2023 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on March 1, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,500 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on March 29th on our blog and on our Twitter and Facebook 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 Quarterfinalists:
| '79 | Kacy Boccumini |
| '97 | Sarah Ward |
| "The Camera" | Steven Sasaki |
| #peopleyoumayknow | Christian Wisecarver |
| A Dream Come True | Frank Scott |
| A Good Day Will Come | Amir Zargara |
| A Helping Hand | Mitchell Condon |
| A Long Trip | Dan McGeehan |
| A One Time Thing | Justin Nosler |
| A Perfect Murder | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| A SACRED PLACE | Lois Buchter |
| A Tale of Sun and Wine | Fabrizzio Lerma |
| A Woman's Body | Tiffany Tenille |
| Adagio for Mr. CHIPS | Robin Russin, Pete Nelson |
| An Unlikely Trio | John Walberg |
| Anokhi | Rohini Jadhav |
| April and Mr. Stockman | Montgomery Burt |
| Ask. | Nanni Mann |
| Assisted | Juliet Mace |
| Audience Questions | Ben Gottlieb |
| Ave Maria | Cesar Monroy Jimenez |
| Baby | Joseph Becker |
| Bad Witness | Eduardo Petersen |
| Balmy | Lynette Roqueta |
| Bar-back | Katherine (Kat) Olson |
| Be My Baby | Nuri Tal |
| Be My Baby | Unnamed |
| Before The Winter | Flora Jiang |
| Beginner Spells forAngry Teens | Maddie Messina |
| Being | Craig Pickens |
| Below The Line | Alexander Reinach |
| Benny's Second Birthday | R.J. Glass |
| Bessie | Sarah Lavis |
| Best Friends Forever | Rachel Troche |
| Between the Walls | Clarke Wainikka |
| Billiard Boys | William Pelletier |
| BITTEN | Brett Hauze |
| BLEED - a Julie d’Aubigny story | Jim Onyemenam |
| Bless | Drea Castro |
| Blood & Sweat & Spit & Piss | Jonathan Pottins |
| Blueberry Smoothie | Darren Murphy |
| Blurred Edges | Russell Knight |
| Border Hopper | Nico Casavecchia |
| Breath Play | Jeremy Schmidt |
| Bunny Rabbit | Ian Baaske |
| Call of the Void (Short) | Edward Nenedzhyan |
| CARROTS | Jake Redmond |
| Chickentown | Matthew Edmonds, Madeline Poeta |
| Chocolate Heart | Jacob Melamed |
| Chuck and Fern | Henry Alexander Kelly |
| Cluster | Kevin Dembinsky |
| Control | Erick Salazar |
| Cooking Lessons with Baba Yaga | Julia Diddy |
| Criminal | Lauren Davis |
| Cringe | Warren Lane |
| DADDY - a short film | Shawn Christopher Lovell Nabors |
| Dancid | Jared Barnett |
| DE-STRESSER | Alfredo Rodriguez-Allen |
| Dead Reckoning | Francis John |
| Dear Society | Jodie Bullock |
| Death Valley - "The Bluff" | Adam Scott Mazer |
| Desert Gifts | Kevin Lewis |
| Deserted | Paris Herbert-Taylor |
| Earl's Gotta Die | Heather Shapiro |
| Eat the Rich | Liv Senghor |
| Ebony | Isaiah Dennis |
| Eden | Tiyan Newman |
| Edgar and the Undead | Montgomery Burt |
| Empress of Saigon | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Empty Nester | Sophia Czertak |
| End Over End | Sam Robotham |
| Equal Opportunity | Rick-kendy Noziere |
| Esther | Diana F. Bryden |
| Everything Comes Back Eventually | Josh Evans |
| Exhumation | Steven Stiefel, M.E. Ellington |
| Eyewitness | Benn Flore |
| F*ck Your Cousin | Jamie Sykes |
| Fade to White | James Mulcahy |
| Family Reunion | Savithri Machiraju |
| Fangers | Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman |
| Feral | Matthew Phenix |
| First Kiss | Gary Rose |
| Flour Girl | Jada Bethea |
| Fomosexuals | Gabriel Notarangelo |
| For My Mother | Marc Vecchio |
| Formicarium | Jarrett Paperno |
| Fou | Gabrielle Barlatier |
| FOUND | Ellen Ancui |
| free martin | sj thompson, hayes ht |
| Gerald | Juliana D’Ercole |
| Ghosts | Abigail Pañares |
| Girl in Seoul | Missy Greenberg |
| Glitter in the Air | Aja Payton |
| Glove Saves and the U Save | Christa Davis |
| Go Ah (Orphan) | Joy (MiYu) Cha |
| Going Rogue | Julia Stier |
| Good Sport | Lisa Shaw |
| Grace | Michelle Truong |
| Gravel | Eliesha Steel |
| Gulp | Emma Steele |
| Gusto! | Jacob Watson |
| Halloween Kisses | Veronica Cooper |
| Ham | Jenna Ebersberger |
| Hat Trick | Daccia Bloomfiled, WJ Wilson |
| Have You Seen Me? | Brett Roedel |
| Heart of Chicago | Samantha Hart, Julie Hall |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Annabel Zammit |
| Hearts in a Sling | Stephanie Gould |
| Heartstrings | J.D. Zelman, Matthew Dushkes |
| Hero Mom | Abra Moore |
| Hidden Silence | Lily-Anna Jacobs |
| Hitchhiker | Samantha Walker |
| Home | Caledonia Hanson |
| Homesick | Sophie Bellone |
| Honour Thicker Than Blood | Umut Ipek |
| Hotwave | Jared Fembleaux |
| How Do You Recognize Crazy? | Katharine Rex |
| How to be The Perfect Housewife | Irene Chen |
| Hyena Bloodbath | Jeff Athey |
| I'll Wait For You Forever | Sabrina Barton |
| I'm Not Here | DeDe Drake |
| I'm sorry I missed you | Ethan Rogers |
| Iceberg | Hectin Roales |
| If This Was A Horror Movie | Alex Britten |
| im in love with edgar allan poe | Andrea A Walter |
| Imitates Life | Kelly & Dustin Finerty |
| In Between | Solomon Radley |
| IN THE MIDST | Patrick Leahy |
| Inferno | Aaron Archuleta |
| Invisible Hands | Gaby Wilson |
| IT IS WHAT IT IS (or The Standards of Outrage) | Jon Fletcher |
| It's a Wonder | Dylan Koller |
| Kate's Ballad | Rory O'Connor |
| Katy & Adam | Jess Hendel |
| Killer Robots | Steve Stoddard |
| Kinetic Dispersal | Robert McCain |
| Kitty | Holden Weihs |
| L-8 | Gillian Rabin |
| Last Best Place | Payne Patchett |
| Last Ship East | Eris Qian |
| Leading Man | Whitney Houser |
| Lesbophilia | Tennessee Martin |
| Little Genes | Matthew Clingempeel, Skye Emerson |
| Living Space | Chris Glithero |
| Lost & Found Again | Dion Moosa |
| Lost Dogs | Christine Boyer |
| Lou + Alt - Delete | Cody Wasson |
| Love to Go | Bernhard Riedhammer |
| Magnolias | Lenea Key |
| Man Up Fairy Dust | Christopher Schwartz |
| Mångata | Maja Costa |
| Mariposa - Angels of Valhalla | Nathan Grimm |
| Melabration | Kiz Mentor |
| Miner One | J.D. Elliby |
| Mira's Big Plan | Kevin Tavolaro |
| Miseria | Jiming Lindal |
| Model Citizen | Rachael Dahl |
| Mom | Leslie Hoppenrath |
| Mrs. Anne Parker | Elisabeth Hayward |
| MS TAKEN | ALISON Moir Markinson |
| Mulligan | David Stanley |
| My Communist | Ron Hansen |
| My Two Left Feet | Damian |
| My World's On Fire, How About Yours? | Samantha Shane |
| Never Getting Rid of Me, Bitch | Olivia Cohen, Isabella Cohen |
| Niki Tomi Beto | Jon Ayon Alonso |
| Nobody's Perfect | James Mulcahy |
| Nonno | Gregory Fields |
| Numb Like You | Felipe Figueroa |
| Occupational Hazards | Laura Medeiros |
| Oh the Games We Play | Stephanie Mathews |
| Oh, That I Were a Man... | Nicole Knudsen |
| Old Habits | Ricardo Blayde Diaz |
| On the Coast of Lonesome | Mark Wasserman |
| One Kind Act | Marian Mangoubi |
| One World | Vasco Saraiva |
| Open Up | Tiina Chisola Lantz-Hirvonen |
| Or Best Offer | Sean Winans |
| Other People | Kat Svaldi |
| Over There | Andrew Phillips |
| PADATING NA | Chris Osterndorf, Joseph Gonzales |
| Pearls For Ruby | Jack Schrader |
| Pie and Pancakes | Liz Kovac |
| Please and Thank You | Hal Kirkland |
| Pomegranate Blood | Alex Bijan Zandi |
| Put To Sleep | Eric Yang |
| Quarter-Life-Crisis | Andrew Kauffman |
| r.e.g.g.i.N | A. D. Smith |
| Raven's Fire | Liz Wallace |
| Reading of the Will | Amanda Lay |
| Red | Lucas Fernandez |
| Red | Alexandra Addams |
| Reflection | Anika Jamieson |
| REMORSE | Einar Gunn |
| Screaming | Nick Ray McCann |
| SEAMS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE | Jessica Jiji |
| Set Me Free | Emily Li |
| Seventeen | Jo Davis |
| Shabbat Shaolin | Brian Cohen |
| She Hath Come | Cat Dale |
| Shoot that mother down! | Nuki Rhodes |
| Siren's Call | Katerina Bakolias |
| Sleigh Ride | Ethan Gunn |
| Smoke Head | James Morgan |
| Sonny's Blues | Tevin Simpson |
| Sorry I'm Sad | Chloe Detrick |
| Sou desu girl and The Jellyfish | Kevin Gilvear |
| Speed Humps | Kimberley Pember |
| Spilled Flowers | Nancy Castro |
| Stalker, Inc. | Brian Fuller |
| STARPOWER | Sam Thor |
| Stone Garden | Alysha Haran |
| Stuck in the Middle | Trey Clough |
| Sub Luv | Samip Raval |
| SummerFun31 | Luke Larsen |
| Sunhat | Naomi Christie |
| superстарик | Andrew McGowan |
| Tale of the Gummy Bear Killer | Casey Vickers |
| The Assignment | Laura Kenner |
| The Bog | Andrea Millard |
| The CEO | Annarosa Schiavone |
| THE CHOCOLATE KANDINSKY | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Comic | Cristopher Esparza |
| The Communion of Isaac Frankenstein | Lucas Hardwick |
| The Delusion | Joshua T. Harrel |
| The Diva and The Squirrel | Jamie Shriner, Diego Torrado |
| The Enemy Next Door | Aashish Gadhvi |
| THE FELLOWSHIP | Daniel Fathers, Christien Anholt |
| The Flamingo | Corina Marie Mazzi |
| The Flower Girl | Anne Carmack |
| The Game Camera | Kristen Bush |
| The Ghostodians | Leila Murton Poole |
| The Good Samaritan | Phil Vengrinovich |
| The Homecoming | Malcolm Johnson |
| The Interview | Andrew Jasperson |
| The Last Fax Ever | Steven Demmler |
| The Last Tsukune | James Knudsen |
| The Lottery | Victor Ridaura |
| The Machine For Time | John Broadhead |
| The Mannequin's Tailor | Melanie McCoy |
| The Memorial | Lauren Lola |
| The Monkey Bars | Matt Farquharson |
| The New Bartenders | Travis Land |
| The Point After | Kris Kaiser |
| The Pumpkin Theory | RJ Collins |
| THE RAINCOAT | Susan Maddocks |
| The REVVER | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| The Rhyme of the Ancient Pensioner | Ryan McDaid |
| The Secret Person | Lilian Sumner |
| The Selfie | Chad Wellinger |
| The Soul Train | Abubakar Alawy |
| The Specimen | Ed Wiles |
| The Suit | Chris Muir |
| The Super Man | Christopher Romano |
| The Syrian Photo | Mark Albracht |
| The Trap | Sam Findlay |
| THE UNICORN LOAN | Janine DeMaria |
| The Vanishing Rider | James Cirenza |
| The Whatever Wars | Brock Barber |
| The Worth of Things | Jane Ballentyne |
| There's a Frog on Mars (It's True!) | Shaun Radecki |
| Third Wheel | Kylie Sparks |
| Though I Do Not Know This Raven, We Seem to Share a Familiar Pain. | Evan Siegal |
| Three by the River and Two to Go | Dylan James Amick |
| Thrice Upon a Midnight Clear | David Overton |
| Ticket for Life | Jeffrey Huish |
| Tofu | Camille Ramos |
| Together | Simamkele Dlamba |
| Togs | William Winston |
| Tommy Super Sniffer: Protector of Glendale | Erika Smith |
| Tos-ka | Camilla Marchese |
| Towering Times | Franck Benayoun |
| Trophy Boy | Kevin Hanna |
| Tryst | Claire Epstein |
| Under The Pomegranate Tree | Maddie Grammatopoulos, Luca Sardelis |
| Unjustice | Jennifer Milne |
| Vape Barn | Scout Stolpmann |
| Virago | Kai Crawford |
| Waiting for Schrödinger | Kevin Hanna |
| Wanle | Alison Week, Zoe Eisenberg |
| Wanted | Pete Michaels |
| Warts and All | Diego Ros |
| WE ARE THE DEAD GIRLS | Kylie Boersma |
| Weeping Wall | Mark Dollard |
| WET! | Elizabeth Raia |
| What I Want | Bennett Weinschenk |
| What Men Do For Love | karan talwar |
| Wheel Bite | Jackson DeLoach |
| When It's Over | celine arden |
| Willow and Wu | Kathy Meng |
| Wish You Were Here | Nicholas Zakrajcek |
| Wither | Sean Levitt |
| Worst Enemy | KEVIN MACHATE, Todd Rodgers |
| Zombie In The Play Park | James Hannan |
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