2022 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 3, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 800 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 7th on our blog 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 are the Quarterfinalists:
| "Just" | Janie Porche |
| 1-800-DIVORCE | Mary Ann Rotondi |
| A FIRE INSIDE | Richard Martin |
| A Town of Outlaws | Adam Luff |
| Acid Gambit | Michael Alter |
| Acid Reign: Into Fallout Season 1 Episode 1 | Benjamin Wray |
| Across the Stars | Tim Kontje |
| ANOMALY | Dillon VanOort |
| Antarctica | Ryan Lange, Alan Peery |
| APACHE | Adam Seidel |
| Arcane | Sebastian Watson |
| Arrow of Honor | Robin Woldorf, Rik Center |
| As Time Goes By | Jon Davis |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| Away From All Suns | Rian McNamara |
| Backwaters | Jeffrey Craine |
| Barstow | Abba Smith |
| Black Tiger | Karl Mather |
| Blitzkrieg Follies | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Blood and Dreams - "Complicit" | Suzanne Griffin |
| BLOOD TELLS | azusa ohno |
| BLOTTER | HF Crum |
| Blowback | Eric Murphy |
| Boze Opa (Evil Grandpa) | Matthew Fahey, Joe Fahey |
| Breach of Trust | Lee Lawson |
| BRICKBAT | Mark Aaron Donnell |
| Broken Arrow | Tommy Tang, Emma Van Slyck |
| BROTHER TROUBLE | Mark Stouffer |
| Calamity | Nile Seguin |
| Captain Blood | Kate Imy |
| Catch The Fly | Michael Bezushko |
| Centenarian | Eric Han |
| Chaos Rising | Kyron McDermott |
| CHASE AND DRAGONS | Stephen Knox |
| Chivalry | George Alexanian |
| Class Warfare | Alan O'Brien |
| Collision of Duty | Jermaine Jones |
| CONTAINED | Monte Williams |
| Copiapo | G K |
| COPYCAT | Cory Marciel |
| Crab Walkers | Toneata Martocchio |
| CryptoCamp - Inciting Chaos | Carmen Nevant |
| Cyberia | Danny Baram |
| Dark Holds | Marko Josic |
| Dead Man's Hand | Austin Ellsworth |
| Death Waits In The Dark | Tom Levesque |
| DEEP CUT | Joel Jensen |
| Dogs of War | Jamaul Phillips |
| Domino | Justin Dec |
| El MATADOR VOLUME II: GUERRILLA WARFARE | Thomas Oliver Hand |
| Eleanor | Patrick Emralino |
| ENEMIZATION | Felix Halim |
| Eviscerator | Haven Johnson |
| EYEFUL | Howard Fridkin |
| Fast Cache | Jon Barton, Isaac Tomiczek |
| Finding Alexandria | Sy Huq |
| Fist of the Four Winds | Hayden Parsley |
| Floating Laura | John Anthony Celona |
| FLYTRAP | Justin Ballheim |
| Foreign and Domestic | Sean Slater |
| Forty Niner | Patrick Alexander |
| Freedom World | Willie Ying |
| GIRL AT THE END OF THE WORLD | Dillon VanOort |
| Go Darts | Tim Corrao |
| Go to Hell | Alex Sosin, Chris Courtner |
| Godspeed | Simon Sorrells, Casey Nelson |
| Gorgon | Richard Humphries |
| GRAY SHADOW | Laura Kirk |
| Gridlock | Pat Alexander |
| Gridlocked | Martin Wilson |
| Gunpowder | Janusz Bocian |
| Guns of Perdition | Jim Spivey |
| HALOS-1301 | Jason Baffa |
| Happy Birthday! | Nathan Cowan |
| He's Not Dead! | Sean Stapp |
| Heirlooms | Matthew Kelcourse |
| HEIST/HEIST | Takeo Hori |
| Hel, the last saga: The Series | Orso Vesperini, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic, Toby Osborne |
| Her Majesty | Keith Saltojanes |
| Here For You | Michael Buonocore |
| High Sierra | Kathryn Cehrs |
| Honeymoon | Vlad Vesa |
| HOUSE OF ETHER_script | JD Wallace, Jennifer Donohue |
| How To Steal A Kingdom | Valerie Bartholatus, Jessica Bartholatus |
| In the Eye of the Storm | William Young |
| IN THE SICK | Edward James Anderson |
| Into The Ether | Steve Brown, Robert Rogers |
| Invaders! | Deven Spencer |
| IRON MAIDEN | Travis J. Opgenorth |
| IRON SULTAN | Jamaul Phillips |
| Jacked | Pablo Briz |
| Jason Zheng and the Golden Bonze | Sergio Pintore, Daryl Well |
| John of Sherwood | Tom Richard Santos |
| Kandlestick Men | Frank Monteleone |
| Knuckles | William Federal |
| KRONOS | Ken West |
| Land Of The Free | Cody Beavers |
| LAWLESS -- Diary of a Fixer_Script | JD Wallace, Jennifer Donohue |
| Lawyers, Guns & Money | Will Kent |
| Legends of Tíshíā | Joshua Redfield |
| Loaded Cannons | Matt Corluka |
| Lost Knife | Sam Lu |
| Luna | Eric Han |
| MAX 101 - Edge of Forever | Sam Lu |
| McCoy | Kat Bosworth |
| Mescalero | Anderson Boyd |
| MIND BLOWN | Paul Jarnagin |
| Minutes to Midnight | Jack Wickliffe |
| Moonscope | Dave Fein |
| Mustang | Gordon Phipps |
| Nat Cady's Boys | Harris McCabe |
| NIGHT LODGE | Farzin Farzam |
| Nightmare Eel | Scott Kirkpatrick, Erin Zukowski |
| NINTH | Christopher O'Bryant |
| No Code of Conduct | Martin Taylor |
| No Greater Sin | Joe Favalaro |
| No Sin Greater | Shannon Kornelsen |
| Nobody's Heroes | Michael Elliott |
| Oasis | Eric Han |
| OF ALL THE GAMES | Ellis Bahl |
| Off-Label | Thomas Schrack |
| Once Upon A Time In Australia | Storm Ashwood |
| Once Upon a Time in Lincoln County | Dustin Drye |
| Operation Stormy | Martin Bernard Foley |
| ORAC ELLE | Frank Monteleone |
| Outlaws of Contrition County | Sam Ball |
| Overseas | Carlton Welch |
| PALADIN | George Ducker |
| Panay Reprisal | Jeffrey Seay |
| Paper Money | Addison Proctor |
| Parents and the Sleeper | Andrew Kimler, Paige Barr |
| Partners In Crime | William Weinbrenner |
| POWDER | Ria Fend |
| PSYCHOPAST | Joseph Capp |
| Purity Sterling | Robert Gallagher |
| QUEENS | Jamaul Phillips |
| Radical | Zack Redmond |
| Reign Supreme | C J Parker, Jon Taylor |
| Ruggers | Ned O'Connor |
| Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Saints and Simulacrums | Alex Arabian |
| Saints and Sinners | Brit Cowan |
| Samurai West | Carlos Gabriel Ruiz |
| SANCTUARY | Mehul Desai, Levar Kelly |
| SATORI | PETER KAUFMAN |
| SAVAGE PLANET | Cory Marciel |
| Savvy? | Pilar Gibson |
| Scarlet | Amanda Mortlock |
| Scoundrels | Spenser Thelonious Harrison, Joe Rosenbloom |
| SEAL Team '76 | Takeo Hori |
| Secret of the Ghost Killer | Natalie Phillips |
| Seeking Refuge | Ligia Storrs Rojas, Justin Storrs |
| Shentu Across the Ages | Allen Wu |
| Shoot | Chris Flora |
| Sidetracked | Ed Gillow |
| SILVER | Heather Kennedy |
| Sirens Vendetta | Antoine Mizel |
| Sisters of Mercy | Andrew Ilitchev, James Myers |
| Skpow! | Stephen Notley, Dwayne Martineau |
| SKUN | Donn Kennedy |
| Slim & Nun | Brandon Burkhart |
| Slush Turtles | Celia Ramsey |
| Snakes On A Ten Car Train | Stephen Krespel |
| Spectre Six | Wally Lurz |
| Spies, Lies, and Lovers | JD Wallace, Jennifer Donohue |
| SPY GAMES | Brian MacGregor |
| STATION OMEGA | Jordan Vogeney |
| Storming Fort Knox | Michael Hahn |
| Sumo | Eli Johnson |
| Super Zeros | Jaye Blohm |
| Suraya's War | Andy Patrizio |
| Survivor Duty | Kyle Curry |
| Sutton Holler | Tennessee Martin |
| SYNERGY | Andrew Frank |
| Tackle & Bait | Genevieve McDevitt |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Templar | Martin Taylor |
| Ten Texan Outlaws | Ian Martin |
| THE APPLICANTS | Justin Ballheim |
| The Astronaut's Daughter | Michael Hahn, Elisabeth Meurer |
| The Blue Nile | Richard Bailey |
| The Book of Blix | Danny Baram |
| The Boy on the Cover | Elizabeth Savage Sullivan |
| The Dame | Everett Fox |
| THE FIRST GENTLEMAN | Mark Gunnion |
| The Guardian of Eden | Chelsea LeRond |
| The Harpooner | Joe Mello |
| The Hazard Room | Mike Cymanski |
| The Horse Killers | Josh Flanagan, Ben Hurst |
| The Isle of Thom | Christopher Mancuso, Richard Miller |
| The Lady Luck | Nuki Williams |
| THE LAST STUNT | Elizabeth Weigandt |
| The Last Travelers | Darrell McGregor |
| The Library of Forgotten Technology | Mari Winther |
| The Long Dark Climb | Colin Francis Costello |
| The Missing Man | Michael Price |
| THE NIGHT WATCHMAN | Thomas Gaunt |
| The Once and Future Earth | Will Saunders |
| The Order | Jon Cohen |
| The Palaeontologist | Ross Peacock |
| The Patriot Program | Derek Dobson |
| The Pirate Queen | Nora-Jane Noone |
| The president's daughter | Sylvie Beaudin |
| The Rainy Day Fund | Patty McCarthy |
| The Streamer | Chadwick Shreeves |
| THE SUCK | Casey Costello |
| The Táin | Luke Hart-Moynihan |
| The Traveler | Peter Wiseman |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Walrus-Man | Evan Gwynne |
| The Woman With No Name | Jesse Sherwood |
| The X-Presidents | Hudson Phillips |
| THEY CAN ONLY KILL US THRICE | Brian King |
| This Is My Brother | Brent Minderler, Jesse James Dean |
| Three | Tripp Allen |
| Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | Pierce Young |
| TRUE BLUE PILOT | Jamaul Phillips |
| Tusk | James King |
| Two Lane Forever | Andrew Jenner |
| Under Dark Waters | Jeff Nowak |
| Undercover Deceptions | Richard F Russell, Anton Jokikunnas |
| UNION | Marc Moody |
| Verité | Billy Hanson |
| Victor, The Wild Child of Aveyron - The Musical! | Marc Moody |
| War in the Blood | Josh Flanagan |
| Warbird | Claus Schive |
| Warlord | Nathan Fleetwood |
| Westward Sunrise | Rob Carieri |
| Wheeler | Marshall Seese, Jr., Van Jensen |
| X/WIND | Richard Pohl |
| XS | Daniel Hogan |
| You Worry Me | Abigail Bloom, Laura Huie |
| ZOE MADDOX AND THE LEGEND OF BAOSHAN | David Bold |
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