2023 ScreenCraft Feature Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 12, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Feature Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| "Robyn and Her Merry Misfits" | Adam Best |
| $sugar Island | Miranda Allender |
| A Christmas Musical | Morgan Pepper |
| A Crabberman | Samuel Hutchison |
| A Daughter, Wading | Calais Bird |
| A Man In The Minarets | Josh Kalven |
| A Manhattan Exorcism | Sam Ellison, Ryan Guiterman |
| A Simple Machine | Mark Hoffman |
| Adderall HD | Joshua Scammell |
| Aftermath | Cristian García Zelada |
| Alexi I | Alex Murawski |
| All you know is fight | Ruben Low |
| Altars of Greed | Brennan Howard |
| Altered | Zach Bandler |
| American Fallout | Harry Kakatsakis |
| American Retail | Carlotta Summers |
| An Accident | Wei Liu |
| Anne Brontë | Kathleen Barth |
| Any Other World | Ben Pickles |
| Apache | Adam Seidel |
| Apples | Rodolfo Salas |
| Are We Really Happy? | Bobby Marino |
| Armadillogeddon | Brian Koukol |
| Assemblage | Patrick Pietrykowski |
| Astral | Jonathan Finnegan |
| Au Revoir | Floris Driebergen |
| Back and There Again | Colleen Henry |
| Baleen | Jon Platt |
| Ball Humbug! | Michael McIlraith, Heather Wilk |
| Bear Boy | Nepal Arslan |
| Beat the Man | Patrick Hegarty |
| Becoming Ptah | Nathan Hirschaut |
| Becoming the One | Giulia Eve Flores |
| Big Girls | Jackie Akiko Cloud |
| Bigger in Texas | Laura Kroeger |
| Billions with a Bee | Benjamin Redmond |
| Birds of Byron Shire | Michael Collins |
| Bitch | Ambika Subra |
| Black Market | Chris Lee |
| Blind Spot | Alix Lerner |
| Blinky | Allan Roberts |
| Bloodbath | Patrick Tierney |
| Bloom | James Lamp II |
| Blue Moon | Taylor Ghrist |
| Blurred Edges | Russell Knight |
| Body Art | Jamie Ruddy |
| Boy, Girl, Fig | Kayla Sun |
| Brave John Burns | John Biolsi |
| By the Sea | Vanita Flanagan |
| Canberra Macarbe | Julian Murray |
| Cardboard | Juice Caballero |
| Carol Roberts is Not Dead! | H.J. Pierce |
| Casket Girl | John Darbonne |
| Cassandra | J Rainsnow |
| Cast List | Connor Smith |
| Chameleon | Daniel Ray |
| Changeover | Andy Kolker |
| Charisma | Dallas Faulkner |
| Chemistry | Jacob Marx Rice |
| Christina Maria Alexandra | Heather Seltzer |
| Christopher Pan | James Yantko |
| Clara Boone | Cat Dale, Jenna Ciralli |
| Cling | AARON WARNER |
| Cloister | Kevin Kinsella |
| Collusion | Brennan Howard |
| Color & Light | Louis Reyes McWilliams |
| Connie Sky | Timothy Brandoff |
| Contained | Jennifer Wilton |
| Cradle | Harriet Bramwell |
| Cringe | Stephanie Mathless |
| Currents | Tim Molloy |
| Cut-Throat | Michael Learner |
| D.I.E. | Megan Plank |
| Daisy | Niki Koss |
| Damian & Ella | Anthony Moriarty |
| Dance Freaks | Wein Joe |
| Dara McCool | Conor Dowling |
| Dauntless | Barry Leach |
| Death Valley | Adam Scott Mazer |
| Deep Reservations | David Schroeder, Christopher Jackson |
| Defensas | Reynaldo Leal |
| Detroit Run | Odin Ozdil |
| Día de las Carpas | Marina Kato |
| Did You Say Blood? | James Yantko |
| Dignity | Dean Poynor |
| Don't Go There | Phillip Roquemore |
| Dostoevsky | David Ward |
| Drivers License | James Barnes |
| Durty | Zachary Swickey |
| Dybbuk | Joshua Knoller, Eric Grant |
| Earlytown | Oren Shai, David Meyer |
| Eastern Son | Y.S. (Young-Sun) Kim |
| Eight Days | Sammy Sultan |
| El Pino | Rich Kim, Joseph Rios |
| Electric Road | M. K. Ching |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| Emily Greene | J.M. Kallet |
| Empire | Lachlan Pirie |
| Escape | Phillip Roquemore |
| Escape from Pet Heaven | avery koenig |
| Escape Velocity | Rudi O'Meara |
| Everything's Fine! | Amy Taylor |
| Figure Me Out | James Barnes |
| Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
| Fissure | Spencer Slovic |
| Five Swords Under HeavenI | Logan Shaw |
| Floe | Russ Eisenman, Paul Wood |
| Forced: A Love Story | Y.S. (Young-Sun) Kim |
| Generation Zed | Susan Brunig |
| Good Boy | Tom Castillo |
| Goodies | Christopher Backs |
| Goodnight Nobody | Carly Scanlon |
| Gratuity | Truman Matheny |
| Guilty in Cold West | Karla Spika |
| Gunn | Doug Rao |
| Gunslinger | Tyler Geditz |
| Gurcan | Tonia Kempler, Bulent Gurcan |
| Half Sister | Jasmine Jagger |
| Half Way Down | Patrick Monger |
| Happy Home | Zackary Centrella |
| Hate is hate | Miguel Parga |
| He Has Your Eyes | Ryan Eicher |
| Head Over Hill | Gideon Shmorak |
| hearsay (n.) | Brad Klipfel |
| Heartrace | Will Bermender |
| Her Name is Carolyn | Cassiopeia Sachs |
| Here She Comes | Jason Fournet |
| Hiamovi: Red Dog of the Prairie | Allison Johnson |
| High Moon | Isaac Ruth |
| Honest Living | Niamh Dunne |
| Horseplay | Max Pepose |
| How Not To Write a Romance Novel | Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez |
| Human Resources | Brett Caron |
| Human Stalk | Nil Unerdem |
| Hysteria | Amy Asbjørnsen |
| I Chose Earth Over Heaven | Tom Burke |
| I Hold It True | Joohun Lee |
| I'm Worried About You | Hari Ziyad |
| If I Could Turn Back Time | James Love |
| Impasse | David Mitsuoka |
| Interloper | Komyar Nasseri |
| Intern of the Year | Scott Wagner |
| Internal Security | Stefan Alexander |
| Inward | Jolan Bastien |
| IVG | Christopher Backs |
| Ivy Eight | Kevin Jokipii |
| Jabrat | Peter Dawson |
| Jimmy | Kent Moran |
| Katie Weds Monish | Katie Sunku Wood |
| Keeper | R.L. Hooker |
| Kindling | Tavish Gudgeon |
| Knockoffs | Christine Capone |
| Knotwood | Marco Gabriel |
| L.O.B.E. | David Fein |
| La Flor Del Barrio | Ronald Flores |
| La Parca | Miguel del Campo |
| Lark | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Late Night With Dad | Steve Mackall |
| Laurent | Xiayang Li |
| Leonard | Darrell McGregor |
| Liars | Alicia Louzoun-Heisler |
| Liberty | Chris Lawing |
| Lightning Lee | Nick Duke |
| Like Mother | Leah Coats |
| Lions Flight | Diana Collins |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| Loveworm | Starla Blatcher |
| Lucy's Diner | Jennifer Ball |
| Lyla | Drew Ross |
| M.A.S.H. | Christa Butler |
| Madame Butterfly's Mad Jaunt | Barry Leach |
| Maede's House | Andi Lipo |
| Making Mead | David Zaccaria |
| Man Of The House | Ioana Cheptea |
| Margo & Perry | Becca Roth |
| Materni-tease | Christopher Backs |
| Matlovich | Dennis Smith |
| Mid Life Christmas | Robert Rossetti |
| Midnight's Door | Rocky Karri |
| Miles Away | Aaron Sauerland, Dustin Little |
| Milwaukee | Barry Ambrose, Christopher Stapleton |
| miri & gav | Matilda Schulman |
| Missing the Point | Link York |
| Moksha | Saurin Lakhia |
| Momentary Madness | Kevin Jokipii |
| Moon Flower | Phil Reilly |
| Moonshot | Nicholas Clifford, Jules Duncan |
| Mother Mehreen | Anna Khan |
| Mother Moth and the Blue Jay | Shelby Hagerdon |
| Mr. Christmas | Kevin Dembinsky |
| Mud, Dust, and Rain | Chandler Berg |
| Muse in the Mazeum | Clay Fusco, Pamela Chiacchiaro |
| Museum Piece | Brian Koukol |
| Mutator | Daniel Diako |
| Mutiny In The Dugout | Rod Kent |
| Mysteries of the Desert | Whitney Crowder, Adam Hardman |
| Nano | Talal Malik |
| Native Species | Anne-Sophie Bine |
| Newcomers | Caroline Bregigeon |
| No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
| Nobodys Heroes | Michael Elliott |
| Nothing Ever Dies | Kevin Tran |
| Oblivion Empire | Darren Oakland |
| Ocho | Adam Best |
| Of Wolf and Man | Rodolfo Salas |
| Old Jack City | Angelo Dania |
| Once, A Con, A Crime | Martin Cooke |
| One-Eyed King | Joe Bonito |
| Only Apparently Real | Michael Richter |
| Opening Kill | Bryant Hasheider |
| Other | Christopher Backs |
| Other People | Jordan Prosser |
| Out of Tune | Caleb Moran |
| Out to Sea | Timothy Despina Marshall |
| P.O.V. | Nicholas Grant |
| Pacific Ocean Blue | Chris Phillips |
| Painter of Light | Rosson Crow |
| Personal Statement | Timothy Pruett |
| Phantom in Time | Douglas Charles Macleod |
| Phantom Walls | Josh Michaels |
| Philos Sophia | B. R. LaPlant |
| Playdate | Lyndal Simpson |
| Preying on the Hearts of Others | Derek Franzese |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Pursuing Piper | Jennifer Ball |
| Pustka | Edel Dmytro Oksamyt |
| Raiz | Paris Herbert-Taylor |
| Red Knights Forever | Dos Goats Films |
| Refill | Greg Smith |
| Renaissance | David Woll |
| Rent Boy | R.W. Perkins |
| Revival | Abby Selden |
| Rewind: A Time Loop Love Story | Jullian Mortimer |
| Road Closure | John Cerrito |
| ROBOT PARTY | Elizabeth Arredondo |
| Roxy and Jelly-Roll | Paulina John |
| Rudy's Christmas Revenge | Joanne Bellew |
| Saturn Return | Mallory Sparks |
| Saving Santa | Arun Narayanan |
| Say Cheese | Ryan Stanisz |
| Seasick Sailor | Torre Catalano, Devon Bostick |
| Self-Inflicted | Edward Klau |
| Sexy Little Murder | Alise Morales, Bailey Belzora |
| Shadowboxing | L.X Mitev, Nelo Rantsho |
| Shaka | Emelie Svensson |
| Sicko Mode | DT Houston |
| Sidetracked | Ed. Gillow |
| Siren | Alex Clark |
| Sleeping with Strangers | Genie Leslie |
| Sleepy Pines | Jake Gutwillig |
| Solice | George Basiev |
| Song of Kosovo | Christopher Gudgeon |
| Sons Of The Dollar | Guilherme Viegas |
| Sovereign Citizen | Trent Johnson |
| Star Crossed | Rodolfo Salas |
| Star Power | Siobhan McCarthy |
| Stir | Brennan Howard |
| Stone Age | Pallavi Yetur |
| Stop Loss | Ramona Taylor |
| Sublimis | Mohit Dhameeja |
| Sudden Dead | Frank Tremblay |
| Synergy | Andrew Frank |
| T.R.Y. | Pavel Wine |
| Taste the Road, Jack | Stefan Alexander, Eric Williford |
| The 805 | Keith Zivalich |
| The Archivist | Gregory Cohen |
| The Art of Intention | Dena Acolatse |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Black Dog | Joe Favalaro |
| The Blank Case | Allison Kelly |
| The Bottom | Aaron Yarber |
| The Boy in the Well | Abdullah Azizi |
| The Brockton Brawler | Timothy Driscoll |
| The Byline | Ilyssa Peltz |
| The Cancer Eater | Sean McPharlin |
| The Chair in the Garden | Drew Ross |
| The Children of Lilith | Siobhan Finkielman |
| The Chötgör | Max Rissman |
| The Cockfighter | Andrew Case |
| The Compatriots | Spencer Cohen |
| The Dark | Christien Reid |
| The Deadhead | Justin Ballheim |
| The Desert Fox | Pablo Briz |
| The Dooling Twins | Robert Rogers |
| The Dragon's Way In | Marshall Welton |
| The Edge of the Mirror | Nina Martinek |
| The Estranged | Dylan James Amick |
| The Fallen | Gabrielle Nehring |
| The Fear of the North | Micah Ricke |
| The Flatwoods | Gregory Golbitz |
| The Flipping of House Cannibal | Phillip Rogers |
| The Fowler | Ken Hanson |
| The Fucked-up Version of Us | Steven Snell |
| The Gales of November | Robert McDermott |
| The Garden | Nathan Patton |
| The Goddess and the Grackle | Suzanne Faber |
| The Golden City | Michael Yuen |
| The Golden State | Brittany Worthington |
| The Green House | Zach Grossman |
| The Hermit | Kevin Staake |
| The Holler | Michelle Ford |
| The Homestudy | Derek Nicoletto |
| The Judas Apocalypse | Dan McNeil, Jasmine Aziz |
| The King of Chasms | Darren Oakland |
| The Kiss of the Gorgon | Despina Moraitou |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Last Good Day | TJ Berry |
| The Life and Death of an Orthodontic Assistant | Nathan Ginter |
| The Light Of Venus | kelly Beck-Byrnes |
| The Lost and the Rotten | Ryan Chong |
| The Macabre Man | Gabriel A. Perez |
| The Mandrake of Merryweather Woods | Brad Starr |
| The Music Teacher | Paul Skillen |
| The Night Shift | Greg Borzilleri |
| The Niihau Terror | Jeff Prahl |
| The Odyssey of Rahul V. Patel | Raj Moorjani, Hope C. Tarr |
| The Pact | Vince Melocchi |
| The PareRat Trap | Alicia Mooty |
| The Promised Letter | Alexander Yakobovich |
| The Red Key | Paul Sheridan |
| The Refugee | Ibrahim Renno, Jennifer Black |
| The Screenplay | Guilherme Viegas |
| The Secret Folk Dancer | Teele Dunkley, Stephan Drury |
| The Seder | Isaac Smith |
| The Silent Room | David Schlow |
| The Silver Moons of Starling | John Grosjean |
| The Storm King | Cristoll Vincenze Salia |
| The Surveillance of Ordinary Things | Susan Brunig |
| The Tower Of Power | Abdikadir Abdinasir |
| The Understudy | Dan Aho |
| The Untold Story of the Titanic | Willie Mae Kent |
| The Velvet Fury | Robert Pranga |
| The Verge of Seas | Albert M. Chan |
| These Uncertain Times | Brian Rawlins, Sal Cardoni |
| They Dance in High Poppies | Jeffery Dover, Ashby Hendrickson |
| This Is All We Are | Jay Perry |
| Thornfield | Frances Denny |
| Three Ways to Harmony | Ian Pozzebon |
| Tijuana Touchdown | Ronald Smith |
| Time Willing | Renee Brown |
| To End the Race War | Michael Yuen |
| To the Moon and Back | Brea Cola Angelo |
| Tonight Tonight | Danny Wascou |
| Trachea | Kiril Sabev |
| Trail of Blood | Leonardo Laciura-Foley |
| Transit-Hardly Working | Elizabeth Martin |
| Trash | Odie Burnatowski |
| Treasure, Inc. | Ted Sperling |
| Trick Selfie | Chad Wellinger |
| Trickster - Night Of The Kitsune | Hiroshi Mori |
| Truth or Die | Anthony McLean |
| Turn, Turn, Turn | Anthony Alves |
| Twang of the Devil | e.e. Thorsen |
| Twinning | Jace Serrano |
| U.N.Lovable | Andrea O'Malley |
| Ugly | Darla Drendel |
| Unbecoming | Melissa Alfredson |
| Union | Marc Moody |
| Vessel | Sean Mogridge |
| Vestiges | Robert Ian Simpson |
| Voice of the Voiceless | Naz Bader |
| Voiceless | Max Rissman |
| War Gamers | Christian Tucker Perry |
| Watermelon, Watermelon, Watermelon | Calvin Claudio |
| What Happened to Yuna? | The Rhees |
| What Money Can Buy | Zachary Swickey |
| What Remains | Adam Branson |
| Where They're Kept | L.X Mitev |
| Windy | Lisa Formisano Wilson |
| Wrecking Silence | Samantha Franco |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
| Yellow Butterfly | Kate Bitsakos |
| Zlatno | Jason Williamson |
| Zoe and Cameron | Alexandra Rak |
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