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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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