2018 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced
Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from roughly 600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.
This year’s jury is comprised of development executives and directors from Pure Flix, Hallmark Movie Channel, and Sony's Affirm Films, manager Jewerl Ross of Silent R Management, and beloved four-quadrant husband and wife screenwriting team The Wibberleys.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and grand prize winners here and our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! And 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 semifinalists:
| A Heart That Forgives 2: The Battle Within | Ken Jenkins |
| A Keepsakes Christmas | Rich Orstad |
| A Moment with Monet | Greg Klapheke |
| A Storybook Christmas | Carol Ayer |
| Captain C! | John Paul Su |
| Cat and the Trolls | Michael Amundsen |
| Caterpillarland | Roxanne Beck |
| Claus | Lindsey Gudritz |
| DinoKids | Lisa Baile |
| Doorway to Eden | Bryan Kelsey |
| Dotty Campbell, Monster Hunter | Erin Hays |
| Dysfunctional Family Oriented | Manuel Salazar |
| Elfnapped | Richard Seidman |
| Flea | Mary Martinelli |
| Get Some Chow | Jean Estevez |
| Gotham Ghouls | Franck Benayoun |
| House of Fire | Peter Gazdag |
| It's All in the Kiss | Marguerite Conradie |
| Japanese For Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Journey to Questica | Cristina Pippa |
| Just Like That | Gene Golus |
| Kids Rule | Jill Gurr |
| Lost Sheep | Frederick Jones & Shirlee Wilson |
| Lower Beings | Ervin Anderson |
| Lunch Lady Land | Jordan Dale |
| Mario's Story | Diane Young |
| Missileman | George Escobar |
| Model Home | Barbara Sundstrom |
| Money Talks | Jeremy Gurvits |
| Ms. Dad | Nate Gubin |
| My Mother's More Neurotic Than Yours | Lynda Levy |
| O'Malley's Critter Control | Michael J. McDonough |
| Oggleswog the Dragon | Monique Amado |
| Once Upon His Shoe | Pamela Kay |
| Otter Madness | Tia Devlin |
| Pipsqueak | Kathi Wahed |
| Pixylations | Joe Laudati |
| Protectors of the Playground | Rich Orstad |
| Pull | Marc Messenger |
| Puppy with a Purpose | Candy Fox |
| Purgatory Creek | Chuck Pollycutt |
| Rearranged | Zarna Garg & Greg Fortier |
| Safe Thus Far | Timothy Kernc |
| Shooting Angels | R.W. Hahn |
| Sindone Treasure of Turin | Barbara Sundstrom |
| Space Case | Robin Brantley & David Brantley |
| Space Homey | William Maxwell |
| Stinky Feet and the Menehunes | Rich Figel |
| Stone Cold Crazy Mother Trucker | Katterina Powers |
| The Courageous Life of Jeremy Braxton | Emily Maroutian |
| The Dragonologists | Alexandria Danya |
| The Legend of the Crown | Olivia McCarthy |
| The Light Within | Simon Eidorson |
| The Method and His Madness - NCP | Mimosa Jones Tunney |
| The Shepherd's Guide to Love | Mary Huckstep |
| The Upside-Down Man | David Asmussen |
| Trapped | George Escobar |
| True Brit | Rosemary Zibart |
| Trust Your Caddypillar | Elan Maier |
| Tweet | Victoria Morris |
| Wanted | Duane Piedmont |
| Word Over Word | Tonia Davidson |
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