2024 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists

Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 500 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:
1066 | Ben Mansbridge |
20 Fights: The First Seven | Lesley Fera |
A Friend | Paul Goda |
Active Shooter | Martin Taylor |
ALLIANCE | Suzanne Griffin |
Amazonian | Jimmy Keyrouz |
An Intuitive Touch | Geoffrey McCue, Allison Chaney |
Arrows of the Eagle | Matthew Kance |
Artifice | Eric Murphy |
AVALANCHE | Andrew Vasconcelles |
Back to Vienna | Nicholas Schmid |
Bad Behavior | Kamran Gossieaux, Emma Mitchell |
Bad Dates and Aliens | Navid Mehrjou |
Bandits, Bullets, and A WHOLE LOTTA BAD! | Phillip Rogers |
Bangkok Dice | Michael Arzola |
Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
Breakout City | Brando Benetton |
Buried Treasures | Kerry Glamsch |
By The Horns | Donn Kennedy |
Campaign | Leon Thomas Braun |
Change of Status | Julia Amaya |
CHARLIE 5 | Sean Mick |
Chase and Ghosts | Stephen Knox |
Code Breaker | Marine Mondelot |
Cool, Cool Blue | Jason James |
Credible Fear | Jonathan Flicker |
Cutterman | Edward Gadrix |
Cybercide | Stephen Kwietniak |
Dancing on a Tightrope | Jesse Kalfel |
Dark Veil | Criss Gidas |
Dead Money | Mukilan THANGAMANI |
Devil's Son | Jackie Lee |
Dragoon Squadron | Chuck Copeland |
Eight Thirty Two | Tom Knight, Rick Mischke |
El MATADOR Volume One | Thomas Oliver Hand |
Embargoed | Seamus Gearin |
Envenom | Nishanth (Ender) Gottipati |
Existential | Brandon Marlon |
Eyes of Fate | Catherine Wright |
First Person | Max Lamkin |
Fools' Errand | Eric Sandefur |
FOUR WEEKS IN SWARGA (PARADISE) | Darshana Sanghrajka |
Frostbite | Robert Yahnke |
Ghost Mamba | Michael Dzurak |
Guardian of Rome | Jakob Vestergaard |
His Horse is Crazy | Sven Anarki |
Honey Hill | Genevieve McDevitt |
Inferno Protocol | Alex Sosin, Chris Courtner |
Jacked | Pablo Briz |
Joseon Cowboy | Ross Denyer |
kratos | choon wah tan |
Lady Seraphim | JERMAINE JONES |
Lodestar | Willis Kuelthau |
Lorenzo Savage Is A Dead Man | Oscar Jordan |
Malevolent Domain | Dominic Bell |
Mannahatta | Douglas Foscale |
Mercury Retrograde | Nino Aldi |
MOTHER FUCKING SNAKES | Stephen Krespel |
Murder Mountain Moonshine | Brett Elam |
Off The Rails | Grayson Brooke |
Out of Print | Richard Stringham |
OVERLORDE | Brian Streaty |
Pray with a Bullet | Julius Galacki |
Preservation | Glenn Gebauer |
Price To Play | Eric Lin |
Pustka | Edel Dmytro Oksamyt |
Riddle | Shiva Ramanathan |
Robin's 'Hood | Danielle R Erlich |
Rogue Unit | Ryan Lee |
Ryder's Escape | Rich Duisenberg |
Savage Gambit | Michael J. Alcorn |
SEAL Team '76 | Takeo Hori |
Separated By Force | John Ravitz |
Shadow Walker | Tony Cuesta |
SHELBY KANE | Bridget Bell McMahon |
Six Sabotage | Jeff Edwards, Rob Jaeger |
Sixgun Saint | Warren Lane |
Stealing the Mona Lisa | Erik Corradino |
Stopping Power | Andrew Jenner |
Stormheart | Meshal Alsaleem |
Strike | Charles Borg, Johnny Vongnaphone |
Stuntwoman | Merridith Allen |
Superheavy | Julia White |
talos | choon wah tan |
Terminal | Alex Vaii |
The 10th | Rudi O'Meara |
The Art of Lies | john cooney |
The Ballad of Bam Barlow | James Sismanes |
The Beast of America | Julia Jones |
The Book of Raquel | Olga Holtz |
The C-listers | Benjamin Ingram |
The Counterpart | Samantha Schell |
The Demon Hunter | Eddie Orton |
The Devil, a Rebel, a Fool | Clay Fusco |
The Disciples | Richard Duchalski |
The Eye in the Pyramid | Nick Helweg-Larsen |
The Golden Fountain | Lianna Smith |
The Handoff | Ariel Palin |
The Houdinis | Ron Mondz |
The Lady Pirates | Theresa Carey |
The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
The Last Travelers | Darrell McGregor |
The Longsword Hunter | Chad Magnant |
The Message | Ben Ellis |
The Night Watchman | Thomas Gaunt |
The One Percent | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
The Place We Stand Together | Catherine Wright |
The Revanchist | Ivan Mooh Mooh |
The Savant | Terrance Walker |
The Tunnel | Paul Pastore |
Time Piece | Evlampia Papadopoulos, Brett Stanning |
Totem | Jeffrey Kennedy |
Triggered | Elliot Seidel |
Trophies | Peter Van Horne |
Two Dudes, Some Kids, and an Epic Viking Curse | Laura Becker, Donnie Becker |
Unidentified | Darren Moran |
UNION | Marc Moody |
Victor, The Wild Child of Aveyron - The Musical! | Marc Moody |
WAR HEAD | CHUCK Oneil |
Wild Race | David Cooper |
Wish List | Joseph Fattal |
X/WIND | Richard Pohl |
Year Of The Dead | Fernando Salaiz |
Zero Line | Timothy Kontje |
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