Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Competition Finalists
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the finalists 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 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 top 50 finalists:
| A Beautiful Day | J. Logan Alexander |
| A Graduation | Peier Shen |
| Affirmation | Greg Willybiro |
| Arriving At Manuel | Fil Medina |
| Ashes | Edith Rodriguez |
| Blood on the Run | Michael Flannelly |
| Borrowed Time | Geoff Murillo |
| Bull and Bear: A Love Story | David Healy |
| Chualar | Ann Marie Pace |
| Cold Water | Jay Perry & Shaun Perry |
| Dawn | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Dearest Dolly Darling | Beckley Vincent |
| Do It For Her | Luke Janisko |
| Dunked | John Bickerstaff |
| Haniya | Nancy Vogl |
| He Was Unarmed | Bryce Marrero |
| Ilsa | William Patton |
| Inside Roderick Kayne | Louis Alvarez |
| James | Adam Jones |
| Juana Pelos | Maria Mealla |
| Kid Midnight | Mychal Sargent |
| Leila's Gift | Mithra Alavi & Zein Khleif |
| Life is a Drag | Kyle de Villafane |
| Lunchbox | Anne Hu |
| Metamorphose | Simon Deeley |
| Missed Connections | Zach Griffin |
| Moving Day | Howard Harband |
| Overdue | Shaun Radecki |
| Possum | Lyndal Simpson |
| Residue | Matt Thomas & Braden LuBell |
| Return to Sender | Blake Simon |
| SHILO'S WAR | Nick Denbeigh |
| Skinface Gary | Daniel Giachetti |
| Sold | Logan Palmer |
| Taipei Suicide Story | Kevin Wang |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Crossing | Tom Levesque |
| The Deal | Mitch Olson |
| The Killing Room Floor | Kyle Andrews |
| The Last Book Shop | Michael Crame |
| The Little Astronaut | Brody McKinnon |
| The Other Side | Snigdha Kapoor |
| The Railway Ghost | Adam Lucas |
| The Red Mirror | Steve Rooney |
| The Telling | Jacob Combs |
| Thieves | Anthony Brenneman |
| Tony and Annette | Daisy Eagan |
| Welcome to the Homeland | Royce Wilmot |
| You | Janine Gilbert |
| You Are My Fish And I Will Keep You Alive | Emily Frederick |
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