2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on December 18, 2020
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,300 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| 1066 | Ben Mansbridge |
| A New Beginning | Allan Tsao |
| Achachak | Brendan O'Reilly |
| After Neverland | E.R. Womelsduff |
| Agency | Rebecca Lieberman |
| Airborne | David Davies |
| Arcane | Sebastian Watson |
| Arnaq | Nicholas Edmunds |
| Backwaters | Jeffrey Craine |
| Beyond Candy Mountain | Alice L Walker |
| Blood Bonds | Jordan Vogeney |
| Bloodlands | Emma Carter & David B. Guthrie |
| Boom | Neil Biondich |
| Border Skirmish | James Mulcahy |
| Burrow | Ashley Burns &Noah Martin |
| Buttercup | Max Winter |
| Carmen Vengeance | Tyler Ellzey |
| Credible Fear | Jonathan Flicker |
| Cross Path | Przemyslaw Lukasik |
| Cybercide | Stephen Kwietniak |
| D'Artagna | Julia Bergeron |
| D'Volution | Steve Ronaldson |
| Dark Silo | Scotch Wichmann & KayDee Kersten |
| Dead Red Eyes | Tom Baljak |
| Dynaforce Down | Aaron Pinchback |
| Entangled | Jeffre Lowe |
| Escalation | James Boutcher |
| Exit The Sheep | Jeffre Lowe |
| Eyes of Fate | Catherine Wright |
| Five Swords Under Heaven | Logan Shaw |
| For the Love of Art | Ken Lingo |
| Galahad | Nicholas Pangilinan |
| Goliath and David | Matthew Thomas & Joel Ugolini |
| Goodbye My Enemy | Matthew Ryan |
| Gun Run | Donn Kennedy |
| Gunfire Reef | Dennis F Stevens |
| Hanzo | Jason Gearlds |
| Hawk Moon | Cal Athan |
| Heartless | Lee Kehoe |
| Hearts in Shadow | Todd Yerman |
| Hightower | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Hinterland | Sean O'Heir |
| Home | Tim Fasano |
| Homestead | Bernhard Pucher |
| Icarus Falls | Michael Sohcot |
| Illegal Guardians | Hudson Phillips |
| Infracktion | Tina Winograd |
| Into The Midnight Sun | David Zuckerman |
| Jane & Yola | Rose Lichter-Marck |
| Journey from the Fall | David Kane |
| Killing Jack | Brandon Freer |
| Killjoy & Valhalla | Moutaz Jad |
| Leave No Trace | Lexi Lieberman |
| Lollipops | Quinn Powers |
| Love Is A Battlefield | Jai Brandon |
| MacArthur Park | Benjamin Lehrer |
| Mama Bear | Lee Ehlers |
| Mescalero | Anderson Boyd |
| Miasma- "An Escape Into the Night" | Taraneh Niakan |
| Mind Blown | Paul Jarnagin |
| Mission: Horticultural | Agnes Pethers |
| Naive | Gil Hagan |
| Nameless Faces | Gary McElkerney |
| No Taller than My Gun | David Rothman |
| Once Upon a Crime: New Jack City | Angelo Dania |
| Ook | Peter Wynn |
| Or Die Trying | Gregory Nagy |
| Paladin | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Peril in the Heirlooms | Charliese West & Chasah West |
| Pink Cats | Ryan Anker |
| Proper Villains | Chris Bolton |
| Purity Sterling | Robert Gallagher |
| Quinn Cooper and The Marvelous Mane | Bianca Shaw |
| Radiex | Rose Gaffney |
| Refugium | Brid Cannon |
| Rewind - The Blockbuster Initiative | Justin Bellow & Ellis Miller |
| Rise of the Saurians | Heather Parra |
| Rooftop | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Ruthless | Kevin Walls |
| Sally Skull | Kate Niemuller |
| Shadow Walker | Ken Proctor |
| Silver Skull Creek | Ryan Gallant |
| Soapland | Andrew Molina |
| Society of Strays | Christopher Chou Slomiak |
| Soiled Dove | Leslie Ann Coles |
| South China Sea | Yancey Wang |
| Sovereign | Elliot Seidel |
| Spoiler | Michael Sajewski |
| Stealing From the Gods | Jade Hayward & Nic Collins |
| Suraya's War | Andy Patrizio |
| The 7 | Steve Ronaldson |
| The Anklebiter | Andy Jones |
| The Arc | Buck McWhorter |
| The Ark | David Bryant |
| The Bigfoot Hunters | Matt Hausmann |
| The Bishop of Carthage | Gary Giudice |
| The Black and The Red | Scott Crowder |
| The Book of Blix | Danny Baram |
| The Boy And The Fox | Gianmarco Giacomelli |
| The Chunnel | Brent Henry |
| The Conspiracist | Michael Egenolf |
| The Diamondback | Michael Southworth |
| The Dreamfishers | Stephen Taylor |
| The Drop | Dustin Milligan |
| The Fifth Column | Paul Sheridan |
| The Fixer | Randy Vampotic & Mike Sorrentino |
| The Harpooner | Joe Mello |
| The Heart of Sri Katava | Cairo Smith |
| The Heist Club | Brian Tuttle |
| The Henchmen | Jason Stratton |
| The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| The Holy Shield | Mel Thompson |
| The Hypnotic Effect of P. Stanley | Aaron Davey |
| The Icenian | Alexander Conway |
| The Inventioneer | Kevin Noonan |
| The Lion's Chambers | Kyle Curry |
| The Lonely and the Damned | Javier Tessari |
| The Nazirite | Jesse Chapman |
| The Outworlder | Gordon Meyer |
| The Pinch | James Raynor |
| The Potato Palace | John Lawton |
| The Racist | Stark Neuweather |
| The Rat | Donald Smith |
| The Rommet Gambit | John Doble |
| The Shadow King | Chris Bolton |
| The Sledge Patrol | Reed Arnold |
| The Smell of Gold | Jared Turner |
| The Songstress | Kuros Charney |
| The Unprotected | David Olesky |
| The Western | Bethany Offutt |
| There's Nothing You Can Do | Ken Lingo |
| They Can Only Kill Us Thrice | Brian King |
| Third Man | Michael Ouzas |
| Throne of Tangun | Kieren Hutchison & Nicole Hutchison |
| Truckstop Warriors | Aaron Schmid, Adam Wenger & Rob Gilchrist |
| Twenty After Sunset | Sean Kenealy, Eric Silvera |
| Until Death | Alyssa Stevens |
| Waitress #2 | Nathan Patton |
| We Flew When The Birds Walked | Daniel Leventhal |
| Western Eyes | Del Potter |
| Widow's Creek (or) Once Upon a Time in Wyoming | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
| X/WIND | Richard Pohl |
| You & I | Nilendra Fonseka |
| Zarmina's World | Arturo Corces |
| Zero Line | Timothy Kontje |
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