2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch Competition Semifinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on December 7, 2018
Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch competition. These exceptional pilots were selected from roughly 2,500 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.
This year's jury is comprised of creative executives, coordinators and development heads at HBO, AMC andAmazon Studios, as well as a manager at3 Arts Entertainment and a story consultant for NBC's Writers on the Verge.
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:
| 200 Miles to Broadway | Luke Jarvis, Rob Pooley & Nick Chambers |
| 40 Rings | Kaitlin O'Leary |
| 808 State of Mind | Courtney Avichouser |
| A Little Something Like This | Marcus Thomas |
| Abraham's Wake | Adam Luaces & Katie Neuner |
| Aikwood | Nuri Tal |
| Alcatraz Island | Kelly Gregorio |
| American Made | Sam Tofsted |
| American Psyche | Richard Nguyen & Vinita Mehta |
| Amorous | Naomi Pandolfi |
| Angeles | Tom Becker |
| Animal Mayhem | Stewart Skelton |
| Antlers | Ercoli Crugnale |
| Apache | Cameron Barsanti |
| At Risk | Kristin Goodman |
| Avast Ye Pirates | Sarah K. Moss |
| Bad Beat | Eric Wang Schwager |
| Bad Girls Standard | Bradley Spinelli |
| Bad Medicine | Sydney Dire |
| Bedford Arms | Clea Montville-Wood |
| Big Man | K.C. Scott |
| Black Bonnie | Jeremy Colvin |
| Blood Brothers | Peter Hunziker & Cynthia Riddle |
| Boosters | David Lawrence Hill |
| Bounty | Gary Howell |
| Branded | Christian Lybrook |
| Break A Leg! | Brian Laughran |
| Buffalo Roam | Howard Wen |
| Caledonia | Daniel Snoddy |
| Case Unsolved | C.J. Arellano |
| Casey Blatt | Carolyn Mazanec |
| Chalk | Nick Jones |
| Changing Views | Kari Mote |
| Chasing the Wolf | Alan Hayes |
| Chavez Ravine | Ben Mesirow |
| Cheap Thrills | Jaime Osnato-Rosario |
| Children of Free | Kaycee Hughes |
| Chrysalis | Keaton McGruder |
| Citizen Of The Week | Nicky Burgess |
| Closers | Xan Wynne-Jones |
| Come Prepared to Stay Forever | Heather Davis & Robert Vornkahl |
| Concrete Jungle | David Kushner |
| Connection | Jace Lacob |
| Dark Horizons | Carlo & Erin Carere |
| Dark Irish | Erin Kathleen |
| Dead Beat | Collin Lieberg |
| Deadalive | Christian J. Hearn |
| Deadsville | David Karner |
| Death Kindly Stopped | Dontonio Cabreana |
| Dementia Village | Laura Wigod |
| Desert 10 | Zachary Tomlinson |
| Destroy All Heroes! | Thomas Yungerberg |
| Diabolical | Renier Murillo |
| Disrupted | Meghann Plunkett |
| Docked | Joe Abel & Dwayne Perkins |
| Don't Forget Your Axe During the Robot Apocalypse | Derek Asaff |
| Drowning | Abigail Mangin |
| Druid of the Danu | John Paul Murphy & Chris Bramante |
| Earlybirds | Charlie Schulman |
| Earth-Like | Sarah K. Moss |
| East/West | Artie Mead |
| Edgewood | Sarah Grodsky |
| Elvis's Home for Dead Celebrities | Peter Dudasko |
| Facility | Stefan Tihanyi |
| Failure to Communicate | Cala Adair |
| Farmed | Erika Abdelatif |
| Firebrand | Justin Hughes |
| Flowerfield | Mukilan Thangamani |
| Food & Drug | Jason Grote |
| Foul | Arton Baleci |
| Four Crows | Lyndal Simpson |
| Frat Star | Lauren Fields |
| Fruit Fly | Ryan Logan |
| Fufu | Bill Horace |
| Gaiatown | Dane McCauley |
| Giant | Milena Korolczuk |
| Good Night, Moon | Saaret Yoseph |
| Gordon, Too | Matthew-Lee Erlbach |
| Gunpowder | Kevin Sheridan |
| H.B.I.C. | Matthew Weiss |
| Hargrave | Max Harp & Quentin Basnaw |
| Hella Bae: "Rollin' Hella Deep" | Maria Lingbanan |
| Her Majesty's Spymistress | Marcus Goodwin |
| Highwire | Gareth Smith |
| Hill | Christopher Lastrapes |
| Hollywood Enterprises LLC. | Joshua Yonkin & Sean Downs |
| How to Girl | D. Scott |
| How to Grieve | Chelsea Gray |
| Hustlers | Jason Kubik |
| Ice Dance | Abigail Mangin |
| Imposter | Yellowlees Douglas |
| In Chrysalis | Nelson Downend |
| Inn Love | Dana Quercioli |
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Gang Thrives Without Dennis" | Richard Turgeon |
| J.P. Kimble, Wish Lawyer | Patrick Allan Laffoon |
| Jessica Exalted | Khadijah Iman |
| John & Meryl | Jimmy Prosser |
| K-Cons | Sherman Li |
| Keele Street Kings | Tony Tang |
| Kewobuk Kayak Company | Emily Chase Smith |
| Kingdom of Children | Kristen Joy Bjorge |
| Kingdom of God | Travis Opgenorth |
| Krewe | Christopher Lastrapes |
| L'ecole Du Micro D'Argent | Sophie Dab |
| Laundry Service | Catherine Delaloye & Mariana Trevino |
| LEGACY | Kellen Hertz |
| Leviathan | Ben DeLoose & Matthew Chilelli |
| Lexicon | Amanda Keener |
| Life After Society | Jack Maron |
| Littlefish | R. C. Beauchesne |
| Loop | Steve Miranda |
| Lost Eden Canyon | Alan R. Baxter |
| Lot 47 | Stephen Tramontana |
| Love Scenes, LLC | Lira Kellerman |
| Love, Chelsea | Jenny Rauch |
| Mad Bird | Meghann Plunkett |
| Maintenance | Max Ash |
| Malaya | Stacie Gancayco-Adlao |
| Man Of The People | David Negrin |
| MK Ultra! | Andrea Ash |
| Molineaux | Deron Albright |
| Monogamous? | Jessie Gant |
| Morgan And The Evil | Skye Tenorio |
| Most Likely to Succeed | Matthew Kunkel |
| Mourning Glory | Craig Coyne |
| Muse | Keely Schafer |
| N A T I V E | Kevin Walls |
| Nearly Super Nova | Annie Nishida |
| Negative Space | James Comfort II |
| NetSleuths.com | Elizabeth J, Musgrave |
| New York Noir | David Hudacek |
| Newsers | Jennifer Kim |
| Noctem | Kayla Knutson |
| Noise | Matt Ackels |
| Nothing Left | R. Cadell Cook, II |
| Novel | William Bienes & Aimee Parrott |
| Novel Endings | Christine Bendorf |
| On Cannery Row | P.J. Palmer & Eric Enno Tamm |
| On Probation | Sergio Cámara |
| Otherworld | Dawn Prato |
| Outward | Brian Koffler |
| Overly Critical Dick | Scott Seiler |
| Pain & Suffering | Eran Lagstein |
| Pansy: An American Aversion | Jack Flynn |
| Past Lives | Raymond Santos |
| Peninsula | David MacGregor |
| Phantom | Vicky Wheeler |
| Placidville | Marc Zatorsky |
| Plain Janeisha | Angela Magnus |
| Playing the Palace | Alex Williams |
| Plight | Mykell Barlow |
| Post-Nuclear Family | John Niemiec |
| Pressed | Chase Block |
| Promiseland | Stephen Wallenfels |
| Prophet Margin | Adam Skelter |
| R.P.M. | Jeffrey Jackson |
| Rearview | Jared Gordon |
| Record-Breaking | Cala Adair |
| Relics | Rose Skye |
| Revolutionary Gangsters | Martin Andres Markovits & Niko Kyriakou |
| Rise and Shine | Lull Mengesha |
| Rock Show | Liam Semple |
| Rocky Mountain High | Mark Dylan Brown |
| Saint Mephistopheles Hospital | Lily Cheng |
| Salvage | Justin Rettke |
| Samsara | Mitali Jahagirdar |
| San Francisco Sound | Tim Bartell |
| Savage | David Schlow |
| Savior | Tim Molloy |
| Schrodinger's Cat | Amanda Keener |
| SEX:XES | Brian Ellis |
| Shanda | Jillian Lauren |
| Shared Space - The Pilot | Mark Stuver |
| Shikari | Thomas Hunkin & Jamie Lewis |
| Sidekick | Joey Capuana |
| SkyFire | Mark Morris & Jeff Whitehead |
| Slow Wake | Jacob Salzberg |
| Smut | Nancy Amestoy |
| Soldier.Spy.Diplomat | Jerry Oliver |
| Somerville | Dayna Duncan |
| Sorority Ghosts | Annie Pace |
| Southbound | Katerina Grishakova |
| Southern Draw | George O'Connor |
| Space Captain Smith | John Palfery-Smith & Bruce Hanson |
| Sprinkles and Buttons | Steve Miranda |
| Staten | Anthony Sellitti |
| Stock | JoAnn McLean |
| Stone's Throw | Samantha White & Joshua Korngut |
| Storyville | Mariah Gretchen Robinson |
| Strange, CA | Ben Warner |
| Suburban Gold: "The Milk" | Paul Burow |
| Supernote | David Owens |
| Swann Song | Lindsey Dier |
| Tales From The Creeps : The Feeteaters | Diana Davis |
| Tavistock | Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness |
| Tears Of The Angels | Courtney LoCicero & Charles Musser |
| That Sister Thang | Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen & Dale Winton |
| The Adventures of Penny Patterson | Stephanie Donnelly |
| The Aftermath | Juliana Rabadjija |
| The Ballet Murders | Victoria Augustine |
| The Battle of Marble Hill | Andrea Lawson |
| The Boys From Pine Bluff | Alexandra Salerno |
| The Chop | Ryan O'Leary |
| The Dead Travel Fast | Cody Wareham |
| The Deep Burn | Jerry Landry |
| The Deep End | Mark Lyons & Alex Harris |
| The Deported | Joe Abel |
| The Draft | Karolyn Carnie |
| The End | Derek Asaff |
| The Greatest Show on Earth | A. S. Thompson |
| The Grove | Zach Messner |
| The Guardian | Cedrick May |
| the Hellhounds | Z. R. Denis |
| The Immortals | Tyler Hein |
| The King is Dead | Gabriel Cruz |
| The King of America | jess leslie |
| The Line | Jeff Bower |
| The Lobbyist | Brent Lewis |
| The Long Road | Elie El Choufany |
| The Maharaja - Pilot | Amar Rehal |
| The Maulers | Adam Dick |
| the Mogul | Maxine Milan |
| The Mortician | Miguel Lozano |
| The Murdering | Casey Geisen |
| The Nation | Mark Thomas |
| The Outlaw Years | M O'Connell |
| The Queen Of Caspary | Laura Solow |
| The Rouge | Aimee Adell Johnson |
| The Secret Life of Inbred Mutants | Sean Collins-Smith |
| The Seventh Circle | Corbin Christopher |
| The Silver Screen | J.J. Bitters |
| The Summer Girls | Christopher O'Bryant |
| The Tipping Point | Justin Gallaher |
| The Trouble With Audrey | Paul Ashton |
| The War Magicians | Sarah Fischer |
| The Weird | Benjamin Szymanski |
| The XVIIIth | Vanessa Carmichael |
| The Young Prophet | Zeke Smith |
| Thick as Thieves | Sam Ferguson |
| Those People | Andrew Zeoli & Christian Wagner |
| Tide Over ... Not! | John Boal |
| Token Kyle | Melissa Emery |
| Totally Sick | Adam Nadler |
| Towns End | Trevor Lawrence |
| Tribes | Ross Denyer |
| Triple Zero | Evan Cathcart |
| Tucked | Robert Axelrod |
| Twin Cities | Dave Ash |
| Two Truths & A Lie | Kendra Arimoto |
| Uncoupling | Gil Hizon |
| Undercooked | Henderson Wade, Dominic Blackwell-Cooper |
| Unfamiliarland | Micah Paisner & Nick Weiss-Richmond |
| Unfit | Scott Seiler |
| Union 415 | Tony Savage |
| Unplugged | Adam Toltzis |
| Untitled Lindsay Farris Project | Lindsay Farris |
| Unwanted | Eugene Mont & Thomas Muller |
| Urban Legend Pilot | Michael Bullotta |
| Vermilion | Liz Ellis |
| Vlad: "Dragons and Devils" | Joseph Cashman |
| We Are Not Normal | Brett Ryland |
| We're Trying | Casey Rackham |
| Wellwick | Kaycee Hughes |
| When in Rome | Rob Thorman |
| Who is Polaris | Gary Rose |
| Woman Up | Dale Winton |
| X | Chris Phillips |
| Yellow | Zara Meerza |
| Yellow Belles | Lucy Ciaffa & Jordan Neely |
| Young Americans | Alexander Mirecki |
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