Spring 2021 ScreenCraft Film Fund Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 6, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the Spring 2021 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional films 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:
| "Smallbury" - Television Pilot and Episode One. | Camilla Maxwell |
| “First Girls In Space” | Saikal Djumalieva & Sultankazy Pirzhan uulu |
| 2020 Vision | Amanda Stuermer |
| 29 Miles To Epsom | Kenneth Kemp |
| 4 A.M | Ryan Maples |
| A 40 For The G.O.A.T. | Emil Gallardo & Derek Ho |
| A Break In Belonging | Shirley V. Williams |
| A Kinder Sea | Addie Johnson Talbott, Alessandra Mesa & Daniel Talbott |
| A Lullaby to Seth | Fady Atallah |
| A Moment With My Son | Joseph Givens |
| A Stranger's Grief | Taylor Johnson |
| A Thousand Times A Day | Chantelle James |
| According to Adelaide | John Reddy |
| Across The Hudson | Alia Ashkenazi |
| Adam The First | Irving Franco |
| Alternate Verses | Tara Hall |
| American Guilt | Daniel Vaz & Candida Ribeiro |
| Americanitis | Ashley Gwen Patrick |
| Any Given Night | Ann Nelson |
| Assigned Female at Birth | Lyralen Kaye |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Athenia's Last Voyage | Thomas Sanger |
| Avenging Justice | Ian Bensman |
| Back to the World | Rebecca Shapiro & Shawn DePasquale |
| Bad Memory | Anastasia Kousakis |
| Before the Law | Aaron Dantley |
| Bendigo St | Jasmine Barzani & Stevie Wappett |
| Besharam | Luveza Mubashar |
| Best Texas Land - Pilot: Sweet Dreams | Aleks Lyons & Danielle Durini Alongi |
| Between Rooms | Asher Jelinsky |
| Birthday Girl | Eddy Robinson |
| Birthmark | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Black & Gold | Khadija Diakite |
| Black Mold | Carlos Guerrero |
| Blackface | Justin Floyd |
| Blind Love | Tsu Shan Chambers |
| Blind Spot | Gabriella Hart |
| Blue Laces | Britt Banks |
| Bodies | Kaitlyn DeShon |
| Bon-Bon | Ernesto Sandoval |
| Borders | Frank Velasquez |
| Breaking Boundaries | Dina Burlis |
| Breathing Underwater: America's Invisible Women | Kristin Fairweather |
| Brokenhearted Magic | Nerris Nassiri |
| Brother, Man | Hedyeh Bozorgzadeh |
| Brownies | Aisha Ford |
| Brutal Season | Gavin Fields |
| Bucky Johnson | James Barnes & Garrett Vanderwielen |
| Caged Birds | Fredrick Leach |
| Can't Out Slick a Can of Oil | Connor Vickers |
| Candidato 34 | Katie Lafferty |
| Candor | Justine Browning |
| Chance Day | Jill Murphy Long |
| Charlatan | Colin Bowles |
| CJ & Choobie | Tito Arenal |
| Cold Blooded | Stephanie Oplinger |
| COLORS | Robert Prein |
| Come Back | Helen O Reilly |
| Companion | John Darbonne |
| Conduit | Sean Cammack |
| Confection | Christa Boarini |
| Consent | Frank J Avella |
| Crescent | Edward Worthy |
| Crickets | D Harding |
| Cut Me If You Can | Sylvain Loubet dit Gajol, Nicolas Polixene, Jean-Jérome Loubet dit Gajol, Djaka Souaré & Alana de Freitas |
| Dark Rooms | Celeste Chaney |
| Deadeye | Julia Stovell |
| Dear Black Son | McKinley Bundick |
| Dear Life, You Suck! | Unnamed |
| Death by Water Pistol | Grant Taylor |
| Death Metal | Michael Kuciak |
| Deb & Joan | Isaac Rathbone |
| Deep Blue Sky | Emre Okten |
| Delta | Jing Ai Ng |
| Dental Doggies | Shelby Elwood |
| Depth App | Alessandra Lacorazza & Justine LaViolette |
| Dimensions "The Reveal" | Robert J. Harden Jr. |
| Distorted | Robbie Vaughn |
| Downstaged | Ana-Julia Cavana & Blake Brown |
| Edgar Allan Poe's Tell-Tale Heart | Thad Ciechanowski |
| Essence of Love | Joyce Lee |
| Eternal | Ricardo Benni |
| Everybody Goes To the Hospital | Tiffany Kimmel |
| Everyone Wants To Kill Me! | Jessie Barnett |
| Exiled in Ireland | Antoinette Scherer & Joe Rooney |
| Exquisite Wasteland | David Vassar |
| Extraordinary Circumstances | Suzanne Egan |
| Eyes On Me | Ryan Cowan |
| Fandom | Shadi Qutob |
| Filter | Lara Ameen |
| Financial Indentured Servitude: You Are a Slave and You Don't Even Know It | MąŘ Q Edwards |
| Fishmonger | Neil Ferron & Alexandra Dennis-Renner |
| Flash Before the Bang | Jevon Whetter |
| Flowerchild | Hilton R. Hart |
| Flying Lessons | Elizabeth Nichols |
| Foreign America | Nahreen Tarzi |
| Foxes | Gregory Fishwick |
| Framed | Amer Halasa |
| Frank, Frank, Frank & Mildred | Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz & Zach Johnson |
| From Rio With Love | Narineh Tahmasebian & Juliana Selem |
| From Sea To Rising Sea | Sigin Ojulu & Mary John Frank |
| Funny Farm | Bill Bymel |
| George | Dorian Cambi |
| Gimu (Obligation) | James Cotton |
| Glaciers | Frank Berry & Matthew Bates |
| Glue trap | Justin Geldzahler |
| Gooroo Gooroo Love | Herman Sherman |
| Growing Up Compton: The Dons | Bobby Jones |
| h.g.o.p. | Anna Greenfield |
| Halima, Halima | Elma Begovic |
| Hangtown | David Aguilar |
| Hey Guys | Mallory Sparks |
| Holo | Alexander Maxwell & Ash Brandon |
| How To Find A Movie Star In 9 Months | Naomi Odes Aytur |
| How to Ruin the Holidays | Kevin Gillese |
| Howland Manor | Peter Brown & Isis Wright |
| Huberta | Julia Jansch |
| I'll Be Around | Robert Levy |
| I'm Having an Affair With My Wife! | Jen Finelli |
| Impulses | Rachel Frain |
| In The Forest of Nisene Marks | Rosemary Griggs |
| In This Briefcase | Sean Kenealy |
| In Tow | Sharon Arteaga |
| Island Circus | Tori Larsen |
| Jefferson Avenue | Hannah Whisenant |
| Joanne | Eric Goldberg |
| Joe Was Here | Ryan Morris |
| Jordan Just Needs to Relax | Neil Davis |
| Judy's Dead | Joanne De Simone |
| Karl | Tom Mishra & Ale Mesa |
| Kundilo Palenge | Felipe Holguin |
| Lacuna | Kyle Credo |
| Lady Killer | Ali MacLean |
| Land of Gold | Nardeep Khurmi |
| Late Bloomers | Paige Morrow Kimball |
| Leo Noir | Aishah Roberts |
| Lex | LaRose Washington |
| Lie Down | Erica Rose |
| Life beyond the net | Grant Fitch |
| Life of Groupies | Joanne Rose |
| Lilac Gulch | Christopher Swann |
| Limited Engagement | Roderick Kashani |
| Lioness | Nicole Pouchet |
| Little Maude | Tony Prescott |
| Little Ox | Raf Wathion & Patrick Vandebroeck |
| Living Room Stars | Mischa Ipp |
| Lonely Hunters | Gabriel Rosenstein |
| Losing Us | Stephan Drury |
| Lost In A Summer Night | Jonathon Smith |
| Lost Joy | Jordan Laemmlen & Winter Bassett |
| Love Hurts | Christopher Pappas |
| Luz Oscura ( Dark Light ) | Maria Diane Ventura |
| Magical Mise en Place | Lauren Steffen |
| MAGPIE | Darren Markey |
| Making Space | Lilly Camp |
| Maybe I'll Be Brave | Sam Gill |
| Meat Cute | Shannon Marinko |
| Mercury Afrograde | Blanche Akonchong |
| Mildly Different | Anna Czarska |
| Missing Persons | Patrick Wofford |
| Mohnika | Ishq Pradhan |
| Mother | Maia Scalia |
| Moving Into Sunlight | Eva Flodstrom & Sabrina Tom |
| Mr Brown and Mr Blue are Dead | Christopher Morrison |
| Mutt | Vuk Lungulov-Klotz |
| My Divorce Party | Heidi Weitzer |
| Nafsi | Reuben Odanga |
| Nastasya | Dina Burlis |
| Naualli | Adrian Gonzalez de la pena |
| Necessary Evil | Kareem Hayes |
| Neon Lights | Michael Benzaia |
| No Language | Nick Citton |
| No Room at the Jim Crow Inn | Christina Cottles |
| Non Essential | Ashley Singleton |
| Of The West | Ryan Loftus |
| On the Wings of Sorrow | Ana de Lara |
| One Hour Till Tomorrow | Nicole Vanden Broeck, Peier "Tracy" Shen |
| one like him | Tareq Baconi & Caitlin McLeod |
| Otis N' the Dough Boyz | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Our dad, Danielle | Sarah King |
| Out of My Comfort Zone | Ivy Vale & Rick Reil |
| Past the Sunset - Part I and II Treatment | Lesetja Mohlabane |
| Pastime | Leona Worcester & Amanda Read |
| Patriot, Baby! | Aimée Kwan |
| Peanut Butter | James Rohan |
| Pearl's Place Pilot: Naomi's Happy Song | Brenan Vassar |
| People of Merrit | Adam Pottle |
| Percentage Parent: The Story of A Legal Stranger | Nicole Christian |
| Pickup | Alexander Leiss |
| Pink Lava | Sharon Powers |
| Plague Season | Gabriela Calvache |
| Plain Jane | Susie Singer Carter |
| Plums Taste Different Here | Sarah Reader Harris |
| Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Matthew Silverman |
| Ponyboi | River Gallo |
| Preacher Girls | Lyndol Michael |
| Private Lives | Cate Holahan |
| PTSD911 | Conrad Weaver |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Q |
| Pumpkinhole | Juan Pablo Arias Munoz |
| Puppet Me | Julie Cavaliere |
| Refraction | Yassin Yassin & Brendan Hallam |
| Results in Ten Days | Sarah Smick |
| ReView | Jonathan Zarantonello |
| River Spirit | Hayley Stuart |
| Roadkill | Sarah Halle Corey & Sofie Somoroff |
| Room Rodeo | Lola Mosanya |
| Saca Tu Lengua (Stick Out Your Tongue) | Melina Valdez |
| Sacrifice: The man who built a cathedral | Denis Dobrovoda & Matthew Bremner |
| Sailing to Byzantium | Chase Faragher |
| Salt Sisters | Heidi Burkey |
| Santastein | Manuel Camilion & Benjamin Edelman |
| Saxyfrage | Ana Alejos Pérez & David Luis Pérez Magan |
| Scene 81 | Josh Zammit, Samuel Loveridge & Felicity Pickering |
| Screaming on the Inside | Jenna Kelly |
| Searching for God(Dess) Antarctica | Bessy Adut |
| See You At Sunset Inc. | Souha Usman |
| Seeing Diane Arbus | Lindsay Zibach |
| Shackled
Shadowboxes |
Luke Spears
Clay Von Carlowitz |
| Shot by an Angel | D.R. Bellard |
| Sin Fronteras (Without Borders) | Daniel Uribe |
| Sinjar | Anna Bofarull |
| Siren | Jack Maraghy |
| Sky City Haya | Adad Warda |
| Small Victories | Jack Tracy |
| Soiled Dove | Leslie Ann Coles |
| Somewhere Not Yet Seen | Connie Rankin |
| Sophomore | Connor Jones |
| Speechless | Molly Gerth |
| Still Life | Austin Wood |
| Still River, Silent Jungle | Hayley Stuart |
| Stranding | Benjamin Kadie |
| Strike of Artemis | Brandon Haynes |
| Strong Women | Corinne Innes & Alexandra Gaulupeau |
| Succubus | R J Daniel Hanna |
| Sunflower Nicky | Clifton Adams |
| Symptoms of a Small Town | Matt Sadowski |
| Tabitha Drowning | Anu Sukhdial |
| Talk Black - Short | Destiny Macon |
| Telepathine | Wes Trexler |
| The Ambulance | Maytham Jbara |
| The American Virus | Susie Talbot |
| The Barrel Field | Dan Ast |
| The Beasts & The Children | Rachel Feldman |
| The Big Time | Zerelda Rodriguez & Mikey Rodriguez |
| The Container | Matt Boda |
| The Cringe Cycle | Barry Hite |
| The Dead of Winter | Stephen Graves |
| The Draft | Kim Taylor |
| The Dream Season | Amy Fox |
| The Fire Cats | Katharine Parsons |
| The Funhouse - Ep. 1 "The Threesome" | David Tappan & Kelly Tappan |
| The Gates | John Burr |
| THE GATEWAY | Christopher Goodman |
| The Golem | Sierra Nutkevitch |
| The Hunters | Karl Shefelman |
| The Legacy of Cloudy Falls | Nick Butler |
| The Legend Of... - A Short Film | Henry Kelly |
| The Lesson | Kimberly Kalaja |
| The Lost Dog (WT) | Henry Kinder |
| The Lost Gods of Memphis | Jon-Carlos Evans |
| The Moor | Daphne Di Cinto |
| The Note | Dale Janda |
| The Old Flower Pot | Vera Neverkevich |
| The Other Side of Solitary | Scott Carelli, Nick Jimenez |
| The Outlaw Ocean Animated Rap Short | Ian Urbina |
| The Pale Riders | Joshua Nadler |
| The Passion Protocol | Liam Hooper, Matilda Wild, Carol Van Hemelrijck & Vicky Wheeler |
| The Psychedelic Therapist | Ian Stout |
| The Rez Wolves | Christina Ninham, Burcu Gürkan & Hardy Griffin |
| The Robosexual | Alden Peters |
| The Rose Garden | Nidheya Suresh |
| The Ruin of Eden | Jessica Romagnoli & Patrick Ireland |
| The Shadow of Cairo | Tara Shehata |
| The Shakespeare Plays | Martin Keady |
| The Silent King | Orhan Sumen |
| The Thanksgivening | Michael Dritto |
| The Untall Tale Teller | Ara Agnerian |
| The Village That Once Was | Tyrrell Shaffner |
| There Is No Line | Sharon Boeckle |
| Tiger Sea | suki kaiser |
| Tiny Little Planets or Annie & Iz | Rachel Varley |
| Trace the Line | Alex Miranda |
| Transport XX | David Keith-Miller, Mark De Geest & Martin Dewitte |
| Twinkle Toes | Patrick Campbell |
| Twisted Heaven | Emi Electra |
| Undercard | Anchitta Noowong |
| Unheard Voices: Mothers Quest for Freedom | Tosha Mills |
| Untitled Israel/Palestine Documentary | Joy Sela |
| Untitled Jacquelyn Frohlich Feature | Lane Cheek |
| Untitled Julio Short Documentary | Jenna Kelly |
| Upbringing | Mike Gerbino |
| Violin | Elvira Ibragimova |
| Waiting for the Sun | Mia + Christopher Eadicicco |
| Water Music | Selene Castrovilla |
| We are inside | Farah Kassem |
| We're Still Cookin' | Brian O'Connor |
| Welcome to Toxic Tallevast | LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant |
| What We Know | Juliana Roth |
| Whatever Happened to Olivia Boone? | Tyler Boyco |
| When the sun goes down | Steffen Cornelius Tralles & Aurel Bantzer |
| Who's Complaining ? | Roland Chauville |
| Wide Awake | Christine Turner |
| Wilder | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte & Dan Gallun |
| With Her Own Hands | Kathryn McCarthy |
| With or Without You | Kelly Schilling |
| Wodwo | Roland Walters |
| Women on the Outside | Kiara C. Jones |
| Xue and the Seed of the Sun | Gustavo Velasquez |
| You’re Smarter Than You Look: A Documentary | Cheryl Ingram |
| Youngstown Proud | Tammy Leitner |
| Zombies | Matthew Hopper |
| 이중주 (DUET) | Kelly Li |
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