2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on November 25, 2020
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,300 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:
| 1066 | Ben Mansbridge |
| 555 Willamette | Dre Aguirre |
| 6 Deep | Donn Kennedy |
| A Boy Named David | Robert McIntosh |
| A Gargoyle's Chronicle | Alex Goulea |
| A New Beginning | Allan Tsao |
| Achachak | Brendan O'Reilly |
| After Neverland | E.R. Womelsduff |
| Agency | Rebecca Lieberman |
| Airborne | David Davies |
| Alaska | Baakal Geleta |
| Allegiance | Barry Ambrose & Christopher Stapleton |
| Alone in Killtown | Adam Marko-Nord |
| American Slaves | Joe Stevens |
| Arcane | Sebastian Watson |
| Arnaq | Nicholas Edmunds |
| Astral World | DMNTNSH |
| Bachelors in Arms | Sean Pedersen |
| Backwater | Christopher Fisher |
| Backwaters | Jeffrey Craine |
| Bad 'N' Ruin | Eric Rich |
| Battle at the Oasis | Dominic Hart |
| Berserk | Ryan Macdonald |
| Betrothal Blues | Conner Conway |
| Beyond Candy Mountain | Alice L Walker |
| Big Gun Man | Garrett Baker |
| Bingo 2.0 | Justin Kagan |
| Black Dust | Hunter Davis |
| Black Ice | Pallas-Amenah Morgan |
| Blood Bonds | Jordan Vogeney |
| Bloodlands | Emma Carter & David B. Guthrie |
| Boom | Neil Biondich |
| Border Skirmish | James Mulcahy |
| Borders | Robert Carmichael |
| Bots and Bugs | Danel Buchillon-Triff |
| Burrow | Ashley Burns & Noah Martin |
| Buttercup | Max Winter |
| Carmen Vengeance | Tyler Ellzey |
| Common Descent | Andrew Ferguson |
| Copycat | Ryan Anker |
| Credible Fear | Jonathan Flicker |
| Cross Path | Przemyslaw Lukasik |
| Cybercide | Stephen Kwietniak |
| D'Artagna | Julia Bergeron |
| D'Volution | Steve Ronaldson |
| Damon's Inquiry | Julian Martin |
| Dangerous | Jacob Dalton |
| Dark Silo | Scotch Wichmann & KayDee Kersten |
| Dead Red Eyes | Tom Baljak |
| Death at a Distance | Martin Bernard Foley |
| Defected | Walker Whited |
| Delinquent | Kristine Namkung |
| Delinquents | Jarrett Conaway |
| Diary of a Not-So Hero | Aimée Kwan |
| Dynaforce Down | Aaron Pinchback |
| Eclipse of the Mind | Don Donahue |
| Elementary | Bryan Mendez |
| Embargo | Carole Ryavec |
| Entangled | Jeffre Lowe |
| Escalation | James Boutcher |
| Estrella Ortez and the Well of Time | Haris Leventi |
| Exit The Sheep | Jeffre Lowe |
| Extinction | Stephen Parkhurst |
| Eyes of Fate | Catherine Wright |
| Faking It | Alison Edson |
| Fallstreak | Kyle Curry |
| Family Spies | Warren Clarke |
| Fiend | Carlos Anderson |
| First Bust | Yusuf Gad & Taz Garcia |
| Five Swords Under Heaven | Logan Shaw |
| Flattering Icarus | Patrick Griffith |
| FLOTUS | Eugene Rhee & Helena Rhee |
| Fly Girl | Philip Davi |
| For the Love of Art | Ken Lingo |
| Ford | Andrew Judge |
| Forecast | Tan Tran |
| Galahad | Nicholas Pangilinan |
| Glory and Gore | Shannon Wells |
| Gnosis | Kimberly Botbyl |
| Go to Hell | Alex Sosin & Chris Courtner |
| Gold Fever | Preston Moss |
| Goliath and David | Matthew Thomas & Joel Ugolini |
| Good Cop Bad Dog | Rick Omi |
| Goodbye My Enemy | Matthew Ryan |
| Greenhorns | Justin Klugh, Brian Barnes & Jim Manning |
| Gun Run | Donn Kennedy |
| Gunfire Reef | Dennis F Stevens |
| Gunslinger of the Orient | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Hanzo | Jason Gearlds |
| Harveybrook, Alaska | Trevor Lawrence |
| Hawk Moon | Cal Athan |
| Heartless | Lee Kehoe |
| Hearts in Shadow | Todd Yerman |
| Heist/Heist | Takeo Hori |
| Hero of the Good Land | Logan Shaw |
| Hightower | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Hinterland | Sean O'Heir |
| Home | Tim Fasano |
| Homestead | Bernhard Pucher |
| Horoscope | Darren Lau |
| Hostile Land | Beth King |
| Hotspot Rising | Adam Hersh |
| Hunting In Drag | Sascha Gomberg |
| I Miss Your Purple Hair | Robert Chandler |
| Icarus Falls | Michael Sohcot |
| Illegal Guardians | Hudson Phillips |
| In His Stead | Michael Droberg |
| In the Land of Tooth & Claw | Dan Kelly-Mulhern |
| Indefinity: Shift | Aaron Oberst |
| Infracktion | Tina Winograd |
| Into The Midnight Sun | David Zuckerman |
| Iron Belle | David Harland Rousseau |
| Jane & Yola | Rose Lichter-Marck |
| Journey from the Fall | David Kane |
| K & R (kidnap & ransom) | Lee Bishop |
| Ka-Bar and Courage: The James H. Stogner Story | Christopher Hauselman |
| Killing Jack | Brandon Freer |
| Killjoy & Valhalla | Moutaz Jad |
| Koala | Leo Raudys |
| Late Check Out | Neil Battle |
| Leave No Trace | Lexi Lieberman |
| Lollipops | Quinn Powers |
| Lord Takayama | Lorenzo Galuszka |
| Lost Cause | Joe Varkle & Garrett Rowe |
| Love Is A Battlefield | Jai Brandon |
| MacArthur Park | Benjamin Lehrer |
| Maddox | George Lopez |
| Mama Bear | Lee Ehlers |
| Man In A Cage | James Muthuuri |
| Man's Lost Friend | Tony Mazzarella |
| Manifold | Paul Bianchi |
| Mescalero | Anderson Boyd |
| Mia and Parmesan: Sinister Summer | Mia Volta |
| Miasma (Pilot) | Taraneh Niakan |
| Mind Blown | Paul Jarnagin |
| Misfits of Bohemia | Natalie Asport |
| Mission: Horticultural | Agnes Pethers |
| Mixed Martial Artist | Timothy Hayes & T. E. Bodhi |
| My Hitman and I | Dennis Luu |
| Naive | Gil Hagan |
| Nameless Faces | Gary McElkerney |
| Nihondo | Kenneth Fultz Jr. |
| No Taller than My Gun | David Rothman |
| Nuclear One | Michael Toay |
| Of the Dead | Stef Black |
| On the Charles | Laurel Kratochvila |
| Once Upon a Crime: New Jack City | Angelo Dania |
| Ook | Peter Wynn |
| Or Die Trying | Gregory Nagy |
| Order of The Gold Spurs | Michael Wojcik |
| Organelle | Edward James Anderson |
| Orphanage Earth (Hour Pilot) | D.C. Lozar |
| Paladin | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Peril in the Heirlooms | Charliese West & Chasah West |
| Photon Quixote: The Minus World | Drew Ragland |
| Pointless Powers Pilot | Meaghan Sinclair |
| Power Windows | Corbitt Howard |
| Project Eradicate | Arthur Glenn |
| Proper Villains | Chris Bolton |
| Pulse | Pascal Mercay |
| Purity Sterling | Robert Gallagher |
| Quinn Cooper and The Marvelous Mane | Bianca Shaw |
| Radiex | Rose Gaffney |
| Raid On Columbus | Alec Cuddeback & William Hellinger |
| Rally Point | Dillon Magrann-Wells |
| Redshift | Jay Nuzum |
| Refugium | Brid Cannon |
| Repurposed | David Mark Chiprut |
| Retribution For A Mercenary - Part 1 | Jaye Blohm |
| Rewind - The Blockbuster Initiative | Justin Bellow & Ellis Miller |
| Rhea | Michael Shove |
| Rick and Robby | Michael Freeman |
| Rise of the Saurians | Heather Parra |
| Rooftop | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Roulette | Isaac Fordsmith |
| Ruthless | Kevin Walls |
| Sacred Mune | Sean Rose |
| Sally Skull | Kate Niemuller |
| Second Nature | Connie O'Donahue |
| Sentient | Dmitriy Yurovsky |
| Shadow Walker | Ken Proctor |
| Sherman's War | David Carren |
| Silver Skull Creek | Ryan Gallant |
| Sirens Vendetta | Antoine Mizel |
| Six Shots From Now | Mike Barroga |
| Slayer | Alain Loubeau |
| Soapland | Andrew Molina |
| Society of Strays | Christopher Chou Slomiak |
| Soiled Dove | Leslie Ann Coles |
| South China Sea | Yancey Wang |
| Sovereign | Elliot Seidel |
| Spoiler | Michael Sajewski |
| Stealing From the Gods | Jade Hayward & Nic Collins |
| Strawberry Hill | David Tittone |
| Stunt Swagger | Richard Anastasios |
| Sucking In the Seventies | Bob Cousins |
| Super Stallion | Blake Smart & Nicky Thanou |
| Suraya's War | Andy Patrizio |
| Sync | Jeremy Palmer |
| Synergy | Andrew Frank |
| Taijitu | Walter Long |
| The 7 | Steve Ronaldson |
| The Adventures of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday: The Kid in Blooming Meadows | Jesse Ferrara |
| The Alternate | Dennis Luu |
| The Ambulance Driver | Barry Leach |
| The Anklebiter | Andy Jones |
| The Arc | Buck McWhorter |
| The Ark | David Bryant |
| The Bigfoot Hunters | Matt Hausmann |
| The Bishop of Carthage | Gary Giudice |
| The Black and The Red | Scott Crowder |
| The Black Carnival | Matthew Amorebello |
| The Blackroom | Peter Rívera & Justise Ortiz |
| The Blue Hole of Dahab | David Lozano |
| The Book of Blix | Danny Baram |
| The Boy And The Fox | Gianmarco Giacomelli |
| The Chunnel | Brent Henry |
| The Conspiracist | Michael Egenolf |
| The Diamondback | Michael Southworth |
| The Dreamfishers | Stephen Taylor |
| The Drop | Dustin Milligan |
| The Euthanized | Edward James Anderson |
| The Fifth Column | Paul Sheridan |
| The Fixer | Randy Vampotic & Mike Sorrentino |
| The Grand Finale | Nathan Hancock |
| The Great Dynamite Plot | Jules Eyres |
| The Great Wheelchair Escape | Don Crowell Jr |
| The Hammer Falls | Travis Heermann |
| The Harpooner | Joe Mello |
| The Heart of Sri Katava | Cairo Smith |
| The Heist Club | Brian Tuttle |
| The Henchmen | Jason Stratton |
| The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| The Hollow | Brian O'Donnell |
| The Holy Shield | Mel Thompson |
| The Hotel Barbers | Daniel Woburn |
| The Hypnotic Effect of P. Stanley | Aaron Davey |
| The Icenian | Alexander Conway |
| The Inventioneer | Kevin Noonan |
| The Last Frontier | Joshua Frazar |
| The Last Great Gold Heist | Dein Nuber |
| The Lion's Chambers | Kyle Curry |
| The Lonely and the Damned | Javier Tessari |
| The Longest Halloween: The Hunt for the Forever Kingdom Amulet | Greg Gilman, Frank Wood |
| The Mayfly | Ryan Curtin, Todd K |
| The Mountain That Eats Men | Dylan Dockery |
| The Nazirite | Jesse Chapman |
| The Oriental | Eugene Rhee |
| The Outworlder | Gordon Meyer |
| THE PANTHEON | Gregory Wolf |
| The Pinch | James Raynor |
| The Potato Palace | John Lawton |
| The Preserve | Danny Hogan |
| The Racist | Stark Neuweather |
| The Rat | Donald Smith |
| The Rommel Gambit | John Doble |
| The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| The Shadow King | Chris Bolton |
| The Sledge Patrol | Reed Arnold |
| The Smell of Gold | Jared Turner |
| The Soldier and the Spy | Mike Garcia |
| The Songstress | Kuros Charney |
| The Trucker | Nina Winther |
| The Unprotected | David Olesky |
| The Western | Bethany Offutt |
| The Woman with No Name | David Weston |
| There's Nothing You Can Do | Ken Lingo |
| They Can Only Kill Us Thrice | Brian King |
| Third Man | Michael Ouzas |
| Three | Tripp Allen |
| Throne of Tangun | Kieren Hutchison & Nicole Hutchison |
| Time To Rescue | Jeff Justice |
| Timebound | Gaurav Seth |
| Touch Point | Wayne Christensen |
| Transbay Terror | Vicki Thompson |
| Transference | Nicholas Wenger, Ellen Wroe & Kerri Brady Long |
| Transference | Mark C. Spera |
| Trophies | Peter Van Horne |
| Truckstop Warriors | Aaron Schmid, Adam Wenger & Rob Gilchrist |
| Twenty After Sunset | Sean Kenealy & Eric Silvera |
| Ultra-Marine | Aramis Pacitto |
| Uncle Black | Aaron Pinchback |
| Uncle Savage | Rick Omi |
| Unrelenting | Andrew Thierfelder |
| Until Death | Alyssa Stevens |
| Unwelcome | Federico Casal |
| Waitress #2 | Nathan Patton |
| Wasters | David Rattray |
| We Flew When The Birds Walked | Daniel Leventhal |
| Welcome Home | Brett Womble |
| Western Eyes | Del Potter |
| When Elephants Fight... | Hisani DuBose |
| Whispers in the Attic | Anthony Cincotta |
| White Belt | Daniel Siegelstein |
| White Tiger | Angela Park |
| Widow's Creek (or) Once Upon a Time in Wyoming | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| William Tell | Teresa Sparks |
| Winds of Violence | Nikita Zarkh |
| Wit-Sec | Aidan Largey |
| Wolverton, Thief of Impossible Objects | Michael Stark & Terrell Garrett |
| x/wind | Richard Pohl |
| You & I | Nilendra Fonseka |
| Zarmina's World | Arturo Corces |
| Zero Line | Timothy Kontje |
| Zoe Maddox and The Legend of Baoshan | David Bold |
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