Listed below are the semifinalists of the third annual ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest. These projects have been selected to move forward to the final round of judging. This was a genuinely competitive cycle featuring many stellar short screenplays, so congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, congratulations to our quarter-finalists and thanks to all for submitting. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners on September 25th, here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages.
| A Crowd of Strangers | Daniel Corrieri |
| A Laceration | Mervyn Marshall |
| A Twisted Tail | Donna Allen |
| A View From The Sea | Jonny Pasvolsky |
| A War On Terror | Peter Haig |
| Aurora | Travis Opgenorth |
| Black Girl Walking | Sunday Sabbath |
| Cake | Courtney Stackhouse |
| Come to Grief | Michelle Bracks |
| Coyote | Laura Shumate |
| Dad Undead | Nicolas Delgado |
| Danny Boy | Kelly Kirwan |
| Dead End | Cameron Rogers-Hawson |
| Dead Letter Office | Richard Herstek |
| Divinity | Nelson Downend |
| Down River | Kerry Russell |
| Echo Chamber | Travis Lemke |
| Every 8 Days | Marcus Lee |
| Fish Out of Water | Laura Shumate |
| Five Votes | Susie Shannon |
| Flyology | Michael Leung |
| Furnichangers | Boaz Dror |
| Gasolina | Tannaz Hazemi |
| Healing Matters | Nir Shelter |
| Jerry Times Two | Alessandro Miro |
| Learn Bhangra in 7 Days | Nevin Sharma |
| Mick and the Stray | Kirsty Budding |
| Missy M | Andrea Karo |
| Name Change | Emily Chang |
| Nighthunters | Ana Jimenez |
| Pigskin | Gabriel Dean |
| Plasticity | Dina Klein |
| Prized Possesions | Alan de la Rosa |
| Reclaimed | Lance Thompson |
| Shelly | Sabrina Stoll |
| Something To Remember Me By | Anna Rose Moore |
| Table for One | Michael Strong |
| The Devil’s Justice | Bryan Block |
| The Dress You Have On | Courtney Therond |
| The Handy Man | Nicholas Clifford |
| The Hunter | Lisa Pekar |
| The Last Bus Ride | Deanna Perchyshyn |
| The Missing Piece | Joshua Cordova |
| The Neighbor’s Cat | Bonnie Eaton |
| The Only Thing We Have to Fear | Jamie Bircoll |
| The Passing Light | Nelson Downend |
| The Sack Man | Joseph Betteridge |
| The Seminole | Daniele Dohring |
| The Sex Act | Madelyn Rideout |
| The Travelers | Alden Sargent |
| The Yard | Eugenie Carabatsos |
| This Dark Thought | Nik Theorin |
| Ticker | Kaycee Hughes |
| Traducer | Ande Case |
| U/R/N | Dylan Sargent |
| Walk on the Moon | JB Minerva |
