2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition Quarterfinalists

by ScreenCraft on January 18, 2023

Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 800 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on February 8th on our blog 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:

*"Desperado"*	Robert McGuill
*"Oil Story"*	John Timm
*"Some People"*	Dionne Irving
*"Wild Beasts"*	Richard de Forest
*115 Mohegan*	Kelsey Wacker
*1962: It's Always the Girl's Fault*	DC Diamondopolous
*7734*	Ryan Benson
*A Flower from Hornick Hill*	David North
*A Hard Night in Hamburg*	Tom Milani
*A Touching Love*	karin doucette
*A Winter's Night at Gramercy Park*	Ege Gurdeniz
*A1d@n*	Dexter Alvaro
*Ad Hitler*	pete red sky
*American Hobbies*	Stephanie Kallos
*Attention*	Marianne Rogoff
*Bella*	Ariel Slick
*Better Than Houdini*	Stacey DuFord
*Beyond Medicine*	Dustin Grinnell
*BlindSided*	Marguerite Ashton
*Both Hope And Breath*	Riley Tao
*Broken Oak - Sequel of Twin Oaks*	R. C. Frink
*Broken Pass*	Craig Sholl
*BROTHERS*	Daniel Boucher
*Cadatown*	Alejandro Gabriel Leopardi
*Camouflage*	Paula Zaby
*Carved Saints*	Smita mukherjee
*City Songs*	James DeMarse
*Coelacanth*	Liam Semple
*Curious Kat*	Michael Latta
*Cynoflax*	Charulata Sinha
*Dead Men Tell No Tales in High School*	Michelle Blair Wilker
*Dead Reckoning*	Dino Parenti
*Death is Hiring*	Maria Wickens
*Death Storm*	Pame Roscoe
*Diehards*	J Bryan McGeever
*Diet*	R. C. Frink
*Diurnal*	Kim White
*Do Turtles Quest?*	Ryan Benson
*Dream On, Dancing Queen*	Chloe Laube
*Duck Roast on the 38th Parallel*	Alicia Yang
*Dumb Color for a Dinosaur*	James Woodruff
*Dust From the Mouth*	Michael Austin
*Election 2100*	Doug Dawson
*Emily Spellmaker on All Hallows' Eve*	Sean Develin
*Empire*	Michael Dutton
*Eros and Order*	Carl Parsons
*FINAL DESTINATION INC.*	Rebecca Williams Spindler
*Finn and the Magic Backpack*	Julie Flynn
*Fleissig*	Robert Warner
*Gardeners Son*	Vijay Fitzgerald
*Getting Along*	Dustin Dunaway
*Granny Face Snatcher*	L. Austen Johnson
*Graves: Family Dynasty A Short Story (Series)*	Olive Barker
*Green*	Jen Knox
*Grow-A-Whale*	Mimi Manyin
*Hanba Island*	Sloane Smith
*Have We Been Here Before?*	Chung Fan Lam
*Hunting Buck*	Thomas Melville
*I Knew You Once*	Vanessa Branch
*I used to be funny*	Uzomah Ugwu
*Ice*	Chad Broughman
*Immersion Room*	Caroline Mansour
*Impala*	Timothy OLeary
*In Cherry Time*	J.W. Wood
*In The Slipstream*	Josh Taylor
*Investment Strategies of the Monkey Man*	Marcus Berkemeier
*Jaz*	Michael DeStefano
*Jeremiah*	Bryan Demore
*Jill TX160*	Zita Grant
*Joshua*	Jen Knox
*Leaving Life*	Jennifer Howe
*Leith Braggan's Guide*	Ayinde Ricco
*Lilith*	Candice Holdorf
*LITTLE RUNAWAY*	Margaret Newlin Rice
*LOOKING AFTER VERA*	Peter Emina
*Love Vigilantes*	Stephen Brophy
*Love, Loss and Lunacy*	D.M. Ward
*Lucinda and the Christmas List*	Nancy Christie
*Mad Dog Moon*	Josh Taylor
*Magdalena*	Candice Holdorf
*Mary*	Kellie Kreiss
*Matel, Alias Mathilde*	Judith Glass Collins
*Mixed Nuptials*	Jeremiah Murphy
*Mrs. Betty Jones: Lady Vigilante*	Hayley Camille
*My Adventure In Golden Oaks*	James Hannan
*My Best Friend's Body*	Zoe Kerr
*Mystery on Icecat, a Worldmaker Story*	Andri Elia
*Night Shift*	Mike Waterston
*Nnenne*	Candice Holdorf
*Nurture*	Jackie Fenn
*Obsession by Cleveland High*	Sattva Mortensen
*Obsidian*	J. Alexander Greenwood
*October Seven*	Steven Stiefel
*Oculus*	Janet H Swinney
*Omega*	Leanne Phillips
*Omega Protocol*	Lauren Everdell
*Out of View*	Dustin Hendrick
*Overnight Pass*	Kirk Landers
*Private Property*	Eric Ruark
*Proof of Concept*	Chris Bolton
*Punk Ain't Undead*	Ryan Hyatt
*Redemption Blues*	Jennifer Slee
*Requiem*	Beth Girard
*RIGHTFUL MAGIC*	Carol Campbell
*Ring Bearer*	Rachael Toomey
*Romancing The Beast*	Unnamed
*Ruin*	Samsun Knight
*Rush Hour 2099*	Doug Dawson
*Rushford Recapitulation*	Christopher Rose
*Santa Muerte*	M.E. Hammer
*Saturn is for Suckers Part 1*	Rob Gilchrist
*Sauce*	Robin Lovelace
*Saving Sara*	Paul Wine
*Sentient Being Blues*	Christopher Rose
*Shadowed Seats*	Marguerite Ashton
*She Got What She Deserved*	John Potter
*So Mean*	YJ Jun
*Soar*	Walker Carnathan
*Sorry, Delivery*	Paula Lennon
*Still Waters*	Eric Mulder
*Sylvia*	Billie Kelpin
*Table One*	Kristi Nimmo
*That's Not My Face*	Melissa Mendelson
*The Absence of Light*	Nina Roselle
*The Awakening*	Steven Darter
*The Balmoral File*	Carl Innes
*THE BARREN*	TIMOTHY EVELEIGH
*The Big South*	Leanne Phillips
*The Bite*	Erin Deason
*The Black Fort and Twin Oaks - Oak Plantation*	R. C. Frink
*The Boy and the Monster*	Matt Sylvester
*The Burnt House (or, Colin and Cusatelli)*	Jared Warner
*The Champions*	Allison Ong
*The Dead*	John Slayton
*The Decoy*	Nicole Crowley
*THE EARTH CAKE*	Katherine Vaz
*The Excellent Wife*	Tia Levings
*The Ficus*	Michelle Blair Wilker
*The Final Push*	Richard Van Anderson
*The Glass City*	Jen Knox
*The Hackberry Hassle*	Kathy (Moonda) Ortiz
*The Ifrit*	P. James Norris
*The Last Christmas Song: A Yuletide Adventure*	Jeff Viens
*The Last Station*	Ian Goh
*The Legend of the Ancients*	Joe Sweeney
*The Lost Heifetz*	Michael Tabor
*The Man with No Name*	Craig Sholl
*The Man with the Heavy Face*	Maria Restivo Glassner
*The Odyssey of Myrtle Ambrose*	Marcus Jones
*The Okanagan*	Sean Fitz-Gerald
*The Perfect Man For My Husband*	Andrew MacDonald
*The Polychromatic Balloon*	Gulliuver Perry
*The Princess in the Tower*	Hashim AlHamar
*The Purification*	Timothy OLeary
*The Queen of Lakes*	L.S. Johnson
*The Reckoning*	Julie Ann Slaby
*The Sex Scene*	Sayara Thurston
*The Slender Folk*	Cecile Garcia
*The Sound of the Summer*	Eileen O'Donoghue
*The Storm*	Katie Li
*The Tower*	Coale Coleman
*The Wizard of Worms*	Alexis Sharp
*There's Something about Lucy*	Julie Ann Slaby
*Tomorrow*	David Kim
*Trees*	Leanne Phillips
*Trial of Reality*	Dacia Weist
*Two Riders*	Josh Taylor
*Unidentified Flying Objects*	Samantha Rogers
*Unmade Lives*	Vikram Kapur
*Untitled WIP*	Philip Elliott
*Waking Up*	Frederick R. Weinstein
*Walking After Midnight*	Michelle Matthews
*We All Have One*	Chung Fan Lam
*What Really Happened to Thumper 2-3*	Len Forgues
*What's Fair is Fair*	James Gottesman
*Where It's Needed Most*	Phil Giunta
*WHERE'S WALDO*	James Kanady
*Whitehorse*	Sean Fitz-Gerald
*Wild Beasts*	Linda Waltenberger
*Wingboy*	Grace Ng
*Wrecking Crew*	Wes Blalock
*Yesterday People*	Lisa Marie Pais