2019 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced
Listed below are the semifinalists 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 finalists, and winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the semifinalists:
| #StopSilver | Will Bigham & Catherine Gray |
| 555 Willamette | Dre Aguirre |
| A Rare Earth | James Morgan |
| A White and Savage Land | Alex Rivers |
| Accidental Superhero | Mithra Alavi |
| Af*ckinstan | Jim Maceda |
| American Blacktop | Dave Trainor |
| And You, Cassius | Bridget Buxton |
| Auggie and the Big Tree | Kerry Ann Reid |
| Autorun | Dave Bowers & Justin Parker |
| Avalanche | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Bare Metal | Jess Gupta |
| Black Friday | Jonathan Dillon |
| Black Market | Chris Lee |
| Blackbirds | Amber Brown |
| Blackstone Jack and the Island of the Warshadows | Michael Hahn |
| Blue Treasure | Ben Ockrent & Stevan Filipovic |
| Bonding | Mark Griffin |
| Boost | Andrew Ferguson |
| Call Out | Nir Shelter |
| Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
| Christmas Versus Silicon Valley | Matthew Conlin |
| Cold Storm | Bonnie Carini |
| Cold-Rock County | Elliot Seidel |
| Cul De Sac | Alex von Hofmann |
| Darklands | Paul Sheridan |
| Daventure | adrian popa |
| Demon City | Michael Tracy |
| Dreadlands | Josh Mendoza |
| Dream City | Tyler Jones & Kirby Draper |
| Eagle Trace | Rebecca Shapiro & Shawn DePasquale |
| Fence Off | Karolyn Szot |
| Ford | Andrew Judge |
| From Rio With Love | Alexia Verbeke |
| Grand Sierra | Nicolas Scroggins |
| Guerrero | Juan Bernardo Minerva |
| Guns and Grace | Odin Ozdil |
| HardHead | Madeline Noboa |
| Hero of the Good Land | Logan Shaw |
| Hunt for the Lost Secret of Eden | Thomas Zmiarovich |
| Hurricane Tara | Kyle Curry |
| Hybridize | Michael Cahill |
| Jack Milton | Michael Tracy |
| Just Drive | Meshal Alsaleem |
| Kidding and Killing | Peter Gazdag |
| 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 |
| Once Upon a Crime: Motor City | Angelo Dania |
| Once Upon a Crime: Sunset City | Angelo Dania |
| One Mile East | Mohummad Humza Elahi |
| One Tough Mother | James Lakas |
| Pests | Shaun McLaughlin |
| Phase III | Stephen Pace |
| Praetorian | Brian King |
| Read | Nicole Feste |
| Rich. Bitches | Philip Hall & Erin Fredman |
| Sirens | Ryan Lange & Rory Menteer |
| Soldiers of Martial Law | Alex Tackett |
| Tangent | Nick Wildash & Matt Wildash |
| Terminal Kill | Tony Armer |
| The Blue Nile | Richard Bailey |
| The Dynamiter | Mark Miller |
| The End of the Pier | Evan Laughlin |
| The Fire Captain | Marc Messenger |
| The Floating World | Michael Rhodes |
| The Ghosts of Le Griffon | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Hidden Room | Marvin Townsend |
| The Hotel Barbers | Daniel Woburn |
| The Last Swordsman | Deven Spencer |
| The Odyssey Part 1: The Man of Twists and Turns | August Xiayi Palmer |
| The Patriotic Hitman | Alex Beattie |
| The Sauce Was Worth It | Luke Guidici |
| The World That Time Forgot | Mike Rogers |
| Treasure Hunt | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| Two Dog Night | Cameron Webb |
| Vanna Viking | Michael Hahn & Elisabeth Meurer |
| Warrior in the Confines | Patrick Mulderrig |
| Whiteout | Bryan Holm |
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