2020 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on September 16, 2020
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 3,100 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:
| "Anesthesia" | Matt Fuller |
| (True) North | HF Crum |
| #Karen | Nicole Jones |
| A Little Victory | J Bird Lathon |
| A Lo Mío | Ester Song Kim |
| A Name You Can Trust | Andrew Murga |
| A No Fly Zone | John Helms |
| A Satisfied Mind | Emily Rutkowski |
| A Shore Odyssey | Alexander Guerriero |
| A Spectacular Boy | Scott Boxenbaum |
| A Wolf on Fairmount | Travis Cox & Robert Williams |
| A Yemeni | Alyssa Amer |
| A.L.L.-timate Super Power | Tim Morrill |
| Adeliz | A. S. Thompson |
| Adverse Effects | Taylor Gruenloh |
| Agency | Rebecca Lieberman |
| Airmed One | Ty Strange |
| Ajax | Aaron Kadkhodai & Matt Kawecki |
| All The King's Horses | Sandra Landin |
| All The Planes Fly to Rio | Ilaria D'Elia |
| Alpha & Amie | Radia Hassan |
| Alto Pictures Presents | Archer Miller |
| Always We Begin Again | Nic Cohen |
| America's Noble | Vincent Fuentes |
| American Blue | Jen Bieser |
| American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
| An Incredible Journey | Eryka Alanna |
| Anartist | Haynie Walker |
| Anastácia | John Kuri |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| Atticus | Jeremiah Lewis |
| Audrey's Children | Julia Fisher Farbman |
| Away With My Heart | Hoyt Richards |
| Bad Hombres | Filup Molina |
| Bellyache | Andy Compton |
| Betsy and the Emperor | Staton Rabin |
| Bitch | Joy Frelinghuysen |
| Bitterroot | Kiefer Lloyd |
| Blackout | Wesley MacInnes |
| Blind Justice | Ramona Taylor |
| Blood Libel | Jenn Jeffers |
| Blood Red Light | Andrew Saunders & Tim Saunders |
| Blossom | Sanjna Bharadwaj |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Boxes | Shawn Maus |
| Brides and Goddesses | Yasmeen Alkooheji |
| Broken Mirror | Lori Stansal |
| Brooklyn of the South | Ashley P Jones |
| Bugbear | Thomas Krygier |
| Burning Sea | Christos Kardana |
| By The Book | Andrea Lawson |
| By the Light of the Moon | Quinlan Orear |
| Carolina Cruel | Brandon Sparks |
| Carrion | Sarah Stunt |
| Carry Me Back | Claire Fortier |
| Casserole | Martin Wathen |
| Casualties of Truth & Lies | Brian Thompson |
| Charlatans | Jimmy Prosser & Rohan Shankar |
| Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
| Cloud Of Witnesses | William O'Leary & Vanessa Logan |
| Club House | Adam Simmons |
| Coal | William Fowler |
| Columbia | Jesse Martin |
| Coney | Jesse Klein |
| Confessions of a Police Clown | Chris Zeth |
| Copper Ridge | Rebecca Ghusn |
| Court Order | Raynard Goodman |
| Curls | Jamie Morris & Aaron Sheer |
| Cutting Board | Francesco Battaglia |
| Dark Irish | Erin Kathleen |
| Daughter | Shiyan Zheng |
| Definitely Not a Monster | Brea Cola Angelo |
| Destiny's Road | Kameishia Wooten |
| Devil's Rain | Tami Ryder |
| Die Before You Die | Timothy Parr |
| Dig | David Vieux |
| Distillation | Olivia Appleby |
| Eliou, My Son Escapes | Joel Juarez |
| Enabled | Michael Scott |
| Everything Allowed in Heaven | Blake Braden |
| Exiled | Becca Mann |
| Exit The Sheep | Jeffre Lowe |
| Expatriados (Limited Series Pilot) | Tom Richard Santos |
| Eye On The Sparrow | Marcus Bleecker |
| Faint of Heart | Jeremy Palmer |
| Felony Murder | Jeffre Lowe |
| Finding Satoshi | Shruti Saran |
| Float Me Up | Daniel Talbott |
| Focus | Laura Dobre |
| For Good | Clayton Vila |
| Foundtown | Chelsea Totten |
| Fumes | Cameron Gibson |
| Ganga Mata | Karim Khan |
| Glass Jaw | Katherine Chloe Atkins |
| Going Country | Tom Levesque |
| Good Bad Money | Debbie Simmons |
| Goodnight, Cowboy | Lauryn Eisenstein |
| Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
| Grip | Steven Bennett |
| Grit | Chanel Glover |
| Guns in Space | David Manin & Rene Donnard |
| Happy Medium | Marianne Betonio |
| Happy Medium | Aaron Lieben |
| Harley | Andy Lyberopoulos |
| Harvest | Jazmyn Wright |
| Haussmann | Geoff Faugérolas |
| Haven | Hannah McCarthy |
| Heard | Alex George Pickering |
| Heavy, Pilot | Collette Legault |
| High Watch | Sam Holst |
| Hold West | Mack Velle |
| Holy Light | Varun Bhuchar |
| Homeward Brother | Alec Garcia |
| How to Care for Crickets | Jessica Hilscher |
| I Am A Gentleman | Nicole Calloway |
| I Am The Wolf | Adam Groff |
| If I Needed You | Joey Rayburn |
| Ignorance Is Bliss | Patrick Grizzard |
| Imre | Matthew Lashua |
| In our Image | David Steiner |
| In The Valley | Justin Palmer |
| Insurrection | Simon Bowler Khan |
| It Was Written | Valeria Vallejos |
| Izzat | Reeyaz Habib |
| Journey to Fisterra | Alan Lambert |
| Judy Stardust | Mads Feldballe |
| Justice | Douglas Hall |
| Keriah | Renee Rothstein |
| Killing Che | Alexander Vargas |
| Killing Vincent | James Valko |
| Kiss of Darkness | Michael McClung |
| Kristen & Maggie | Jo Agricola, Jared Ruga & Amanda Stoddard |
| Lady Reporter | Michael Lucid & Michael Lannan |
| Last of My Name | S.M. Namkoong |
| Late Bloomers | Paige Morrow Kimball |
| Lifesaver | David Beck |
| Lilly | Rachel Feldman |
| Linkin's Storm | Anich D'Jae |
| Listen | William Angel |
| Look at Me | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte & Dan Gallun |
| Lotus | Kareem El Arab |
| Love in the Time of Corona | Catherine Delaloye |
| Made Wright | Tedros Habib |
| Maestra | Susan Polk |
| MAGA - "Us vs. Them" | Elfi Martinez |
| Mai's Mother | Kate Niemuller |
| Main Drag | Ryan Thorsen |
| Mammoth | Robert Buscemi |
| Mass Ave | Omar Kamara & Jalmer Caceres |
| Melting Pot | Richard Nguyen |
| Miles Away From Home | Brit Cowan |
| Mind Games | Matthew Manson |
| Minneapolis Mozart | Paul Jarnagin |
| Modern Art | Laurence Fuller |
| Molepeople | Nathan Elston & Nicholas Pratt |
| Monochrome | Josh Feibus |
| My Father's House | Nathaniel Lezra |
| My First Snow | Stephanie Palacino |
| Nashville Fairy Tale | Patricia Blanquies & Candace Boulay |
| Near-fall | Robin James Habil |
| Newspaperwoman | Vivian Kerr |
| Nice Girl Manifesto | Ashlee Stormo |
| No Score Ride | Felix Pena |
| Nowhere | Maria Bruzhayte |
| Of Ash and Ice | Doree Olson |
| Old Photos | Paul Coleman |
| One of Them | Laksmi Hedemark |
| Otis N' the Dough Boyz | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Our Better Angels | Steven Michael |
| Our Father is a Spy | Gabb Schivone |
| Oxygéne | Bernhard Pucher |
| Pablo Diablo | Alex Parker |
| Paddy's Tonsorial Emporium | Ronald Milburn |
| Parcel | Paul Ryan Hobson |
| Passed | Imani Jade Powers |
| Passing Throgh | Craig Clyde |
| Patient | Meg Steedle |
| Pendulum | Edie Casille |
| People Like Houses | Kate O'Shaughnessy |
| Perfect Flower | Brent Delaney |
| Phoenix | Chaise Gerber |
| Piney Lake | Kevin Blakely |
| Popular | Marley Schneier |
| Power & Way | Paul Locander |
| Pressure Drop | Scott Cramer |
| Project Fog | Adva Reichman |
| Proof of Existence | Adam Matalon |
| Pros and Cons | Andrea Lawson |
| Quash | John McCarney |
| Queens of Clarendon | Chantal Eyong |
| Rapprochement | Jerry Orihuela |
| Reclamation | Peter Rívera & Justise Ortiz |
| Red Plains | Liam Razzell |
| Red Terror Redemption | Jesse Thompson |
| Repair The Carrows | Johnny Cruz |
| Reparations In Black & White | Erica Ruhe |
| Rescue | Madison Bishop |
| Reynmar | Kaith Karishma |
| Riding Shotgun | Nafi Ayvaci |
| Riding With Charlie | Shintaro Ogai |
| Ronnie. | Ryan Ederer |
| Ruby | Jessica Rowlands |
| Russian Warriors | Ksenia Tolmazin |
| Salem's Diary | Sonja Verpoort |
| Salt and Sand | Bilal Raychouni |
| Saving Ivy | Loretta Caravette |
| Scars | Anna Carolina dos Santos Israel |
| Seaside Samurai | David Mahmoudieh |
| Secret Lives Of Youtubers | Britain Valenti |
| Shattered Faces | Ariane Hahusseau |
| Singin' the Blues | Tim Venable |
| Sketches of an Alternative Sixties Icon | Nick LaTorre |
| Slip Jig | Megan Meadows |
| Smoke as Directed | Greg Scharpf |
| Soiled Dove | Leslie Ann Coles |
| Soul Bound | Jeannie Stivers |
| Squatter | Waheed Naddafi |
| Stars Fell On Alabama | Gwendolyn Pate |
| Steal D.B. Cooper's Money | Mark Price |
| Storme | John Lowe |
| Street Basics | Malcolm Walker |
| Sun Woman, Moon Man | Lyndal Simpson |
| T.A.S.P.O | Peter Rivera & Justise Ortiz |
| Tanny | Helen Maury Driftmier |
| Tar | Scott Jemison |
| Tatsu | Adam Bradley |
| Tesla | Barry Ambrose & Christopher Krumlauf |
| The 30 Billion Dollar Woman | Elizabeth Dean |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Age of Desire | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Applicants | Justin Ballheim |
| The Art of Losing | Steven Lankenau |
| The Art of Lying | Amy Teague |
| The Art of Small Death | Sevyn Cole |
| The Assault on Booker T. Washington | Montae Russell |
| The Blood in Our Veins | Garrett Hemmerich |
| The Boy And The Fox | Gianmarco Giacomelli |
| The Boy with the Pink Triangle | Amy Reedy Asbjørnsen |
| The Bridge | Steve Rooney |
| The Bridge Between Us | Katterina Powers |
| The Chrono Maniac | Dirk Belien |
| The Confidant | Jessica Bartholatus & Valerie Bartholatus |
| The Coward of Hickory County | Julia Maddox |
| The Cowboy | Ryan Clark |
| The Coyote | Andrew Yusi |
| The Death of Me! | Debra Jarvis |
| The Golden State | Natalija Vekic |
| The Heart of A Tiger | S R Kui |
| The Indifference League | Richard Scarsbrook |
| The Itch | Jeremy Bradford |
| The Last Doctor | Kathryne Isabelle Easton |
| The Life Book | Jay Smith |
| The Marrow of Tradition | Adam Stier |
| The Missionaries | Dean Poynor |
| The Nightfall Dolls | Amanda Smith |
| The Octopus | Sierra Falconer |
| The Passion Protocol | Liam Hooper, Matilda Wild, Carol Van Hemelrijck & Vicky Wheeler |
| The Prisoner | Justin Ferrato |
| The Protagonist | Patrick Veihmeyer |
| The Reboots | Andrea Lawson |
| The Rig | Dan Williams |
| The Russian Adoption | Alia Azamat Ashkenazi & Alex Fradkin |
| The Sandbox | Jake Schwencke & Bobby Malley |
| The Set List | Ross Ostroff |
| The Shadows of Truth | Darla Drendel |
| The Shetlander | Martina Muhoberac |
| The Skid | Julie Sharbutt |
| The Sledge Patrol | Reed Arnold |
| The Telltale Light | Joshua Rebell |
| The Tinwife | Travis Neufeld |
| The Uncanny | Helen Maury Driftmier & Chris A. Bolton |
| The Vanishing Point | Nedra Roberts |
| The Yard | Aminah Hughes |
| The Yay | Deion Higginbotham |
| The Young and Old | Evan Larson |
| There Used to be Sirens | Steve Hunt |
| This Is Me | Aslı Bildirici |
| Those We Leave Behind | Will Stewart |
| Those Who Wait | Rhonda Grimm |
| Tierra Paz (A Pacified Land) | Eugene Michael Santiago |
| Timbuktu | Lee Aubry |
| Tinian | Jon Davis |
| Torch | Jason McBeth |
| Tourists | Shaun Seneviratne |
| Trust | Jennifer Levinson |
| Unbought and Unbossed | Travis Carr |
| Undertaken | Jamie Severson |
| Unmotherly | David Snee |
| Violet, Violet | Rachel Leyco |
| Voice | Levi Buchanan & L. Kris Gowen |
| Waiting for Skinderella | Robert Gilbert Goldsmith |
| Washington Parish | Sergio Zaciu, Oliver Zaciu & Paul Kennedy Jr. |
| Water Strider | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Whatever Will Be | Craig Siebels |
| When October Goes | Kyle Colavitti |
| Whisky Charlie Two - 'Jack' | Harriet O'Neill |
| White Buffalo | John Collins |
| White Tuna | Peter Marshall Smith & Stanton Hill |
| Why, Arizona | Isaiah Mouw & Mark Botts |
| Winter | Tes Noah Asfaw |
| Witch | Jessica Scalise |
| Year of the Horse | Brandon Carbaugh |
| You and (A)I | Sharmini Kumar |
| You Know You Love Me | Amy Goddard Smith |
| You Would Do It Too | David Victori & Jordi Vallejo |
| 이중주 (DUET) | Kelly Li |
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