2019 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Script Competition Semifinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft on November 27, 2019
Listed below are the semifinalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Pilot Launch TV Script Competition. These exceptional pilots were selected from roughly 2,500 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting.
This year's jury is comprised of creative executives, coordinators and development heads at Sam Esmail Corp., Berlanti Productions, Walt Disney Television, NBC Universal Television and CBS Television, as well as a story consultant for NBC's Writers on the Verge.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and grand prize winners here and 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 2019, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the semifinalists:
| A Need to Kill | Mark Pettit & AJ Jones |
| A Small Town Murder Mystery | Joshua Henaman |
| A Thousand Ropes | Tim Greene |
| Adelitas | Octavio Llano |
| After That | Laney Kraus-Taddeo |
| Agent M.O.M. | Janet Silverman |
| Alien Squad | Carter MacIntyre |
| Alienated | Bernadette Luckett |
| All Mexican- American | Fernando Viso |
| All the Blood of My Enemies | Albert Cook |
| Aloha State | Alexandra Amadio |
| Alpha & Amie | Radia Hassan |
| Amadeus Dean: Investigator of the Uncanny | Corey McMillan |
| American Dreamers | John Beaulieu |
| American Kings | Miranda King |
| An Impossible Love | Elad Ziv |
| Anything and Everything | Sarah King |
| Apocalypse | Joshua Koffman |
| Ashes | Kevin Fox |
| Assistance | Lauren Gamiel |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| Avenging Angels | Jennifer Phillips |
| Bad Influence | Kevin Walls |
| Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus | John Estes |
| Barrio_El Niño | Charlie Gandez |
| Bastards | Erin Muroski |
| Beasts | Laura McCarter |
| Behind The Scenes | Jeremy Foley & Sara O'Reilly |
| Best Practices | Ricardo Carrion |
| Better Judgement | Mark Marino |
| Beyond the Call | Ryan Slattery-Martinez |
| Big Stick | Linda MacPherson Davidson |
| Birdsong | Jennifer Dunn |
| Blind Justice | Nick Boocock & Myrna Jelman |
| Blitzkrieg | Luka McAuley |
| Bloody Kansas | Jonathan Flicker |
| Boathouse | Brady Morell |
| Boiling Frogs | Bryan Kelsey |
| Bonds | Jake Williamson |
| Bonnie & Bonnie | Lena Murisier |
| Break | Molly Gerth |
| Caledonia | Daniel Snoddy |
| Can't Spell Harmony Without Harm | Abhi Jeyakkumar |
| Care Full | Brady Morell |
| Catch Me | Michael Sapp |
| Chaos in Paradise | Jay Smith |
| Chasing the Dark | Mike Bencivenga |
| Claret | Daniel Dowling |
| Club Fed | Ross Marks |
| Collateral Damage | Robin Fusco |
| Come Again | Step Chatterley |
| Companion | Matthew Koppin |
| Complex | Zack Frizzell |
| Condoms & Cherries | Monisha Dadlani |
| Conundrum Integrated | Micah Paisner |
| Conventions | Corey Hill |
| Cousins | Tiffany Gibson |
| Crash & Burn | Clare Higgins & Julie Fassnacht |
| Crime Inc. | Liam Higgins |
| Crystal Blu | Alice Crowe |
| Crystall Palace | Amena Kheshtchin-Kamel |
| Cub Life | Kyle de Villafane |
| Cueing Up | Kim Shaw & Marsha Dearing |
| D.A.R.T. | Robin Fusco |
| DAD | Grady Wood |
| Danny Henson | A.J. Ciccotelli |
| Dead Alien | Jeff Delaney |
| Dead Shot Mary | Robert K. Benson |
| Definitely Cursed | Brennan Gilpatrick & Erin Walsh |
| Dirty | Meagan Daine |
| Disorderly | Martin Ingle |
| Dominion | Reed Kowit |
| Dyson: 2120 | Heather Laney |
| Elements | Dustin Drye |
| Emancipation: The Robert Smalls Story | Georgeana Mimms |
| Embassy | Felipe Silva |
| The Rant Around The World | Randolph Treu |
| Escape to America, Inc. | Judy Aya Williamson |
| Event Point | Dirk Patton |
| Fabulosity | Jesse Klein |
| Fake Friends | Caitlin Harris & Moira O'Neill |
| Father Garcia | Ben DeLoose & Matthew Chilelli |
| Field of Schemes | Madelyne Dhaliwal |
| Finn's Landing | Emma Peterson |
| Fire With Fire | Brooke Mulkins & Stephanie Moore |
| Fish | Stef Smith |
| Flood | Mark Lingane |
| Focus | Robin McKay |
| Follow Me | Nate O'Mahoney |
| Fuck Cancer | John Biggers |
| Ganja Bay | Tony Hendriks & Gillian Royes |
| Gates | Letitia Guillory |
| Geisting | Renee Pezzotta |
| Gen-Exile | Bradford Richardson |
| Ghostrunner | Jonathan Flicker |
| Glitch | Matthew Shafeek |
| Glorious! | Nicole Reddy |
| GM | Pat Stevens |
| God Save The Simmons | Jay Rondot |
| Gold-e-locks | Tom Hartig |
| Greetings from the Vortex | David Maddox |
| Gringolandia | Abigail Christine Kienbaum |
| Habsburg | Alexandra Shields |
| Hal and the Hellmouth | Carla Sraders |
| Half In / Half Out | Eric Stroud & Rory Kulz |
| Halfway There, Inc. | Sally Kandel |
| Hellbound Heroes | Boomer Murrhee |
| Hellish | Cameron Johnson |
| Her First Kill | Nike Kadri |
| Highlights | Reed Kaufman |
| Hit and Miss - Pilot | Veronica Robins & Charlotte Chaffe |
| Homecoming Queen | Jeena Bloom |
| Honey, I'm Home | David Drandorff |
| Hotel Cartel | Gianpaolo Pietri & Alessandro Pietri |
| How Ya Like Me Now | Craig T. Williams |
| I Am Afraid To Live In This House! | Greg Smith |
| I, Christina | Katie Mishra |
| I. AM. RANI | Sathish Easwaralingam |
| Iconic | Brianna Janes |
| Identities | Bruno Lyra |
| Infinite | Michael Apgar |
| Iris | John Burr |
| Jack Stone, PI | Trish Addison |
| Jax | Corey Hill |
| Johns | Evan Adams |
| Julie and Her Five Husbands --Rev 1--a one hour pilot | Christine Coyle Johnson & Julie Prendiville Roux |
| Karanormal | Scarlett Camargo & Rob Alicea |
| Keystone | Brian Crewe |
| Killing It | Chance Muehleck |
| Kingmaker | Tim Greene |
| Kinks | Rachel Feldman |
| Kiss & Makeup | Liz Thompson |
| La Pared | Gabriel Vallejo |
| Lab Rats | Margot Czeropski |
| Last Orleans | Tom Kerevan |
| Laughing To Keep From Crying | Jane Barr |
| Layla | Jasbina Justice & Thembani Mdluli |
| Learn to Live | Graeme Benson |
| Legal Implications | Brandon Stark |
| Lily Of The Valley | Michelle Stratton |
| Little Africa | Curtis Adair |
| Living Memory | Charlotte Cameron |
| Losers | David Zee |
| Lost in the Flood | Sean Collins-Smith |
| Mercy Toys | Elena Perez |
| Meta Paragon | Luis Brown |
| Miami (Not Florida) | Brianna Brown |
| Michelle Bree, Style Me | Alison Goodman |
| Monster Town | Garrett Vander Leun |
| Motherboard | Adam Scott Mazer |
| My Human Experience | Aimee Dansereau & Sarah Cooke |
| My Mom Is My Pimp | Jeremy Sender & Liliana Winkworth |
| No Good Deed: The Oliver Sipple Story | Heather Farlinger |
| Nothing Ever Dies | Neil Kirby |
| Number One | Harriet Beaney |
| O'Ryan's Alley | Robert Bowman |
| Of Patriots and Tyrants | Aaron Silverman |
| On The Verge | Yair Karlberger |
| Oneirika | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Paint Pals | Nick Greco |
| Partners | Ryan O'Leary |
| parts | Craig Page |
| Party for Time Travelers | Ulvrik Kraft |
| Pearly Gates | Frank Cappello |
| Permutation | Marcus Russell |
| Pet | Pete Sailer |
| Pillburg | Corey Hill |
| Piney Ridge | La'Chris Jordan |
| Presumption | Andy Healy |
| Princesses of Darkness | Jeremy Wechter |
| Queer Camp | Dani Messerschmidt |
| Quicksand | Jennifer Bianchi |
| Radical | Evan Despian |
| re.Form(ed) | Johnny Gilligan |
| Rebel Arc | warren kinney |
| Red Geyser | Michael Salomon |
| Reflections | Cynthia Wright |
| Return to Sender | Jasper Garner Gore |
| Rink Rats | Margaret Lebron |
| Riot | Dominic Finocchiaro |
| Roads | Joaquin Tay |
| Rock Bottom | Scott van Beever |
| Safe A$ Milk | Michael Lipschutz |
| Saint | Luke Wilson Hanley & Michael Hooley |
| Salvation Ship | Kristine Eckert |
| Seers | Brynn Chamblee |
| Shadow of Neverland | Ian Fletcher |
| Sherlock and John | John Drain |
| Sherlock Jones | Bert Sperling |
| Shooting Booth | Michael Dulude |
| Simulation Theory | Danny Baram |
| Slabs | Corey Hill |
| Soldier On | Danielle Kugler |
| Somers Harbor | Luke Janisko |
| Spellbound | Edward G. Excaliber |
| Spent | Danny Abrahms |
| Splitsville | Eitan Levine |
| Stars Aligned | Rachel Lang |
| State Of War | Victoria Orvananos |
| Stayers | Teddy Gilmore & Mat Dann |
| Stewards of the End Times | Anthony Buono |
| Storm Up The Sky | Julien Deladriere |
| Stranded | Brian White |
| Stump | Joshua Wolfsun & Amelia Dornbush |
| Substitute | Ashley Thompson |
| Super(heroes) | Gerardo Jose Salgado Aleman |
| Supertemp | Julie Saunders |
| Tenebrium | Elanor Miller |
| Tess the Inventor | Jacqueline Gault & Larry Starke |
| That Sister Thang | Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen & Dale Winton |
| The Aeons of Dust | Anita Clay |
| The Authenticator | Lawrence Rothfield |
| The Bakery | Hélène Rybol |
| The Best Price | Sonny Priest |
| The Breaching | Wendy Young |
| The Century Builders | Kelly Lynch |
| The Chain | Ari Olmos |
| The Conduit | Rolando Gonzaga |
| The Creep | Skye Tenorio |
| The Curious Cases of Melanie Jackson, "Pilot" | Travis Kehoe |
| The Disappearance of Benjamin Colebanks | Andrea Jaag |
| the Dragon Guard | Ryan LaSalle |
| The Extraordinary Life of Angelina Mulberry | Matthew J. Beier |
| The Eye | Allen Edwards |
| The Fertility Effect | Jackie Bateman |
| The Heavy | Allen Edwards |
| The Lady Birds | Kim Strickland-Sargent |
| The Life and Times of Francie Page | Victoria Lucia |
| The Life of a Gun | Pamela Satterfield |
| The Maulers | Adam Dick |
| The New Apollo | Corinne Caputo |
| The Nothing Man | Ken Hanson |
| The Otherkind | Luz Gilbert |
| The Paisley Witch Trial | Julia Campanelli |
| The Pink Marine: Pilot | Greg Cope White & Sean Dwyer |
| The Portal | Ricardo Bravo |
| The Process | Jordan Friedberg |
| The Quiet | Jessica Gelt |
| The Realm 'Kyna" | Crystal Ellington |
| The Restart | Martina Muhoberac |
| The Service | Edward Klau |
| The Sixth Extinction - "Pilot" | Jason Scott |
| The Towns | Geoff Bakken |
| The Ugly Years | Marissa Flaxbart |
| The Wall | Laura Valín-Peñalba |
| The Woodhull | Lynda Brendish |
| They Call It Home | Detra Hicks |
| They Fell By Night | Chadwick Harman |
| Through Violet Eyes | Stephen Woodworth |
| Triggered | Ana Brown |
| Trolls | Yuri Baranovsky & Vlad Baranovsky |
| Uncanny Valley | Jennifer Testa |
| Unintended Consequences | Dominic White |
| Valerie | Madeline Colker |
| Very Fine People | Jonathan Katz |
| Victory Lane | Spencer Saints |
| Vilomah | Nathaniel Nauert |
| Vine Street | Kent Hagen |
| Violet in Private | Katie Ashley Stegeman |
| W.A.T.T.S. (We Are Taught To Survive) | Manfred Moore |
| Weekend Rental | Alicia Ortega |
| Welcome To Hell | Ricky Camilleri |
| What Cheer | Karen Campion |
| What We Lost | Andi Delott |
| Whisper Creek | Jordan Vogeney |
| White Chocolate | Chris Mul & Christos Kardana |
| White Wash'd | Gloria Peña Olivares |
| Wildcatters | Jannette Bloom & Alyssa Carpenter |
| Will B. Free | Bill Sindelar & Brad Gottfred |
| Willie Cabel | Vincent DeSalvo |
| Wonderland | Betsy Morgan |
| Your Best You | Corey Hill |
| Zombie Football | Jarrett Fisher-Forester |
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