2023 ScreenCraft Feature Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 9, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Feature Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,000 submissions. Congratulations to these writers!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on September 13th 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 Semifinalists:
| A Daughter, Wading | Calais Bird |
| Altered | Zach Bandler |
| An Accident | Wei Liu |
| Any Other World | Ben Pickles |
| Armadillogeddon | Brian Koukol |
| Au Revoir | Floris Driebergen |
| Becoming Ptah | Nathan Hirschaut |
| Big Girls | Jackie Akiko Cloud |
| Blinky | Allan Roberts |
| Bloodbath | Patrick Tierney |
| Blue Moon | Taylor Ghrist |
| By the Sea | Vanita Flanagan |
| CARDBOARD | Juice Caballero |
| CASKET GIRL | John Darbonne |
| Cassandra | J Rainsnow |
| Cast List | Connor Smith |
| CHARISMA | Dallas Faulkner |
| Cling | AARON WARNER |
| CLOISTER | Kevin Kinsella |
| Cutthroat | Michael Learner |
| Defensas | Reynaldo Leal |
| Detroit Run | Odin Ozdil |
| DIGNITY | Dean Poynor |
| Eastern Son | Y.S. Kim |
| Electric Road | M. K. Ching |
| Fissure | Spencer Slovic |
| FORCED: A Love Story | Y.S. (Young-Sun) Kim |
| Good Boy | Tom Castillo |
| Goodnight Nobody | Carly Scanlon |
| Gratuity | Truman Matheny |
| Gunslinger | Tyler Geditz |
| HE HAS YOUR EYES | Ryan Eicher |
| Hiamovi: Red Dog of the Prairie | Allison Johnson |
| High Moon | Isaac Ruth |
| How Not To Write a Romance Novel | Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez |
| Human Resources | Brett Caron |
| Human Stalk | Nil Unerdem |
| Hysteria | Amy Asbjørnsen |
| I Hold It True | Joohun Lee |
| If I Could Turn Back Time | James Love |
| Intern of the Year | Scott Wagner |
| Internal Security | Stefan Alexander |
| Inward | Jolan Bastien |
| IVG | Christopher Backs |
| Jabrat | Peter Dawson |
| Jimmy | Kent Moran |
| Knockoffs | Christine Capone |
| Late Night With Dad | Steve Mackall |
| Leonard | Darrell McGregor |
| Margo & Perry | Becca Roth |
| Midnight's Door | Rocky Karri |
| Moon Flower | Phil Reilly |
| Mother Mehreen | Anna Khan |
| Mud, Dust, and Rain | Chandler Berg |
| MUTATOR | Daniel Diako |
| One-Eyed King | Joe Bonito |
| Only Apparently Real | Michael Richter |
| Other People | Jordan Prosser |
| Out to Sea | Timothy Despina Marshall |
| P.O.V. | Nicholas Grant |
| PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE | Chris Phillips |
| Philos Sophia | B. R. LaPlant |
| Pursuing Piper | Jennifer Ball |
| Pustka | Edel Dmytro Oksamyt |
| Raiz | Paris Herbert-Taylor |
| Red Knights Forever | Dos Goats Films |
| Rent Boy | R.W. Perkins |
| Saturn Return | Mallory Sparks |
| Say Cheese | Ryan Stanisz |
| Seasick Sailor | Torre Catalano, Devon Bostick |
| Sexy Little Murder | Alise Morales, Bailey Belzora |
| Shaka | Emelie Svensson |
| Siren | Alex Clark |
| Sleeping with Strangers | Genie Leslie |
| SOLICE | George Basiev |
| Sovereign Citizen | Trent Johnson |
| Star Power | Siobhan McCarthy |
| SUDDEN DEAD | Frank Tremblay |
| The Brockton Brawler | Timothy Driscoll |
| The Children of Lilith | Siobhan Finkielman |
| The Cockfighter | Andrew Case |
| THE DEADHEAD | Justin Ballheim |
| The Estranged | Dylan James Amick |
| The Fear of the North | Micah Ricke |
| The Gales of November | Robert McDermott |
| THE GOLDEN CITY | Michael Yuen |
| The Green House | Zach Grossman |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Light Of Venus | kelly Beck-Byrnes |
| THE MANDRAKE OF MERRYWEATHER WOODS | Brad Starr |
| The Pact | Vince Melocchi |
| The PareRat Trap | Alicia Mooty |
| The Promised Letter | Alexander Yakobovich |
| The Refugee | Ibrahim Renno, Jennifer Black |
| The Screenplay | Guilherme Viegas |
| The Tower Of Power | Abdikadir Abdinasir |
| The Understudy | Dan Aho |
| Twang of the Devil | e.e. Thorsen |
| Unbecoming | Melissa Alfredson |
| Vessel | Sean Mogridge |
| What Money Can Buy | Zachary Swickey |
| WRECKING SILENCE | Samantha Franco |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
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