2022 ScreenCraft Feature Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 12, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Feature Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,000 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:
| (Por-tahj) | Deborah Gero |
| 10 STEPS TO FAME | Leonid Andronov |
| 18% | Geno Marx |
| 27 Club | Drew James |
| A Boy Like No Other | Marion de Juniac |
| A Brief History of Tim | Timothy Edwards |
| A Code of Love | Jacki Delecki, Tawny Stokes |
| A Compromised Truth | William Kirrane |
| A Compton Christmas Miracle | Chessley James |
| A Family Affair | Kate Ginna |
| A FIRE INSIDE | Richard Martin |
| A Flightless Bird Upon Falling | Chase Drummond |
| A Ghastly Sight | Shengyi Wang |
| A Jersey Christmas Movie | Brian Gene White, Laura Napoli |
| A Labour of Love | Olga Holtz |
| A Very Good Wish | Roni Keller |
| A Weekend In The Country | Benedict Cohen |
| Acid Acting | Bernardo Rocha |
| Adelphia | Aris Athanasopoulos |
| Adler | Sean Slater |
| AGIOCHOOK - The Concealed One | Nadia Bonner |
| Alibi Creek | Ted Fryia |
| Altars of Greed | Brennan Howard |
| AMERICAN INFAMY | Takeo Hori |
| American Maxim | Jacob Young |
| An Italian Lesson | Pam Kasper |
| Antarctica | Ryan Lange, Alan Peery |
| Antibody | Jason Collin |
| APOLITICAL | Manu Rewal |
| Arcane | Sebastian Watson |
| Aria | Michael Reisinger |
| Ark | Matthew Kelcourse |
| Armstrong in Hanoi | Bryerly Long |
| Arrow of Honor | Robin Woldorf, Rik Center |
| ART - The Movie Musical | Matthew Puckett |
| As Long As Grass Grows | Matt Perez |
| As You Wish | Ana Mancholas |
| ASTEROID | Alec Whittle |
| Austen Time | Julia Bergeron |
| Autonomous | Scott Fleishman |
| AUTOPILOT | David Luz, J Randolph Harrison |
| Azurite Sunrise | Erin Elise Ziccarelli |
| Backwaters | Jeffrey Craine |
| BAD GUY | Charlotte Rosenberg |
| Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
| Balloons Over Neptune | Audrey Lane |
| Barry's Body | Kasi Brown,Brandon Walter |
| BattleGround | teri elam |
| Beast of Virginia | Matthew Corley |
| Beat The Clock | Stephen Kyle |
| BeatNikki's Cafe | Renee James |
| Becoming Harriet | Chayla Baer |
| Behind You | Jim Hunsaker |
| Better Off Alone | Cameron Dyson |
| BEYOND SIGHT | Scott Hipp, Zoe Broad |
| Beyond the Tracks | Brandon Lill |
| Big Sisters | Sander Gusinow |
| Bite Me | Phoebe Lapine |
| Black Sheep | Keith Hankin |
| Blackland County | Josh Taylor |
| BLADE & BONE | eduard vincenzo pannozzo |
| Blameless | Tashema Alexander |
| Blinky | Allan Roberts |
| Blitzkrieg Follies | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Blur | Nathan Fleetwood |
| Bonzo | Sean Vaccaro |
| Born to be alive | Hampus Carlsson |
| Borracha | Andrea Ocampo |
| Branding Season | Rick Woodham |
| Breast in Show | Andrea Berting |
| Brilliant | Susan Schoenthal |
| Business Dog | Rodrigo Vargas |
| Cages | Megan Raney Aarons, Colin K Gray, Izabel Acevedo |
| Call Me Thor | Jamie Campbell |
| Can We Go Home Now? | Jonathon Charatsis |
| Canceled | Aidan Largey |
| Cannibal Cattle Ranch #9 | Paul Rowe |
| Captain Psychonaut | Tess WS |
| Car 5-1 | Benjamin Forster |
| Caroline | Niamh Dunne |
| Cascadia | Tim Millette |
| Catch The Fly | Michael Bezushko |
| Chasing Sunlight | Brian McFadden |
| Chicken Tenderized | Bonnie Ilyse Tunick |
| Chó | Jon Shaivitz |
| Claire Akerman Finds God | Christa Butler |
| Clams | Sijia Cao |
| Class Traitor | Adam Rotstein |
| Clean | Jason Laurits |
| Clean Sweep | Isabelle Davis |
| Collusion | Brennan Howard |
| Commanding Tyger | Andrew Van Slyke |
| Consequences of Truth | Edward Fasano |
| Crabs In A Mother F*cking Bucket | Kari Mote |
| CRIME WAVE | Tammy Klembith, George Klembith |
| Crying Laughing Loving Lying | Nicole Lynn Cohen |
| Cuffing Season | Jon Bershad |
| Dance Dad | Adelle Incledon |
| Darcy & Paige | Michelle Walson, Michael Ian Walker |
| Dark Harbinger | Kayla Jun |
| Dark Magic Kingdom | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Dauntless | Barry Leach |
| DAVE & FLOR BREAK UP | Sean Kelley |
| Death Valley | Michael Heral |
| Deep Courage | Keith Young |
| Deep South | Luca Nappa |
| Desdemona | Nelson Downend |
| Dirty Critter | Amanda Jaros |
| Disco Rave Attack | Daniel Pappas |
| DISCOVERING CAROLINE | Jon Meyers |
| Divination | Nan Schmid |
| Do You Believe Me? | Elizabeth Churchill |
| DODGE | Bill Neary |
| Dogs of War | Jamaul Phillips |
| Drive Away | Zach Grossman, Sasha Grossman |
| Drivers License | James Barnes |
| Easy Girls | Nicolas Charron |
| Emerald Fist | Johnny Cullen |
| Ephemeral | Araz Edward |
| Equity | Elizabeth Joyce |
| ERGOSPHERE | Martin McLoughlin |
| Errant Good | Matthew Lucas |
| Escape from Pet Heaven | avery koenig |
| Fab & Ren | A.J. Ciccotelli |
| Father's Day | Mark Ezovski |
| Feeling Gravity's Pull | Mark Brown |
| Fiddlers | Thomas Schrack |
| Field Day | Mackenzie Rohan |
| Film Fatale | Angel Christo |
| Foluke's Keeper: A Descendant of Shango | Khalylah Khaz |
| Founder Effect | Rob Pilkington |
| FOUR GENERATIONS OF US | Priscilla Roche |
| Free Bird | Don Broida |
| Freedom Express | Hernando Romero-Gomez |
| Fugue | David Ruben |
| Gareth | Karen Lukesh |
| GATHER THE ASHES | Vikash Shankar |
| Gator Man 1966 - Turn Blue | Martin Boyce |
| George | John Grow |
| Getaway Manor | Elliot Connor |
| GHOST TRAIN | Cory Marciel |
| GIF Corp | Ryan Schorman |
| Glass Rekindlers | Yelitza Prada Breen |
| GLIMPSES | Tammy Klembith |
| GLORY DAYS | Marc McCutcheon |
| Godfather Issues | Benjamin Hardy |
| Good Con/Bad Con | Joshua Redfield |
| Goodbye Everybody | Benjamin Lewis |
| Gordon | Tyler Rickenbach |
| GRAY SHADOW | Laura Kirk |
| GREEN BLOODS | Kevin Percival |
| Hack Need | David Schroeder, Christopher Jackson |
| Half Moon | Ariel Hartzman |
| Hallows Eve High | Ryan Johnston |
| HALSTED: BETWEEN PLEASURE & PAIN | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| Hammer and Nails | LOWELL WILLIAMS |
| Happy, Now | Bixby Elliot |
| Hate The Living | Simon Littlejohn |
| Heavy Metal Heat | Sam Hergott |
| HELP ME HIDE A BODY | David Brittles |
| Hillbilly Bath | Lauren Kleeman |
| Hindsight | Ryan Kavanagh |
| HitMom | Colin MacLeod, Jamie Colboth-MacLeod |
| Holler | James Snyder |
| Holy Ghosts | Michael Basha |
| Honey | Rachel Schaefer |
| Hospice Hitman | Lindsay Ripley |
| How Rock and Roll Saved Tosca | Barry Leach |
| How Wilson Lived | Katrina Barnett |
| Hungry Little Cubs | William Winston |
| Hunter, Father | Elijah Williams |
| Hurricane Sammy | Steve Terlitzky |
| I Love You, Infinity | Brayden Dalmazzone |
| Ibu (Mother) | Friakanya Iwana |
| Imagine | Jeffrey Barton |
| In Darkness Dwell | Simon Littlejohn |
| Incarnations | Albert M. Chan |
| Into the Valley | Emily Somers |
| Island of Two Faces | Josh Taylor |
| It's In A Book | Conner Conway |
| Jackie & The Rats | Nadav Heyman |
| Jaegerfell | A. D. Smith |
| Jingle King | Nick Matthews |
| Joe's Treasure | Ben Lokey |
| Jordan Just Needs to Relax | Neil Davis |
| Jumpers and Cutters | Jake Hulse |
| KEANU REEVES IS MY MUSE, MY SON IS A DRAGON | Phoenix Black |
| KEIKO SPEAKS - A True Story | Bonnie Norton |
| KILL CASTRO | Adam Senior |
| Kill Link | Steve Looker |
| KILLER | Michael Stephenson |
| KISS OF DARKNESS | MICHAEL MCCLUNG |
| Kiwi | Eric Rich |
| Knight's Law | Eric Roberts |
| Kookaburra Laugh | Georgia Adams |
| LA SERENATA (Feature Film) | Ernesto Martinez, Adelina Anthony |
| Le Bon Temps | Eileen Dennehy |
| Leah Rose | Colin Larkin |
| LEAP | Nicole Finney |
| Leaving L.A. | Jon Davis |
| Left Alone | Stephen Mastrocola |
| LEFT WORD | Laura Tucciarone |
| Legends of Tíshíā | Joshua Redfield |
| Liebe Lise | Luke Hart-Moynihan |
| Life of Groupies (aka "Sex, Drugs & Crow's Feet") | Joanne Rose |
| Life On The Run | Andrew Fuhr |
| Like Something Personal | Charlie Anderson |
| Little Sinners | James Reid |
| Lockdown | Joshua Deepan |
| Love Letter to Laos | Isabel Drean |
| Lovelorn | Natalie Wiegner |
| Mad Bad Dangerous to Know | Leonora Pitts, Emily Robinson |
| Magical Things | McKinnon Powell |
| Mail on Sunday | Elizabeth Archer |
| Make Believe | Brit Cowan |
| Make Me An Angel | Lauren Hendler |
| Martyrdom | Alessandro Guarino |
| Mavenmoon | Matt Lewis |
| Max Justice | Adem Suljic |
| Me and Jimmy Rogers | Leia Vogelle |
| Mikey Dreams of Pavement | Jesse Solis |
| Milwaukee | Barry Ambrose, Christopher Stapleton |
| Minor Sins | Matt Cochran |
| Misinterpreted | Tristan Young Mercado |
| Missing in El Paso | Raymond Gill |
| Missing Inaction | Sean Pitre |
| Mockingbird Hill | Smoke Monroe |
| MONGREL | Nathan Alan Bunker |
| Mulberry | Noah Pohl |
| Mutiny In The Dugout | Rod Kent |
| My Freshman Roommate | Cat Youell, Brad Crowe |
| Nature of the Beast | Aaron Kozak |
| Navigating Julie Fisher | William Berlin |
| Negative | Isaac Ruth |
| Neon Gauntlet | Sean Armstrong |
| New England Murder Mystery | Sean Armstrong |
| Newsreel Hero | Chuck Driskell |
| NIGHT OF SLOW TEARS | Aaron Lovett |
| NO GOOD DEED | Heather Farlinger |
| No Return | Devin Rydel Kelly |
| Nobody's Heroes | Michael Elliott |
| NOD | John Palfery-smith |
| NOLA'S LAST HEIST | Martina Muhoberac |
| Nothing for Glory | Christopher Hooton |
| Number Nine | Devon Villacampa |
| October 31st | Kylie Murphy |
| Off Color | Tapan Sharma |
| Omaroo | Samuel Capaldi |
| Omen | tony shyu |
| Omen | tony shyu |
| Omni | Alexandra Christensson |
| One thousand and one | Samantha evoy |
| Open World | David Eyman |
| OPERATION AJAX | Jake Hulse |
| Our Pigment is Complicated | Giselle Miller |
| OUT/BREAK | Tapan Sharma |
| Ovum | Cidney Hue, Shunori Ramanthan |
| Package for Jim Santiago | Seth Colón |
| Paper Money | Addison Proctor |
| Parishad | Peter Haig |
| Peninsula's End | Harry Black |
| Personal Statement | Timothy Pruett |
| PET | Charles Bartley |
| Pink Moon | Carol Brandt |
| Piss Off Little Cherub | Nathan Scott Herzog |
| Plainclothes | Carmen Emmi |
| Possessed AF | B. Isabella Bodnar |
| Possible You | Rebekah Mueller |
| PostScript | Nelson Downend |
| Pride and Prudence | Fran Ervin |
| Prince of Late Night | Faraz Majid |
| Pure Feelings | Daniel Robison |
| Queen Of Red | Clare Reader Collins |
| Raise Iron | Stan Moroncini |
| Ravages Of The Concrete Jungle | Nik Mohan |
| Reach Out | Larry Collins |
| Reaching for the Bottom | ALAN ESCHBACH |
| Rebellion | Alexander Waugh |
| Red Velvet | Aaron Davey |
| Redneck Royale! | Adrion Trujillo |
| Reinhold | Eric Rohr |
| Remember | Po Lin |
| Repair The Carrows | Johnny Cruz |
| Repeat the Track | Jonathan Goetzman |
| REPRESSION | Alan Beard |
| Resplendent Lawns | R.W. Perkins |
| Revenge River | Jennifer Trudrung |
| REVIVAL | Jace Serrano |
| Revolutionary Medicine | Kristen McNaule |
| Rich F#ck | Tyler Savage, Dash Hawkins |
| RITA RPM | Janet J. Lawler |
| Rock Paper Scissors | Kyle Kasabian |
| Rogue | Michael Northwood |
| Rosalie | Tobias Schwartz |
| ROSEBUD | Kayla Hardy |
| Ruggers | Ned O'Connor |
| Rumination | Clifford Chi |
| Runaway Bob | Victoria Spencer Smith |
| Saigon Doll | Tony Ferrendelli |
| Salaam George Michael | Irshad Ashraf |
| SALLY LOVES ELTON | Aileen Wymes |
| SANCTUARY | Mehul Desai, Levar Kelly |
| Sands of Lanikai | Greg Blair |
| Santa Anita | David Liu |
| Saving Cinderella | Melinda Saranchock, Chris Saranchock |
| SAVING GRACE | Thomas Duffy |
| Savvy? | Pilar Gibson |
| Say Cheese | Ryan Stanisz |
| Scarlet Day | Justin Biel, Brough Hansen |
| Scorched Lands | Christian Moldes |
| Scrap Metal Hearts | jane eakin |
| SEAL Team '76 | Takeo Hori |
| Second Act | Kevin Mcgue |
| Sentimental Value | Frederic Chast |
| Sharp Tongue Devil | Adrian Munro, Ian Malone |
| Shishazomba | James Langston |
| Short Time | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| Skull Creek Canyon | Greg Baldwin |
| Slam Dunk | Kenneth Parson, Jesse Axelrod |
| Slay House | Devon Kerr |
| SLUGGER | J. Miller |
| Slush Turtles | Celia Ramsey |
| Slush Turtles | Celia Ramsey |
| Snow in July | Sera Barbieri, Heather Barbieri |
| So Long, Sandy Koufax | Jason Zuriff |
| Soledad | J Rainsnow |
| Soliloquy | Charles-Henri Wright |
| Solo | David Zeltser, Joseph Greco |
| Sometimes The Devil Wins | Tex Gresham |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| Star Crossed | Rodolfo Salas |
| Starlite | Eric Dietz |
| Status Quo | Lauryn Eisenstein |
| Stealing Action | Ken Dyber |
| Steve Wants to Die | Josh Corrigan |
| Stop! In the Name of Love! | Lawrence Davidson |
| Stuck-Up Scumbags of West Middle: Illustrated | Luke Johnson |
| Suburban Gothic | Sean Armstrong |
| Swiss Clean | Jim Wurst |
| Synchronicity | Nicholas Freeman |
| Take My Hand | Sam Pavich |
| Tanami | Annabel Maclean |
| Targets | Rick Lucas, Jaron Lucas |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Technicolor Noir | Madison Sean Flannery |
| TEENS | Lucas Koppel |
| Tell No Tales | Kate Hargrave |
| The Acceptance Letter of Benjamin Doyle | Sam Platizky, Isaac Platizky |
| The Advantages of Whiskey Over Dogs | Michael Begg, Barry A. Lemoine |
| The Art of Intention | Dena Acolatse |
| The Art of Launder | Alana Gerdes |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Combination | Brian Fuller |
| THE DAMNED AMONG US | A.S. Engerson |
| The Dangerous Derangements of Doc Halloween | Nick Hurwitch |
| The Dead Guy | Brian Birmingham |
| The Desert Fox | Pablo Briz |
| The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | Liam McIntyre |
| The Doors Of Perception | Johnny Cruz |
| The English Compound | Rebekah Wilkinson |
| The Fairies' Midwife | Jerry Eckert |
| The Farewell Tour | Amy Dellagiarino |
| The Fisher | Paul Soriano |
| The Gauntlet-Drama | Hernando Romero-Gomez |
| The Girl Who Fell From the Sky | Heidi Durrow |
| The Golden City | Michael Yuen |
| The Good Club | Gerald Smith |
| The Good Sister | Hoku Uchiyama |
| The Gravedigger | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Greatest | Devon Bain |
| The Homestudy | Derek Nicoletto |
| The horned God | Alessandro Guarino |
| The Keeper | Michael Hubbard |
| The Kids' Kingdom | Luca Violante |
| The Language of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Last Encore | Gabrielle Nehring |
| The Last Supper | Zachary Ashman |
| The Last Travelers | Darrell McGregor |
| The Legend of Moses Pace | Alexander LeGrand |
| The Liuetenant Nun | Matthew Bernstein |
| The Long Way Gone | Nils Taylor |
| The Long Way Home | Eelum Dixit |
| The Major Donor | Aaron Bilgrad |
| THE MAN | Carla Queipo |
| The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair | Ryan Mekenian |
| The Man in the Mirror | Harrison Coy |
| The Man She Was | KASI BROWN , Ric Averill |
| The Method | Aaron Michael Bailey, Troy Fresch |
| The Mission | Joshua Sonny Harris, Lyle Parsons |
| The Moneyer | Jonathan Young |
| The Moon Represents My Heart | Jesse Lin |
| The Moon That Brings The Rain | Evgenia Zabaryanskaya (Kovaleva) |
| The Next King | Kyle J. Scimone |
| The Oak Tree | Zivi Zhong |
| The Oughthousers | Ari Krause |
| THE OUTER DARKNESS | Peter Marshall Smith, John Fiske |
| The Passion of Pauli Murray | Sean Slater |
| The Pepper | Christine Garver |
| The Secret Notes of Professor Thomas | Joni Ravenna, Joshua Townshend-Zellner |
| The Seven Stages of a Dying Star | Adrian Prospero |
| The Seventh Date | Mason Gallaway |
| The Shadow Falls | Clay Callender |
| The Simple Invention of Him | Kurtis Standley |
| The Sky King | J. Adam Russell |
| The Snare | Merlin Camozzi |
| The Sound of His Own Voice | Michael Toscano |
| The Swagman | Alexander Ratcliffe |
| The Traveler | Peter Wiseman |
| THE TRESTLE | Justin Giddings, Ryan Patrick Welsh |
| The Unanticipated Emancipation of Zebulon Pierce | Rudi O'Meara |
| THE UNSEEN TERROR | Barry Siskind |
| The Valley Rose | Patrick Runi |
| The Village Doctor | Laura Kenner |
| The Water Spider | John Harvey |
| The Weatherway Conspiracy | Ryan Lange, Alan Peery |
| The Whirlpool Project | Josh Taylor |
| The Whites of Their Eyes | David Loong |
| The Whole Shebang | Asher O'Briant |
| The Widower | Michael Buran |
| The Woman With No Name | Jesse Sherwood |
| Thieves | Clemens Stein |
| Thirstygirl | Alexandra Qin |
| This I Know | LaLa Halsema, Carrie Schrader |
| This Is My Body | Roses Urquhart |
| This Is Then, That Was Now | Andy Schroeder |
| TIGER IN THE DARK | John Kane |
| Til Dale Do Us Part | Ashley Barrett |
| Timberwolf : The Hubristic Howlings Of A Loser Lunatic (A Midwestern Fable Of Terror) | Damien Marks |
| TIME ZERO | CARLO & ERIN CARERE |
| Traces in the Mud | Anahit Ernst, Jenny Ernst |
| TRICE | Matt Foss, Carlos Washington |
| Trip | Shannon Sipher |
| Trophies | Peter Van Horne |
| True Dixons | Andrew Zeoli, erick chavarria |
| Trumpf - The Barber of Bavaria | Joshua Strauch |
| Turf Wars | Kelsey Ross |
| Two Lane Forever | Andrew Jenner |
| Unconditional | Jessica Mastro |
| Unconditional | Tully Archer |
| UNION | Marc Moody |
| Up River | David Bush |
| Upstanding Citizen | Louisa Gregory |
| Ursus | Jake Williams |
| Valium Times Day | Mage Lanz, Susan Sassi |
| Vapor | RJ Collins, John Trefry |
| Verité | Billy Hanson |
| Victor, The Wild Child of Aveyron - The Musical! | Marc Moody |
| Victoria | Amanda Weinstock |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| War in the Blood | Josh Flanagan |
| Warrior Warrior - Feature | Brian Michaels |
| WASPS! | Zeke Smith |
| Watching Paint Dry | Morghan Delzer |
| We Hate Jack | Matt Steele |
| We Need To Kill Your Father | Harry Hitchens |
| WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING WEREWOLVES | Matthew Scheffler |
| What We Left Behind | Rachael Cudlitz |
| Wherever You Go | Kate Hamilton |
| While the Trees Sleep | Emilie Sabath |
| Whiskey and Words | Jack Gorman, Shannon Walsh |
| White-Out | Tim Grady |
| Who's on First | Rick Williams |
| Why in Wyoming? | Matthew Baetz |
| WICKED GRIN | Arran Crawley |
| Wilbur's Way | Kevin Staake |
| WILD HEARTS | Jessica Rowlands |
| WILL BE THE STRENGTH | Robb Hanson |
| Willa Cather Would Not Approve | David-Matthew Barnes |
| Wing | Tiffany Wice, Becca Clapperton |
| Within An Echo | Kel Vance |
| Wolfhound | Luke Knibbs |
| Woodsy | e.e. Thorsen |
| Written Blind | Mack Ogden |
| Written in Blood | Rebecca Lieberman, Lexi Lieberman |
| Written to Death | Dan Hass |
| Wrong Shade of Blue | Kel Vance |
| XY-113 | Ivan Bukta |
| You Go Boy | Matija Sraj |
| You'll Be the Death of Me | Brittany Bookbinder |
| You’ll Never Die In This Town Again | Zak Knutson, Freddy Waff |
| Your Own God | T Gordon Stanley |
| Zombulimia | Molly Vogel |
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