Sky’s Limit by James Tang
Snow by Mark Golik
Sons Of Light by Eddie Baroo
Space Racer by Erik H. Bernard & Lyndon Tait
Splinter Rose by Walker McKnight
Star-Crossed by Chris Giron
Starry Starry Night by Robin Jensen
Stop by Mikel J. Wisler & Jedidiah Burdick
Strings by Peter Wisan
Subcity by William J. Zide (from a concept by William J Zide and Martin Weisz)
Surface by Frank Edward Kelly
Synchronicity by Justin Staggs
The Last Taxman by Jacob Kamhis
Terra Alpha One by Neil Chase
Terra Alta by Jennifer Shearon
Thanksgiving 2040 by Thomas Mollica
The Advance Team by Paul Carson
The Adventures of Abigail Storm by Luke Preston
The Assimilation by Chris Wiltz
The Aviaries Of Dr. Vogel by Daniel J. Pike
The Boy From Earth by Marc McCutcheon
The Bureaucrat by Conor Long
The Burning Plain by Luis De Vega
The Catalyst by Edward Martin III
The Circle by Keri Johnson
The Dawn Of Eve by James Bingham
The Domain by Michael Raymond
The Eclipse Chronicles: Blood Moon by Luke Birch
The Eldronian Warrior by Luis A. Colon
The Girl Who Fell Through Time by Kevin A. Reynolds
The Göd Machine by Michael Craft
The Gunsmith by John Halley Visser
The Hotel On Massacre Lane by Penelope Swan
The Iron Heel by Bix Santana & Gabe Golden
The King’s Court by Brandon Montgomery
The Last Adventure Of Shay Blaze by Howard Fridkin
The Last Taxman by Jacob Kamhis
The Legacy Intrigue by Jaime Rudolph
The Locksmith: A Past Fate by Jeffrey Ryan Morales
The Lodestone Mission by Jeff Kasten
The Long Slow Hello by Michael Dwyer
The Orange Colored Sky by Kent Tyler Smith
The Prodigy by Brian De Palma
The Pursuit by Alex Hunt
The Reflection by Winston Huff
The Revolt of the Whales by Michael Rhodes
The Simulacrum by Stuart Taylor
The Sister Planet by Brendan O’Reilly
The Sky Thieves by Joey Ernand
The Space Wolf by Harv Zimmel
The Tesla Box by Kyle Francis
The TransMutant by Malcolm Wong
The Un-Gone by Simon Bovey
The Way Of The Wild by N.T. Bullock
The Wheel by Quinton Lowe
The Wind Riders by Amanda Boggs & Michael W. Denison
Time Catcher by Kevin Keller
Timmy The Robot Slayer by Mike Boss
Timmy Tilson by Peter Zizzo
Titan by John Paul Fiol
To Be Continued… by Rob Grant & Stu Marks
Train From Outer Space by Alan C. Sproles & Lizanne Southgate
Tranquility by Harry Kleinman
Transcarlet by James Ross
Transversible by Jordan Roman
Vanguard by Matt Lavender
Vector by Matt MacDonald
Virus by Sebastian Magiera
Vivarium by José Angel Astillero Fuentes
War-Bots: First Light by Rich Figel
Warped Space by Lewis Manalo
Why Me by Scott Osborn
Wonderland by Lauren Winsor Stenmoe
World War 2.0 by Bren Lynne
Year 73 by Jeff Shevlowitz
Zebra Victor One by Adam Bradley
Zoe Jones: Spectral Drifter by April Rouveyrol
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