2019 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on November 20, 2019

Listed below are the finalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition, selected from over 1,000 submissions. We’re excited to be exploring this classic genre and to have received a slate of such compelling screenplays.

This year's jury is comprised of agents and managers from LBI Entertainment and Kaplan/Perrone as well as development executives from Fox Searchlight and Paramount Players. Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the grand prize winners here and on 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 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the top 50 finalists:

*A Suspect in Arms*	Selcen M. Onsan
*A Tale of Two Cities*	Annie Phillips
*American Venus*	Tatiana Seay-Reynolds
*Angel of Rain*	Lawrence Kennon
*Animal*	Milena Korolczuk
*Avenue of The Giants*	Thomas Thonson
*Bette*	Caitlin Scherer & Jessica Sherr
*Better Angels*	Helen Darvall
*Beyond the Seas*	Mike Spohr
*Black River*	Marielle Brinda
*Blood Law*	Keith and Cassie Hayasaka
*Borderline*	Kenyetta Smith
*Captain Science*	John Nugent
*Carousel*	Brady Morell
*Chó*	Jon Shaivitz
*Faster Than Bullets*	Patrick Holden
*Faster Than Horses*	Chris Mul & Michael Mul
*Forget Me Not*	Samantha Brewers
*Funny Accent*	Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
*Girl Walks On*	Joseph Whaley & Ronda Barendse
*Good Saint Binky*	Tom Batha
*Halfway*	Lukas Hassel
*Helldorado*	Billie Bates
*Here Comes the Night*	Zach Vest
*Hills of Gold*	Lia Wang
*Instantly*	Gene Golus
*Insurrection*	Simon Bowler
*Into The Dark*	Randy Kornfield
*Jasmine*	Lee Cipolla
*Jenna*	Nathan Chitayat
*Keepsakes*	Rich Orstad
*Land of Blood*	Graham Leverton
*Letters from the Blue*	Nicola Sersale &. Nick Calori
*No Man's Land*	Elad Ziv
*No Room at the Inn*	Sean Kirkpatrick
*On The Boundary*	Sejal Pachisia
*Punchbag*	Steven Snell
*Put Out This Fire*	Sade Corneille
*Requited*	Bill Johnston
*Scuppernongs*	Lynne Ashe
*Shoshanna*	Justin Olstein
*Station Number Six*	Tim Sasaki
*Stuck in the Mud*	Tyler Welch
*The Brothers Darwin*	CL Russo
*The Fight Inside*	Merridith Allen
*The Master of Storms*	Demetra Pittman
*The Sins of Our Mothers*	francesca nider
*This Is How It Ends*	Melia Gabriel
*Tungus*	Aaron Whitten
*Untouchable*	Dhruv Kanungo