2022 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 6, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,500 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:
| #Riveter | Summer Young |
| 1 Black Girl's Fairytale | Celeste Banks |
| 1UP | Lolia Etomi |
| A Dry Heat | Bryan Krol |
| A Land Fit For Heroes | Sam French |
| A Planet Called Novus | Caleb Barge |
| A Promise of Vengeance | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| A Romance Of Two Worlds | Kari Mote |
| A-GAME | Drew Tapley |
| ABORT | Gregory Mandarano, Raza Rizvi |
| After America | Jonathan Melenson |
| Agency | Chris Hill |
| Ahead of the Family | Andrew Kimler |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| All You | Oliver Warden |
| Almost Super | Line Abrahamian |
| Alone | Kirk Weddell |
| Altchemica | Adir Golan |
| Altered | Dawn Prato, Jeremy Varner |
| Alternate | Jess C Wheatley |
| AMERICANUS REX | Dillon VanOort |
| ANDIES | Mehul Desai |
| Apex | Kendall Brown |
| Apollo Minus Project | Nick Ronan |
| Apophenia | Neil Dua |
| Apotheosis | Jaime Urquiza |
| Arnaq | Nicholas Edmunds |
| Artificial Insomnia | Alex Hanson |
| As Long As Grass Grows | Matt Perez |
| As Time Goes By | Jon Davis |
| Asamir | Sean Sullivan |
| Asha from Earth | Sunny Karnan |
| At the Forest's Edge | S Deeley |
| AUTONOMERICA | Jarrett Paperno |
| Autonomous | Scott Fleishman |
| Away and Back | Ruth Jiang |
| B L A C K O U T | Craig McInnes |
| Backwash | Ben Scott |
| Barrier | Scott Fleishman, Evan Wake |
| Barriers | Daniel Woburn |
| Based On A True Story | JJ Condon |
| Below The Earth | Sheriden Jackson |
| Betty Lee Is Missing | Allyson Morgan |
| Beyond the Black Horizon | Samuel Tracton |
| Blackwyle | Sam Callahan |
| BLASKPOR | Genesis Linares |
| Blessed Be Our Names | James Reid |
| Blood of the Lamb | Christina Cigala, Brad Harris |
| Blood Star | Chris Bryant |
| BLUE SKYE | Kristin Raven |
| BORN AGAIN | Danielle Langlois |
| Bound | Lexi Lieberman |
| Bucket Kickers | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Carousel Effect | Tom O'Brien |
| Centenarian | Eric Han |
| Chaperones | Alexander Hacker |
| Chikamatsu Endgame | Federico Sanna |
| Children of Ceres | Daniel McNaught |
| Cipher | James Brunel |
| Clones | Brady O'Malley |
| Close(ish) Encounters | Jared Pascoe |
| Compulsion | Brady Nelson |
| Confetti Rainfall Scfi Feature | David Sheski |
| Constellation | Rudi O'Meara |
| COUNTER EARTH | Ryan Vaughn |
| Coyote's Den | Rhett Bigler |
| CriTen | Jesse Arnold |
| CryptoCamp - Inciting Chaos | Carmen Nevant |
| Cuffing Season | Jon Bershad |
| CULPRIT | Gideon Shmorak |
| Cybermorphosis | Gideon Shmorak |
| Damnatio Memoriae | Alberto Alarico Vignati |
| Dark Saga | Karina da Cruz Beltrani |
| Dark Space | Alex Polk |
| Darkened Skies - Pilot | Joseph Yaker |
| Darkle | Barry Hollywood |
| Darwin's Choice | Ted Fryia |
| Dead Star | Gregory Mandarano |
| Dead Star | Gregory Mandarano |
| Deep Sleepers Pilot | Nicolas Charron |
| Deletion | Christopher Lombard |
| Delilah's Moon | Phyllis Strong |
| Demi Drew-Myers | Isabelle Polnaszek |
| Distress | Calvin Starnes |
| Doppelgängers | Alexander O'Neill |
| Driverless | Corrigan Foley |
| DROID WORLD: A Star Wars Story | Tim Westland |
| Dungeon Deep | Harry Kakatsakis |
| Dweller Glory | Sye Mac, Hugo Jackson |
| Echo Effect | Dan Burks |
| Elysia | Adriana Laplanche |
| Embers & Ashes | Justin Campbell |
| Equilibrium | Gregory Scott Houghton, Jessica Wilson |
| Escape from the Lummis Palace | North Saylor |
| Ethereal | Fern Bruce |
| EVOLUTION | Caroline Chidester |
| Exalt | Richard Young |
| Eye Light | Judie Gerber |
| F**king Super | Chloe Borenstein-Lawee |
| Factory Town | Ryan Muir |
| Fall Out | Simon Spykerman |
| Farther | Adam Lapallo |
| Fat Jesus | Kyle Leland |
| Fear Walkers | Allan Burd |
| Finality | Daniel Gitchell |
| Finn and the Fae | Paul Southern |
| Fire Over The Hills | Alexander Chard |
| Firebrand | Olivia Baptista |
| Five Queens | Craig Berger |
| Fletcher's Pass | Emily S. Rauch |
| FLYTRAP | Justin Ballheim |
| Foolish Paradise | Salam Dugha |
| Foreshadow | Giulia Frediani |
| Forever Young | Antoine Perry |
| Forgotten Depths | Ted Bronson |
| Fortress | Casey Botta, Brandon Botta |
| Founder Effect | Rob Pilkington |
| Four Corners | Rob Ryder |
| FRAGILE | Alexa Weik von Mossner |
| Future Tripping | Brian Gene White |
| G.O.D. OS | David Christopher Loya |
| Galaxy Asunder TV Pilot | Stephen Ragon |
| Genesis Incorporated | Aaron Edwards |
| Ghost Stories - "Who Died and Made You Queen?" | Rachel Esselle |
| GIRL AT THE END OF THE WORLD | Dillon VanOort |
| Glass Stars | Kat King |
| Gloomtown | Lyndal Simpson |
| Go Dark | Neil McLarty |
| GODLIKE | George Thomas Michalakis |
| Golden Years | Timothy ORawe, Cathleen ORawe |
| Gorgon | Richard Humphries |
| Grains of Time | Octavia Clahar |
| Hard Light | Maurizio Ledezma |
| Hereditary | Craig Berger |
| Hiccup and Block | Jed Gatward |
| HOMININE: PILOT | Heather Farlinger |
| Hope's Nemesis | Julie Young |
| How To Be Human | Nolan Pugh |
| How To Steal A Kingdom | Valerie Bartholatus, Jessica Bartholatus |
| Human Element | Dariusz Kraszewski |
| I Know The End | Abbygail Kroeker |
| Icarus | Michael Madden |
| Identities | Bruno Lyra |
| Immortal Flower - Episode 1 | Tyler Koford |
| In Memoriam | Chadd Alciati |
| Incarnations | Albert M. Chan |
| INDEFINITE LIFESPAN | Michael Salomon |
| Indefinity: Time | Aaron Oberst |
| INDEX-D | Kristin Raven |
| INFINIA | Daniel Cooper, Adam Cooper |
| Intertwined | Sunny Karnan |
| Intrepid | Michael Langer |
| Invasive | Alex Schor |
| INVISIBLES | Kevin Sweeney |
| INVISIBLES | Kevin Sweeney |
| iParent | Pasquale Avella |
| Isobel | Charlie Braithe |
| J-4 | steven kobrin |
| Jake Sandberg | Michael Tannenbaum, Andrew Nadeau |
| Jason Zheng and the Golden Bonze | Sergio Pintore, Daryl Well |
| JEN-16 | Craig Berger |
| Kaijus & Yous | Benjamin Lewis |
| KING ARTHUR AND ROBIN HOOD SAVE THE WORLD | Sam Meravi |
| King of the Moon | Tyler Landis |
| Kingdom of the Sun | Mathew Lim |
| Kinship of the Flame | Alan Slack |
| Kosmos | Alex Blumberg |
| LAX TO AKL | David Ufkes |
| Leather Apron | Demi De Cesare |
| Leviathans | Alok Narekkattuvalappil Revi |
| Leyendas | Ken Condet |
| LIFELINK | Johnny Gilligan |
| Like Thunder in a Wide Open Field | Joe Favalaro |
| Lil | Virginia Abramovich, Katherine Andrews |
| Lionheart | Frances Flannery |
| Live | Orlando Callegari |
| Living City | Lauren Ferebee |
| Lockdown | Joshua Deepan |
| Lost Knife | Sam Lu |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| Love Never Sleeps | KD Farris |
| Lucid | Chanelle Madison |
| Lullaby For My Hurricane | Katherine Briones |
| LUNA | Aurora Ovan |
| Luna | Eric Han |
| LUNAMANCER | Mark Jones |
| Lunar Mass | Rachel Schaefer |
| Magical Things | McKinnon Powell |
| Make Me Tremble | Rebekah Mueller |
| Marcel | David Soll |
| Marley's Chains | Brian Gene White |
| Martyr's Ridge | Alister Brooks |
| MAXWELL | Luke Domet |
| Medicine Woman | Hilary Van Hoose |
| MegaMall | Scott Saffran |
| Metagame | Mandi Maxwell, Dylan Miles |
| Minimum Comfortable Distance | Steven Snell |
| Moonrise | David Bryant |
| Moonrise | Rebekah Mueller |
| Morien and the Black Knights | Dani Milton |
| My Roommate's A Ghost | Adam Myers |
| MYTHIKA | Emma Carolina-Wolf |
| Nana Mae | Juliette Beavan, Nicolette Noble |
| Nefarious Conspirators | Dylan Conen |
| Neutrals | Julia Bergeron |
| New Earth | Devon Sharma |
| Night Runners | Carlton Welch |
| Nightblood | Jesse Arnold |
| Nikki Again | Reina Glenn |
| NPCs | Cooper Nelson |
| Nullsong Saga | Adrian Ferbeyre, Joel Perez |
| O.T.i.S. | K.J. Sparrow |
| Oar River | Jody McNicholas |
| Obedience | Steven Snell |
| OCEAN EFFECT | Heather Farlinger |
| Odyssey of the Safekeeper | Brent Pollard, Alino Giraldi |
| Once And Future | Kylie Boersma |
| Once Upon a Time in the Bloody West | Paul Rowe |
| Once Upon a Time on the Red Planet | Emil Chang, William Leonard |
| Otherworld, NJ | Matthew McLachlan |
| Out(side) of Time | Pat Hroncich |
| Ovum | Cidney Hue, Shunori Ramanthan |
| Palace of Thorns | Erin Fenton |
| PANDORA'S BOX | Jason Kyle Quesnoy |
| Patchwork | Amanda Keener |
| Peculiar | Jennifer Ramsey |
| PERFECT | J. Miller |
| Personal | Dennis Coleman |
| Phaedra's Odyssey | Julie A. Thornton |
| Phantom Black | Tyler Pagan, Ben Engebretson |
| PHOTON QUIXOTE: THE MINUS WORLD | Drew Ragland |
| Picaro | Robbie Law |
| Placeholders | Dominic White |
| POPULUS | AMAL FAROOQUI |
| PREDATOR RETURNS | Joel Jensen |
| PROGENY | Mehul Desai |
| Protection Agency | Mark Marinaccio |
| Providence | Keegan Bartel |
| Quietus | Priscilla Estrada |
| Reality At War | Ellison Segala |
| Reality Mode | Tommy Simpson |
| Reaper, Inc. | Kristen Angonese |
| REBEARTH | Anna Elias |
| Red to Blue | Graeme Burfoot |
| Remnant | Frederick Faett |
| REMOTE | Anthony Rainone |
| Reset | Michael Haas |
| Resilient Animals | Adam Dean |
| Resurge | Zachary Brenner |
| Retcon | MJ Farber-Ray |
| Return to Sender | Blake Simon |
| REVELATIONS | Johnny Gilligan |
| REVENANTS | Jake Hulse |
| REVIVAL | Jace Serrano |
| Rift | Mike Sheriff |
| Risen | Tony Radevski |
| Rogue | Michael Northwood |
| Roll Play | Jessica Mackie Hunter |
| Ruins | Benny Valencia |
| Rulers of Wander-land 'You're Invited' | Courtney Bowen |
| Rumination | Clifford Chi |
| RUN-HIDE-FIGHT (The Zookeeper) | LaVonda "VEE" Merritt |
| Run The Program | Noah Kim |
| Saga | Sean Fosse |
| Saints and Simulacrums | Alex Arabian |
| Santa Muerte | Douglas Stark |
| SATELLITE-01 | Anthony Crossen |
| Saturday Morning Siege | Robert Walcott |
| Saturn's Return | Sam Callahan |
| SAVAGE PLANET | Cory Marciel |
| Sebastian and the Invisible Island | Michael Hogan |
| Second Legion: The Tranquility Uprising | Parker Sack |
| Second Star | Gregory Mandarano |
| Serpent's Code | Noah Logan |
| Shadow Cell | Anthony Ferguson |
| Shaman | Anthony Ferguson |
| Shadow of the Titan | Iz Rubinstein |
| SHELLS | Derrick Metellus |
| Shift | Emma Rose Wagner, Paula Rose Wagner |
| Showdown at the Hellywood Bowl | Brendan Cleaves |
| Side Quest | Michael Tannenbaum, Louie Aronowitz |
| SILENT IMPACT | Jill Bayor |
| Silicon Dreams | Mitchell Gould |
| Simulation Theory | Mage Lanz |
| Skeet Love | Craig Francis Power |
| Skin Folk | Michael Harris |
| SkyFire | mark morris, Jeff Whitehead |
| SLAYER | Alain Loubeau |
| Slumberton | HF Crum |
| Snatched | Ava Anderson |
| SOLARPUNKS | Bradford Richardson |
| SOLUS | Jordan Butcher, Jacob Chattman |
| Soma Romance | Nicholas Armolavicius |
| Spectacle | Nicole Sconiers |
| Spirit | Alex Lane, Ryan R. Moos |
| Star Crossed | Rodolfo Salas |
| Stardogs | Michael Snow |
| STATION OMEGA | Jordan Vogeney |
| SuperMutant Magic Academy | Nana Amuah |
| Surrogate | Finn Bugge |
| SYMBIONTS | Johnny Gilligan |
| SYNERGY | Andrew Frank |
| SYSTEMIC | Alex Moss |
| Tales of New California | Michael Levine |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Tethered | Justin Rose |
| The Adventures Of Captain Riley | Daniel Greer |
| The Afterwhile | Brayden Frascone |
| THE APPLICANTS | Justin Ballheim |
| The Archon's Legacy | Greg Schwartz |
| The ARLA Incident | Tim Millette |
| The Armory | Stephen Griswold |
| The Ashtmatic | Paul Rowe |
| The Astronaut's Daughter | Michael Hahn, Elisabeth Meurer |
| The Atomic Man | Patrick Pidgeon |
| The Bartender | Rebecca Lieberman |
| The Blue Space | SUSAN BETH LANDER, Julie Restivo |
| The Bridge | Phil Burdette |
| The CLOVERS | Jason Tobias |
| The Colony | Joseph Murillo |
| The Creator | Don Zorbas |
| The Crest | Sarah Reasons |
| The Culling | Jaime Chapin |
| The Dark Continent | Scott Reardon |
| The Decision | PAUL SOKAL |
| The Demon Job | Robert Husted |
| The Devil Lives on Mars | James Hunt |
| The Down Window | Silvano-Mari Robinson |
| The Dragon Key | Lyn Pinezich |
| The Dredge | Jaimie Engle |
| The Envoy | Champe Barton |
| The Eremite | Mark Sposato |
| The Eternity Circle | Cody Joslin |
| The Fairy King | Steven Snell |
| The Fifth Horseman | Cameron Tubbs |
| The Fire-Drawn | Ellen Beck |
| The Friend From Afar | Judie Gerber |
| The Girl Who Could Not Die | Richard Scarsbrook |
| The Gravedigger | Andrew Alexander |
| The Great Filter | Vito Ferraro |
| The Heart of Ninn | Marie L. Veverka |
| The Heat | Ben Carter Olcott |
| The Hill | Reginald Johnson |
| The Hold of Diomed | Kevin McMahon |
| The Horse Killers | Josh Flanagan, Ben Hurst |
| THE HOUSE OF WIND AND FIRE | Aaron Lovett |
| The Idiots: A Tale From the Ryft | Trey Kalb |
| The Jump | John Killoran |
| The Last Late Night Host | Nick Porisch |
| The Link | MB Stevens |
| The Long Goodbye | Lewis Mackie |
| THE LOOMIS MACHINE | John Fiorella |
| The Lost Planet | Samuel Garner |
| The Luminare | Robert Walcott, Amir Barda |
| The Marked | Jaimie Engle |
| The Mirrored Room | Owen Hornstein |
| The Monster Squad | Matthew Ward |
| The Moon Child | Tammy Olsen |
| The Moral Animal | Danny Hogan |
| The Morrisfield Misfits and The Sword of Fate | John Munn |
| The Mysterious Circus | David St. Clair |
| The Next Day | Kristin Raven |
| The Once and Future Earth | Will Saunders |
| The Orb | Byron Anderson |
| The Order of Angels | Shelley Tougas |
| The Pink Nazi | TPN Team, Kyle Bielfield, Elizabeth Breese, Michaela Eremiasova |
| THE PREY | Michael Miersen |
| The Quarter Queen | Kayla Hardy |
| The Rift | Michael Lei |
| The Rise of Zeus | Robert Ferrigno |
| The Shepherd and The Wulf "Descendant of Warrior Shepherds" | NIKKO DAYE |
| The Sun and Her Silhouettes | Ashlee Stormo |
| The Surrogate | Nicole Falsetti |
| THE SWEDISH SAINT | Erika Kathryn |
| The Talent | Joshua Scammell |
| The Tear | Nicholas Woods |
| THE THIRD LEVEL | Caroline Hayes |
| The Thousand Year Storm | Judie Gerber |
| The Tides | Paul Del Gesso |
| The Twins | Debra Peebles |
| The Unchosen Ones | Kayla Covert |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Variable Man | James Leach |
| The Way of the True | Les Zig |
| The Wayfaring Sisters | Judie Gerber |
| The Wild Unknown | Sam Robotham |
| The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | Jack Lawrence Mayer |
| This Is My Brother | Brent Minderler, Jesse James Dean |
| This Is Fine | Jim Griffin |
| THRALL | Gregory Edwards |
| Three Realms | Sarah Chang Tadayon |
| Throne of the Earth | Garrett Mistoler |
| Tira'allara | Tavyn Gentry |
| Titanblood | Brendon O'Brien |
| Todd and Doug's Fantastic Galactic Voyage | Alex Kellerman |
| Trace | Matthew Davis, Hillary Stringer |
| Trader Bay | Trey Wickwire |
| TRANSISTOR PUNK - "The Starless Midnight" (Pilot) | Mark Farinas, Ryan Thomas Riddle |
| Trap Doors | Savannah Sperry |
| Tri-Act | Patrick Menzel |
| Turnstile | Raul Sharma |
| U.S. Inc. | Joel Michalak |
| Underverse | Dan Davis |
| Undoing | Alex Forstenhausler, Eric Lee |
| Unlocked | Hunter Cline |
| Unsatisfied | Evan Greenberg |
| Unwelcome | Federico Casal |
| Up There | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Valence | Michael Iannacone, Benjamin Ginther |
| Vapor | RJ Collins, John Trefry |
| Venom Like Viper | Vanessa Magic |
| Vilify | Caleb Dillon |
| Virtual Reality | Dave Grove |
| Visionary | KD McEwing |
| Vultures | Logan Mitev |
| War in the Blood | Josh Flanagan |
| Warlord | Nathan Fleetwood |
| Whatever Happened To Elliot Harper? | David Hailes |
| Wing Clip | Danny Bishop |
| Wings | Mitchell Condon |
| Witch Hunter | Tim Kontje |
| Wizards of the Underworld | Sam Weston |
| World Left Blind | Patrick Gallagher |
| WOUNDED SKY | Rosemary Griggs |
| X | Eli Stern |
| Xi | Rasmus Branders |
| Yao Guai: Dragons and Demons | Brent McKnight |
| Yatra | David Barbeschi, Vee Kumari |
| Yokai | Kit Modica |
| Zero Signal | Sebastian van Hoek |
| Zeroes | Mark Orr |
| Zodiac Games | Kim Crawford |
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