Announcing the 5th Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists
The scripts listed below comprise the semifinalists of the 5th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, representing approximately the top 10% of submissions received. This has been a remarkably competitive competition with many strong applicants. All these writers, as well as the quarterfinalists, and all who entered, deserve a warm congratulations.
The following list are the writers who remain in consideration for this Fellowship. Up to four emerging TV or film screenwriters will receive the ScreenCraft Fellowship, which includes lodging at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, round-trip travel to Los Angeles for a week of meetings, mentorship and personal introductions to major studio executives, literary agents, managers and top film and TV producers. Nearly all ScreenCraft Fellowship winners have gone on to receive offers for representation from top literary managers, and many past recipients have sold their projects to studios and been hired for open screenwriting assignments.
Stay tuned for the June 8th finalist announcement here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages.
The 6th annual ScreenCraft Fellowship will open for applications in September.
Here are this year's semifinalists, separated into two different lists (Features at the top, Television Pilots at the bottom):
Features
...Can't Die | Amy Huckabay |
No Show | Dennis Baxter |
46 Seconds To Impact | Vince Mazzara |
A Love Story | David Kushner |
A Minor Rebellion | Lorraine Devon Wilke |
A Second Chance | Manny Jimenez Sr. |
Abbey | Katherine Hill |
Alpha | Nathan Bunker |
Another Theater of War | Mark Schwiesow |
Another Woman's Story | Travis Heermann |
Apocrypha | Jason Harper |
Backlot Rebels | Cody Wonnacott |
Baggage | Ryan Elkins |
Balance | Edward Klau |
Balkanized at Sunrise | Joe Tripician |
Bandits, Bullets, and A WHOLE LOTTA BAD! | Phillip Rogers |
Behind You | Olney Atwell |
Bingo | Bar Ben-Yossef |
Black Friday | Andy Greskoviak |
Black Jack | Stephen Curran |
Blue on Blue | David Dasilma |
Broken Sinclair | Elizabeth Ashby |
Brooklyn Baby | Maria Edible |
Calendar Girl | Chris Hanratty |
Cephalopod | Dani Parker |
Chess Robbins and the Search for Courage | Ming-En Cui |
Collage | Dilia Oviedo-Luciano |
Confinement | Abigail Taylor-Sansom |
Coyote Warrior | Roberta Rovner Pieczenik |
Dark Ritual | Kevin Kneupper |
Darryn Bold and The Sword of Boldness | Justin Best |
Don't Look Back In Anger | Adam Pliskin & Stuey Pliskin |
Dream Warriors | D.C. Lozar |
DroneGames | John Kim |
Eblis | Tom Omokaro |
Edgar Shaw | Stuart Heinlein |
Escort Boot Camp | Gary Sharp |
Face the Color | Matthew Viscuse |
Fat Fatty | Edward Varga |
Fender Bender | Sara O'Reilly & Jeremy Foley |
Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
Fish | Kelly Beam |
For the Love of God | Kate Watkins |
Forty Thieves | Scott Hamilton & Peter Hamilton |
Francie & Frank | Ellen Waddell |
Free | Syd Blue |
Freedom Soldier | Armelle Lajus |
Fuck You, John | Zac Kish |
Game-Changer | Patrick Sherman |
Get It Together | Matthew Ryan |
Gold Medal Domination | Karolyn Carnie |
Gramercy Park | Toni Ann Johnson |
Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
Hello | Karla Spika |
Henchman | Andrew Wood |
Here to Stay | Ella Gabriel |
Heterophobia | Steve Miranda |
High | Tisha Robinson-Daly |
His Name | Patrick Biesemans |
I am Yusuf | Zain Sheikh |
I Blame Juliet | H. Fish |
Immaculate | Gareth Smith |
In Love & On The Run | Jimmy Grace |
In Memory of Sophie | Ruth Jones |
Insomnia! | Danielle Karagannis |
Iron Maiden | Travis Opgenorth |
Junction | Emma Schranz |
Killing Crickets | Fred T. Rossi |
Knight Watch | Aaron Daniel Jacob |
Lara And The Dead Boy | Erin Reinelt |
Last Bullet | Brock Newell |
Last Days of August | Will Malin |
Last Days of Last | João Figueiredo |
Last of the Burly Girls | John Pisano-Thomsen |
Lenore | Goldie Jones |
Liberty | Andy Judge |
Lifers | Michael Sajewski |
Lineage | Kathy Patterson |
Lois | Bridget Visser |
Lost Giant | Grace Cleere |
Love Inc. | Jordan Rawlins |
Madrigal | Chance Muehleck |
Man Wedding | Amos Posner |
Mexican/American | Michael Hahn |
Minyan | Adam Ansell |
Mountain of Knives | Kelly Yaksich |
Mr. Moon | Michael Langer |
Murder Me | David Luz |
Newton, NV | David Keffer |
No Heroes | Brian O'Donnell |
Orwell's War | L.M. Bogad |
Out Cold | Tracy Scarlato |
Outmoder | Azhur Saleem |
Paradise Strikes | Kyler Boudreau |
Passaic | Michael Klausner |
Pawn's Game | Tom Lewis |
Persist | Melissa Emery |
Pig | Georgina Love |
Plan B | Paige Gresty |
Potter's Ground | Pearse Lehane |
Privateer | Jonathan Solinsky |
QC | Bear Kosik |
Quest for the Tiger's Eye | Dylan Morgan |
Rapture | Scott Hildula |
Ravenous | Brock Newell |
Relentless | Jay Fisher |
Resistance | Caitlin McCarthy |
Ripple | Heather Faris |
Ryegrass | Taj Musco |
Sankaty Light | Caroline Osborne |
Scarlet | Keaton McGruder |
Scattering Jake | Erica Tachoir |
Sedger Mor | Catherine Wright |
Send | Mark Anderson |
SEX APPeal | Tate Elizabeth Hanyok |
Shine a Light | Jordan Blilie |
Shrimp | Nicole Jones |
Shutters down | Rick Limentani |
Six Letter Word | Lisanne Sartor |
Smothering | Christina Shaver |
Space/Time | Danny Baram |
Special Guest | Aharon Kampe |
Stan's Killing Himself | Billy Kirland |
Star Machine | William Hernandez |
Tap Out | Mike Miller |
The Albatross | Dave Paterson |
The American | Vanessa Carmichael |
The Arcadia | Logan Bush |
The Aridathia | David Kopp |
The Crying Man | Walker Hare |
The Disease | Khalil Sullins |
The Empty Sea | David Poulshock |
The Fairy King | Steven Snell |
The Fast Break | Sam Thomas |
The G.O.A.T. | Sid Grey |
The Great Pretenders | Jillian Lauren |
The Heart of a Tiger | SreyRam Kuy |
The Hiding Place | Stephen Martin |
The Hoffman Experiment | Richard Stokes |
The King of California | Cybele Knowles & Laura Owen |
The Last Fall | Cate Honzl |
The Last Priestess of Avalon | Megan Williams |
The Loneliest Whale | Brad Klipfel |
The Long Mile | Ryan Hartley |
The Magnificent Library - Ivan & The Firebird | Matthias Sundberg |
The Old Wolves Club | Charles Pieper |
The Other Confession | Georges Saad |
The Paper Route | Danny Howell |
The Return of the Santa Fe Super Chief | Douglas Folsom |
The Schlep | Annie Wood |
The Sorrow Veil | Russ Lindway |
The Speaker | Tin Gill |
The Talon and the Undersnake | Mike Carruthers |
The Thousand-Yard Stare | Peter Gazdag |
The Timely Demise of Huckleberry Finn | Illya Konstantin & Gordon Tashjian |
The Witch of Pungo | J Darin Wales |
Three Blind Mice | Kerry Dye |
Time Trip | Mark Roeder |
Too Young To Die | Daniel Albino |
Undocumented | Giovanna Cassese |
Unnatural Selection | Farooq Ahmed |
Western Approaches | Andrew Judge |
Will Be the Strength | Robb Hanson |
Will to Power | Michael Mul |
Without | Christopher O'Bryant |
Wounded Knee '73 | Richard Keehn |
Youth | Brett Marty |
Television Pilots
Dogs, Donkeys and Women | Mack Edwards |
4-F: Operation Underworld | Greg Beck |
Above Snakes | Mohammad Shirazi |
Alt Alex | Danny Baram |
American Mayhem | Daniel Sheiman |
Ammo | Daisy Martey |
Ascendancy | Randall Whitlow |
Bad Feelings | Greg Smith |
Big Stick | Joseph Perruccio & Dennis Fallon |
Bit Players | Matthew Tiemstra & Robert Tiemstra |
Blackwood: "Pilot" | Casey Jones |
Bonti Bay | Linn Markussen |
Branded | Christian Lybrook |
Brown Gringo | Nicholas Manuel Pino |
Channel Third | Jonathan Murnane |
Charm City Cheddar | Brett Melnick |
Colony 14 | Helen Truong |
Concrete Jungle | David Kushner |
Connection | Jace Lacob |
Dark Horizons | Carlo Carere |
Double Time Dames | Davia Carter |
Extraterrestrial Delinquents | Dennis Coleman |
Glory of the West | Roslind Sanders |
Grimlock | Brandon Botta & Casey Tollett Botta |
Hard Dead Nazi Dick | William Luke Schreiber & Emily Winter |
Hard is the Good | Susan Brunig |
Hellknights o' Holopaw | Noah Shalom |
Highwire | Gareth Smith |
Hoodoo | Tonia Kempler |
In Chrysalis | Nelson Downend |
Inside Oceanside | Tate Elizabeth Hanyok |
Irrelevant | Jaquie Brown |
Ivanhoe | Justin Bregman |
Jailbird | Adam Tinius |
Kids of the Black Hole | Nate O'Mahoney |
King Street | Justin Kohlas |
Kralik | Brady Walker |
Lifers Anonymous : "Pilot" | Sean Collins-Smith |
Masters & Demons | Alexandra Segel |
Morretti and Jones Publishing and Emergency Plumbing | Steven Snell |
Mount Pleasant | Cat Dale |
Mythical Happiness | Jordan Dumbroff |
No Money Down | Charlie Herrmann |
Offspring | Melanie Schiele |
Orphans | Jonathan Murnane |
Otherworld | Dawn Prato |
Parish Bay | Kevin Clark-Ryan |
Personhood | Benjamin Bode |
Phineas | Eudie Pak |
Pipe Bomb | Michael Orlando |
Radicals | Timothy Fasano |
Red Ball | Anna Bierhaus |
Red Dirt | David Sullivan |
Republic | Faith Liu |
Runaway Train | Naomi Brodkin |
Sandwiched | Christina Shaver |
Scoper | Elliot Seidel |
Shine | Jennifer Bianchi |
Shitstorm | David Luz |
Silencers | Sean Dennison |
Silicon Curve | Heidi Nyburg |
Single-Sex | Claire Bostrom |
Someone Else: episode one - Bloody Bloody Blood | Judith Clucas |
Sonnenrad | Chris Dennis |
The Bridge to Pagan Bay: "Lovin' Hurts" | Alva Moore |
The Chafe: "Pilot" | Liam Allen-McGoran |
The Descent | David Cohen |
The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
The Father Of Rochester | Peter Short & Sue Batterton |
The Golden Mean | Sarah Goodman |
The Great Gay Hope | James Berg |
The Indian Line | Lori Rowton |
The Lone Star | Ryan Little |
The Monarch Guild | Jason Ancona |
The Monkeyface Chronicles: "Pilot" | Richard Scarsbrook |
The Nation | Mark Lickona |
The Order | Jonathan Mason |
The Pahlavan | Neda Aslani |
The Program | Yada Z |
The Queen Of Caspary | Laura Solow |
Two Rivers | Amber Alexander |
Veritas | Nadia Selvaggi |
Voices: "Electric Dreams" | Steve Coats-Dennis |
Wasteland | Adam Tinius |
We Will Rise | Hayley Fox |
Welcome to the Slums | Bryan Young |
Year Without Summer | Amanda Eberhardt |
Yellow | Zara Meerza |
Yonge Street Strip | Lisa Gold |
You Got Served | Frank Trezzi & Tom Nanos |
Zero Tolerance | Nick Coviello |
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