2017 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Contest Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft - updated on December 28, 2017

Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition. These exceptional pilots were selected from over 2,000 submissions.

Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, along with the quarter-finalists, and thanks to all for submitting.

Stay tuned for the announcement of the grand prize winners on December 29th.

HALF HOUR

18th & Mill	Daniel Queirolo
A Podcast	Dara Katz, Betsy Kenney
Age Appropriate	Stephanie Bencin
Bad Friends	Jess Mazza
Beyond Addicted	Scott Seiler
Big Jim	Cathy Strickland, Tim Pye
Black Republican	Joe Abel, Dwayne Perkins
Bottoms Up	Mia Pinchoff & Kristi Hall
Chlora & Phyll	M. Rowan Meyer
Curiosity	Tasha Hardy
Curtain Call	TJ King
Daddy Issues	Tom Mann
Darkhorse	Jonathan Klemke
Debt	Joe Fernandez
Dinner for Breakfast	Alex Klein
Disconnected	Kaela Crawford
Down With The Bureaucracy	Dimitry Pompee
Family Business	Chris Thomson
Family Jewels	John Eleftheriou
GM	Thomas Leupp
Happy Hour Hustlers	Cathy Beasley
Heart Attack Man	Brian Hanson
Homies	Amy Tasillo
Honkies and Homies	Ondine Rarey
How To Succeed At Birth	Britt Sanborn
Hustlin' Ain't Easy	Teri Brown-Jackson
Infinite Gary	Joey Siara
Irrelevant	Jaquie Brown
Izzy Immaculate	TJ Clark
Jetlagged	Jeff Opdytke
Journos	Bill Janson
Leila, Again	Naomi Brodkin
Little Green Men	Daniel Boggs
Metamorphosis	Celia Blundo
Midnight Murder Mystery	Aaron Yeung
Moxie	Alexandra DiRuscio Cooper
Mr. Abdul Goes to Washington	Skander Halim & Gina Ippolito
Not The Hero	Jordan Tandowsky
Nyla	Sabrina Naqvi, Annie Hamdani
One and Done	Jay Cundiff
Paparazzo	Alex Lange, Scott Davidson
PG 30	Vidhya Iyer
Pilgrimage	Heather Huntington, Danielle Evenson
Provocateur	Ross Maloney & Jay Calhoun
Pulp	Raphael Loucadellis
Reboot	Daniel Kavanagh
Roy Unplugged	Marc Rosenberg
Rumspringa	Becky Prosky
Runway	Daniel Pizzato
Sandwiched	Christina Shaver
Scrambled Eggs	Brad Klipfel
Softeez	Sam Chappell
Space Cartoon	Dave Urlakis
Special	Jay Cundiff
Still Practicing	Samuel Loeb & Ryan W. Smith
Straight	Emma Tattenbaum-Fine
Strings	Gerrard Hartland
Subpar Natural	Evan James
The Board	Justin Grundfast
The Future Is Cancelled	Jack Rodgers
The Great White North	Jeremy Patrick Hamilton
The Lucy Gray Agency	Pamela Jones & Anna-Lisa Jones
The Miserable Failures of Deef A'Dran	Arthur Iula & Matt Jeakle
The Resident	Mike Gerbino & Zahra Alzubaidi
The Wrong Side of Forty	Lily Labovitz
Three Blocks North	Daniel Strauss
Time Fail	Stefan Tihanyi & Marian Meidel
Time Suck	David Crosman
Tinfoil Hats	Francis Stokes
Undocumented	Melissa White
Vampire In Space	Carmen Angelica
Whiskey Ginger	Alan Kelly

HOUR

Against The Odds	Tammy Kearly
Alt-Control	Michael Leung
Angelique	Nancy Tudor
Aurora Falls	Kadyn Michaels
Awkwardly Apocalyptic	Sarah Hopkins
Axion	Allen Glover
Bamboo Press	Su Ching Teh
Behind The Red Curtain	Shani Moore Weatherby
Beyond the Drop	Henry Evans
Bleeder	Aidan Largey
Bloodlands	David Kushner
Bluebirds	Simon Wilkinson
Bombshells	Alexandra Tran
Born Entertainers	Wilbert Stanton
Cannonball Express	Mark Robertson
Carla Margo	Amelia Phillips
Chasing The Dark	Mike Bencivenga
Civil Unrest	Jeff Perreca
Clandestine	Geoffrey Campbell
Coldwater	Craig Berger
Colonials	Ian Fletcher
Companion	Nicholas Leitzke
Conduct Unbecoming	Matt Ritter
Connection	Jace Lacob
Copperhead	Simon Tatum
Crimson Oeuvre	Tom Mann
Cuban Affairs	Marco Santiago
Curse and Judgment	Corey Moore
Daemonologie	Harry Hanson
Dark Eyes	Sydney Dire
Dark Horizons	Carlo Carere & Erin Carere
Deadheads: Home in Hartford	Bill Brennenstuhl
Delirium	Anna Chazelle
Demonic	Chris Drzewiecki
Deviant	Christina Farber
Dicks	Bill Hanson
Doctresses: The Book of Skulls	David Hutchison
E Pluribus Unum	Max Benowitz
Echoes of Bonnieville	Simon Schneider
Eire's Song	Kristen Nedopak
El Norte	Vicente Gutierrez & Will Souders
End of Days	Sonja Verpoort
End Of Life	Sean Collins-Smith
Evolutionary	J.A. Romo
Exile City	Stephen Montagne & Nick Gomez
Family Secrets	Allison Osborne
Feather Crown	Kate Lauryn
Filii Familias	Christopher Lastrapes
Finding the Dark	Mychal Sargent
Germantown	Renee Buck
Godly	Anna Salinas
Graves' Consequences	Edward Hamel
Greyson	David Pinckney
H8	Faisal Azam & Erica Vellis
Hereditary	Craig Berger
Hoop Kings	David Hines
I, Alice	Duane Piedmont
Idol Talk	Jeremiah Lewis
Immaculate	Charles McNamara
Inside Oceanside	Tate Hanyok
It's Hard To Be Holy	Alex Carroll
Ivan's Hammer	Ben Maraniss
Judas	Joe Brukner
Lavender Panthers	L.M. Harter
Life on Chelsea Road	Ed McCarthy
Liminal	Megan Meadows
Linked	Jeff Bower
Looking Glass	William Zide
Lydia Pinkham's Potions	Renee Buck
Mad Like Me	Melinda Maerker
Mama Drama	Mary Birdsong
Mason Middle School	Andrew Marshall
Mississippi Bound	Christopher Dennis
Mount Pleasant	Cat Dale
Moving Parts	Sally Rowe
My Dead Dad	David Lawrence Hill
Natural Causes	Mickey Fortune
Non Essentials	Sophie Dawson
Now We Cook!	M Cristina Beato
Open	Anne Underwood
Panthers	Eric Glover
Phoenix	Natasha Hall
Pictures of Lily	Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, Daniel Weizmann
Pipe Bomb	Michael Orlando
Portia's Law	Hana Callaghan, Chad Callaghan
Power Shift	Katie Avery
Punchbags	Steven Snell
Radicals	Timothy Fasano
Recognition	Adam Pachter
Red Ball	Anna Bierhaus
Red Scare	Christopher O'Bryant
Renaissance	Denise Meyer
Restless	Yusuf Gad
Revolutions	Grant Fraggalosch
Richer Than a White Man	Christine Stevens DeLorenzo
Riot	Amy Lambert
Saint Hill	Gillian Gordon
Savage Nation	Myles Reid
Seacliff Manor	Kim Lisner
Set them free	Matthew Duriez
Shelter	JJ Bailey
Shitstorm	David Luz
Show of Hands	Shila Jones
Small Town	Lachlan Marks, Ella Roby
Smut	Becky Bradshaw
Spin Cycle	Taylor Freedman
Splinters	Chadwick Harman
Sunder	Levi Hawkinson
Tall Tales	Alex Wilson
Ten Thousand Islands	Peter Short
Texican Springtime	Pamela Garcia Rooney
The 5th	Kathleen Cromie
The Argyle	Chris Squadrito
The Ark	Camille Righi
The Bard in Time	Christopher Lastrapes
The Biggest Little	Craig Page
The Bridge to Pagan Bay: Lovin' Hurts	Alva Moore
The Bullpen	David Vienna
The Center	Tyler Dean Kempf
The Color Wars	Christopher De Paola
The Dark of Night	Denise Meyers
The Desert	Scott Thomas
The Disappearance	Jess Harris-DiStefano
The Down Ticket	Michael Pollock
The Exchange	Marcus Goodwin
The First Fleet	Thomas Winward
The Fleet	Stephen Barber
The Four Queens	Sydney Dire
The Golden Cage	Jade Raybin
The Greylock Ghosts	Will Zech & Alex Cope
The Hall Monitor	Chris Caleo
The Home	Byron Tokarz
The Hunt	James Janowsky & Ari David
The Indian Line	Lori Rowton
The King of Booger County	R J Hanna
The Life - Another Day in The Life	George Perez
The Life Ahead	Rita Toledo
The Lost Wendy	Dominique Hinman
The Magdalene Ranch	Charlotte Winters
The Monster from his Dream	Andy Cause
The NN	Milo Carballo
The Outer Rim	J. Scott Worthington
The Ravine	Andrea Bailey
The Red Dog Order	Jamaal X
The Reset	Kate Traill Price
The Retreat	John Kirk
The Right	Andrea Bailey
The Summerland	Michele Dagle
The Village	Jenny Taylor-Whitehorn
The Wall	Dominic Carver, Anne-Marie Caluwaert
Thieves Among Us	Jordan Gouveia
Thoroughly Mormon Millie	Paul Ditty
Those People	Andrew Zeoli
Timber	Peter Malone Elliott
Time Will Tell 101: Big Fish Theory	Daniel Marsden
To Be Seen	Susan Hippen
Tongs Of Chinatown	Nadia Madden
Turning Tables	Shaneez Tyndall
Twenty Centavos	Dorothy Lyman
V.I.R.A.L.	Guy Noland
Vectors	Grant Fraggalosch
We Will Rise	Hayley Fox
Weirdos	Phillip Rogers
Wellwick	Kaycee Hughes
Witch Hunt	Trevor Christie
Yellow	Zara Meerza