2022 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 19, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional scripts were selected from almost 1,600 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:
| "Intensive Care" | LAWRENCE Hughes STERN |
| "Run Joe" | Kevin Jiggetts |
| 16 Minutes | Caroline Friend |
| 422 | Danny Range |
| 5th&Hope | Robert C. Hall |
| A Bird's Eye | James Wilson |
| A Man's A Man | Marcus Crawford Guy |
| A Massacre of Innocence | Douglas Raine |
| A New Years Wish | Tom Basham |
| A Story of the London Fog | Robert Simpson |
| A Virtuous Son | Garth Morgan |
| A Voice for Angelo | Sheila Duncan |
| Adler | Sean Slater |
| After The Fire | David Aghasaryan |
| aGAIN | Vix Lyttle |
| Agency of Record Episode 1 "Nuts!" | Donald McKinney |
| AJ | Kata Varga |
| All that Glitters | Susan Marks |
| Althea's Fine Gifts | Susan Goselin |
| Alvaro the Great | David Dunbar, Evan Peck Dunbar |
| Always We Begin Again | Nic Cohen |
| Always With Us | STAN EVANS |
| Amelia | Hilary Miller, Katie Savage |
| AMERICAN INFAMY | Takeo Hori |
| Andi & Isla | Hilary Miller |
| APACHE | Adam Seidel |
| Arthur and the Cat | Brian O'Connor |
| Asking and Listening | Mia Risberg |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| At the Gates | Vir Srinivas |
| August Beauty | Elisa Greenberg |
| B.A.L.L.A.D. | Lucas Abreu, Zachary Arthur, Kyle Copier |
| Back Fires | Alex Blumberg |
| Bahar | Jibran Ahmed |
| Be a Good Girl | Guljan Toktogul |
| Be Cool | Prachi Bhardwaj |
| Beauty King | Annie Grace |
| Behemoth | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
| Bellum | Adria Budd-Johnson, Paula Jean Hixson, Michelle Boback |
| Belvedere Gardens | Marisa Schley |
| Beneath The Okanagan | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Bethany | Michael Hurley |
| Betty Lee Is Missing | Allyson Morgan |
| Beyond Help | TIFFANY BARKER |
| Bitter Harvest | John Munn |
| BLACK AJAX | Conor Healy |
| Black Hawk | Brian Leider |
| Bleeding Ink Pilot | Michael Sisti, Nick DeSimone |
| Bless You Too | Gianfranco Cuoco |
| Blind Spot | Alix Lerner |
| Blitzkrieg Follies | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Body Art | Jamie Ruddy |
| Border Sundown | Richard Eckert |
| BORN AGAIN | Danielle Langlois |
| Boy Wonder | Denis Theriault |
| Brother, Don't You Know the Road? | Marc Sheehan |
| Buford Highway | Jordan Watland, Bahar Atvur |
| Burn | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Camaléon | Robert Flowers |
| Careless People | Niamh Dunne |
| Carry That Weight | Joe Favalaro |
| Catching Out | Elizabeth Savage Sullivan |
| CENTURY | Jason Fraley |
| Chicken Skin | Craig Richey |
| Child of God | Esteban Malave |
| Children of Amazonia | Alex Garcia |
| Cola Kingdom | Sean Azze |
| Collage | Steve Cross |
| College Girl | Joshua Tate |
| Coming Home | Jack Steeley |
| Corazón | Dominique Merrill |
| Corinth | gene lassers |
| Cotton | Jim Rothman |
| Counterfeit | Ashley Tropea |
| Coupla Kooks | Tierney Acott |
| Curious | Anthony DiVastanzo |
| Da Club | Christopher Celestin |
| Dancing in the Dark | Sharon Michaels |
| Darker Than Blue | Del Potter |
| Das Bayou | Craig Phillips |
| Dead Mom Friend Summertime Fun Club | Alex Walker |
| Dead Parents Club | Mark Orr |
| Dead Reckoning | Chad Hutson |
| Deadball | Rich Orstad, Christopher Saunders |
| Deadstick | Stephen Barber |
| Death Sentence | Ben Weiss |
| DEEP CUT | Joel Jensen |
| Desire Untamed Pilot + Series Bible | Qituwra Anderson |
| DETENTION | John Ferraro, Steven Coy |
| DEVIL'S BREATH | David McClendon |
| Diabolina | KAMAL JOHN ISKANDER |
| Disco! Rave! Attack! | Daniel Pappas |
| Disintegration | Joanna Ebuwa |
| Does That Make Us Terrorists? | Mishu Hilmy |
| Don't Call Me Mrs. Hemingway | Florence Buchanan |
| Don't Kill The Spider | Joseph Casner |
| Don't Pick Sides | Blair Johnson |
| Downswing | Kris Simonian |
| Downtown | Brian Stone |
| Drama Department | Richard Willett |
| Dream Boy | Hannah Melissa Scott, Jordan Watson |
| Durty | Zachary Swickey |
| E.S.L. | Christopher Kim |
| Eastern Son | Y.S. Kim |
| Eastside | Lindsey Blumell |
| EAT ME | Leslie Thomas |
| Eden | Adria Budd Johnson |
| Empress | Lisa Iannini |
| EVERYTHING IS FINE | Kenson Junicue |
| Executive Order 9066 | Shelley Lekven |
| EXPOSURE | Unnamed |
| Fair Wind | Paul Gordon |
| Fairview | Mia Volta |
| Falls to Climb | Franck Benayoun |
| False Prophet | Mary Egan |
| Fermata | jade edwards |
| Field of Weeds | kelly karam |
| Finding Tyler Greene | Dale Janda |
| Five Fathers | Aron Flasher |
| Flower | Adam Krause |
| Flower in the Rubble | Robert Nolan |
| For Love of Country | Ron Basso |
| Forgive Me Nothing | Sean Ryan |
| Fortune | Jeff Kaufman |
| FREE PASS | John Montgomery |
| Freedom House | Doua Moua |
| FREIGHT | Emily Sheehan, Andrea Sheehan |
| Furies | Caroline Bloom |
| Future Past | Damone Bester |
| GATHER THE ASHES | Vikash Shankar |
| Genius Girl | Fred Henry |
| Georges Creek | James Shanklin |
| God Family Country | Elise Sievert Bhushan |
| Godspeed, Draggers | Lex Sidon |
| GOLD RUSH | Jerry Jerome |
| Good City | Natalia Chown |
| Grave Duty | Bill Wells |
| Graveyard of Empires | Chuck Copeland |
| GREEN BLOODS | Kevin Percival |
| Grizzly | Corbin Eaton |
| Half The World | Setareh Esfehani |
| Handhaven | Kristen Wade |
| Hard Breath | malek haneen |
| Harpoon | Ria Tobaccowala |
| Haunted | Nicholas Seemann |
| Have Mercy | Jason Ruscio |
| Hazel | Anthony Turek |
| Head Over Hill | Gideon Shmorak |
| Heart of Fire | Rich Orstad, Christopher Saunders |
| Helen's War | Geneviève Paiement |
| High Winds: a feature film about land, legacy and climate change. | Chris Crowley |
| Hinky | Mike Gerbino |
| Holy Spirits | Lewis H. Mackie |
| How I Became a Vengeful, Psycho Killer | Laura Becker |
| Hunter And The Giant | B S Allen |
| Hunter, Father | Elijah Williams |
| I Love You, Infinity | Brayden Dalmazzone |
| I'M FINE... AND OTHER LIES | Bradford Richardson |
| I’m Tryin’ Too | Tracy L Morris |
| Illimitable | Robin Shushan |
| Impregnation | Lauren Certo |
| In Dreams | Haley Dercher |
| IN PERSON (Episode title: "Orange") | Sarah Deakins |
| In the Lake of Fire | Blake Robbins |
| In the Scrape | Mark Steensland, James Newman |
| Incarnations | Albert M. Chan |
| Inland | Christina Wren |
| Into the Valley | Emily Somers |
| IRON ANIMALS | Todd Ramsay |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jerrie & John | Lauren Deacon |
| Jesus Goes to Goodland | Marisa Torelli-Pedevska |
| Jewel | Tamara Steren |
| Joey | Todd Rodgers, Chad Shaver, Josh Pack |
| JOLENE | Erika Flores |
| Journey to Babylon | shiva kumar |
| JUST LIKE ME | Frederick Jones |
| Kali on the Ropes | Ali Choucri |
| Kandlestick Men | Frank Monteleone |
| Kapu | Sean Slater |
| Kayfabe | Stu Baker, J. Micheal Polk |
| Keep Quiet | Zach Montague |
| Kept | Kasper Kavalaris |
| Killing of Age | Marc Ruiz |
| Kingwood | Gus Avila |
| KISS OF DARKNESS | MICHAEL MCCLUNG |
| Last in Line | Ben Mansbridge |
| Lavender | Jackie Massaro |
| LAWLESS STATE | Sandra Webb Smith |
| Leaving Angola | Laura DePinho |
| LEFT WORD | Laura Tucciarone |
| LES BLESSÉES (The Wounded) | Bob Canning |
| Life | Henry Hughes |
| Life On The Run | Andrew Fuhr |
| Lifting the veil | Viviane Schottler |
| Little Boys | L.E. Coleman |
| Little Footsteps | Louis Reyes McWilliams |
| Little Girl Blue | Maceo Greenberg |
| Lives of the Saints | Corie Schweitzer |
| Locust | Noel Vinson |
| Loom | Christopher Backs |
| Losing Grace | Athena Mandis |
| Losing Luisa (to a Cult) | Nelson Knight |
| Lovebomb | James Kautz |
| Lovelorn | Natalie Wiegner |
| Mad Bad Dangerous to Know | Leonora Pitts, Emily Robinson |
| Major Hacker's War | Steve Blame |
| Man of Iron | Sam Kressner |
| Manifest Destiny | Philip Enchelmaier |
| Marcel | David Soll |
| Masters and Servants | John Enright |
| Merciless | Corinna Jill |
| Merit | Rudi O'Meara |
| MIGRATIONS | Conor Healy |
| Miles Away | Aaron Sauerland, Dustin Little |
| Milwaukee | Barry Ambrose, Christopher Stapleton |
| Miss Me When I’m Gone | Matthew Gomez |
| MOOCH | Joe Favalaro |
| Moonscope | David Fein |
| Mother Junkie | Olivia Webb |
| Murder Takes Time | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| Mush | Niko Savich, Orson Ossman |
| My Brother's Keeper | Michael Buzzelli, Dean Focareta |
| My Picture | Luke Thistleton |
| My Race | Uzair Darawish |
| NO GOOD DEED | Heather Farlinger |
| No Hero | David McEwan |
| No Land Beyond | Bishrel Mashbat |
| No Sin Greater | Shannon Kornelsen |
| No Vacancy | Anna Ebell |
| Nothing for Glory | Christopher Hooton |
| Nuclear Daydreams | Tyler Tremblay |
| Odd Women | Caroline Ryder |
| Once and Future | Kylie Boersma |
| Once Upon a Crime: Ciudad de Dios | Angelo Dania |
| Operation Babylift | John Mccarney |
| Operation Renewal | XiaoYe Mu |
| Orange Chicken | Rui Chen |
| Oregon | Joshua Strauch |
| Orson | Jared Egol |
| Other Man's Land | Moises Amsel |
| Otherworld, NJ | Matthew McLachlan |
| Over The Hills And Far Away | Ella Quittner |
| Par 3 | Todd Scheiperpeter |
| Partners - A Limited Series | Stacey Russell |
| PATTY, JOANIE, BUNNY (OR MAYBE LAILAH) | suzanne faber |
| PETA | Brent Delaney |
| Philly Boys | Kevin Giles |
| PHOTON QUIXOTE: THE MINUS WORLD | Drew Ragland |
| Picture Us in the Light | Justin Brenneman |
| Polaroid Joe | Dominic White |
| Postmodern Love | Sydney Vu |
| Pre-Existing | Dahlia Welsh |
| Primo | Matthew Robinson |
| Primum Non Noncere | Nickolas True |
| Prizrak | Jeff Kaufman |
| Queensbridge | Justin Carter |
| Quiet Mountain | Tristan Fuller |
| Quiet Storm | Zach Litwack |
| Rattle And Hum | Joe Favalaro |
| Rebirth | Victorio Korjhan |
| Records Of A Vision | Tim Gulstine |
| RED SEA | Rosalyn Rosen |
| Reel Life | Jeremy Span |
| Remember This | Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo |
| Resplendent Lawns | R.W. Perkins |
| Restoration | Seth Panitch |
| Rhythms in Raindrops | Justin Emeka |
| Rockport | Sarah Reasons |
| Roots | Ashlee Stormo |
| Roses on the Vine | Jon Shaivitz |
| Sally Can Wait | Sheen Faulconer |
| Saved at Summitview Manor | Kim Ruyle |
| SawDust | Alex Cardoo |
| Schadenfreude | Simran Khalsa |
| School Story | Jit Fong Oon |
| SCOPE | Kaleigh Fitzgerald |
| Seeking God with a Superhero | Danny Shoshan |
| Serial Vlogger | Eric Nelson |
| SERPENT | Mauricio Valle |
| Shakespeare's Daughter | Peter Hassinger |
| Shine a Light | Jordan Blilie |
| SIGNATURE | Jess McKillop |
| Signature Photo | Michael Bucklin |
| Silent Night.....Un-Holy Night | Lowell Thomas |
| Small Town Boy | Michael Buonocore |
| Small World | Robert Cuen |
| Soldiers of Martial Law | Alex Tackett |
| Some Hood Named Freddie | Ari Dassa |
| Somewhere Unseen | Connie Rankin |
| Song of the Bigfoot | Brent Bishop |
| Songs Without Words | Hayley Tibbenham |
| Soul Alley | Matt George |
| Speakeasy Street | Bramwell Noah |
| Spite | cliff courtney |
| Star and the Crescent Moon | Parviz Saghizadeh |
| STEALING VENICE | Anna Bendewald |
| Step Ball Change | Jordan Morille |
| Sticks & Stones | Philippe D'Imperio |
| STILL ALIVE | Rosemary Griggs |
| Sunspot-One | Patrick Coles Owen, Tatiana Violet Joyce |
| Sweet Caroline | Ty Strange |
| Swell | Kareem El Arab |
| Sylla | Steven Bogart |
| TAKEOVER | Jace Serrano |
| Talented Beautiful Disasters | Ben Kim |
| Terminal | Dina Chapman |
| Terminus Road | Richard Rosso |
| Terms of Entanglement | David Schroeder |
| The 26.2 Mile Fall | Joe Tyler Gold |
| The 616 | Chris Birkmeier |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Adagio | Gerald Wood |
| THE APPLICANTS | Justin Ballheim |
| The Art of Starving | Joe Favalaro |
| The Artist in Attica | Steve Marino |
| The Atomic Man | Ryan Cannon |
| THE BANNER | Ernestina Juarez |
| The Berlin Agent | Kevin Noonan |
| The Book of Sarah | Roger Walker |
| The Broken Circle | Shawn-Caulin Young |
| The Christmas Present | Matt Sanders, Lincoln Korver |
| The Cocooned Wings of a Pending Butterfly | Sean Ryan |
| The Curse Of Ham | Robert Landau |
| The Deadman Case | Asabi Lee, paul Hart-Wilden |
| The Deployment | Michael Toscano |
| The Detective | Don Dunham |
| The Diplomat's Wife | Mary Byron, Tamra Teig |
| The Eagle of Barwaq | Kiarash Anvari |
| THE ELECT | Andrew Shepherd |
| The End of War | Chris Fried |
| The Falconer | Rich Orstad |
| The Farrell Girl | Lyndal Simpson |
| The First Last Family Reunion | Rich Orstad |
| The Flid Show | Richard Willett |
| The Garfield Guy | Jeff Longsworth |
| THE GOLDEN CITY | Michael Yuen |
| THE GRIEF THIEF | Barbara Jean Thornton |
| The Handicapped Scuba Association | Stefan Alexander |
| The Happiest Place | Jon Davis |
| The High Priest of Paradise | Brian Schaefer |
| THE INCEL | Ryan Imhoff |
| The Infinity of Nowhere | Jelmer Kuijpers |
| The Interventionist | Steve Bruno |
| THE ITALIAN LOVER | Suzanne Griffin |
| THE LAND I WALK | Sam M. Duane |
| The Last Road Trip | Jeffrey Brack |
| The Last Skywriter in the Universe | Steven Bogart |
| THE LAVENDER PANTHERS | Heather Farlinger |
| The Lion and The Calf | William Horace |
| The Magician | Tamara Steren |
| THE MAN | Carla Queipo |
| The Man From The Getty | James Booth |
| THE MEDÉA COMPLEX | Patricia Crespin |
| The Mona Lisa | William Holmgren |
| The Money Game | Dylan Gallimore |
| The Monsters of Saint Margaret | Rachel Stevens |
| The Morning Leaves Kings | John Lozano |
| The New Hospital | Kelsey Llewellyn |
| The New Romantics | Hayley Tibbenham |
| THE NIGHT WATCHMAN (Pilot) - Beasts of Burden | Thomas Gaunt |
| The One | Eric Alejandro Reis |
| The One | Devon James |
| The Ones Who Know | Barbara Johns |
| The Other Side of the Ledge | Jessica Kenney |
| The Outskirts of Paradise | Montgomery Burt |
| The Palest Blue | Matt McKinzie |
| The Panhandle | Matt Lowerre |
| THE PARKS | Grace Rowe |
| The Penthouse | Ella Bettarello de Oliveira |
| The Pirate Queen | Nora-Jane Noone |
| The Pottsville Maroons | Rowan Joseph, Derek Heeren |
| The Pugilist | Geaux Francois |
| The Red and White Blues | Ronald Taylor |
| The Secret Coterie of Swans | Dylan Brown |
| The Shadow After | Meko Winbush |
| The Shaky Blue of Carlisle Monroe | Aaron Silverstein |
| The Smallest Ways | James Greenall, Liam Papadachi |
| The Star | William VanApeldoorn |
| The Student Body | Lily McDermott |
| THE THREE OF US | Janna Jilnina |
| The Unanticipated Emancipation of Zebulon Pierce | Rudi O'Meara |
| The Undergraduate | Lynn Chen |
| THE UNREAL WAR (TV Series) / THE LIBRARY (Pilot) | Florin Hanganu |
| THE WARDROBE | Peter Noel |
| The Woman who lives in a Treehouse | Carley Aggromito |
| They Never Die | Abhi Kumar |
| Thornfield | Frances Denny |
| Three Days of Happiness | Payne Patchett |
| Threestyle | Matt C. Dawson |
| Through A Window | Liz Cotone |
| Tivoli Gardens | K. Diakite, C. Darby |
| TOD BROWNING AND THE FREAKS | david trainor |
| Toxic Eulogy | Joe Blank |
| Tricolor | Sara Bresciani |
| TRIPLE THREAT | John Montgomery |
| Twenty-seven | Gregory Caruso |
| Undercurrent | Debby Huvaere |
| Underserved | Henrique Goncalves |
| Uprising | Jeff Austin |
| Upstaged | Jenna St. John |
| Vigilance | Liz Wiest |
| Warrior Women | Amanda Dettrick |
| Wasteland | Jordan Schiff |
| Wayward | Emma Dibdin |
| What Money Can Buy | Zachary Swickey |
| When the Whale Comes | Pamela Winfrey |
| Wilkinson Heights | Taylor Johnson |
| World Of Sleepers | David Schultz |
| WORLDS APART | Thomas Gaunt |
| Wrath of Gods | Liz Prugh |
| X or (The Ascension of Gold Mountain) | Alexander Chard |
| You Are Mine | Rebecca Connor |
| You Saved Me | Sarah Dassero |
| Zero Hour | Ali Ahmed |
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