Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest Semifinalists
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the semifinalists of the 2019 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 American Sniper, The Post, On the Basis of Sex, The Simone Biles Story, Romeo & Juliet, 11/22/63, The Crown, and this year's Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Green Book.
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.
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! Without further ado, here are the semifinalists:
| A Piece Of Steak | Graham Waldrop |
| Aaron's Law | David Boyd |
| Abuse of Power | Gila Zalon |
| Amazing Grace | Jackie Perez |
| America First | Barbara nunberg |
| Bakersfield Mist | Stephen Sachs |
| Baron of Havana | Alex Simon |
| Black Widow Begins | Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds |
| Bully | Joshua Cohen |
| Bunny and Raffles | Eliot Routh |
| Ebenezer | Duncan Ralston |
| Father Mucker | Peter Gazdag |
| Fever | Carl Byker |
| Fire Girl | Kevin Hill |
| Goddess | Steven Peros |
| Greely's Rescue: Escape from Cape Sabine | George Cagala |
| Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
| His Name is Vincent | Kelly Luu & Kevin Luu |
| If the Shoe Fits | Diana Regolizio |
| Into Bloom | Ali Qassim |
| Ivaylo the Cabbage | Sascha Gomberg |
| Katharine to Tesla, Faithfully Yours | Natalie Paige Bentley |
| Kings Road | Jonathan Protass |
| Last to Fall | Jim Maceda |
| Ludlow | Bruce Leaf |
| Magician of Light | Carla Kanthak & Carl Zittrer |
| Master of Horror | SebastienBlanchard |
| Night Fall | Tom Waters |
| Novel Endings | Christine Bendorf |
| Palisades | Richard P. Alvarez |
| Passaic | Michael Klausner |
| Phantom | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Pola | Yvonne Potter & Lea Sellers |
| Red Hand, Black Blood | Frank Jordan |
| Richer Than a White Man | Christine Stevens DeLorenzo |
| Robert Smalls | John Harris |
| Saints and Sinners | Brit Cowan |
| Saving America | Michael Lederer |
| Secret Ellington | Trai Cartwright |
| Sedger Mor | Catherine Wright |
| Slave to Honor | Stephen Easton |
| Small Decisions | Gary Rose |
| Smalls | Dave Eisenstark |
| Snow Soldiers | William Holland |
| Soldiers & Bandits | Eduardo Soto-Falcon |
| Stagecoach Mary | Taylor Hopkins |
| Suits of Woe | Richard Minkoff |
| The Appeal | Yoav Potash |
| The Copeland Kids | Cecilia Copeland |
| The Fierce Angel of Chinatown | Jason Chan |
| The Ghost | Lindsey Gudritz |
| The Heart of a Tiger | S.R. Kuy |
| The Heroes of Hosingen | Alice Flynn |
| The Keeper | Kevin Nelson |
| The Last Templar | Rick Abercrombie |
| The Master of Storms | Demetra Pittman |
| The Most Dangerous Game | Evan James |
| The Mouth of the Wolf | Eric Berg |
| The Napoleon of Crime | Mel Evans |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Ari Krause |
| The White Mouse | Molly Gardner |
| Tillie | David Cheste & Blake Pinter |
| Two by Two | Mickey Martinez |
| Unbought and Unbossed | Travis Carr |
| W. Smith | Sophie Hexter |
| Warbrave | Andres Rivera |
| Young Arthur and the Lady of the Lake | Barry Ambrose & Christopher Stapleton |
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