2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on November 26, 2018

Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay, selected from over 700 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this internationally-beloved genre and to have received a slate of compelling screenplays.

This year's jury is comprised of producers and executives at Appelles Entertainment, Bad Robot, Columbia Pictures, the Donners' Company, a manager at Elevate Entertainment, and the screenwriter of Die Hard and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the semifinalists, finalists and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2019, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the quarterfinalists:

22	Kevin Moon
*A Fair Fight*	Peter Gazdag
*A Gang of Orphans*	Sam Cooke
*Accidental Patriot*	JD Deane
*Across The Aisle*	Josh Covitt
*Adrenaline Heart*	M. K. Ching
**Afckinstan***	Jim Maceda
*Agency*	August Xiayi Palmer
*Alpha*	Joseph Helak
*Amneziya*	Alexandria Burnham
*An East Wind in The West*	Ben Imperato
*An End to the Means*	Martha Dunne
*Anti-Heroes*	Daren Wagar
*Artificial*	Jonathan Dillon
*Beast of the Bastille*	Kate Murdoch
*Beyond Logic*	Bridget Bell McMahon
*Big Following*	Daniel Mercaldi
*Birchwood*	Bryan Kelsey
*Birth of a Supervillain*	Alec Gibbons
*Black Friday*	Jonathan Dillon & Stephen Colletti
*Black Goose*	Janet Hetherington
*Black Ice Below*	Peter Fraser
*Blood Count*	Anthony Crossen
*Blood On Black Leather*	Thomas Banuelos
*Blood Suckers*	Ken Lingo
*Bodies by Grace*	Pat Spivey
*Brights*	Edward Klau
*Bring The Children*	Michael Wormald
*Burrow*	Ashley Burns & Noah Martin
*Canaan*	Ben Johnson
*Children of the Storm*	Michael Hahn
*Choke Canyon*	Duane Graves & Justin Meeks
*Chopper Cowboys*	Jeff Peters
*Concrete Jungle*	Alexis Sharp
*Cumulus*	Matthew Silverman
*Date*	Christian Canterbury
*Dead Man's Switch*	Brian Kazmarck
*Deadalive*	Christian J. Hearn
*Direct Engagement*	Stephen MacNeil
*Distant Replay*	P.K. Silverson
*Distortion*	Travis Opgenorth
*DNA*	Heather Farlinger
*Donor Psych*	Dylan Ben-Israel
*Driftwood*	Joe Greer
*Dynaforce Down*	Aaron Pinchback
*Earth on Fire*	Bonnie Orr
*Ebenezer*	Duncan Ralston
*Edison's Ghosts*	Kevin Bachar
*Enemy of The Enemy*	Anniken Gjelstad
*Exchange*	Vivian Kerr
*Exo: Fallen Sky*	Leigh McKenzie
*Extranjero Supremo*	Theo Sariklis
*Ferocity*	Kevin Bachar
*Forgotten*	Alex Sosin & Rob Knoll
*Forty Winks*	Andrew Stein
*Frigid*	Andrew Mescher
*From The Depths*	Tim Westland & Rod Thompson
*Gare du Nard*	Takeo Hori
*Girl Gone Missing*	Jayson Hawley
*Godless Skies*	Joshua David Harris
*Going Psycho*	john Tsilimparis
*Grid*	Joshua Tywater
*Gridiron*	Cedric Gillis
GT	Travis Cox & Robert Williams
*Half-Life*	Debra Hershkowitz
*Hells Heaven*	Chars Bonin & Ira Livingston IV
*Hemorrhage*	Justin Fox
*Holding Hope's Hand*	James Rucker
*Honeybird*	Daniel Corrieri
*Hot for Teacher*	Andrew Mescher
*Hypefeast*	Sid Grey
*I.O.U.*	Charles Leipart
*I'm Not the One You're Looking For*	Jim Jackson
*In The Mirror*	Jella Erhard
*Indigenous*	Cru Ennis
*Ivory*	Benjamin Simon
*Jessica's Gift*	Jim Garrison
*Kidding and Killing*	Peter Gazdag
*Last Mag*	Chris Howlett
*Lethal Injection*	James Manion
*Level Up*	Hymnson Chan
*Lost Children*	Kristoffer Tabori
*Luna Ferry One*	Alec Garcia
*Lying Eyes*	Dane McCauley
*Magnitude*	Douglas MacLeod
*Marathon*	Alex Hacker & Fraiser Kansteiner
*Meltdown*	Roger Stone
*Mind Cops*	Po Lin
*Miss Nobody*	Adam Hodge
*Monster(s)*	Aidan Largey
*Motel*	Jerry J Sampson
*Mother Inside*	Jesmond Francis
*My Little Monster*	Bérangère Tosello - alias Berry Vesper
*Nature of the Beast*	Aaron Kozak
*Neon City*	Nathan Cox
*Nephilim*	David Downes
*Night of Game*	Alex Beattie
*Nine*	Les Zig
*Ninety Proof*	Nick Lentz
*No Harm Done*	Zachary Schmitt
*No Worse Enemy*	Skye Lynch
*Ocean Effect*	Heather Farlinger
*Once Upon a Crime: Motor City*	Angelo Dania
*Once Upon A Fist*	Karl Lentini
*One of Three*	Michael Doucette
*Operation Flesh*	Elsabe Pentz
*Operation Stormy Weather*	Martin Bernard Foley
*Orchid's Dawn*	Eric Jeske & Collin Watts
*Organelle*	Edward James Anderson
*Origin*	Alex Carroll
*Outside the Wire*	Valerie Brotski
*Outside the Wire*	Reinhard Cate
*Perimortem*	Yuval Bymel
*Pete Re-Pete*	Dan Martinez
*Phantom in Time*	Douglas MacLeod
*Pickett's Pride*	Tess Card
*Pig*	Paul Holbrook
*Poachers*	Adam Etheridge
*Possessions*	Stephen Polakiewicz
*Purgatorium*	Jaymes Carnathan
*Record Highs!*	Carl MacLaren
*Red Rock*	Scott Hamilton
*Retrograde*	Andrew Marshall & Alexander Julian
*River*	Terry Crist
*Roman & Jeanette*	Curtis Alcutt
*Safeguard*	Fiona Hunnisett
*Sensors*	George Wilson
*She Hard*	J Jabbour
*Skinkolobwe*	Rishabh Bhavnani
*Sinjar*	Ben Browne
*Sinkhole*	Jorge Mano
*Sinkholes*	Lila McLaughlin
*Skye Lake*	Jane Paulson & Marcy Kelly
*Skyfoxes*	Marisa Forrest
*Slaughter Grove*	Colby Kelly
*Small Town*	Gemma Addy
*state of men*	Salim Salajee
*Steelborne*	Darien Harte
*Stop Jack!*	Paul B. Allen III
*Stuck*	Rich Van Tine
*Stunt Guys*	Rich Figel
*Supercharger*	Patrick Hatten
*Supermodels!*	Colin Costello
*Supression*	CJ Knapp
*Surviving Seoul*	Donald Grail
*Taking Tomorrow*	Toni Shepherd & Nickolas Shepherd
*Telegenic*	Brooke Solich
*Terminous*	Margaret Gendreau
*The Contractor*	Casey Costello
*The Crossing*	Paul Sheridan
*The Devil, a Rebel, a Fool*	Clayton Fusco
*The Ebb*	Guy Smith
*The Extractor*	Mark Krupa
*The Federal Hotel*	Karl Mather
*The Fighting General*	Benjamin Davis
*The Fighting Girlfriend*	Alexander Vargas
*The Forever Man*	Paul Watson
*The Freshman*	Steve Duncan
*The Future*	David John Wheeler
*The Garden*	David Chang
*The Harvestmen*	Nathan Cox
*The Hunted*	Mark Flood
*The Innocent and the Vicious*	Dominique Genest & Nick Kreiss
*The Interview*	Tomm Voss
*The Iron Bridge*	Peter Gazdag
*The Iron Horseman*	James Grayford
*The Last Mile*	Christian J. Hearn
*The Legend of the Forty Thieves*	Scott Hamilton
*The Lost Khan*	Jon Rosen
*The Memory Bank*	Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper
*The Mountain*	Jonathan Miller
*The Mushroom King*	Steve Trebilcock
*The Night Witches*	Steven Prowse
*The Operator*	Huey Q. Pham & Jessica Petrucci
*The Outlier*	Keyvon Pierre
*The Pool*	Kevin Bachar
*The Power of Three*	Chantelle de Carvalho
*The Rat*	Donald Smith
*The Rescue*	Aaron Kennedy
*The Righteous Man*	Andrew Mescher
*The Rose*	Tavyn Gentry
*The Same Blood*	Petr Zavacký
*The Treasure Kings*	Kevin Bachar
*The Trial*	Ashley Hudson
*Turnabout*	Bill Hanan
*Under a Broken Moon*	James Nguyen
*United We Fall*	Matthew Dixon
*Unwelcome*	Federico Casal
*Vertical*	Eric Christopherson
*Voight Family Vacation*	Dan Cerruti
*Wasters*	David Rattray
*What Did You Do, Sweet Mary Lou?*	Dave Paterson
*What Remains*	A. Lawrence Haskins
*Wildfire!*	Dwight Adair
*Wolves of Beirut*	Kat Sparks
*Wrath of an Eagle*	Bruno Borello
*Yeti*	Cam Patterson
*You Are Not My Trigger*	Paul Ashton
*Your Blood is Ours*	Sebastien Blanchard