Announcing The 6th Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 8, 2019
Listed below are the semifinalists of the 6th annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship, selected from roughly 2,500 applications. Congratulations to these talented semifinalists and thanks to all for submitting this year. It was an especially competitive year, with a record number of applicants and exceptional writing samples. We look forward to discovering this year's recipients!
Up to four emerging TV or film screenwriters will receive the ScreenCraft Fellowship, which includes an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles, lodging at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and a week of meetings, mentorship and personal introductions to studio executives, literary agents, managers and producers including Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, and more.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the top 50 finalists on June 19th, and the top 10 finalists and grand prize winners on July 10th, here and our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries for the 2020 season, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the semifinalists:
| (No) Sex Required | Mexi Gremillion |
| 6 Days in November | Justin Hughes |
| A Girl I Used to Know | Maria Edible |
| A Handful of Fire | Conor Simpson |
| A Man's Castle | Joseph Whaley |
| A Native Land | Caitlin McCarthy |
| A Puncher's Chance | Gabriel Gonzalez |
| A War on Terror | Peter Haig |
| Aaron's Law | David Boyd |
| Afro-American | Divoni Simon |
| Albatross Gardens | Lee Whitten |
| All The Way Happy | Melinda Hicks |
| Amasai and The Meaning of Evil | Austin Curreri |
| American Epic | Keith and Brian Elias |
| American Justice | Monique Peek |
| American Tacos | Memo Noriega |
| American Venus | Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds |
| Amok | Leanne Mangan |
| Angel of Rain | Lawrence Kennon |
| Apache | Cameron Barsanti |
| Artist, Unknown | Brady Morell |
| Astral Place | Benjamin David Hoffman & Shay Roman |
| At the Edge of the World | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| Automatic Perfection | Karim Kamal |
| Bad Jew | Adi Blotman |
| Bad Luck vs. Karma | Aaron Davis |
| Baron of Havana | Alex Simon |
| Beanstalk | Aarthi Ramanathan |
| Big Kids | Ella Gabriel |
| Bitterroot | Matthew Kaler |
| Black & White | Rick McGovern |
| Blinders | Edward Klau |
| Blood and the Rye | Rajiv Shah |
| Blood Debt | Alexis Howell-Jones |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Blurs | Jonterri Gadson |
| Board to Death | Jodi Teti |
| Border-Line | Kam Perez & Laith Nakli |
| Breaking Them Up | Dev Wadhwa |
| Bring The Children | Michael Wormald |
| Broken Promises | DJ Burr |
| Brutus | Adam Simmons |
| Buried At Sea | Derek Roy |
| Burning Sea | Christos Kardana |
| C U Next Tuesday | Kimberley Gonsalves & Michele Yeo |
| Canaan | Ben Johnson |
| Century Row | Todd Zing & Irish Rivera |
| Chicago Overcoat | Abby LaMarre |
| Children of Free | Kaycee Hughes |
| Chinatown Bee | Sylvie Hurat |
| Choke Canyon | Duane Graves & Justin Meeks |
| City of Trees | Christian Lybrook |
| Cold Feat | Trent Tackbary |
| Cold Harbor | Guy Polin |
| Common Good | Brady Morell |
| Concrete Jungle | David Kushner |
| Confessions of a Las Vegas Phone Girl | Aimee Adell Johnson |
| Corolla | Jackson Chow |
| Costa del Crime | Samuel Ellis |
| Coup D'etat | Leslie To |
| Cricket | Ohad Ira Amram |
| Critical Mass | Tom Radovich |
| Crooked | Nalini Sharma |
| Crossing The Ocean | Devin Klos |
| Dancing on the Edge | Aileen Li |
| Dark Horizons | Carlo & Erin Carere |
| Darwinistas | Jerry Landry |
| Desdemona | Nelson Downend |
| Devotion | BT Allen |
| Digiverse Hotel | Scott Thiede |
| Disbos | Leanne Mangan |
| Disfluency | Anna Baumgarten |
| Disorderly | Martin Ingle |
| Doc | Robert Clark |
| Double Scoop | Megan Swertlow |
| Dream Warriors and The King in Yellow | D.C. Lozar |
| Drifted | William Holman |
| DTF | Daniel Gentile |
| Edison and Tesla | Peter Gazdag |
| Elsa Miller's Monster Manual | Brian Otting |
| Emergent | Brian Kazmarck |
| Encounters | Gary King |
| Entanglement | Michael Cavallaro |
| Ephebe | Thomas Mann |
| Exiles | Catherine Hug |
| Feeling Unreal | Mandi Maxwell |
| Fender Bender | Jeremy Foley & Sara O’Reilly |
| Fernando | Adam Lujan |
| Ferocity | Kevin Bachar |
| Finding Cumberbatch | Ivan Tsang |
| Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
| Fixing Up | Kristine Eckert |
| Flying High | Janine DeMaria |
| From the Wilderness | Christina Tucker |
| FUJH | Margaret Colligan |
| Girls Like Us | Randi Pink |
| Go, Nina, Go! | Luisa Parnes |
| Goodbye My Enemy | Matthew Ryan |
| Great Falls, Montana | Lawrence Stroud |
| Group | Josh Sullivan |
| Guts n' Glory | Kat Sieniuc |
| Hamburg | Alexa Schulz |
| Hammer | Mark Diamond |
| Hard is the Good | Susan Brunig |
| Harlem Days | Tiffani Joseph |
| Harmony | Amanda Smith |
| Harold's Harbor | Kyle de Villafane |
| Harvest | Lauren Rouse |
| Hell Explained! | Monique Peek |
| Hell Is An Open Door | Jim Lopezzo |
| Heroes Guild | Dalton Short |
| Heroin and Dandelions | Callum Fordyce |
| Hinder | Riley Longworth |
| Holy Man | Michael Petty |
| Honey's Unicorn | D. A. Jolivette |
| How To Make A Man | Jake Arky |
| I'm Not Okay (I Promise) | Annie Nishida |
| Illicit | Minji Kang & Luke Spears |
| Iron Mountain | Catherine Kelleher |
| John and The Funeral Band | Nicholas Manuel Pino |
| Joppatowne | Michael Mirabella |
| Juicy Hotdogs | Aaron Kozak |
| King James | Collin Blair |
| Kiss & Makeup | Liz Thompson |
| Kiss of Darkness | Michael McClung |
| Kuntz | Stephanie Herrera |
| Lagniappe | Yancey Hrobowski |
| Las Alas | Joie Lamar |
| Last Hawaiian Sugar | Deja Bernhardt |
| Laurelwood | Torry Pendergrass |
| Light From Above | Roi Costa |
| Like a Thief in the Night | Kyle D'Odorico |
| Little Girl Gone | Kaili Capito |
| Macabre | Kelly Krause |
| Mad Jack | Kelsey Nicklaw |
| Madam Caraveil's Caravan of Curiosities | Amanda Keener |
| Master of the Carpathians | Dave Miller |
| Measure of Vengeance | Danielle Eliska Lyle |
| Meet Me in a Dark Alley | Jessy Lauren Smith |
| Mendoza | Felicity Evans |
| Midnight Monster | Jonathan Wymer |
| Mind Fuck | Jeff Perreca |
| Minimart Recon | Brad Martocello |
| Mischa | Darko Antic |
| Missing Pete | Gordon Hvolka |
| Monster(s) | Aidan Largey |
| mother Nature: Flood | E. Napoletano |
| Mother Tongue | Ann Rosen |
| Murder Ballads | Ben Morse |
| Muscle and Bark | Gina DeAngelis |
| N A T I V E | Kevin Walls |
| NancyGirl | David McMahon |
| Napoleon | Kevin Karp |
| New World Order | Molly Vogel |
| Newsers | Jennifer Kim |
| Night Music | Lukas Huffman |
| No Man's Land | Johnny Gao |
| Obscured | Edward James Anderson |
| On Probation | Sergio Cámara |
| Operation Diamond | David Kushner |
| Orientation | Rebecca Jordan Smith |
| Orinoco Flow | Fidel Ruiz-Healy & Tyler Walker |
| Other Heavens | Roope McGirr |
| Our Father | Patrick Lehe |
| Over The Rainbow | Lucia Tarantino |
| Pacific Standard Time | Alex Calleros |
| Painted by You | Suzan Battah |
| Paradise, PA | Amy Monaghan |
| Part-Time | John Murphy |
| Parts | Craig Page |
| Passed from Me | Brian Mulligan |
| Passing Strange | Claire Brooks |
| Peculiar Animals | Obiageli Odimegwu |
| Phenom | Julio Toro |
| Plan C | David Ngo |
| Plight | Mykell Barlow |
| Poachers | Adam Etheridge |
| Primal Losers | Joshua Smooha |
| Private Flight | Anthony Noto |
| Quarter Life | Breona Johnson |
| Queenside | Federico Manachino & Jessica Romagnoli |
| Quill and Dagger | Maddie Ehrenreich |
| Raw Data | Gareth Wronski |
| Red Summer | Ryan Porter |
| Rikki Tikki Tavi | Tobe Roberts |
| Roomies | Gareth Wronski |
| S.H.A.R.P. | Josh Auter |
| Safe Words | Molly Brady |
| Salton Seabirds | Kyra Rogers |
| Savage | David Schlow |
| Saving Mark Twain | Staton Rabin |
| Scary Bear | Chris Buckingham |
| Screener | Kerry Douglas Dye |
| Second helpins | James Gulian |
| She can fly too | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| Sheltered Earth | Bill Burton |
| Shooting Stars | Michael Lederer |
| Shores of a New Blood | Mark Schmitz |
| Shoshanna | Justin Olstein |
| Shu's Shadow | Ming-En Cui |
| Signs & Wonders | Liz Maestri |
| Silverfish | Robert Vicens |
| Skin | Ahleea Zama |
| Skyjack | Clarke Mayer |
| Social Engineers | Moutaz Jad |
| Sophie & Valentina | Lucy Luna |
| Spoken | Tricia Lee |
| Start Breaking My Heart | Grant Harvey & Ijaaz Noohu |
| Steed | Eliza Janssen |
| Stone Cold Crazy Mother Tucker | Katterina Powers |
| Stray | Amanda Weier |
| Student Visa | Paul Chang |
| Sundogs | Elizabeth Chatelain |
| Talk Black | Destiny Macon |
| Tenebrium | Elanor Miller |
| Terminal | Kate Gleason |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Botz | John Eleftheriou |
| The Bronte Girls | Caroline Franklin |
| The Change | John Iadarola |
| The Chindi | Nicole Elmer |
| The Christmas Eve Party | Menelek Lumumba |
| The Coup | Joe Ayella |
| The Crazy Ones | Shaun Perry & Jay Perry |
| The Dance of the Bull | Alex Hodgson |
| The Danger Inside | Tyler Rabinowitz |
| The Devil, a Rebel, a Fool | Clayton Fusco |
| The Diary of Scotty McBride | Tim Hewitt |
| The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
| The Doula | Chelsea Gray |
| The Dreamer of Dreams | David Kushner & Joshua Bullock |
| The Empty Sea | David Poulshock |
| The Exile | Ryan Bliss |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| The Ghosts of Éire | Kerry Patton |
| The Hammer | Jason Hunter |
| The Hero of The World | Staci Greason & Linda Hill |
| The Italian Lover | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Last Battleship | Michael Levine |
| The Last Canadian Virgins | Evan Rindler & Jon Rizik |
| The Long Road | Elie El Choufany |
| The Lost Girls | Dustin Schmidt |
| The Maj | Mandy Vicsai |
| The Napoleon of Crime | Mel Evans |
| The Night Nanny | Elizabeth Sekul |
| The Night Witches | Steven Prowse |
| The No-Goods | Michael Hubbard |
| The Old Soft Shoe | Claire Walker |
| The Paul Bearers | Jonathan Hall |
| The Pharmacist | James Trabert |
| The Pit | Kevin Bachar |
| The Queen Of Caspary | Laura Solow |
| The Queen of Magic | Roxanne Beck |
| The Remnant | Michael Natale |
| The Revolt of the Whales | Michael Rhodes |
| The Salt War | John Darbonne |
| The Seventh Circle | Corbin Christopher |
| The Shadow Of The Beast | Felipe Holguin & Andy Sierra |
| The Shortest Name in the World | Dom Chapman |
| The Silver Screen | J.J. Bitters & Marian Xochitl Mendez |
| The Spirit of Detroit | Don Downie |
| The Steven of Planet Earth | David Sajadi |
| The Surveillance of Ordinary Things | Susan Brunig |
| The Switzerland Incident | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| The Unsung | Katy Dore |
| The White Mouse | Molly Gardner |
| Their Island | George Bearpark |
| Thinking Dirty | Stephanie Brister & Michael Buchanan |
| This Close | Marc Messenger |
| This Town | Steve Clark & Alex Williams |
| Those Who Hear It | Charles Hopkins |
| Three Sisters | Jen Gutierrez |
| Time of Dewa | Kesewaa Boateng |
| Top of the Hill | Kushagra Kundra |
| Torch | Jason McBeth |
| Touch the Fire | Kevin Karp |
| Towns End | Trevor Lawrence |
| Transfigure | Kenneth woodall |
| Treasure Hunt | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| Tribute Artist | Richard Stone |
| Twelve Nights In Hoboken | Indigo Hughes |
| Uncatchable | Kofi Oliver |
| Under an Olive Tree | Tara Atashgah |
| Unto Eden | Annette Rodig |
| Up, Up, And Away! | Tommar Wilson |
| Vile People | Tim Neavin |
| Walt | Robert Troccolo |
| Wavelength | Todd Zing & Irish Rivera |
| Welcome To Hell | Ricky Camilleri |
| Welcome to the Slums | Bryan Young |
| When The Desert Was Home | Corey Deshon |
| Whose Sky is No Less Grand | Amanda Norman |
| Will to Power | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
| Wolves Don't Cry | Scott Fleishman |
| Word Over Word | Tonia Davidson |
| Written By Elodia Jane Wilder | Portia Pennington |
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