2019 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on May 15, 2019

Listed below are the semifinalists for the screenplay and concept categories of the fifth annual ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition, selected from nearly 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. The jury this year includes a development executive from 20th Century Fox, and managers from Anonymous Content, Grandview, and Mosaic.

The winner of the concept category will receive an exclusive developmental mentoring prize package with Jonathan Wu, formerly of 20th Century Fox.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the semifinalists:

Screenplay Category

1	Yonatan Berkovits
*#throwbackthursday*	Tyrel Lougheed
*Alien In My Pocket*	Joe Borriello
*Amnesia*	Brian Keslin
*Axium Effect*	Ari Dassa
*Bitterroot*	Matthew Kaler
*Blind Eye*	Ericka Dahm
*Class Warfare*	Barry Ambrose & Juan Castro
*Conflict*	Chris Webb
*Crabs in a Bucket*	Tal Almog
*Darryn The Bold and The Sword of Boldness*	Justin Best
*Dawnbringer*	Derick Tsai
*Descendant*	Chris Webb
*Doran*	Peter Gazdag
*Dragonfly*	Martin Hoerchner
*Dream Warriors and The King in Yellow*	D.C. Lozar
*Eat Me!*	Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds
*Eden Chip*	Scott Cramer
*Electric Gardens*	Amy Blackwelder & Bill Daly
*Escape Pod*	Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye
*Fireflies*	Amanda Keener
*Golems Inc*	Max Gee
*Heartworm*	Miriam Louise Arens
*Heroes for Hire: Discount Prices*	Christine Feldman
*I Don't Belong Here*	Ramon Antonio Olivo, Jr.
*I.R.L. In Real Life*	Justin Shelton
*Ink*	Ted Wilkes
*Jellyfish*	Brian Lipko
*Kinetic*	Kylie Eaton
*Levels*	Adam Stern
*Linoleum*	Colin West
*Make Time*	Jon Medici
*Mavelynn Strivener & The Elemental Bracelets*	Desmond Hew
*Mother Inside*	Jesmond Francis
*Next Stop*	Ash Mallory
*Out of the Coffin*	Stephen O'Kane
*Outsiders*	Dan Benamor
*Pod*	Nabil Chowdhary
*Pop Goes The World*	Joe Borriello
*Punchbag*	Steven Snell
*Quincy*	Hunter Karas
*Reconnect*	Camryn Hernandez
*Return to Providence*	Willem Grobler
*Rio*	Miranda Fennimore
*Rise*	Edward Coffey
*Roland and Belinda*	Ralph Archibald
*Rusalka*	Jonathan W.C. Mills
*Rust*	Guy Pooles
*Seed of Knowledge*	Eleonora Mignoli
*Sinbad and the Mountain that Eats Men*	Dylan Dockery
*Sleepy Darcy's Y2K Journey to Love*	Lifu Chen & Davaughn Moody
*Sole Survivors*	Don Welch
*Steam*	Nye Green
*Steam Powered*	Kendrick Wallace
*Symbiotic*	Alexander Voltz
*Synth Star*	Amanda Dreschler & Michael Livingston
*T-Minus*	Travis Cox
*The Bijou Chronicles*	Demetra Pittman
*The Choice Machine*	Adam Bain & Erik Martinez
*The Devil's Symphony*	Scott Hamilton
*The Eremite*	Mark Sposato
*The Flip*	Robert Vaughn
*The Hive*	Margaret MacDonald
*The Humming*	Lee Whitten
*The Keeper*	Daniel Judson
*The Lady in the Lake*	Bryan Kelsey
*The Machine*	Tom Harrison
*The Mothman*	Jackson Murray
*The Singularity War*	John McDermott
*The Steven of Planet Earth*	David Sajadi
*The Sun Ghost*	Arun Croll
*The Tiger's Daughter*	Jason Lee
*The Understudy*	Jenna St. John
*Those Who Pass Through*	Max Kronick & Eliza Janssen
*Tingo*	Sage Musk
*Venery*	Dan Benamor
*Viclain*	Alexis Schwartz
*Walk With Me Into Winter*	Sophia Khan

Concept Category:

*12 Dead In Yolkona*	Elliot Seidel
*Crash Course*	Jim Gourley
*Crater City, New Mexico*	Michael Ruiz-Unger
*Dead-Day*	Ben Bushell
*Hurriya Trials*	Takudzwa Tarenyika
*In Suspension*	Amara Mesnik
*Natural Causes*	Martin Blinder
*Nirvana*	Grant Harvey & Ijaaz Noohu
*Peace Is The Mission*	Takudzwa Tarenyika
*The Anthill*	Jessica Sinyard
*The Boxcar Girls*	Caitlin Scherer
*The Iron Gate*	Elliot Seidel