2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on January 25, 2019

Listed below are the finalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Action & Thriller Screenplay Competition, selected from over 700 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this internationally-beloved genre and to have received a slate of compelling screenplays.

This year's jury is comprised of producers and executives at Appelles Entertainment, Bad Robot, Columbia Pictures, the Donners' Company, a manager at Elevate Entertainment, and the screenwriter of Die Hard and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2019, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the Top 25 finalists:

*Adrenaline Heart*	M. K. Ching
**Afckinstan***	Jim Maceda
*An End to the Means*	Martha Dunne
*Black Ice Below*	Peter Fraser
*Canaan*	Ben Johnson
*Children of the Storm*	Michael Hahn
*Direct Engagement*	Stephen MacNeil
*Distortion*	Travis Opgenorth
*Edison's Ghosts*	Kevin Bachar
*Exchange*	Vivian Kerr
*Ferocity*	Kevin Bachar
*Forty Winks*	Andrew Stein
*Marathon*	Alex Hacker & Fraiser Kansteiner
*Nature of the Beast*	Aaron Kozak
*No Worse Enemy*	Skye Lynch
*Organelle*	Edward James Anderson
*Outside the Wire*	Valerie Brotski
*Poachers*	Adam Etheridge
*Possessions*	Stephen Polakiewicz
*Safeguard*	Fiona Hunnisett
*Sinkholes*	Lila McLaughlin
*Stuck*	Rich Van Tine
*The Innocent and the Vicious*	Dominique Genest & Nick Kreiss
*The Memory Bank*	Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper
*What Did You Do, Sweet Mary Lou?*	Dave Paterson