2023 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 18, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,200 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on November 15th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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:
| $10 Fortune | Michael Bret Hood |
| 5 Years, 5 Months | Ani Simon-Kennedy |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| A Christmas Tale | Giovanni D'Amaro |
| A Gangsters Tackle Box | Janifer Youmans |
| A.C. Anonymous | Victor Neumark |
| Adam's Song | Nathan Xia |
| After You | Sean Wathen |
| Airplanes and Bad Decisions | James Thompson |
| All Saintsmen | Michael Sosnowski |
| Allegiance | Sonya Davis |
| Amateurs | John Nodilo |
| Amen & Ameen | Susan Polk |
| American Enterprise | Michael Rakoff, Don Purnell, Maui Holcomb |
| Anglerfish | Megan McKiernan |
| Apples | Rodolfo Salas |
| ARC | Steve Valentine |
| As Scared As You | Jesse Dorian |
| Ashes and Bone | Shannon Davies |
| Athor | Brian Streaty, Paul Rose |
| Atlantis | Jeremy Gluck |
| Awaken The Wolves | Jason W. Lee |
| Bariloche | Claudia Cifuentes |
| Be Cool | Prachi Bhardwaj |
| Between Good and Goodbye | Corey Chavers |
| Biddy | Belinda Benko Dickey, Karen Hood |
| Bind Our Hearts | Kemp Lee |
| Binky | Tom Batha |
| Black Prince | Chris Schwarz |
| Blackwood PI | J Brooke Bond |
| Blind Eyes | Jerry Jerome |
| Blinded by Faith | Helen Hudson |
| Blue Chips 1 | Nick Flanagan |
| Bouquet Canyon | R. D. Smith, Nicklaus Parada |
| Braided | Chaise Gerber |
| Breaker | Bob Oltra, Addie Manis |
| Breathe | Eric Yang |
| Brownie Mary | Brent Delaney |
| Bury Your Bodies Deep | Nick Kloppenberg |
| Burying Granddad | Sam Harding |
| But Some of Us Are Brave | Jainaba Seckan |
| Call Of The Void | Ben Monaco |
| Camouflage and Lipstick | Lawrence Daly |
| Cariño | Taylor Tejada |
| Champ | Dylan Gallimore |
| Child of Woe | Samuel Perrone, Michael Perrone |
| Clyde | Sarah Schygulla |
| Color Me In | James Murphy |
| Come and Take It | Fred Dahr |
| Committed | Jill Morley |
| Community Garden | Matthew Boggess |
| Confabulation | Sylvia LaFleur |
| Cosmos Black | Eliot Cooper |
| Creemore Village | Helmann Wilhelm |
| Crime In A Bottle | Robert Londberg |
| Cringe | Stephanie Mathless |
| Daisy | Iain Anderson |
| Dangerous Days | Ruben Varela |
| Dark Mountain | Ryan Howard, Daniel Howlett |
| Dark Prayer | Natasha Mostert |
| Dead Dad's Club | Christopher Kelly |
| Dead Melody | Gabe Berry |
| Deadline | William Hyland |
| Deliver | Will Tarlton |
| Different From The Others | Ben Samuels |
| Dirty Work | Tara Handza |
| Discriminating Love | Jerome Epps |
| Dissecting Rod Serling | Joel Karlinsky, Eafat Newton |
| Don’t Cry | Stefan Alexander, Anthony Guilianti |
| Dreamers | Jack Gorman |
| Dreamwalker | Jeremy Hsing |
| Dry by Midnight | Dustin Cook, Gregory Caruso |
| Eden | Josh Bromfield Davis |
| Endora | Brandon Windsor |
| Equinox | Mira Atwah |
| Esperanza | David Christopher Loya |
| Ethereal | Betty Bema |
| Exposed | Alan Schwarz |
| Exposition Girl | Sofia Drummond-Moore |
| Far West | Randy Woodley, Edith Woodley |
| Feelgood Colors | Ryan Wagner |
| Final Days | Mia Donnelly |
| Fire Season | Conner Allen |
| Florida Dreams | Michael Rakoff, Steven Starkey |
| For Life (Por Vida) | Tristan Rodriguez |
| Forest for the Trees | Peter Murphy |
| Found | Antonio Aguinaga |
| Freedom Express | Hernando Romero-Gomez |
| Freedom Man | Billy Festorazzi |
| Frontiers | Jarod Backens |
| GAMESTOP | Sam Norman |
| Gemini | James LeJeune |
| Going under | Anita Rogers |
| Gold Digger | Rachel Hutchings |
| Grandma Betty | Jacob Lazarow |
| Gray Zone | Veronica Tabares |
| GRiND | Maxwell Goldman |
| Gringos | Gladden Rangel |
| Groomer | Christopher Lukens |
| Grown | Ant Rivera |
| Hard Virtue | Mansur Ahmed |
| Headers | Christopher Kelly |
| Hellton for the Holidays | Laura Hunter Drago |
| Helmand | Daniel Salamanca |
| Helping The Dead | Ron Mondz |
| Here Lies Tommy | Rodolfo Salas |
| Holes of Glory | Kristen Alario |
| Hometown Glory | Abija Mukendi |
| Honeyfly | Nicolas Scroggins |
| How Far | Chris Inekhomon |
| How to build a home | Genevieve Cramsie |
| I Chose Earth Over Heaven | Tom Burke |
| Identity | Joseph Jaussi |
| Iguana You Back | Noah Pohl |
| In Bones and Soul | James LeJeune |
| Infarction | Mark Moronell |
| Inheritance | Johnny Gilligan |
| Instantaneous Blue | Aaron Craven |
| Insurrection | Simon Bowler |
| It could be worse | Ilaria Ricci |
| It takes a long time to get young | Patrick Timpone |
| Ivories | Zach Taylor Roth |
| Jamedna | Nina Shelton |
| Jasminder | Art Arutyunyan, Rohini Chandra |
| Jerome, July 4th | Joe Favalaro |
| Just What You Need | Keith Zivalich |
| Karl | Vincent Gallut |
| Keroin Hills | Virginia Austin |
| Kill the Rabbit | Rebekah Mueller |
| LA LEÇON DU MAÎTRE | Joseph Lushi |
| La Parca | Miguel del Campo |
| La Sudamericana | Angelo Dania |
| Land of the Young | Zach Bandler |
| Last Will | Daniel Stevens |
| Lifted | Andrew Zeoli, Christian Wagner |
| Lilypads | Dan Taft |
| Liv & Mel | Jennifer Katz |
| Looking For Nirvana | Robert Ian Simpson |
| Lords of New York | Aaron Pritchard |
| Love Lyric | Justin LeMond |
| Lucky | Danny Wascou |
| Lucy/Lucinda | Adir Golan |
| Madam Syndicate | Daniel Yi |
| Mafia Secrets: Honor and Silence | Matt Curtsinger |
| Malaga | Jeff Thurber |
| Marilyn 13 | Jocelyn Osier |
| Masked Men | Eileen Dennehy |
| Matriarch | Helmann Wilhelm |
| Maxine & The Queen - Femme Fatales! | Tom Burke |
| Meaderville | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Mercy Springs | Helen Hudson |
| Merde' | Kimberly Samon |
| Mere Mortals | Russ Lindway |
| Merry Outlaws | Remi Vaughn |
| Michelin Star | Samantha D’Amico |
| Mindful | Stephanie Alban |
| miri & gav | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Mission City | Darrell McGregor |
| Moksha | Saurin Lakhia |
| More Than A Heart Can Hold | Julia Maddox |
| Mother Mary | Jaye Younkin |
| Mudpuppies | Tavish Gudgeon |
| My Brother Fruitcake | Lynwood Shiva Sawyer, Jen Senko |
| My Caddie | Mike Zimmerman |
| My Idiot Sister | Michael Basha |
| My Only Everything | Gillie Perkins |
| Nashaa ("Intoxicate") | Jas Kandola |
| Neophyte | Cole Stamm |
| Nettles: Flowers Don't Belong In The Dustbin | Yvette Farmer |
| New New York | Rachel Hong |
| Next Semester | Gabe Berry |
| Next Thursday | Wendy Swiney |
| Night of Slow Tears | Aaron Lovett |
| Noel & Leon | Dayna Hanson, Dave Proscia |
| Normal | Liesl Wilke |
| Objects in Mirror | Danny Katz |
| Odyssey at the End of the World | Albert Wang |
| Off Guard | Paul Lind |
| On Blackpoint Road | Anna Scotti |
| On Island | Rie Anders |
| Once and Future | Kylie Boersma |
| One Rubbish Summer | Alice Greenland |
| One Single Solitary Son | Sean Azze |
| Ostrich | Taylor Tejada |
| Our Echo-Lives | Brian Wapole |
| Pareidolia | Ashley MacPherson |
| Past Lives | John Cerrito |
| Patrons of the Righteous | Joseph Franklin |
| Personal Statement | Timothy Pruett |
| Phaeton | Olivia G |
| Praise | Megan Hayes |
| Pressure Drop | Scott Cramer |
| Prisoners by Choice | Attila Peli |
| Punic | Pearse Lehane |
| Qualies | Andrew Cahn |
| Red King | Daniel Salamanca |
| Red Rising, Her Pirate Story | Lila DoVan |
| Redemption | Lisa Weiss |
| Richard Spong | Terry Podnar |
| Right Beside You, Dear | Scott Honea |
| Riverwalk | James Miller |
| Road Closure | John Cerrito |
| Rope | Richard Turgeon |
| Rule Of Law | Eric Johnson |
| Run Red | Felicity Landa |
| Save Me | Sara Stockbridge |
| Save the Child | John DeStafney |
| Savior | Brandon Marlon |
| Scent of Marigold | Lily Malm, Laila Matuk |
| Sebago Lake | Bradley Casalinuovo |
| Send in the Clowns | Tyler Peterson, Jordan Peterson |
| Shadow Dancing | Dianna Ippolito |
| Shaka | Emelie Svensson |
| Shallow Waters | Conor O'Farrell |
| Shudder, West Virginia | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Side Dishes | Amelia Hoang |
| Skin Deep | Sylvia Mulholland |
| Slit | AJ Currie |
| Snake Oil | Danny Katz |
| Soldiers of Martial Law | Alex Tackett |
| Soulless | Darrin Grimwood |
| Strive | David Bold |
| Sunnier Climes | Mia Volta |
| Sunny & Tessa - Pearls in The Jungle | Tom Burke |
| Swan Song | Megan Hermann |
| SWEET 16 - The Long Road to Love! | Tom Burke |
| Swine Lake | Michael Rakoff |
| Take Care of Her | Y.S. Kim |
| Talk Dirty To Me | Harris Korn |
| The Modesto Messiah | Richard Roller, Gregory Bell |
| The Art of Starving | Joe Favalaro |
| The Belonging | Kathy Robinson |
| The Bubble | Jarod Backens |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Curator | Matthew Syrett |
| The Curse and Redemption of Nikesh Prasad | Nikhil Prakash, Santosh Oommen |
| The Cycle | Josh Snyder |
| The Divide | C. E. Simon |
| The Divide | Scott Kassel |
| The Donnelly Affair | Caroline Friedman Levy |
| The Dreamers Support Group | Matthew Tolbert |
| The Elevator | Robert Rice II |
| The Empty Garage | Elan Maier |
| The Family | S. E. Green |
| The Farmer | Robert Cuen |
| The First Day | Madeline & Ian Blue & McClellan |
| The Forgotten Ones | Ryan L. Jones |
| The Gauntlet-Drama | Hernando Romero-Gomez |
| The Ghost Wedding | Sining Xiang, Patrick Boyd |
| The Golden City | Michael Yuen |
| The Grass Is Greener (TGIG) | Miles McComb |
| The Houdinis | Ron Mondz |
| The Informer | Coli Sylla |
| The Kidnapper | Dave Moutray |
| The Larson Episode | John Norton |
| The Last Thing I Do | C. E. Simon |
| The Man by the River | Casey Warfield |
| The Match | Justin Ballheim |
| The Mayan Gourd | John Benck |
| The Nightshift | Shiv B |
| The Ornament | Jamie Faryniak |
| The Power of Wings | Connie Rankin |
| The Prison Lawyer | Mark Landry, Vanessa Hagen |
| The Reckoning of Billy Barnes | Jeff Cotton |
| The Rift | Travis Callahan |
| The Rooster Prince | Josh Soskin |
| The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard | Charlotte Lobdell, Jack Flynn |
| The Seed Loves You | William Leavengood |
| The Sheridan Children | Michael Harkins |
| The Snip | Billy Hanson |
| The Son | Jay Smith |
| The Truth About Sam | Tara Handza |
| The Very True Existence of Susannah and Her Friends | C. E. Simon |
| The Vigilante Vampire | Michael Faunce-Brown |
| The Visionary | Michael Lucks |
| The Wages of Sin | Byron James, Stephen Johns |
| The Wake-Up Music Festival | Kristan Foreman |
| The Willow Tree Grows Green in Springtime | Min Lee |
| The Workshop | Brad Sullivan, Bryan Smith |
| Thermal Maximum | Ellen Riverside |
| These Cuffs Followed Me Home | Vijay Ilankamban |
| They Also Serve... | John F. McCarney |
| Third Button | Rajko Stiglic |
| Three Hermits | Kiera Bratton Lewis |
| Ties That Bind | Laura Harbin |
| To The Stars | K. Michelle Stewart |
| Today's Date | C. E. Simon |
| U.S.A. Rules! | Tom Burke |
| Under The Influence | Louis Lehrman |
| Undercurrent | Debby Huvaere |
| Unshakeable | Heather Farlinger |
| Valerie August | Mak Deezal |
| Victor | Aaron Huckleberry |
| Vigilant | Abhi Kumar |
| Violet's Code | Julian Paulsen |
| Vivian | David Woll |
| Voracious Hounds | Danielle Bishop |
| Warning Signs | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Welcome to America | Weiyang Liu |
| West Texas Holiday | Matt Foss, Heidi-Marie Ferren |
| What We Were Promised | Michael Harkins |
| Whatever It Takes | Jim Bodley |
| Where the Ground Touches the Sky | Sye Mac |
| Where There's Smoke | Danny Katz |
| Whiskey and Words | Jack Gorman, Shannon Walsh |
| White Bridge | Katia Ray |
| White Rhino | Slava Kirillov |
| Who Let the Wallflowers Out? | Virginia Austin |
| Who Will Live? | Paul Sokal |
| Wildhaven | Nadya Reich |
| Winnie & Clyde | Matthew Rafferty |
| Wire Hangers | Jon Davis |
| Wonder Girl | Jonathan Solomon |
| Working Tacoma | Rod Tipton |
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