Announcing the 2020 ScreenCraft Film Fund Second Rounders
by ScreenCraft on May 26, 2020
Listed below are the Second Rounders of the 2020 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 800 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for future announcements 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, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Second Rounders:
| ¡salsa! | Antonina Kerguelen |
| (Black) Girls | Anissa Cooper |
| #WhyIDidntReport | Alana de Freitas |
| $huffle | Benjamin Flaherty |
| 1000 Cranes | Michael Dwyer |
| 2020 The Beginning | Valerie Johnson |
| 26 Words | Daniel Stephens, Mark Booker |
| 26.2 to Life: The San Quentin Prison Marathon | Christine Yoo |
| 27 Candles | Naaji Adzimah |
| 41 SHOTS | David Diaz |
| 8 Days with Hopper | Jon Dennis |
| A Bad Idea | Cathy MacDonald |
| A Charming (Yet Problematic) Comedy Called: A Midsummer Night's Dream | Chadwick Harman |
| A Chasing After the Wind | Ellen Ahn |
| A Conversation About Chicago | Asha Doucet |
| A flote | Lucia Artigas |
| A Little Racist | Samantha Loney |
| A Little Victory | J Bird Lathon |
| A Penny and a Smile | Samuel Harwood |
| A Rite and Confession | Robert Campbell |
| A Salamandra | Alex Carvalho |
| A Space in Time | Nick Taussig |
| Abu & Mo: Two Orphans | Nauzanin Knight |
| Accident | Reagan Sin-Long Kai |
| Acid Casualty | Mae Horak |
| Afro | Jenn Shaw |
| AFTERSHOCK-A Love Story | JULIA STOVELL |
| Ain't No Sunshine | Ben Harl |
| Alelí and Ettá | Monica Mendoza |
| All The Real Boys | Ohad Ira Amram |
| American 11 | Shayain Lakhani, Devon Solwold |
| Among Us | Brunson Delves |
| An Island Drifts | Vivian Ip |
| Anamnesis | Remington Henderson |
| And She Kept Walking | Chelsea Sutton |
| ANIMA | Kiko Morah |
| Army of Love/Prophets of Change | Assaf Ben Shetrit |
| Audrey and Eli | Stephanie Ahn |
| AWAKE | Hunter Richards |
| AZUL | Wayne Hutchins |
| Baby Fever | Pascale Potvin |
| Be Milton | Michael Cox, Ben Yannette |
| Befana Comes at Night | Brando Benetton , Annika Dawson |
| BERLIN | Sea Shimooka |
| better. | Shaun Rylee |
| Between The Living and The Dead | John Barrile |
| Birthmark | Aditya Vikram Sengupta |
| Black Dog | Nikita Zarkh |
| Blood and Ash | Kenneth Sanabria |
| Blood Pact | Audrdey Davidson |
| Boarding: Greetings from the 4th Dimension | Bridie Jurasevich |
| Brace Yourself | Chloe Sarbib |
| Bravo! | Aiko Lozar, Kobe Cowell, Sachi Stewart, Jason Kanetakis, Grayce Britton, Ava Falk |
| Burning Sea | Christos Kardana |
| Captive | Travis Seppala |
| Castaway | Neil Shaw |
| Caveboy | Michael Johnson |
| Central Services | Chris Herde, Elizabeth Karpilow Sanders |
| Cheer Up, Paco! | Carlos Valdivia |
| Cherries | Sarah J. Sommers |
| Children of the Universe | Norman Lesperance |
| Chiqui | Carlos Cardona |
| Choices | Jaime Saginor |
| Clark & Gerard | Clint Clark |
| Classmates | Matthew Schlissel |
| Clean | Grayson Whitehurst |
| Cold Water | Jay Perry, Shaun Perry |
| Coming Home: Fight for a Legacy | matia karrell |
| CONTINUITY (short film script) | Nelson Kim |
| COVID-20 | Timothy Ware |
| Curfew | Rodolfo Pereira |
| Cutterman | Edward Gadrix |
| DARUMA | Kelli McNeil |
| De Gringo a la Tumba (from Gringo To Grave) | Jacob Stuart |
| Dead Don't Speak | Noah Lang |
| Destiny's Road | Kameishia Wooten |
| Diaspora (Working Title) | Cameron Robert |
| Dig Deeper | Girault Seger |
| Dig In | Nik Theorin, David Kilgo |
| Dip | Eli Raskin |
| Dirty Beasts | Yin Tan, Mai Fernandez |
| DISCIPLE | Sebastian LaCause |
| Distaff | Nenad Antolović |
| Dream & Smile | Anastasiya Serhiyenia |
| Duration 13:00 | Tom Goodall |
| Eat Your Heart Out | Anastasia Comelli |
| Ela | Antonio Aguinaga |
| Elegy | John Flynn |
| En Route | Christine Chen |
| Execution by the Numbers | Rock Grant |
| Execution Day | Mike Reid |
| Fainting Spells | Clea DeCrane |
| Fashion Reimagined | becky hutner |
| Feeling Fine | Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller |
| FIELD TRIP | Orges Bakalli |
| FIRSTS | Oliver Warden |
| Fissura | Grace Kim |
| Flaka Z | Kate McMahon |
| Follow Her | Dani Barker |
| Food 4.0 | Aaron Kodz |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Michel Oscar Monegro |
| FOREST FOR THE TREES | NATHAN GRESHAM, Vincent Flood |
| FRANCIS | Ian Barling |
| FREELANCERS with Bill Gentile: Thailand | Bill Gentile |
| Fresh Meat | Lu Asfaha |
| FROM SEA TO RISING SEA | Mary John Frank |
| From the Mouths... | Jamel Northern |
| From Your Eyes To Mine | Carlen May-Mann |
| Full Circle the Story of the New Dimensions | Gary Bell |
| GASLIGHT | Valerie Edwards |
| Gen Mental | Hailey Shannon |
| Girl Afraid | Christopher Guerrero |
| Goldtown | Léah McVeagh, Melissa Williams |
| Goners | Ken Hegan |
| Good Cop, Bura Cop | Michael Masurkevitch |
| Grandpa Guru | Silvio Mirošničenko |
| GROSS HAPPINESS | Murilo Pasta |
| Growing Up With Mi Familia | Andy Alvarez |
| Guts | Caitlin Stow |
| Hardpan | Matt Ferrin |
| Harvest | Alex Rafala |
| Heart of the Trepid | Sadie Rogers |
| HELLSWAY | Julien Sauvalle |
| Hemlock | Cat Clark |
| Henchmen | Mark DePasquale |
| Henrietta | Harry Aspinwall |
| Her Majesty | Carmela Corbett |
| Here, I'm Unbroken | Anna Neumann |
| Hero.Loss.Dirt | Oliver Mann |
| Hidden Trails | Nick Harwood, Ryan Petersen |
| Homecoming | Sean Collom |
| Hope is the Thing with Feathers | Sunny Mohajer |
| HOTCHKISS | Claire Leona Apps |
| Hotel Cavalier | Nathaniel Edwards, Matthew Van Sliger |
| House Rules | Jason Zink, Justin Lucas |
| Human.Nature. | Bart Schrijver |
| Hustle | Linda Wei |
| Hysterical | April Moreau |
| I am Max | Steven Fischer, Edward Porembny |
| I Never Left | shazia khan |
| I Remember | GEETA SAHAI |
| I'M OKAY | Amy Poux |
| In Arcadia | Daniel Pereira Florêncio |
| In the Desert of Dark and Light | J.D. Mathes |
| Infected Earth | Darragh O'Carroll |
| Inheritance | Jake Lockett |
| Insexcapades | Caitlin Craggs |
| INTERSTATE | Dane Elcar & Max Woertendyke |
| Intuition | Spring Horton |
| Invisible Shards | Ari Dassa |
| Ismail | Sami Yassin |
| It Takes A Village | Ophelia Harutyunyan |
| It's all but funny | Yemi Akindiya |
| Izzie and Yuo-Chen on a Date in Autumn | Matt Ocks |
| Jackrabbit | Jared Hogan |
| Jaguar | Emilio Subía |
| Jepota | Augusto Canani, Papá Guarani |
| Jew Boy | Michael Sladek |
| Joe is Alive | Sunny Mohajer |
| June In Autumn | Wendy Okoi-Obuli |
| Just Never Leave | Dillon Tucker |
| Keep Walking | Renée Marie Petropoulos |
| Keeper | Matt Steiner |
| Kel Satya | Jean-Pierre Chapoteau |
| Kelsey's Crossing | David Rakowiecki |
| Kill Thy Neighbor | Gregory Bayne |
| Kurt. | Michael Perrone |
| La Diablesse | Teneille Newallo |
| La Vida es un Carnaval | Fernando Colin |
| LA-Laurie Parrish | Mysti MOCHA Cozart |
| Lady Crocodile | Teresa Carante |
| Lame White Man | Panagiotis Kondylis |
| Last Girls Trip | Dusty Noval |
| Lé Péintre | John Peterman |
| LE PETIT MONDE | Justin Ambrosino |
| Left Behind | Yara Caubet |
| Let Me Go | Alex Srednoselac |
| Letters from the Blue | Nick Calori, Nico Sersale |
| Lie Down and Let It Happen | Erica Rose |
| Life Ain't Like the Movies | Robert Butler |
| LIfe Drawing | Gregory Earls |
| Lifehouse | Matthew Roveto |
| Lifesaver | David Beck |
| Lingerie Models | Jeanine Bentley |
| Lita | Ian Lyndon |
| Lonely Pine (Arno) | Dalmira Tilepbergen |
| Lost & Found Abroad | Vanina Kondova |
| Lost Dog | Mary Guzmán |
| Loteria Land | Patty Sandoval Sralla |
| Love in the Time of Quarantine | Lucile Smith |
| Love: A War Story | Muneeb Hassan |
| Lovemania | Sunny Mohajer |
| Lover Boy | Jeremy Bradford |
| LUCKY DOG | Annabel Osborne |
| Made in Italy Documentary | Paula Thomas, Pilar Zapata |
| Maeve in the Dark | Kasia Kaczmarek, Felix Garriock |
| Mandao Returns | Scott Dunn |
| Mango Magic | Ina Sotirova |
| Margaret the Brave | Danny Chandia |
| Marla | Bonnie Garcia |
| MASS AVE | Omar Kamara, Jalmer Caceres |
| MAW | ESTEBAN GARCIA |
| Meant to Be | Alexandria Hellman |
| Memories Lost | Ulvrik Kraft |
| MEN | Rebecca Dreyfus |
| Middle C | Sarah Griffin |
| MiddleMen Documentary | Rochelle White |
| Mike | Mariia (Manya) Karaseva (Kay) |
| Mind Games | Kovid Gupta |
| Mischief Night | Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Cosimo Mariano |
| Misekakeru (Pretend) Short | Diana Ly |
| Miso | Alexandra Sgambati |
| Missus Softee | Cinder Chou |
| Modern Shaman | Angela Colabella |
| Moon Manor | Erin Granat & Machete Bang Bang |
| Mouth Full Of Gold | Lyle Lindgren |
| My Apocalyptic Thanksgiving | Richard Soriano |
| My Brother Heinz | Meghan Horvath |
| NEUROPLASTIC | ERNESTO PORTO |
| Never Met | Michael Pantozzi |
| NORTH STAR | P.J. Palmer |
| NORTHBOUND Season 3 | Seth Anderson, Jason Hagen |
| Nurse | J.P. (James) McNinch |
| ON CONSIGNMENT | Orges Bakalli |
| On Location | Jeff Seemann |
| On the Water's Edge -- Polaroid | MJ Palo |
| Ông Nam Hải - Lord of the South Sea | Emi Koch |
| ONLY DRY EYE'S FOR THE DEVIL DEATH | Bradley Keeling |
| Otis N' the Dough Boyz | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Our dad, Danielle | Sarah King |
| Out of Pocket | Traci Hays |
| OUTSPOKEN | Matthew Ward |
| Panopticon | Naveen Sagar |
| Paris is in Harlem | Christina Kallas |
| Part Time | John Michael |
| Passage | Jack Kison |
| Paula Lucas - Keeping The Promise | Vijaykumar Mirchandani |
| Pay As You Go | Andrew McLinden |
| Penned | Steven Pierce |
| Pestilent | Christopher Riggs |
| Petty Little Schmucks | Sanjay Menon, Josh Adler |
| PHOOLAN | Hossein Martin Fazeli |
| Pink & Blue | Nike Uche Kadri |
| PiNKHEARTS | Levi Buchanan |
| Plants | Shom Ghosh |
| POKERFACE | Tiana Cheung |
| Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché | Matthew Silverman |
| Pomegranate | Weam Namou |
| Prophylactic | Jay Reid |
| PUES NADA | Aziza Barnes |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Queen of the Desert | Mary Ann Rotondi |
| Ready Forward | Deborah Glazier |
| Rear | Edward Worthy |
| RED DOG | V.J. WAKS |
| Red Line | Charles Bistrong |
| Remedial | Laurie Gardiner |
| Rendez-Vous | Coxy Rodoni |
| Renegade of Light | Dennis Higgins |
| Residue | Alex Savvides |
| Retribution | Christy Lavalais |
| Right Hand Mann | Geoffrey Glenn |
| Right of Way | Jeremy Bradford |
| Rooted | Sean Addo |
| ROUGH TRANSLATION | Jonathan Chen Chen |
| Run | Holly Hargreaves |
| S.P.A.D.E.S. | Patrick Ladonis |
| Sandra Claus | Gitanajli Kapila |
| Sandtonlites | Mpona Lebajoa |
| Scarlett_123 | Jack Wake-Walker |
| Scars (Pilot) | Simone Hawthorne |
| SCRAP | Vivian Kerr |
| SCRiBBLES | Brandon Garegnani |
| Sealand | Oliver Zeller |
| Secret of the Rebellion | Mike Johnston |
| Service Professional | Dillon Brady |
| Sexpectations | Jenna St. John |
| SHACKLED | Luke Spears |
| Shadow Players | Mel Piper |
| Shadows on a Door | Xander Bailey |
| Showtime at Midnight | Jesse Barth |
| SICK LIKE ME | Jenny Deller |
| Sick of Nowhere | DiAnte Jenkins |
| Silent as the Grave | Brad Podowski |
| Silvia | Michael Dougherty, Camila Franco Ribeiro Gomide |
| Singularity | Quinn Fluet |
| Sisters | Joyce Kline |
| Skin Deep | Khiray Richards |
| SKY CITY HAYA | Adad Warda |
| Somewhere Quiet | Olivia Lloyd |
| Sonny Boy | Nick Maccarone |
| Sorry, We're Dead | Alex Zajicek |
| Southern Pride (And Prejudice) | Paige Murphy |
| STAY | Shawn Kathryn Kane |
| Still River, Silent Jungle | Hayley Stuart |
| Strange Weather | Kio Shijiki |
| Stuck | Dana Omar |
| Subtitles | David Hill |
| Summer With Scarlett | Landon Coats |
| SUNLESS | David Robinson-Smith |
| Symphony (The Beast) | Erin Frederick |
| Tankhouse | Noam Tomaschoff, Chelsea Frei |
| Technosophy | Maureen Quinn |
| Tender | Circe McNaughton |
| Tender Crossings | Joie Estrella Horwitz |
| Tennis Lessons | Peter Gunter |
| Terror Time: The Consumers | Thomas Sigmon |
| That Sister Thang | Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen , Dale Winton |
| The Adventures of Darryl Springbornne | David Maddox |
| The Animus | Mandy Foster |
| The Anklebiter | Andy Jones |
| The Black Patch War | Austin Madding |
| The Blues According to Royal Richie | Matthew Post |
| The Bog | Myles Clohessy |
| THE CALLING | Chris Retts |
| The Cardinal | Adrian Bol |
| The Complete Picture Project | Rebecca Grace |
| The Cool Kids | Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman |
| The Eremite | Mark Sposato |
| THE FAIRIES ARE DYING | Cassaundra Sloan |
| The Fortune Teller | Alyce Tzue |
| The Foz | Jessica Brice |
| The Gateway House | Anthony Bushman |
| The German King | Adetokumboh M’Cormack |
| The Gift of 65 Roses | Nicholas Ferracamo |
| The Hollywood Rejects Strike Back | John Ainslie |
| The Houses on Haven Street | Emma Josephson |
| The Inescapable Weirdness | Allen Cordell |
| The Intimate Story of R&B | Jerald Harkness |
| The Jack | Adam Pilipovic |
| The Jew | Ilya Rubenstein |
| The King of Spades | Matthew Fearney |
| The Last Day of the Year | Jorge Granados Ross |
| The Last Rescue | Todd Tavolazzi |
| The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos | Mathew Cerf, Okechukwu Samuel, Akinmuyiwa Bisola, Ogungbamila Temitope, Atinkpo Elijah, Edkupo Tina, James Tayler |
| The Lightning Tree | Danielle Wager |
| The Limping Devil | Lorena Duran |
| The Locksmith's Wife | Kayla Sun |
| The Loser's Club | Jonathan Turner Smith |
| The Lucid Dream: An Indy Movie | Lauren Kleeman |
| The Miracle of Fatima | Barbara Oleynick |
| The Mummy of Three Leaves | Morgan Miller |
| The Mystery Shopper | Caitlin Shannon, David Buchanan |
| The One and The Many: Theater of the Impossible | Inaya Yusuf |
| The Paisley Witch Trial | Julia Campanelli |
| The Plutonians | Tim Delaney |
| The Prayer | Rod Kirby |
| The Pros of Cons | Traemani Hawkins |
| The Psychedelic Therapist: A Documentary | Ian Stout |
| The Recycling Lie | Carsten Stormer |
| The Reunion | Vika Evdokimenko |
| The Riddle of the Doors | Joe Hawkins |
| The Secret Life of Scooters | Ken Aguado |
| The Seven Wonders of Squidling | Matthew Broomfield |
| The Silent Route | Faisal Hossain |
| The Sweetness | Jessica Lawton |
| The Undergrads Web Series Season 2 | Tiera Dashae |
| The Victoria Cross | Karma Paljor |
| The Will | Nathalie Dortonne |
| The Wolf and the Lamb | Hunter Whaley |
| They Come: NASA & The Navajo | Craig Kind |
| This War of Mine | Sara Alves |
| Three - Way - Mirror | Kevin John Mc Corry |
| Through the Shadows | Daniel Drake |
| To Save Her | MarQuita Edwards |
| Tommies | Brian Fairbairn, Karl Eccleston |
| Too Soon: The Comedy of 9/11 | Julie Seabaugh |
| True North Crime: Hunting a Cold Case Killer | Mike Johnston |
| Trust | Jennifer Levinson |
| TUG HILL | Holly Stanford-Brown |
| Tyrant's Feast | Sofian Khan |
| Under the Influence | Nicolas Jara |
| Unearthed | Brooklynn Fields, Chaun Lee |
| UNFINISHED | Katie Fetting |
| unMASKing HOPE | Eric Christiansen |
| Unorthodox | Judah Ray |
| Untitled Sheila E. Documentary | Jennifer Steinman Sternin |
| Vicious | Sasha Pasternak |
| Virgin on the Rocks | Sarah Youngblood |
| Visitors | Anna Snoekstra |
| Voiceless No Longer | Carrie Highman |
| Volleyball! Or the Many Misadventures of the Pirates of Northgate | Alex Carroll, Cameron Martinez |
| Wake Up | Daniel Macarone |
| Wall | Erin Cantelo |
| Wanderers in the Dark (Les Suppliciés) | Stéphane Malterre, Garance Le Caisne |
| War Movie | Steve Summers |
| We Were Meant To | Tari Wariebi, Christina Licud |
| We're The Kids in America | Imelda O'Reilly |
| When The Moon Howls Back | Felix Piñeiro |
| Who Are You? | Anthony Moore |
| Who Is Patina Manly? | Daniel Cardone |
| With The Beat | Carin Powell |
| Withdrawals | Jorja Hudson |
| WITHIN | Ferdos Heidari |
| WOMEN AT WAR | Maria Luna |
| Yellowbird | Jerred North, Tsvetelina Zdraveva |
| You Gotta Go | Greg Gould |
| You're Carrying Beautifully | Ru Kuwahata |
| Young Minds of America | Derek Rushing, Danny Epstein |
| Ziggy | Marissa Boquet |
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