2020 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 15, 2020
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2020 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| '24 | Ted Nusbaum |
| 'The Captain' | Jason de Vyea |
| 'Tis of Thee | Brodrick Haygood |
| 154 Wills | Shelby Doubek |
| 90 MILES | Ihor Gowda |
| A Case of Subtle Beauty | Sandra Fox-Sohner |
| A Christmas Cheer | Clint Ford |
| A Dangerous Mind | Kirk Davis, Sam Sloves |
| A KIND OF MARRIAGE, a screenplay | CHARLES LEIPART |
| A LITTLE PRINCESS | Stan Lieberman |
| A Long Awaited Day | Mary Kate Allen |
| A Midsummer Night's Murder | Russell Cohen |
| A Need to Kill | Mark Pettit, AJ Jones |
| A Solitary Soul | Ronni Peck |
| A South Philly Story | Scott Fleishman |
| A Zoo Story | Felicia Romeo |
| Affection of a Tiger | Khalid Abdulqaadir |
| Agent Amira | Aziz Tazi |
| AJAX | Aaron Kadkhodai, Matt Kawecki |
| ALL BLOOD RUNS RED | Douglas Raine |
| All Is Well | Carolyn Humpherys |
| AMADI | Karl Sanders |
| AMERICAN INFAMY | Takeo Hori |
| And Things Got Hairy | Surinder Singh |
| Angels of War | Natalie Bergman, Victoria Rau |
| ARNOLD: The Birth of a Champion | Max Novick |
| Bad Hombres | Filup Molina |
| Badge Number One | Jodi Ippolito |
| Batavia | Kevin Ryan |
| Batavia | Renier Beukes |
| BEANSTALK | Aarthi Ramanathan |
| Becoming Sinatra | Richard Muti |
| Beef v. Winfrey | Dan Williams |
| Bent Necks | Nahuel Fanjul-Arguijo |
| Beth Mac | Brit Cowan |
| Betsy and the Emperor | Staton Rabin |
| Black Butterflies | Evan McGahey |
| Black Icarus | Sam Dehghani |
| Blackwood | Christopher Morrison |
| Bloodstains | James Palmer |
| Bonsai | Eva Golinger |
| Boston Underdogs | Alex Jason Kaplan |
| Bound by Grace | Dawn Burgess |
| Boys Kill Me | Francesco Lucia |
| BURIED BODIES - The Fish Are Eating Him (Pilot) | Paul Frank |
| CALL ME ISHMAEL - a retelling of Moby Dick | Mark Stuver |
| Call Me Madam | Marc Blitstein, Brian Rousso |
| Catalpa | Michael Kalesniko |
| Celestials | Jennifer Sumbu Longe, Rhea Mary Oommen |
| CHASING BOOTH | Greg Vojtanek |
| Cheerleader MacBeth | Daniel Strange |
| Claus | Barry Ambrose, Juan Castro |
| COLT - Episode 1 - "The Paterson Experiment" | M. K. Martini |
| Confidence Woman | Amelie Yeager |
| CONNECTED | Heather McConnell |
| Contact Loss | K. Michelle Stewart |
| COPPELIA | Don Shroll |
| Coretta Scott King | Leilani Brown |
| Cornerstone | Chris Arnold |
| Crazy Train. A True Story? | James McDonald |
| Created Equal | Ryan Luckhardt |
| Daniel de Bosola | Oleg Kessman |
| Day of Birth (short film) | Francesca Arena |
| Days in the Dark: The Life of Vito Russo | Terrence Cooper |
| Demons in America | Fred Martenson |
| Diamond Mountain | Brenden Wysocki |
| Diary of a Madman | Ryan Brennan |
| Disorderly | Alden Peters |
| Don Q | Richard P. Alvarez |
| Dorian Gray | Alexandra Timmer |
| Dreamland is Burning | Michael Goedecke |
| Edison's Ghostbox | Travis Seppala |
| Edith | Mike Mason |
| Edward Deeds & The ECTLECTRC (Electric) Pencil | Patrick Emile |
| Eight Million Gods | Jesse J Cook |
| Elephant Memory | Eda Benjakul |
| Endings | Elisa Bell |
| Endurance | Rich Orstad |
| Faster Than Horses | Chris Mul, Michael Mul |
| FEVER | Carl Byker |
| Fighting for Our Children | John Martins III |
| Foolish Woman | Jared Neumark |
| For Life: A Tale of Class, Color, Commitment | Lynda Williams |
| Ford | Andrew Judge |
| FREEDOM - THE TRUE STORY OF NIEVES FERNANDEZ | David J McDonald |
| Goddesses of Nanking | Carol Liu |
| Goldilocks and The King's Reward | Isabella Cohen |
| Grand Sierra | Nicolas Scroggins |
| HALL OF MIRRORS | Jesse Newman |
| Hangwoman | Debra Sharkey |
| Heaven's Gate | DJ Burr |
| Heavy Pilot | Collette Legault |
| Heck | Chris Hicks |
| HELLDORADO | Billie Bates |
| HELLO, DIMITRI! | Melissa Mizel |
| Highlandman | george cagala |
| Hound of Heaven | Luis Ugaz, Patrick Beltran |
| HOUSE MONEY | Don I. Waldo |
| Ichabod | Jason OHara |
| Imminence | Sara Ayobi |
| Improbable Truths | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Inland Empire | Renee Vaca |
| Ivaylo the Cabbage | Sascha Gomberg |
| Jane and Henry | Alison Wroblewski |
| Jonny Blu | Mark Loughlin |
| Jump For Joy | Dennis Flagg |
| Jumpman | Matthew Breault, Alex George Pickering |
| Jumpman: The Legend of Shigeru Miyamoto | Nick Hurwitch |
| Just To Keep Even | James C Simmons, Janet Simmons |
| Jutland | Craig Reed |
| Kristen & Maggie | Jo Agricola, Jared Ruga, Amanda Stoddard |
| La Mamá | Chris Commons, Peter King |
| Lady Parts | Bonnie Gross |
| LAIKA | Jackie Perez |
| Laika, 1957. Pilot | Tali Chais |
| Lancelot | Eric Gable |
| LAST STANDS: THE BIG HORN & YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION, 1876 | Ed Knies |
| Latiali | Noelle Loizos |
| Leather Head | Theo Sariklis |
| Left Behind | Yara Caubet |
| LILY AND HER SISTERS | Ilaria D'Elia |
| Lincoln County | David Blake |
| LITTLE ISLAND OF JOY | Christopher Carlson |
| Little Red | Jack Konrath |
| Living in the Gray | Jeffrey Auerhahn |
| Lois the Witch | Amanda Verwey |
| Lonely Hearts | Jorge Lucas |
| Lovers and Madmen | Mary Sandell |
| Lufthansa 181 | Jack Eckert |
| Madame of Fire and Vice | Alison Wroblewski |
| Mafeking | Hamish Mcleod |
| MALI | Jacobo Fe |
| Man in the Arena | Keon Hedayati |
| Manhunt In Panama | Ronald Drescher |
| Manzanar | David Moriya |
| Marathon Men | Andrew Murga |
| Marlowe | David Ransil |
| Mary | James Nichols |
| MERCURY GIRLS | Autumn Withers, Ryann Ferguson |
| Mitch Grobeson Bio Project | Brandon Rosin |
| Morale and Safety | Daniel Johnson |
| Mr President | Matthew Richardson |
| Mr. Hepburn | Kelly Walker |
| Mrs. Satan | Kim Thomson |
| Muscle and Bark | G. DeAngelis |
| Musketeers: Liberation | Andrew Judge |
| MY HAITIAN DIME | Craig Roberts |
| Ned Christie's War | Stephen James |
| Never Underestimate! Billie Jean King and Professional Women Athletes | Mike Heuer |
| Nevertown | Megan Weaver |
| No Other | Stacey Powells |
| November | Gerrard Hartland |
| Of Patriots and Tyrants | Aaron Silverman |
| Officer X | michael joiner |
| ON CONSIGNMENT | Orges Bakalli |
| One and Done | Matt McFadden |
| ONE SONG TO FREEDOM | Jacob Wehrman |
| Open House | John Ingle, Sean J.S. Jourdan |
| ORADOUR | Vaughn Roste |
| Original Serpent | DJ Mineheine |
| Peter and James | Brian Belot |
| Phantasma | Stephen Coll |
| Phantom | Dan Williams |
| Pirate Queen | Ian Robinson, Kevin Childs |
| Poe | Evan Greenspoon |
| POPULAR | Marley Schneier |
| Pride and Privilege | Latisha Jones |
| Pride of Hollywood | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Private Thompson's Secret War | G. DeAngelis |
| Prohibition Man | Andrew Judge |
| Putzi | Jason de Vyea, Wade Jackson, Craig Olson |
| QUEEN OF THE SKY | Brett Nicholson |
| Rebellion | Sergio Kopelev |
| Rednecks | Christopher Byram |
| Relics | Rose Skye |
| Rising Son | Junot Lee |
| Roe v Wade: The Trial That Changed America | Larry Bambrick |
| ROE V. NORMA | Laurie Ashbourne |
| Romance in the U.S.A. A Cuban Girl's Story | Amarilys Rassler |
| Roses and Moonlight | Hisani P DuBose |
| Rosetta's War | Kenneth Lueders |
| Saints and Sinners | Brit Cowan |
| SAVING MARK TWAIN | Staton Rabin |
| SCOTUS | Alan Jenkins |
| Self Made | Sydney Gabel |
| SEVEN GATES | Sara Morrow |
| Seven Miles to Freedom | Spencer Magloff |
| Shakespeare's Double | Mary Wolff |
| Shattered Faces | Ariane Hahusseau |
| Shepherd | Christopher Momenee |
| Sisi | Karol Hoeffner |
| Slave of the Huns | Thilo Brauer |
| Slide | Olivia Iannelli |
| Smoke as Directed | Greg Scharpf |
| Some Bad History | Amanda Norman |
| Song of Olam | Sean Rose |
| Sonny Boy | Nick Maccarone |
| SRV | Chris Drzewiecki |
| Staroma | Richard Stone |
| Sticks 'n Stones the Daisy Myers Story | Alethia Brown |
| Strange Case | Brian McAuley |
| SUITS OF WOE | RICHARD MINKOFF |
| SYNANON: The Most Dangerous Cult in History | NICK AQUILINO |
| T'ai Djin: Legend of the Werewolf Monk | Taylor Hopkins |
| Tesla | Barry Ambrose, Christopher Krumlauf |
| The 4th Floor | Michael Mahoney |
| The Alice Solution | Emily Redinbo |
| The Amazons | Kim Thomson |
| The Ambassador | Christina Holmes |
| THE BALLAD OF TOM DOOLEY | Stuart Creque |
| The Beast of Bedburg | Jennifer Grand |
| The Beautiful and Damned | Chance Crane |
| The Bismarck | Zach Wortzman |
| The Boy Who Lost His Shadow | DJ Mineheine |
| The Bridge of Gold | Christopher Datta, Kira Brunton |
| The Brothers' Refuge | Alisha Garza |
| The C&O | Joseph Enderby |
| The Colored Cadet of West Point | Spencer Saints |
| The Confessions of Patty Cannon | Barry Bramble, Ian Bramble |
| THE COUP | Joe Ayella |
| The Department of Easy Virtue | Gary Blackwood |
| The Devil's Providence: Salem Story | Eric Glawe |
| The End of War | Chris Fried |
| THE ESTHER CODE | ESA NURMINEN |
| The Fierce Angel Of Chinatown | Jason Chan |
| The Final Feast | Joel Franke, Seth Franke |
| The Forge | Howard W. Robertson |
| The Forgotten | Ruth Russ |
| The Forgotten Ten | Patrick Hackeling |
| The Game of Their Lives | Brian Mulligan |
| The Gatekeeper | Madison Kahn |
| The Giant's Architect | maria hinterkoerner |
| The Grand | Daniel Turkewitz |
| The Gravity Well - Episode 1 - "BigBen" | Tom Fisher |
| The Great Bridge - Pilot | Samantha Silvay |
| The Great Ride | Brian Oppenheimer |
| The Haight | Kimba Henderson |
| The Hawk of Quraysh | Laila Ujayli |
| THE JAZZ KING | Kwame Granderson, Jonathan Flicker |
| THE KILLING MEN | J. Talbot Hall |
| The King of the Damned | Graham Locke |
| The Last American Slave (AKA Krystal White's Black Mozart) | Krystal White |
| The Lions of Mesopotamia | Robin Rose Singer |
| The M.I.C. | Tom Freyer |
| The Maddening Filth | Siobhan Gilbert |
| THE MAN WHO STOPPED TIME | Nick McGee |
| THE MITFORDS | Vivian Kerr |
| The Modern Prometheus | Jacob Teerlink |
| The Molly Maguires | Colin Ryan |
| The Mountain That Eats Men | Dylan Dockery |
| The Name of Flinders | Juanita Manahan |
| The Night Letter | Annette Maxberry-Carrara |
| The Night Witches | Steven Prowse |
| The Panama Unit | John Carlos Trevino |
| The Petticoat Revolution | Joe Dzikiewicz |
| The Pirate King | Barry Ambrose, Armand Kachigian |
| The Player Agent | Wes Hopper |
| The Prince of Soul | Jai Brandon |
| The Protégé | Kennedy Sabelko |
| The Putin Timeline | Thomas Buckley |
| The Queen's English | Kelly Edwards |
| THE RADICAL | Stephanie Stanley |
| The Red Fort | Shyam Popat |
| The Red Summer | Lyric Fergusson |
| The Reluctant King | Eugene Rhee |
| The Salesman | Thomas London |
| The Samurai's Daughter | Brandon Carbaugh |
| The Separating Sickness Concept Pitch | Emily Redinbo |
| The Shadow Over Innsmouth | Jefferson C Robinson |
| The Sledge Patrol | Reed Arnold |
| The Sociopath-Saint | Daniel Choi |
| The Sydney Abduction | Leslie Borchert |
| The Unfinished War | Eduardo Presa |
| The Villain | Andrew Ferguson |
| The White Mouse: Witch | Heather Farlinger |
| The White Sea Horse | Lindsey Hunt |
| THE WILD HEART OF ALASKA | Mary Albanese |
| The Youngest Convict - WE | Julie Bliss Umbreit |
| This Is How It Ends | Melia Gabriel |
| Through the Fire - Episode 1 - The 95th | Christine Keleny |
| TILLIE | David Chester, Blake Pinter |
| Torch of Justice | Melanie van Betten Jeffcoat |
| TRUST - The Case Clyde Conrad | Marcus Lenz |
| Tumblers | Michael J. McDonough |
| TUSSAUD | Cat Youell |
| TWAIN | Nathan Early |
| Twenty One Hours | Tel Benjamin |
| UNDER THE CLOCK | Wilke Durand |
| Unrecognizable | Shylo Fontenot |
| VENICE OF AMERICA | Michael Graf |
| Vice Versa | Kelly Walker, Kim Flagg |
| Virtuosa | Christian Linke |
| Warbrave | The Gideon Brothers |
| We Have Met the Enemy | Brian Armes |
| We Never Sleep | Peter Bettinelli, Matt Nickley |
| When The Stars Came Out | Paul Walder |
| When The World Was Square | Irwin Greenstein |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| White Fell | Cole Burgett |
| Whiteness of Bones | Melissa White |
| Who Was Cary Grant? | Jon Davis |
| Wild and Wilder - Becoming Billy | Fritz Kalteis, Stefan Ludwig |
| Witness Marks | Preston Geer |
| Yes - A screenplay, based on a true story | Catherine Fargher |
| Zaire | Christian Lybrook |
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