Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional stories were selected from almost 1,500 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:
| 'Foxtrot in Fulham' | Janet H Swinney |
| "Angel of the Forest" | Joan Gurfield |
| "It'll Be Fun" He Said | Glen Cressman |
| "Mrs. Bischoff and the Close Observation of Schrodinger's Cat" | David Risk |
| "Surrender to Win" | Richard Butler |
| 1912 | DC Diamondopolous |
| 1920 | DC Diamondopolous |
| 1970 | DC Diamondopolous |
| 1992 | DC Diamondopolous |
| A Bump in the Night | Glen Vecchione |
| A Campy Christmas | Karen Nortman |
| A Date with the Devil | Ann Knipp |
| A Girl Named Polly | Kitty Trock |
| A Lullaby for Night | Jason Tostevin |
| A Meeting at the Mirada | Logan Dunn |
| A Safe Place To Go Crazy | Stacey Larsen |
| A Seat at The Window | Herb Jordan |
| A View of Bea Benton | Porter Huddleston |
| A Village in New Hampshire | Patrick McCusker |
| A Well Known Gun | Mike Kearby |
| A Witch's Hopes | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| Adam Frankenstein: The Madam and the Madman | Sheila English |
| After Care | Helen Beer |
| After the Storms | Barrington Smith-Seetachitt |
| Afterimage | Tia Lindstrom |
| Ahmed the Tailor | Barbara Mujica |
| All Were Silent | Rachel Harmon |
| Almost Divorced | Ellen Leary |
| Alone | Roger Mannon |
| Anomaly | Jennifer Milne |
| Ants In My Blood | Kevin Berg |
| Anya | Ampora Yazdani |
| Around Dusk | Jason Lerner |
| Beautiful, Isn’t it? | Aristides G Kouvaras |
| Becoming Rook | Scott Coon |
| Behind the Mask | Marcus Miller |
| Being Fred | Travis Richardson |
| Bell | Eric Roe |
| Bellamy, Bonny and She | Louis Ormont |
| Big Adventure and Little Adventure | Phoenix Black |
| Biography | Vinny Lopez |
| Black and White | Gerald Elias |
| Black Nazi Boy | Bernadine Symonds |
| Blackbirds | Bashayer Almaazmi |
| Blood Ritual | Simon Clarke |
| Boarding Pass | Robert Frink |
| Bottom of the Hour | Phil Giunta |
| Braidwood Bus | Caleb John Cushing |
| Brilliant | Diana Zoie Kim |
| Candy and Sorrow | Wayne Christensen |
| Cerberus Is Waiting For Me To Cross Thrugh | Edw EmanuEl |
| Circuits and Wires | Anthony Iannaccio |
| Circus | Cassie Poormokhtar |
| City Girl | Sian Williams |
| Cleverstine Field | Rachael Maltbie |
| Cliquedom | Therese MacAdam |
| Cold Angel | Laura Kemp |
| Coming Up For Air | Elliot Cowan |
| Committed | B.D. Prince |
| Consequences | Nicole Evelina |
| Count Cannibal's Castle | Larry Henrikson |
| Crazy Love | Catherine Shorr |
| Crossing Thresholds | Christina Alexandru |
| Curious Kat | Michael Latta |
| Dark Night of the Seoul | Lauren Freedman |
| Dark Side of the Heart | Nathan Cabaniss |
| Darkly Through the Glass Place | Kirk Bueckert |
| Days Like Today | Anne Carmack |
| Dead and Breathing | Madison Morrow |
| Dead End | Simon Gadke |
| Death in Havana | Jonathan Handel |
| Delia and the Fairy Queen | Elise Forier Edie |
| Didn't Deserve to Die | OaToya James |
| Dilemma on Mars | Fred Shackelford |
| Diodati Summer | Thomas Ascenzi |
| Disappointing Men | Elaine Little |
| Do Me A Favour | Maisy Osbon |
| Doing Timeline | Yusuf DeLorenzo |
| Dome Light | Charles Duffie |
| Doom in a Darker Sky | Paul Davis |
| Dream Seller | Ismah Khan |
| Dreams of the Faithful | Faith Merino |
| Dried Figs or Dates | Siawosh K. Eskandari |
| Driving the Jungle Boy | John Weil |
| Eating, A Life | Ronan Ryan |
| Elemental Force | Jonathan Westbrook |
| Emanuel's Trenches | Alexander Sikarevich |
| End of Eternity | John Braswell |
| Enigmatic | Simeon Kirk-Young |
| Equity | Don Bapst |
| Erasmus Book One: First of May | Julie Ann Slaby |
| ESHE: The Fire Breathing Series, Book 1 | JD Mason |
| Evan and the Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots | Blake Fontenay |
| Everyone’s Gone to the Moon | Daniel Tierney |
| everything and nothing | Terri Porter |
| Fait Accompli | Ryan Katzer |
| Fathers ad Daughters | John Pekich |
| First Kill | Timothy OLeary |
| Flight Risk | Thomas Thonson |
| Fourteen Minutes of Fame | Angelo DeCandia |
| Fragile Decisions | Elizabeth Appell |
| Frank Winston | Jacob Power |
| Freedom Grows A Rose | Gil Alan |
| Freewheel | Tom Gammarino |
| Friday Afternoon | T.D. Johnston |
| From Dust To Water | Marine Perot |
| Genesis Diner | Mitch Duckworth |
| Georgy Girl | Charlotte Byrne |
| Ghillie's Mum | Lynda Clark |
| Girls Do Too | Kelsey Sinclair |
| Glass | Connor Dobson |
| Glass to Metal | Bryce Parks |
| Godammed Space Wolves | Sam Wiles |
| Goodnight, Daniel | Solveig Dittmann |
| Grampa Dave's Genie | Dick Morgan |
| Granite Requires | TJ Berry |
| Guatemala Triptych | Bill Pieper |
| Hammerville | Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam |
| Heartland | Shane Berryhill |
| Hole in the Office | Mark Mitchell |
| Home | John Cheney |
| Horse | Dawna Kemper |
| Hotelin' | Sarah M. Chen |
| HRC | Brennan Michaels |
| I am Bhavani | Bindhu Prasad |
| Interview for the End of the World | Rhett Bruno |
| It Was Their Shore | Alexander Mosier |
| Ivory Miniature | Robert C. Frink |
| Jack, Callie, and the Sand Dollar | Mary Lu Warstler |
| Jessie Belle | Elizabeth Saulsbury |
| Jim Morrison Lives! | Randall Sylvan |
| Kai | Jade Hayward |
| Karen the Ghost | Abe Schwartz |
| Karma's Hit Man | Michael Estrin |
| Kitty Doolittle: Stay at Home P.I. | Jennifer Milne |
| Knife Girl | Francelia Belton |
| Kuya | Mark Galarrita |
| Lego Me | Stephen Kanicki |
| Leith Braggan's Guide | Ayinde Ricco |
| Liars | Charlene Clarke-Todoruk |
| Lights In A Forest | James Richards |
| Lily | Nicole Watt |
| Liquid Gambit | Bonnie Milani |
| Little Girl In The Golden Tower | Josh Taylor |
| Locum | Saleh Karaman |
| Lolly and Ethan | Lacey Darlene Paulson |
| Looking for Rain | Matt Wills |
| Love like a Plague | Kendall Brown |
| Love, and Other Ways of Dying | Charles Rutter |
| Make The Robots Laugh | Elena Perez |
| Margot: Compassion During The Holocaust | Kristen Monroe |
| Mary Poppins Didn't Have Tattoos | Stacy Woodson |
| Me ad Ellen | Eric Singleton |
| Memento Mori: Paris 1971 | Melissa Mitchell |
| Moonlight Requisition | Richard Butler |
| Moonsong for Bernardo | Dick Morgan |
| Morenci, Arizona 1904 | Guy Prevost |
| Mostly | Judah Kosterman |
| Moving In a Mysterious Way | Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Muller | A M Smith |
| Mulligan | Stan Roose |
| Muri | Ashley Shelby |
| Mustapha and the Hunchback | Mike H. Mizrahi |
| Nadia | Sam Hawksmoor |
| Neither Here Nor There | Joban Gill |
| Nephilia | Cody Pearce |
| Newts | Taylor Geu |
| NINA | Mike Ford |
| Nirvana for a Day | Richard Sirianni |
| No. 7 Bus | Mary Nestor |
| North of Delirium | Lynne Sherbondy |
| Null Girl | John Austin |
| October Seven | Steven Stiefel |
| Old Man Baseball | Mike Murphey |
| Old Man Baseball | Mike Murphey |
| On How to Quit Smoking During a Global Pandemic | Phil Vengrinovich |
| One Star | Timothy OLeary |
| Order No.227. From Stalin with Love | Marina Osipova |
| Outraced | Ravinia Lee |
| Pamela's Last Egg | Carrie Fitch |
| Paying Dues | Brennan Michaels |
| Peace in Our Time | Joshua (Yanhong) Huang |
| Perfidia | Sharon Yablon |
| Peter Upside Down | Brennan Gilpatrick |
| Playing Cards | Richard Butler |
| Pod Fifteen | Philip Harris |
| Popsicle | Christa Wojciechowski |
| Poseidon's Eyes | Kary English |
| Predator/Prey | Amanda Minchin |
| Present | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| Prick | Chachee Valentine |
| Real-Life Experiences | Eric Roe |
| Recusant | Hamish Ungless |
| Redemption | Elana Lore |
| Reefer Madness | William Craig Pugh |
| Regeneration Song | Victoria Gong |
| Remnants of My Father | Shonell Bacon |
| Ribs | William Craig Pugh |
| Riding with the Dog at Midnight | Nina Roselle |
| Robot vs Dad | Mario Dhingsa |
| Rorschachs in the Snow | Julie Eakin |
| Roses for Auntie Mae | Will Pei |
| Ruby Insides | Ewan Davis |
| Rufus | Carl Clark |
| Samantha Spade, Private Dick | Bonnie Hendrickson |
| Saved | Robyn Carter |
| Saving Jaequan | Rebecca Greene |
| Sex in the Seminary | Joy Mosley |
| Shall We Dance? | Rick Niece |
| She's Still Waiting | Stéphanie Joalland |
| Shell | Barrington Smith-Seetachitt |
| Ship Wreck | Len Forgues |
| Shrunk | Thomas Warford |
| Silverwood | James Breyfogle |
| Simple Derivation | Steven Antalics |
| Simulacrums | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| Sins of The Father | David Bowmore |
| Skeets Unbound | Gary Bolick |
| Small Wonder | Matthew Brady |
| Smoke | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| So Much For The Afterlife | Noah Pohl |
| So This Is Earth | Samuel Finn |
| Solomon Rice | Frank Albert |
| Son of a Saint | Brian Birmingham |
| Songs About Forever | Samantha Cooke |
| SophieLu, Incomplete | John Shea |
| Splintered | Mary Zalmanek |
| Spunkfetti | Jon Douglas Rainey |
| Stanley Wants What He Wants | Annie Wood |
| Striking Back | Race McKee |
| Strong Roots | Julian Brantley & Alexander Storm |
| Stumbling Downhill | James Chesky |
| Subtext | Richard Butler |
| Super, Man! | Michael Johnson |
| Surf's Up | Wendy Eiben |
| Swamp Gifts | Gail Webber |
| Sweet Dreams Are . . . | M. R. Abbink-Gallagher |
| Sweet Souls | Charles Blackburn |
| Sweetie-Pie | Craig Spivek |
| Swell | Sabrina Tom |
| Sylvie | David Dalessandro |
| Synchronise | Steven Kay |
| Syzygy | Travis D. Roberson |
| T.L.W. | Katherine Martinez DeLeon |
| The Alpha Male | Lara Stapleton |
| The Auctors | Jennifer Milne |
| The Ballerina of Baker Street | Patrick McCarthy |
| The Battle of Arroyo Escondido | Wes Blalock |
| The Bends | Sofia Drummond-Moore |
| The Bicycle | Tom Sterner |
| The Boarder | Paul Toth |
| The Bot of Burbank State | David Carlberg |
| The Boy From Galway Bay | Sally Bothroyd |
| The Bozo | Enrico Hallworth |
| The Caregiver | Jim Gourley |
| The Case of the Bloody Nine of Diamonds | Thomas Perrin |
| The Cat's Girl | Stacey DuFord |
| The Chair in the Garden | Drew Ross |
| The Chicago Kareninas | Amanda ReCupido |
| The Christmas Show | Brennan Michaels |
| The Church Bells | James Wood |
| The Clockwork Oaks | Randall Wirth |
| The Closer You Were, the Less You Knew | Annie Dawid |
| The collapse | Guy Murfey |
| The Confinement | Tia Lindstrom |
| The Crossroads | A R Ashworth |
| The Del Coronado: a time travel adventure | Jane Ritzenthaler |
| The Demon of Dustry Downs | Nicholas Santashell |
| The Deserter | Evander Lang |
| The Devil's Strawberry Pepper Jelly | Patrick Harrison |
| The Didsbury Witch | Tess Humphrey |
| The Donor | Banning Lary |
| The Drag | Casey Horowitz |
| The Duck Days of Summer | Danny Agan |
| The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them | Michele Reisinger |
| The Feast of St. Rocco | Darlene Cah |
| The First Space Trashman | Kenny Mclachlan |
| The Flood | Mason Gallaway |
| The Fortune | Laurence Fuller |
| The Fourteenth Floor | Adam Meyer |
| The Glidder of Dew | Toni Volk |
| The Great and Wondrous Mind of Madam Mysterious | Jeannie Hart |
| The Green | Blake Evans |
| The Highly Unlikely Death of Mort Volfneuk | Rob Johnson |
| The Howling Wind | Ruth Kaimuloa |
| The Inner Man | John Stubbs |
| The Interrogation | Jeffrey Higgins |
| The Last Martian on Earth | Cynthia Forbes |
| The Late Sergeant Yie | Andrew Orillion |
| The Left Leg of Edward Lee | Jeana Harris |
| The Legend of Stacker Dan | Stacey Powells |
| The Lion | Richard Eschenroeder |
| The Love Life of an Assistant Animator | Katherine Vaz |
| The Love of Majoram | Stuart Forrest |
| The Meek | Andree Robinson-Neal |
| The Melting Man | Stephen Wise |
| The Mindsign of Hangar 56 | Gregory Lemmons |
| The Mob and Me | Richard Fizdale |
| The Money Tree: A Christmas Miracle | Ben Fordham |
| The Moon Last Night | Eric Mulder |
| The Mouse | Jacqueline D'Acre |
| The Old and Rare Books of Elijah King | James Chesky |
| The Old Man and the Dead | Mort Castle |
| The Paradox of Colour | Joanna Pickering |
| The Passions of Voshmgir Farahani | Kuros Charney |
| The Pawnbroker | Dennis Merry |
| The Peculiar Predicaments of the Mississippi River Rats | Rain Story |
| The Pursuit | Evan Bolick |
| The Quickening | Jennifer Hanno |
| The Red Man | Jason Parker |
| THE REVENANT | Elise Forier Edie |
| The Rise and Fall of Shmeltzer and Schmekler | David Liberman |
| The Road to Angeland | Kay Olsen |
| The Sea Bass | Tristram Lowe |
| The Sea Witch Chronicles-Rainbow Railroad Saga | Billie Davies |
| The Second Time Around - A True Story | Morgan St James |
| The Shredder Monkey | Nicole Exposito |
| The Sick at Yellowstone Lake | Greg Marchand |
| The Stars That Sing | Chris Tullbane |
| The Summer of the Drowning Game | Jane Nightshade |
| The Surgeon | Mary Portser |
| The Survivor's Guide to Winter Hiking | Bryan Farrow |
| The Thickness of Blood | Vance Cariaga |
| The Trail Back Out | Jadi Campbell |
| The Truth | Joel Burcat |
| The Truth In It | Donné Restom |
| The Vestige of Humanity | Pablo Cotter |
| The Voice Speaks Back | JH Canedy |
| The Wealth of Children | A.A. Hein |
| There's Something about Lucy | Julie Ann Slaby |
| This Banquet of Blood | Harrison Voss |
| This Is the Work of One Hundred Best Citizens | Julie Ann Slaby |
| Thunderbird | Elsie Wood |
| Too Done | Maria Sanchez |
| Tristan and Róisín | Skyler Delvy |
| Trust Issues | Kimberly Davis |
| Tuffy Miracle | Linda Hohertz |
| Tuscan Shadows | A.J. Hamer |
| Una Vez | Kelly Galicia |
| Unseelie Things | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| Up at the Lake | William Moon |
| Vicarious | Philip Harris |
| Vicarious | Daniel Cooper |
| Violent Lives | Michael Ventimiglia |
| Watson Takes A Wife | Amabile Milano |
| Westward Dreaming | Je'Lesia Jones |
| What Burns | LD Green |
| What Covers the House is a Roof | Matthew Haynes |
| Wheels for Legs | Kenneth James Nelson |
| When I'm Famous | Dara Carr |
| When Sweetie Shrank | Ann Roecker |
| When There's Nothing Else | amanda moresco |
| Who Gets to Deal With the Roach Guy | Peter Shields |
| Wind Rider | Robert Cambanes |
| Winter Plumage | George Benda |
| Yoykh | Howard W. Robertson |
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