2021 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 5, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,200 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:
| "If Not For Fiona" | Heather Lehrman |
| 1066 | Sam Wright |
| 1892 | P.D. Hogan |
| 3 Daring Nobodies | Bradford Richardson |
| 8:32 | Brendan Ethredge |
| A Dangerous, Glamorous Job | Rangeley Wallace |
| A Grozny Affair | Zed Martin & Thomas Joseph |
| A Jury of Her Peers | Conner Conway |
| A Living Sacrifice | Michelle Cutler |
| A Long Time Ago | Jordan Smith |
| A Tale of a Thousand Nights | Laila Ujayli & Zaina Ujayli |
| Abiding Hope | Jeff Shevlowitz |
| Adarna | Arvin Panganiban |
| After Neverland | E.R. Womelsduff |
| After the Cinders | Adam Bertocci |
| Afterburn | Lawrence Cremo |
| Alaska Dawn | John Collins |
| Alek- Episode 1: Visible Speech | Dylan James Amick & Daniel Glenn Fissmer |
| Amelia Earhart | Michael Dunker |
| American Doctor | Veronica Reyes-How |
| American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
| American Kingdom | Sonia Sebastian & Deborah McNulty |
| Antillia: Conquest Gold | Jason Todd |
| Aqua Tofana | Daryn Robinson |
| As Reported By Miss Genevieve Forbes | Rachel Coomes |
| Assassin | Ben DeHart |
| Badlands Bully | Nick Davis |
| Ball Humbug! | Michael McIlraith & Heather Wilk |
| Bandit Bae | Cierra Lockett |
| Be Nimble: An Appalachian Fairytale | Alex Clark |
| Becoming Tennessee | Judith Richland |
| Begin Again | Ioanna Lagonika |
| Below the Radar | Gemma Crofts |
| Bethune | Contona Thomas & Dhyana Ziegler |
| Betrayal of Reason | C.Hope Belmont |
| Big Winner | Mike Anderson, John Clavier |
| Billy & Ray | Mike Bencivenga |
| Black & White | Roland Millien |
| Black Moon Rising | Gary DeMoss |
| Blood Over Water | Stephen Parker |
| Bloody Williamson | Kristel Taylor |
| Bodhisattva | Adam Tran |
| Bold | Kate McLaughlin |
| Bonny | Tanner Moody |
| Brutal Journey | Tom Freyer |
| Built By Hart | Alison Bonn |
| Cake After Cake After Cake | Jill Brennan |
| Casey at the Bat | Jay Kenworthy |
| Casualties of Truth & Lies | Brian Thompson |
| Cavalier | Sydney Painter |
| Chopin The Series | Alex Balassa, Victoria Orvañanos & Marisol Mijares |
| Cimarrón | Jonas Watson |
| Citizen Nowhere | Kevin Ramlal |
| Cleopatra In Rome | Jon Davis |
| Come Tuesday | Jason Holmes |
| Cop Killer | Greg Goodness |
| Crimson | K.B. Lewis |
| Crush the Monster | Alex Odaguar |
| Damaged Goods | John Purvis |
| Damn With Faint Praise | Hossein(Shahin) Karbalaeetaher |
| David Boder | Jason Ruscio |
| Debating X | Adam Pachter |
| Delusions | John McKinney |
| Denmark | Robbie Robertson |
| Desire Street | Christopher Eaton |
| Diane Nash | Cierra Lockett |
| Diary of a Madman | John Henderson |
| Dog Of War | Katterina Powers |
| Don't Interrupt the Sorrow | Matt McKinzie |
| Doux: The Yvon Durelle Story | Brent Rouleau |
| Dracula | Madison Sean Flannery |
| Dragon Rider | Michael Tracy |
| Driven To The Edge | Christopher Pizzurro |
| Empire of the Clouds | A. E. Synenko |
| Eon | Marine Mondelot |
| Expatriate | David Fraser |
| Fair Game | Kent Reason |
| Fever | Carl Byker |
| Fire on Ice | Courtney Suttle |
| First Drop of Rain | James Brosnahan |
| Foolish Woman | Jared Neumark |
| Four Floors in Raqqa | Laila Ujayli & Zaina Ujayli |
| Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus | Jared Firstbrook |
| Fraternize | Michael Colucci |
| From the Whorehouse to the Whitehouse: The Scandalous, True Life Story of Victoria Woodhull | Julie Austin & Adrian Colesberry |
| Fuck New Rome | Erik Sternberger |
| Galahad | Nicholas Pangilinan |
| Garment | Shannon Amborn |
| Giant / Episode: "Gremlins" | Laura Swanbeck |
| Good City | Natalia Chown |
| Gore Vidal | J.R. Howell |
| Gramercy Park | Christen R. Carter |
| Granuaile: Ireland's Sea Queen | Laura Murphy |
| Harlem's Own | Justin Burgess |
| Harvard Secret Court | Cory Krueckeberg |
| Have You Heard About Harvey? | Sam Wright |
| Henry David | Wayne Baltz |
| Hesse | Jill Bayor |
| Home Game | Michelle Massie & Tim McHugh |
| How Things Work | David Baden |
| Huracán | Jesse J Cook |
| I Enjoy Being a Girl! | Brandon Krajewski |
| I Want My Own Name Back | Florence Buchanan |
| I'll Be OK | Mimi Hayes |
| Ida | Dru Murray |
| Ida Tarbell | Mark McDevitt |
| If They Were Of Us | Rosemary Griggs |
| Immortalis | Deborah West |
| Imre | Matthew Lashua |
| In Ponzi We Trust | Victor Rounds |
| Into the Lion's Den | Jane Gideon |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Johnstown | John Radzniak |
| Just One More Thing | Lisa C. Della Rocca |
| Just Watch Me - The True Story of Churchill's Favorite Spy. | Barry Siskind |
| Killdozer | Sonny Priest |
| Kingfisher | Will Horne |
| Kiss of Darkness | Michael McClung |
| La Maupin | Christina Hulen |
| Lady Driver | Stephanie Diaz |
| Lady Reporter | Michael Lucid & Michael Lannan |
| Lafayette Square | Katherine Martinez DeLeon |
| Lil | Ellen Dolan |
| Lily | Mike Fardy |
| Lioness | Fred Nutter |
| Long Live John Africa! | Sean Slater |
| Madame of Fire and Vice | Alison Wroblewski |
| Madeleine's Reflection | Ariane Hahusseau |
| Mama Hospital | Sara Vitale & Ellen Klein Pillsbury |
| Mansa | Rubiahna Vaughn |
| Maplewood | Joanne Caputo & Michael Ivey |
| Married At Fourteen | Terry Borst & Lisa Lucas |
| Martha | Casey Beck |
| Mary Mallon | Anna Vecellio |
| Mary+Flo | Lia Langworthy |
| McGwire & Sosa | Josh Bradley |
| Mé - Miniseries Episode 1: Scars | Lynn Morris |
| Messenger Dogs | Clark Ransom |
| Miske | Louis Spirito |
| Monsters: Introducing the Invisible Man | Will Vega |
| Morale and Safety | Daniel Johnson |
| Motherkiller (contact info on title page) | Terry Lynam |
| Mrs Washington Roebling | Daphne Rozenblatt |
| N.R.A. | Dan Williams |
| Newspaperwoman | Vivian Kerr |
| No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
| No Second Prize | Michael Wormald |
| Not My Brother | Kathryn Orwig |
| On Paper Wing’s | Nick Davis |
| On-The-Roof Gang | Matt Zullo |
| Once the Sun Rises | Shaun Crawford |
| Opera Valley | Nathaniel Nauert |
| Our Spirits Will Not Break | Lynda Lemberg & Jeffrey Russel |
| Paranomia | Anthony Vivian |
| Passāre: Ulysses Beyond The Odyssey | Charles Beckwith |
| Patty Hearst | Matthew Tennant |
| Peace Fury & The Dynamite King | Lynwood Shiva Sawyer |
| Pearl of the Desert | Rowena Squires |
| Persuasion | Zoë Hodge |
| Peshmerga: The Desert Peacock | Ana Gamundi |
| PETA | Brent Delaney |
| Petrov | Ryan Patch |
| Polynia | Vera Neverkevich & Daniel Libman |
| Ponzi | Josh Durst-Weisman |
| Publishing Hitler | Jordan Schursky |
| Red, White, & Juan | Ross Fischer |
| Republic Of Maryland | Jamie Noel |
| Ride! | John Foster |
| Ripples & Waves: A Modern Queer Retelling of The Little Mermaid | L.A. Witt |
| River and Boone Leave Babcock | Morgan Herrmann |
| Robin | Jessica Sieff |
| Robyn | Jennifer Smith & Kate Smith |
| Rosetta's War | kenneth lueders |
| Run the Devil | Matthew Evans |
| Run! Run! Run! - The Lives of Abbie Hoffman | Michael Shapiro |
| Saint Dorothea | Chris King |
| SCOTUS | Alan Jenkins |
| Searching for Tutankhamun | Ariane Hahusseau |
| Sellout | Robert Chimento |
| Seven Eternities | Mirella Christou |
| Severed Souls - "Uline Ice Company" | B. Isabella Bodnar |
| Séverin | Maggy Torres-Rodriguez |
| Sew Ann Lowe | Nicole Newman |
| Shadows Over Innsmouth | Bradley Stokan |
| SINder | Danielle R Erlich |
| Sleepy Hollow Halloween | Robert Janda |
| Small Boys | Robert Ivey |
| Small Decisions | Gary Rose |
| Sonder | Brian Deininger & Charlie Taft, Ian Young |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| Spiced | Hunter Cline |
| Spinner & Marie | Joanne Thomson |
| Spring-Heeled Jack | Nicholas Horwood |
| Stripped | Brittany Angley |
| The American Barkeeper | Stephen Krespel |
| The Arrow Collar Man | Ellen Ireland |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Bluff | Darius Turbak |
| The Boy Who Lost His Shadow | DJ Mineheine |
| The Burning Cold | William Drew Weinbrenner |
| The Cosmonauts' Keeper — Episode 1 — "Cedar" | B.C. Bell |
| The Crick | Dan Howlett |
| The Dead Travel Fast | Zach Roe |
| The Doodler | B. Bill Randal |
| The Electric War | Arthur Tiersky |
| The False One | Andrew Kevin Fawn |
| The Fierce Angel Of Chinatown | Jason Chan |
| The Four Fingers | Nico Bellamy & Chase Pestano |
| The Fourth Stowaway | Robert Hough |
| The Futurist Manifesto Against Biographic Cinema | Tom Wateracre |
| The Good Hike | Amanda Moresco |
| The Great Houdini | Alan Starzinski |
| The Greatest Race | Adam Somang Karlson & Joe Hayes |
| The Illegal | Howland Crowe |
| The Kallikak Crusade Pilot | Tom Holowach |
| The Last Trail | CJ Landers |
| The Light Princess | David McGranaghan & Julian Miller |
| The Little King | Warren Bouchier |
| The Longest Trail | Tracee Beebe |
| The Loss Of Innocents | Paul Walder |
| The Louis Braille Story | Susan Mestl |
| The Maharaja | Amar Rehal |
| The Man From The Getty | James Booth |
| The Man in the Brown Suit | Elizabeth Ditty |
| The Neverlands: Hangman's Tree | Jonathan Scott Parker |
| The North Village | Marya Sherron |
| The Other Actress | Zoe Miller |
| The Pearl of Gloucestershire | Paula Podgurski |
| The Pepper | Christine Garver |
| The Players | Chris Connolly |
| The Porter and The Stone | Nuh Omar |
| The Press | Robert Mellette |
| The Radical | Stephanie Stanley |
| The Rainbow God Box | Tripp Mills |
| The Red Pyre | Donald Grail |
| The Republic of West Florida | Sam Jay Gold |
| The Revolutionist | Xander Bernstein |
| The Ring, Episode 1: "Dionysus" | William Gerrard |
| The Rose and the Lion | Charles J. Musser |
| The Savior of San Westone | Calvin Leslie |
| The Sea Dragon | Adam Sharp |
| The Sixth of September | Lincoln Alabaster |
| The Sky Way | Robert Bertrand |
| The Soap Maker of Correggio | Tonissa Saul |
| The Son: Joshua ben Joseph | Cheryl Boyles |
| The Telltale Light | Joshua Rebell |
| The Twenty-One Gun Salute | Ronald Ecker |
| The Unattainable | Mary Hoogasian |
| The Understudy | David Hoffman |
| The Unfinished War | Eduardo Presa |
| The Utopians | Scott Winfield Sublett |
| The Valentich Disappearance | Christopher Eaton |
| The Very First Powder Puff Derby | John Purvis |
| The Yugo | Aaron Pollock |
| They Skate My Dream | Melody Mundy |
| This Is America | Lyric Fergusson |
| Thomas/Thomasine | Evan Garrone |
| Thrums | Brett Stanning & Evlampia Papadopoulos |
| Tragic Beauty | Jace Serrano |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues | Jacob Mulgrew |
| Uncharted | Mere Spitzmiller |
| Uncivilized | Vadim Egoul |
| Unsinkable Sam | The Gideon Brothers |
| Valentine | Debra Sharkey |
| Valley of The Lion | Joshua Katz |
| Vargas | Carlos Lozano |
| Vegas Baby | Sheliza Mitha & Marissa Hoeppner |
| Voice | Levi Buchanan & L. Kris Gowen |
| Wampus Cat | Jessica Wei |
| Washington's Revolution | Ryan Smith |
| We Flew When The Birds Walked | Daniel Leventhal |
| We Never Sleep | Peter Bettinelli 7 Matt Nickley |
| Western Approaches | Andrew Judge |
| What Would Walt Want? | Alex Rubin |
| When the World was Square | Irwin Greenstein |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| Where Is Shruti? | Kelly Lamphear-Dash |
| Where We Came From | Julia Morizawa |
| Will Scarlet | B.C. Bell |
| Wuthering Eyre | Christopher Cayen-Cyr |
| Young Arthur and the Lady of the Lake | Barry Ambrose & Juan Castro |
| Young Widow Coffin | Scott Carneal |
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