2022 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on February 23, 2022
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2022 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition. These exceptional scripts were selected from almost 1,400 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on March 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:
| ... | Jon Comulada |
| "Edges" - The Borders That Define Us | Halasius Bradford |
| /Haaw/ | Joey Scoma |
| A CHALLENGE TO THE DARK | Anna Imhof |
| A Few Seconds After Happiness | Carlan Morari |
| A Fleeting Moment | Eric Cunningham |
| A Journey for Love | Terence Johnson |
| A Memory in the Rain | Daniel Ahn |
| A Mother's Love | Trevor Bryant |
| A Simple Home Invasion | Brian Laughran |
| A Stitch in Time | Rita Pomade |
| AAgnostic | Daniel Dismuke, Matthew Thomas |
| Aaron and Amari | Dylan Koller |
| Adam & Eve | Ai Ebashi |
| After Dark from the Beyond: Little Nightmares | Brandon Tielves, Oscar Santos |
| Alice & Ruby | Thomas Towell |
| American Girl | Sofia Riba |
| Amontillado | Geoff Casavant |
| Andromeda Team 6 | Paula Cantillo |
| Angel Baby | Renee Padmore |
| Angel of Death | P James Norris |
| Angels or Nothing | Holli Burnfield |
| Another Day's Work | Nick LaMacchia |
| Anti-Social | Kyle Cassie |
| April and Mr. Stockman | Montgomery Burt |
| Armchairs | Stacey Harper |
| At Water's Edge | Rob Eckert |
| Baby in the Backseat | Clara Wong |
| Bear Bones | Nicholas Dwyer |
| Belonging | Angela Wong Carbone |
| Bigger the Better | Ines Albert |
| Blended | Andres Otero |
| Blighty Blues | Katrina Smith-Jackson |
| BLUE DEVIL | Javan Richards |
| Boneseed | Joshua Matthews, Brett Brooks |
| Bridge. | CRISTINA WOLF |
| Bullet Points | Clay Fusco, L.V. Santana |
| Canceled | Christopher Pearson |
| Car Trouble | Jenell Gilyard |
| Cathedral of Evil | Jonathan King |
| Chancho | Gabriel Villanueva |
| Cherry's Revenge | Stephanie Pumilia |
| Children of Laika | Pete Ireland |
| Chocolate Cake | Alexander Barry |
| Cigarettes | Niv Ende |
| Classroom Thief | kelly karam |
| Click & Collapse | Nadine Kriegelstein, Simone Schiffler |
| Clones | Nate Walker |
| Color of Bones | Hanxiong Bo |
| Coming Out (Again) | Nikki Palumbo |
| Copy Cat | Vanessa Branch |
| Corner Conversation | Sieun Lee |
| Coup De Foudre | Djorf Amirouche |
| Crutch | Jamila Jackson |
| Daisy's Day Care | Abigail Pañares |
| DAS | Phillip Boudreaux |
| Dawn | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Day for it | Josh Bromfield Davis |
| Dear Julia | Megan Hermann |
| Dentata | Kiki Wagstaff |
| DEVIOUS | Martina Lisec |
| Devotion | Scott Brown |
| Dinner | Al Sterling |
| Dinner Guests | Annie Bradford |
| Dinosaur Tuesday | Maxson Davis |
| DIVR | Rae Binstock |
| Dogwood | Nonie Shiverick |
| Don't be the Lakers | Josh Carone |
| Drowning | Patrick Traynor |
| Duty Day | Sarah Albonesi |
| El Lloron | Rodrigo Moreno Fernandez |
| Elena | Carol Huska |
| Else/Where | MICHAEL RAVER |
| Emotional Wedding Video | Alex Familian |
| English | Rishan Dhamija |
| Esther | Diana F. Bryden |
| Exhumation | Steven Stiefel, M.E. Ellington |
| Fading Connections | Stephanie Gould |
| FLACO'S | Ken Arquelio, Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz |
| Forever More? | Janardhanan Raghavan |
| Forever My Child | Wesley Du |
| Frankenstein's Mazda | Hunter M. Altman |
| Fuego | Edwin FrankO |
| GALATEA'S DREAM | Elizabeth Newman |
| Gentrification | Mike London |
| George Washington Slept Here! | Sam Robotham |
| Going | Brad Brookes |
| Going Down South | Joshua Messarge |
| Golden Garden Takeout | Maggie Wong |
| Gone (Formally Grace) | Andrew Smith |
| Good Filipino Kids | Andrew Acedo |
| Goodbye, Daniel. | Annabelle Knight |
| Grant's Adventure in Sillyside | Jacob McAuliffe |
| GRAVEN | Michael Clifton |
| Gummies | Michael Clifton |
| Guns Down | Robert Sweeting |
| Happiness Resurrected | Moses Frenck |
| Hard Day's Work | Joe Fernandez |
| Heal | Ty Boyd |
| Heartstrings | J.D. Zelman, Matthew Dushkes |
| Heatwave | Raúl Eduardo Galindo Peña, Andrea Porras |
| Heirloom | Robert Serio , Brandon Resta |
| HELLO I MUST BE GOING | Sara Hallowell |
| Hitched | Mike Underwood |
| Hurt | Zac Kish |
| I Thought the Earth Remembered Me | Premstar Santana |
| iColtan | Andrew McGowan |
| Immune | Alexandria Sanders |
| In Water | Dawson Oso |
| INDIAN SUMMER | George Romo |
| interlude | Sophia Khan |
| Into The Light | Violet Conner |
| IS THIS NORA? | Ethan Homen |
| Isolationship | Tim Prendergast |
| It's Been Awhile | Maggie Hart |
| JD and Marley | Julian Bridges |
| Jimmy Dean | Nicholas Sennott |
| Joyce | Ben Abergel |
| Just Like Sarah | Jessica Rowlands |
| Keanu Reeves Is My Muse, My Son Is a Dragon | Phoenix Black |
| Late Last Night | Kylie Koews |
| LESS HOME | Corbin Godfrey |
| Link | Peter Tamaribuchi |
| Louie | Steve Rooney |
| Makhloot | Zam Zam |
| Man Up | Anika Shakir |
| Man, Interrupted | Vanessa Agnelli |
| Marigolds | Vanessa Oliveira |
| Maureen | Olivia Owyeung |
| Maxine | Lynne Bond |
| May Day 1919 | Nicole M. Nguyen |
| Me and You. You and I. | Jacob Mulgrew |
| Meadhbh | Luis Hindman |
| Meat Cute | Shannon Marinko |
| Meet Molly McBee | Summer Johnson |
| Melody and Micky | Kim Jaspers |
| Merrow | Alexander Seltzer |
| Mission: Next | Phenice Arielle |
| MODEL MINORITY | Tapan Sharma |
| Morgue! | Noah Szto |
| MotherRunner | Dana Gartland |
| Mr. Rose | Kari Mote |
| Mr. Versatile [The Gift & The Curse] | ROB KIRKLAND |
| Muffled | Douglas Cowles |
| Multiples | Adam Lehnert-Spalding, Luke Stanaway |
| My Life as a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist | Amanda Dinsmore |
| My name is Sanjit | Alan Slack |
| No, Doughn't! | Nicole Cohen |
| NOOR | Amanda Blush, Aman Khangura |
| Occupational Hazard | Walter Diaz |
| OLIVIA | Mischelle Johnson |
| On the Last Day | Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid |
| One moment one life | ruth finnegan |
| OUR SINS | Anjini Taneja Azhar |
| Our Space in Time | Nicholas Lendvoy, Jessica Sipos |
| Ours | Julie Cohen |
| Pancake Skank | Sav Rodgers |
| Pandemic Pair | Krystle Comer |
| Panic | Max Obstfeld |
| Paper Son of Angel Island | Howard Hong |
| Paradise City | William Bateman |
| Parrotfish | Annie Calhoun |
| PATROL | Rick Rowley |
| Perfect Weather | Eric Fallen |
| Phantom Limb | Prajwal Shivanna |
| Pharmakos | Giuseppe De lauri |
| Pick One | Matthew Serrano |
| Pistachio | Dorothy Nguyen |
| Potential Terrors of Self Development | Clara Dubau |
| Precious Metal | Darwin Serink |
| Pruning | Lola Blanc, Jeremy Radin |
| Quinn Girl | Tandy Versyp |
| r.e.g.g.i.N | A. D. Smith |
| Raleigh's Gun Emporium | Austin Williams |
| Rare as Red Hair | Robbie Robertson |
| Rear | Edward Worthy |
| Reasons to Live | Connor Macleod |
| REIGN | Diane Russo Cheng |
| REPRODUCTIVE | Noor Amiry |
| Riders | Jessica Todd |
| Rites/Rights | Ava Szyperski |
| Sad, Tired | Rasa Eskandari |
| Safe and Sound | Eric Kwakernaak |
| Sapient | Christian Moldes |
| She Coming Back | Jason Lindsay |
| Short. | Nick Hurwitch |
| Showdown at Walter Reed | Larry Woldenberg |
| Siren | Aliyah Kiesler |
| Sister by Phenice Arielle | Phenice Arielle |
| Sleeping on Stones (Short) | Nicole Ballivian |
| SMILEZ | Niklas Dopheide |
| Somaechigi | Clara Park |
| SOPHIA'S SHADOW | Heather Ostrove |
| Soweto | Mazin Gamar |
| Stanley-a-saurus | Highway Miller |
| Stardust | Caitlin J. Baer |
| Staying Connected | Kyle Zeman |
| Stressed | elodie Possy |
| Stuck | Jody Ellis |
| Sundown Country | Victor Ridaura |
| Survived By | Kimberley Chalk |
| Sweet Potato Pie | Michel Knowles |
| Telethon: The Quest to Save Grease 2's Reputation | Sav Rodgers |
| Thank You You're Welcome | Erin Smith |
| The Australian Girl | Elise Lamb |
| The Back Room Game | Sebastien Basset |
| The Blouse | Kseni Avonavi |
| The Broker's Gun | Elliot Seidel |
| The Call | Nicholas Lendvoy |
| The Cenozoic Era | Samantha Woolf |
| The Checkup | Liam Bannon |
| The Closet | Joel KARLINSKY |
| The Comet And You | Alex Rodriguez |
| The Confessional | Mike Sheriff |
| The Confessions of a Mask | Christopher Briggs |
| The Crooked and Damned | Jordan Lannan |
| The Fairchild | Danny Rogers |
| The Fake-out | Thomas Hartnett |
| The Final Straw | Tyler Duke |
| The Free Market - A Car Ride with Twitty Vaughn | Lonnie Ray Atkinson |
| The Hurt Business | Manuel R. Amadeo |
| The Immortal Jellyfish | Susannah Rodríguez Drissi |
| The Kids From Where the Palm Trees Grow | Isabella Rodriguez |
| The Last Drop | Adam Joel |
| The Last Executioner | Tom Schildberg |
| The Last Good Day | Mahalia Latortue |
| The Lesson | Kimberly Kalaja |
| The Lie | Maren Lavelle |
| The Longest Walk | Erin Cantelo |
| The Magician | Holly Autry Jurbergs |
| The Magician's Assistant | Ryan Ramsey |
| The Man In The Box | Brian Menz |
| The March of Marguerite | Brandon Wardle |
| The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms | David Sanders |
| The Note | Dale Janda |
| The Reading | Yvonne Arnett |
| The Recruit | Christina Connerton |
| The Refugee | Sydney Deeter |
| THE REPORTER | Elvin Abel |
| THE REST IS SILENCE | AAYUSHI A. SHAH |
| The Sacrifice | NJ Lam |
| The Selfie | Chad Wellinger |
| The Snail and the Crow | Philip Dantas Whitney |
| THE SOUND OF FIREWORKS | Nicole Vanden Broeck |
| The Strange Untried | Benjamin Gohs |
| The Tackle Box | Cape Tiene |
| The View From My Window | Benedict Cohen |
| The Weather Girl | Ella West |
| THE WILD EAST | Valesca van Rees |
| The Wrath Of Ngor | Richard Essilfie-Bondzie |
| These Faces | Jason Rice |
| Tiburon | Heather Parra |
| TIGER & MAGPIE | Bernard Roux |
| TO SEE A MAN ABOUT A HORSE | Tamim Almousa |
| Today I Fell In Love | Jesse Foy |
| Tongues | Shadi Qutob |
| Transient | Blair Lee |
| Treemendous | Donald Schaffer |
| Trophy Boy | Kevin Hanna |
| Truckstop | Molly Karna |
| Truth, Dare, Purim | Malka Wallick |
| Tunnel Vision | Anthony McKay |
| Two Fishermen - rev | Rick Whelan |
| Two Strangers | John Skip Volcsko |
| Uncomfortable Conversations | Giovanni James Bertoia |
| UNTIL THE END OF TIME | Michael Castaneda |
| Ups and Downs | Diogo Abrantes |
| Urdr | Elise Salomon |
| Vaccine | Randy Parker |
| VENUS | Alex Isevski |
| Vilomah | Michael Werner |
| Waiting for Schrödinger | Kevin Hanna |
| Waste King | Joshua Yunis |
| We Are All Lonely | Montrell Howell |
| We Were Promised Kingdoms | Lore V. Olivera |
| WELCOME TO THE STAGE... (1/30/22) | Kyle Casey Chu, Roisin Isner |
| Where to? | Brian Thompson |
| Who We Are | Kagure Kabue |
| Y2K | Jean Ansolabehere |
| Younger and Younger | Highway Miller |
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