2023 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on August 7, 2023

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,300 submissions. Congratulations to these writers!

Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on August 30th 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 Glass Darkly*	Jonathan Talbert
*Adrift*	Aaron Edwards
*AFTER LIFE*	Cheeyang Ng
*All That Is Seen and Unseen*	Laura Becker
*Amerika*	Zaf Ayub
*Anything You Can Do*	David Hailes
*Ask Me For Anything*	Ariel Ehrlich
*ASTOUNDING*	Amanda Kowalski
*AUTOPILOT*	David Luz, J Randolph Harrison
*Beau Rivage*	Logan Rees
*Bigfoot*	Matthew J. Beier
*Brother's Keeper*	David Zeltser, Joseph Greco
*COMMON PEOPLE*	Jon Fletcher
*CONTAINED*	Johnny Hartmann
*Coy Dog*	Matthew Corley
*Cross of Wotan*	Bradley Stryker
*Death's Daughter*	Sunny Karnan
*DRIFT*	Eva Konstantopoulos
*Earthbound*	Bryce McLellan
*From Above*	Ben Tedesco
*Growth*	Casimir Nozkowski
*Gun Clown*	Jax Ball
*HAVEN*	Addie Manis, Bob Oltra
*Hereditary*	Craig Berger
*I Hold It True*	Joohun Lee
*i, bogeyman*	Sean Steinberg
*Instant Justice*	Dan Buckley
*It's All Been Done*	Laura Becker
*Liars*	Alicia Louzoun-Heisler
*Like Earth Without the Problems*	Anne Silke Czichos
*Man-Made*	Ryan Cunningham
*Matriarch*	Matt Hodgkinson
*North Star*	Zach Grossman
*Only Apparently Real*	Michael Richter
*Out of This World*	Jeremy Pick
*Pandora*	Jeff Bower
*Point Nemo*	Alex Rivers
*Positron+*	Jud Cremata
*Pulling Seedlings*	Eris Qian
*RETRO*	Aaron Lindenthaler
*Rim of the World*	Chris Knauer
*SCÁTHACH: A SHADOW'S TALE*	Daniel McNaught
*Scavenge*	Curt McCray, Kent McCray
*Search*	Angela Treviño
*Sequence*	Alex Britten
*SHE*	Jonathan Klemke
*Shentu Across the Ages*	Allen Wu
*Sleeping Beauty*	Jonathan Uriel Lopez Cruz
*Sleepless Beauty*	Cheryl Lodovico
*Sole Mate*	Michael Apgar
*Soul Hammer*	Allen Wu
*Starfall*	Seda Anbarci
*TAKEOVER*	Jace Serrano
*The Cure*	Zander Grantham
*THE DEADHEAD*	Justin Ballheim
*The Ghost Door*	Laura Quimby
*The Lights of Time*	Paul Ian Cross
*The Return of the Last Dragon*	LaShawn Evans
*The Shadow League*	C.J. Baer
*The Tides*	Paul Del Gesso
*Time Janitors*	Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns
*To the Moon and Back*	Brea Cola Angelo
*Trashy*	Chelsea Marshall
*Universal Frequency*	Richard Krzemien
*Vessel*	Sean Mogridge
*VIENNA CALLING*	Renate Grassmugg
*Zarmina's World*	Arturo Corces