Announcing the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft - updated on September 6, 2018

We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest. This competition highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.

Our jury’s credits this year include Frost/Nixon, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Hook, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Machine Gun Preacher, Dredd, and The Brother's Grimm.

This year's contest is officially sponsored by the HartChart story-mapping software, created by ScreenCraft judge and acclaimed screenwriter James V. Hart.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! Without further ado, here are the quarterfinalists:

*A Better Place*	Katterina Powers
*A Case of Subtle Beauty*	Sandra Fox-Sohner
*A Piece Of Steak*	Graham Waldrop
*Ahwahnee: Land of The Yosemite*	Carole Nee-Ta-Kee Marie
*Alice and Dorothy*	Greg McCarron
*American Colony*	Juan Francisco de la Guardia
*American Fairytales*	Reed Murphy
*American Giants*	Michael Chandler
*American Phoenix*	Jane Hampton Cook
*An American Manner*	Matthew Cesario
*Anne Bonny*	Allison Quiller
*Armand & Desiree*	Evelyn A Petros
*Armor*	Bryant Daluz
*Beauty*	Sean Kohnen
*Belle Star*	Susan Quarles
*Benito Cereno*	Robert Dunne
*Black Magic Bayou*	Raymond Just
*Black Robes*	Paul Schultz
*Black Wall Street*	Anand Fozard-McCall
*Bloodhounds*	David Marantz
*Bone Wars*	Adam Lohman
*Candide*	Christian McDonald
*Caravaggio*	Paul Psarras & George Psarras
*Cassandra*	Phoebe Nir
*Castle Rackrent*	Mary Barrett
*Catalpa*	Michael Kalesniko
*Charles-town*	Erron Adair
*Charming*	Tom Albanese & Christopher Jones
*Commune Sense*	Marley Inksetter
*Cratchit*	Katherine Botts
*Crimson Skies: Flight of the Falcon*	Sean Wathen
*Devil's Delights*	Nickolas Shepherd & Toni Shepherd
*Dorian*	Daniel Wright
*Dracula's Domain*	Jay Woelfel
*Finding Alexandria*	Sy Huq
*Flawed*	Becky Head
*Formerly Fat Housewife*	Hilary Gish & Carolyn Getches
*Galileo*	Matthew Pancer
*Guilty*	Alan Thornburg
*He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven*	Peter Forster
*Head of the Gorgon*	Dani Di Placido
*Heloise + Abelard*	Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough
*Hood V. King*	Matt Schutt
*House Craven*	Kaycee Hughes
*Huck Finn Rebellion*	Joseph Mango
*Ice Wanderer*	Maria Hinterkoerner
*Innsmouth*	Carolyn Johnson
*Insurrection*	simon Bowler
*Jezebel*	Marina Albert
*John & Meryl - "Pilot"*	Jimmy Prosser
*Knots + Crosses*	Matthew McCraw
*Land of Tiny Trees*	Audra Gorman
*Liberty*	Chris Cartusciello
*Little Red*	John Kirk & Erik Gardner
*Lost Kids*	Molly Gerth
*Mark Twain's 'The Prince and the Pauper'*	Rikki Stinnette
*Matanzas*	Piotr Kaszuba
*Men Like Gods*	Vincent DeVito
*Musketeers: Liberation*	Andrew Judge
*Napoleon: The Age of Revolution*	Kevin Karp
*Nights of Wonder*	Carla Kanthak
*Nottingham*	Karl Archer
*Oath*	Paul Frank
*Oscar Wilde's 'Dorian Gray'*	Michael Quintana
*Our Own Particular Little Brother*	Susanne Pride Notman
*Out of the Sea*	Luke Hart-Moynihan & Chris Hart-Moynihan
*Patrick's Road*	Terry Crist
*Peter Pan Returns*	Josh Wallace
*Pink Noir*	Matt Schutt
*Powderkeg*	Denise Meyers
*Ragged Dick*	Anthony Coote
*Renfield*	Marc Morgenstern
*Rikki Tikki Tavi*	Tobe Roberts
*Roadmen: The Ridiculously True Story of the 1904 Tour de France*	Carla Miles
*Rosie the Riveter*	Zac Kish
*Ryder's Escape*	Rich Duisenberg
*Sand Creek*	Jane Paulson & Marcy Kelly
*Sarah, Soldier*	Cara Winter
*Saving America*	Michael Lederer
*SCARLET*	Keaton McGruder
*Sedger Mor*	Catherine Wright
*Serpent Queen*	Nikki Cole
*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"*	Nuri Tal
*Sir Ivanhoe*	Douglas Kissock
*Slushy: A Snowball's Chance in Hell*	Jordan Riley
*South*	J. Ernesto Dominguez
*Stitched*	D.L.C. Heslop
*Taking the Fall*	Sean Flaherty
*Tarbell's Men*	Mary Keating
*That Sister Thang*	Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen & Dale Winton
*The Argonauts: Heroes of Greece*	Scott Robert Waldvogel & Matt DeMartini
*The Bronte Girls*	Caroline Franklin
*The Bundy Tapes*	Thomas Banuelos
*The Call of Cthulhu*	Adam Baker
*The Country Wife*	Micah Delhauer
*The Dark Trail*	Mack Lewis
*The Doctor Within*	Jeffrey Swerdan
*The Fall of the House of Usher*	Ronald Ecker
*The First and Last King of America*	Richard Guimond
*The First Detective*	James Spector
*The Golem*	Daniel Flint
*The Heresy of Galileo*	Charles Valenza
*The Hollyhock Club*	Sarah James
*The Interrogation of Peter Pan*	In Hee Hong
*The Island of Doctor Moreau*	Tim Mihocik
*The Legend of the Forty Thieves*	Scott Hamilton
*The Light Princess*	Michael Cohn
*The Lost Colony*	Ashley Griggs
*The Los Wendy*	Dominique Hinman
*The Machine - "Pilot"*	Cory Greeson
*The Maharaja - "Pilot"*	Amar Rehal
*The Michigan Assassin*	Mohummad Humza Elahi
*The Most Dangerous Game*	Paul da Silva
*The Patsy*	Martin Bernard Foley
*The Pimpernel*	Douglas Kissock
*The Portent*	Esther Agulian Carr
*The Prisoner of Zenda*	Laura Miller
*The Profile of Dorian Gray*	Alexandra Timmer
*The Quarter*	Jenna St. John
*The Resurrectionists*	Travis Opgenorth
*The Sacring*	Eric LaRocca
*The Silver Screen*	J.J. Bitters
*The Star*	Jonathan Medici
*The Tallest of Tales*	Drew Wagner
*The Unholy Three*	Simon Tatum
*The Winnipeg Wolf*	Alex Petroff
*The Witch of Pungo*	J Darin Wales
*The Wolfsbane*	Mark Baltrinic
*The Yellow King*	Maceo Greenberg & Laura Picklesimer
*Theseus: King of Athens*	Matthew Russo
*Tillie*	David Chester & Blake Pinter
*Transatlantic Traffick*	Maggie Tsavaris
*Ulys*	B. E. Marvis
*Unfit (aka 4F)*	Daniel Boddicker
*Velveteen Curtain- "Rabbit Feet"*	Leigh Cantero
*Villette*	Marjory Kaptanoglu
*Walt Whitman*	Dan Sonnett
*Wayland the Smith*	Jeff Hammer
*When the World was Square*	Irwin Greenstein
*White Night:Survivors of Jonestown*	Alex Smith & Betty Stafford
*William Shakespeare's The Wiener King*	Danny Glasgow
*Wonderland*	Carolyn Johnson
*Wonderland*	Ted Wilkes
*Yellow*	Zara Meerza
*Young Aleister Crowley*	Greg Wayne
*Zenda*	Paul Mendelson & Paul Alexander