2018 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on October 22, 2018
Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition, culled from over 1,000 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this classic genre and to have received a slate of such compelling screenplays.
This year's jury is comprised of agents and managers from Verve Talent Agency, Management 360 and Brillstein Entertainment Partners as well as a development executive from Fox Searchlight. 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!
Here are the quarterfinalists:
| #1 at the Apocalypse Box Office | Margaret MacDonald |
| #Blessed | Shawn Gerrard |
| 65 South | Thomas Southernland |
| A Burnished Rose | Christine Keleny |
| A Fair Go | John Marco |
| A Fox in Zion | Michael Aakre |
| A Guy Named Heart | Miguel Lopez |
| A Kind of Marriage | Charles Leipart |
| A Life | Zachary Levine |
| A Little Too Broken | Brad Vance |
| A Man's Castle | Joseph Whaley |
| A Modern Times Romance | Sam Kench |
| A Ulysses Robinson Mystery | Katie Rogin |
| A Wedding in Sorrento | Karen Lothan |
| Accidental Patriot | JD Deane |
| Accidental Stalker | Courtney DeStefano |
| After the Under Ground | Amisha Patel |
| Ain't No Cowboys in Nashville | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Albatross Gardens | Lee Whitten |
| Ali | Hasan Malik |
| America's Children | Michael Martorano |
| American Venus | Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds |
| An End to the Means | Martha Dunne |
| An Unbalanced Line | Kristy Leigh Lussier |
| Angel of Rain | Lawrence Kennon |
| Area 51 | Camryn Kanew |
| Baba | Luis Soto & Alex Benitez |
| Behind the Badge | John Martins III |
| Beyond the Gap | Zach Waggoner |
| Beyond the Walls | Joanna Alpern |
| Black Actress | Andrew Wainner |
| Blackbird in Brooklyn | Alexandra Faria |
| Blackwell | Tracey Bradley |
| Blood and Ivory | Robert Porter |
| Blue Cadillac. White Girl. | Lamarr Gray |
| Blue Earth | Aaron Brophy |
| Blue Moon Lullaby | Katie Streicher |
| Bobby Kyle | Richard Mallett |
| Born Again | Sam Daniel |
| Breaking Codes | Gregory Bell |
| Broken Wings | Robbert Marcel Snijders |
| Bunker | Travis Ross |
| Caracas | John Kennedy |
| Cataumet | Matthew Percival |
| Catfish And The Crabs | Sojean Peou |
| Challenger | Skye Emerson |
| Char and the Chameleon | Zach Waggoner |
| Chasing Daylight | Robert Remy |
| Children of an Elder God | Kevin Brettauer |
| City of Trees | Christian Lybrook |
| Clouds Over Dahlias | Adam Moss |
| Cold Brook | Matthew R. Lacombe |
| Comic Book Kings | Amanda Keener |
| Cottontail | David Paterson |
| Cowboys and Indians | Jan Martinet |
| Crimson Plain | Stephen James |
| Crystal Youth | Ahmed Fara |
| Dark Falls | Dane Elcar |
| Dark-Skinned Girls | Edith Cheng |
| Dead on the Inside | Selene Raffel |
| Dear Dad | Candy Fox |
| Death Games | Bobby Gorman |
| Desdemona | Nelson Downend |
| Driftwood | Carl MacLaren |
| DTF | Daniel Gentile |
| Eastern Son | Y.S. Kim |
| Electronic Sounds from a Still Heart | Finley Mulligan |
| Enriquillo | Ron Basso |
| Eternal | Amber Brown |
| Eulogy to a Heavyweight | Benjamin Farry |
| Ex-Husband in the Drunk | Carla Kanthak & Carl Zittrer |
| Exiled | Matthew Miller |
| Farishta | Patricia McArdle |
| Fast Fashion | David Mandell |
| Father Mucker | Peter Gazdag |
| Fellini Nights (Everybody Comes to Chief's) | Peter Nohrnberg |
| Fidelis | Kate Dooley |
| Firefall | Deirdre Brenner |
| Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
| Flora | Don Shroll |
| Forever, My Heart | Pricilla Kumar |
| Franny | Travis Weedon |
| Freedom to Love | Jeza Belle |
| Fried Eggs | Michele Cannon |
| Gatewood | Peter Malone Elliott |
| Glaslyn | SJ Davis |
| God is a Bullet | Sharon Moore |
| Goodbye, My Brother | Jason Grote |
| Granite | Darrin Reed |
| Hanna Glade | Leslie Witter |
| Heart | Daniel Lauder |
| Hemorrhage | Kathryne Isabelle Easton |
| Homeward Brother | Alec Garcia |
| Hope is Not a Black and White Rainbow | Harold Brown |
| House of David | Melissa Alfredson |
| In Between The River | Tishia Malone |
| In the Backseat | Rozemarijn in 't Veld |
| In the Dark of Day | Patrick Allebaugh & Brad Baranzano |
| Incarnations | Albert M. Chan |
| Incidental Contact | Becca Mann |
| Increments | David Thyssen |
| Indian Billy Ice | Jerry Ice |
| Innocent One | Christopher Buonopane |
| Inside Passage | Bryan Fierro |
| Interwoven | Cari Daly |
| Into Silence | C. Andrew Hall |
| Into the West | Matthew Dixon |
| Jacob's Ghost | Laura Wiand |
| Jaya | Puja Maewal |
| Jesumina | Claudia Kindl |
| Jocko | Derek Vitatoe |
| Junction | Emma Schranz |
| Kaffarah | Tom Rossi |
| Keeping Granny Alive | Tim Neavin |
| Kendal | Gabrielle Blackwood |
| King James | Collin Blair |
| Kyd's Game | Marc Rosenberg |
| Last of the Burly Girls | John Pisano-Thomsen |
| Last Place To Go | Michael Beck |
| Last to Fall | Jim Maceda |
| Layla | Mohammed Mamdouh |
| Leave Justin Alone | Dan Grassi Jr. |
| Liberation | James Marzo |
| Life After Life | Andres Rivera |
| Little Brother | Sheridan O'Donnell |
| Little Choice | Tanya Gust |
| Lost At Sea | Austin Kase |
| Love is Free Will | Amanda Samaroo |
| Magnus Rex | Timothy Burnham |
| Make Time | Jon Medici |
| Man in a Cage | kevin Bachar |
| Marshland | Zachary Huskins |
| Marty Zipco's Ballroom | Scott Jacobs |
| Marvin | Jason Gilmore |
| Mary Astor's Diary | Jennifer Cheyne |
| Meeting the Monster | Daryl Busby |
| Men | Rebecca Dreyfus |
| Mendel High | Damone Bester |
| Midnight at the Movies | Jen Gutierrez |
| Midnight Monster | Jonathan Wymer |
| Mile Queens | Alan Loubeau, Rachel Loubeau & Greg Huge |
| Minyan | Adam Ansell |
| Miss | Judith Rose |
| Mojo | Joanne Bellew |
| Ms. Greer | Alica Gwinner |
| Murmansk Run | John MacRitchie |
| My Grandfather's Ashes | Enkelejd Lluca |
| My Summer In Zelienople | Brian Kazmarck |
| NancyGirl | David McMahon |
| Nature of the Beast | Aaron Kozak |
| Need | Cote Bellard |
| Neon Sundown | Russ Lindway |
| No Forgiving | Martina Sternfeld |
| Noir 101 | Katie Rogin |
| Numbers | Christos Kardana |
| Oath | Paul Frank |
| Of Flesh and Blood | Jeremy Frazier |
| Oglethorpe's Knife | Dennis Sellers |
| Oh Mists, My Mists | Guilherme Viegas |
| On Time | Xavier Burgin |
| Operation Babylift | John McCarney |
| Other People's Houses | Jac Cron |
| Out Cold | Tracy Scarlato |
| Outside the Wire | Reinhard Cate |
| Over the Mountain | Michelle Holt |
| Pale Horse | Landon McDonald |
| Paper Thieves | Michael Mirabella |
| Paris, Midwest | Tristan Peach |
| Pathfinders | Martin Arnest |
| Pieces, or A West Hollywood Club Called Rage | Chris Phillips |
| Plato's Cave | Andrew Proctor |
| Pop | Y.S. Kim |
| Pot Committed | Jordan Sandfer |
| Private Thompson's Secret War | Gina DeAngelis |
| QB | Lee Kunz |
| Rainbows and Silver Buckles: The Adventures of Joe And Muz | Stuart Schulz |
| Reality Fiction | Eric Weber |
| Rebel Girls | Carol Faw |
| Rebuilding Laura | Jennifer D'Angelo Swain |
| Red Dog Down | Randall Blair |
| Red Willow | John Murphy |
| Release | Stacie Shellner |
| Remember the Ladies | Gina Mulligan |
| Reverend Went Walking | Gary Allison |
| Reverse Discrimination | Raynard Goodman |
| Riis | Daniel Schwabauer |
| Riv er | Terry Crist |
| Rock, Pretty Mama | Katie Streicher |
| Rosetown | David Hudacek |
| Ruth | Hosea Chanchez & Cru Ennis |
| S.H.A.R.P. | Josh Auter |
| Salome Magic | Jackie Bateman |
| Saluda | Tim Westland & Rod Thompson |
| Saving Washington | Jane Hampton Cook |
| Schrödinger's Andy | Jim Griffin |
| Seer | Steven Briggs |
| Seraphim | Frederic Redfern |
| Shadowman | Mike Miller |
| Shells | Justin Horowitz |
| Shepherding Cassie | Michael Oborn |
| Shine a Light | Jordan Blilie |
| Shoot the Sun | Jeffrey Doiron |
| Shrimp | Nicole Jones |
| Shunned | kevin Bachar |
| Small Town Girl | Rosemary Zibart |
| Small Town Remedies | R.W. Perkins |
| Smarter, Not Harder | Ryan Allsop |
| Snog | Paul Holbrook |
| Sod Man | Cam Patterson |
| Something Round | Nikhail Asnani |
| Sons of My Mother | Amanda Prentiss |
| Spiders Way | Thomas Fucci |
| Spirals | Manu Rewal |
| Splinter Hold | Kristen Roche |
| Staring into Infinity | Nicholas Carleton |
| Stealing Right From Wrong | Dane McCauley |
| Stone | Tom Foran |
| Successful Steps for Coping with Cancer | Olivia Bono |
| Sunbeam | Frederick Jones |
| Sunshine | Christina Catucci |
| Surrender | Bill Mesce |
| Syrup | Alexa Green |
| Tainted | Brad Turner |
| Temperance Mountain | Sean Oliver |
| That One Friend | Lawrance Cuellar |
| That's Life | Ryan Parker |
| The Big C | Scott Kesselring |
| The Body Under the Bed | Priscilla Smith |
| The Boy with the Pink Triangle | Amy Reedy |
| The Broken Heartland | Tyler Kennedy |
| The Carrington Affair | Devon Lehr |
| The Coffin Club | Joel Santner |
| The Countess | Irina Rodriguez |
| The Courageous Life of Jeremy Braxton | Emily Maroutian |
| The Cuban Rose | Dave Caldwell |
| The Deed | Brady Morell |
| The Dreamer of Dreams | David Kushner & Joshua Bullock |
| The Driven | Richard Mallett |
| The Empty Sea | David Poulshock |
| The Escape | Geoffrey Sanborn |
| The Fourth Psalm | John Martins III |
| The Girl in the Navy Blue Sweater | Laura Carrione |
| The Great Illusion | Oscar Cardenas |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | A. S. Thompson |
| The Guardian Monk | Paul H. Magid |
| The Hammer | Jason Hunter |
| The Hanging Man | Esther Geller |
| The Head Hunter | Sophie Dawson |
| The House That Jack Built | Jill Russell |
| The In-Between | Eric Perchuk & Carly Okyle-Perchuk |
| The Indifference League | Richard Scarsbrook |
| The Innocent and the Vicious | Dominique Genest & Nick Kreiss |
| The Italian Lover | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Kids | David Hudacek |
| The Last Set at the Vanguard | Diana Cobbold |
| The Man by the River | Bryan Kelsey |
| The Memory Bank | Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper |
| The Myth of Mathew | Rodrigo Moreno |
| The Nature of It | Kate Kelsen |
| The Night Walk | Nikhail Asnani |
| The Ones Who Know | Barbara Johns |
| The Orchard | Christopher Haber |
| The Other Way Out | Christopher O'Bryant |
| The People With The Guns | Hale Garrison |
| The Perpetrator | Jessica Franz |
| The Plains | Alexia Bourne-Maison |
| The Portent | Esther Agulian Carr |
| The Report with Bob Hirschel | Josh Kaukl |
| The Road to You | Kelli Barton & Amy Molina |
| The Rose | Tavyn Gentry |
| The Russian Diary | Dylan Brann |
| The Season | Richard Mallett |
| The Secret of Isabel | Regiane Margonar Reis |
| The Split | Nicola Green |
| The Summer of Rake | Zlatina Pacheva |
| The Superb Lyrebird and Other Creatures | Wendy Young |
| The Sweet Science | Alec McKay |
| The Three Lives Of Angel Fleming | William LiPera |
| The Thursday Whaler | Damien Mulvany |
| The Tobacco Monster | Craig Michael Beck |
| The Tuna Goddess | Paul Schuyler & Jade Schuyler |
| The Tunnel | Peter Koslik |
| The Twelfth of Never | Anne Carmack |
| The Ugliest Word | Annie Margis |
| The Understudy | Jenna St. John |
| The Weight of Lies | Amanda Samaroo |
| The Weight of Planes | Debra Farea |
| The Wood Man | Kevin Sheridan |
| This Shining Piece of Earth | Kevin Coulton |
| Thoughts and Prayers | Matthew Hoch |
| Three Heavens | Andrew Wankier |
| Three Months in Your Hometown | Gregory Noel |
| To Bless & To Be Blessed | Boris Michalik |
| To the Stars and Back | Hugh Schulze |
| Torch | Jason McBeth |
| Toy | Brian Hernandez |
| True Conviction | James Gulian |
| Tucumcari | Kristin Goodman |
| Tussle | Aaron Yarber |
| Under a Broken Moon | James Nguyen |
| Under Foreign Skies | James Geltz |
| United We Fall | Matthew Dixon |
| Unsound | Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro |
| Venomous | Rachel Linehan |
| Waiting Games | Jeffrey Field |
| Warbrave | Andres Rivera |
| Wasps | Scott Turner |
| West Point Wives | Ann Buchanan |
| Western Approaches | Andrew Judge |
| What We Leave Behind | Osagie Jesuorobo |
| When A Woman Walks In | Art Nadler |
| Whyoming | Kelvin C. Bias |
| Widow's Grove | Ivan Kotevski |
| Wild World | Anne Carmack |
| Will Be the Strength | Robb Hanson |
| Winter Jasmine | Jennifer Cooney |
| Without | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Word Over Word | Tonia Davidson |
| Writing With The Mob | Joshua Louis |
| Yonder | Tony Gonzalez |
| Zharkov's Masterpiece | Elizabeth Samaroo |
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