2021 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 6, 2021
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Drama Screenplay 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!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on November 3rd here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! 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 Semifinalists:
| 773-Roll-Call | TJ Ali |
| A Modern Cyrus | Mehdi Khosravi |
| A Place To Call Home | Luke Fuller |
| A Story for Old Lovers | Ela Thier |
| Acids | Amelia Phillips |
| Admitted | Nikki Taguilas-Morales |
| After Greensboro | Deborah Goodwin |
| American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
| American Virtuosa | Lillie Gardner |
| Astray | Faizan Kareem |
| Aunt Mei | CY Costa |
| Back Fires | Alex Blumberg |
| Best Friend | Christopher Sullivan |
| Best Place in The World | Marco Calvani |
| Beware the Vultures | Daniel Bracey |
| Big Sisters | Sander Gusinow |
| Black Iris | Dakota Blue Richards |
| Black Sheep | Adam Seidel |
| Black Side | Ozz Borges & Jeremiah Starling |
| Blackout | Wesley MacInnes |
| Blood and The Rye | Rajiv Shah |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Books & Omens | J M Finn |
| Broad Daylight | Douglas Cushnie |
| Camp Amerika | Donna McNeely Burke |
| Canary | Charles Rutter |
| Cherries | Maggy Torres-Rodriguez |
| Daughter of Ra | Saroya Whatley |
| Dilation | Mike Sheriff |
| Eight Mysterious Qualities of the Ocean | Chy Chi |
| Elsie | Fernanda Cardoso |
| From Afar | Andrew Guerrero |
| Frontiers | Jarod Backens |
| Genetic | Kate McLaughlin |
| Gigantica | Duane Smith & Stefane Barbeau |
| Gladiatrix | Jon Medici |
| Gloomtown | Lyndal Simpson |
| Gone Hollywood | Sara Hallowell |
| Green H-3 | Jeff Droubay |
| Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
| Habsburg | Alexandra Shields |
| Happy Hour | Cynthia Mersten |
| Heart of Fire | Rich Orstad & Christopher Saunders |
| Here To Stay | Sara Robin & Shirley Miller |
| Jaw Crusher | Santiago Fernandez-Concha |
| La Sirene | Nathalie Dortonne |
| Lotus Land | Liam Allen-McGoran |
| Love is a Battlefield | Gail Brice |
| Luminosity | Peter Lee |
| Mental | Latasha Mercer |
| Mercy | Todd Cahoon |
| Mind the Gap | Hannah Westall |
| Mrs. Satan: The True Story of the First Woman to run for President of the United States | Kim Thomson |
| Mustang | Gordon Phipps |
| National Hero | John Vasiliades |
| Never Kissed a Girl | James Gonzo |
| Nice Restaurant | Dorothy Nguyen |
| Photon Quixote | Drew Ragland |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Queen of San Francisco | Jeremy Fassler |
| Red Dawn | Kathryn Loveless |
| Seeing Samsi | Jonny Zwick |
| Sew Ann Lowe | Nicole Newman |
| Sons of Treason | Sheila Rinear |
| St. Louis Superman | Jon Alston & Ronald McCants |
| Still Waters | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte & Dan Gallun |
| Stotan | Jonathan Dillon |
| Sub Rosa | Anne Alexander-Sieder |
| Sunshine Shifts | Rebecca Davis |
| Talons | Brent Rouleau |
| Ten Dollar House | Rick Kinnebrew |
| Teton Reckoning | Debi Yazbeck |
| THE 84 | Sonja Perryman |
| The Beautiful Brown Sisters | Dena Acolatse |
| The Cause-"There's Something About Christabel" | Robert Fajardo |
| The Century Builders | Kelly Lynch |
| The Come Up | Albie Cullen |
| The Disobedient Colonel | Mehdi Khosravi |
| The Fastest Thing in the Valley | Nicole Ramberg |
| The Hardest Hit | Sam Juergens |
| The Invisible Boy | Arun Narayanan |
| The Itch | Jeremy Bradford |
| The Last Night of the Affair | David Rodgers |
| The Last Supper | Zachary Ashman |
| The Mother Road | Caitlin Baer |
| The Vilna Chronicles | Ira Fuchs |
| The Virtuoso | Andrew Wu |
| The Wardrobe | Peter Noel |
| The Web | Rachel Salaman |
| The White Wolves | Raul Walder |
| The Wolf You Feed | Tony Prescott |
| The Woodpecker | Denise Widman |
| The Wrong Body | Lola Petitbon |
| Third Man | Michael Ouzas |
| Tingle Monsters | Alexandra Serio |
| To Shackle the Devil | Angela Townsend |
| Trail Gone Cold | Brian Molongoski |
| Wanderland | Blake Williams |
| Westward Sunrise | Rob Carieri |
| When Wendy Grew Up | Jenna St. John |
| Worlds Apart | Thomas Gaunt |
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