2023 ScreenCraft Family Screenplay Competition Semifinalists

Listed below are the Semifinalists 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!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
A Diamond in the Ruff's | Daniel Broderick |
A Dickens of a Christmas | Catherine Fridey |
A Mid-December Night's Elf | Leah Vale |
A Potluck Christmas | Summer Johnson |
Becky Brenneman's Bangin' Bat Mitzvah | V.C. Rhone, Mindy Schneider |
Becoming Miss Christmas | Sharon Spaeder |
Best Summer Never | Shaun Balbar, Alexia Coelho |
Carry My Ghost | Bryce Emley |
Carving the Pumpkin Diamond | Duncan Marriott |
Christmas in Sugarplum | Gena Elyse, Michele O'Connor |
Hope Skates | Maddison Bullock, Kathryn Lefroy |
Just Winging It | Katie Streicher |
Maddie and Frannie | Virginia Austin |
Marnie | Michael Berner |
My Brother Fruitcake | Shiva Sawyer, Jen Senko |
My Everest | Connie Weidel |
My Real Imaginary Friends | Kyle Rizor |
Nana and Jake | Ross Allaire |
Pedro and the Cockatoo | David J. Diaz |
SANTAMAN: Re-Gifted | Colin O'Brien |
Secret Santa | Ryan W. Smith |
THE LITTLE KITE | James F. Robinson |
The Poet of Sugar Creek | Karen Conley |
Tiny Apocalypse | Joel Francke |
TRUE BRIT | Rosemary Zibart |
World Class | Jessica Jiji |
Yule Regret This | Lauren Kent |
Zenith Uncharted | Martha Duzett |
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