2023 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on June 28, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,400 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:
| A Brat Blooms in Bushwick | Judd Schlossberg |
| A Glass Darkly | Jonathan Talbert |
| A Greek Tragedy | Alia Zeid |
| A Kind of Guilt | john cooney |
| A1D@N - Ghost | Dex Alvaro |
| Adam | Hayden Howe |
| Adderall HD | Joshua Scammell |
| Adrift | Aaron Edwards |
| AEGIS | Christopher Harris |
| AFTER LIFE | Cheeyang Ng |
| AKARI'S GIFT | Euroy Tan |
| Alchemy | Jeremy Haccoun |
| Alienated | Sarah Burton |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| ALPHASTATE | Johnny Gilligan |
| Alternate | Jess C Wheatley |
| Amerika | Zaf Ayub |
| Anna's Every-verse | Brian Tuttle |
| Anything You Can Do | David Hailes |
| Armadillogeddon | Brian Koukol |
| Ask Me For Anything | Ariel Ehrlich |
| ASTOUNDING | Amanda Kowalski |
| At the Forest's Edge | S Deeley |
| ATHOR | Brian Streaty, Paul Rose |
| Autonomous Repair | Eric Lin |
| AUTOPILOT | David Luz, J Randolph Harrison |
| Awakening | Brian J Leitten |
| Ayden: The Exceptional | Arthur Glenn |
| Battle Born | Jeff Edwards, Rob Jaeger |
| Beacon | Sean Frost |
| Beau Rivage | Logan Rees |
| Before the Lightning | John Cerrito |
| Bigfoot | Matthew J. Beier |
| BLACKBURN 'Dead Work' | Kathryn Smith |
| Blackland County | Josh Taylor |
| Bloomage | Karan Gour |
| Bright New Eden | Alan Howcroft |
| Brother's Keeper | David Zeltser, Joseph Greco |
| Bump | Kylie Eaton |
| C is for Cyborg | Damian |
| Cabal | Hassan Omar |
| California Plume | Elena Righi |
| Catalina Connection | Luca Belloiu |
| CHAMP | Joel Jensen |
| Chasing Starlight | Jonathan Case |
| CHiMERA | Sam Smith |
| Chloe And Attie | Scooter Corkle |
| Clara and the Nutcracker Prince | Ben Lokey |
| Come Out Frighting | Kevin Steele |
| Commodore Cindy | Bill Ellis |
| COMMON PEOPLE | Jon Fletcher |
| Connected minds | Marcelo Santoni |
| CONTAINED | Johnny Hartmann |
| Count Zero | Christian Maxwell |
| COUNTER EARTH | Ryan Vaughn |
| Coy Dog | Matthew Corley |
| Creature Feature | Caleb Ellis |
| Cross of Wotan | Bradley Stryker |
| CULPRIT | Gideon Shmorak |
| Cut + Paste | Robert Wilentz |
| Cybercide | Stephen Kwietniak |
| Dark Magic Kingdom | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Dark Time | Adam Wagner |
| Daydream | Carlen Palau |
| Dead Man's Cove | Jordan Goodman |
| Death's Daughter | Sunny Karnan |
| Deep | Khan Holland |
| Devil's Son | Jackie Lee |
| Diaspora | Boaz Super |
| Dragon Creme Brulee | Katie Haskins |
| Dreamwalker | Jeremy Hsing |
| DRIFT | Eva Konstantopoulos |
| Earthbound | Bryce McLellan |
| ELECTRIC LAZARUS | Ernest Langston |
| Engram | Patrick Mahon |
| ERGOSPHERE | Martin McLoughlin |
| Escape from Pet Heaven | avery koenig |
| Eve | Camila Grimaldi |
| Evergreen | Maryan Nagy Captan, Dini Parayitam |
| Extended Life Individuals (ELI) - Pilot | Angel Hilson |
| Eyes of Fate | Catherine Wright |
| Face Case | andrew blackman |
| Fallen Hero: 067215 | E S |
| Forgotten Depths | Ted Bronson |
| Forsaken | Camila Rodriguez |
| From Above | Ben Tedesco |
| G.O.D. OS | David Christopher Loya |
| Genesis Home | Matthew Kelcourse |
| Genesis Home | Matthew Kelcourse |
| GIN-VERSE: "A Ginless Bar" | Francesco Capussela |
| GO CATCH THE DEVIL | Martin Blinder |
| Gorgon | Richard Humphries |
| Grace and the Aliens | Jennica Lynn Johnson |
| Grammys | Gregory Thompson |
| GRAVE AFFAIRS | Daniel McNaught |
| Green Shoots | Aaron Hector |
| Green Woman | W. Mitchell |
| Growth | Casimir Nozkowski |
| Gun Clown | Jax Ball |
| Hacking Fred | Richard Wilkinson |
| HAVEN | Addie Manis, Bob Oltra |
| Head Games | David Page |
| Helium-3 | Aaron Sprecher |
| Hereditary | Craig Berger |
| Hidden Blood | Seda Anbarci |
| High Speed | Dennis Coleman |
| Home Sweet Hell | Jake Fullilove, Kevin Hodes |
| Homo Sapiens Evoluti | Bruno Costa |
| Horizons Beyond | Ryan Kowalske |
| House of Saturn | Kate Ryan Brewer |
| Hyperplane | Chris Fried |
| I Hold It True | Joohun Lee |
| i, bogeyman | Sean Steinberg |
| Identities | Bruno Lyra |
| In the Light of a New Sun | Will Saunders |
| Infinite | Lucas Caputo |
| Infinite Pizza | Daniel Giachetti, Glenn Garthwaite, Tom Rizzuto |
| Inflection Points | Peter Andrews |
| Inhale | Paige Patel, Tosin Coker |
| Instant Justice | Dan Buckley |
| Into The Ether | Steve Brown, Robert Rogers |
| Into The Labyrinth | Sam Thor |
| INVASIVE | Alex Moss |
| INVERSE | Mark Gutmann |
| It Ended When She Said Goodbye | David Hailes |
| It's All Been Done | Laura Becker |
| KALEIDESKOPE | GREGORY BISSON |
| King Me | Brian McWilliams |
| Kosmos | Alex Blumberg |
| Lacie in the Wonderverse | Michael Ierulli |
| Lady Death | Lindsay Grossman |
| Land of Light | Karleen Ann McSherry |
| Legends of Tíshíā | Joshua Redfield |
| Liars | Alicia Louzoun-Heisler |
| LIFELINK | Johnny Gilligan |
| Like Earth Without the Problems | Anne Silke Czichos |
| Like You Stole It | Stacey Russell |
| Loom | Christopher Backs |
| Lost Knife | Sam Lu |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| MAGE | Daniel Corrieri |
| Maiden | Jake White |
| Man-Made | Ryan Cunningham |
| Matriarch | Matt Hodgkinson |
| MAXIMUS | Brett Gilwee |
| MegaMall | Scott Saffran |
| Midnight Suns | CK Alexander |
| Mods | Tom Moriarty |
| MOMO | Lisabelle Tay |
| Moon Flower | Phil Reilly |
| Moonscope | Unnamed |
| Mr. Versatile [Le Se Repleir: The Gift & The Curse] | ROB KIRKLAND |
| MUTATOR | Daniel Diako |
| Natural Selection | Laura Harbin |
| Neutrals | Julia Bergeron |
| Nightfall | David B. Guthrie |
| Nobodies | Rosie Oxer |
| North Star | Zach Grossman |
| Obedience | Steven Snell |
| Oblivescence | David Webbley |
| OCEAN EFFECT (Top 3% Final Draft's BIG BREAK, FINALIST: Screencraft Horror, FINALIST Screencraft Sci-Fi, Film Empire, FINALIST Cinefluential/The Industry Next, Top 3 New Media Film Festival, 2x PAGE Semifinalist, etc.) | Heather Farlinger |
| Olympus Park | Sean Frost |
| Omnilingual | Rudi O'Meara |
| On Ice | Tasha Staples |
| Only Apparently Real | Michael Richter |
| ORPHAN BROTHERHOOD | Celina Dobson |
| Otherworld, NJ | Matthew McLachlan |
| Our Monsters | Benjamin Ryan |
| Out of This World | Jeremy Pick |
| Out On a Limb | Rich Machin |
| OUTSIDE THE BOX | Jace Serrano |
| P.O.K.E.T | Celina Dobson |
| Pandora | Jeff Bower |
| Paradox City | Jim McCullough |
| Placeholders | Dominic White |
| Point Nemo | Alex Rivers |
| Positron+ | Jud Cremata |
| Proxima | Darren Joe |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Red Christmas | Matthew Kelcourse |
| Red Christmas | Matthew Kelcourse |
| Reoffender | Brendan Hennessy |
| RETRO | Aaron Lindenthaler |
| REVELATIONS | Johnny Gilligan |
| Rewind: A Time Loop Love Story | Jullian Mortimer |
| Rim of the World | Chris Knauer |
| Rocky & Turniss | Thomas Black |
| ROMAN | Caroline Bregigeon |
| SAAYA [SHADOW] | Nikhil Kamkolkar |
| SAFARI | Tom Firestone, Martin Meunier |
| SCÁTHACH: A SHADOW'S TALE | Daniel McNaught |
| Scavenge | Curt McCray, Kent McCray |
| Scores | Gavrielle Jacobovitz |
| Search | Angela Treviño |
| Sequence | Alex Britten |
| Shallow Path | Troels Bentsen |
| SHATTER | Gideon Shmorak |
| SHE | Jonathan Klemke |
| Shentu Across the Ages | Allen Wu |
| Simulacrum | Harley Jones |
| Simulation | Peter Jang |
| Sleeping Beauty | Jonathan Uriel Lopez Cruz |
| Sleepless Beauty | Cheryl Lodovico |
| Smudge | Guy Pridy |
| Snowball | Travis Levasseur |
| Sole Mate | Michael Apgar |
| Solo Flight | Michael Johnson |
| Sons Of The Dollar | Guilherme Viegas |
| Soul Hammer | Allen Wu |
| SparkCatcher | Chris Inekhomon |
| Star Crossed | Rodolfo Salas |
| Starfall | Seda Anbarci |
| Summer Twilight | Anthony Vitale |
| SUMMONED | Tammy Klembith, George Klembith |
| Supernova | Robyn Bankston |
| Syn | Annie Grace |
| SYSTEMIC | Alex Moss |
| TAKEOVER | Jace Serrano |
| TETRAD | Chris Colpitts |
| The Actualizer | James Yantko |
| The Affected | Shane Harbinson |
| The Arborist | Michael Wright |
| The Attack of the Vine Master | Sergio Burgos |
| The Black Rose | James Mitchell |
| The Building | Adam Ganser |
| The Complex | Ryan Matta |
| The Crossing | Daniele Baiardi |
| The Cure | Zander Grantham |
| The Day the Sky Turned Red | Sergio Pintore, Daryl D. Well |
| THE DEADHEAD | Justin Ballheim |
| The Earth Monkey | Jeffrey Huish |
| The Forking Paths | Urs Frei |
| The Ghost Door | Laura Quimby |
| The Grey Lady | C.S. Woo |
| THE HYBRID | Richard Turgeon |
| The Ice Curtain | Caleb Ellis |
| The King of Ukraine | Sam Watson |
| The Last Bohemian | Emilio Medina |
| The Last Road Trip | Hal Schneider |
| The Lights of Time | Paul Ian Cross |
| The Lord of the Rings: Host of the West | Tyler Blomstrom-Moore |
| The Lottery | Eunice Simbar |
| The Man Who Came From The River | Kieran O'Dea |
| The Mother Root | Ashley Tropea |
| The Mountain Girl | Hailey Shannon |
| THE NUT FARM | WARREN CLARKE |
| The Perceptionists | Stephanie Brandolini |
| The Prime | Curtis Adair |
| The Return of the Last Dragon | LaShawn Evans |
| The Ringmaster | Kyle Rizor |
| The Shadow League | C.J. Baer |
| The Tarzan Project | Mehdi Francois - Ackerman |
| The Tides | Paul Del Gesso |
| The Titanomachy: From Darkness | Mikael Holcombe-Scali |
| The United States of Automata | Austin Langley |
| The World Time Forgot | Mike Rogers |
| Thermal Maximum | Ellen Riverside |
| Time Janitors | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Time Machine | Rand Soares |
| TIME WILLING | Renee Brown |
| TIMEPIECE | Brett Stanning, Evlampia Papadopoulos |
| Titanium | Jeff J. Blix |
| To the Moon and Back | Brea Cola Angelo |
| Trashy | Chelsea Marshall |
| Two Dudes, Some Kids, and an Epic Viking Curse | Laura Becker, Donnie Becker |
| Unison Kismet: The Twin Samaritan | Francesco Capussela |
| Universal Frequency | Richard Krzemien |
| UNTIL THE END | Richard Bailey |
| VACUI | Adam Kirszner |
| Vantage | Lizzie Roberts |
| Venus | Andrew McGee |
| Very Little Room | Dan Sinclair |
| Vessel | Sean Mogridge |
| VIENNA CALLING | Renate Grassmugg |
| Waypoint | Tim Hitpas |
| White Raven | Ernestia Fraser |
| Who we are | Bart Verraest |
| Wild Lands | Alex Blumberg |
| Yokai | Kit Modica |
| You are Nowhere | Jon Barton, Isaac Tomiczek |
| Zarmina's World | Arturo Corces |
| Zero Point Girl | Rob Hammond |
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