2021 ScreenCraft Feature Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 27, 2021
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Feature Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,500 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on December 1st 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:
| A Friend In The Dark | Alexandra Karaim |
|---|---|
| A Long Way Home | Steven Bogart |
| A Tender Soul | Jonathan Flike |
| Acids | Amelia Phillips |
| Adult Acne | Jade Tremblay |
| Adult Section | Kristin Erickson |
| Adultland | Todd Wolfe, Chad Kressler |
| Almost Heaven | Alex Kramer |
| Amends | Michael Zungolo |
| American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
| An Italian Lesson | Pam Kasper |
| Anastasia Untold | Kelly Younger |
| Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
| Balance | Edward Klau |
| Bald Eagles | Forest Aragon |
| Becoming Hillburns | Joshua Laufer |
| Besame Mucho | Rachel Feldman |
| Beyond The Tracks | Brandon Lill |
| Big Medicine | Julie Miller |
| Blue Dream | Lee Peterkin |
| Boy Wonder | Denis Theriault |
| Break Point | Zachary Johnson |
| Building Season | Anita Gomez |
| California | Adam Seidel |
| Call Out | Neer Shelter |
| Capital Offense | Mike Johnston |
| Crate | Alex George Pickering, Matthew Breault |
| Darnell, The Black Jew | Malcolm Solomon |
| Death Of A Nightingale | Annika Pampel |
| Dreamworld | Brian Quinn |
| Dusk | Stetson Hayes |
| Eleanor: First Lady Of Power | Sue Scott |
| First Person Shooter | Cameron Raynes |
| Future Tripping | Brian Gene White |
| Gemini | Andrew Saunders, Tim Saunders |
| Halt | Fabio Ortega |
| Heard | Alex George Pickering |
| Hideaway | Griff Jones |
| Hindsight | Todd Metcalf |
| Imaginary People | Sean Stapp |
| Into The Lion'S Den | Jane Gideon |
| Invisible (The Story Of The Uss Manta Ray) | Mitchell Nyberg |
| Jesus Of Milan | Paul Arrowsmith |
| Juliet Is Fine | Rachel Mariam |
| Just In Time | Robbie Robertson |
| Kagai | Trey Sorensen |
| Kira | Alex Schloemer |
| Lawman | Dennis Smith |
| Lizard People | Christopher Hall |
| Luminous Bodies | Daniel Carroll, Eric Ward |
| Luten Bridge | A.S. Patrick |
| Machete Queen | Sierra Hall |
| Mad | Dathan Paterno |
| Martyrdom | Alessandro Guarino |
| Mental | Warren Clarke |
| Merchandise No. 5 | Danny Hogan |
| Mercy | Todd Cahoon |
| Mercy Road | Maria Doctor |
| Moscow Fall | Nickolas Daniel |
| Musket And The Rat | Adam Pasen, Sammy Horowitz |
| My Hero | Alex Forstenhausler, Eric Lee |
| Nature Of The Beast | Aaron Kozak |
| No One Has Ever Beaten This Stage | Emmett Walsh |
| Npc | Kenneth Pulgar-Vidal |
| Obscured | Edward James Anderson |
| Oktober'S Fire | Aaron W. Bennett, Vanessa Leigh |
| Old Heads | Todd Wolfe |
| Our Christmas Angel | Philip Puglisi |
| Outsiders | Dan Benamor |
| Perrito | Johanna Moreau |
| Portsmouth | Connor Riordan |
| Prospero'S Prison | Tom Magill |
| Proteus Vulgaris | Thom Benny |
| Pull | Marc Messenger |
| Pyre | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Release | Stacie Shellner |
| Relocation | Warren Clarke |
| Sanctuary | Darryl Wimberley |
| Seeing Stars | Fabio Bondi |
| Shadowboxing | Darryl Anka |
| Sixgun Saint | Warren Lane |
| Sometimes The Devil Wins | Tex Gresham |
| Summoned | Tammy Klembith, George Klembith |
| Sunday Morning Tears | Keith Zivalich |
| Tempests | Timothée Perrin |
| Teya And The Lost God | Keanan Cantrell |
| The Hollywood Tower | Laurie Whitaker |
| The 2 Tigers | Sathish Easwaralingam |
| The Banner | Ernestina Juarez |
| The Bear | Megan Spatz |
| The Blank Case | Allison Kelly |
| The Descent | Varun Bhuchar |
| The Diener | Robert Wooldridge |
| The Engine | Bruna Pias |
| The False One | Andrew Kevin Fawn |
| The Forgotten | Jason Vaile |
| The Garbageman | Dru Johnston |
| The Girl And The Ghost | Rebecca Benzell |
| The Happiness Angel | David M Hinds |
| The Hardest Hit | Sam Juergens |
| The Legend Of Willie Telberg And Son | Jeff McMahon |
| The Man In The Flying Lawn Chair | Ryan Mekenian |
| The Monitor | Erik Sternberger |
| The Shetlander | Martina Muhoberac |
| The Stallion | Matthew Kistenmacher |
| The Stricken | Rob Pilkington |
| The Third Stage | Jennifer Grand |
| The Unfinished Sonata | Ariane Hahusseau |
| The Warm Season | Adam Seidel |
| Thin Blue Veins | Josh Evans |
| Tides Of Autumn | Alex George Pickering |
| Touchdown | Ela Thier |
| Treading Lava | Paul Frank |
| Trouble Will Find Me | Colin Moore |
| Untouchable | Adam Lapallo |
| Unwelcome | Federico Casal |
| Uprising | Jeff Austin |
| Violet | Sarah Deakins |
| Waffle House Index | Gabriel Rosenstein |
| Wampus Cat | Jessica Wei |
| What Happened To Johanna? | Gabe Braxton |
| What The Night Leaves Behind | Rob Sheely |
| When Horror Met Sally... | Ervin Anderson |
| Wide Open Spaces | R.L. Hooker |
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