2021 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on September 8, 2021
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,100 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:
| (A Song For) Imogene | Erika Edwards |
| 21st Century (Digital Grrrl) | Matt Perez |
| 773-Roll-Call | TJ Ali |
| 8:32 | Brendan Ethredge |
| 901 | Phillip Charles |
| A Calling | Roger VanOstrand |
| A Code of Love | Jacki Delecki |
| A Labour of Love | Olga Holtz |
| A Modern Ashoka | Ramin Khosravi |
| A Mother's Gambit | Andrew Judge |
| A Place To Call Home | Luke Fuller |
| A Queen Erased | Georgia Waters |
| A Real Man | Magda Pazdej |
| A Story for Old Lovers | Ela Thier |
| A Summer Stay | Alex Murawski |
| A Ways Out | Colin Moore |
| Acids | Amelia Phillips |
| admitted | Nikki Taguilas-Morales |
| Aether | James McCarron |
| After Greensboro | Deborah Goodwin |
| Agenda | Gregory Gulley |
| Ahoy for Joy | Keith Reilly |
| All Apologies | Amanda Douglas |
| All that Glitters | Susan Marks |
| Always | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte |
| American Butterfly | Oliver Silver |
| American Fallout | Harry Kakatsakis |
| American Falls | Ross Allaire |
| American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
| American Virtuosa | Lillie Gardner |
| Amin's Rooster | smita mukherjee |
| An Unexpected Guest | Tatiana Blackington James |
| And Justice For All | Carlos Perez |
| And She Was | Matthew Casado |
| Andi And I | Frank Hill |
| Answers | Scott Tinkham |
| Apex | Sam King |
| Apples | Rodolfo Salas |
| Area Champ | Kelechi Okoro |
| Argos | Ellen Shanley |
| Astray | Faizan Kareem |
| Aunt Mei | CY Costa |
| Baby, Don't Hurt Me | Jack Griffin |
| Back Fires | Alex Blumberg |
| Backwash City | Ian Berry |
| Beautiful Things | Samantha Brewers |
| Behold | Tom Cavanaugh |
| Beneath the Fold | Neil Kirby |
| Berliners | Jack Ebstein |
| Best Friend | Christopher Sullivan |
| Best Place in the World | Marco Calvani |
| Better Judgement | Mark Marino |
| Between | Vanessa Agnelli |
| Between Heartbeats | Taylor Levert |
| Beware the Vultures | Daniel Bracey |
| Biddy | Belinda Benko Dickey & Karen Hood |
| Big Sisters | Sander Gusinow |
| Birdcage | Alistair Chekaoui |
| Bitch | Joy Frelinghuysen |
| Black & White | Roland Millien |
| Black Dollar | Sharif Duncan |
| Black Iris | Dakota Blue Richards |
| Black Mane | Peter Kalmbach |
| Black Sheep | Adam Seidel |
| Black Side | Ozz Borges & Jeremiah Starling |
| Blackbird | Robin Zamora |
| Blackfriar | Chris Bolton |
| Blackout | Wesley MacInnes |
| Blind Pig | Matthew Riopelle |
| Blood and Dreams - "Complicit" | Suzanne Griffin |
| Blood and The Rye | Rajiv Shah |
| Blood Queens | Ronald Glass |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Blue Dream | Lee Peterkin |
| Blue Skies and Tailwinds | Izzy Kearney |
| Blue Watch | Andrew Judge |
| Books & Omens | J M Finn |
| Breakpoint | Georgia Peeples |
| Brink | Greg Kousoulis |
| Broad Daylight | Douglas Cushnie |
| Bronte | Sydney Bradley |
| Buffalo Nation | Alexander Major |
| Cacique | David Ramirez |
| Caleb | Michael Ouellette |
| Camp Amerika | Donna McNeely Burke |
| Can We Go Home Now? | Jonathon Charatsis |
| Can You See Me Now | Brittany Chase |
| Canary | Charles Rutter |
| Captain Kidd | Brian Arterburn |
| Casket Girl | John Darbonne |
| Cathy and Steve | Megan Mallow |
| Cavalier | Sydney Painter |
| Cherries | Maggy Torres-Rodriguez |
| Chocolate Monster Cookie, Bottomless Popcorn & Help Me I'm In Trouble | Richard Karpala |
| Claire Akerman Finds God | Christa Butler |
| Come As You Are | Alexander Rudolph |
| Confluence | Joel Dahl |
| Cosmos Garden | brian gonka |
| Cry: A Story of Three Marys | Kevin Irvine |
| CTRL+ALT+DEL | Amir Ohebsion & Arash Homampour |
| Dark Canyon | Karen Franz |
| Daughter of Ra | Saroya Whatley |
| Dawn Chorus | CJ Jones |
| Dead Inside | Zach Butler |
| Dealership | Ryan Hessel |
| Death Is a Funny Thing | Jack Kelly |
| Death on the Camino Real | Paul Harney |
| Death's Hidden Love | Ernestina Juarez |
| Declaration of Conscience | Beth Milstein |
| Dilation | Mike Sheriff |
| Disintegration | Sebastian Watson |
| Distance and Silence | Ben Parsons |
| Do No Harm | Chris Hartwell |
| Dogface | Beanie Barnes |
| Don't Say a Word | Grace Merriman |
| Down the lane | Johanna Moreau |
| DRMR | Than Luu |
| Eight Mysterious Qualities of the Ocean | Chy Chi |
| El Negro Que Tango | Ian Jackson |
| Elsie | Fernanda Cardoso |
| Escaping Freedom | Conrad Pratt |
| Everything Has Changed | Sufian Abulohom |
| Excellence - Ducks on a Pond | Shannon Parker |
| Faint of Heart | Jeremy Palmer |
| Fanfiction | Carrick Moore Gerety |
| Fates | Megan McKiernan |
| Fiana | Rebecca Gintz, Joshua Gintz |
| Fields of Grace | Jill A. Hargrave |
| Five Days Four Nights | Fran Dorf |
| Flaming Cold | Jordan Gustafson |
| Flew'd Out | Tai French |
| Flight Plans | Keith Rivers |
| Flowerfield | Mukilan Thangamani |
| Fly Into The Wind | Alvin Lau |
| Fly Into Tomorrow | Kyle T. Cowan |
| Four Floors in Raqqa | Laila Ujayli & Zaina Ujayli |
| Fräulein Ruth | Lindsay Grossman |
| From Afar | Andrew Guerrero |
| From Little Acorns Grow | Laura Kosann |
| From the Anxious Mind of Tova Greenfield | Rebecca Glazer Greene |
| Frontiers | Jarod Backens |
| Gateway | Jonathan Pham |
| Gemini | Earl Garner |
| Generationals | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Genetic | Kate McLaughlin |
| Genghis Khan | Shyaam Karra |
| Gigantica | Duane Smith & Stefane Barbeau |
| Gladiatrix | Jon Medici |
| Gloomtown | Lyndal Simpson |
| Going to Meet the Devil | Adel Morales |
| Gone Hollywood | Sara Hallowell |
| Good Books for Bad Children | Elizabeth Solan |
| Green H-3 | Jeff Droubay |
| Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
| Ground Beneath Her Feet | Maria-Elena Doyle |
| Habsburg | Alexandra Shields |
| Hammon | Andrew Van Slyke |
| Haneen | Stephen Potts |
| Happy Hour | Cynthia Mersten |
| Harmony Ridge | Michael Trainor |
| Harvester | Dan Fiore |
| Head Over Hill | Gideon Shmorak |
| Heart of Fire | Rich Orstad, Christopher Saunders |
| Here To Stay | Sara Robin & Shirley Miller |
| Hungry | Boryana Petkova |
| I Am Grace | Brook Simmons |
| I am the Dragon King | Michael Choi |
| I Can't Resist Your Tides | Isaiah Boozer |
| I'd Laugh More But I'm Dead... I Think | Kerry Joo |
| I'll Fly Away | Wendy Dann |
| I'm Okay, We're Okay | Adrienne Lovette & John Rice |
| I'm Ready to Go Anywhere | Lynn McKee |
| Iconoclast | Gannon Kenney |
| If Only the Sea Could Talk | Susan Boggio |
| Improv | Genet Hughes |
| In The Face Of Courage | Roopashree Jeevaji & Girija Jethwani |
| In The March Sky | Nathan Lawson |
| Incarnation | Clara Ritger |
| Incurable | Joseph Whaley |
| Infusion | Kathy Kafer |
| Injustice | Luis Lassen |
| Insurrection | Simon Bowler |
| Interregnum | Ben Frew |
| Into the Silk | Jaclyn Parker |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jaw Crusher | Santiago Fernandez-Concha |
| Jesse | Michael Lee Barlin |
| Jook-sing | Lola Szczotarska |
| Juliet Is Fine | Rachel Mariam |
| Just Never Leave | Dillon Tucker |
| Karelia | Hannah Eakin |
| Kimly | Sarah Scott |
| Kiwi | Eric Rich |
| Knight Exchange | Steven Snell |
| Knock On Wood | George Kellis |
| Knowing Eric | Matt Koplik |
| Kosher Nostra | Gracie Marcellus |
| L'uomo Diamante | Samuel LaPointe |
| La Sirene | Nathalie Dortonne |
| Land Of The Free | Timothy Bathurst |
| Land of the Living | Alex Lischak |
| Le Bon Temps | Eileen Dennehy |
| Leaving Vienna | Anna Synenko |
| Left in Pieces | Rebecca Glazer Greene |
| Legend | Daniel Weaver |
| Let's Go Crazy | Cory Krueckeberg |
| Liberte | Lisa Weiss |
| Libo to Hero | Desmond Ngai |
| Life On The Curb | Ty Strange |
| Literally Too Mad To Die | C. Raymond Martin |
| Little Girl Blue | Maceo Greenberg |
| Long Haul | Brady Greer Huffman |
| Long Live John Africa! | Sean Slater |
| Long Lost | Magdalena Drahovska |
| Long Run to Hotel California | Ashley Dacek |
| Long Way Home | Jamaal Pittman |
| Lotus Land | Liam Allen-McGoran |
| Love in Reserve | Eric Mansfield |
| Love is a Battlefield | Gail Brice |
| Lucas and Lila | Patricia Stack |
| Lucid | Christina Burlison |
| Luminosity | Peter Lee |
| Lumpia Sandwich | Tanya Leigh Rodgers |
| Lysistrata Cell | Lisa Scott |
| Maddie Adeline Madeline Mad | Shauna O'Meara |
| Magic Camp | Liam Fitzgerald |
| Make a Wish | Jory Spadea |
| Marcia Moore | Robert Brown |
| Maria Isabella Silvalessa | Hunter Ridgway |
| Mayfly | Christopher Brennan |
| Meg and the Wonderous World of Bible Drill | Unnamed |
| Melanin | Mark St. Cyr |
| Memories From Today (Kyoukara no Omoide) | Moses Pan |
| Mendel's Mutations | KD McEwing |
| Mental | Latasha Mercer |
| Mercy | Todd Cahoon |
| Mercy Road | Maria Doctor |
| Metal Mother | Casimir Nozkowski & Alexander Trimpe |
| Milkweed Inn | Taylor Zaccario |
| Million Acre Home | Zachary Earnest |
| Million Dollar Beach | Alexander Ambrecht |
| Mind the Gap | Hannah Westall |
| Mirella | G.S. Fields |
| Miriam | Jen Badasci, Christopher Allan Poe |
| Mister C | Terry Connell |
| Mixed Spirits 12a June 5, 2021 | Howard Kaplan |
| Modernization | Feyza Safoglu |
| Mooncell | Leah Foster & Scott Aaronson |
| Moonrise | Rebekah Mueller |
| Moscow Fall | Nickolas Daniel |
| Mother | Ashley Hiller |
| Mother Country | Danielle Hassanali |
| Mrs. Satan: The True Story of the First Woman to run for President of the United States | Kim Thomson |
| Muck | Nick Benjamin & Mike Downing |
| Murder on Tranquil Row | Wayne Middleton |
| Music City | Nathan Fleetwood |
| Mustang | Gordon Phipps |
| Nanshoku | Antony Redman & Steph Song |
| National Hero | John Vasiliades |
| Nature of the Beast | Aaron Kozak |
| Nellie Bly Takes on the World | Brittany Bookbinder |
| Never Kissed a Girl | James Gonzo |
| Never Say Goodbye | Denise Widman |
| Never Stop Running | Melissa Caudle |
| New Americans | Jamey Mills |
| Nice Restaurant | Dorothy Nguyen |
| Night Light | Calee Clarke |
| No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
| No Score Ride | F.B. Peña |
| Occam's Razor | Santiago Claver |
| Occupational | Ziyad Saadi |
| Oh La La! | Grant Stuart |
| Olivia | Jenny Fumarolo |
| On Consignment | Orges Bakalli |
| One Year | Brent Rouleau |
| One-Woman Show | AS Patrick |
| Only the Forgotten | Robert Israel |
| Only When It Rains | Jason Ruscio |
| Otis N' the Dough Boyz | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Paper Cuts | Ryan McDonough |
| Paradise | Sachin Augustine |
| Park Kidz | Quamé Hamlin |
| Participation Trophy | James Stolze |
| Perdido | Eduardo Maytorena |
| Perrito | Johanna Moreau |
| Photon Quixote | Drew Ragland |
| Pigpen | Maud Ferrari |
| Pili & Me | Zachary Swickey |
| Polydactyly | Joni Rodgers |
| Portland | Michael Weinreb |
| PostScript | Nelson Downend |
| Precious Cargo | Justin Radley & Col. Laura J. Radley |
| Proper Villains | Chris Bolton |
| Prophet | Katie Gault |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Punic | Michael Giles |
| Purify My Heart | Kate Hackett |
| Pustka | Edel Dmytro Oksamyt |
| Queen of San Francisco | Jeremy Fassler |
| Rainbow Junction | Shannon Wells |
| Rapprochement | Jerry Orihuela |
| Red Dawn | Kathryn Loveless |
| Regimented | Hannah Cargill |
| Release | Stacie Shellner |
| Remedios | Janit Baldwin |
| Ripple Road | William Leiren |
| Rising | Samantha Schell |
| Roaches | Cameron Porette |
| Runaway Trayne | Jon Cvack |
| Saints and Sinners | Brit Cowan |
| Salt | Holly Sereni |
| Salvage | Katerina Bakolias |
| Sandwiched | Mary-beth Hart |
| Sans Titre, Paris | Brittany Falardeau |
| Scoundrel | Erin Leafe |
| Second Generation | Frank Smith |
| Secrets Kill | Matthew Widman & Annie Ward |
| Seeing Samsi | Jonny Zwick |
| Sew Ann Lowe | Nicole Newman |
| Simmer | Jennifer Thym |
| Six Shooter | James Weicker |
| Snake Oil | Danny Katz |
| Snow in July | Heather Barbieri & Sera Barbieri |
| So Much Good | Keith Reynolds |
| Soldier Spy | Andrew Judge |
| Something Borrowed | Melissa Skirboll |
| Son This Is She | Dominic Leyton |
| Sonny Daize Sonata | Scott Uzarski |
| Sons of Treason | Sheila Rinear |
| Sophie the Preacher | Derrick LeMont |
| Sorry | Brittany Pratt |
| Spirit In The Dark | Daniel Lopez Kaufman |
| Spoken For | Micki Colker-Pearlman |
| St. Louis Superman | Jon Alston, Ronald McCants |
| Standing Up | Louie Aronowitz |
| Star of Siam | Eda Benjakul & Marisa Marchitelli |
| Still Here | Jamie Silberhartz |
| Still September | AJ Moss |
| Still Waters | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte & Dan Gallun |
| Stotan | Jonathan Dillon |
| Stroke of Genius | Moriel Randolph |
| Student Body | Kimberly Benjamin |
| Sub Rosa | Anne Alexander-Sieder |
| Such Times As These | Elliott Ohannes |
| Sun Woman, Moon Man | Lyndal Simpson |
| Sunrise Meets Sunset | Aram Atkinson |
| Sunset Babylon | Trevor Mak |
| Sunshine Shifts | Rebecca Davis |
| Taino | David Ciccarelli |
| Taking Inventory | Michael Caggiano |
| Talons | Brent Rouleau |
| Ten Days in a Madhouse | Shawn Hainsworth |
| Ten Dollar House | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Terribly Good With Words | Malcolm Owens |
| Testimony | Aaron Williams |
| Teton Reckoning | Debi Yazbeck |
| Texas Killer Whale | Jacob Berman |
| The 84 | Sonja Perryman |
| The Abduction Club | Sarah Soderquist & Kallie Tenney |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Alice Solution | Emily Redinbo |
| The Allure of the Forbidden | Chuck Driskell |
| THE Aloofness Factor | Hal Harris |
| The Art and Craft of Flirting | Meg DeMarsh |
| The Art of Anxiety | Alfredo Enriquez |
| The Art of Speed Reading | Neal Mayer |
| The Artists | Greg Schwartz |
| The Astounding Adventures of Empress and Sage | Jonathan Lill |
| The Backyard | Nicolas Cannizzo |
| The Banner | Ernestina Juarez |
| The Bear | Megan Spatz |
| The Beautiful Brown Sisters | Dena Acolatse |
| The Belvedere Jungle | Robert Kelly McAllister |
| The Big Hiccup | Ryan Clagg |
| The Book of Sarah | Roger Walker |
| The Cause-"There's Something About Christabel" | Robert Fajardo |
| The Century Builders | Kelly Lynch |
| The Coliseum | David Myers |
| The Collection | Carolina Brettler |
| The Come Up | Albie Cullen |
| The Company You Keep | Gina DeAngelis |
| The Confidence Men | Dawn Garcia |
| The Custom of the Sea | Karen McDermott |
| The Desert Shrine | V. R. Marianne Zahn |
| The Disobedient Colonel | Mehdi Khosravi |
| The Easy Way | Damian Hussey |
| The Expatriates | Katherine Street |
| The Failed Prince | Rajiv Shah, Soham Mehta |
| The Fastest Thing in the Valley | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Forbidden Bond | Ashley P Jones |
| The Glass Shark | Nicholas Dwyer |
| The Golden Hour | Danish Renzu |
| The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled | Joseph Haddock |
| The Happiest Person is the One Without History | Alana Branch |
| The Hardest Hit | Sam Juergens |
| The Harper Boys | Shyaam Karra |
| The Hate Machine | David Rodgers |
| The Homeless | Amelie Leclerc |
| The Hustle | Linda Shayne |
| The Industrialist | Vikas Bandhu |
| The Invisible Boy | Arun Narayanan |
| The Itch | Jeremy Bradford |
| The Kindly Ones. | Angela Gulner |
| The King Vs. Jupiter Wise | Ryan Gallant & Scott Parsons |
| The Last Black Man on Earth | Joel Harold & Joseph Harold |
| The Last CEO | F.B. Peña |
| The Last Gate Pilot "One in a Million" | Mark Dudley & Jeffrey Lilly |
| The Last Night of the Affair | David Rodgers |
| The Last Set at the Vanguard | Diana Cobbold |
| The Last Supper | Zachary Ashman |
| The Legend | Eric Han |
| The Lost Sons | Renate Grassmugg |
| The Macedonian Trapeze Artist | Lyle Deixler |
| The Man Doctrine | Christopher Prince |
| The Midnight Tour | Chris Bolton |
| The Mixteco Kid | Miguel Orozco |
| The Moor | Thomas Thonson |
| The Mother Road | Caitlin Baer |
| The Near Distance | R.J. Matthew |
| The Nut Farm | Warren Clarke |
| The One | Eric Alejandro Reis |
| The Pact | Richard Williams |
| The Passage of Sun | Aaron Braxton |
| The Pearls | Tyler Geditz |
| The Persevered Virtuoso | Andrew Wu |
| The Queen Of Caspary | Laura Solow |
| The Quiet Kind | Justin Geldzahler |
| The Redemptionist | Christina Arango Dowling |
| The Rhodora | Stephanie Dawson & Maria Matteoli |
| The Secret Life of Isabella Ramsay | Beverley Cook |
| The Severing | Ash Lazer |
| The Smallest Ways | James Greenall & Liam Papadachi |
| The Sometimes Love | Sam Samore |
| The Son: Joshua ben Joseph | Cheryl Boyles |
| The Sound That Seduced The World | Julius Barbosa |
| The Suburbs | Isabel Almeida |
| The Sugar Skulls | Derek Mendelsberg |
| The Sweaty Torah | Briana London |
| The Swim Lesson | David Miranda Hardy |
| The Terror Within | Lynn Elliot |
| The Troubles | Tom Kavanaugh |
| The Unwanted | Ian Brown |
| The Vet | karan talwar |
| The Vilna Chronicles | Ira Fuchs |
| The Vineyard | Tyler Morris |
| The Violin | Rebecca Glazer Greene |
| The Wardrobe | Peter Noel |
| The Web | Rachel Salaman |
| The Wheel | Vincent Raisa |
| The White Wolves | Raul Walder |
| The Witiwig | Maria Wilson |
| The Wolf You Feed | Tony Prescott |
| The Woodpecker | Denise Widman |
| The Wrong Body | Lola Petitbon |
| Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore, Spy, Saint | Amanda Miller |
| They Seem Nice | Nathan Weinreich |
| Third Man | Michael Ouzas |
| Ties That Bind | Donna Gooden |
| Tiller | Yancey Wang |
| Tingle Monsters | Alexandra Serio |
| To Be Honest | Belinda Hunt |
| To Shackle the Devil | Angela Townsend |
| Toxic Eulogy | Joe Blank |
| Trail Gone Cold | Brian Molongoski |
| Transference | Narain Rai |
| Turkey | Derry Felton |
| Twisted Limbs | Michael Heral |
| United We Stand | Tom Savage |
| Unnatural Bedfellows | Miriam Animashaun |
| Unspoken Lives | Jenny Hwang |
| Until Then... | Joshlyn Racherbaumer |
| Upside Down | Emily Cooper |
| Ushering | Shana Hardy |
| Veiled Allegiances | Amy Lee |
| Vet | Mystro Clark |
| Vicious Depraved Glamorous | Stephen Rutkowski |
| Visceral Fatherland | Lele Park |
| Volant | Caitlin Turnage |
| Walk Away Jimmy | A. Richalee |
| Wanderland | Blake Williams |
| Water is Thicker than Blood | Jeff Westmont & Matt Goodman |
| Weeping Street | Jillian Tsai |
| Western Approaches | Andrew Judge |
| Westward Sunrise | Rob Carieri |
| What Money Can Buy | Zachary Swickey |
| Wheelchair | Andrew McLinden |
| When Broken Glass Floats | Chanrithy Him |
| When the Ferris Wheel Stops | Mimi Lam |
| When the River Runs Dry | Ella Cannon |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| Whirlwind | Monika Moreno-Lapp |
| Who killed my parents | Michael Mavromichalis |
| Whyoming | Kelvin C. Bias |
| Wide Open Spaces | Rodman Hooker |
| Wild Territory | Tiffany Albright |
| Wildfire | Lauren Hussey |
| Wings | Mitchell Condon |
| Without Walls | Michelle Holt |
| Worlds Apart | Thomas Gaunt |
| Wounded | Dennis Chrisman |
| Wrestl(h)er | Susan Maddocks |
| X; or The Ascension of Gold Mountain | Alexander Chard |
| X/Wind | Richard Pohl |
| Yardbirds Are Bums | Patrick Falconi |
| Yemma | Nicole Ballivian |
| Yomi | Mitchell Lazar |
| You are the Reason | Nick Hadley |
| Your Darkness Is Shining | Erin Granat |
| Your Love | Nikita Kagantsev |
| Zipporah's Destiny | Arquila Todd |
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