2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 10, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 3,300 submissions. Congratulations to these writers!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| "MANIC!" | Blake Williams |
| #matched | Joey Perotti |
| 49th Parallel | Isabella Sleeth |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| A Brat Blooms in Bushwick | Judd Schlossberg |
| A Novel Approach to Suicide | Brien Kelly |
| A WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY | Benedict Cohen |
| Aakode'ewin | Catherine Martin |
| Abigail Franklin's Improbability of Stardom | Carley Aggromito |
| Ability | Benedict Cohen |
| Air Hollywood | Almas Haidery |
| Aliyah | Mazen Khaled |
| AMBERGRIS | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| April's Fool | Darla Drendel |
| Ashes In Lima | Jeff Lehman |
| Assisted Living | Charlie Griffin |
| AURA | Tiffany Alzatti |
| Austen Time | Julia Bergeron |
| Babylon: An Ancient Comedy | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| Beavertown | Peri Lapidus |
| Betty Lee Is Missing | Allyson Morgan |
| Bob | Ben Moroski |
| Breast in Show | Andrea Berting |
| Bully Bottom | Hadley Carpenter |
| BUMP | Taj Sangha |
| BUTCH | Rae Binstock |
| Caffeinated | Michael Lazovsky |
| Can You Hear Me | David Vieux |
| Caught Stealing | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Charlie Blood | Phoebe Danaher |
| COINTELPRO | Matt Stewart |
| CONCRETE CABARET | Aaron Lovett |
| Courtside | Joy Shi |
| Crippled Wing | C. Jeffery Evans |
| Currency | Scott Gabriel |
| Dead Man's Cove | Jordan Goodman |
| Dead Parents Club | Mark Orr |
| Diaspora Blues | Aashka Pandya |
| Did You Say Blood? | James Yantko |
| Dire Transfers | Nate Suppaiah |
| Down By The Riverside | Jalen Young |
| Down Girl | Madie Dhaliwal |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| Enmeshed-"Uncle John's Band" pilot episode | Ingrid Ludt |
| Eternal Blossom | Chu Yun Huang |
| Evelynne Doom - Pilot | Colin McCall |
| Face the Color | Matthew Viscuse |
| Fnarpwaddle | Peter Darchuk |
| For Rosa | Kathryn Boyd-Batstone |
| FOR YOUR OWN GOOD | Claire Boeglin |
| Forbidden to See Us Scream | Farbod Ardebili |
| Fufu and Soup | Marjan Koffa |
| Go Team! | Sloane Smith |
| Goodbye Everybody | Benjamin Lewis |
| Green v. City of New Orleans | Daniel Parino |
| Halfway Home | Brett Morrow |
| Hard Animal | Jordan Blilie |
| Head First | Jade Edwards |
| Heaven Help Hatchinopee | Daniel Cummings, Scott Kruse |
| Here Lies Tommy | Rodolfo Salas |
| High Winds | Chris Crowley |
| Hirado | Jennifer Wilton |
| HOMEWARD | Ben Mehlman |
| Hope Skates | Maddison Bullock, Kathryn Lefroy |
| How Far | Chris Inekhomon |
| How the Yellow Mellow | Eljohn Macaranas |
| I'll Explain on the Way | Sean U'Ren |
| IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY | Kim Sykes |
| KINGS OF CONCORD | David Kushner |
| Known Fool | Jacob Feldman |
| La Cucaracha | Lisa and Gina Gomez |
| Landscapes | McKenna Childress |
| Last Summer Ever | Salvatore Liuzzi |
| Laurel Hollow | Melanie Flaherty |
| LEILA | Mojdeh Ghanbari |
| Liberté | Keya Hall |
| Live Through This | Jamie Manelis |
| Maggie | shona tuckman |
| Malvado | John Mahony |
| Master Blender | Julia Rose Barnett |
| Matriarchs | Stephen Ra-Choi |
| Media Capital of the World | Arman Hovsepian |
| MEME GIRLS | Matthew Manson |
| Memory Docs | Max Coyne-Green |
| MICKEY AND MARV | Don Ackerman |
| Miss Me When I’m Gone | Matthew Gomez |
| Monnji | Maria Wilson |
| MORE VICTIMS TONIGHT | Jim Snell |
| Mr.Christmas | Maddy Hillis & Corina Bizim |
| Mythos | Andy Rogers |
| N.I.M.B.Y. | Sam C.y. Yu |
| Nail'd | Michaela Reilly |
| Neurodivergents vs The World | Rikki Bleiweiss |
| Never Let Him Go | Tomás Enrique |
| No Girls in the Gang | Dana Braziel-Solovy |
| Northport Nannies | Brittany Worthington |
| Other People Ruin Everything | Danny Katz |
| Our Friend Huxley | Gregory Noël |
| Out of The Woodwork | Ryan Dellaquila |
| Out of Water | Madi Stine |
| P.R.O.M. | Liz Maestri |
| Party Girl | Jess Fisher |
| Peckerwoods or The ~Somewhat~ Historically-Accurate Account of the Kentucky Outlaw known as Bud Thacker | Chance Sparks |
| Phantasmagoria | Tom Truax |
| Pili & Me | Zachary Swickey |
| Preacher's Kid | Cole Randall |
| Quietus | Priscilla Estrada |
| Radical State | Eva Hwang |
| Raze the Dead | Anthony Mormile |
| Rebounding | Maxwell Gay |
| Red Hook Records | Jared Hada Smith |
| River Rats | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Road Closure | John Cerrito |
| Rope and Wire | Therese Hasman, Giannina La Salvia |
| Rose Absolute | Rory Gory |
| Running in Circles | Jessa French, Derrick Hausen |
| Screens | Christian Elder |
| Sea Legs | Gina Mingione |
| She's The Man | Callie Waligora |
| Shine a Light | Jordan Blilie |
| Signal Passed At Danger | Chris Leonard |
| SIMORGH | Farzin Farzam |
| Sincerely, Ida | Sofia Dillenberger |
| Snow | Peter Sreckovic |
| SNOW IN JULY | Sera Barbieri, Heather Barbieri |
| So Far Away, So Near | Federico Casal |
| Teen Mom High | Jessie Stegner |
| THE BOOKER | Tiffani M. Davis, Michelangelo Missoni |
| The Dog Dies | Alexx Walls |
| The Embroidered Woman | Stephan Littger |
| The Flatwoods | Gregory Golbitz |
| The Four Of Us Are Dying | Jesse Dorian |
| THE JUKEBOX | Nicholas Oktaras |
| THE LAVENDER PANTHERS (Limited Series, WINNER Script Pipeline, Top 3% Final Draft's Big Break, TOP 25 Roadmap) | Heather Farlinger |
| The Lieutenant Nun | Matthew Bernstein |
| THE LOST AND THE ROTTEN | Ryan Chong |
| THE MATCH | Justin Ballheim |
| The Most Dangerous Fame | Adam Senior |
| The Overturning Moment | Tom Holowach |
| The Pepper | Christine Garver |
| The Rule of Thirds | Andrea Turner |
| THE TRUST OF THE INNOCENT | CHRIS HOPPER |
| The Uhaul Ban | Harley Wood |
| These Hallowed Halls | Karly Thomas |
| THIRST | Kimmie P Callaway |
| Till the 30th | LISSETTE JEAN-MARIE |
| TILLMAN | Spencer Wardwell |
| To Die For | Caren Rubenstone |
| Touchy Feely | Josh Corrigan |
| Towns End | Trevor Lawrence |
| Tumbleweeds | Tiffany Alzatti |
| UNITED BEEF | Russell Costanzo |
| Unsettled | Courtney Weaver |
| Untitled Crime Thriller | Tabri Najib |
| VALLEY OF THE SHADOW | Logan Shaw |
| Vitals | Nelson Downend |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| Welcome To Thystle | Mike Carreon |
| When Sue Was Queen | Sam Wright |
| Yatra | David Barbeschi, Vee Kumari |
| Yokai | Kit Modica |
| You'll Be the Death of Me | Brittany Bookbinder |
| YoungBloods | Stacey Russell |
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