2022 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Semifinalists

Listed below are the Semifinalists 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!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
16 Minutes | Caroline Friend |
A Man's A Man | Marcus Crawford Guy |
Adler | Sean Slater |
Always We Begin Again | Nic Cohen |
Always With Us | STAN EVANS |
Amelia | Hilary Miller, Katie Savage |
AMERICAN INFAMY | Takeo Hori |
At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
Back Fires | Alex Blumberg |
Bahar | Jibran Ahmed |
Be a Good Girl | Guljan Toktogul |
Behemoth | Taylor Foreman-Niko |
Belvedere Gardens | Marisa Schley |
Beneath The Okanagan | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
Beyond Help | TIFFANY BARKER |
Bleeding Ink Pilot | Michael Sisti, Nick DeSimone |
Camaléon | Robert Flowers |
Careless People | Niamh Dunne |
Corazón | Dominique Merrill |
Coupla Kooks | Tierney Acott |
Darker Than Blue | Del Potter |
Dead Parents Club | Mark Orr |
Dead Reckoning | Chad Hutson |
Death Sentence | Ben Weiss |
DETENTION | John Ferraro, Steven Coy |
EAT ME | Leslie Thomas |
Fairview | Mia Volta |
Forgive Me Nothing | Sean Ryan |
FREIGHT | Emily Sheehan, Andrea Sheehan |
Godspeed, Draggers | Lex Sidon |
GREEN BLOODS | Kevin Percival |
Heart of Fire | Rich Orstad, Christopher Saunders |
Helen's War | Geneviève Paiement |
In the Scrape | Mark Steensland, James Newman |
IRON ANIMALS | Todd Ramsay |
Jerrie & John | Lauren Deacon |
Keep Quiet | Zach Montague |
Kingwood | Gus Avila |
Losing Grace | Athena Mandis |
Major Hacker's War | Steve Blame |
Merciless | Corinna Jill |
MIGRATIONS | Conor Healy |
Mush | Niko Savich, Orson Ossman |
NO GOOD DEED | Heather Farlinger |
PATTY, JOANIE, BUNNY (OR MAYBE LAILAH) | suzanne faber |
PETA | Brent Delaney |
Philly Boys | Kevin Giles |
Postmodern Love | Sydney Vu |
Rent Boy | R.W. Perkins |
Restoration | Seth Panitch |
Shine a Light | Jordan Blilie |
SIGNATURE | Jess McKillop |
Signature Photo | Michael Bucklin |
Song of the Bigfoot | Brent Bishop |
Songs Without Words | Hayley Tibbenham |
Soul Alley | Matt George |
Sunspot-One | Patrick Coles Owen, Tatiana Violet Joyce |
The Academy | Brit Cowan |
THE APPLICANTS | Justin Ballheim |
The Artist in Attica | Steve Marino |
The Broken Circle | Shawn-Caulin Young |
The Diplomat's Wife | Mary Byron, Tamra Teig |
The Farrell Girl | Lyndal Simpson |
THE HOUSE OF TANG | Lisa Iannini |
The Interventionist | Steve Bruno |
THE LAVENDER PANTHERS | Heather Farlinger |
THE MEDÉA COMPLEX | Patricia Crespin |
The Money Game | Dylan Gallimore |
The Monsters of Saint Margaret | Rachel Stevens |
The New Romantics | Hayley Tibbenham |
The Palest Blue | Matt McKinzie |
The Panhandle | Matt Lowerre |
THE PARKS | Grace Rowe |
The Smallest Ways | James Greenall, Liam Papadachi |
The Star | William VanApeldoorn |
They Never Die | Abhi Kumar |
Threestyle | Matt C. Dawson |
Through A Window | Liz Cotone |
Tivoli Gardens | K. Diakite, C. Darby |
Tricolor | Sara Bresciani |
Underserved | Henrique Goncalves |
Uprising | Jeff Austin |
Vigilance | Liz Wiest |
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