2023 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on February 1, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 600 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 22nd 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:
| A Diamond in the Ruff's | Daniel Broderick |
| A Dickens of a Christmas | Catherine Fridey |
| A Frosty Falls Christmas | Catherine Ross |
| A Funny Kind of Christmas | Paul A Mendelson |
| A Mid-December Night's Elf | Leah Vale |
| A Pirate and a Princess (working title) | Mark Kelly |
| A Potluck Christmas | Summer Johnson |
| A THOUSAND THINGS THIS SUMMER | Martha Bradford Papadopoulos |
| A.A. and The Ghosts | Onil Lad |
| AMARILLA | Iain Anderson |
| An Exchange Student's Guide to Love and Legends | Barbara Giannini |
| An intruder in the termite hill | Paulo Roberto da Silva |
| Art in Tandem | Elizabeth Blackmer |
| Aunt Pip's a Witch! | Lu Lenoxx |
| Becky Brenneman's Bangin' Bat Mitzvah | V.C. Rhone, Mindy Schneider |
| Becoming Miss Christmas | Sharon Spaeder |
| Best Summer Never | Shaun Balbar, Alexia Coelho |
| Bloom for You | Trisha MacGaffey |
| Bonnie & Kyle | Khalil Hakeem |
| BREE INCARNATE | Laurie K. Miller |
| Carry My Ghost | Bryce Emley |
| Carving the Pumpkin Diamond | Duncan Marriott |
| Christmas in Sugarplum | Gena Elyse, Michele O'Connor |
| Coral Hearts | David Gray |
| Cows For Guns | David Morrow |
| Cyberpink (New Half-Hour Pilot) | P.A. Lopez |
| DADDY ISSUES | Marisa Forrest |
| Daisy for Mayor | Leslie Valdes |
| Danny Angel, Double Agent | John Madormo |
| Darcy Delane :Pet Psychic | Wendy Braff |
| Demon Elementary | Simon Owens |
| Detective WolfHawk | Alex Britten |
| DISCONNECT | Joey Day Hargrove |
| Dr. Twinkle's Seriously Busy Automobile | David Franzblau |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| Emily at the End of the World | Phil Reilly |
| Fairytale Club | Jon Cooper |
| Family Portrait | Adam Seidel |
| Fear Not | Sheriden Jackson |
| Felix's Bar Mitzvah | Sammy Sultan |
| Film Club | Mark Schroeder |
| Finding My Identity | Keelay James |
| Flashback Jane | Jaclyn Whitt |
| Forever Home | Caleb Ellis, Sam Valentine |
| From Above | Ben Tedesco |
| Ghost Hamster | Beverly Neufeld |
| Gift of the Amazon | Barry Greenawald |
| Glastonbury | Gerrard Hartland |
| GRAHAM | Stephanie Hutchinson |
| Hair Brained | jordana howard |
| Harry's Hill | Jeff Reese |
| Hazel | Anthony Turek |
| Hearts on Fire | Ryan Frances-Wright |
| Hiamovi: Red Dog of the Prairie | Allison Johnson |
| High Winds: a feature film about climate change, land and legacy | Chris Crowley |
| Hope Skates | Maddison Bullock, Kathryn Lefroy |
| Immemorial | Alex Haven |
| IMOGEN & THE CENTAUR | SIMON FIRTH |
| In the Way of Grace | Phyllis DeMarco |
| IN-BETWEEN | Sandra Webb Smith |
| InstaGraham | Harry Borland |
| Iris & Ajax | Katie McClung |
| It's All About Love | C. L. DiGiovanni, Douglas Jackson |
| Jake Sandberg | Michael Tannenbaum, Andrew Nadeau |
| Joy Rider | Jordan Lewis |
| Just Winging It | Katie Streicher |
| KAYLA BAKER, CURSE BREAKER | Laurie K. Miller |
| LAIKA | John McCarney |
| Legends from the Underground | Alexia Buchholz |
| Light in the Forest | Austin Ellsworth |
| Lone Sport | Ted Fryia |
| Maddie and Frannie | Virginia Austin |
| Marnie | Michael Berner |
| Maya of Brooklyn | Brittany Ramjattan |
| Memory Lane | Reid Johns |
| MIRRORLAND | Laurie K. Miller |
| MIXTECO KID | Miguel Orozco |
| Mr. Pupular | Hamish Johnson |
| My Brother Fruitcake | Shiva Sawyer, Jen Senko |
| My Brother, Samson | Cheran Rush |
| My Everest | Connie Weidel |
| My Real Imaginary Friends | Kyle Rizor |
| NADIA | Nadine Milad |
| Nana and Jake | Ross Allaire |
| Nothing But Glory | Onil Lad |
| Paint! | Bailey Moore |
| Paw Prints | Julie Young |
| Pedro and The Cockatoo | David J. Diaz |
| Perfect Misfits | Beverly Nault |
| Piper and the Parrot | Tom Hunley, Ralaina Hunley |
| Planet News | Carolyn Cameron |
| Pony Express | Steve Ireland, Sean Hogan |
| PROFESSOR HUGSBY'S FACTORY OF CHILDHOOD DREAMS | Dave Mac |
| Qubit | Darren Moran |
| Raven's Gate | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Red Knights Forever | Dos Goats Films |
| Rosie and the Magical M.R.I Machine | Sammy Sultan |
| Rubot From The Stars | Bryan Binder |
| SANTAMAN: Re-Gifted | Colin O'Brien |
| Saving Haven | Karen Conley |
| Secret Santa | Ryan W. Smith |
| SIYAPPA -Trouble incoming | Chhavi Sawhney |
| SKATE | Jim Hunsaker |
| Sold | J. Gabriel Ware, Raisan Ware |
| Spirit Week | Eric Endres |
| Starlight | Hunter Cline |
| Stuck With You | Alexander Lee Janjigian |
| Tailgaters | Mary Santarelli |
| The 1st President of Mars | Jennifer Ramsey |
| The Ballerina Academy | Maggie Dallen |
| THE CHOSEN OF GAIA | Marcela Mariz |
| The Dragon Key | Lyn Pinezich |
| The Everlasting Gift | David-Matthew Barnes |
| THE LITTLE KITE | J. F. Robinson |
| The Long Run | Liz Larsen |
| THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS CLOCK | Debra Mooradian |
| The MinuteMen | Jay Sharron |
| The Motherboard | Cory Kahaney |
| The Naughty List | Kristen Crocker |
| The Nebulons | B.K. Frizzell |
| The Orange Orange | Drew Ladner |
| The Pill | Jenn Shaw |
| The Place We Stand Together | Catherine Wright |
| The Poet of Sugar Creek | Karen Conley |
| The Politician | Khadija Diakite |
| The RUFF Rescuers | Melinda Wick |
| The Top Hat Society | Joe Morgan |
| The Ugly Elf | Peter Banachowski |
| The Unanticipated Emancipation of Zebulon Pierce | Rudi O'Meara |
| The Vital Life of Jonty Whale | William Dobson |
| The Wishgrant | Mezi Mulugeta |
| THE WISHING CHAIR | David Gray |
| Thunderbird Hills | Duane Graves |
| Tiny Apocalypse | Joel Francke |
| Trick 'r Pete | Sean Winans |
| TRUE BRIT | Rosemary Zibart |
| Wild Goose Chase | Audrey Hackett |
| Wildcats! | Adam Maddox |
| Willy & Richard: A Football Miracle | Kevin Dwyer |
| With a Little Luck | Laura Becker |
| WON'T STOP BELIEVIN' | Charlie Fountaine |
| World Class | Jessica Jiji |
| WORLDS APART | Thomas Gaunt |
| Young Lincoln | Jennifer Peterson |
| YOUNG POET | Marcela Mariz |
| Yule Regret This | Lauren Kent |
| YVES | Laura Piety |
| Zenith Uncharted | Martha Duzett |
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