2020 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 6, 2020
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 3,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| A BOXED LIFE | FRANK Mendicino |
| A Bridge Between Us | Gina Hackett |
| A Citizen | Jason Christou, Tanya Farley |
| A Devil Will Fall | Gavin Fields |
| A Domestic | Debbie Simmons |
| A HARD DAY'S HEIST | Nick Boocock |
| A Little More | Michael Pedley |
| A Love For Cranberries | Tim Northburg |
| A Need to Kill | Mark Pettit, AJ Jones |
| A White and Savage Land | Alex Rivers |
| Accidental Superhero | Mithra Alavi |
| Ajeeta the Invincible | Terry Lynam |
| AKASHI-あかし- | Mayumi Yoshida |
| Alassio | Linda Pace Alexander |
| Albatross Gardens | Lee Whitten |
| Almost Heaven | Alex Kramer |
| American Awesome | Michael Gerbino |
| American Dreams | Steven Lundgren |
| American Eagle | Cressandra Thibodeaux |
| American Fallout | Harry Kakatsakis |
| American Ghostwriters | Prashant Nashi |
| Amerikaorean | Suzanna Lee |
| AMNIYAT | ROSSA MCPHILLIPS |
| An Angel Whispers (Feature Screenplay) | Jeremy Storey |
| An End to the Means | Martha Dunne |
| And How She- | Bat-Sheva Guez |
| Arranged | Mithra Alavi |
| Artemisia | Natalia Alyukova |
| ASK THE DARK | Henry Turner |
| At The Gathering Place | Jamey Sadler |
| August Jig | Abraham El-Raheb |
| AURORA | Joseph Lee |
| B.B. | Amanda Verwey |
| Back-Alley | Young Eun Kim |
| Backbone | Claire Peate |
| Bad Influence | Kevin Walls |
| Bad Intel | Kerrod Williams |
| BAD SEEDS | DEIVID ROJAS |
| Bandwidth Episode 1 | Daniel Madison |
| Battle at the Oasis | Dominic Hart |
| Bearing Witness | Windsor Racine |
| Beautiful Surfaces | Drew Robinson |
| Betrand The Terrible | Karen Farmer |
| Big, Scary Animals | Andrew Gilchrist |
| Birdsong | Jennifer Dunn |
| Black Wolf | Jonathan Steinfield |
| Blackstone Jack and the Island of the Warshadows | Michael Hahn |
| Blackwells | David Blue |
| Blood Libel | Jenn Jeffers |
| Blood Moon | Sara Hallowell |
| Bloodlines | Virginia Hendry, Amanda Ellis |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Blue Sky Red | Nelson Downend |
| Blue Watch | Andrew Judge |
| Boba Rules | Jennifer Kim |
| Body Parts | Ryan Simantel |
| Bon Voyage! | Ricky Qi |
| BOOMERS | Candice Caccioppi, Staci Caccioppi |
| Bridged | Henry Quilici |
| Broad Daylight | Douglas Cushnie |
| Brocade | Rahima Rice |
| Brooklyn Pansy | Jason Forbach |
| Brujería | Daniel Pfeffer |
| Burn It Down | Jordan Canning |
| Call Out | Nir Shelter |
| Calls To Virginia | Jason Ruscio |
| Catalyst | Michael Soll |
| Charlotte | Linda Manning |
| Chó | Jon Shaivitz |
| CHOKEPOINT | Tamra Teig |
| Circle of Illumination | Trisha DiFazio |
| Citizen | sol friedman |
| City of Souls | Chris Pittas |
| City of Stars | Naomi Vieira |
| CLOUT | Shane Murphy |
| Clowntown | Javier Tessari |
| Cold-Rock County | Elliot Seidel |
| Come in Threes | John-Paul Panelli |
| Confessions of a Las Vegas Phone Girl | Aimee Adell Johnson |
| Congenital | Anthony Ciccotelli |
| Control Room | Julien Deladriere |
| County Blues | Simon Oulouhojian |
| Couple Undone | Kelvin Peakin |
| Coyotes' Ranch | Sylvie Hurat |
| Criterion | Seth Yergin |
| Danika Brewster | Heather Spiegel |
| Danny Henson | A.J. Ciccotelli |
| Dave | Lauren Devora |
| Daylight | Michael Morra |
| Dead Rock Star | Forrest Naylor |
| Dealbreaker | Laura Raybourn |
| Dear Marie | Alex Forstenhausler |
| Decompression | Michael Deigh |
| Dick Whirlpool: Ultimate Patriot | Connor Donahue |
| Disconnected | Kelvin Peakin |
| Disorderly | Martin Ingle |
| DisPlaceMent | Jessica Makinson |
| Domestic Partners | Kyra Brown |
| Dominion | reed kowit |
| Double Vision | Heather Andelsman |
| Dream Crawler | Kimberly Davis |
| Drudge | Matthew Harris |
| Ecco, Idaho | Christian Lybrook |
| Eight Dates & Nights | Tom Hartig |
| Elemental | Aleksandra Milanova |
| Ella & Marilyn | Jon Davis |
| Ellie's Tale | Rhonda R Deskins |
| Emma's Tear | Trissa Charles |
| EP. 1 - AKMORE.Pilot | Jeff Cotton |
| Event Point | DIRK PATTON |
| Eyes On | Ryan Underwood |
| Faceless | René Rodriguez |
| Fangs | Malcolm Badewitz |
| Faster Than Horses | Chris Mul, Michael Mul |
| February | Heather Spiegel |
| Felt | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Fester | Robbie Lemieux |
| FLYOVER | Heather Faris |
| Follow Me | Nate O'Mahoney |
| For Little Girls Who Are Afraid To Speak | Ano Okera |
| Foreign Bodies | Josh Bernhard |
| Forgotten | Alex Sosin |
| Found Alive | Kaitlin Reilly |
| Four Square Miles | Keith M. Preston |
| Frances | SHAWNA CHANCE |
| FRANKENSTEIN UNLEASHED | Neal Wiser |
| Frenemy | Ariel Sobel |
| From Harm | Jessica G. Hill Cabrera-Contaoi |
| FUN, FUN, FUN | Brian Hershkowitz |
| Gamer Girl | Hunter Karas |
| Ganga Mata | Karim Khan |
| Ghosts of the Grasslands | Connor Gaffey |
| Girls On the Run | Lukas Hassel |
| Go West! | Lindsay Jaeger |
| Gold Diggers | Daniel Hogan |
| Gold-e-Locks | Tom Hartig |
| Good Hair | Katie Nathan, Daniel Landroche |
| Goth Phase (formerly Oh My Goth) | Kat Corbett |
| Gravida | Matthew Weiner |
| Grim | Joseph Servodio |
| Guns and Grace | Odin Ozdil |
| HAVEN | Hannah McCarthy |
| HEARTWOOD | Jeff Bryce |
| HEATHENS | josh kaukl |
| Heir Apparent | Yellowlees Douglas |
| HELLBOUND HEROES | Rick “Boomer” Murrhee |
| Heveas | Daniel Young Kim |
| Hidden Blood | Seda Anbarci |
| Holler | Lee Whitten |
| HOME IS WHERE | Terra Joy |
| Hotel Cavalier | Nathan Edwards, Matthew Van Sliger |
| How the Yellow Mellow | Eljohn Macaranas |
| I WANT MY OWN NAME BACK Martha Gellhorn's Story | Florence Buchanan |
| In Chrysalis: Ovum | Nelson Downend |
| In the Meanwhile... | Michael Elder |
| In The Quiet Dark | Sean Vaccaro |
| In Translation | Thom Ang |
| Inheritance | Johnathan Brugal |
| Innocent Blood | Pepper Reed |
| Inventory | Lee Whitten |
| INVISIBLE (The Story of the USS Manta Ray) | Mitch Nyberg |
| Izzat | Reeyaz Habib |
| JOCKO | Derek Vitatoe |
| Judy The Executioner | Jason Kemp, Chris Thoman |
| Kin | Joelle Fleurantin |
| La Loba | Connor Martin |
| Lady Lazarus | Sheridan Watson |
| LAIKA | Jackie Perez |
| Land's End | Jonny King |
| Lemmings | Chris Bolton |
| Letting Go | Estes Tarver |
| Lifeblood | Tommar Wilson |
| Lil' Push | Nicholas Manuel Pino |
| Little Bob | Robert Troccolo |
| Looking for Janis | Kate Kelsen |
| LOVE UNCONTROLLED | Fabio Bondi |
| Lovely Shadows | Gillian Abrams |
| Lucas County | Everett Moss |
| Lucky 13 | Denise Meyers |
| Madam Caraveil's Caravan of Curiosities | Amanda Keener |
| Madame High Heels: The Origin Story | Justice Whitaker |
| MAIDEN WARRIOR | Aarthi Ramanathan |
| Man in the Arena | Keon Hedayati |
| Marked | Catherine Bonny |
| Masquerade | Cassidy Cummings |
| MASS AVE | Omar Kamara, Jalmer Caceres |
| Merrily, Nebraska | Daniel Stephens, Mark Booker |
| Milton Hershey - The Sweet Life | Michael Runion |
| Minor Modifications | Shia Labeouf |
| Miscreations | Alan Loubeau, Mike Meyerson |
| Misery, Missouri | Lee Whitten |
| MissFortune | Juliana Barcia |
| Motherload | Layla Soileau |
| Moving Stones | Kimberly Collins |
| Mr Wellington | Diane Young |
| Muckrakers | John Bickerstaff |
| My Best Friend's Love Story | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| My Mom Is My Pimp | Jeremy Sender, Lilliana Winkworth |
| My Mom's a Supervillain | Hannah Silverman |
| NEAR DEATH | CARLO CARERE, ERIN CARERE |
| Nevermore | Francesco Blasonato, Myles Blasonato |
| Night Passing | Scott Button |
| NO GOOD DEED: THE OLIVER SIPPLE STORY (LGBTQ ANTHOLOGY SERIES) | Heather Farlinger |
| No More Goodbyes | rebekah Ganiere |
| Not Cool For School | David Ngo |
| Nothing Ever Dies | Neil Kirby |
| Oaksterdum | Nemanja Colovic, Aleksandar Filimonovic |
| Officer X | Michael Joiner |
| Offsides | Lauren Jacques |
| Oh Mists, My Mists | Guilherme Viegas |
| Origin Story | Justin Van Voorhis |
| Otherworld | Dawn Prato |
| Paint It Black | Alex Smoot |
| Paradise Strikes | Kyler Boudreau |
| Patience | Allison Azuara |
| Personal Space | Michele O'Brien |
| Pick Up Sidney | Natalie Higdon |
| Pond 108 | Teju Prasad |
| Praying for Hannah | Ruth Trippitt |
| Pretty Hateful | Tiffany Gibson |
| Pride of Hollywood | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Project Terrace | Tony Merkurii, Jade Widger |
| Punchbag | Steven Snell |
| Queen of Hogs | Bradley Martocello |
| Quick Sticks | Ted Nusbaum |
| R*DSK*NS | Joey Clift |
| Raising Hell | Steve Bennett |
| Raw Earth | Vladimir Ruzich |
| REAL LIFE | Alana Rosenbloom |
| Red 'Til You're Dead | Brecht Horn |
| Red Rover | Kevin Hickey |
| Rednecks | Christopher Byram |
| Repair The Carrows | Johnny Cruz |
| RET-CON | Paul Sheridan |
| Ride | Josh Plasse, Jake Allyn |
| Ripple | Sina Sultani, Katherine Chambers |
| Road to Bernal | Guillermo Lozano Martínez |
| Running on Hopeless | Tyler Derench |
| RUST | Justin Moran |
| Ruth Red | Angela Iranna Perkins |
| SAR - ALASKA | SARAH SPRAGUE |
| Sarah Webster's Children | Gregory Noel |
| SARCOPHAGUS | John Montgomery |
| SCRAP | Vivian Kerr |
| Scrap Metal Hearts | jane eakin |
| Seattle | George Westberg |
| Sedger Mor | Catherine Wright |
| SHAKEN | Cynthia MacAdam |
| SHITHEADS | Douglas Williams |
| Shunned | Kevin Bachar |
| SIBLINGS | Cathy Randall |
| Sister Stones | Nicole Dawson |
| SLAYER | Alan Loubeau |
| Soldier Spy | Andrew Judge |
| Sons of Havana | Max Kaplow |
| Soul Bound | Jeannie Stivers |
| Space Suckers | Derick Otto, Rebecca Arnold |
| Squad | Tevin Knight |
| STATION NUMBER SIX | Tim Sasaki |
| Stay! | Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing |
| Sticky Rice | Manivone Nonthaveth |
| STOCKHOLM SYNDROME | Erin Donovan |
| Storyville | Matthew Evans |
| Street Legal | Timothy Lundgren |
| Sunflower | Maria Edible |
| Sweet Relief | Danielle Kugler |
| Tansen | Aarthi Ramanathan |
| Taured | Christian Maxwell |
| Terra | michael curran |
| That'll Be the Day | leo evans |
| The 100th | Stephen George |
| The Alexandrian | Mark Davis |
| The Amazons | Kim Thomson |
| The Appeal | Yoav Potash |
| The Art of Willful Detachment | Virginia Franken |
| The Buried Sky | Keith Hartman |
| The Christmas Break | Chee Ho |
| The Club | Darin Olson |
| The Dancer | Anokh Singh Dhillon |
| The Dark Nowhere | Clay Fusco |
| The Department of Truth | Andrew Bolduc |
| The Devil, a Rebel, a Fool | Clay Fusco |
| The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
| The Domovoi | Lisa Jay |
| The Eleventh Commandment | Lillian Wang |
| The Exhibitant | Tim Northburg |
| The Farmer | Nick Fathergill |
| The Farrell Girl | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Fight Inside | Merridith Allen |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| The Game of Their Lives | Brian Mulligan |
| The Ghosts of Le Griffon | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Girl and The Ghost | Rebecca Benzell |
| The Gospel According to Keith | Clark Kokich |
| The Guitar | Michael Sapp |
| The Hive | Kristine Scruggs |
| THE JAZZ KING | Kwame Granderson, Jonathan Flicker |
| THE KILLER B's | Dave Chan |
| The Lake | Adam Seidel |
| The Man with the Black Umbrella | Jake S. Weisman |
| The Mentor | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Midnight Tour | Chris Bolton |
| The Minus Touch | Johnny Cannizzaro |
| The Myth of the Given | Jeremy Foley, Sara O'Reilly |
| The New Men | Steven Snell |
| THE NORTHERN CLUB | Billie Bates |
| The Paisley Witch Trial - Pilot | Julia Campanelli |
| The Perg | Luke Penn |
| The Pinch | James Raynor |
| The Princess Rules | Brenda LePage |
| THE QUEEN OF MAGIC | Roxanne Beck |
| The Relative | Kevin Bachar |
| The Road To and From | Julian Brantley, Alexander Storm |
| The Runaways | Joana Ferreira |
| The Sensualist - A Woman in Black | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Seventh Suicide | Jade Widger, Tony Merkurii |
| The Shadow King | Chris Bolton |
| The Shrink | Adi Blotman |
| The Simple Invention of Him | Kurtis Standley |
| The Six-Stringed Seductions of Fernando Flamenco | Joseph Velazquez |
| The Sky We Look Upon | Ali Imran Zaidi |
| The Slimies | Jeff Delaney |
| The Summer Everything Went | Sam Macneil |
| The Tiger's Daughter | Jason Lee |
| The Waiting Wives | Katherine Bowman |
| The Wall | Alex Perez |
| The White Mouse: Witch | Heather Farlinger |
| THE WILD HEART OF ALASKA | Mary Albanese |
| The Witch | Roberto Gerardo Niño de Rivera |
| THE WOODHULL | Lynda Brendish |
| Things Kept Hidden | Christopher J. O'Bryant |
| Tiffany Lipstick | Casey O'Brien |
| TILLIE | David Chester, Blake Pinter |
| Time Express | Xiaoyu Duan |
| Tinian | Jon Davis |
| To The Sun And Back | Farzin Farzam |
| Torn and Frayed | Matt Gaertner |
| Trail Mix | sara becker |
| Tree Troopers | Justin Bregman |
| Triggered | Natalee Branham |
| Tug | Alex De Leon, Matthew Thornton |
| Tulip | Tyler Dowey |
| TUMBLERS | Michael J. McDonough, David Nathan Schwarrtz |
| Tundra Kill | Kevin Bachar |
| Turf Wars | Kelsey Ross |
| UNDER THE STARRY NIGHT | Rocky Jo |
| Union Made | Rikki Bleiweiss |
| Unnatural Selection | Sally Ashby |
| Valentine | Debra Sharkey |
| VECTOR | Jacob Wehrman |
| Visceral Fatherland | LELE PARK |
| Visitors | Bennett Weinschenk |
| Wall of Sleep | Stephanie Stanley |
| Walt | Robert Troccolo |
| Waterfield Hall | Andreas Vatiliotou |
| We The Immortals | Luke Penn |
| Weekend At Gina's | Christian DeAngelis |
| Welcome To The World | Lyndal Simpson |
| WHATEVER AFTER | Josh Cootner, Jamie Fox |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| Where Blood Lies | Byron Qiao |
| WHERE HE BURIED ME | Joe Bousquin |
| WHITE TUNA | Peter Marshall Smith, Stanton Hill |
| White Wedding | Lina Khan |
| WHO PUT BELLA IN THE WYCH ELM | Lauren Conn |
| Who Was Cary Grant? | Jon Davis |
| Widow | Ryan Hartley |
| Wilder | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte, Dan Gallun |
| Witness Marks | Preston Geer |
| WOMEN AT WAR | Maria Luna |
| Wonder And Lightning | Diane Lansing |
| WONDERS | ALEXANDRA ASHWORTH |
| Worlds Apart | Julie Kohner, Cynthia Riddle |
| Wounded Creatures | Brit Taylor |
| Writing Dracula | Thomas Morris |
| Writing Theo | Miranda Larson |
| Year of the Horse | Brandon Carbaugh |
| Yellow Belles | Jordan Neely, Lucy Ciaffa |
| Yves | Laura Piety |
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