2019 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft - updated on November 22, 2019
Listed below are the quarterfinalists 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 semifinalists, finalists and 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 quarterfinalists:
| #Blessed | Shawn Gerrard |
| 78 RPM | Brennan Howard |
| 90 MILES | Ihor Gowda |
| A Beautiful Improbability | Guilherme Viegas |
| A Fair Fight | Peter Gazdag |
| A Kind of Marriage | Charles Leipart |
| A Plain Silver Ring | Derek Bowers |
| A Relative Unknown | Lynne Logan |
| A Simple Machine | Mark Hoffman |
| A Spaceship for Graham | Morgan Herrmann |
| A Suspect in Arms | Selcen Onsan |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Annie Phillips |
| A Writer's Acts | Sam Wright |
| After Alcatraz: Surviving the Escape | Kevin Bruce |
| After. | Amy Rose Lipsky |
| Ain't No Cowboys in Nashville | Christopher O'Bryant |
| AirBall | Robert Celestino |
| Altars of Greed | Brennan Howard |
| American Babylon | Yvan Iturriaga |
| American Blue | Jennifer Bieser |
| American Venus | Tatiana Seay-Reynolds |
| American Vice | Benjamin Feuer |
| Amok | Leanne Mangan |
| Angel of Rain | Lawrence Kennon |
| Animal | Milena Korolczuk |
| As Luck Would Have It | Lizzie Simon |
| Ashland | Connor Wilks |
| At the Edge of the World | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| Augustus and Ophelia | Greg Wishart |
| Avalanche | Eric Jeske |
| Avenue of The Giants | Thomas Thonson |
| Bach, A Monster | Avery O Williams |
| Back to the World | Rebecca Shapiro & Shawn DePasquale |
| Becoming Sinatra | Richard Muti |
| Best Left Unsaid | Jason Collin |
| Betsy and the Emperor | Staton Rabin |
| Bette | Caitlin Scherer & Jessica Sherr |
| Better Angels | Helen Darvall |
| Beyond The Piave | Chiara Cassaghi |
| Beyond the Seas | Mike Spohr |
| Birthright | Manu Chopra |
| Bite the Bitcoin | Sunil Puri |
| Black River | Marielle Brinda |
| Blood and Roses | John McCarney |
| Blood Law | Keith & Cassie Hayasaka |
| Blueprints | Robert Celestino |
| Borderline | Kenyetta Smith |
| Broad Daylight | Douglas Cushnie |
| Cages | Megan Raney Aarons & Colin K. Gray |
| Cake and Candles | Sally Fitz |
| Captain Science | John Nugent |
| Card Mechanic | Robert Celestino |
| Carolina Blue | Tim Ricks |
| Carousel | Brady Morell |
| Chó | Jon Shaivitz |
| Chained | John Sellars |
| Charlie Horse | Zack Frizzell |
| Chasing Foxes | Matthew Sawczyn & Dan Franklin |
| Chasing the G.O.A.T. | George Gardner |
| Children on The Edge of Forever | Roberto Fuertes |
| Chosen | Casey Yun |
| Christian and Amirah | Alan Shi |
| Christopher Dean | Ron Stewart |
| City of Trees | Christian Lybrook |
| Clint Eastwood | Nasrul Ekram |
| Code G | KD Amond & Bailey Hyneman |
| Coming To A Theater Near You! | Jean Andrei |
| Coming Up, Coming Out | Jules Caldeira |
| Corked | D. Nikki Wheeler |
| Corolla | Jackson Chow |
| Crossed Wires | David Boyd |
| Cruel Pecans | Jonny Flores |
| Cure | Lisa Rosenberg |
| Daffodil | Christina Wollerman |
| Ded Dawg Hood | Gary Gibich |
| Derailed | Mary Farmer |
| Devin | Teresa Jackson |
| Dogface | Beanie Barnes |
| Dollar Caller | Caleb Brunman |
| Domino | Kamari Somers |
| Donald Trump: Will Burn In Hell!!! | Bradford Rohan |
| Dreamland | Justin Van Voorhis |
| Drive With Me | Zachary Griffin |
| East Haven | Cody Autterson & Alyssa Overbeck |
| Elephant Angel | Kevin Gibson |
| Embargo | Carole Ryavec |
| Encroachment | Jack Hunter |
| Eyes Wide Open | Mark Diamond |
| Facts on the Ground | Barbara Nunberg |
| Family Studies | John Richards & Jennifer Richards |
| Faster Than Bullets | Patrick Holden |
| Faster Than Horses | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
| February | Heather Spiegel |
| Fissure | Spencer Slovic |
| Fitzroy's Lion | Martin Becker |
| Flying Bird's Diary | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
| Forget Me Not | Samantha Brewers |
| Forty-Second Boyd | Richard Fowler |
| Funny Accent | Barbara Shulgasser-Parker |
| Gene, Dean and Mr Evergreen | Gillian Gibbs |
| Generic Joy | Pedram Yazdanpanah |
| Girl Walks On | Joseph Whaley & Ronda Barendse |
| Go, Doctor Banting | Eric Sollars & Scott Sollars |
| Good Saint Binky | Tom Batha |
| Grace | Brady Morell |
| Gutter | Daniel Mercaldi |
| Gwendolyn's Manor | James Marios Ellinas |
| Halfway | Lukas Hassel |
| Harry, Above The Title | Gavin Fields |
| Have You Heard About Harvey? | Sam Wright |
| He Knows Where I Live | Carol Ayer |
| Heading For Home | Michael Feeney |
| Heaven On Earth | Peter Horgan |
| Heck | Chris Hicks |
| Helix House | Filomena Guarasci |
| Helldorado | Billie Bates |
| Here Comes the Night | Zach Vest |
| High and Low, My Brother | Matt Grenzebach |
| Hills of Gold | Lia Wang |
| Hit Me Harder | Max Rissman |
| Hockeytown | Christopher Kelly |
| House Money | Don Waldo |
| How To Build A Time Machine | Ronni Peck |
| Immortal | Natalie Metzger & Robert Allaire |
| In His Stead | Michael Droberg |
| In Sheep's Clothing | Matt Mascia |
| In The Black | Drew Metcalf |
| Instantly | Gene Golus |
| Insurrection | Simon Bowler |
| Into The Dark | Randy Kornfield |
| Invasion | Priscilla Poggio |
| Irene the Athenian | Katerina Kofou |
| It Could Happen To Anyone | Marie Cooper |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jasmine | Lee Cipolla |
| Jenna | Nathan Chitayat |
| Jess | Sean Jourdan |
| Jocko | Derek Vitatoe |
| John | Sarah Michael Novia |
| Karma | Tiffany Barker |
| Keepsakes | Rich Orstad |
| Killer Whales | Alan Lambert |
| Klefti Means Thief | Miranda Filippides |
| Knight of Destiny | George Alexanian |
| Komorebi | Eliyahu Cohen |
| La Grande Dame | Camille Gallay & Jason File |
| Land of Blood | Graham Leverton |
| Last Place To Go | Michael James beck |
| Let 'er Buck | Maren Curtis |
| Letters from the Blue | Nicola Sersale |
| Letters in Barbed Wire | Chad Hutson |
| Liberty | Chris Lawing |
| Liberty | Andrew Judge |
| Like Gold Dust | Martin Bell |
| Long March | Adam Perin |
| Lord Have Herschel | Michael Wohl |
| Losing My Religion | Dana Gonzales |
| Lucky Boy | Peter Mackie |
| Lucky Kidney | Nelson Knight |
| Man in the Arena | Keon Hedayati |
| Mary Tudor, Queen of France | James Grant |
| Mature | David Bush |
| Meaning Train | jim amicucci |
| Memorabilia | John Flynn & Jimmy Flynn |
| Mental State | Michael Jones |
| Mercury Lake | George Snape |
| Metal Mother | Casimir Nozkowski |
| Mighty Mae | Hilary Miller |
| Miguel | Lorenzo Colonna |
| Miles to Go | Joy Frelinghuysen |
| Minyan | Adam Ansell |
| Mockingbird | Alex Forstenhausler & John Rotondo |
| Monsieur Baret | Angela Franklyn |
| My Darkest Hour | Mickey McGovern |
| My Haitian Dime | Craig Roberts |
| My Life as a Dog in America | Virgilio Mendoza |
| Naomi | Avraham Yaffe |
| No Man's Land | Elad Ziv |
| No Room at the Inn | Sean Kirkpatrick |
| Odds on Love | Don Shroll |
| On The Boundary | Sejal Pachisia |
| On the Corner of Eden and Grace | Marsha Pincus |
| Once Again | Greg Wishart |
| Opera Rats | Jacquelyn Silberberg & Courtney Silberberg |
| Opportunity Costs | Peter Bohjalian |
| Our Fathers' Sins | Hannah Boyne |
| PB&J | Tihemme Gagnon |
| Pride and Privilege | Latisha Jones |
| Prostasia | James Rogers |
| Punchbag | Steven Snell |
| Put Out this Fire | Sade Corneille |
| Rabbit Hole | Lee Proudman |
| Raffi: The Rise and Fall of a Children's Music Superstar | Brandon Gardner |
| Refugium | Griffin Johnson |
| Remember the Ladies | Gina Mulligan |
| Remember The Name | Brian Birmingham |
| Renegade | Anonymous |
| Requited | Bill Johnston |
| Roar | Jason Boyson & Leslie LaRue |
| Robert De Niro Is Killing Me | Greg Olliver |
| Rottweiler | Andrew Griffin |
| Rough Country | Dave Kwan |
| Sacred Hymn | Thomas Ang |
| Saving Gracie | Mirana Comstock & Elizabeth Joyce |
| Schumann | Carolyn Cameron |
| Scuppernongs | Lynne Ashe |
| Shadowman | Mike Miller |
| Shelter In Place | Brooke Purdy |
| Shores of a New Blood | Mark Schmitz |
| Shoshanna | Justin Olstein |
| Sinful Autonomy | Miles Robinson |
| Small Favors | Lyndsey Scott |
| Small Town Girl | Rosemary Zibart |
| Smarter, Not Harder | Ryan Allsop |
| Smoke & Mirrors | Brian Koppel |
| Song of the Toadfish | David Hill |
| Soul Man | Kyle Taubken |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| South Side Girl | Edith Rodriguez |
| State of Feist | Lulu Cheri |
| Station Number Six | Tim Sasaki |
| Strangers to America | Deven Patel |
| Stratum | Craig Nobbs |
| Stubblefield | Stanley Wilson |
| Stuck in the Mud | Tyler Welch |
| Sundays Only | Joe Borg |
| Superstar | Chris Andrien |
| Suplex | Andy Compton |
| Tendencies of a Beast | Justin Bregman |
| That's how the light gets in | Andrew Durkan |
| The Abbreviated History of Charlotte Platt | Tim J Bishop |
| The Beautiful Kind | Deborah Heslop |
| The Beloved | Stephen Hensel & Marcin Czepek |
| The Broken Heartland | Tyler Kennedy |
| The Broken Road To Beira | Kgalalelo Kono |
| The Brothers Darwin | CL Russo |
| The Cooking Academy | Jonathan Steinfield |
| The Day We Tried to Live | Sergio Padilla |
| The Dissident | April Capil |
| The Dreamer | Annette siegal |
| The Empty Garage | Elan Maier |
| The Family Jewels | Elizabeth Ditty |
| The Fight Inside | Merridith Allen |
| The Flashlight Farmer | Alison Wroblewski |
| The Forge | Howard W. Robertson |
| The Forsaken Samurai | Marcelo Carvalho |
| The Gales of November | Justin Dombrowski |
| The Ghosts of Le Griffon | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Girls On Madison | Annabel Haddad |
| The Happy Man | David M. O'Neill |
| The Hawks | Jorge Arenillas |
| The Hotel Golgonooza | Sean McPharlin |
| The Houston | Thomas Gurnee |
| The Intimate Traveler | Helen Beer |
| The Lease of Nature | Anderson Boyd |
| The Lift | Rick Mallett |
| The Mad Woman | June Escalante |
| The Master of Storms | Demetra Pittman |
| The Memories That Make Us | Vanessa Carnevale |
| The Mother Road | Michael Raymond |
| The Music and the Mirror | Jeremy Fassler |
| The Next Page | David Salazar & Francisco Salazar |
| The Old Sod | Michael Kelly |
| The Oldest Caddies | John Alarid |
| The Other World | Oliver Warden |
| The Pilot Episode | Robin Wilson |
| The Pocketknife | Jerry Perez |
| The Pursuit of Small Victories | Brady Morell |
| The Reluctant Virtuoso | Andrew Wu |
| The Road out of Afghanistan | artur benson |
| The Sins of Our Mothers | francesca nider |
| The Star | Jon Medici |
| The Starving Season | Jaime Silverman |
| The Switzerland Incident | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| The Ultimate How To Guide to Dealing with Rape | Moa Lyth Brand |
| The Year of Us | Jenn Ficarra |
| This Is How It Ends | Melia Gabriel |
| Tiger In the Dark | John Kane |
| Tinseltown | Tyler Domecq |
| Top Ten | Maureen Trinh |
| Trailer Park Poet | Christopher Tarricone |
| Train Delay | Ziyad Saadi |
| Transitioning | Ruzena Zatko |
| TREED | Staci Greason |
| True Conviction | James Gulian |
| Tungus | Aaron Whitten |
| Two Decades A Nation | Bashar Salame |
| Un Point Dé Depart (A Starting Point) | Abigail Carpenter |
| Unblinded | George Tonelli |
| Under the Osprey's Eye | Joan Elizabeth Beilstein |
| Underwater | Alberto Gonzalez |
| Unnatural Selection | Sally Ashby |
| Untouchable | Dhruv Kanungo |
| Up From Corinth | Joel Moore |
| Victoria Harbour | Megan Cowley |
| Wartime Revelations | Carlo Bordone |
| Weird Haircuts and Bad Attitudes | Alyson Titkemeyer |
| Western Approaches | Andrew Judge |
| when things go wrong | anna koj |
| Whispers from the Watchtower | Jai Brandon |
| White Lines Christmas | Harrison Pierce |
| Wings of Marie | Pallavi Vaidya |
| With These Hands | Stephanie Blackburn |
| Witness Marks | Preston Geer |
| Wurttemberg Shepherd | Joan Lask |
| Yellow House Draw | Erick Kelemen |
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