2017 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Contest Quarter-Finalists Announced
by ScreenCraft - updated on December 17, 2017
Listed below are the quarter-finalists of the 2017 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!
| 30 Miles to Mexico | Diana | Densmore |
| A Bad Day for Enchiladas | Jordan | Hill |
| A Crowd of Strangers | Daniel | Corrieri |
| A Grain of Sand | Daniel | Sorochkin |
| A Laceration | Mervyn | Marshall |
| A Twisted Tail | Donna | Allen |
| A View From The Sea | Jonny | Pasvolsky |
| A War On Terror | Peter | Haig |
| A While | Dustin | Sohn |
| Absence | Dorian | Keyes |
| Absent Mind | Emilie | Khair |
| Adventures in Arcadia- The Cubists | John | Porubsky |
| Alive! Breathmints | Tom | Gianakopoulos |
| All I Said Was | Burton | Brown |
| Apartment 606 | Michelle | Dinnick |
| Apotheosis | Alessandro | Coia |
| Ashes | Nick | Kirby |
| Aunty Alfie | Caitlin Abra | Middleton |
| Aurora | Travis | Opgenorth |
| Avocado With Eggs | Enrique | Vasquez |
| Baxter | Aaron | Diebelius |
| Beard-O | Alejandro | Heiber |
| Beware the Kive | Jeremy | Banks |
| Black Coffee and Beignets | Monique | Hazeur |
| Black Girl Walking | Sunday | Sabbath |
| Blackbird | Ben & Josh | Tuval & Kaster |
| Boobala | Karl | Swingle |
| Books, Beds and Baths | Anthony | Marinelli |
| Borealis | Elizabeth | Tompkins |
| Brew Master | Kelly | Karam |
| Broken Mirrors | Claire | Lawson |
| Bronwyn Goes Dancing | Shane | Anderson |
| Cúl An Tí (The Back Of The House) | Emma | Pyne |
| Caged In | Ekaterina | Vladimirova |
| Cake | Courtney | Stackhouse |
| Carry This House | Nik | Theorin |
| Character Flaws | Paul | Bayford |
| Chasing Billy | Jeffrey | Hsu |
| Child Narco | Marco | Santiago |
| Coast | Aaron | Finan |
| Coffee and Dream | Debi | Calabro |
| Come to Grief | Michelle | Bracks |
| Cootie Contagion | Joshua | Smooha |
| Cowboys & Pakistanis | Farraz | Khan |
| Coyote | Laura | Shumate |
| Crimson | Karsten | Treber |
| Crossing Fences | Annika | Pampel |
| Dad Undead | Nicolas | Delgado |
| Dallas/Fort Worth Mule | Michael | Case |
| Damned If You Don't | Paul | Clinco |
| Danny Boy | Kelly | Kirwan |
| Darkness Never Forgives | Gary | Hanna |
| Dead End | Cameron | Rogers-Hawson |
| Dead Letter Office | Richard | Herstek |
| Dear Claire, | Ryan | Vanderhei |
| Death Date | Danielle | Williams |
| Death of Silence | Hailey | Escobar |
| (De)Construction | David | Stoker |
| Deserter | Conall | Pendergast |
| Devil's Dawn | Cullen | Kelly |
| Dinner in Hyde Park | Jonathan | Silver |
| Divinity | Nelson | Downend |
| Dog Years | Jeremy | Storey |
| Doggy Style | Cade | Frankson |
| Down River | Kerry | Russell |
| Dream Catcher | Avery | Rouda |
| Dressed | Courtney | Therond |
| Duck Egg Blue | Andrew | Holland |
| Earth's Final Moments | Mark | Renshaw |
| Echo Chamber | Travis | Lemke |
| Elements of Her | Jonathan | Eid |
| Emotive | Daniel | Tuck |
| End of the Game | Daryl | Middlebrook |
| Entrenched | Joseph | Chebatte |
| Every 8 Days | Marcus | Lee |
| Exiled | Jas | Shenstone |
| Fall | Marcus | Lee |
| Fast Falls the Eventide | Alan | Taylor |
| Fat | Tom | Bragg |
| Fear Factory | Sarah | Polhaus |
| Finding Amber | Richard | Mildren |
| Fire | Christopher | Ramsey |
| Fish Fetish | Ray | De Feis |
| Fish Out of Water | Laura | Shumate |
| Five Votes | Susie | Shannon |
| Flyology | Michael | Leung |
| For Muriel | Rebecca | Shapiro |
| For What It's Worth | Alli | Bryant |
| Forest for the Trees | Spencer | Gillis |
| Forgive Me | Morten | Wright |
| Forsaken | Daniel | Corrieri |
| Fox | Athena | Mandis |
| Frank, 2.0 | Andrew | Kleczek |
| Frankie's Monster | Nicole | Tersigni |
| Frog | John | Harden |
| Fulfilment | James | Stephenson |
| Furnichangers | Boaz | Dror |
| Gabe | Cameron | Rogers |
| Game Night | Ryan | Kazmer |
| Gasbar | Luke | Rosen |
| Gasolina | Tannaz | Hazemi |
| Gearheart | Ali | Davis |
| Greetings From Hell! | Mary | Vettel |
| Grocery Day | Kevin | Walsh |
| Guardian | Peer | Gopfrich |
| Half Past Late | Danny | Mak |
| Harvey Must Love His Job | Mark | Daniels |
| Healing Matters | Nir | Shelter |
| Hold On, Let Go | Jason | Noxon |
| Home Run | Felix | Burgan |
| Honkies | Steve | Wisniewski |
| Honor | Ed | Vela |
| Hope. | Mohamed | Mohamud |
| Hunting Season | Graham | Waldrop |
| Hush Little Baby | Camille | Hollett-French |
| I am Here | Rebecca | Shapiro |
| Idol | Jack | Marchetti |
| If I Get To Go | Saundra | Ayala |
| In Shadows | Cooper | Justus |
| Infinity Jeff | Aaron | Campbell |
| Insured | Gary | Winter |
| Intimate | Judith | Duncan |
| It Happens At Midnight | Joshua | Oliver |
| It Takes A Monster | Matt | Walter |
| It's OK. He's Friendly. | Brian | Menz |
| Jackpot | Christopher | Miller |
| Jenny Saves | Anna | Tran |
| Jerry Times Two | Alessandro | Miro |
| Juggernaut | Michael | Goyert |
| Kate and Owen | Becca | Roth |
| Kickback | Ann | Rosen |
| Kill Your Darlings | Kara | Rada |
| Kitrie Makes Waves | Rachel | Rinehardt |
| Krumbs | Mike | Wedderburn |
| Last Kind Words | Samantha | Kelly |
| Late Afternoon on a Tuesday | Kerwin | Kuniyoshi |
| Layers | Tom | Bragg |
| Lazy Saturday Mornings | Denise | Stewart |
| Learn Bhangra in 7 Days | Nevin | Sharma |
| Left Out | Chris | Warner |
| Les Be Honest | Brenda | Muñoz S. |
| Life Forms | Robin | Boreham |
| Little Soul | Alina | Kulesh |
| Little Texas | Marissa | Vonn |
| Long Time No See | Gert | Van den Heule |
| Love Undying | Duncan | McIntyre |
| Luck | Jason | Briker |
| Lydia | Matthew | Wright |
| Maggie B. Launches a Satellite | Jenna | Yonker |
| Maggie's Curse | Scott | Shilstone |
| Mahalia Melts In The Rain | Carmine | Pierre-Dufour |
| Martha | Daniel | Sheiman |
| Melanie Jackson Private Eye | Travis | Kehoe |
| Mick and the Stray | Kirsty | Budding |
| Midsommarnatt | Hillevi | Gustafson |
| Mirage | Craig | Paulsen |
| Miranda's New Friend | Leasal | Liddle-Pirouet |
| Missy M | Andrea | Karo |
| Mix & Match | Raymond | Santos |
| Moon Day | Robert | Clarke |
| Moon Rabbit | Kae | Ho |
| Motel Bibles | Theresa | Drew |
| Ms. Dale | Mike | Langer |
| Mumo | John | Rex |
| Mustard | Michael | Dean |
| My Mother's Shoes | Jake | McKone |
| Name Change | Emily | Chang |
| Near Death... A Romantic Comedy | Ken | Hanson |
| Night Shift | Chris | Phillips |
| Nighthunters | Ana | Jimenez |
| No Place Like Home | Leah | Baxter |
| Not That Nice | adielenah | perez |
| Not-so-artificial Intelligence | John | Hoffmann |
| Nowhere, Texas | Matt | Dushkes |
| Okay Google | Danny | Zimmer |
| One Child Born | Stuart | Creque |
| Outside The Box | CK | Love |
| Page Turner | Marc | Roussel |
| Painted Shore | Matthew | Dooley |
| Paleonaut | Eric | McEver |
| Past Lives | David | Samuels |
| Pause | Sarah | Poynter |
| Phantom | Alan | McConnell |
| Picture Perfect | Jarrett | Paperno |
| Pigskin | Gabriel | Dean |
| Plasticity | Dina | Klein |
| Poster Child | Junot | Lee |
| Power Out | Laurie | Stark |
| Princess | Garrett | Kim |
| Prix Fixe | A. B. | Williams |
| Prized Possesions | Alan | de la Rosa |
| Progeny | Matthew | Gilson |
| Reclaimed | Lance | Thompson |
| Rectified | Dimi Nakov | & Jean Marcello |
| Red Gulch | Peter | Forbes |
| Runaway | Tom | Yoannidis |
| Runner Runner | Jeanna | Overstreet |
| Sacral | Jacqueline | Sir |
| Sally | Tom | Slater |
| Sam and Evie | Alison | Honey Woods |
| Sam's House | John | Tummino |
| Save | Simon | Gilberg |
| Second Chances | Mike | Fardy |
| Seeds | Ashlee | Renz-Hotz |
| Severence | Joe | Castle |
| Shawerma | Ali | Hajal |
| Shelly | Sabrina | Stoll |
| Shine and Shade | Austin | Campbell |
| Shoot The Girl | Tony | Hendriks |
| Sinker | Alia | Lundy |
| Six Years from Tonight | Emily | Schwend |
| Sleep Tight | Jeanna | Overstreet |
| So it Begins | Peter | Gazdag |
| Softer | Roger | Mason |
| Solitary | Jen | Brown |
| Something To Remember Me By | Anna Rose | Moore |
| Soulmate | Albert | Duic |
| Sounds the Dog Made | Jeffrey | Golden |
| South of Ostend | Lewis | Reckline II |
| Speak of the Wolf | Adam | Sugerman |
| Spiced Apple | Rebecca | Lunn |
| Splash | Alina | Kulesh |
| Stillman | Raymond | Santos |
| Stuck | Jazeen | Hollings |
| Table for One | Michael | Strong |
| The Belief | Saikat | Mukherjee |
| The Best West Testament | Peter | Gazdag |
| The Big Bang | John Perry | Dancoe |
| The Bikers' Wave | Damien | Mazza |
| The Black Cat | Francesco | Minniti |
| The Bottomless Pit | Andrew | Oh |
| The Box | Hansa | Dasgupta |
| The Boy in the High Window | Sommer | Rusinski |
| The Boy in The Mirror | Giuseppe | LiMandri |
| The Cinnamon Bird | Ruth Knafo | Setton |
| The Confessional | Conor | Waldron |
| The Curse | Adam | Sleper |
| The Cypher Sessions | Marc | Roussel |
| The Dairy Farmer's Daughter | Matthew | Portman |
| The Dead Plains | Paul | Corricelli |
| The Devil You Don't | Joe | LaMattina |
| The Devil's Justice | Bryan | Block |
| The Dinner Party | Alexander | Taylor |
| The Forgotten | Sam | Uhlemann |
| The Frontier | Shannon | Marinko |
| The Funeral Party | Tyler | Hein |
| The Funeral, The Wedding | Garon | Cockrell |
| The Girl With A Little Bit Extra | Linda | Niccol |
| The Great Man | Jamal | Johnson |
| The Handy Man | Nicholas | Clifford |
| The Horrifying House of Latrino | Rob | Melnyk |
| The Hunter | Lisa | Pekar |
| The Imaginatron | Eric | Egan |
| The Last Bus Ride | Deanna | Perchyshyn |
| The Lateness of the Hour | Cullen | Kelly |
| The Ledge | Joel | Karlinsky |
| The Leftover Man | Nisha | Khan |
| The Locket | Blake | Clouser |
| The Man | Sam | Chappell |
| The Missing Piece | Joshua | Cordova |
| The Murder Ring | Jay | Falk |
| The Neighbor's Cat | Bonnie | Eaton |
| The Observation | Mac | McSharry |
| The Only Thing We Have to Fear | Jamie | Bircoll |
| The Passing Light | Nelson | Downend |
| The Pistol | Xaque | Gruber |
| The Rat in Room Ten | James | Culloty |
| The Rectitude of Thieves | Erik | Sternberger |
| The Recycling Man | Carlo | Ballauri |
| The Redemption of Sara | Philip T | Brewster |
| The Sack Man | Joseph | Betteridge |
| The Sacrifice | Shane | Weisfeld |
| The Seminole | Daniele | Dohring |
| The Sex Act | Madelyn | Rideout |
| The Sheep that Caught the Wolf | Jennifer | Salazar |
| The Shepherd, The Angel and the Three Hunters | Fabrizio | Rosso |
| The Sight Of You | Helen | Hayden |
| The Silent Waltz | Sharon | Rapose |
| The Squatch Den | Karl | Swingle |
| The Story of The Whale | Adrian | Cárdenas |
| The Thief & The Alchemist | Will | Nixon |
| The Travelers | Alden | Sargent |
| The Waiting Room | Tom | Mann |
| The Wild East | Valesca | van Rees |
| The Wind Cries | Alistair | Marks |
| The Wrong Key | Jason | White |
| The Yard | Eugenie | Carabatsos |
| This Dark Thought | Nik | Theorin |
| Three Witches in the West | Katherine | Bennett-Greer |
| Thunder Valley | Randy | Kirk |
| Ticker | Kaycee | Hughes |
| Titty Tuesday | Waka | Brown |
| To Be Forgotten | Masa | Gibson |
| Tommy and the Geometric Figures or Why Tommy can't be Happy | Julia | Cancella |
| Traducer | Ande | Case |
| Transistor Radio | Georgia | Bloo Nicolaou |
| Transmogrify | Steve | Jolley |
| Transplantable | Jaysen | Headley |
| Trust | Diane | Lansing |
| Twits | Alison | McGrath |
| U-Turn | Christin | Campbell |
| U/R/N | Dylan | Sargent |
| Unnatural | Amy | Wang |
| Vanilla | Duvi | Stahler |
| Virgin(ia) | Briana | Bleecker |
| Virtually Single | Patrick | Cohen |
| Wakers | Garrett | Atkinson |
| Walk on the Moon | JB | Minerva |
| Walnut | David | Thomas |
| We Killed the Boss | Alana | Igbe |
| Weight of Lies | Amanda | Samaroo |
| Whisper in the Ear | Odhran | Somers |
| Whistler's Mother | Robbie | Robertson |
| Wild Abandon | Dawn | Prato |
| Windfall | James | Weicker |
| Winning Ticket | Filipe | Savioli |
| Withdrawn | Joel | Anderson |
| Ya Gotta Break a Few Eggs... | Kerry | Parsons |
| Yegua | Behrad | Gramian |
| You Thought It Would Last Forever | Evan | Winter |
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