2022 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft - updated on July 21, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain 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:
| 'Chariot' | Jon Platt |
| 100 Acres | Alexander Major |
| 179 | Sasha Isaac-Young |
| 20,000 Kilos Under the Sea | Richard Wickliffe |
| 3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst | HF Crum |
| 4-19-95 | Matt Skuta |
| A Simple Life. | Marrianne Rayhill |
| A Wild Sort | ann clothier |
| Absolved | Kyle Curry |
| Ace of Spades | Marie Veverka |
| Adobe Walls | Gary Pratt |
| Agatha | Christine Keleny-Craven |
| Age of Consent | Sean Armstrong |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| Altars of Greed | Brennan Howard |
| American Way | Jake Thomas |
| Amp'd | Matthew Gowan |
| An Ideal Wife | Sarah Knight |
| Anais Nin: Letters to a Father | Claire Chubbuck |
| Angelmaker | Annika Pampel |
| Arthur On The Moon | Owen Hornstein |
| Back Fires | Alex Blumberg |
| Bad Fairy | Steve Holbert |
| Bare Republic | Rick Helin |
| Beat Me In St. Louis | Nick Clarke |
| Beer Barons | Micah Kelber |
| Behind Closed Doors | Kristine Scruggs |
| Bellum | Adria Budd-Johnson, Paula Jean Hixson, Michelle Boback |
| BIBB AND THE CANDYMAN | Giovanni Vines |
| Black Elk: Lakota Warrior, Servant of God - Episode 1, The Great Vision | Terence Rousseau |
| Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993 | Eddie Clay Thompkins III |
| Borduas | Michael Cutler |
| Brave Faces Fellowship | Caitlin Amans |
| Burning Blue | Federico Sanna |
| Burning Shield | Landon J Napoleon |
| Cass, John, Michelle, Dennie | Timothy Bubenik |
| Change Gonna Come | Ryan Philander |
| Claus | Barry Ambrose, Juan Castro |
| Commanding Tyger | Andrew Van Slyke |
| Cosmos Black | Eliot Cooper |
| Crescent | Ryan Owens |
| Crossbreed | Adrienne Thorne |
| Damn With Faint Praise | Hossein(Shahin) Karbalaeetaher |
| Deacon Jim - Prayers and Redemption | James Robert |
| Deacon Jim III - The Last Redemption | James Robert |
| Desert Shield | Justin Kyker |
| Destroyer of Worlds | Gregory Rocco, K.M Murphy |
| Diary Of A Countess | Stuart Alan Creque, Bea Egeto |
| Die On Your Feet | PAUL SOKAL |
| DONNER | Jace Daniel |
| Double Dutch | Ian Isaacs Henry, Lucas Clark |
| Dr. Jekyll | Dave Del Greco |
| Drop | Sara Chekroun |
| DUMAS | E Coleman |
| El Cucuy | Shane Redding |
| Em & Toby vs. The Gulches | Steve Holbert |
| Extremis | Robert Powers |
| Eyes of Fate | Catherine Wright |
| Fishtown | Guy Patton |
| Fort Hood Three | Matthew Baetz, Antonio Mora |
| Georgia 0' | Ben Lokey |
| GHOST TRAIN | Cory Marciel |
| Giselle | Brett Leigh |
| Good Town | Mary Louise Wells |
| Great Encounter | Paa Mannoh |
| Gypsy of the Sky | Izzy Kearney |
| Have You Heard About Harvey? | Sam Wright |
| Hawaii Calls | Rick Helin |
| He Who Beat Napoleon | Michael Skaide |
| HEAR ME ROAR | Lynwood Shiva Sawyer |
| Hearst vs. The World | Gina Hall |
| Heaven's Gate | DJ Burr |
| Henry Wallace | Michael Long |
| HEY, JOHNY | Alex Dvorak |
| HOPING | Eric Yang |
| Hot Girl $ummer | Mary Egan |
| House of Bag-El | Samuel Lewis |
| Hugo Hercules: The World's First Superhero | David Rivas |
| I KNOW EVERYTHING | Isabel Drean |
| Ichabod | Adam Ritchey |
| Iconoclast | Gannon Kenney |
| Identities | Bruno Lyra |
| IF THEY WERE OF US | Rosemary Griggs |
| Insight Hell on Earth | JOSEPH MURKIJANIAN |
| Into the Fire | adam Fidler |
| Into the Mind of Dawid | Cilla Lowen |
| Iron Clad | john williams |
| JESUS OF MILAN | Paul Arrowsmith |
| Josh, Bro | Stephen Krespel |
| Journey to Othello | Charline St.Charles |
| Kayla | Danny Torres |
| Kent | Sarah Granger |
| Kill Cromwell | Stuart Benson |
| Kintsugi | Desa Larkin-Boutté |
| LA CHINGADA | Mary M. Carson |
| Lady Sasha | Shawn Waugh |
| Le Train | William Swanson |
| LEAKS | Quinny Young |
| Legs | Richard Hoffman |
| Literally Too Mad To Die | C. Raymond Martin |
| Little Sparrow: The Edith Piaf Story | Unnamed |
| LK | Olivia Thomas |
| LOOK DEEPER | Donna Lane |
| Lost Boys | Ben Warner |
| Lullabies for Lieutenants | David Carren |
| Madame Caillaux | Jack Filsinger |
| MARCOS | Janelle Gatchalian |
| Marley's Chains | Brian Gene White |
| Meet Him in Hell | Janine Meston |
| Michelangelo Builds a Snowman | maria hinterkoerner |
| MIRIAM | Debbie Danielpour |
| More Than Nine Lives | Nick Gambino |
| MOURNING DOVE CAFE | Margaret Newlin Rice |
| My Tainted Blood | Paul Sargia |
| Nellie Bly Takes on the World | Chapter One: Into the Madhouse | Brittany Bookbinder |
| Newspaperwoman | Simone Wymbs-Stevens |
| No. 7 | JanEric Ohrn, Alan J. Field |
| North Star | Ricardo E. Miranda |
| Oakland | Andrew Koponen |
| Ona in America | John Barnett |
| Once Upon a Time in Lincoln County | Dustin Drye |
| One | Kelly Rouse |
| Orangeburg 68' | Calhoun Cornwell |
| Percy and the Knights of the Round Table | Dennis Luu |
| PESHMERGA: THE DESERT PEACOCK | Ana Gamundi |
| Pineapples in the Winter | Kelly Buchanan |
| PRISONER OF HEAVEN | Douglas Rappaport |
| PUEBLO | John McCarney |
| Push It! | Mirella Christou |
| Queens of the Sky | James Windeler, Elizabeth Goode |
| Race Me, Darling | David Margolis |
| Rails Run Parallel | Carole Starcevic, Orso Vesperini, Guy Laudereau , Aurèle N’Dja, Terry Newman |
| Rappaccini's Daughter | Kat Bosworth |
| REBEKAH | Callum Williams |
| Redneck Army | Whitni Resides , Mark Brown |
| Remember Me, The Luigi Tenco Story | Stephen Krespel |
| Riding with Charlie | Shintaro Ogai |
| RIKKI TIKKI TAVI | Shannon Amborn |
| Ritchie Boy | Alan J. Field |
| Riverview | Michael Warmoth, Riley Warmoth, Renee Warmoth |
| Run! Run! Run! - The Lives of Abbie Hoffman | Michael J. Shapiro |
| Sailaway | Marie Veverka |
| Sarah Over There | John Griffin |
| SAVING JUNE | Todd Tavolazzi |
| Scarlet | Amanda Mortlock |
| Shadowboxing | Darryl Anka |
| Skunkworks | Adrian Duston-Munoz |
| Small Decisions | Gary Rose |
| Smoke Follows Beauty | Chantal Peterson |
| SMOKE ON THE WATER | Margaret Newlin Rice |
| Soldiers of the Righteous | Peter Mourougaya |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| Soviet Rebel Girl - Pilot | Andy Roninson |
| Stand Accused | Debbie Danielpour |
| STATION OMEGA | Jordan Vogeney |
| Stealing Wyeth | Cameron Elmore |
| Summertime | Abby Sciortino |
| Suzanne Valadon: The Sin I Will Commit Again | Mikelle Kruger, Patrick McKenna |
| Sweetwater | Malcolm Badewitz |
| Swimming Upstream | Ricki Linksman |
| Taxi King | Giovanni Pugliese |
| Ten Dollar House | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Terra Nova - Episode 1 - SCOTT | Jon Tedman |
| Terror and Virtue | Ernest Pysher |
| Thar She Blows! | Alexandra Drachkovitch, Steve LuKanic |
| The 27 Club | Drew James |
| The Art of Starving | Joe Favalaro |
| The Ballad of Billy the Kid | Eric Wilson |
| The Baltimore Plot | Paul Kimball, Parker Jamison |
| THE BRICKYARD BOYS | Tom Swimm |
| The Crusade | Gregory Cohen |
| The Devil and Dick Gregory | Sean Slater |
| The Final Round | Gary Allison |
| The Great Stone Face | Stephen Coll |
| The Great Unknown | Dale K. Pitman, Glenn M. Benest |
| The Haber-Bosch Process | Rachel Schaefer |
| The Happiest Place... | Jon Davis |
| The Illegal | Howland Crowe |
| The Invisible Woman | Derek Weissbein |
| The Lady Who Slipped On The Ice | Ellis J. Kelsey |
| THE LAND I WALK | Sam M. Duane |
| The Last Lecture of Dr. Frankenstein | Christopher Nicastro, Drew Lang |
| The Man Who Began It | Steven Page |
| The Marrow | Christian Raymond |
| The Mercury 13: The Jerrie Cobb Story | Kelley Brower |
| The Moneyer | Jonathan Young |
| The Night Witches | Steven John Prowse |
| The Ortiz Sisters | Deborah Louise Ortiz |
| The Passion of Pauli Murray | Sean Slater |
| The Rats in the Walls | Annarosa Schiavone, Luca Violante |
| The Rebel Queen | Richard Kelly |
| The Reluctant Hero | Rudy Gray |
| The Remedy or A Surrealist History of Remedios Varo | janit baldwin |
| The Resistance | Stacy Milbourn |
| THE RESTLESS BEST | Todd Garrison |
| The Second Sex | Sarah Chang Tadayon |
| THE SEVEN SUTHERLAND SISTERS | Des Burnison |
| The Skylad | Peter Force |
| The Upstairs Lounge | Gregory Vines |
| The Web | Rachel Salaman |
| The Wood That Weeps | Craig Boreth |
| Thomas | Alix Conde |
| Thomas/Thomasine | Evan Garrone |
| To Kill Your Friends | Roberto Carmona |
| TRENCHROB | Andrew Rose |
| TRICE | Matt Foss, Carlos Washington |
| TUMBLERS | David Nathan Schwartz, Michael J. McDonough |
| Twitchell | Andrew Edison |
| Under Dark Waters | Jeff Nowak |
| Unsinkable | Kate Imy |
| Victorious | Jessica Sipos, Nicholas Lendvoy |
| Walt | Jordan Smith |
| WASP | Leanne Porter |
| When the Bears Took Bourbon Street | Preston Parker |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| Whispering Danger - A Gothic Tale | Matthew Lashua |
| White Gold | Benjamin Del Vecchio, Jair Kornegay |
| Who Killed Zebedee? | Scott Kirkpatrick |
| Whole Again | Marine Devlin |
| Wilder at Sunset | Mark Wasserman |
| Wish You Were Here | Erica Lane |
| With Love Like Lava | Khris Burton, Colin Scott |
| Worth Fighting For | Steve Tornello |
| Young Arthur and the Lady of the Lake | Barry Ambrose, Juan Castro |
| Yuanfen | Lynn Mills, Briana London |
| Zero Day After | Mitchell Golden |
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