Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on September 25, 2019
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the semifinalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Competition. With the rise in demand for high-quality short content across new platforms and devices, and the increased industry importance placed on short filmmaking worldwide, we are honoring the craft of short-form narrative screenwriting via this competition, which features a prestigious jury of industry-leading professionals.
This year's jury includes executives and programmers from the Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Short of the Week, and Shorts.TV.
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.
Without further ado, here are the semifinalists:
| A Beautiful Day | J. Logan Alexander |
| A Dream of Flight | Neil Westley |
| A Feather Within the Fog | Dave Drinkwater |
| A Graduation | Peier Shen |
| A Last Night In LA | Jameel shivji |
| A Machine For Time | John Broadhead |
| A Portrait of Fances, Enclosed | Jacob Levy |
| Adhan | Charles Vuolo |
| Adjunto | Felix Pineiro |
| Affirmation | Greg Willybiro |
| Agwajiing the Sanatorium | Michael O'Rourke |
| AlieNation | Nick Purrier & Ray Raghavan |
| Anyone Listening? | Yvonne Arnett |
| Appointed | Benjamin Stenner |
| Arboreal | Simon Deeley |
| Arriving At Manuel | Fil Medina |
| ASHES | Edith Rodriguez |
| Asking For It | Yusra Khan |
| Ava | Angelique Wilson |
| Background Check | Ellen Rodnianski |
| Bahar, Born At Night | Michael Amir Bina |
| Below The Surface | Sam Kidd |
| Blackbird | Michael Thompson |
| Blood and Ash | Kenneth Sanabria |
| Blood on the Run | Michael Flannelly |
| bOb | Alberto Chumaceiro |
| Borrowed Time | Geoff Murillo |
| Bruno | Charlotte Daniel |
| Bull and Bear: A Love Story | David Healy |
| Chef's Special | Caleb Hermann |
| Chiaroscuro | Camille Cotteverte |
| Christopher & the Bug | Vanessa Esteves |
| Chualar | Ann Marie Pace |
| Cold Water | Jay Perry & Shaun Perry |
| Complicity | Andrew Cooper |
| Crush | Jason Swanson |
| Dark Timber | Ryan Dingus |
| Dawn | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Dead Jesus | Richard Santoro |
| Dearest Dolly Darling | Beckley Vincent |
| Demons | Dianna Craig |
| DiMaggio | Taylor Zaccario |
| Do It For Her | Luke Janisko |
| Duck | Hilary Burgoon |
| Dunked | John Bickerstaff |
| Figurines | Wendy Chandra |
| Final Issue | Ricardo Carrion |
| For Little Girls Who Are Afraid To Speak | Ano Hayes IV |
| Formicarium: Or The Unrelenting Allure of Complacency | Jarrett Paperno |
| Forward | Antoine Remy |
| From Far and Wide | Jaskaran Gill |
| Ghost Ride | Eduardo Hanson de Moura |
| Girl, You Better Chill | Tracy Schumer |
| Glass State | Shaun Grimsley & Matthew Whittle |
| Greetings | Cody Rose |
| Greg the Puddle | Shaun Radecki |
| Haniya | Nancy Vogl |
| He Was Unarmed | Bryce Marrero |
| Henry | Owen Dando |
| Her Babies | Letícia Bianco |
| How Can I Help You? | Thao Nguyen |
| How To Be A Gem | Spade Robinson |
| Icarus | Christos Kardana |
| Ilsa | William Patton |
| Impersonal | Jacquelyn Li |
| In Spite of Ourselves | Sam Blumenthal |
| Initiation | Pia Cook |
| Inside Roderick Kayne | Louis Alvarez |
| It's OK. He's Friendly. | Brian Menz |
| James | Adam Jones |
| Juana Pelos | Maria Mealla |
| Judith-13 | Sydney Freedberg |
| Kade | Devin Hermanson |
| Kid Midnight | Mychal Sargent |
| Last Trip To India | Joshua Young |
| Latchkey Kids | David Deignan |
| Leila's Gift | Mithra Alavi & Zein Khleif |
| Leonard's Fourteen Lives | Molly Stark-Ragsdale |
| Letting Go | William Langan |
| Life is a Drag | Kyle de Villafane |
| Little Fish | D.L. Watson |
| Little Pistol | Gil Saint |
| Lunchbox | Anne Hu |
| Mason & Jay Save The World! | John Woosley |
| Maxwell's Supplies for the End of Days | Matthew Little |
| Meadow Valley Dollhouse Competition | Kristy Ellington |
| Metamorphose | Simon Deeley |
| Missed Connections | Zach Griffin |
| Morgue | Keith Williams |
| Moving Day | Howard Harband |
| My Sunshine | Netania Allen & Wenlai Kao |
| NATALIE | Robin Shanea Williams |
| Never the Bride | Luigi Gonzalez |
| Night Terror | jerrel lawson |
| No Future for Rock Stars | Sean Taylor |
| Now That We're Men | Celine Held & Logan George |
| Of Natural Causes | Morgan Lariah |
| Over | James Smith |
| Overdue | Shaun Radecki |
| Overseer | Federico Casal |
| Pap Sbeer | Marta Reeder |
| Paper Cranes | Emily Vere Nicoll |
| Peaches and Cream | Chloe White |
| Poemb | Daniel Tysdal |
| Possum | Lyndal Simpson |
| Precious Life | Kenry Cruz |
| Progeny | Anthony Weintraub |
| Puppet Rising | Raynor Arkenbout |
| Receiver | Cavan Campbell |
| Reself | Omer Ben Shachar |
| Residue | Matt Thomas & Braden LuBell |
| Return to Sender | Blake Simon |
| Rubber and Glue | Cat Dale |
| Saavan | Sidhant Tilokani |
| Sabina | Nicole Starrett |
| Saigon Kiss | Hong Anh Nguyen |
| Saving Daniel | Angela Iranna Perkins |
| Shilo's War | Nick Denbeigh |
| Sinner's List | Simon Sager & Liukura Mariman |
| Skinface Gary | Daniel Giachetti |
| Slow Wave. | Matthew Quaid |
| Smile | Samuel Nuñez |
| Snowbird | Patrick Curran |
| Sold | Logan Palmer |
| Springerle | Finley Mulligan |
| Survivors | Dan Sullivan |
| Taipei Suicide Story | Kevin Wang |
| Tell Tale Wank | James Everett |
| Test Drive | Brett Hauze |
| Text, Actually | Luke Ward & Elena Melener |
| The Bum | Kyle Scimone |
| The Castle Is My Plus-One | Gary Irons |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Crossing | Tom Levesque |
| The Deal | Mitch Olson |
| The Drugs Do Work | Edward Fisher |
| The First Time Traveler Ever | Jared Barnett |
| The Games Men Play | Chelsea Barns |
| The Killing Room Floor | Kyle Andrews |
| The Kitten Tree | Anthony Velgich |
| The Last Book Shop | Michael Crame |
| The Last Cigarette | Robin Hardy |
| The Lion and The Hare | Michael McCoy |
| The Little Astronaut | Brody McKinnon |
| The Nudist | Michael Joseph |
| The Nuns' Referendum | Suzy Miller |
| The Other Side | Snigdha Kapoor |
| The Plot | Melinda Maerker |
| The Poet's Daughter | Hannah Eakin |
| The Railway Ghost | Adam Lucas |
| The Red Mirror | Steve Rooney |
| The Shark that Lived in the Pool | Mark Haselden |
| The Telling | Jacob Combs |
| The Wolf's Whistle | Alexandra Nyman |
| The Woman Under The Tree | Prashant Thakker & Roberto Donoso |
| The Wood Thrush | Peter Forbes |
| The Would-Be's Are on the Anvil | John Porter |
| Thieves | Anthony Brenneman |
| Tomato Pie | Tom Flynn |
| Tony and Annette | Daisy Eagan |
| Town Business | Jack Larkin |
| Unforsaken | Jeff Guenther |
| Unorthodox | Jonas Oppenheim & Nick Turner |
| Until the Last One Falls | Gabe Berry |
| Viva Maria | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Welcome to America | Richard Geiwitz |
| Welcome to the Homeland | Royce Wilmot |
| Wendigo | Cash Robinson |
| Where the Dog is Buried | Santiago Bukovsky |
| Who Wants To Live In A World? | Pamela Perry |
| Winkies | Daniel Duranleau |
| You | Janine Gilbert |
| You Are My Fish And I Will Keep You Alive | Emily Frederick |
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