2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft on August 4, 2021

Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure 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!

Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on September 1st here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the Quarterfinalists:

*"Alethia"*	Wes Chick & Alexander Lawrence
*"The Communicator"*	Linda Smith
*1 Woman Army*	JJ Dean
*3 Daring Nobodies*	Bradford Richardson
*81 Hours*	Sandra Rubin
*A Blaze In The Brooklyn Sky*	Henry Winnik
*A Girl in the Rain*	Edward Givans
*A Random Act of Kindness*	Jason Hefter
*A Season of Wither*	John Henderson
*A Secret Journey*	Gary Piazza
*A Sheriff's War*	Jermaine Jones
*A White and Savage Land*	Alex Rivers
*AKLA-RA: The Quest for the Capra Crystal*	Brad Wozny
*All Things Falsely*	Suzanne Faber
*American Inferno*	Maceo Greenberg
*Another 5 Minutes*	Nilesh Yagnik
*Argyle*	Keir Beck
*Ashanti Maroon*	Natalie Duncan
*Atomic Yankee*	Matthew M. Brendal
*Avalon*	Geoffrey Caple & Kevin Sweeney
*Bandit War*	Michael Angelella & Jim Knotts
*Best in Universe*	Ian Irvine
*Blackfriar*	Chris Bolton
*Blood Runs Red*	Jim Gilbertsen
*Borderland*	Jordan Kaufman
*Borrego Springs*	James King & Chris Webster
*Breath of the Dragon*	Barry Duffield
*Brock Thompson*	Perrin Spychala
*Brock Wilbur: Adventure Pig*	Lukas Ridge
*Broken Nation*	Patrick Sanchez
*Captain Blood*	Natalia Vengerova
*Carnybirds*	Rachel Music
*Casualty*	James Lakas
*Cattledog*	Max Ernst
*Charioteer: "Wine, Sex & Circuses"*	Martin Fisher
*Chilango*	Ramona Taylor, Lisa Shelton & Jeff Surratt
*Chivalry*	George Alexanian
*Christopher Pan*	James Yantko
*City on the Edge*	Stephen Yaffe, Barbara Vaccaro
*Civil Savages*	Daniel Griswold
*Clipper*	Katharine Panzella
*Cloudy*	Jeffrey Field
*Code 99*	Robin Russin
*Collision Course*	Mike Cymanski
*Comix Zone*	Jack Pochop
*Commando*	Manny Fonseca
*Confluence*	Joel Dahl
*CryptoCamp*	Carmen Nevant
*Cult Following*	Anthony Griszell
*Cybercide*	Stephen Kwietniak
*Dance Til You Drop*	Sean Day
*Danger Wolf*	J. Hunter Richardson
*Dark Seas*	Daniel Woburn
*Dating the Dragon*	Nicole Rose Julian & Vince Elra
*Deadly Enterprise*	Edward King III
*Deep Courage*	Keith Young
*Día de las Carpas*	Marina Kato
*Diver Down*	Patrick Mulderrig
*Don't Go Alone*	Daniel Woburn
*Double Cross*	Donn Kennedy
*Down & Out*	Grant DeArmitt
*Dr. Jung and Mr. Lovecraft*	Maryna Gaidar
*Drink Cart Girl*	Leanna Adams & Heather Breslin
*Drive! Cal Gal Drive!*	Kurtis Theorin
*Duel on the Dalton*	Christopher Kearney
*En Canot*	Barbara Lettieri
*Entangled*	Jeffre Lowe
*Enter the Kingdom*	David Chang
*Exit Fee*	Gunny Troelstrup
*Felony Murder*	Jeffre Todd Lowe
*Finding Alexandria*	Sy Huq
*Finding Atlantis*	Katharine Panzella
*First Ascent*	Reinhard Cate
*Five Swords Under Heaven*	Logan Shaw
*Fly Into The Wind*	Alvin Lau
*Fontana*	John Michael Riva Jr.
*Force Majeure*	Jason Satterlund
*Forklift Gladiators*	Nik Wendelsdorf
*Fowl Road*	Matt Flynn
*Fox Run*	Dein Nuber & Brad Nuber
*Free*	Syd Blue
*Full Tilt Boogie*	C.A. Paulsen
*Galactic Security Agency*	Gerald Prophete
*Gare Du Nord*	Takeo Hori
*Gloomtown*	Lyndal Simpson
*Go to Hell*	Alex Sosin & Chris Courtner
*Gold Rush*	April McCutcheon
*Grass Snakes*	Danny Katz
*Greener*	Keyanna Wigglesworth
*Grierson's Raid*	Tim Kontje
*Gunship*	Dan Fraser
*Halcyon*	Brennan Reed
*Hard Quarry*	Michael Alderman
*Hartline*	Chuck Driskell
*Hell's Freezer*	Patrick Donahue
*Hellbound Heroes*	Rick “Boomer” Murrhee
*Hero of the Good Land*	Logan Shaw
*Hole in the Sky*	John Cooney
*Hooligans*	David Hollis
*Hoppers End*	Joe Eatman & Stu Baker
*Hotshot*	Colonel Mustard
*How to Hide from Machines*	Gregory Hoeft
*In Search Of.. Califia*	John McCarney & Phil Hollins
*Insurrection*	Simon Bowler
*Jacked*	Pablo Briz
*Jaegerfell*	Andy Smith
*Kingdom 419*	Clementina Ojie
*Kwame*	Matt McFadden
*Lacie in the Wonderverse*	Michael Ierulli
*Le Havre*	Tim Vanvilla
*Legacy of Shadow*	Todd Yerman & Jordan Yerman
*Level Up*	Hymnson Chan
*Lincoln File*	Josh Price
*Little Bit Long Way*	Sophia Riley Kobacker
*Lost Cause*	Garrett Rowe & Joe Varkle
*Lost Knife*	Sam Lu
*Lucifer the holy opposition*	Ruben Jones
*Mademoiselle Maupin*	Brandon Gale
*Making of Samurai*	Alex Kochetkov
*Marathon*	Alexander Hacker
*Max 101 - Edge of Forever*	Sam Lu
*Medstar*	Justice Schiappa
*Melaku*	Myah Matthews
*Melanin*	Mark St. Cyr
*Memory*	Jonathan Dillon
*Mercy Road*	Maria Doctor
*Mescalero*	Anderson Boyd
*Messiah*	Michael Lazovsky
*Metal Purge*	Richmond Riedel
*Mind Blown*	Paul Jarnagin
*Minimum Comfortable Distance*	Steven Snell
*Minotaur*	Tim Auld
*Momma Behr*	Nathan Cox
*Monster Moscow -or- Dick and Leo Fight a Monster*	William DeWitt
*Moon Dragon*	Richard Humphries
*Mummers*	Richard Hoffman
*National Insecurity*	Ray Keller
*Nature's Medicine*	Elden Rhoads
*New Storm Rising*	Alexander Kostoulas
*No Code of Conduct*	Martin Taylor
*No Direction Home*	Dominic DeJoseph
*Nothing More Than Cargo*	Joseph Craig, Jason Rein
*NPC*	Kenneth Pulgar-Vidal
*On Duty*	Carole Starcevic, Orso Vesperini
*Orphan Mountain*	Steve Dini
*Paranormal Panhandle*	Haley Manrique
*Partners In Crime*	William Weinbrenner
*PizzaBoy*	Ibrahim Renno
*Point Last*	Daniel Tartre & Kevin Greutert
*Prior Maine*	Kevin Marshall
*Prize Fight*	Natalie Ganey
*Pulse*	Pascal Mercay
*Rally Point*	Dillon Magrann-Wells
*Revelations*	Johnny Gilligan
*Robot Hunter*	Jason Williamson
*Romancing the Stone*	Sierra Hall
*Ronin*	Natalie Ganey
*Ruggers*	Ned O'Connor
*Runaway Ship*	Theodore Soderberg
*Sa'Be (The Legend of Bigfoot)*	Benjamin Sarno
*Saga*	Sean Fosse
*Scarecrow 07*	Greg Bennett
*Seal Team'76*	Takeo Hori
*Small Boys*	Robert Ivey
*Soft Targets*	Zeke Rodrigues Thomas & Jarrett Sleeper
*Spoiler*	Michael Sajewski
*Spoils of War*	Chandus Jackson
*Step Out of The Shadows*	Barbara Gilmore
*Stillwater*	Christopher A. Schultz
*Storme*	John Lowe
*Sunless Sea*	Danny McArthur
*Synergy*	Andrew Frank
*Taro: Legend of Japan*	Blue Spruell
*Teddybär*	Tommy Tang & Ryan Van Slyck
*Tempests*	Timothée Perrin
*Terror on the Prairie*	Josiah Nelson
*Tesla & The Outlier's*	Nick Davis
*The Bracket - Pilot*	Xavier Nathan
*The Confidant*	Jessica Bartholatus & Valerie Bartholatus
*The Conspiracist*	Thomas Thonson
*The Devil at Sundown*	Elizabeth Stevens & James Bruner
*The Dinosaur Four H*	Greg Rhem
*The Dynamiter*	Mark Miller
*The Eagles of Kandahar*	J.D. Mathes
*The Eighth Sea*	Anthony Rodrigues
*The Fall Girl*	Tara Hall
*The Fifth Domain*	Ken Kabatoff & Chris Shalom
*The Flamingo Run*	Ashley James Louis
*The Foo Fighter*	Allison Adler
*The Gigantic*	Taylor Zaccario
*The Gleaning*	Edward Kramer
*The Great Tea Race*	Shan Harris
*The Highwayman*	Troy Rudolph
*The Hold of Diomed*	Kevin McMahon
*The Incident at Two Pines*	Dan McLeod
*The Last Great Gold Heist*	Dein Nuber & Brad Nuber
*The Last Travelers*	Darrell McGregor
*The League of Luminaries*	Kevin Marshall
*The Light Princess*	David McGranaghan & Julian Miller
*The Longsword Hunter*	Chad Magnant
*The Magical Corps of Discovery*	Dustin Drye
*The Missing and the Dead*	Alexander Hacker
*The One Percent*	Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt
*The Pit*	Kurt Knight
*The Plant*	Wesley Hauptman
*The Potato Palace*	John Lawton
*The Queen of Heaven*	Jordan Wilson
*The Quilt Keeper's Son*	Debra Gipson
*The Revolt*	Brett Bowker
*The Rogues' Gallery Grand Prix*	Stephen Polakiewicz
*The Run*	Stephen de Villiers
*The Secret War*	Ernest Faisztl
*The Sexiest Man Alive*	Nathan Patton & Beau Thorne
*The Sisters Westerway And The Light Within Earth*	Abigail Dupee & Robert Riley
*The Sixth Extinction*	Jason Scott
*THhe Sword & The Serpent*	Mark Gunnion
*The Trident & Me*	Timothy James Sudano
*The Valley Isle*	Aleksandr Biskis
*The Watermaster*	Steve Marino
*The Wolf Spider*	Gabe Braxton
*The Wrong Candidate-Pilot*	John Ravitz
*Thunder Highway*	Jon Beauchemin
*Tiger Sea*	Suki Kaiser
*Too Far Gone*	Logan Grimes
*Transference*	Nicholas Wenger, Ellen Wroe & Kerri Brady Long
*Tricycle*	Jackie Munoz
*Trinity*	Andres Valentin Lopez
*Trophies*	Peter Van Horne
*Twenty-eight*	Deanna Russo
*Two Dudes, Some Kids, and an Epic Viking Curse*	Laura Becker & Donnie Becker
*Uprising*	Michael Castañeda
*Verity's Game*	Jennifer Giacalone
*We Belong*	Lucas Coleman
*Welcome to Nuristan*	James Christ
*Wild Wind*	Dominic Leyton
*Witchborne*	Malek Haneen
*X; or The Ascension of Gold Mountain*	Alexander Chard
*X/Wind*	Richard Pohl
*Yong Gunna*	Andy Marques
*Zero Signal*	Sebastian van Hoek
*Zoe Maddox and the Legend of Baoshan*	David Bold