2019 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on February 5, 2020

Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from roughly 600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

This year’s jury is comprised of development executives and directors from Rob Marshall's Lucamar Productions, Hallmark Movie Channel, 3Pas Studios, Montana North Media and Sony's Affirm Films.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists 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:

*A Cookiekonger Christmas*	Richard Seidman
*A Fairy's Tale*	Joe Laudati
*A Relative Unknown*	Lynne Logan
*A Road Well Traveled*	Jay Robert Scott
*A Tale Never Told*	Stan Evans
*A Tale of Snow and Magic*	Oleg Larin
*A Tall Tail*	William Farmer
*According to Their Kind*	Kenya Branch
*Alexander The Grape*	Duane Piedmont
*Alice Lloyd*	Diana Mitchell
*Auggie and the Big Tree*	Kerry Ann Reid
*Badness Is Spoiled Goodness*	J. L. Paxxiel
*Beached*	Jaime Silverman
*Behind The Curtain*	Cara Clark
*Best Dressed*	Vern Lien
*Betsy and the Emperor*	Staton Rabin
*Blood and Brains*	Peter Gazdag
*Born With The Soul Of A Firefly*	Betz Hill Hooper
*Bubblebum*	Donna Allen
*Butterfly Girl Of Africa*	Michael Daniel
*Captain C!*	John Paul Su
*Charlie Horse*	Zack Frizzell
*Christmas Clock*	Dylan Kilgour
*Christmas in Black and White*	James Breeden
*Christmas Time! with Paw and Sonny Boy*	Michael Bunch
*Cradle*	Jeffrey Ullman
*Derby Queen*	Wendy Moulton Tate
*DNA*	Heather Farlinger
*Dog #9*	Lee Lawson
*Donuts With Jerry*	Ron Peer
*Double Diamond*	Steven Berko
*DOuG*	Thresa Richardson
*Dumbest Generation*	Leslie Lyshkov
*Echo The Wind*	Thomas Mazzola
*Endurance*	Rich Orstad
*Esther*	Adele Cordner
*F Stop Fitzgerald*	Rachel Feldman
*Fairies: Sabotage*	Patrick Thibeault
*Fernweh: The Ache for Distant Places*	Rosemary Griggs
*Finding Your Centaur*	David Nickoll
*Gene, Dean and Mr Evergreen*	Gillian Gibbs
*Ghosts We Leave Behind*	Bryce Emley
*Girl Writer*	Richard Klin
*God Fearing*	Kent Thalman
*Got In*	Dan Sanders
*Grounded*	Jennifer D'Angelo Kircher
*Growl*	Travis Gentry
*Heartland Hoops*	Kyle Ann Stokes
*Heaven or Las Vegas*	Jeff Hare
*Here Be Dragons*	Lee Lawson & Steve Brumwell
*Home Team Blues*	Ken Robb
*Homeschooled*	Nathan Leon
*Hope Harbor*	David Halligan
*How To Build A Time Machine*	Ronni Peck
*I Blame Juliet*	HS Fishbrook
*In A Flash*	Aidan Largey
*Into the Numinous Moon*	John McCarthy
*Ira Finkelstein's Day of the Dead*	Sue Corcoran & Angie Louise
*Isle Brevelle*	Melvin Moore
*It's a Christmas Miracle, Charlie Brown*	Tom Radovich
*Jolly's Christmas*	Ken Robb
*Joy To The World*	Stan Evans
*Kids Rule*	Jill Gurr
*Knight of Destiny*	George Alexanian
*Leonardo And The Kid*	Sebastian Milito
*Let It Shine*	Romeo Ciolfi
*Love and Insurrection*	Ernestina Juarez
*Love Never Sleeps*	KD Farris
*Lyla*	Drew Ross
*Mango Magic*	Ina Sotirova
*Max and Devin's Last Trick or Treat*	Christopher Rippey
*MiDog*	Laura Antonelli
*Million Reasons*	Aurora George
*Mixteco Boy*	Miguel Orozco
*Moonbeam Junior*	David Morrow
*Moonlight Cha Cha Cha*	Mare Jones
*Moonlight in Capri*	Sari Akhavan
*Mrs. Claus Matchmaker: Sugarplum Inn*	Tessa I. Shaffer
*My Mother's More Neurotic Than Yours*	Lynda Levy
*My Religion*	Shahnaz Mahmud
*No Labels, No Limits*	Lisa Sheehan Scouten
*Not The Jamaica We Know*	Paula Lennon
*Old Soul*	Jon Emm
*Old Time Girl*	Evelyne Tollman-Werzowa
*One Christmas Knight*	Frank Verde
*One More Hit*	Brad Max
*Out of My Comfort Zone*	Ivy Vale & Rick Reil
*Over It*	Joy Goodwin
*Over the Monster*	Douglas Folsom
*Passed from Me*	Brian Mulligan
*Paw Prints Guide My Dreams*	James Young
*PB&J*	Tihemme Gagnon
*Pinto*	Bruce Leaf
*Pixie*	Gabriela Lugo
*Play and Love In Summer*	Matthew Willis
*Popcorn*	Ken McCusker
*Return to Santa*	Kevin Naughton
*Rivals*	Aurora George
*Romeoville*	Peggy Williams & Christine DeSmet
*Roots and Wings*	Julie Austin & Adrian Colesberry
*Rowing Underwater*	Chris Vincent
*Rugistan*	Joel Karlinsky
*Santa Claus, Indiana*	Brett Hauze
*Saving Mark Twain*	Staton Rabin
*Saving The Duckplucker's Son*	Paul Fergus Morris & Andrew Kelly
*Scrap Metal Hearts*	Jane Eakin
*Seascape*	Dylan Brody
*Sheltered*	Margaret Hardy
*Signal Fire*	Elizabeth Gregory
*Small Decisions*	Gary Rose
*Smash and Run*	Ian Eyre
*Sonoran Song*	Anne Wallace
*Space Homey*	William Maxwell
*Sports Day*	Kevin Sockwell
*Stick of Glory*	Vincent DeSalvo
*Sumo Football*	Scott Jacobs
*Susan the Spy*	Alva Moore
*Taffy of Torpedo Junction*	Joy Goodwin
*Tesera's Gift: The Perfect Tear*	Connie Lansberg
*The Alice Solution*	Emily Redinbo
*The ARLA Incident*	Tim Millette
*The Art of Letting Go*	Jason Chan
*The Bicycle*	Marvin Wolf
*The Big World of Little Lu-Lu Bell*	Suzanne Varney
*The Christmas Odyssey*	Sarah Dillon
*The Crafters*	John Hanna & Alec Hanna
*The Dream Parade*	J.T. Kennerly
*The Elements of Christmas*	Kate Hallock
*The Escort*	Sharon Savage
*The Fight Is On*	Keisha Jackson
*The Ghost on the Brooklyn Bridge*	M. David Frango
*The Gift*	Michael Lyttle
*The Gold Fish*	Barbara Ward Thall
*The Good Shepherd*	Judith Sears
*The Hobby Horse Kid*	David Gregory
*The Island Without Snow*	Nick Fletcher
*The Lakeosaurus*	Steve Holinsworth
*The Little Book of Monsters*	Alexander Smith
*The Magical Town of St. Nick*	Bryan Kelsey
*The Missile*	Richard Geiwitz
*The Music Scrooge*	Jim Evry
*The Music Store*	James Halliday
*The Mystery Knight*	Abril Carpio Marion
*The Prospector's Compass*	Cris Loveless
*The Pysanky Connection*	Phineas Fiske
*The Reluctant Virtuoso*	Andrew Wu
*The Story of Nellie Arthur*	Christine Coyle Johnson & Julie Prendiville Roux
*The Summer I Shrank My Grandmother*	Anita Brandt Burgoyne
*The Swim*	Fredrik Colting
*The Underground Castle*	Jacqueline Stewart
*The Winter Wolves*	Mark Kelly
*Time In Tilley*	Ted Fryia
*Toy Box*	Steve Holinsworth
*Tracker Jack*	Lori Ochsner & Michele Evans
*Trick*	Jeffrey Ullman
*Tupac is Alive on Discovery Island*	Stephanie Westendorf
*Under the Same Stars*	Andreya Armstrong
*Violet's Rainbow*	Sari Earl
*Wanted*	Duane Piedmont
*Warrior Girl*	Laurie Whitaker
*We Are All Mad Here*	Hana Hall
*We Are the Memories*	Eric Endres
*Where the Crane Lands*	Vincent DeVito
*World Cup Mouse*	Richard Seidman
*Wrestling Dad*	Allan Hubbard
*Xena & Jonny*	Robert Brown
*Yves*	Laura Piety
*Zak vs. Zombies*	Elisa Eliot
*Zoe II*	Denise Kulawik