2019 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on November 5, 2019

Listed below are the semifinalists 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 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 semifinalists:

*90 Miles*	Ihor Gowda
*A Fair Fight*	Peter Gazdag
*A Kind of Marriage*	Charles Leipart
*A Spaceship for Graham*	Morgan Herrmann
*A Suspect in Arms*	Selcen M Onsan
*A Tale of Two Cities*	Annie Phillips
*A Writer's Acts*	Sam Wright
*After Alcatraz*	Kevin Bruce
*Ain't No Cowboys in Nashville*	Christopher O'Bryant
*American Venus*	Tatiana Seay-Reynolds
*American Vice*	Benjamin Feuer
*Angel of Rain*	Lawrence Kennon
*Animal*	Milena Korolczuk
*Ashland*	Connor Wilks
*At the Edge of the World*	Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye
*Augustus and Ophelia*	Greg Wishart
*Avenue of The Giants*	Thomas Thonson
*Back to the World*	Rebecca Shapiro & Shawn DePsaquale
*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
*Black River*	Marielle Brinda
*Blood Law*	Keith and Cassie Hayasaka
*Blueprints*	robert celestino
*Borderline*	Kenyetta Smith
*Captain Science*	John Nugent
*Card Mechanic*	Robert Celestino
*Carousel*	Brady Morell
*Chó*	Jon Shaivitz
*Charlie Hors*	Zack Frizzell
*Clint Eastwood*	Nasrul Ekram
*Drive With Me*	Zachary Griffin
*Elephant Angel*	Kevin Gibson
*Eyes Wide Open*	Mark Diamond
*Fasther Than Bullets*	Patrick Holden
*Faster Than Horses*	Chris Mul & Michael Mul
*Fissure*	Spencer Slovic
*Forget Me Not*	Samantha Brewers
*Forty-Second Boyd*	Richard Fowler
*Funny Accent*	Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
*Generic Joy*	Pedram Yazdanpanah
*Girl Walks On*	Joseph Whaley & Ronda Barendse
*Good Saint Binky*	Tom Batha
*Gutter*	Daniel Mercaldi
*Halfway*	Lukas Hassel
*Harry, Above The Title*	Gavin Fields
*Heading For Home*	Michael Feeney
*Heck*	Chris Hicks
*Helldorado*	Billie Bates
*Here Comes the Night*	Zach Vest
*Hills of Gold*	Lia Wang
*Hit Me Harder*	Max Rissman
*House Money*	Don Waldo
*Immortal*	Natalie Metzger & Robert Allaire
*Instantly*	Gene Golus
*Insurrection*	Simon Bowler
*Into The Dark*	Randy Kornfield
*Jasmine*	Lee Cipolla
*Jenna*	Nathan Chitayat
*Jess*	Sean Jourdan
*Jocko*	Derek Vitatoe
*Keepsakes*	Rich Orstad
*Killer Whales*	Alan Lambert
*Klefti Means Thief*	Miranda Filippides
*Knight of Destiny*	George Alexanian
*La Grande Dame*	Camille Gallay & Jason File
*Land of Blood*	Graham Leverton
*Letters from the Blue*	Nick Calori & Nicola Sersale
*Liberty*	Chris Lawing
*Like Gold Dust*	Martin Bell
*Long March*	Adam Perin
*Lord Have Herschel*	Michael Wohl
*Man in the Arena*	Keon Hedayati
*Meaning Train*	Jim Amicucci
*Metal Mother*	Casimir Nozkowski
*Miguel*	Lorenzo Colonna
*Mockingbird*	Alex Forstenhausler & John Rotondo
*My Haitian Dame*	Craig Roberts
*Naomi*	Avraham Yaffe
*No Man's Land*	Elad Ziv
*No Room at the Inn*	Sean Kirkpatrick
*On The Boundary*	Sejal Pachisia
*On the Corner of Eden and Grace*	Marsha Pincus
*Once Again*	Greg Wishart
*Prostasia*	James Rogers
*Punchbag*	Steven Snell
*Put Out This Fire*	Sade Corneille
*Raffi: The Rise and Fall of a Children's Music Superstar*	Brandon Gardner
*Remember the Ladies*	Gina Mulligan
*Requited*	Bill Johnston
*Roar*	Jason Boyson & Leslie LaRue
*Scuppernongs*	Lynne Ashe
*Shelter In Place*	Brooke Purdy
*Shores of a New Blood*	Mark Schmitz
*Shoshanna*	Justin Olstein
*Sinful Autonomy*	Miles Robinson
*Small Town Girl*	Rosemary Zibart
*Soul Man*	Kyle Taubken
*State of Feist*	Lulu Cheri
*Station Number Six*	Tim Sasaki
*Stuck in the Mud*	Tyler Welch
*Suplex*	Andy Compton
*The Beautiful Kind*	Deborah Heslop
*The Brothers Darwin*	CL Russo
*The Dissident*	April Capil
*The Dreamer*	Annette siegal
*The Fight Inside*	Merridith Allen
*The Hawks*	Jorge Arenillas
*The Lease of Nature*	Anderson Boyd
*The Master of Storms*	Demetra Pittman
*The Pocketknife*	Jerry Perez
*The Sins of Our Mothers*	Francesca Nider
*The Switzerland Incident*	Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye
*The Year of Us*	Jenn Ficarra
*This Is How It Ends*	Melia Gabriel
*Top Ten*	Maureen Trinh
*Transitioning*	Ruzena Zatko
*True Conviction*	James Gulian
*Tungus*	Aaron Whitten
*Un Point Dé Depart (A Starting Point)*	Abigail Carpenter
*Untouchable*	Dhruv Kanungo
*Wartime Revelations*	Carlo Bordone
*Weird Haircuts and Bad Attitudes*	Alyson Titkemeyer
*Western Approaches*	Andrew Judge
*White Lines Christmas*	Harrison Pierce