2019 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Semifinalists Announced
Listed below are the semifinalists 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 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:
| A Cookiekonger Christmas | Richard Seidman |
| A Fairy's Tale | Joe Laudati |
| A Road Well Traveled | Jay Robert Scott |
| A Tall Tail | William Farmer |
| A Will To Kiss | Matthew Willis |
| Alexander The Grape | Duane Piedmont |
| Badness Is Spoiled Goodness | J. L. Paxxiel |
| Beached | Jaime Silverman |
| Behind The Curtain | Cara Clark |
| Bubblebum | Donna Allen |
| 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 |
| DNA | Heather Farlinger |
| Double Diamond | Steven Berko |
| Endurance | Rich Orstad |
| F Stop Fitzgerald | Rachel Feldman |
| Fernweh: The Ache for Distant Places | Rosemary Griggs |
| Finding Your Centaur | David Nickoll |
| Gene, Dean and Mr Evergreen | Gillian Gibbs |
| Heartland Hoops | Kyle Ann Stokes |
| Homeschooled | Nathan Leon |
| How To Build A Time Machine | Ronni Peck |
| In A Flash | Aidan Largey |
| Into the Numinous Moon | John McCarthy |
| Isle Brevelle | Melvin Moore |
| It's a Christmas Miracle, Charlie Brown | Tom Radovich |
| Joy To The World (The Christmas Fixer) | Stan Evans |
| Kids Rule | Jill Gurr |
| Knight of Destiny | George Alexanian |
| Lyla | Drew Ross |
| Moonbeam Junior | David Morrow |
| Moonlight in Capri | Sari Akhavan |
| Old Time Girl | Evelyne Tollman-Werzowa |
| Over It | Joy Goodwin |
| Paw Prints Guide My Dreams | James Young |
| PB&J | Tihemme Gagnon |
| Pixie | Gabriela Lugo |
| Rivals | Aurora George |
| Rowing Underwater | Chris Vincent |
| Rugistan | Joel Karlinsky |
| Rylee-Belle | Suzanne Varney |
| Sheltered | Margaret Hardy |
| Smash and Run | Ian Eyre |
| Space Homey | William Maxwell |
| Sumo Football | Scott Jacobs |
| The Alice Solution | Emily Redinbo |
| The Art of Letting Go | Jason Chan |
| The Christmas Odyssey | Sarah Dillon |
| The Elements of Christmas | Kate Hallock |
| The Gold Fish | Barbara Ward Thall |
| The Good Shepherd | Judith Sears |
| The Hobby Horse Kid | David Gregory |
| The Island Without Snow | Nick Fletcher |
| The Little Book of Monsters | Alexander Smith |
| The Magical Town of St. Nick | Bryan Kelsey |
| The Music Scrooge | Jim Evry |
| The Mystery Knight | Abril Carpio Marion |
| The Pysanky Connection | Phineas Fiske |
| The Story of Nellie Arthur | Christine Coyle Johnson & Julie Prendiville Roux |
| The Swim | Fredrik Colting |
| Time In Tilley | Ted Fryia |
| Toy Box | Steve Holinsworth |
| Tracker Jack | Lori Ochsner & Michele Evans |
| Violet's Rainbow | Sari Earl |
| Warrior Girl | Laurie Whitaker |
| Xena & Jonny | Robert Brown |
| Yves | Laura Piety |
| Zak vs. Zombies | Elisa Eliot |
| Zoe II | Denise Kulawik |
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