2021 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 4,300 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:
"Closet Case" | Jason Myles |
"Damsel on a Quest" | Jocelyn Manns & Ryan Manns |
"The Pulpit" | Tosin Morohunfola |
@MurderHouse | James Mulcahy |
1066 | Ben Mansbridge |
2 6 8 | Marcus Ashley |
23 AND WHO? | Kimberly Marcelino |
6,000 Doughnuts | Thomas Tosi |
A Christmas Cheer | Clint Ford |
A Deutsch Tale | Brendan Fitzsimmons |
A Lock and a Hard Place | Caren Kennedy |
A Summer Away | Adam Smestad |
A Sunny Way to Die | Martin Fleming |
A Tale of a Thousand Nights | Laila Ujayli & Zaina Ujayli |
Across Troubled Waters | Hillian Siu |
Ada | Jason Porath & Emily Rifkin |
After Neverland | E.R. Womelsduff |
Air Kiss | Gio Forlenza |
Alaska | Baakal Geleta |
Alive: A Frankenstein Reimagining | Aimee Dansereau |
All that Glitters | Susan Marks |
Alphabet Soup | Ron Artis Jr. |
Alphastate | Johnny Gilligan |
American Doctor | Veronica Reyes-How |
American Infamy | Takeo Hori |
Among Kings | Joey O'Connor & Ken Straw |
Angel Island | Kevin Shen |
Antivenom | Charlie McLravy |
Apollo 19 | Ray Gettman Bush |
Artemisia, an Allegory of Painting | Gisella Faggi |
Assisted | Kelly Larson |
ATX Pilot: Ride the Bull | Ilana Garcia-Mittleman |
Bad Habits | Grace Shaffer |
Badlands Bully | Nick Davis |
Ballad of the Coconut | April M. Sanchez |
Barren | Kaitlyn Clare |
Beat Back the Wind | Sabrina Mansfield |
Before Sundown | Peter Rivera |
Beirut | Mira Z. Barnum |
Besharam | Luveza Mubashar |
Big Girl | Cyn Harris |
Big Pharma (The Fix Is In) | Michael Caffrey & Noah Silverman |
Big Shoulders | Jennifer Piser Wright |
Big Sisters | Sander Gusinow |
Black Hat | Robbie Bryan |
Blood and Dreams - "Complicit" | Suzanne Griffin |
Blood Ruby | Chuck Driskell |
Bonny | Tanner Moody |
Boxed In | Matthew Walker |
Breakfast in Saigon | DMI Macdonald |
Breck Doinkus and the Millennium Machine | Alex Enriquez |
Bright Side | Maria Eliades |
Brilliance | Lauren Ferebee |
Broken Records | Ridley Wright |
Butterfly - 'The Witch and the Maid' | Harriet O'Neill |
C.R.Y.P.T.O. | Amanda Blush |
California King | Eli Stern |
Captain of My Own Ship | Henri Roivas |
Carver High | Dalia Caudle |
Cayenne and Dee | Laura LeeLun |
Charlie Safe Home | Jack C Irwin |
Cheet | Murphy Roberts |
Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
Chopin | Vincent Lin |
Christ is Back | Laurence Rosier Staines |
Christmas Time Is Here | T.M. Hayes |
Christopher Pan | James Yantko |
Cicada | Jade Edwards |
City of Nightmares | Madison Bishop |
City Of Wolves | Ilan Erez |
Clearwater | Ellen Young |
Closures | Christos Kardana |
Cloud Of Witnesses | William O'Leary & Vanessa Logan |
Codeswitch | Sasha Kai Parker |
Cold Hard Cash | Tom Silva |
Collaboration | Alessio Franko |
Come Out Frighting | Kevin Steele |
Consume | Etan Muskat |
Cops and Robbers | Sean Sheer, Clark Beasley & Sean Logan |
Copy Cat | Millie Holten |
Coriander: The Lost Elephant | Jordan Sandfer |
Cornfield Horrors | Shar Carter |
Counter Earth | Ryan Vaughn |
Couple Undone | Kelvin Peakin |
Covenant | A.J. Hamer |
Covenant | Matt Hopper |
Crabs In A Mother F*cking Bucket | Kari Mote |
Crazy, Sexy, Murder | Jesse Klein |
Cryptophasia | Taylar Morrissey |
Dalston Junction | Chris Craymer |
Dating | Abril Carpio Marion |
Dating Dick | Pamela Ryckman |
Daughters | Christina Kingsleigh Licud |
Dear Marie | Alex Forstenhausler |
Death of a Nightingale | Annika Pampel |
Death With Benefits | Melissa Cohen-Fyffe |
Debt | Christopher O'Bryant |
Declaration of Conscience | Beth Milstein |
Decomposed | Benjamin Sample |
Deliverables | Dmitry Sheynin |
Derek is Being Weird | Daniel Antoniazzi |
Devil in Watauga | Michael Hubbard |
Devil's Lake | Jay Fisher |
Did You Say Blood? | James Yantko |
Dilation | Mike Sheriff |
Dirty Toff | Sam Wright |
Do You Take This Man? | Becky Fink |
Dog of War | Katterina Powers |
Double | Justin Sherman |
Dream On | Jake Ross |
Driftwood | Jonathan Melikidse |
Dry Run: Purgatory | Martin Fleming |
Dub City | Janelle Gray |
Dust to Dust | Cate Honzl |
Each Lovely Thing | Paloma Nozicka |
Ectogirls | Elena Perez |
Edge of Eternity | SR Isles |
Eidolon | Melissa Mitchell |
Empty Marquee | John Ward |
Esperanza | Jamee Decio |
Evacuation | Aubrey Reynolds |
Excess | Jonathan Flicker |
Exclusive | Joe Apatow |
F*#! The Man | Caralyn Aufiero |
Fab Girls | Heidi Nyburg |
Faster Than Bullets | Patrick Holden |
Faster Than Horses | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
FDNY | Michael Burke |
Fear City | Eve Maleham |
Fermentation | Christine Garver |
Fertile Attraction | Mariah Wilson |
Finding Faeries | Lisa Harkus |
Finding Santa | Matthew Giacheri |
First Semester | Lindsay Press |
Fit For Duty | Kathy Kron |
Fits the Crime | Steve Blame |
Five Swords Under Heaven | Logan Shaw |
Fix Daddy | Tex Gresham |
Flaming Cold | Jordan Gustafson |
Flyover | Heather Faris |
Forced: A Love Story | Young-Sun Kim |
Forward | Samuel Nuñez |
Four Floors in Raqqa | Laila Ujayli & Zaina Ujayli |
Four Square Miles | Keith M. Preston |
Fragments | Reyam Rammahi & Lawrence Rothfield |
Free Huey | Phillip Alan |
Friend Fiction | Emily S. Rauch |
Friends | Daniel Klissmman |
From Afar | Andrew Guerrero |
From The Bottom Of The Ocean | Benjamin Forster |
Full Spectrum | Dominique Remy |
Galileo | Richard Stokes |
Garamba | Aaron Wong |
Garfield Park | Sean Farley |
Gayle | Nathan Dame |
Gemini | Andrew Saunders & Tim Saunders |
Genesis | Vince Milazzo |
Get Diva Laid | Jack Tracy |
Giant Void | Michael Reisinger |
Glacier Point | Alan R. Baxter |
Gods Of The In-Between | Miriam Lyapin |
Golden Age | Noah Sellman |
Gone | Garrett Spatz |
Grace Canyon Ranch | Jim Lopezzo |
Grandeur | Shaun Perry & Jay Perry |
Grandfather Claws | Miles Agee |
Granuaile - Pirate Queen | Laura Murphy |
GrassRoots | Kisha Fernandez |
Great Ape War: Destroy the Ape Fortress! | Dylan Cheely |
Ground Zero | David O'Rourke |
Guardian | Natalie Baseman |
Gunsel | John Ingle |
Halle Had Cancer, OK? | Kate Herzlin |
Hand of Nothing | Harley Elias |
Harlem Renaissance | Sheyda Tribble |
Harvest | Jazmyn Wright |
Harvester | Dan Fiore |
Heard | Alex George Pickering |
Heir Apparent | Yellowlees Douglas |
Hide | Anna Gaskell |
Hide/Survive | Bradley Davis |
Hideout | Alex Montilla & Kheireddine El-Helou |
High School History | Patrick Badescu |
Highway 83 | Anthony Rainone |
Highway Robbery | Max Matejka |
Homecoming | Rae Binstock |
Homegoing | Carlton Daniel |
Homimine | Heather Farlinger |
Horrortale | Trey Sorensen |
Hotel Mars | Keith Saltojanes |
How I Became A Mafia Princess | Sabrina Tosti |
How To Snatch A Crown | Dan Hass |
Howl | Ben Hicks |
Hugs Not Drugs: Pilot | Edward Dorsey |
Hunting Home | Cai Odu |
I Knew You First | Becky Fink |
I Love You, Margot Robbie | Sav Rodgers & Taylor Gates |
I Stop Somewhere | Meredith Littas |
I'll Be You | Maria Sanchez |
I'm a Prisoner in an Alien Zoo | Adam Kaiser |
I'm Ready to Go Anywhere | Lynn McKee |
I’m Sane | Mercedes Mason |
Identical | Lauren Harris |
Imaginary Friends | Jack Hutsey |
In the Shadows | Adam Wells |
In the Storm | Vanita Borwankar |
Indefinite Lifespan | Michael Salomon |
Inn | Benjamin Baraad |
Into The Dreamscape | Jay Kasten |
It Clings To Her | Ariel Sinelnikoff |
It's a Shame | Rodrigo Nones |
Ivy | Nicole Dawson |
Jakayla | J. Gabriel Ware |
Jane Doe | Sarah Brogren |
Jellyfish: Pilot Episode "David" | Trevor Bryant |
Jin | Jennifer Thym |
June In Winter | Luke Harvis |
Junior Varsity | Krista Gallagher |
Kayla & Eddie En Français | Iyabo Boyd |
King | Jaime Osnato-Rosario |
King of Lesotho | Amadou Diallo |
LA Revolution! | Lyric Fergusson |
Last Stop | Richard Doyle |
Lawman | Dennis Smith |
Layover | Katharine McPhee |
Lazara | Cristine Brache |
Leaving Little Arabia | Dana Attari |
Legacy | Lamar Legend |
Like Father, Like Daughter | Alison Wroblewski |
Lily | Mike Fardy |
Listen To Me Rue | Ari Dassa |
Little India | Raj Balu |
Living Memory | Charlotte Cameron |
Locusta | Brenda LePage |
Lone Wolf | Joe Swafford |
Long Haul | Brady Huffman |
Longshadow | Sean Cunningham |
Looking Down | Adi Blotman |
Lookout Mountain | Jason Thomas Gordon |
Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
Lucy Lucid: Heiress of Dreams | Joshua Pitta |
Madame High Heels: The Origin Story | Justice Whitaker |
Mademoiselle Maupin | Brandon Gale |
Maestra | Susan Polk |
Magenta | Jamie DeWolf |
Malacostraca | Charles Pieper |
Mama Bear | Lee Ehlers |
Mattress | Ashley Miller |
Meaderville | Bryce Berkowitz |
Medieval Life Crisis | Addison Blu |
Meg and the Wonderous World of Bible Drill | Kyle Smith |
Mescalero | Anderson Boyd |
Messiah | Michael Lazovsky |
Meta | Kathi Castoro |
Mexicans Are White People Too | Unnamed |
Mid Life | April Hartmann |
Mid-Youth Crisis | Mekhai Lee |
Mindf*cked | Devin Fountain |
Mini Palace | Larry Fahey & Pamela Corkey |
Miss Narcoamerica | Jules Nurrish |
Mister Risk | Simon Lewis |
Modal | Kyle Jutkiewicz |
Money Shot | Benedict Cohen |
Moonbeam Junior | David Morrow |
More Love | Fabio Bondi |
Morocco | Tyson Hilgenberg |
Mosquito | Elitza Daskalova |
Motherload | Layla Soileau |
My Boyfriend | Vera Pickens |
My Father The Hunger Artist | Jeronimo Arellano |
My Own Flesh and Blood | Jacob Harpel |
My Yours His Pilot | Nate Raven |
Mystik | Craig Fleming & Chris Webster |
N.R.A. | Dan Williams |
Nasty | Gabriela Tollman |
Near-fall | Robin James Habil |
Needle in the Groove | Roderick Kashani |
Nevertown | Megan Weaver |
New Hope | Stephanie Wain |
Nip + Suck | Judd Schlossberg |
No Barge | Celeste Parr |
No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
No Weddings and a Funeral | Patricia Serrano Chungsathaporn |
North Of Havana | Matthew Kopf |
Nudge | David Crosman |
Oblivious Contact | Odera Isaac |
Off Grid | Julie Mayhew |
Off the Rack | Pilar Gibson |
Old Soul | James Vasco |
On The Run | Bry Larrea |
Once In A Lifetime | Rachel Hroncich |
Organelle | Edward James Anderson |
Our Side Of The River | Pepi Kokab |
Out of Order | Christine Torres |
Outside Forces | Daniel Carey |
Over My Dead Body | Amal Awad |
Overreal | Brian Harper |
Oversoul | Cornelius Henke |
Padre | Andre Luiz Dragoni da Costa |
Parishad | Peter Haig |
Party Lines | Sean Bloomstine |
Paths in the Snow | Faith Strongheart |
Patty Hearst | Matthew Tennant |
Peacemaker | Lukas Valderrama |
Peanut Butter | James Rohan |
People | Woody Bess |
Pink Moon | Sal Bardo |
Placebo | Kate Johnson |
POP | Y.S. Kim |
Positives | Katie Fahey |
Possessed! | Jacob Harpel |
Precursor | Gary McKinnon |
Project Fog | Adva Reichman |
Project: Orion | Greg Schwartz |
Protection | Janelle Malak |
Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
Purity Sterling | Robert Gallagher |
Queen of Newburgh | Lisa Cole |
Queens | Matt Gottlieb |
Queens | Anika Shakir |
R.E.M. | Nelson Downend |
Racket | Adam Sleper |
Rails | Craig Miller |
Raison D'etre | Noni Salma |
Rebellion | Sergio Kopelev |
Rebranded | Carolina Ribeiro |
Redflags | Nathan Patton |
Redneck Army | Whitni Resides & Mark Brown |
Reign | Gabrielle Wendelin |
Reivers | Rhys Bethell |
Remember the Time | Tyler Young |
Reset | Cullen Wright |
Revelations | Johnny Gilligan |
Revolution | Madison Rose |
Revolution | Josh Kirschenbaum |
Riftworld | E. R. Roberts |
Righteous - Pilot Episode | Desiree Elder |
Roadblox | Katrina Jaxson |
Robot4President | Colm HIll |
Ruby | Jessica Rowlands |
Rum Dandy | Daniel Carroll |
Rust Belt Politics | Kevin Hulick |
Ruthless | Kevin Walls |
Sabertooth | Joslyn Jensen |
Santa Anita | David Liu |
Satan's Little Princess | Erin Grogan |
Saturnine | Jessica Riches |
Scars | Simone Hawthorne |
Schmoolie The Deathwatcher | Theresa Gallagher |
School of Life | Robert Douglas |
Second Crossing | James Howells |
See Through the Mud | Melanie Jeffcoat |
Seven Seas | Jordan Goodman |
Sew Ann Lowe | Nicole Newman |
Shay's Rebellion | Matthew Syrett |
Show Me | Kurt Doerr |
Sick & Tired | Nelson Downend |
Simon Christ | Selena Lohan |
Simulation Theory | Danny Baram |
Six Torys and a Shaman | Almas Haidery |
Sleaze | Brian Farrey-Latz |
Slick River - Mama I'm Coming Home | Holli Herrle-Castillo |
Sluggy and Bogie | Tommy Gushue |
Sofía | Michael León |
Something In Common | Kylie Bolter |
Sovereign | Elliot Seidel |
Specter City | Mitchell Kampf |
Spineless | Ruth Earley |
St. Paul | Jeff Hiller |
Stardust | Matthew Kaundart |
Stars and Stripes | Andra Vebell |
Statecraft | Mitchell Kampf |
Station Number Six | Tim Sasaki |
Still Waters | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte & Dan Gallun |
Storm Shelters | Connor Savage |
StoryBrooke Castle | Joshua Banday |
Subversive | Susan Shepherd |
Sunrise Gardens | Ethan Dayton & Shawn Peer |
Sunset to Sunrise | Chandler Meyer |
Supremacy | Mary Ashley Burton |
Suraya's War | Andy Patrizio |
Surgat | Samantha Marine & Michael Borowiec |
Survival of the Fitters | Eliza Gibson & Magie Crystal |
Sweet Home Detroit | Derrick LeMont |
Sweet Valley Spy | Sierra Hall |
Swing Away | Dana Silverman |
Symbionts | Johnny Gilligan |
TAIMYR | Galina Mosalova |
Tbose Who Wander | David Neal |
Territory | Gavin Van Horn |
That Woman | Christan Leonard & Mads Gauger |
The 'Pause | Karen Hartline |
The After | Elizabeth Lorie |
The Amicus Agency | Daniel Bumgardner |
The Ancients | Ned Napier |
The Artists | Greg Schwartz |
The Astounding Adventures of Empress and Sage | Jonathan Lill |
The Big O | Rebecca Gant |
The Bluff | Darius Turbak |
The Boys' Club | Michael Wise |
The Brown Sheep | Gautham Sundareswaran |
The Bucket Club | Modupe Thompson |
The Burning of Hells Bridge | Mike Sametz |
The Caregiver | Schyler Martin |
The Carrier | Todd Restler |
The Cleaner | Cara Loften |
The Cleaners | Jacob Miles |
The Colorado Cannibal | Laurence Gouldbourne |
The Correspondent | Brian Duchaney |
The Crawler | Thomas Douglas Mann |
The Cross-Country Chronicles of Tara & Liv | Tyler Williams |
The Crucified | Garrett Beau McFarland |
The Darkroom | Emily McDermott |
The Dead and the Dying | Gary Blake |
The Diamondback | Michael Southworth |
The Doors Of Perception | Johnny Cruz |
The Dragon Key | Lyn Pinezich |
The Edge of Truth | Sydney Deeter |
The Eligible Man | Rasika Pawar |
The Fairy Knight | Sam Tracton |
The Ghost | Lindsey Gudritz |
The Girl That Cried Aliens! | Caleb Dillon |
The Girl With No Name | Tyler Jones |
The Gravedigger | Lyndal Simpson |
The Great Spaggiari | Chris Mul & Michael Mul |
The Griffins Curse | Beau Maddox |
The Happening | Anthony King |
The Hoffman Experiment | Richard Stokes |
The Last Broadway Heist | Sean Quinn |
The Last Priest | Brian Mulligan |
The Lease of Nature | Anderson Boyd |
The Life and Deaths of Papa Hemingway | Bruce Todesco |
The Life of Paula | Pablo Rivera |
The Lynching of Justitia Nigreos | Malcolm Johnson |
The Mad Queen - "No One Trusts A Traitor" | Cindy Matta |
The Melting Pot | Darek Cioch |
The Memphis Mafia | Jason Williams |
The Molly Maguires | Colin Ryan |
The Nameless | Michael Wormald |
The One | Clare Higgins |
The One and Only | Joseph Rein |
The Other Side | Ziyad Saadi |
The Othered | Minh Anh Vo Dinh |
The Paris Affair | Casey LaBow |
The Passing | Alexander Seltzer |
The Phantom Forever | Ben Bushell |
The Pickpocket | Monique Patterson |
The Pill and the Fury | David Scala |
The Praying Indian | J.W. Bentley |
The Privateer | John Graney |
The Recovery Agents | Marco Santiago |
The Redemptionist | Christina Arango Dowling |
The Sea Has Turned To Yogurt | Demetrios Tsoulos |
The Seventh Suicide | Jade Widger & Tony Merkurii |
The Shrieking of Nothing | Ryan Alexander Huang |
The Sixth Borough | Chris Freyer |
The Sky Way | Robert Bertrand |
The Song of the Lake | Jonathan Robertson |
The Soul of a Witch | Sarah Armstrong-Garner |
The Strange Affair of the Elevator | Katy Regnery |
The Takedown | Celeste Parr |
The Tracer | Glenn Levin |
The Tunnel | Peter Koslik |
The Underground | Anika Shakir |
The Void | Joshua Shine |
The Witiwig | Maria Wilson |
Them's Ponies! | Rebekah Chang |
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore, Spy, Saint | Amanda Miller |
Thier | Tobias Vees |
Thievery | Wayne Geschwindt |
This Is America | Lyric Fergusson |
This Is Then, That Was Now | Andy Schroeder |
Tiger Sea | Suki Kaiser |
Tira'allara | Tavyn Gentry |
To Be Honest | Belinda Hunt |
Topsy Turvy Tinseltown | Lavetta Cannon |
Trail Runs Cold | Steve Robillard |
Traumacentric Mind | TJ Ali |
Trying | Mike Heller |
Turning Heel | Keith Hannigan |
Two by Two | Mickey Martinez |
Unforced Errors, "No Saints" | Jane Gardner |
Untitled Penpal Project | Haley Daniels & Owen Thiele |
Urban Defender | John Kim, Will Griffin |
Vanishing Point | Matt Harry |
Very Special | Bill Meeks |
Vices | Taylor Gordon |
Vilomah | Nathaniel Nauert |
Virgins | Sophie Hessekiel |
Virtuoso | Ashley Miller |
W. Smith | Sophie Hexter |
We Care | Scott Meier |
Weight | Caleb John Cushing |
Western Eyes | Del Potter |
What I.F.? | Dan Martin |
White Terror | Philip Lyu |
White-Collar Wives Club | Bry Larrea |
Whittier Blvd. | Roxana Altamirano |
Widow's Creek (or) Once Upon a Time in Wyoming | Eugene La Haye & Buster La Haye |
Wild Hearts | Jessica Rowlands |
Wishes | Cullen Wright |
Wonderful World | Melissa Kong |
Wrestlers | Ryan Wolin |
Yes, Chef | Nicky Guerreiro & Ethan Simon |
Young Lions | Zachary Churchard |
Youth Ministry | Laurie Magers |
Zephyr | Julia Fitzgerald |
Zero Line | Timothy Kontje |
Zombie With A Chainsaw!!! Or Cruel Death Will Surrender | Graham Waldrop |
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