2021 ScreenCraft Animation Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on September 8, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Animation 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 Quarterfinalists:
| 'Stached | Sofia Soldevila & David Romani II |
| "Damsel on a Quest" | Jocelyn Manns & Ryan Manns |
| "Joyless" | Ryan Manns & Jocelyn Manns |
| #Caturday | Dominique Jordan |
| 500 Guesses | MJ Weerts |
| A New Home for Clementine | Kara Fein |
| A Planet Called Novus | Caleb Barge & Michael Kittel |
| A Prayer for Spiderman Underwear | Briana Chatters |
| A Robin's Call | Tim Dann |
| A Shimmer in Space | Adrienne Kohler |
| A World Ablaze | Chelsea Steeb |
| Ada | Jason Porath & Emily Rifkin |
| After Villainy | Aidan Keefer |
| Alfie | Jeff Pfeiffer |
| Alison Apland Episode 2- Lost World | Greg Ó Braonáin |
| Amazing Adventures of Moxie McCloud | Kelly Younger |
| Anansi and the Chest of Stories | Ayinde Ricco |
| Another Happily Ever After | Nathan Boyer |
| Antropolis | Ivan Bordas |
| Arash the Archer | Shahriar Bourbour |
| As Seen On TV, Pilot: Taking Control | Siusanne Nichols & Eric Redcay |
| Astoppapocalypsers | Jon Barr |
| At the Forest's Edge | Simon Deeley |
| Ava and the Magical Tree | Jaclyn Jones |
| Battle Girl | Libby Doyne |
| Bear Dogs | Jodie Galvan |
| Bed | Sheila Duncan |
| Beef | Ben Caro |
| Bellacopia and the Sauce of Immortality | Paul Montesano |
| Beyond the Horizon | J.D. Moore |
| Beyond The Sea Wall | Shane Weiss |
| BFFs Never Say Die | K. Jennifer Ilagan |
| Blackstar | Alexander Blum |
| Blank An Animated Short Film | Bernardo Duran |
| Boba | Charlie Fellows |
| Bonobros | Garth Paulson |
| Born to Dance | Kathleen Welton |
| Born To Fly | Jae Sinclair |
| Bucky Johnson | James Barnes & Garrett Vanderwielen |
| Cargoyles | Erik Barnes |
| Chiye | Kalvin Ogbuefi |
| Circus Animals | Frank Hays |
| Civitas | Sean Sullivan |
| Claus | Lindsey Gudritz |
| Club ET | Marc Ellis |
| Coming Up Rosey | Alison Trumbull |
| Copper Ridge | Rebecca Ghusn |
| Corgis | Hunter Cline |
| Coriander: The Lost Elephant | Jordan Sandfer |
| Corpse | Liam Manglano |
| Cradle | Jeffrey Ullman |
| Crazy jungle | Haytham Ragab |
| Crowded | Lexi Foultz |
| CryptoCamp | Carmen Nevant |
| Cyberpink (1-Hour Pilot) | P.A. Lopez |
| Cyberpink (Half-Hour Pilot) | P.A. Lopez |
| Cyrano the Bird-Giraffe | Dan Frischman |
| Dara McCool | Conor Dowling |
| Dating As A Black Sheep | Modupe Thompson |
| Dead Girl and the Nightbreeds | Erika Santosuosso |
| Death in the Family | Hunter Bertram |
| Deepwater Sound | John Henry Gabriel |
| Defying Gravity | Jeff Overfield |
| Desperately Seeking Santa | Elizabeth Weigandt |
| Destiny's Vessel | Suzanne Lutas |
| Detective Truffle (and the Delicious Mysteries of Gourmet Criminal Activity) | Sarah Heinz |
| Dingbat: "Dingbat And The Puce Avenger" | Hiroshi Mori |
| DinoFlight | Rich Machin |
| Dizzy in Space | Jerome Rhett |
| Dog shit | Max Rissman |
| Dogwood | Nonie Shiverick |
| Doing the Robot | Ravi Guru Singh |
| Dr. Grumbles | Jon Medici |
| Dreams | Helena Hofmann & Markus Staender |
| Dreamweavers | Robert Higgins |
| Dungeon Crawlers | Zach Wilson |
| Echo Nucleus | Troels Bentsen |
| Elementary School Musical | Yohannes Ashenafi |
| Ellie | Andrew Rose |
| Emma and the Winter Prince | Chris Neumeyer |
| Esmeralda | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| Espiritu | Brandon Arroyo |
| Ewe Stew | Dorothy Irwin |
| Exorcism of the Car-Mart | Ryan Brandt |
| Eyepatch McForce | Jay Hammer |
| Fairyland Ain’t What It Used to Be - v548 | A. S. Templeton |
| Feebee Frankenstein | David Siegel |
| Felandra: Heroine of Darkness - Episode 1.1 "As the Tarantula Said to the Fly, Part 1" | Blake Zawadzki |
| Firehouse Dogs | Phil Singleton |
| Fish & Bird | Jason Gordon |
| Fish Tank | John Marshall |
| Fisheads | Anthony Roldan |
| For Your Amusement | Max Raimi, Amy Patterson & Francis Cuffan |
| Free Spirits | Katharine Densmore |
| Furgotton | John Sherry |
| Gaby Guffner: Destroyer of Worlds | Matthew Manson |
| Gal-Ex | Jason Spizzo |
| Gatos Locos | Victor Lopez |
| Geoffrey's Last Stand | Anna Forsyth |
| Georgie and Beelzebub | Sammy Leach |
| Ghost Town | Chris Burke |
| Giant Robot Space Race | Jim Harbor |
| Girl's Best Friend | Amanda Fein & Caitlin Fein |
| Gnomes! | Scott Caswell |
| Gotham Ghouls | Franck Benayoun |
| Grimm | Kirk Maile |
| Grounded | Martin Tylicki |
| Grrrlz! The Leech Field | Heidi Behrendt |
| Hardly Scary | James Shippy & Preston Fusci |
| Hate World | Steve Ronaldson |
| Heartstrings | J.D. Zelman & Matthew Dushkes |
| Hell-Bent | Luke Fujimoto Jensen |
| Henry 2 Head | Clint Mathewson |
| Here Lies Tommy | Rodolfo Salas |
| Hero Quest | Anthony White |
| Home Run | Ingrid Martinez Pedroza |
| Hotel Jupiter | Ben Page |
| Houdini and Me | Jennifer Ramsey |
| How to Print a Brother | Meredith Chin |
| Hysteria - "Progestin, Progest-out" | Reggie Bezizi |
| I'm a Prisoner in an Alien Zoo | Adam Kaiser |
| ImagiNation | Rodrigo Carvalhedo |
| Into the inside | Pushpalatha G S |
| Irrational | Cornelia Kucani |
| Isle of Adolescence | Adam Breseman |
| It Came From Grand Central Station | Steven Jon Whritner |
| Jane | Joseph Berg |
| Jane Finch the Pirate Queen | Raquel Cedar |
| Jolly's Christmas | Ken Robb |
| Junk Palace | Chris Bramante |
| K-9 Block | Silena Fuller |
| Kaia | Emily Barry |
| Kangaroo Story | Agatha Ozdowska |
| Karma Police | Caleb Walker |
| Koi | Doua Moua |
| Lab Rats | Ahmed Tahseen |
| Lacie in the Wonderverse | Michael Ierulli |
| Lawful Good | Nikki Palumbo & Amanda Kelly |
| Lethal Talon | Alison Kelly & Matt Millard |
| Lil Boo | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Linnet | Anna Storm |
| Little Green Mend | Brian Menz & Linda Whitmore |
| Little Red Cells | Ronald Ecker |
| Little Saint Nick: Xmas One | Lenny Bugey |
| Louie | Steve Rooney |
| Low Bandwidth | Tyler Landis |
| Lyla | Drew Ross |
| Machination | Keith McDuffee |
| Mainstream | Steven Tobiasz |
| Mama Knows Best | Justin Key |
| Manu, The Spider | Andrea Cabanas |
| Many Moons | Jeffrey Couchman |
| Maraca's Tale | Kevin Hoffman |
| Marj's Garden | Liubov Korpusova |
| Martin and Yolotzin | Angela Sanchez |
| Maurice & Me | Juan Ramirez |
| Medusa | Tristan Bellawala |
| MegaBat! | Michael Ryan |
| Meli in the Other Place | Kayleigh McKee |
| Messiah | Johanna Ramm |
| Minitaur | Allan Chaykin |
| Mobius McGee | Joey Jones & Mark Jones |
| Mogen the Bold | Laura Londagin |
| Morton's Trucking Co | CG Zarbock |
| Mouse House | Sokol Guri |
| Muck | Christopher Chou Slomiak |
| My Cat Sassa | Holly Fine |
| Mythos Bend | Travis Diffenderfer |
| Nightfire Tales | Lewis Mackie |
| Ocher | Chee Ho |
| Olin & Jolon | Olin Gibson III, William Moore & Zach Lacy |
| One Day at a Time | Anahit Ernst, Jenny Ernst |
| Open World | Patrick Davis |
| Orishas: Legacy of Shango | Adetokumboh M'Cormack |
| Out There | Tyler Landis |
| Over the River | Rachel Schaefer |
| Paint Drops From The Heart | Timothy Mendonca |
| Peasants | Kristina Grosspietsch |
| Persephone Graves Goes to Hell | Justin Cioppa |
| Pixel | Fanie Viljoen |
| Pixylations | Joe Laudati |
| Planet Mars | Jacob Korell |
| Planet Zarmah - Praise The True Communicator | Austin Bolton |
| Please Don't | Darcy Lueking Bahensky |
| Pond 108 | Teju Prasad |
| Princess Rogue | Kemmer Keswani Cope |
| Professor Hugsby's Factory of Childhood Dreams | Dave Mac |
| Professor Nuska's Fresco | V.C. Lennox |
| Pterry | John Morse |
| Puptown | Laura Philcox |
| Purgatory | Hayden Benyshek |
| Qubit | Darren Moran |
| Queen Bee | Elizabeth Weigandt |
| Quetzalice | Carlo Olivares Paganoni |
| Random Access Memories | Richard Swiech |
| Riftworld | E. R. Roberts |
| RNWY | P.A. Lopez |
| Rolling With It | Tristan Bellawala |
| Romantis | Laurence Rosier Staines |
| Ruby | Tom Hackett |
| Sam Squatch | James Yantko |
| Sammy and The Scarlet Forest | Daniel Albino |
| Sand | Mackenzie K. Wertman |
| Saving Cinderella | Melinda Saranchock & Chris Saranchock |
| Say Boo | Francis Abbey |
| Scamps & The Kids Save The Day! | Jeremy Bradford |
| Scary | Ton Eijkemans |
| Sex Sells | Chad Oliver |
| Shades of Prose | Sunny Karnan |
| Shadow of the Witch | Dan Gittens |
| Shut | Kyle Matthew Hamilton |
| Side Quest | Michael Tannenbaum & Louie Aronowitz |
| Slinger | Jozef Fahey |
| Soft Shell | Nicolas Saenz |
| Sorky | Paula Aguilera |
| Soul Samurai | Dennis James Clarke |
| Space On Earth | Jem Splitter, Alida Tomas |
| Spectrum | Javier Perez |
| Starship Omega | Luke Jensen |
| Storm the Garden | Theo Linder |
| Stuck-Up Scumbags of West Middle: Illustrated | Luke Johnson |
| Superfreak | Sierra Hall |
| Suplex | Callum Wratten |
| Sweet Destruction | Christian Wolf & Katelyn Colman |
| Synergy | Andrew Frank |
| Tail Feathers | Amy Corcoran |
| Talion | John Kirk |
| Talon | Heather Parra |
| Tangled Yarns | Jack Getschman, Max Beauchamp & Rory Cairns |
| Tears of the Sun | Sarah El Bakkouri |
| Tech Check | Hunter Cline |
| Teenage Villain in Love | Laura Becker |
| Terrible 2's | Michael Culbertson |
| Teya And The Lost God | Keanan Cantrell |
| The "Anti 666" Club | Christopher Nicolas |
| The Adventures of Willow & Oliver | Rain Story |
| The Ballad of B9-G | Ari Donnelly |
| The Best Words Ever | Linda Tancs |
| The Chronicles of Willa Weasel & The Forest Incorporated | Christopher Colpitts |
| The Cloudsurfers | Martin Fleming |
| The Confetti Tree | Raphael Hitzke |
| The Cosmic Seamstress | Alia Rezk |
| The Dreamwalkers | Ekaterina Sukhanova |
| The Fellowship of Hoop Earrings | Jazmin Robinson |
| The First Little Girl on the Moon | Michael Baroto |
| The First Platypus | Clifton Gilliam |
| The Fourth Chaos | Laurel Myler |
| The Fraudessey | Sarah Martellaro |
| The Friendlies | Kait Dubblestyne |
| The Golden Robot | Hiu Tung Kwong |
| The Incompetent Witch | David Thome & MJ Weber |
| The Infinite Hero | Francesc Xavier Manuel Ruiz |
| The Iron Snake | Justus Macharia |
| The Jungle Ball Rumble | Jodie Broad |
| The Last Adventure | RC Miles |
| The Last Christmas Tree | Paul Arrowsmith |
| The Lepre-Con | Daniel Mitchell |
| The Little Christmas Ornament | Sharon Contillo |
| The MicroCosmic Cartoon Show | Prema Rose |
| The Moon Over the Haunted Woods | Marco Branda |
| The Moth | Hiu Tung Kwong |
| The Mud Dwellers | Atoyia Pencil |
| The Nendoroid | Jonathan Gamer |
| The Pack | Hunter Cline |
| The People of Long, Long Ago v. Caterpillar | Shaun Radecki |
| The Princess Rules | Brenda LePage |
| The Proverbial Twist | Boaz Dror |
| The Pulse | Blair Nishkian |
| The Rag Princess | Leif Johnson |
| The Real Monsters of Hollywood | Ben Stebor & Nived Ravikumar |
| The Several Ghosts of Fantabulous Land | Thomas Bell |
| The Shadows Dance On Their Own | Narain Rai |
| The Shining House | Dominic White |
| The Sky Below | David Thome & MJ Weber |
| The Slimies | Jeff Delaney |
| The Smarty Boys: Cold Case Files | Kayla Rosenberg & Jason Flood |
| The Sterlingham Paradox EP1: The Event Horizon | Fernando Flores Artiga |
| The Strangest Duck | A Puggle (smith) |
| The System | Lindsay Jean Michelle & Pam Bassuk |
| The TreasureD Cat | Lynn Beck |
| The Unbelievable Ruth | Mark Ricketts |
| The War Inside | Robert Cowley |
| The Water-Cooler Moment | Sam Ely |
| The Wedding Witch | Chad Wellinger |
| The Whole Point | Warren Greenberg |
| The Winter Wolves | Mark Kelly |
| The Wishing Tree | Astrina Patten |
| The Witch in the Hill | Alexander Troxler |
| The Witchdoctor's Helper | Bronwyn King |
| The Wonderful World of Chet | Emma Rose Wagner & Samantha Polizzi |
| The Wood Wide Web | Lizzie Lee |
| Them's Ponies! | Rebekah Chang |
| Things To Do After I Die | Harris Baumann |
| Time Holes | Steve Szlaga |
| Time of Legends: Joan of Arc | Carole Starcevic |
| Tiny Dog, Giant Cat: The Olive and Appelflap Mysteries | Joel Gelman |
| Tippy the Elf | William Sikorski Jr. & William Sikorski III |
| To Sea - Chapter One: The Creature | Luc Alper-Leroux |
| Together | Alex Comfort, Viola Jones |
| Trapped in Dreamland | Luke Fujimoto Jensen |
| Trick | Jeffrey Ullman |
| Trick 'r Pete | Sean Winans |
| Troublemakers | Nash Daryanani |
| Turducken | Michael Nielsen & Kevin Robertson |
| Turn the Tide | Michael Zanowiak |
| Turn This Spaceship Around! | Jaye Blohm |
| Two on Mission | Matthew Lowe |
| Unended | Hal Kirkland |
| Unimpressed | Dae Kim |
| Unsung Heroes | Johnny Della Luna |
| UnWidowed | Kathryn Kvas |
| Urf | Sekaya Harris |
| Vagrant Understory | Alex Gerber |
| Valentina | Julia Brusco |
| Vanguard | Brian Farrey-Latz |
| Walter and the 20-Million-Year-Old Spider | Shaun Radecki |
| Weapons of Magical Destruction | Carole Starcevic |
| Welcome to Humansville | Grace Smith |
| Wolfheart | Peter Peroni |
| World cup Mouse | Richard Seidman |
| Xochil and the Alebrijes | Cynthia Perez |
| Yggdrasil: Tree of Life | Lewis Mackie |
| ZooBreak | Mike Walski |
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