Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional short 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 Semifinalists:
| 'Foxtrot in Fulham' | Janet H Swinney |
| "Mrs. Bischoff and the Close Observation of Schrodinger's Cat" | David Risk |
| "Surrender to Win" | Richard Butler |
| 1970 | DC Diamondopolous |
| 1992 | DC Diamondopolous |
| A Girl Named Polly | Kitty Trock |
| A Lullaby for Night | Jason Tostevin |
| A Meeting at the Mirada | Logan Dunn |
| A Seat at The Window | Herb Jordan |
| A Village in New Hampshire | Patrick McCusker |
| A Well Known Gun | Mike Kearby |
| A Witch's Hopes | Neil Flinchbaugh |
| After the Storms | Barrington Smith-Seetachitt |
| Afterimage | Tia Lindstrom |
| Almost Divorced | Ellen Leary |
| Anomaly | Jennifer Milne |
| Ants In My Blood | Kevin Berg |
| Anya | Ampora Yazdani |
| Around Dusk | Jason Lerner |
| Beautiful, Isn’t it? | Aristides G Kouvaras |
| Being Fred | Travis Richardson |
| Bell | Eric Roe |
| Biography | Vinny Lopez |
| Black and White | Gerald Elias |
| Blackbirds | Bashayer Almaazmi |
| Braidwood Bus | Caleb John Cushing |
| Candy and Sorrow | Wayne Christensen |
| Cerberus Is Waiting For Me To Cross Thrugh | Edw EmanuEl |
| Circus | Cassie Poormokhtar |
| City Girl | Sian Williams |
| Cleverstine Field | Rachael Maltbie |
| Coming Up For Air | Elliot Cowan |
| Count Cannibal's Castle | Larry Henrikson |
| Diodati Summer | Thomas Ascenzi |
| Doing Timeline | Yusuf DeLorenzo |
| Doom in a Darker Sky | Paul Davis |
| Dreams of the Faithful | Faith Merino |
| Dried Figs or Dates | Siawosh K. Eskandari |
| Eating, A Life | Ronan Ryan |
| Equity | Don Bapst |
| ESHE: The Fire Breathing Series, Book 1 | JD Mason |
| Everyone’s Gone to the Moon | Daniel Tierney |
| Everything and Nothing | Terri Porter |
| Fathers ad Daughters | John Pekich |
| First Kill | Timothy OLeary |
| Flight Risk | Thomas Thonson |
| Frank Winston | Jacob Power |
| Friday Afternoon | T.D. Johnston |
| Ghillie's Mum | Lynda Clark |
| Glass | Connor Dobson |
| Glass to Metal | Bryce Parks |
| Godammed Space Wolves | Sam Wiles |
| Granite Requires | TJ Berry |
| Guatemala Triptych | Bill Pieper |
| Hole in the Office | Mark Mitchell |
| Hotelin' | Sarah M. Chen |
| HRC | Brennan Michaels |
| I am Bhavani | Bindhu Prasad |
| It Was Their Shore | Alexander Mosier |
| Ivory Miniature | Robert C. Frink |
| Jim Morrison Lives! | Randall Sylvan |
| Kai | Jade Hayward |
| Kitty Doolittle: Stay at Home P.I. | Jennifer Milne |
| Knife Girl | Francelia Belton |
| Lego Me | Stephen Kanicki |
| Leith Braggan's Guide | Ayinde Ricco |
| Liars | Charlene Clarke-Todoruk |
| Lily | Nicole Watt |
| Little Girl In The Golden Tower | Josh Taylor |
| Locum | Saleh Karaman |
| Looking for Rain | Matt Wills |
| Make The Robots Laugh | Elena Perez |
| Memento Mori: Paris 1971 | Melissa Mitchell |
| Moonsong for Bernardo | Dick Morgan |
| Muri | Ashley Shelby |
| Mustapha and the Hunchback | Mike H. Mizrahi |
| Neither Here Nor There | Joban Gill |
| North of Delirium | Lynne Sherbondy |
| Null Girl | John Austin |
| 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 |
| Outraced | Ravinia Lee |
| Paying Dues | Brennan Michaels |
| Playing Cards | Richard Butler |
| Popsicle | Christa Wojciechowski |
| Poseidon's Eyes | Kary English |
| Present | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| 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 |
| Robot vs Dad | Mario Dhingsa |
| Rorschachs in the Snow | Julie Eakin |
| Saving Jaequan | Rebecca Greene |
| Shall We Dance? | Rick Niece |
| She's Still Waiting | Stéphanie Joalland |
| Shell | Barrington Smith-Seetachitt |
| Simulacrums | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| Skeets Unbound | Gary Bolick |
| Small Wonder | Matthew Brady |
| Smoke | Bill Mesce, Jr. |
| Son of a Saint | Brian Birmingham |
| Splintered | Mary Zalmanek |
| Striking Back | Race McKee |
| Strong Roots | Julian Brantley & Alexander Storm |
| Subtext | Richard Butler |
| Swamp Gifts | Gail Webber |
| Sweet Dreams Are... | M. R. Abbink-Gallagher |
| Sweet Souls | Charles Blackburn |
| Sylvie | David Dalessandro |
| T.L.W. | Katherine Martinez DeLeon |
| The Auctors | Jennifer Milne |
| The Ballerina of Baker Street | Patrick McCarthy |
| The Bends | Sofia Drummond-Moore |
| The Bicycle | Tom Sterner |
| The Boarder | Paul Toth |
| 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 Chicago Kareninas | Amanda ReCupido |
| The Christmas Show | Brennan Michaels |
| The Church Bells | James Wood |
| The Confinement | Tia Lindstrom |
| The Crossroads | A R Ashworth |
| The Devil's Strawberry Pepper Jelly | Patrick Harrison |
| The Didsbury Witch | Tess Humphrey |
| The Donor | Banning Lary |
| The Duck Days of Summer | Danny Agan |
| The Feast of St. Rocco | Darlene Cah |
| The First Space Trashman | Kenny Mclachlan |
| The Highly Unlikely Death of Mort Volfneuk | Rob Johnson |
| The Inner Man | John Stubbs |
| The Legend of Stacker Dan | Stacey Powells |
| The Lion | Richard Eschenroeder |
| The Love of Majoram | Stuart Forrest |
| 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 Passions of Voshmgir Farahani | Kuros Charney |
| The Peculiar Predicaments of the Mississippi River Rats | Rain Story |
| The Pursuit | Evan Bolick |
| The Quickening | Jennifer Hanno |
| The Revenant | Elise Forier Edie |
| The Road to Angeland | Kay Olsen |
| The Second Time Around - A True Story | Morgan St James |
| The Stars That Sing | Chris Tullbane |
| The Thickness of Blood | Vance Cariaga |
| The Truth | Joel Burcat |
| The Voice Speaks Back | JH Canedy |
| This Banquet of Blood | Harrison Voss |
| Too Done | Maria Sanchez |
| 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 |
| Westward Dreaming | Je'Lesia Jones |
| What Burns | LD Green |
| What Covers the House is a Roof | Matthew Haynes |
| Wheels for Legs | Kenneth James Nelson |
| Winter Plumage | George Benda |
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