2017 ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Screenplay Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on November 15, 2017
Are you ready to find out who the quarter-finalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Action/Thriller Script Contest are? With over 600 submissions, our readers put together the list below. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.
Stay tuned for the semifinalists announcement on December 15th, 2017, here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages!
QUARTER-FINALISTS
| 17 Bullets | Van Jensen |
| 50 Caliber Canadian | Gordon Roback |
| 6 Ghost Days | Ted McKenna |
| A Better Place | Katterina Powers |
| A Ghost Amongst Men | Cliff Simmons |
| A Witch In Salem | Patrick Lewis |
| A Word in a Glass Mind | Miranda Fennimore |
| Af*ckinstan | Jim Maceda |
| Alejandra | Amelia Fergusson |
| American Spy | Zach Tirone |
| Anatomy Of Sins | G. Eric Smith, Jared Smint |
| At the Times of Cold War | Subin Mathew George |
| Balance | Edward Klau |
| Beyond the Gap | Zach Waggoner |
| Bitter Honey | Chilli Kippen |
| Blind Pursuit | Debi Yazbeck |
| Borrego | Jesse Harris |
| Brain Flux | Helena Derett |
| Brutal | Jonathan W. C. Mills |
| Bullet Points | Ryan Lis, Thomas Thomas |
| Bury Your Dead | Rick McGovern |
| Cachetown | Dylan Pearl |
| Can I Take Your Photograph | Reid Taylor |
| Canine | Daniel Pike |
| Cartel Del Toro | Marty Morrisroe |
| Clean Up | David Whitcroft |
| Confirmation | Adam Vorenkamp |
| Controlled Insanity | Randy Cruts |
| Creature Feature | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Culpable | Mark Heywood |
| Danger Close | Adam Skelter |
| Darkness Awakens | Michael Williams |
| Dead On The Inside | Selene Raffel |
| Deadalive | Christian J. Hearn |
| Deadlocked | David Johnson |
| Deadly Actions | LJ Seliski |
| Death In Your Eyes | Andrew Saxsma |
| Deep State | Anthony Nero |
| Delusions | William Green |
| DNA | Heather Farlinger |
| Driver | Jason Deparis |
| Edison's Ghosts | Kevin Bachar |
| Elena | Sarina Alfarano |
| Elimination Agenda | Stuart Heimdal |
| Emerald Gardens | Stephanie Weaver |
| En Passant | Tate Hanyok |
| Endogenous | Goran Spoljaric |
| Eon | Jason Kubik |
| Escape | Jace Lacob |
| Facing the Jackal | Lynne Christensen |
| False Flag | Tamas Harangi |
| Fire Escape | Jose Prendes |
| Fragments | Lawrence Rothfield |
| Freeway Jack | Steven Butler |
| Frigid | Andrew Mescher |
| Get It Together | Matthew Ryan |
| Get the lead out | Oliver Britten |
| Go Catch The Devil | Martin Blinder |
| Gods Among Men | David Skelnik |
| Grid | Joshua Tywater |
| Hunters Moon | Lestyn Evans |
| I-70 | Gabrielle Bird |
| Impaired | Michael Williams |
| In Chrysalis | Nelson Downend |
| Intell Bubbas | Jovan Robinson |
| Intrusion | Nicol Eilers |
| Jack Scratch | Cody Glenn |
| Jessica Bly | Tom Moriarty |
| Jig Saw Jack | James Tweedie |
| Jump Start | Josh Katz, Josh Thorud |
| Larkspur Bungalow | Julie Meulemans & John McHale |
| Last Salvage | Steven Snell |
| License to Steal | Marco Santiago |
| Lima Zero Seven | Dan Stratman |
| Lucy In The sky | Francis Barel |
| Man From Tomorrow | Po Lin |
| Marco Polo | Jeff Heckler |
| Marine Down | Tom Moriarty |
| Milwaukee | Barry Ambrose, Christopher Stapleton |
| Miss Fury | Gavin John |
| MissGuided | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Mutiny at Dawn | Tyrone Cousin |
| No Exit | Ari Gill |
| Obliquity | Lasta Drachkovitch & Steve LuKanic |
| Ocean Effect | Heather Farlinger |
| One Tough Mother | James Lakas |
| Orion's Belt | Mark Miller |
| Paper Tigers | Garrett Ratcliff |
| Patriots & Tyrants | Jeff Cahn |
| Pawns | Erik Lowe |
| Plum Island | Matthew Blackburn |
| Pride Jewel | Armen Dilanchian |
| Prime Life | William Levesque |
| Prince Of Chaos | Jason Skorski |
| Purified | Elizabeth Sullivan |
| Pylon Racer | Courtney Silberberg, Jacquelyn Kinkade Silberberg |
| R&R | Christian McLeer |
| Rectitude | Mark Donnell |
| Remember th Pueblo | William Hawkrigg |
| Rescuing Patton | Curtis Burdick |
| Reset | Robert Klecha, Magnus Aspli |
| Riot Act | Justin Hughes |
| Roar | Robert Telatovich |
| Robot vs. Robot | Michael Hayes |
| Rogue | Mark Kindred |
| Runaway Ship | Theodore Soderberg |
| Running Dark | John Lau |
| Seismic | Rory Veal |
| Setting Square | Neil Chase |
| Shaken Loose | Carolyn Childers |
| Shanghai Vaudeville | Alex Shifman |
| Shaolin Wolf-Man | Tom Freyer |
| Show Me The Way To Go Home | Ken Hanson |
| Sister Hoods | Lorinda Donovan |
| Smuggler's Blues | Bob Cousins |
| Solara | Andrew Saxsma |
| Space/Time | Danny Baram |
| Spybrain | Eric Allen |
| Stealing God | Martin Blinder |
| Sting of the Bee | Eric Allen |
| Stoning the Jasmine | Zaina Deeb |
| Straw Runners | Matt G. Perry |
| Subversive | Wayman Stewart |
| Taotao Mo'na | Justin Kohlas, Michael Arter |
| Termination Policy | Zack Linder |
| Test Drive | Matt DeMartini, Scott Robert Waldvogel |
| The Black Star | Paul Loeschke |
| The Blackk Cobress | Jeff Breuer |
| The Car | Tom Harrison |
| The Caretaker | Hussain Pirani, Sam Cooke |
| The Crossing | Paul Sheridan |
| The Crying Man | Walker Hare |
| The Devil In God's Country | Adrian Maude |
| The Devil You Know | Ian Goodwillie |
| The Dinosaur Four | Greg Rhem |
| The Disease | Khalil Sullins |
| The Donor | Scott Hartman |
| The Enemy Upstairs | M.C. Selfridge |
| The Expert | Jon O'Neill, Carly Joseph |
| The Faction | Kevin Karp |
| The Fallen | Christopher Dane |
| The Fifth Column | Paul Sheridan |
| The German Quote | Ari Dassa |
| The Great Canadian Gold Heist | Brad Nuber, Dein Nuber |
| The Hell Outta Mexico | Jared Chiang-Zeizel, Kyle O'Tain |
| The Hitman And Her | John Craig Howells |
| The Honeymoon Game | Daniel Gentile |
| The Iron Horse of Lucy Steele | Paul Zeidman |
| The Man by the River | Bryan Kelsey |
| The Native Recruit | Matt Gilbert |
| The Night Watchman | Thomas Gaunt |
| The Old Believer | Grant Bayliss |
| The Penthouse | Zach Messner & Ziyad Saadi |
| The Pharmacist | Samsun Knight |
| The Pirate King | Barry Ambrose, Armand Kachigian |
| The Principle of the Thing | Les Zig |
| The Protector | CJ Voltz |
| The Quilt Keeper's Son | Debra Gipson |
| The Rampart | Christopher Ellis |
| The Resistance | Jon Davis |
| The Righteous Man | Andrew Mescher |
| The Road Less Traveled | MIke Simons |
| The Rogue Assassin | Linsen Oyosa |
| The Runoff | Bill Hanan |
| The Sacred and Profane | Malcolm Wong |
| The Sacred Grounds | Kyler Boudreau |
| The Straight And Narrow | Roderic Montrece |
| The Talon and the Undersnake | Mike Carruthers |
| The Third Life of Bogdan Petrela | David Weston |
| The Uncrossing | Thomas Coston |
| The Vine | Max Hoven |
| The Way of Dave | David Poulshock |
| The Winter Men | Philip Pirrello |
| The Wyching Tree | Philip Tice |
| Thick As Blood | Van Manson |
| Time Zero | Carlo Carere |
| Today the Tiger Smiled | Randy Cruts |
| Tourist Trap | Jose Prendes |
| Traces of Light | Scott Sullivan |
| Trident | Heath Houseman, Neal Jacobs |
| Turnabout | Bill Hanan |
| Tyrant | Donald Mertens, Max Bentinck |
| Unsanctioned | Chuck Hustmyre |
| Wendigo | Mike Langer |
| Wet Work | Mark Cerulli |
| What Fools We Are | Stephen Lincoln |
| When I Was A Child | Terry Needham |
| Wrath Of An Eagle | Bruno Borello |
| Wylde | Danny Baram |
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