2020 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 6, 2020
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| .mars | Harvey Auzorst, Morris Stuttard |
| "Remembering Earth" With Frank Royale | Ryan Coleman |
| 13 Months | Alexander Adell |
| 2032 | Manuel Roman |
| 4 A.M. | Ryan Maples, Brian Lerner |
| A Grim Fate | Gerardo Lara |
| A Hero's Journey | Terrence Portier |
| A New Dark Age | Joshua Henaman |
| A Search For Hope | Storm Ashwood |
| A Tale Told in Ten | Alexander Krause |
| A.D. - AFTER DEATH | COLTER FREEMAN |
| Abandon Earth | Jesse Mineo |
| Abduction | John Thibault |
| Abduction Ground Zero - Part One: Awakening | Eduardo Basile |
| Across All Galaxies | Andrew Hopps |
| Adonis | Ben Tedesco |
| Aesthetika Pilot | Jack Fuhrmann |
| Affect | Joshua Tywater |
| Alanna Grimm | Kari Mote, Alana Grimaldo |
| Alienated | JD Voyek |
| Alienboy - Ep. 101 | Francisco Alvarez |
| All American Girl | Goldie Jones |
| Almost Airtight | Jeff Debing |
| American Legend | Daniel Scherr |
| Among Us | Nye Green |
| An Absolute Mind | Lauren Lola |
| An Angel's Cry | James Bingham |
| ANDIES | Mehul Desai |
| ANIMA | Kiko Morah |
| Apes to Gods - Pilot: Evolve Bionics | Nicolas Pinzon |
| ASCENSION | Jared Iversen |
| Aurora | Savannah Stoehr |
| Auroras | BOIAN EVSTATIEV |
| Autonomous Hummingbird | Timothy Burnham |
| Æthernaut | Adrian Innaimo |
| B.E.A.S.T. 2045 | Kermit E. Heartsong |
| B.I.T. | Logan Rees |
| Back | Jasper Chen |
| BADHORN USA | Justin Best |
| Battle for Aurora | Bryan Kelsey |
| Becca Finn and the Runaway Robot | Brad Highland |
| Beckwitch | Liz Prugh |
| Bee Song | Teresa Konechne |
| Before the Dawn Episode 1 - The Art of Science | Mark Levesque |
| Benjamin Franklin and the Galaxones | Rodgers Wilson |
| Between the Raindrops | Jori Richman |
| Between Two Worlds | Aimee Dansereau |
| BEYOND A SHADOW | Matthew Hall |
| Beyond Repair | Chris Stevens, Hunter Daniels |
| Big Silver | Sarah Melick |
| Black Blade: The Hunted | Donald Ziegfeld |
| Black Dust | Hunter Davis |
| Bleeding Edge | Jess Gupta |
| Bliss | Kelli Kuschman |
| BLOOD & SILVER | ROB SERRA, LINDA OMARI |
| Blue Afro | Johnny Higgins |
| BUGZ | Ken Robb |
| Caldeea | Casey Gillespie |
| Can You See Me | Yen - Hwa Huang |
| Capeless Shade | James Sweeney |
| Capsule | Scott Masterson |
| Cassidy Jones | Elise Stokes |
| Century Row | Todd Zing, Irish Rivera |
| CHANGE-ABLE | Cindi Knapton |
| Chiburi | Neil Biondich |
| Children of Mars | Paul Gregory |
| Chromata | David M. de León, Phoenix Alexander |
| Chronicles of a Zombie - TV Pilot - Episode 1 - DED | DAMION WILLIS |
| CINEMAGIC | Jason Fraley |
| City of Abilene | Ashley Farley |
| Class Warfare | Barry Ambrose, Juan Castro |
| Climate Pirates | Eve Gailey |
| Closets | Kenyatta Kinloch |
| CODE NAME: PINOCCHIO | J.R. Jarrod |
| Cold-Rock County | Elliot Seidel |
| Colony_01 | Morgan Lariah |
| Combat Celestial: Ember Crown | Safiya Azaunce |
| Common Descent | Andrew Ferguson |
| Conan the Conqueror | Brett DeHoag |
| Conspiracy of Ravens | Teresa Barber |
| Contact (Working Title) | Dan J. Evans |
| CONTACT m.E17 | sandra Bar |
| Control Room | Julien Deladriere |
| Cornucopia | John Pachl |
| Cover Crop | Jeffrey Howe |
| Coyote | Ben Warner |
| CRASH | MARIE JONES |
| Crimson | Shaun Gold |
| Curses LLC | Thomas Wood |
| D.J.J.D. | Taylor Hopkins |
| Daedalus | Allie Gallerani |
| Dark Space rewrite. | Alex Polk |
| DARKNESS, DARKNESS | Dane McCauley |
| Darksides | Joe Bellavia |
| Dawn | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Day 3286 | Angelo Calarco, Massimo Pica |
| Decompression | Michael Deigh |
| Defect | Jax Smith |
| Demon City | Michael Tracy |
| Desperado | Samy Souissi |
| Devil's Due | Connie O'Donahue, Jeremy Nielsen |
| Devil's Pitch | Todd Zing, Irish Rivera |
| Disaloud | Alessio Franko |
| Disappeared | Meredith Garcia-Painter |
| Distant Cousin | Alonzo Wilson, Al Past |
| DISTORTION | Chris Howard |
| Divitiae | Patrick Owen |
| DNA | Heather Farlinger |
| Dodecameron and the Witch of Christmas | Minos Papas, Nicolas Kouroumtzis |
| Dog of War | Edward Pereira |
| Double FF | Karl Mather |
| Dragon Flowers | Brandon Osterman |
| Dragon Rider | Michael Tracy |
| Drum | Scott Marcano |
| Dyson: 2120 | Heather Laney |
| Earthman | Benjamin Cooper |
| EAST SIDE GIRL | Max Segal |
| Eat of the Fruit | Matt Hopper |
| Ectogirls | Elena Perez |
| EDEN CHIP | scott cramer |
| El Barrio | Cassidy Harrison, Adam Prince |
| Elemental | Aleksandra Milanova |
| Elements | Dustin Drye |
| Emergent | Brian Kazmarck |
| Empty Set | Evander Lang |
| End of the World | Michael Van Luvan |
| Endless Forest | Tsonko Bumbalov |
| ENTOMBED: THE ALCHEMIST'S APPRENTICE | Mark Atkins |
| Esa | Joe Kourieh |
| Euphorium: Genesis | Cory Rowe |
| Exit the Dark | Jon Musgrave |
| Expecting | Olivia Janicek |
| Fabrications | James Tichenor |
| Façade | Ron Artis Jr. |
| Fallen Prey | Mitchell Boyce |
| Fantasy Roleplay | Dan Wallace |
| Farmland #12 | Katherine Langenfeld |
| Farside | Alain Alfaro |
| FATUM | Hannah Rebecca Carlson |
| Finn's Landing | Emma Peterson |
| Fire Makes Smoke | Cody Mason |
| Flesheaters Anonymous | Josh Bradley |
| Flying Saucers | Bryon Palmer |
| Fò Miranda | R. C. Ducantlin |
| Foreign Bodies | Josh Bernhard |
| Foreigners | Kristen Refermat |
| FREEZE-DRIED ALIEN MONSTERS | Malcolm McClintick |
| Frenik | Elise Stokes |
| Frozen Star | Erik Kowalski |
| Full F*cking Moon | Brad Helmink |
| Future Fix | Billy Reid |
| Future King | Dawn Prato |
| Gatekeepers | Virginie Bonfils-Bedos |
| Gifted | Tess Meyer |
| Girl of a Thousand Shadows | Jennifer Coryell |
| GO BACK | Mark Stuver |
| Gods of Old | Elizabeth Boston |
| Green Fire | David Esselstrom |
| Ground Omega | Dino Sardella |
| Growl | Travis Gentry |
| Half Woke | Nicholas Tan |
| Her Majesty's Wizards | Scott Peterman, Cat Davis |
| Here Come the Bastards | Brian Otting |
| Heretic | Calvin Starnes |
| How To Be A Good Citizen | Allison Kilkenny |
| HR - Human Resource | Jen Grubbs |
| Hunter, Father | Elijah Williams |
| ICE | Stéphanie Joalland |
| If Not For The Dawn | Dane St. John |
| Igbo Landing | Vernon Jordan, III |
| Improbable Truths | Jennifer Ramsey |
| In Pursuit | A M Wilson |
| Infinity Ring | Ian Asbjornsen |
| Inflorescence | Justin Paul Myler |
| INTELLIGENT DESIGN | Jackie Canino |
| It Ended When She Said Goodbye | David Hailes |
| JoinWith.Me | Mike Meier |
| Joyless | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Judith Thirteen | Sydney Freedberg |
| KALEIDER | Ryan LaSalle |
| Kane the Gunslinger | Benjamin Reeves |
| Kapu (Forbidden) | Rich Figel |
| Kill Switch | Will Bennett |
| Kindly Metal Mother | Kurtis Theorin |
| Kindness Coins | M.r. Fitzgerald |
| Kingdom | Kyujin Kim |
| Kingdoms of Men | Michael Hahn, Elisabeth Meurer |
| KITTY | Neil Biondich |
| KRONOS | Kenneth West |
| Kyojin | Chris Mul, Michael Mul |
| Last Orleans | Tom Kerevan |
| Last Womb On Earth | Nancy Safavi |
| Leave No Trace | Lexi Lieberman |
| Legend of the Phoenix | Gabriel Gonzalez |
| Leon | Jaime Silverman |
| Life After Life | The Gideon Brothers |
| Limination | Anne Hecker |
| Limited Lifetime Warranty | Anthony Maccio |
| Linoleum | Colin West |
| Live | David Sackerman |
| Long Haul | Will Welles |
| Lotus | Chris Ruppert |
| Love Bug | sean birney |
| Lucky Gods | A. L. Lee |
| M | Aaron Yarber |
| Maa | Kasia Kaczmarek |
| Maeve in the Dark | Kasia Kaczmarek, Felix Garriock |
| Magenta | Jamie DeWolf |
| Mammoths | Pat Cavanaugh |
| Manifest Destiny | Mitch Finn |
| Maralot | Chase Olivarius-McAllister |
| MAXWELL | Luke Domet |
| Mayan | Jill Gurr |
| Me and My Warlord | Edward Gines |
| Metalmorphosis | Andrew McLinden |
| Mission to Te Rangi | Joseph Ciprut |
| Mkhonto: the Kingdoms of Azania | Steven Pillemer |
| Mormons in Space | M. Landon |
| Muddy | T.J. Peters |
| Mummy Business | Angelo Campos |
| MURDER ONE | Lee Francis |
| My Dad is the Guy from Smash Mouth | Stephen Guerrieri |
| My Human Experience | Aimee Dansereau, Sarah Cooke |
| Nelta | BRUNA ORSI |
| New Alcatraz | Dylan Dockery |
| New Eden | Alexandra Overy |
| Night Of The Purple Moon | scott cramer |
| Nina | Stephen Spoth |
| No More Lies | David Keeler |
| November 31st | James Hunt |
| Novus Arcanum | Michael Maxwell, Derrick Murray |
| O2 | Douglas Rich, Shivashish Ahuja |
| Oasis 1 | Neil Healy |
| Obliteration | John Pachl |
| Obscuria | Amena Kheshtchin-Kamel |
| Observer Effect: Genie | Paul Frank |
| OCEAN EFFECT | Heather Farlinger |
| Oli/viA | Elizabeth J. Musgrave |
| One World | Vasco Saraiva |
| Otherworld | Dawn Prato |
| Our Colleagues | Annelise Ogaard |
| Our Grandparent's Deep Secret | Andrew Williams |
| Outlaws and Angels. | PAUL PENLEY |
| Outlier | Tom Batha |
| Over The Clouds | Guilherme Viegas |
| Panacea | Zak Nehaul |
| Parcels | MJ Weerts |
| Parousia | Todd Sorrell |
| Passing | Alex Schor |
| PHANTOM EFFECT | Michael Vaynberg |
| Pizza Boy Saves the World | Bret Grafton |
| Please Breathe | Aaron Whitrock |
| Plus 7 | Andy Healy |
| POCAHONTAS AND THE SHADOW WALKERS | Scott Hawthorne |
| Populous | Michael Quintero |
| Primal | Griff Jones |
| Princess Rogue | Kemmer Cope |
| Prisoners of the Present | Joel Wukelic |
| Prolepsis | Ludrik Hooi |
| Protostar: The Star-Crossed Saga | Braxton Cosby |
| Prototype | Avery Rodney |
| PROXY | Alison Lani |
| Pseudosamina | Ali Imran Zaidi |
| Punchbag | Steven Snell |
| Pwintheth | Steven Butler |
| RE:VOLT | Kellen Phillips |
| Rear View | Timothy Gunatilaka |
| Reckless Abandon | Paige Bowers |
| Recombinant - "Pilot" | Sabrina Hall |
| Refuge | Griffin Johnson |
| REMEMBER? | Gustavo Garzon |
| Remnant | Frederick Faett |
| Repression | Darin Beckstead |
| Rescue Squad | Andrew Ritter |
| RET-CON | Paul Sheridan |
| Return to Sender | Jasper Garner Gore |
| Rewinder | Arun Narayanan |
| RNWY | P.A. Lopez |
| Road To Pandemonium | Sam Dabbs, R.J. Harbour |
| Robosexual | Alden Peters |
| S.F.O.-feature | Lawrence Whitener |
| Sacred Feminine | Kathryne Isabelle Easton |
| Sanctuary | Alexandra Overy |
| Sandglass | Paige Klaniecki |
| Sargassa | Sophia Burnham |
| Savant | Johnny Gilligan |
| Savior | Eugene Mont |
| Scope City | Katherine Bowman |
| Searching for Private MacGuffin | Darren Van Blois |
| Second Skin | Thomas Douglas Mann |
| See Ya Tomorrow | B. S. Carter |
| SEED | josh kaukl |
| Sexy Teen Squad: Undercover Monster Hunters | Jon Bershad |
| Shadow King | D.C. Lozar |
| Shadow Song | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte, Dan Gallun |
| She Has No Shadow | Steve Bennett |
| Sherlee Holmes, Detective - Luna Base 1 | Joyce Walsh |
| SHITSTORM | David Luz |
| Sidekicks | Jordan Traylor |
| Sight | Victor Kwansa |
| Silent Hope | Tyler Miranda |
| simPlanet | Jorge Saralegui |
| SIREN | Michael Burnet |
| Siren | Jack Maraghy |
| SKYLIGHTS | Brian Yuran, Jean de Meuron |
| SLAYER | Alan Loubeau |
| So You Created a Wormhole | Nick Hurwitch |
| Solarium | Todd Zing, Irish Rivera |
| SOMNOPHILIA | Marc Edelstein |
| Song of the Shadows | Les Zig |
| Soul Bound | Jeannie Stivers |
| Soul Mecha | Clint Murphy |
| Space Pirates | Jeffrey Bridges, Susan Bridges |
| SPARK | Tiffany McDonald |
| Springer | Ellen Winburn |
| Starcaster | Kenda Moran |
| State of Rebellion - Pilot | Christopher Jivan |
| Station 12: Origins | Daniel Noyes |
| Strange, CA | Ben Warner |
| Substrain | Alicia Norman |
| Sunless Sea | Danny McArthur |
| Super Hoax | Brian Hogan |
| Susie the Sorceress | Scott Speakman |
| Suspended Animation | Jay Thompson |
| Terra | michael curran |
| Terror from Nowhere | Richard McEwen |
| Tess the Inventor | Jacqueline Gault, Larry Starke |
| THAW | ANGELA KABUKURU |
| The Abels | Tien Chi Fu |
| The Anklebiter | Andy Jones |
| The Azurian | Bryheim Muse |
| The Birder | Roman Rudin |
| The Black Tulip | Lâle Teoman |
| The Blade & The Butterfly | Keith Wyatt |
| The Blade and the Wing | Nicholas Leitzke |
| The Blood Of The Dragons | Mark Gee |
| The Book of Doors | Vilen Arutyunyants |
| THE BOOK OF HERMES | Todd Tavolazzi |
| The Buried Sky | Keith Hartman |
| The Carolinas | Richard Stone |
| The Casters | Tyler Burchett |
| The Cataclyst | Walter Moise |
| The Catalyst | Daniel Sheiman |
| THE CLEANSING | John Kennedy |
| The Commune | Kyle Sosa Frederick |
| The Conscription | Jennifer Milne |
| The Conspiracist | Thomas Thonson |
| The Convergence | Emily Rose Laochua |
| The Department of Wayward Souls | Cody Mauro |
| The Devil's Symphony | Scott Hamilton |
| The Dish Washer (Pilot/Episode 1: "Light Up the Sky") | Robert Husted |
| The Dragon Key | Lyn Pinezich |
| The Drop | Dustin Milligan |
| The Echo Worlds | Travis Misenti |
| The Eleventh Fleet: Red Dragon (TV Pilot) | James Hilderbrandt |
| The Eremite | Mark Sposato |
| The Eternal Reservoir | CARLO NICDAO |
| The Fifth Column | Laura Mc Leod |
| THE FIRE CAPTAIN | Marc Messenger |
| The Five-Hundred Guesses | MJ Weerts |
| The Futility of Hopelessness | Les Zig |
| The Gazer | Eleni Rivera |
| The Girl in the Forest | Simon Deeley |
| The Girl Who Could Not Die | Richard Scarsbrook |
| The Greater Good | Stephen MacNeil |
| THE HERO'S SONG | Michael Stagliano |
| The Highwayman | Dale Pitman, Glenn Benest |
| The Interdiction | Paul Frank |
| The Kingdom to Come | Jennifer Ball |
| THE KNOLL | Josh Renfree |
| The Last Blockbuster | Justin O'Neal Miller, Jeremiah Castleman |
| The Leprechaun Chronicles | Matthew Dovie |
| The Light Keeper | Marisa Nienberg |
| The Light Machine | Tim Rankin |
| The Link We Found | Syd Blue |
| The Little Mermaid | Chiara Cassaghi |
| The Long Game | Janice Manchee |
| The Loom of Thessaly | Kurt Stammberger |
| The Man In The White Room | Edgar Martinez Schulz |
| The Marksons | Ruth Johnson |
| The Mayfly | Ryan Curtin |
| The Meek | Dusty Noval |
| The Moral Animal | Dani Hogan |
| The Mortician | Miguel Lozano |
| The Mystery of the Hornet Ghost Lights | Craig Proudley, Kelly Chen |
| The New Men | Steven Snell |
| The Night Line | Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds |
| The Nossian | Jason William Lee |
| THE PARIAH | amy carlson |
| The Perg | Luke Penn |
| The Portal | Ricardo Bravo |
| The Promised Land | Oleguer Homs |
| The Prophet's Mother | Julian Coleman |
| The Realm | DC Raymond |
| The Reclaimers | Timothy Jensen |
| The Remnants | Fiona Rose Mischel |
| The Rental | Ariel Ehrlich |
| The Royal We | John Miles |
| The Seed | Felipe Silva |
| The Shadow King | Chris Bolton |
| The Skull | Kathryn Trammell |
| The Spacer 6 | Alexandria Sinclair, Sara Detrik |
| The Steven of Planet Earth | David Sajadi |
| The Telling | Nora Barry |
| The Third Power | Kate Dooley |
| The Tides of Barrada | Marsha Sultz |
| The Touch | Harry Greenberger |
| The Tower | Gerald Cole |
| THE TRAVELER | Matthew Scheffler |
| The Ultimate Game | Randy Parker |
| The Understudy | Jenna St. John |
| The unNatural Order | Becca Davis |
| The Vanishing Man | Robbie Brown |
| The Wall | Alex Perez |
| The Westchester Boys | Kevyn Richmond |
| Those Who Don't Belong | Lony Ruhmann, Liz Edwards |
| Three | Chris Hocking |
| Ticker | Drew Boyet |
| Time Cop | Caitlin Benton |
| Tin Foil Hats | Stuart Benson |
| Tira'allara | Tavyn Gentry |
| Together Apart | Christopher Sullivan |
| Tradecraft | Alix Conde |
| Transference | Mark Spera |
| Tri | Brenda LePage |
| Tribrid | Patricia Harris Seeley |
| UNCIVILIZED (Pilot) | Meg Leader |
| UNDERDARK | Paul Charisse |
| Undoing | Alex Forstenhausler, Eric Lee |
| Veldt | Madison Flannery |
| Vida | Michael Feeney |
| Wall of Sleep | Stephanie Stanley |
| War-Bots | Rich Figel |
| Water | Pamela Winfrey |
| We Are Not Alone | Trevor Clarence |
| We Shall Not Go Hungry | Harry Aspinwall |
| We The People | Christopher Rutledge |
| Welcome To Sunnyview | William Bennett |
| Wendigo | Sandrene Mathews |
| West Half Shadow | Camilo Angelo |
| What Divides Us | Chris Holt |
| What Lies Beyond? | Zachary Akerman |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| WHERE WATER TASTES LIKE BLOOD | Rémi Brandely |
| White Eye | Kelly Flynn |
| Will to Power | Chris Mul, Michael Mul |
| Without Light | Kemba Drakes |
| Woke | Johnny Gilligan |
| Wolfblood | Jaime Silverman |
| Wondergard | TJ Marine |
| WORLDS APART | Thomas Gaunt |
| Xanadu Hellfire | Justin Armao |
| You The Terrible | raymond smiling |
| ZERO | Andrew Saxsma |
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