2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on January 19, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 800 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on February 16th 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 Quarterfinalists:
| A CHANCE MEETING | Ellen Leary |
| "The New World Werewolf" | Vernon Benjamin |
| A Gentleman's Guide to Fishing the Sea of Cortez | Richard Winston |
| A Girl Named Polly | Kitty Trock |
| A Hot Night on Davis Street | Desireé Nash |
| A Love To Die For | Joseph Seechack |
| A Mute had once Driven a Flock of Goats and Disappeared into History | Chaochuan Liu |
| A Perfect Rest | Alvaro Martinez |
| A Place by the Sea | KENNETH NEUFELD |
| A Rather Lovely Thing | Casey Mensing |
| A Singular Life | Bill Garwin |
| A Valentine From Your Mother | Chloe Stillwell |
| Agvnige & The Puzzling Resplendence | Gregory Lemmons |
| Alathea | Dennis Coleman |
| An Elegy for Esmeralda | Ken Wetherington |
| APRICITY | Anna-Lena Haense |
| At Least He Didn't Die With Antlers On His Head! | Tommy LeVrier |
| Atta Boy | Cally Fiedorek |
| AVA | Josh Donellan |
| Baby Arjun | Monika Gupta |
| Baby Effie's Mummy | Lori Closter |
| Bare-knuckle Magic | Michael Ezell |
| Before and After | Erni Johnson |
| Before She's Gone Forever | Phil Giunta |
| Bella, Michaela, and the Three Davids | Marilyn Brownstein |
| Bet Your Wife | James Ross |
| Bitten | Billy Krolick |
| Bleaker Street | Janet Petrine |
| Brainmom | Matt Merkl |
| Breadcrumbs | ALEXANDER SIKAREVICH |
| Breakers | Peter Short |
| Burn Unit | Margaret Sullivan |
| Caribbean Dreaming | Breakfield and Burkey |
| Catching Up | Dustin Dunaway |
| Changeling | Kayla Hardy |
| Chasing Silver | Stephanie Schrecengost |
| Choices | Derek Attico |
| Claim | Fiona Ennis |
| Cut Trap | Keri Vilchinsky |
| Daisy & Hank | Robert McCain |
| Damage | Danny Yang |
| Dancing in the Dark | Jen Seale |
| Dark Waters | Sasha Tishman |
| Dawn | Breanne Ruggiero |
| Day One | Diana F. Bryden |
| Death by Donuts | Elaine Stirling |
| Den of Rhyme | Craig Faris |
| Dirty Santa | Timothy O'Leary |
| Domestic Disturbance | justin brown |
| Don't Let Me Go | GEETA SAHAI |
| Dream Less | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| Dried Figs or Dates | Siawosh K. Eskandari |
| Dubois, Wyoming | Alexei Slater |
| Ducks and Penguins - 2040 | Theresa Cardiello |
| Earth Draft 7: Final FINAL | Adam Joel |
| Earth's Orbit | Kjersti Øverland |
| Envelope | Guy Murfey |
| Escape from EveryWorld - Prose | Paul Shiban |
| Escape Velocity | Tobi Pledger |
| Evening Betty | Leslie Rollins |
| Evil F---ing Clowns | Chris Bolton |
| FEEL SWOOP | Jim Layeux |
| First Kill | Timothy OLeary |
| Fitting In | Ronald McGuire |
| For the Eyes of Innocents See Nothing to Fear | Keeja Fisher |
| Forbidden City | William Snyder |
| Forty-two Dodger Blue | Sandra Windsor |
| Gert of the Hundred | L.S. Johnson |
| GHOST TWIN aka Four-Legged Pudding | Sabrina Bess |
| Good Girls Don't Get Stoned | Alle C. Hall |
| Goody Two Shoes | Leanne Phillips |
| Hadacol Boogie | Bonnie Lyons |
| Hair Raiser | Greyson Wyatt |
| Heartbreak Woman | Ken Wetherington |
| Hooligans | Liv Senghor |
| How to Grow an Orange | Jay Haytch |
| I Ain’t Never Heard a’ No Gummit! | Connor Raikes |
| I Have a Secret | Eric Damian |
| I Remember | Gareth Owen |
| Identity | Hawraa Al-Awadhi |
| If My Friends | Annie Hikido |
| Illegal Bodies | Lynda Clark |
| Impala | Timothy OLeary |
| In The Span of a Heartbeat | Phil Giunta |
| In The Woods of North Kingston | Dan Evans |
| It is what it is | Fiona Ennis |
| JOE BOOTS | Julie Poppy Dodson |
| Just the Thing for a Day Like This | Cyn Nooney |
| Kindness | raven Petretti |
| Lake Temptation | Peter Hankins |
| Last Card, First Kiss | David Lange |
| Lazarus Flynn and the Voodoo Hoodoo Man | David Dalessandro |
| Lightning Never Strikes Twice | Debby Huvaere |
| Little 'un | Karen Fredette |
| Little Dogs of War | Jude Atwood |
| Little Neck Lowball | Nicole Cohen |
| Living With The New York City Lighthouse Keeper | Tobias Inigo |
| Looking for Rain | Matt Wills |
| Mace | Shirley Kennett |
| Malicious Intent | Jim De Marse |
| Mary | Kellie Kreiss |
| Match Point Mafia | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| Memento Mori: Paris 1971 | Melissa Mitchell |
| Memory-taker | Denis Memedoski |
| Missing: Man with a Pipe | Richard Butler |
| Moll Shock's Tale | Sam Windrim |
| Moments | Karmen Špiljak |
| Mr. Versatile [The Gift & The Curse] | Rob Kirkland |
| My Cousin Rose | Patricia Dreyfus |
| My Daughters Boyfriends | Penny Jackson |
| My Mom's Moon Pies | John Henrichs |
| My Mother, A Beautiful Disaster | Alison Somilleda |
| Neek's First Rodeo | Samuel Finn |
| Never By Night - a novella | Michael Hahn |
| New Moon (Short Story) | Anne Gruner |
| No Ecstasy Allowed Here | Michael Miller |
| Non Finito | Michael Tabor |
| Oasis | Charlotte Peters |
| Oculus | Janet H Swinney |
| One Star | Timothy OLeary |
| Online Dating | Pame Roscoe |
| Packing for Paris | Kevin DeBacker |
| Perfect Family | C.S. Wadlington |
| Petrichor or The Diamond beneath the Dome | Andre St. Renard |
| Pigs - 2050 | Theresa Cardiello |
| Pink Palace | Kerry McPherson |
| Protecting the Heiress | Terri Reed |
| Puzzles | James Tichenor |
| REBA Z | Nancy DeLong |
| Rescue Bot | Thomas Thonson |
| Restoring Independence | Richard Butler |
| Return to Sweetwater | Elaine Hughes-Dobles |
| Rounding the Bases the Wrong Way Home | Glenn Mills |
| Rush Hour 2088 - a nightmare view of one man's daily commute in the future | Doug Dawson |
| Saturn is for Suckers | Rob Gilchrist |
| Scarlet Moon | Deborah Vukovitz |
| Sea Glass | Joel Wayne |
| Second Chances | Patricia Fox |
| Secret Goldfish | Matthew Brady |
| Security | Eric Roe |
| Separate Bedrooms | Matt Clemons |
| Skeletons in the Closet | Richard Bonte |
| Skinner's Box | Jan-Andrew Henderson |
| Solomon Grundy | Vishwas Gaitonde |
| Something Wicked | Paula Billingsley |
| Something, Somehow, Somewhere | Alexa Weik von Mossner |
| Splintered | Mary Zalmanek |
| Spoiled | Banci Tewolde |
| Stella - Catching the Rainbow | Kate Hawkes |
| String Theory | Danika Dinsmore |
| Stumbling Downhill | James Chesky |
| Subway and Sidewalk - A Love Story in New York | Elizabeth Le Coq Currier |
| SUMMER OF LOVE | RUTH KNAFO SETTON |
| Teacher's Pet | James Woodruff |
| Teen Sweat | Michael DeStefano |
| Ten Little Fingers, Ten Little Toes | Jeremy Hogan |
| Tender, Like My Heart | Jim Roberts |
| Test Scores | Randall Sylvan |
| Thank You Pandemic! | Tanmaya Shekhar |
| The Agreement at Clivemore Hospital | David Draper |
| The Best is Yet To Be | Dara Carr |
| The Big Time | Kimberly Beyers |
| The Brotherhood of Tricks and Treats | Francelia Belton |
| The Cat's Meow | Len Forgues |
| The Christmas Virgin | Chad Wellinger |
| The Clearing | Billy Hanson |
| The Crossroads | A R ASHWORTH |
| The Decoy | Nicole Crowley |
| The Devil May Come | John Lavelle |
| The Discount Countess | Flora Doone |
| The Eyes of Midnight | Andrés Torres H. |
| The Finisher | Rachael Clarke |
| The Future is one mile from my house | Alberto Alarico Vignati |
| The Game of Queens | Alex Grehy |
| The Gray | Michel Lapierre |
| The Great Gimmelmans | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The Identicals | Rochelle E. Fisher |
| The Inevitable Search For | Ismah Khan |
| The Jackshit Bastards | Jim Roberts |
| The Knife Thrower's Assistant | Joyce Kline |
| The Last Banana | Alison McBain |
| The Last Confession of Dottore Geppetto | Josh Bartolome |
| The Learning Tree | Ali Sadiq |
| The OIL Platform | Rick Butler |
| The Pot and The Kettle | T.w. Moran |
| The Prodigy | David Blumkin |
| The Purification | Timothy OLeary |
| The Right Thing | Vikram Kapur |
| The Rooster | Raun Burnham |
| The Sins We Leave Behind | Robert Balentine |
| The Survivor's Guide to Winter Hiking | Bryan Farrow |
| The Time of Jonah | Raquel Levitt |
| Thorn Without a Rose | Chad Mountain |
| Time and Place | Drew Westcott |
| Time to Flagstaff | Leanne Phillips |
| Tina & Tommy | John Michael Bruno |
| To Us May Grace Be Given | L.S. Johnson |
| Tokyo | James Barresi |
| Tonni: A Hell's Horizon Story | Nick Cardiff |
| Trash Dragon | Theo Michelfeld |
| Tuscan Shadows | A.J. Hamer |
| Two Sides | Yinwen Mu |
| Under the Circumstances | Frederick R. Weinstein |
| Under The Upas Tree | Graham Kirkham |
| Unencumbered | Brittany Du Bois |
| Unio Mystica in the Market of Time | Paul Wine |
| Viral Spiral | Emma Cotter |
| Viv and Eddie | Joseph White |
| What Burns | LD Green |
| What Do I Do With Dewey | Rich Agnello |
| What Happened at Lincoln House Farm , a Scrap Story | Susan Howard |
| WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN I WAS 22 | Tara Visconti |
| What Really Happened to Thumper 2-3 | Len Forgues |
| When the North Wind Blows | Kary English |
| While Her Guitar Gently Weeps | Jim Roberts |
| Wyoming Territory, or the Tale of Wolverine Woman | Sjan Evardsson |
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