2019 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Finalists Announced
Listed below are the finalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure 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 MGM Studios, Bad Robot, Paramount, XYZ Films, and Skydance Media.
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 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the top 50 finalists:
| A Rare Earth | James Morgan |
| A White and Savage Land | Alex Rivers |
| Accidental Superhero | Mithra Alavi |
| Af*ckinstan | Jim Maceda |
| And You, Cassius | Bridget Buxton |
| Avalanche | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Black Friday | Jonathan Dillon |
| Black Market | Chris Lee |
| Blackstone Jack and the Island of the Warshadows | Michael Hahn |
| Blue Treasure | Ben Ockrent & Stevan Filipovic |
| Bonding | Mark Griffin |
| Call Out | Nir Shelter |
| Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
| Cold Storm | Bonnie Carini |
| Cold-Rock County | Elliot Seidel |
| Cul De Sac | Alex von Hofmann |
| Darklands | Paul Sheridan |
| Daventure | Adrian Popa |
| Dreadlands | Josh Mendoza |
| Eagle Trace | Rebecca Shapiro & Shawn DePasquale |
| From Rio With Love | Alexia Verbeke |
| Guns and Grace | Odin Ozdil |
| Hero of the Good Land | Logan Shaw |
| Hunt for the Lost Secret of Eden | Thomas Zmiarovich |
| Hurricane Tara | Kyle Curry |
| Just Drive | Meshal Alsaleem |
| Klefti Means Thief | Miranda Filippides |
| Landscapes of Fear | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Little Red | Justin Lewis |
| Mescalero | Anderson Boyd |
| My Son, the Spy | Michael Soll |
| On a Dark Matter | John McDermott |
| One Mile East | Mohummad Humza Elahi |
| One Tough Mother | James Lakas |
| Pests | Shaun McLaughlin |
| Phase III | Stephen Pace |
| Read | Nicole Feste |
| Tangent | Nick Wildash & Matt Wildash |
| Terminal Kill | Tony Armer |
| The Dynamiter | Mark Miller |
| The Floating World | Michael Rhodes |
| The Ghosts of Le Griffon | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Hotel Barbers | Daniel Woburn |
| The Last Swordsman | Deven Spencer |
| The Patriotic Hitman | Alex Beattie |
| The Sauce Was Worth It | Luke Guidici |
| Treasure Hunt | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| Two Dog Night | Cameron Webb |
| Vanna Viking | Michael Hahn & Elisabeth Meurer |
| Whiteout | Bryan Holm |
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