2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft - updated on August 16, 2022

Listed below are the finalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition. These exceptional pilots were selected from roughly 2,500 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.

This year's jury is comprised of creative executives, coordinators and development heads at HBO, AMC and Amazon Studios, as well as a manager at 3 Arts Entertainment and a story consultant for NBC's Writers on the Verge.

Check out the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition announcement of our grand prize winners and our Twitter and Facebook pages. Winners in three categories (Drama, Comedy and Web Series) will receive cash and introduction to industry professionals. These writers are being considered for the top prize in each category. The prizes and categories are as follows:And 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. Without further ado, here are the finalists across three categories:

One Hour Series

*Bounty*	Gary Howell
*Chalk*	Nick Jones
*Children of Free*	Kaycee Hughes
*Concrete Jungle*	David Kushner
*Dark Horizons*	Carlo Carere & Erin Carere
*Flowerfield*	Mukilan Thangamani
*Gunpowder*	Kevin Sheridan
*In Chrysalis*	Nelson Downend
*N A T I V E*	Kevin Walls
*Otherworld*	Dawn Prato
*R.P.M.*	Jeffrey Jackson
*Rock Show*	Liam Semple
*Storyville*	Mariah Gretchen Robinson
*The Deep End*	Mark Lyons & Alex Harris
*The Line*	Jeff Bower
*The Mogul*	Maxine Milan
*The Queen Of Caspary*	Laura Solow
*Tucked*	Robert Axelrod
*Untitled Lindsay Farris Project*	Lindsay Farris
*Wellwick*	Kaycee Hughes
*Yellow*	Zara Meerza

Half Hour Series

*Post-Nuclear Family*	John Niemiec
*Druid of the Danu*	John Paul Murphy, Chris Bramante
*How to Grieve*	Chelsea Gray
*It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Gang Thrives without Dennis"*	Richard Turgeon
*Nearly Super Nova*	Annie Nishida
*The King is Dead*	Gabriel Cruz
*The Secret Life of Inbred Mutants*	Sean Collins-Smith