2016 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced
Listed below are the quarter-finalists of the second annual ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest, representing roughly the top 25% of entries received. Congratulations to all who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages!
#BlackLivesMatter by Lawrence V. Dunbar Jr.
A Beautiful Day by Fredrik Colting
A Better Beta by Evan Kubena and Dan Erickson
A Big Day For Cicily Brown by Michael Gibney
A Bloody Reunion by Maza White
Ace Of Alice by Nick Wheelehon
A Friend In Need by John G. Snyder
A Helping Hand by Sam Gill
All In A Night’s Work by Christopher Cabral
A Month by Zgjim Terziqi
An Act Of… by Mitch Forrester
Apart by Christopher Dodge
A Protest In Time by Nicole Faucher
Askin’ For It by Kerry Gamberg
A Solitary Sickness by Casey Cardinal
A Sonata For J by Kevin Park
A Sonnet by Sonya Gritskevich
A Special Night by Diana Kaluza
A Trumpeter’s Tale: My Encounter With Remington by David A. Roth
At The End Of The Rope by D.J. Williamson
Auntie Ava by Toddy Burton
Balls Out by Tim Westland
Basic Principles by Leonardo Pereira de Oliveira
Bingo Man by Chris Beadnell
Blackland Salvage by Cullen Metcalf-Kelly
Blood Money by Mya B
Blue Skies, (Smiling At Me) by Peter Emina
Boxhead’s Window by Cassidy Burher
Carlton’s Trumpet by Robert Frankel
Celestus by Carl Huebner
Click by Rory McQueen
Closer by Matthew A. Wright
Coasters by Terry W. Marsh
Continuum by Tom Warwick
Crash Land by Victoria de Mey
Cypress Creek by Michael Henderson and James Smith, Jr
Damned If You Don’t by Paul E. Clinco
Darkstar by Ryan Welford
Dead Man’s Game by Max Marlow
Dead Ned by Keith Shepro
Death From Above by Annie Julia Wyman
Death’s Lady Love by Stephen M. Hunt
Defy by Zach Bell
Del Rio, Texas by Abhiraj Trivedi
Don’t Be Afraid by Ryan Folmsbee
Don’t Go To Heaven Alone by Antony Buonomo
Don’t Sweat It by Andrew Eckhoff
Double Crossed by Eric P. Granger
Dougie Dog by Montgomery Burt
Do You Also Feel A Tingle? by Lucía Valverde
Draft Pick by Elliott “EL” Porter
Dr. Baker by A.U.B.I.E.
Dream Land by Tom Canning
Dr. Neurotic by Jason Skorski & Matt McHugh & Aran Singh
Duet by Kerry Douglas Dye
Earworm by Mike Finnegan
Echo by Drew Rogers
Echoes by Matt Sconce
Ex-Bestfriend by Conrad Haynes
El Bestia by Jeremy B. Storey
Everybody Has A Thing by Allan George
Family Time by Adam Roper
Fetch by Sam Gill
Ginger by Sippanan Wimolkasem
Godsend: A Small Fable by Hank Isaac
Goodbye Nancy by T. David Rutherford
Habana Boxing Club by Danniel Rodriguez
Hallowalien by Geoffrey Uhl
Hands Down by Amy Russo
Hello I Must Be Going by Sara Pratter
Help Me by Leo Manning
Henry Porter by Lee M. Krempel
Hide It From The Light by Patrick Akers
Himiko by Ilaria Fravolini
Home Fires Burning by Anders Vacklin
Infinite Surrender by Scott James
Inked In Blood by Paul Corricelli
Insomnia by Troy Stainthorp
Interview Requested by Leah Curney
Interview Room #1 by Chris Liliedahl
It’s On Us by Tim Oliveri
Jar by Jason Noxon
Jessie by Christopher L. Robinson, Mike Boss and Ethan McDowell
Jonah by Chase Kinney
Judas by Karl Larsson
Kinker’s Lament by Kevin Kimball
Kirchturm by Karl Livingstone
Last Stop by Donna Bellorado
Lavender By The Sea by Giuseppe LiMandri
Layers by Gabriel Mota
Leap by Jacob de la Rosa
Let’s Talk by Katherine Jacobs
Letting Go by George Schwimmer
Letting Gone by Cheryl Isaacson
Liberty Gal by Saviana Stanescu
Life After by Gino Tarabotto
Lights In A Forest by James S. Richards
Like A Thief In The Night by Liana Vazquez
Listen by L. Skye Miller
Listen To Me by Matthew Onorato
Little Fires by Brendan Handlen
Little Heaven by Boris Hartl
Locked In by Holly Hargreaves
Lola by Nicole Bogdanovic
Love’s Baby Soft by Vicki Speegle
Lovin’ It by Stuart Creque
Mama Who Bore Me by Bec Heim
Man Eater by Mary E. Sekela
Man Of The House by Andy Chapman
Minyan by Adam Ansell
Mixtape by Steve McMahon
Mosquito by Darcy Conlan
Mourning Sir Fluff by Victor Hollingsworth
Music Of The Sea by Amy Falkofske
My One In A Million by Michael Gibney
Naxos by Abigail Bean
Newsworthy by Rachel Troche
Night Of The Year by Jennifer S. Deayton
On the Day I Love You More Than My Phobias by Sam Gill
P.A. by Rob Myatt
Painful Beautiful Sex by Jeff Aron Lable
Paranoid by Brock Barker
Petey 2.0 by Zan Gillies
Pink Colton by Sebastian Hayes
Points by Inês Reis
Porcupine Protagonist by Kari Barlas
Poster Boy by Dean W. Law
Purged by Philip Dorr
Quietus by Joshua Bartolome
Radish by Mel DuPont
Rank by Nynne Riis Jensen
Rascals by Tomasz Cichoń, Katarzyna Śliwińska-Kłosowicz
Reginald Ross Matters by Taz Goldstein
Sacrament by Daisygreen Stenhouse & Jane Hollon
Saint Rehab by Malachi E. Broadus
Salvation Cinema by Alan de la Rosa and Travis Schweiger
Sapient by Rory Gamble
Scales by Robert Porter
Scarecrows by Daniel Ramirez
Scrimmage by Ajani Jackson
Season Of Sacrifice by Nick Jones
See Something Scream Something by Justin Michael Terry
Service by Travis L. Sharp
Silent Sentinel by Joe Dzikiewicz
Snakes In The Grass by Sandra Bekvalac
Speak Easy by Erin Ruthe
Spurs by Simon Tatum
Steel Harvest by Christiaan Alexander Kutlik
Steeping Tea by Eli Mead
Suited Reality by Aki Parhamaa & Anders Vacklin
Suki And The Moon by Rani DeMuth
Sunshine by Christina B. Catucci
Surfing The User by Ash Lazer
Tag by Stuart Creque
Thank You For Syncing by Ash Lazer
Thank You For Watching by Dillon D. Slack
The Acolyte by Sammy James, Jr
The Auteur by Jason Skorski & Matt McHugh & Aran Singh
The Balance by Blair Downey
The Best Little Neighborhood In Chickasaw County by Thomas Kennedy Pope
The Cell by Christian Vincent
The Chocolate Kandinsky by Suzanne Griffin
The Clock Tower by Max V. Carp
The Closet by Zach Griffin
The Crime. The Punishment by Antony Zaki
The Curse Of Valor by Kris Thompson
The Dark by Cullen Kelly
The Depths by Kai Towns
The Dock by Liz McBee
The End Walks by Bo Liebman
The Facts of Life by Chris Beadnell
The Farm by Laurel Vail
The Final Approach by H.M. Ostrove
The Flower Thief by Dani Bailes
The Good Life by Michael A. Lenz
The Greater Good by Ryan Folmsbee
The Imaginist by E.M. Spairow
The Interview by Ande Case
The Joans’ Killer by Jimmy Kelly
The Jumper by Alexander Ansimov
The Key To A Man’s Heart by James Schlesinger
The Lightkeeper by Zach Bandler
The Many Faces Of Truth by Tess Hogue
The Missing Piece by Joshua Cordova
The Mustard Seed by Gina Roche’
The Nerve To Say by Justin Stoeckel
The Party by Dan Jobson
The Party by Rebecca C. Scott
The People At The End Of The World by Chris Slevin
The Pickaxe by Arno Hazebroek
The P.O.W. by Neil Graves
The Reconciled by Karen Bayly
There’s Something About Jimmy by Peter Devonald
The Ride or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Travel In Time by Brent Godfrey
The Rose by Tavyn Gentry
The Sacrifice by Shane Weisfeld
The Screenplay by Patrick Assouad
These Broken Wings by James Schlesinger
The Search For Buffalo City by Raymond Wallace & Todd Densmore
The Sound Of Flowers by Amie S. Williams
The Street Photographer by Jim Norman
The Sun Welcomes You Home by Jason Asnes
The Tickle Killer by Megan Dineen & Danny Ferry
The Toymakers by Joshua R. Cordova
The Unicorn by Brad Johnson
The Wait by Jamie Luke Milligan
The Witching Hour by Gregory Veeser
They Eat The Bad Things by Dana Brawer & Sean Lee
They Fall Fast by Ed McCarthy
This Man Must Cry by Alan Loubeau
This New West by Ryan Evans
Tied by Megan Porter
Ties by Joanne Brouard
‘Til You Make It by Anatasia Rudakova-Aquil
Time After Time by John Woodard
Time Piece by Michael Meyers
Tomorrow Ever After by Joe Madley
Tomorrow We’ll Tango by Tony Greengrass
Totality by Tia Salisbury
Tower Of Strength by J.B. Storey
Trampoline by Tylie Cox
Trick-Or-Treat by Carlos Perez
Twirling by Karen Loseff
Two-Point-O by Miguel Flores Gamez
T’zva Adom: The Color Red by Michael Horwitz and C. Ashleigh Caldwell
Ugly by Laura Villandre
Unclean by Shannon Emigh & Hanaa Saleh Alfassi
Under Streetlights by Jonathan Hopson
Under The Willow Tree by Caroline Bucholz
Unfinished Manuscript by Geoff Ely
Unreliable Narrators by Sara Alize Cross
Unrequited – “Betrayel” by Marvin Kaye
Unsung Hero by Michael J. Leider
Untitled Zombie Movie by Scout Durwood
US Navy Cine-Kodak by Stephen M. Hunt
Variably Kari by Dan Nicholls
Wait For It… by David J. Stieve
We’re Not Broken by Jessy Leigh
Wheelies by Bob Canning
When Mountains Crumble by Cíntia Taylor da Silva
White Death by Shaun Grimsley and Michael James Hall
Who Is This? By Sammy James, Jr
Wildflower by Cameron Chapman
William Wishes by Michael P. Vidler
Wisdom by Ben Abrass
With Aplomb by Anna Alaimo
With Every Breath by Victoria Rosendahl
Wounds By Saltwater by Tzu (Vivian) Lin
Writer Blocked by Alexandra Williams
Yardage by Kenny Condon
Yusef’s Medal by Steve Brehm
Zip by William F. Castonzo
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