2021 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 20, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,000 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:
| 4th and 14 | Michael Sokol |
| 90 MILES | Ihor Gowda |
| A Baker's Sweet Tale | Jessica Fallico & Kay Bell |
| A Christmas Miracle After All | Wally Lane & Wash Phillips |
| A Work in Progress | Joël Doty |
| Abby Warren & The Search For The Kelly Gold | Millie Holten |
| Ada | Jason Porath & Emily Rifkin |
| An Otter's Tale | Daniel MacMunn |
| Andrew and the Orange Blossom | Cassandra Dickerson |
| Ari Vs. Raj | Miriam Rahimi-Cholensky |
| Artie Filbert is Comin' to Town! | Ted Collins & David Mickel |
| Babel: Pilot | Patty Carey |
| Bad Pussycat | John Mahony |
| Ball Humbug! | Michael McIlraith & Heather Wilk |
| Baseball Mom | Candace Kearns |
| Be You | Mirella Muffarotto |
| Becoming Hillburns | Joshua Laufer |
| Becoming Mrs. Klaus | Annika Pampel & Jeffrey Decker |
| Beneath Storm Mountain | Kara Jacobson |
| Betsy and the Emperor | Staton Rabin |
| Big Little Victories | Sarah Edge |
| Big Shirt | Shaun Radecki |
| bOb | Alberto Chumaceiro |
| Born to Pull | Orso Vesperini & Toby Osborne |
| Buck and the Angel | James C. Schlicker |
| Built By Hart | Alison Bonn |
| By Fire and Water | Jan Dalby |
| Camellias at Christmas | Heidi-Marie Ferren |
| Camp Grimwood | Itai Lev |
| Caterpillarland | Roxanne Beck |
| Century | Jason Fraley |
| Chaos in Paradise | Jay Smith |
| Chasing Sunsets | Tayo Talabi |
| Chasing Toots | David Bosley |
| Chivalry | George Alexanian |
| Chiye | Kalvin Ogbuefi |
| Chocodogoholic | Jill Dudley |
| Christmas in Maple Creek | Rebecca Thoroughgood |
| Christmas Littles | Suzanne Metzger-Haugh |
| Christmas Wars | Amy Falkofske |
| Church(ed) | Leah Gibson |
| Cloud Of Witnesses | William O'Leary & Vanessa Logan |
| Concordia | Emanuele Daga & Marcela Cantu |
| Cookie | Brenda LePage |
| Cowslip And The Intergalactic All-Time Journey | Jared Neumark |
| Crash Site | John Thibault |
| Creaptures | Chad Aaron Keller |
| Daintree Runaway | Sam Gibson |
| Dead Rich | Aliaksandr Aniskavets |
| Deaf Blood | Giulia Cardamone |
| Dear Santa, It's Me Again | Jennifer Phillips |
| Declaration | Victoria Keffer |
| Desperately Seeking Santa | Elizabeth Weigandt |
| Destiny's Road | Kameishia Wooten |
| Dog Lady | Jennifer Tebben |
| Doudou | Thomas Guyot |
| Download | Jason Hefter |
| Dream Dancer | Neringa Bryant |
| Dreamcatcher | Shaun Radecki |
| Edge of the Rainbow | Barbara West |
| Edith's Magic Voice | Andres Barrientos |
| Elbow | Alex Ricciardi |
| Emily Has A Secret | Greg Batiansila |
| Emma and the Impossible | Jan Kimbrough |
| Family Trip | Julia Dosik & David Schultz |
| Feed the Baby | Renee Padmore |
| Finding Mayberry | Jennifer Koon |
| Firebird | Kathryn Machi |
| Firsts | Oliver Warden |
| Flash Before the Bang | Jevon Whetter |
| Fly Girl | Philip Davi |
| For The Love of Popcorn | Ken McCusker |
| Forced Journey | Rosemary Zibart |
| Foundlings | Armelle Lajus |
| Four Strings | Gregory Poppen |
| Fowl Road | Matthew Flynn |
| Furred, Feathered, and Fanged | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Ghost I.T. | Eric Brown |
| Ginger | Barbara Lettieri |
| Gospel Truth | Heather Hughes |
| Gotcha | Alex McDonald |
| Greg the Puddle | Shaun Radecki |
| Gristle | Heidi Hornbacher |
| Hail Mary, Full of Grace | Sarah Wallin |
| Happily Never After | Almas Haidery |
| Hebrew School'd | Jessica Jacobs |
| Help From Above | Jonathan Wax & Matthew Hoch |
| Ho'omau | Kayla White |
| Holiday Getaway | Christian Scott |
| Homing Schooled | Andrew Hopps |
| Hopscotch (A Musical) | Paul Cenzoprano |
| Hot Santa | Elizabeth Dean |
| Hotshot | Ella Wagner |
| How I Spent My Christmas Vacation | Ken Lingo |
| I Am Cham-Cham | Audra Wheeler |
| I'm Dreaming of a Perfect Christmas | Laura Harbin |
| Incognito | Maud Brizard |
| Indian Summer | Madhu Powar Garg |
| Interloopers Unite! | Elizabeth San Marco |
| Into The Dreamscape - Pilot | Jay Kasten |
| Invisible | Cynthia Riddle & Peter Hunziker |
| Irish Eyes | Andrea O'Malley |
| Isle of Despair | Margaret and Ben Silebi |
| Ivorywood | James Hess |
| Jack | Lori Ochsner & Michele Evans |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jonah of Gath-Hepher | Tim Roberts |
| Jude and Aria around the World | Barbara Lettieri & Daniel Shertz |
| Kayla Baker, Curse Breaker | Laurie K. Miller |
| Keepsake | Connie O'Donahue |
| Knocked Offstride | Robert Hamm |
| Let 'er Buck | Maren Curtis |
| Life As Egypt | Khadija Diakite |
| Little Green Mend | Linda Whitmore & Brian Menz |
| Little Sister | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Living in Technicolour | Imogen Dow |
| Love and Insurrection | Ernestina Juarez |
| Mestengo | Theresa Carey |
| Missy Understood: Professional Problem (Solver) | Karen Lukesh |
| Model Home | Barbara Sundstrom |
| Morning Star | Gary Blackwood |
| Mummy Business | Angelo Campos |
| Mustard Green | Patrick McConnell |
| My Ex's Xmas Wedding | Molly Sullivan |
| My Secret Zoo | John Parenteau |
| New York Times | Robert Simon |
| Nick's Fix | Melissa Calderone |
| Ohana | Christie Hayman |
| Old Folks | Trevor Garner |
| One More Hit | Brad Max |
| One of a Kind | Kendall Myers |
| Opal | Stephanie Palacino-Hernandez, Scott Porterfield & Rusty Watkins |
| Our Better Angels | Steven Michael |
| Out of My Comfort Zone | Ivy Vale & Rick Reil |
| Package of Dreams | Bradley Look |
| Parental Consent | Bart Baker |
| Paw Prints Guide My Dreams | Julie Young |
| Perfect to a Tee | Sharon Spaeder |
| Personnel and Confidential | Holly Hofmann |
| Pieces of Eight | Bruce Leaf |
| Pirate World | Michael Horwitz & Julia Nickerson |
| Pixylations | Joe Laudati |
| Playground P.I. | Elliot LeBoeuf |
| Princess UP! | Tina Field Howe & Carolyn Meland |
| Professor Pepper's Ghost | Jon Miller |
| Puzzle Island | Chaz Pruchnicki |
| Reading Christmas | Piper Ozmer |
| Real Heroes | Richard Hohenrath & Carolina Lovera |
| Rooks | Sultan Santiago |
| Rooster | Greg Kaufmann |
| Roy Rydell | Johnny Arnold |
| Royal | Paul Newcombe |
| Running Gun | Mike Bencivenga |
| Santa Claus Lane | Lynda Halligan |
| Santa Hood | Claudia Johnson, Matt Stevens |
| Santa's New Sleigh | Elizabeth Dean |
| Santa's School for Santas | Ben Gillman |
| Saving Ivy | Loretta Caravette |
| Say Boo | Francis Abbey |
| Second Place Jake and the Soda Pop Kid | Stephen James |
| sELFie | Elisa Eliot |
| Shade | Nick Inglis |
| Skyjacked to a Starless World | Adrian C Catarzi |
| Sled Race | Kevin Jordan |
| Slow Moe | Xan Wynne-Jones |
| Small Fryes | Chad Aaron Keller |
| Solomon's Train | Troy Perkins |
| Song of The Dolphin | Lise Pyles & Richard Scott |
| Space Homey | William Maxwell |
| Special Treatment | Colin Murphy |
| Spirit Box | Rumi Oyama & Joseph Pham |
| Spirit Guide | Matthew Gutierrez |
| Spun | Eva Flamm |
| Star Sailor | Matthew Katz |
| Starlight | Hunter Cline |
| Strike it Rich | Anthea Piscarik |
| Summer Crush: The Musical | Sara (Dinga) Behl |
| Summer's Demons | Greg Scharpf |
| Super Nova | Soma Helmi & Sam Boyer |
| Super Puppy Boy | Marc Rosenzweig & Davey Jarrell |
| Sweet Valley Spy | Sierra Hall |
| Teenage Villain in Love | Laura Becker & Donnie Becker |
| The Adoption | Linda Cattani Mark Schimmel |
| The Ark | Teri Brown-Jackson |
| The Bla-Tinos | Marco Martinez |
| The Blue Ball | Jona Doug |
| The Bunnies | Elizabeth Shew |
| The Buugs | Enkhee Chuluun |
| The Christmas Coma | Marta Reeder |
| The Christmas Eve Party | Menelek Lumumba |
| The Christmas Notes | Craig Clyde |
| The Colony | Drina Connors Kay |
| The Curious Journeys of Samuel Mullins | Katie Combs |
| The Elsewhere Gift | Janice Leverett |
| The Fight Is On | Keisha Jackson |
| The Flame Tree | Judith Duncan |
| The Friends Who Raised Us | Kayla Blaise |
| The Glassmaker | Chaz Harris |
| The God Machine | Michael J. Bowler |
| The Good Coach | Scott Winfield Sublett |
| The Great Wingzini | Shaun Radecki |
| The Half Life of Harry Figg | Mark Wesley |
| The Hero | Lori Ochsner |
| The Homecoming: a Christmas Story | Teresa Burke |
| The Hunt for Summer | Chelsea Perrotty Talbot |
| The Kidnapped Claus | Conor Dwyer |
| The Knight Witch | Emily Shelton |
| The Last Ones | C. D. 'Pete' Peterson |
| The Last Shootout of Calamity Jane | Laura Morton |
| The Latchkey Kids | Richard Martin |
| The Long Hard Night | Steve John Bennett |
| The Magic Coupon Book | Stan Evans |
| The Magnificent Vectors | Barbara Lauria Moore |
| The Miracle Moment | Bryan Marvis & Brian Doyle |
| The Monarch Guild | Jason Ancona |
| The Peculiar Predicaments of the Mississippi River Rats | Rain Story |
| The Quarterback's Christmas | Julie Young |
| The Rainkeeper | Sarah Brogren |
| The Secret of Boomer Lake | Peter Schnell |
| The Skeleton Crew | Evan Powers & Alex Brown |
| The Slimies | Jeff Delaney |
| The Tinkerer's Rose | Julie Coles |
| The Ugly Crow | Genna Masia |
| The Wishing Tree | Astrina Patten |
| There's An Alien In My Bathtub | Randall (RW) Hahn |
| Tiny Dog, Giant Cat: The Olive and Appelflap Mysteries | Joel Gelman |
| To Fly | Debbie Castanha |
| Touch Point | Wayne Christensen |
| Trick | Jeffrey Ullman |
| True, Love | Javid Rezai |
| Tsunami | Stuart Creque |
| Undercover Elf | Tony Binns |
| Unwanted House Guests | Jennifer Phillips |
| Upstate | Shanda Sawyer |
| Volos: First Appearances | Trey Thompson |
| Vulcan Station | Robert Mitchell |
| Wait for Me | Hannah Bate Nelson |
| Wanted | Duane Piedmont |
| We Are the Memories | Eric Endres |
| Whalk | Daniel Yonathan |
| What We Leave Behind | David Duty |
| What's Left of Us | Joseph Hemsani |
| When in Rome | Amy Amani |
| With a Little Luck | Laura Becker |
| Y'All of Fame | Christopher Cayen-Cyr |
| Year of the Ox | North Saylor |
| Yes We're Related | Teaa Taylor |
| Young Will | Carolyn Cameron |
| Zen + 2 | Miranda Filippides |
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