2020 ScreenCraft Animation Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 26, 2020
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Animation Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1300 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:
| A Bedtime Story | Robert Walcott |
| A Fool's Quest | Ross Ostroff |
| A Girl With Heirloom Knives | Ren Hsieh |
| A Market Tale | A.J. Williams |
| Achilles The Kid vs. The Gods | Jillian Todesca |
| Adam and Eve's Tale | Caleb Barge |
| Adaria and the Village of Souls | Claire Bosnich |
| Adeptest | Alasdair Thornton |
| Alanine World | Pamela Winfrey |
| Alba and The Underworld | Makena Metz & Thomas Blakeley |
| Albert | Joshua Young |
| All Night Deli | Yohanna Baez |
| Animal ePals | Renate Seldon & Liberty Forrest |
| Animal Uprising Pilot Episode | R. Christian Maxfield |
| Animanda Pilot | Nicholas Faiella-Phillips |
| Antelope Girl: On the Edge of Distinction | Jefferson Parson |
| ANTI-CHRIST(A) | Phillip Rogers |
| Antipop | James R. Bell III |
| Ants in My Pants | Diane Valeri |
| Apollo Star | Eric Montgomery |
| Aquila | Adetokumboh M'Cormack & Matt Feit |
| Arrrrr-ange County Buccaneers | Scott Peterman & Cat Davis |
| Arthur & Sputmonkey | Justin Patten |
| Ashmodiel, or How to be a Better Demon | Jason Williams |
| Bad Dog | John Graney |
| Balloons | James Stanfield |
| Balthazar & Snirt | Jim McCullough |
| Bears In Human Suits | Justin Geldzahler |
| Bee Line to Heaven | Christopher Robbins |
| Beef Meat The Musical | Jeremy Briggs & Brent Pope |
| Before The Apple | Jeanette Lim & Marva Whitaker |
| Big Shirt | Shaun Radecki |
| Binary Star | Hannah Kornberg & Teo Acosta |
| Birds of a Feather | Chuck McClelland |
| Bitter Nude | Michel Tetchi |
| Blackmore Museum | Jack Talbot |
| Bochica | Jose Luna |
| Boomer Island | Brandon Klaus & Zack Stevens |
| Brock Wilbur: Adventure Pig | Lukas Ridge |
| Bubble | Alex McGhee |
| Buddy | Aaron Murray |
| Bull and Bear - A Love Story | David Healy |
| Buyers' Remorse | Natalia Grayfer |
| Caged | Tim Rosenow |
| Caramella | Joe Gressis |
| Catastrophic | Robert Rentie |
| Celestial | Mal August |
| Celestial Coconut Cafe | Amihan Krystal |
| Chief Among You | Noah Hughey |
| Children of Iron - Ep. 1 The Pilot | Tyler & Jordan Peterson |
| Chosen | R.J. Lane |
| Christmas Inc | Richard Marshall & Nora Dunn |
| Christopher and Classroom 12 | Steve Holinsworth |
| CHRONOPOLOUS | Jay D. Waxman |
| Civil Warlords | Joe Kourieh |
| Claus | Barry Ambrose & Juan Castro |
| Claus Encounter | Carla Kanthak |
| Climb | Jerry Robbins |
| Club ET | Marc & Sunny Ellis |
| Copper Ridge | Rebecca Ghusn |
| Coriander: The Lost Elephant | Jordan Sandfer |
| Crabs in a Bucket | Tal Almog |
| Cracked | Kristine Namkung |
| Crash Course | Jim Gourley |
| Crow | Jon Acosta |
| Curios | Davis Alianiello |
| Curtis & The Fist of Ase | Gavin Howard |
| Damsel on a Quest | Ryan Manns & Jocelyn Manns |
| Damsels | Becca Pecaut |
| Dear Discrimination | Lee Jennings |
| Demons in DC | Ryan Manns & Jocelyn Manns |
| Descend Dance | Georgios Gyftopoulos |
| Destined | Seewai Hui & Grace Albers Smith |
| DMZ | Andrea Mihailescu |
| Dragonfly | Julia Morizawa |
| Draumnjörun | Jennifer Spencer |
| Dream Boy | Amy Reedy Asbjørnsen |
| Dreamcatcher | Shaun Radecki |
| Eekia | Lea Pascal |
| Elf Racer | Tom Mickel |
| Elyon | Manoel Da Silva Neto |
| Emma Hart: Personal Demon Hunter | Jason Porath |
| Enchanted Isle | Rodrigo Carvalhedo |
| EX-LIFE | Kevin Walsh & Brian Biancardi |
| Experience Points | Nicholas Leitzke |
| Faeries Can't Lie | MacKinnon Wessel |
| Fairy Ilia | Katie Nohr |
| Fancy Rat | Tanmaya Shekhar |
| Faodail | Kelsey Smith |
| Farweather S01E01 - "The Trail of Trials" | Jon Beauchemin |
| Filo Farnsworth Saves the World with his Eyes Closed | Ryan Higgins |
| Firehouse Dogs | Phil Singleton |
| FLOP N RAGE | Jimmy Prosser & Rohan Shankar |
| Fly! | Dave Chan |
| Follow The Squirrel | Josh Allouche |
| Foxed | James Stewart |
| Froward Niche | Darrel Drinkard |
| Galacticamp | Andrew Grant |
| Ghoul's Babysitter | Chau Nguyen |
| Gig Economy | Lucy Caborn |
| Glycol Disappears | Joyce Kline |
| Going Live | Ben DeHart |
| Gotham Ghouls | Franck Benayoun |
| Grasping Time | Shamari Jefferson |
| Great White | Andrew Beguin |
| Greg the Puddle | Shaun Radecki |
| Gristle | Heidi Hornbacher |
| Guardian Peacemaker | Eugene Patterson III |
| Halcyon | Allen Wu |
| Hana Zhang and the Worst Destiny Ever | Stephanie Komure & Kirk Damato |
| Hench | Charles Rutter |
| High Hopes | Bernadette Martin |
| Hiroshi's Last Race | Michael Danon |
| Holy Moly and the Angels | Trevor Alpert |
| I Secretly Live With A Cat Named Harris | Louis Michael & Buddy Caine |
| I See You | Arcadia Conrad |
| I'm a Prisoner in an Alien Zoo | Adam Kaiser |
| In or Out | Nicky Denovan |
| Inclusion | Poe Luck |
| It's All For You | Austin Curreri |
| Jack's Bad Hare Day | Jarvis Hough, Robert Dodrill |
| Jade and The Legend of The Lost Emperor | Mary Bronaugh |
| Jeepney | Kenneth Francisco |
| Jokuru | Yan-Kay Lowe |
| Jolly's Christmas | Ken Robb |
| Journey to the Witches Castle | Thomas Polanski |
| Jude and Aria around the World | Barbara Lettieri & Daniel Shertz |
| Junk Island | Matt Tegtmeier & Robert Warzecha |
| Just A Fly | Stephen Bodossian |
| Kenny And His Older Brother Solve Mysteries | Duncan Lewis |
| Kid Corps | Antonio Arrendol |
| Kingdom Ke-Lai-Eson | Catherine Palmer |
| Klaus | Benjamin Long |
| Koi | Doua Moua |
| Kosmos: Defender of the Galaxy | Chase Hinton |
| Kyle Keeper & The Shadows: Petals' Road | William Angel |
| La Chupacabra | Adrian Ochoa & Toby Cochran |
| Lamborghini | Victoria Lu |
| League of Wannabe Superheroes | Keith Newton |
| Light Rain | Adam Mengesha |
| Lightbulb | Julia Ortenzi |
| Limbo | Donovan Lenten |
| Little Miss Rylee-Belle | Suzanne Varney |
| Livin' The Afterlife | Ryan Johnston |
| Lonely Planet | Karl Mather |
| Lord Ockley & the Alien | Stan Evans |
| Losing Arthur | Paul A. Mendelson |
| Lottie | Passion Jefferson |
| Luba | Jon Wierenga |
| Lumino | Floyd Rock |
| Maxi | Alison Benson |
| Mermaid of Neverland | Janalyn Steele |
| Misery Motel | Celeste Courtemanche |
| Mixed Bag: The Pilot | Justice Whitaker |
| Moist | Cristen Manion |
| Mokabi Hunter - Pilot | Charlotte Zielinski |
| Monika | Courtney Bowen |
| Monster House | Fox Kier |
| Mr. Jenkins' Mystery House | Tracy Nicoletti |
| Mr. Rose | Kari Mote |
| Mumtaz | Ward Kamel |
| My Science Teacher is a Monster | Randall C Willis |
| My Son The Man | Christopher Romano |
| My Sunny Kind of Life | Helen Kwok |
| Naengmyeon | Katharine Rhee |
| Naffard and the Infinate Doorways | Matthew Pfeffer |
| Nano-Kat | Lori Hoeck |
| Nest | Darren Ryding |
| New Vintage | Elle Croxford |
| Ninhondo | Kenneth Fultz Jr. |
| Nova's World | Ruya Karakaya |
| O'Malley's Critter Control | Michael J. McDonough & David Nathan Schwartz |
| Offspring | Hannah Silverman |
| Oh Monica | Rosette Laursen |
| Oliver And The Firefly | Brandon Steiner |
| Omegas | Joseph (Cairo) Frazier (N'ftali) |
| Once Upon Again | Michael Grimm |
| One Foot In | Henry Johnson & Nora Sagal |
| One For All | Brielle Jackson |
| One of a Kind | Kendall Myers |
| Orbital Lanes | Ryan Seymour |
| Orlando | Courtland Sutton |
| Oscar & The Wish Thief | Loreta Blair |
| Pedro & Miso | Anthony Mendez |
| Pirate Boy | Landry Lié |
| Pirate Queen | Sarah-Kate Fenelon |
| Poppy's Heroes of History | Chloe Lenihan |
| Pretending Eric | Matt Seroski |
| Princess UP! | Tina Field Howe, Carolyn Meland |
| Puffle-Lump | Daniel Madore |
| Pyramid Scheme | Jeff Chasin |
| Raising Cats and Dogs | Natalie Hunter |
| Re-Viled | Michael Tuxhorn |
| RED PANDA TALES: Battle of Trinity Flower | Elle Croxford |
| Rest in Peace | Samuel Spitale |
| Rise | Lindz Amer |
| Roachmates | Matthew Jacobson |
| Royally Flushed | Reem Edan |
| Rush | Elizabeth Culotta |
| Sandy the Sandman | Hamish Mcleod |
| Sanjay and The Shadow | Sam Downey |
| Search | Lori Lance |
| Sengoku: Journey of Outsiders | Rumi Oyama & Joseph Pham |
| Seymour's Flowers | Jordan Hill |
| Shade | Nick Inglis |
| Shattered Skies | Tom Levesque |
| Shift | Angela Sanchez |
| Side Tracked | Matt Harbert |
| Sketch of Love | Tedjo Imardjoko |
| Skip Foxwell | Michael Esparza |
| Smokes and Bandit | Tonia Kempler |
| So Emotional | Renee Pope Green |
| Socks | David McPete |
| Soulmates | Devin Toohey |
| Space Cadets | Michael Cinelli & Stuart Gregory |
| Spruce Up the Holidays | Adam McDaniel |
| Squished | Shaun Radecki |
| Stargazer | Jacob Snyder |
| Stolen Hearts | Richard Chi |
| Swim | Brandon Henry |
| Tales of A Runaway Princess: Straight Out of Nebula | Lola Hickey & Jennifer Hickey |
| TALU | Erykah Newson |
| Tangled Yarns | Jack Getschman & Max Beauchamp |
| Tanner Rufus Bones | Samantha Volk |
| Temple of the Tiki | Andrew Joustra |
| Tess and Ed's Delicious Adventures! | Nadav Kauffman |
| The Adventures of Benny and Freddy- The Adventure Begins | Arleen Coyle |
| The Bastard Prince | Stephen Notley |
| The Big Bad Wolf on Trial | Diana Ralph |
| The Cat of Versailles | Hilary Van Hoose |
| The Colony | Drina Connors Kay |
| The Creatures of Camp Fremorf | Alex Klein |
| The Destined | Michael Ben-Iftah |
| The Devil and Britney | Bailey Norton |
| The Dragon Key | Lyn Pinezich |
| The Edge of the World | Chris Coats |
| The Family Tradition | Peter Rivera & Justise Ortiz |
| The Fetcher, Fletcher Barnes | Tim Northburg |
| The Fight Before Christmas | Jan Thomas |
| The Flop | Matthew Spach |
| The Freshmen | Adam Karlson & Joe Hayes |
| The Future Not Promised | Amber Beard |
| The Galacticals: Let The Games Begin | Richard Delgado |
| The Goblin Queen | Anna Storm |
| The Golden Bokken | Larry Thomas |
| The Grand Tammy | Tanmaya Shekhar & Grace Kim |
| The Great Robot Train Robbery of 2077 | Jared Sharam |
| The Growth | Samantha Clay |
| The Heart of Sri Katava | Cairo Smith |
| The Incredible Rocket-Girl | Peter Louis Epstein |
| The Itch | Jeremy Bradford |
| The Kingdom of Clouds | Fernando Racy Haberfeld |
| The Last Christmas Tree | Paul Arrowsmith |
| The Last Delivery | Thomas Carmody |
| The Little Mermaid | Chiara Cassaghi |
| The Little Tiny Superstars | Niki Lambropoulos |
| The Littlest Giant | Queen Norris |
| The Lone Kensei | Louis Critelli |
| The Macabre Man | Gabriel Perez |
| The Magic Horse | Victor Spiegel |
| The Masterpiece | Karen Franz |
| The Melamorphosis | Daniel Choi |
| The Mystery Knight | Abril Carpio Marion |
| The Mystics | Monica Dollive |
| The Naughty List | Chip Riggs |
| The Never Ending Orange Grove | Ryan Harris |
| The Nightmare Department | Henry Johnson |
| The Ninth Life of Cat-Man | Alec Moore |
| The Object of My Confections | Andrew Kaberline |
| The Odd Ms. Bodkins & The Big Crunch | Jeffrey Hilton & David Casci |
| The Odyssey of the Golden Elephant | Victorio Korjhan |
| The Other Knight | Joe Ranoia |
| The Pied Piper's Daughter | Matthew Sheehan |
| The Prince of Wolves | Craig Bowden |
| The Pulse | Blair Nishkian |
| The Queen Pharaoh | Rebekah Stevens |
| The Red Mirror | Steve Rooney |
| The Sandbox | Andre Lolan |
| The Sanders | Jennifer Dodge |
| The Shape of Happiness | Danny Lopez |
| The Skeleton Flower | Laki Karavias |
| The Slimies | Jeff Delaney |
| The Spacer 6 | Alexandria Sinclair & Sara Detrik |
| The Spirit Wilds--Pilot | JJ Locke |
| The Tales of Magic Patt | Tali Chais |
| The Tiger's Daughter | Jason Lee |
| The Wizard's Staff | Ryan Dunn |
| The Worm Moon | Chelsea Turner |
| The Worry Bug | Candice Currie |
| Theo's Grand Adventure | Makena Metz |
| Thrill Ride | Sheila Wenz |
| Tiger Tale | Karl Mather |
| Tigress | Martin Keady |
| Time Janitors | Ryan Manns & Jocelyn Manns |
| To Sea | Luc Alper-Leroux |
| Trailer Park Samurai | Luke Baker, Jesse Dean |
| Trash | Steve Mitchell |
| Undead Justice: "Night of El Zombi" | Adam Gallardo |
| Unimpressed | Dae Kim |
| War's End | Andrea Mihailescu |
| We Make Lemonade "The New Kid - Pilot Script" | Kevin Park |
| Weirdos | Paul Hollingsworth |
| What I.F.? | Dan Martin |
| What's Up | Khalid Abdulqaadir |
| Wild Magic | Thomas Blakeley |
| Wolf At Your Door | Heather McAlister |
| WonderHawk | Joel Dovev |
| Woot! | Janice Lipsky |
| Y'All of Fame | Christopher Cayen-Cyr |
| You'll Pay For This | Nancy Safavi |
| Zac Trevor: Live! | Collin Schuster |
| Zak Zheng: Mastermind of Evil | Jon Truei |
| Zero F*cks | Brittany Ashley |
| Zoo Freaks | Steven Vivell |
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