2018 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced

Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition, selected from over 1,000 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this genre and to have received a slate of such compelling screenplays.
This year's jury is comprised of agents and managers from Verve Talent Agency, Management 360 and Brillstein Entertainment Partners as well as a development executive from Fox Searchlight.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the finalists and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
Here are the 2018 semifinalists:
#1 at the Apocalypse Box Office | Margaret MacDonald |
#Blessed | Shawn Gerrard |
65 South | Thomas Southernland |
A Man's Castle | Joseph Whaley |
Ain't No Cowboys in Nashville | Christopher O'Bryant |
Albatross Gardens | Lee Whitten |
An Unbalanced Line | Kristy Leigh Lussier |
Angel of Rain | Lawrence Kennon |
Behind the Badge | John Martins III |
Blackbird in Brooklyn | Alexandra Farias |
Blood and Ivory | Robert Porter |
Blue Earth | Aaron Brophy |
Bunker | Travis Ross |
Cataumet | Matthew Percival |
Challenger | Skye Emerson |
City of Trees | Christian Lybrook |
Cottontail | David Paterson |
Crystal Youth | Ahmed Fara |
Dark-Skinned Girls | Edith Cheng |
Dear Dad | Candy Fox |
Driftwood | Carl MacLaren |
Eastern Son | Y.S. Kim |
Electronic Sounds from a Still Heart | Finley Mulligan |
Eulogy to a Heavyweight | Benjamin Farry |
Farishta | Patricia McArdle |
Fast Fashion | David Mandell |
Fellini Nights (Everybody Comes to Chief's) | Peter Nohrnberg |
Fidelis | Kate Dooley |
Firefall | Deirdre Brenner |
Goodbye, My Brother | Jason Grote |
Hanna Glade | Leslie Witter |
Homeward Brother | Alec Garcia |
In the Backseat | Rozemarijn in 't Veld |
Incidental Contact | Becca Mann |
Into Silence | C. Andrew Hall |
Into the West | Matthew Dixon |
Kaffarah | Tom Rossi |
Kyd's Game | Marc Rosenberg |
Layla | Mohammed Mamdouh |
Leave Justin Alone | Dan Grassi Jr. |
Little Brother | Sheridan O'Donnell |
Little Choice | Tanya Gust |
Lost At Sea | Austin Kase |
Man in a Cage | kevin Bachar |
Marty Zipco's Ballroom | Scott Jacobs |
Midnight Monster | Jonathan Wymer |
Miss | Judith Rose |
Ms. Greer | Alica Gwinner |
Nature of the Beast | Aaron Kozak |
Oath | Paul Frank |
Of Flesh and Blood | Jeremy Frazier |
Oh Mists, My Mists | Guilherme Viegas |
On Time | Xavier Burgin |
Operation Babylift | John McCarney |
Other People's Houses | Jac Cron |
Out Cold | tracy Scarlato |
Outside the Wire | Reinhard Cate |
Paper Thieves | Michael Mirabella |
POP | Y.S. Kim |
Pot Committed | Jordan Sandfer |
QB | Lee Kunz |
Reverend Went Walking | Gary Allison |
Riis | Daniel Schwabauer |
Ruth | Hosea Chanchez & Cru Ennis |
S.H.A.R.P. | Josh Auter |
Saluda | Tim Westland & Rod Thompson |
Saving Washington | Jane Hampton Cook |
Seer | Steven Briggs |
Shells | Justin Horowitz |
Shine a Light | Jordan Blilie |
Smarter, Not Harder | Ryan Allsop |
Snog | Paul Holbrook |
Sod Man | Cam Patterson |
Sons of My Mother | Amanda Prentiss |
Spirals | Manu Rewal |
Splinter Hold | Kristen Roche |
The Boy with the Pink Triangle | Amy Reedy |
The Coffin Club | Joel Santner |
The Countess | Irina Rodriguez |
The Courageous Life of Jeremy Braxton | Emily Maroutian |
The Cuban Rose | Dave Caldwell |
The Deed | Brady Morell |
The Dreamer of Dreams | David Kushner & Joshua Bullock |
The Empty Sea | David Poulshock |
The Fourth Psalm | John Martins III |
The Greatest Show on Earth | A. S. Thompson |
The Indifference League | Richard Scarsbrook |
The Innocent and the Vicious | Dominique Genest & Nick Kreiss |
The Nature of It | Kate Kelsen |
The Ones Who Know | Barbara Johns |
The Orchard | Christopher Haber |
The Superb Lyrebird and Other Creatures | Wendy Young |
The Sweet Science | Alec McKay |
The Tunnel | Peter Koslik |
The Twelfth of Never | Anne Carmack |
The Understudy | Jenna St. John |
The Weight of Lies | Amanda Samaroo |
The Wood Man | kevin sheridan |
Torch | Jason McBeth |
Tucumcari | Kristin Goodman |
Under a Broken Moon | James Nguyen |
United We Fall | Matthew Dixon |
WASPs | Scott Turner |
West Point Wives | Ann Buchanan |
Western Approaches | Andrew Judge |
Wild World | Anne Carmack |
Without | Christopher O'Bryant |
Zharkov's Masterpiece | Elizabeth Samaroo |
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