2017 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced
by ScreenCraft - updated on December 28, 2017
Listed below are the quarter-finalists of the 2017 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition. These exceptional pilots were selected from over 2,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting. Stay tuned for the semifinalists announcement on November 21st!
HALF HOUR
| 18th & Mill | Daniel Queirolo |
| 2 Chicks + A Spaceship | Matthew Overstreet |
| A Podcast | Dara Katz, Betsy Kenney |
| Abroad Family | Tia Thiagarajan |
| Age Appropriate | Stephanie Bencin |
| Another Wei | Justin Liang |
| Area 51 | Joshua Smooha |
| Astoria, My Life | Mark Millner |
| Available | Candace Brown |
| Bad Feelings | Greg Smith |
| Bad Friends | Jess Mazza |
| Baked | Nancy Duff |
| Because You Can | Darla Phillips & Rebecca Spindler |
| Bermuda | Matt Black |
| Beyond Addicted | Scott Seiler |
| Big Gym | Cathy Strickland & Tim Pye |
| Big in the District | Anna Salinas |
| Black Republican | Joe Abel, Dwayne Perkins |
| Blood Vengeance | Ian Murillo |
| Bottoms Ups | Mia Pinchoff & Kristi Hall |
| Bourn into Porn | Jason Kubik |
| Box People | Daniel Turkewitz |
| Burger and Chips | Lyndon Booth |
| Chlora & Phyll | M. Rowan Meyer |
| Close... | Marissa Lessman |
| Colony One | David Minaskanian & Quentin David |
| Complex | Kelsey Formost |
| Curiosity | Tasha Hardy |
| Curtain Call | TJ King |
| Daddy Issues | Tom Mann |
| Darkhorse | Jonathan Klemke |
| Debt | Joe Fernandez |
| Dinner for Breakfast | Alex Klein |
| Disconnected | Kaela Crawford |
| Down With The Bureaucracy | Dimitry Pompee |
| Dummies | Craig Welter |
| Everyman | Jess Neuhauser |
| Failure to Communicate | Cala Adair |
| False Start | Jenna Cook |
| Family Business | Chris Thomson |
| Family Jewels | John Eleftheriou |
| Family Practice | Tristen MacDonald |
| Fantasy Theatre | Tate Hanyok |
| Frank Fetus, NICU | Hamilton Mitchell |
| Garçon | Gabriella Krousaniotakis |
| GM | Thomas Leupp |
| Gods | Vincent Stoia |
| Gold Coast Club | Hannah Rosner |
| Good Mourning | Hernando Bansuelo |
| Grandmaster | Langston Antosek |
| Gringo Realities | Steven Becker |
| Hall Monitors | Nicholas Nieblas |
| Happy Hour Hustlers | Cathy Beasley |
| Heart Attack Man | Brian Hanson |
| High On Mountain | Yigit Tokgoz |
| Homies | Amy Tasillo |
| Honkies and Homies | Ondine Rarey |
| Hot Mess Asians | JiJi Lee |
| How to Make Friends After 30 | Andi Royer |
| How To Succeed At Birth | Britt Sanborn |
| Hustlin' Ain't Easy | Teri Brown-Jackson |
| I Thee Bed | Celia Moodie |
| Infinite Gary | Joey Siara |
| Intelligents | Scott Reynolds |
| Irrelevant | Jaquie Brown |
| It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - "Ocean's 14 Minus 8 And George Clooney" | Matt Flynn |
| Izzy Immaculate | TJ Clark |
| Jennifer's Last Stand | Heather Kennedy |
| Jetlagged | Jeff Opdytke |
| Journos | Bill Janson |
| Killer | Madeleine Woolner |
| Leased | Michelle Lulic |
| Leila, Again | Naomi Brodkin |
| Library, Inc. | David Morrow |
| Little Green Men | Daniel Boggs |
| Master of Science | Zachary Tomlinson & Bryan Koo |
| Matt & Nick | Mark Robinowitz |
| Metamorphosis | Celia Blundo |
| Midnight Murder Mystery | Aaron Yeung |
| Moxie | Alexandra DiRuscio Cooper |
| Mr. Abdul Goes to Washington | Skander Halim & Gina Ippolito |
| 'Murican Family | Joshua Rakic |
| Not The Hero | Jordan Tandowsky |
| Nudge | David Crosman |
| Nyla | Sabrina Naqvi & Annie Hamdani |
| On the Line | Mathieu Hyams |
| One and Done | Jay Cundiff |
| Organism Mars | Alexander Shozda |
| Out | Alexandra DiRuscio Cooper |
| Out of Brooklyn | Debi Calabro |
| Paparazzo | Alex Lange & Scott Davidson |
| Part Time Professionals | Dustin Drye |
| Patsy | Spenser Querry |
| PG 30 | Vidhya Iyer |
| Pilgrimage | Heather Huntington & Danielle Evenson |
| Princess Lucy | Bruce Bennett |
| Private | Alana Branch |
| Provocateur | Ross Maloney & Jay Calhoun |
| Pulp | Raphael Loucadellis |
| Rangers | Seth Carlson |
| Razor and the "Normals" | Michael Berkowitz |
| Reboot | Daniel Kavanagh |
| Roy Unplugged | Marc Rosenberg |
| Rumspringa | Becky Prosky |
| Runway | Daniel Pizzato |
| Sandwiched | Christina Shaver |
| School of Drama | Michael Hamelin |
| Schooled | Melissa Kong |
| Scrambled Eggs | Brad Klipfel |
| Screwed | Susie Shannon |
| Self-Help | Corinne Kelly |
| Shadow | Mercedes Street |
| Shelf Life: By the Book | Debra Kamecke |
| Simonology | Grant Pardee |
| Soaked | Joshua Young |
| Soccer Mom | William Clack |
| Softeez | Sam Chappell |
| Space Cartoon | Dave Urlakis |
| Spanish For Beginners | Raul Martin |
| Special | Jay Cundiff |
| Special Teams | Jack Widman |
| Spies Girls - Chasing Jacob | Nir Shelter and Tai Scrivener |
| Squares | Timothy Hautekiet & Nick Horton |
| Stage Five | Alexandra Timmer |
| Starter Home | Kathleen McMaster |
| Still Practicing | Samuel Loeb & Ryan W. Smith |
| Straight | Emma Tattenbaum-Fine |
| Strings | Gerrard Hartland |
| Stuck As Steve | Brett Ryland |
| Subpar Natural | Evan James |
| Sustainable Living | James Bloom |
| Swipe | Jeff Opdytke |
| Switcheroo | Simon Weekes |
| The Bard | Joe Kardon |
| The Bitch From Season 3 | Carmen Angelica |
| The Board | Justin Grundfast |
| The Book Revenue | Edu Martins |
| The Coven | Bridget Visser |
| The Cynical Misanthrope's Handbook for Loving Kindness | David Morrow |
| The Fabulous Meany Manor | Darnell Jones |
| The Final Table | Patrick Dorsey |
| The Future Is Cancelled | Jack Rodgers |
| The Great White North | Jeremy Patrick Hamilton |
| The Homeless Crew | Joseph Aceves |
| The Islanders | Liza Behles |
| The Lab | Alicia Lomas-Gross |
| The Lane Train | Alex Brust |
| The Lesbian Spirit Guide | Lilly Camp |
| The Lucy Gray Agency | Pamela Jones & Anna-Lisa Jones |
| The Miserable Failures of Deef A'Dran | Arthur Iula & Matt Jeakle |
| The Nightmare King: The Name of the Screamer | Brian Forrester |
| The Reimbursements | Reid McGlamery |
| The Resident | Mike Gerbino & Zahra Alzubaidi |
| The Shame Game | Susan Sassi |
| The Three Baers | Josh Cootner |
| The Troupe | Haley Tomsheck |
| The Wrong Side of Forty | Lily Labovitz |
| This Is My Life | Nicole Gomez Fisher |
| Three Blocks North | Daniel Strauss |
| Time Fail | Stefan Tihanyi |
| Time Suck | David Crosman |
| Tinfoil Hats | Francis Stokes |
| Toots | Susan Sassi |
| Training & Devotion | Cathryn Naiker |
| Undocumented | Melissa White |
| Unfinished | Erica Tachoir & Corinne Caputo |
| [Un]Supervised | Bianca Catbagan |
| Upward Spiral | Pablo Goldstein |
| Vampire In Space | Carmen Angelica |
| Virtual | Peter Saltzman |
| Whiskey Ginger | Alan Kelly |
| Who You Gonna Call? | Ben Rosbrow |
| Wormhole to Hermosa | Noah Rieke |
| You Got This | Sarah Monson |
HOUR
| 5150 | Lauren Signorino |
| 4 Corners | Deirdre Statham |
| A Blind Man With Perfect Handwriting | Raymond Santos |
| Ad Hominem | Michael O'Rourke |
| Against The Odds | Tammy Kearly |
| All the Best People | Leif Johnson |
| Alt-Control | Michael Leung |
| American Dreamers | John Beaulieu |
| American John | Hernando Bansuelo |
| American Mayhem | Daniel Sheiman |
| Angelique | Nancy Tudor |
| Angels of Death | Mark Andrson |
| Apocalypse Maybe | Emre Ozpirincci |
| Arcadia | Sara Echavarria Roldan |
| Aurora Falls | Kadyn Michaels |
| Awkwardly Apocalyptic | Sarah Hopkins |
| Axion | Allen Glover |
| Bamboo Press | Su Ching Teh |
| Behind The Red Curtain | Shani Moore Weatherby |
| Being Infinite | Matthew Wanniski |
| Beyond the Drop | Henry Evans |
| Big City | Stefan Glidden |
| Bleeder | Aidan Largey |
| Blood Brothers | Peter Hunziker & Cynthia Riddle |
| Blood Goddess | Michael Conroy |
| Bloodlands | David Kushner |
| Blue Line to Blue Line | Bryan Kelsey |
| Blue Watch | Andrew Judge |
| Bluebirds | Simon Wilkinson |
| Bombshells | Alexandra Tran |
| Born Entertainers | Wilbert Stanton |
| Breeders and Whores | Megan Campisi |
| Broken to Heal | Scott Pittock |
| Brooklin (Ontario) | Marvin Kaye |
| Brotherhood | Eddy Hewitt |
| Caledonia | Daniel Snoddy |
| Cannonball Express | Mark Robertson |
| Care | Clea Litewka |
| Carla Margo | Amelia Phillips |
| Charleston | B. Francis Clark |
| Chasing The Dark | Mike Bencivenga |
| Civil Unrest | Jeff Perreca |
| Clandestine | Geoffrey Campbell |
| Cold Iron | Nathan Pardee |
| Coldwater | Craig Berger |
| Colonials | Ian Fletcher |
| Comic Book Heroes | Ron Brassfield |
| Companion | Nicholas Leitzke |
| Conduct Unbecoming | Matt Ritter |
| Connection | Jace Lacob |
| Copperhead | Simon Tatum |
| Corp Cult | Michael Kotsiros |
| Cracked | Susan Shepherd |
| Creator of Chaos | Richard Sharrah |
| Crimson Oeuvre | Tom Mann |
| Cuban Affairs | Marco Santiago |
| Curse and Judgment | Corey Moore |
| Daemonologie | Harry Hanson |
| Dalton River Deer Hunt | James Pendergast |
| Danelaw | Lexi Wolfe |
| Dark Eyes | Sydney Dire |
| Dark Horizons | Carlo Carere & Erin Carere |
| Dark Phase | Julia Cowell |
| Dead Shot Mary | Robert Benson |
| Deadheads: Home in Hartford | Bill Brennenstuhl |
| Delirium | Anna Chazelle |
| Demonic | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Deviant | Christina Farber |
| Dicks | Bill Hanson |
| Doctresses: The Book of Skulls | David Hutchison |
| E Pluribus Unum | Max Benowitz |
| Echoes of Bonnieville | Simon Schneider |
| Eire's Song | Kristen Nedopak |
| El Norte | Vicente Gutierrez & Will Souders |
| Elsewhere | Mark Kobylinski |
| Emmett In Peopleland | Larry Hankin |
| End of Days | Sonja Verpoort |
| End of Life | Sean Collins-Smith |
| Evolutionary | J.A. Romo |
| Exile City | Stephen Montagne & Nick Gomez |
| F.S.O. | Eric Bergemann |
| Fair Women | Chappell Ellison |
| Family Secrets | Allison Osborne |
| Feather Crown | Kate Lauryn |
| Feels Like Fame : The Mighty Fall | Stephanie Stivers |
| Filii Familias | Christopher Lastrapes |
| Finding the Dark | Mychal Sargent |
| First Lady | Elaine Stirling |
| Fisheye | Patricia Meyer |
| Force of Will | Jessica Sieff |
| Forgotten Law | Adam Hussein |
| Germantown | Renee Buck |
| Getty | Matt Ritter |
| Gilded Cages | Trish MacEnulty |
| Godly | Anna Salinas |
| Golden Cage | Hilik Haviv |
| Graves' Consequences | Edward Hamel |
| Gray Matter | John Valencia |
| Greyson | David Pinckney |
| Guardians of the Damned | Natasha Hall |
| H8 | Faisal Azam & Erica Velis |
| Hawk | Peter Fraser |
| Hereditary | Craig Berger |
| Hoop Kings | David Hines |
| Hung Up | Matt Sanderson |
| Hyde Street | Heather Long |
| I, Alice | Duane Piedmont |
| Idol Talk | Jeremiah Lewis |
| Immaculate | Charles McNamara |
| Incognito | J Titus |
| Indentured Classic | Ed Cass |
| Inside Oceanside | Tate Hanyok |
| Insurrection | Simon Bowler |
| It's Hard To Be Holy | Alex Carroll |
| Ivan's Hammer | Ben Maraniss |
| Jailhouse Nurse | Al Sophianopoulos |
| Judas | Joe Brukner |
| Knowingly | Ted Fryia |
| Lacuna | Ella Roby, Zahid Gamieldien |
| Lady Shakespeare | Gabrielle Meyer |
| Lavender Panthers | L.M. Harter |
| Life on Chelsea Road | Ed McCarthy |
| Liminal | Megan Meadows |
| Linked | Jeff Bower |
| Lobster Gangs | Chris Willis |
| Looking Glass | William Zide |
| Lydia Pinkham's Potions | Renee Buck |
| Mad Like Me | Melinda Maerker |
| Maggie '88 | James Napoli |
| Mama Drama | Jacob Meszaros & Mary Birdsong |
| Manhunteres | Jacqueline Teets |
| Marked Man | Kevin Winters |
| Martial | Roberto Larios |
| Mason Middle School | Andrew Marshall |
| Masters and Demons | Alexandra Segel |
| Metro Girl | Jennifer Jackson |
| Miles Away | Christopher Henderson |
| Missing Pieces | Julia Skikavich |
| Mississippi Bound | Christopher Dennis |
| Modern Women | Jennifer Wolfgram & Sarah-Raquel Jimenez |
| Monte Carlo | Julia Wurz |
| Mount Pleasant | Cat Dale |
| Moving Parts | Sally Rowe |
| My Dead Dad | David Lawrence Hill |
| Natural Causes | Mickey Fortune |
| Night of Fire | Jesse J Cook |
| Non Essentials | Sophie Dawson |
| Noriega | Juan Francisco de la Guardia |
| Nottingham | Karl Archer |
| Now We Cook! | M Cristina Beato |
| Oh, Mighty River | Dan Ritter |
| One | Bryan Marvis |
| Open | Anne Underwood |
| Panthers | Eric Glover |
| Parker Menlo: Man of Science! | Matthew Sorvillo |
| Pelerino's Progress | Rodney Gibbons |
| Pending Investigations | Matthew Sorvillo |
| Peregrine | Joan Albright |
| Persuasion | Susan Hippen |
| Phoenix | Natasha Hall |
| Pictures of Lily | Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein & Daniel Weizmann |
| Pipe Bomb | Michael Orlando |
| Playtime | Adam Yaffe |
| Portia's Law | Chad Callaghan & Hana Callaghan |
| Post Mortem | Travis Carr |
| Power Shift | Katie Avery |
| Powerball | Fredrik Colting |
| Punchbags | Steven Snell |
| Radicals | Timothy Fasano |
| Rat Trap | Victoria DeMartin |
| Recognition | Adam Pachter |
| Red Ball | Anna Bierhaus |
| Red Nation | Blake Andrew |
| Red Runners | Tracey Bradley |
| Red Scare | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Renaissance | Denise Meyer |
| Resonance : Zero Point | James Carpenter |
| Restless | Yusuf Gad |
| Revolutions | Grant Fraggalosch |
| Richer Than a White Man | Christine Stevens DeLorenzo |
| Riot | Amy Lambert |
| Route Runners | Kevin Matuszek |
| Rue Orleans | Larry Rosemann |
| Run! Run! Run! - The Lives Of Abbie Hoffma | Michael J Shapiro |
| Saint Hill | Gillian Gordon |
| Salvation Nation | Brian Hemstreet |
| Savage Nation | Myles Reid |
| Sea Legs & Fish Nets | Maria Finn |
| Seacliff Manor | Kim Lisner |
| Secret And Confidential | Ben Maraniss |
| Set Them Free | Matthew Duriez |
| Shade Crossing | Kadyn Michaels |
| Shadow Puppets | Tim & Martin Marks |
| Shadows | Anne-Marie Caluwaert |
| Shelter | JJ Bailey |
| Shepherd | Natxo Lopez |
| Sheriff and the Widow | David Allen |
| Shitstorm | David Luz |
| Show of Hands | Shila Jones |
| Sleeman | Karolyn Carnie |
| Small Town | Lachlan Marks, Ella Roby |
| Smut | Becky Bradshaw |
| Sooner | Jack Wood |
| Southbound | Katerina Grishakova |
| Spin Cycle | Taylor Freedman |
| Splinters | Chadwick Harman |
| Stone Drive | Sylvia Marie Llewellyn |
| Strange Aeons | Micah Delhauer |
| Sunder | Levi Hawkinson |
| Talk To Me | Steve Loff |
| Tall Tales | Alex Wilson |
| Teddy | Steve Hochman |
| Ten Thousand Islands | Peter Short |
| Test.ed | Melissa Long |
| Texican Springtime | Pamela Garcia Rooney |
| The 30 | Michael Wickham |
| The 5th | Kathleen Cromie |
| The Argyle | Chris Squadrito |
| The Ark | Camille Righi |
| The Bard in Time | Christopher Lastrapes |
| The Biggest Little | Craig Page |
| The Bridge to Pagan Bay: Lovin' Hurts | Alva Moore |
| The Bullpen | David Vienna |
| The Center | Tyler Dean Kempf |
| The Color Wars | Christopher De Paola |
| The Dark of Night | Denise Meyers |
| The Desert | Scott Thomas |
| The Disappearance | Jess Harris-DiStefano |
| The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
| The End of Magick | Peter Cannon |
| The Exchange | Marcus Goodwin |
| The Factory | Jon Davis |
| The First Fleet | Thomas Winward |
| The Fleet | Stephen Barber |
| The Forever People | David Hudacek |
| The Forgotten Revolution | Arturo Corces |
| The Four Queens | Sydney Dire |
| The Frozen | Filip Syczynski |
| The God Experiment | Russell M. Kerry |
| The Gold Stone Girl | Nicole Quinn |
| The Golden Cage | Jade Raybin |
| The Greylock Ghosts | Will Zech & Alex Cope |
| The Hall Monitor | Chris Caleo |
| The Home | Byron Tokarz |
| The House On Styx | Joseph I. Martinez |
| The Hunt | James Janowsky & Ari David |
| The Illuminati | John Cruz Alarid |
| The Imposter | Yellowlees Douglas |
| The Indian Line | Lori Rowton |
| The King of Booger County | R J Hanna |
| The Life - Another Day in The Life | George Perez |
| The Life Ahead | Rita Toledo |
| The Life and Times of Francie Paige | Victoria Lucia |
| The List | David Webb |
| The Lost Wendy | Dominique Hinman |
| The Magdalene Ranch | Charlotte Winters |
| The Modern | Justin Dial |
| The Monster from his Dream | Andy Cause |
| The New Men | Steven Snell |
| The NN | Milo Carballo |
| The Outer Rim | J. Scott Worthington |
| The Outsider | E. Douglas Brown |
| The Ravine | Andrea Bailey |
| The Red Dog Order | Jamaal X |
| The Red Dogs | Mark Sims |
| The Reset | Kate Traill Price |
| The Resistance | Jon Davis |
| The Retreat | John Kirk |
| The Right | Andrea Bailey |
| The Ryman | Hugh Moffatt |
| The S-Files | Dennis Luu |
| The Settling Dust | Ian Prichard |
| The Shadows | Angela Gouglas |
| The Summer Girls | Christopher O'Bryant |
| The Summerland | Michele Dagle |
| The Third Law - Chirality | Kenny Heidt |
| The Trophy Case | Pamela Mora |
| The Village | Jenny Taylor-Whitehorn |
| The Visionary | Melody Morgan Sorensen |
| The Wall | Dominic Carver & Anne-Marie Caluwaert |
| The Wayfarers | Solomon Chao |
| The Zellner Strategy | Michael Pollock |
| Therapeutic | Craig Berger |
| Thieves Among Us | Jordan Gouveia |
| Thoroughly Mormon Millie | Paul Ditty |
| Those People | Andrew Zeoli |
| Three Sisters | Jennifer Gutierrez |
| Timber | Peter Malone Elliott |
| Timbre | James McCarron |
| Time Will Tell 101: Big Fish Theory | Daniel Marsden |
| To Be Seen | Susan Hippen |
| Tokenheart | Job Merkel |
| Tongs Of Chinatown | Nadia Madden |
| Tribes: The Quest Begins | Steve Lainer |
| Turning Tables | Shaneez Tyndall |
| Twenty Centavos | Dorothy Lyman |
| Two Emperors | Paul Gross |
| Union 415 | Tony Savage |
| Unitedstan | Miles Kimball |
| V.I.R.A.L. | Guy Noland |
| Valiant | Michael Land |
| Vectors | Grant Fraggalosch |
| Verge | Bryce McLellan |
| Verifying Vincent | Lee Greenhough |
| We Will Rise | Hayley Fox |
| Weimar | Ben Maraniss |
| Weirdos | Phillip Rogers |
| Welcome To Harmony | Stephen Downs |
| Wellwick | Kaycee Hughes |
| What Darkness Brings | Ross Denyer |
| Winter's Daughter | Gianmarco Maximilian Giacomelli |
| Witch Hunt | Trevor Christie |
| Yellow | Zara Meerza |
WEB SERIES
| 1/2 | Dale Winton |
| Beauty & Youth | Carmine Carpenito |
| For The Articles | Tim Westland |
| Growing Up Illuminati | Kevin Dembinsky & Lisa Frame |
| I Love You, Mr. Freeze | John Rex |
| In the Picture | Alex Benedon |
| Married with In-Laws | Lauren Jackson |
| The Kicker | Daniel Gillis |
| Westinghouse | Dorian Keyes |
| Wheeler The Limo Man | Mo Fitzgibbon |
| White Trash Heroes | Peter Stallo |
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