2023 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on March 29, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists 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 Finalist announcement on April 26th 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:
| '79 | Kacy Boccumini |
| '97 | Sarah Ward |
| "The Camera" | Steven Sasaki |
| #peopleyoumayknow | Christian Wisecarver |
| Baby | Joseph Becker |
| Bad Witness | Eduardo Petersen |
| Before The Winter | Flora Jiang |
| Benny's Second Birthday | R.J. Glass |
| Blurred Edges | Russell Knight |
| Call of the Void (Short) | Edward Nenedzhyan |
| CARROTS | Jake Redmond |
| Cluster | Kevin Dembinsky |
| Control | Erick Salazar |
| Cooking Lessons with Baba Yaga | Julia Diddy |
| Criminal | Lauren Maya Davis |
| Death Valley - "The Bluff" | Adam Scott Mazer |
| Desert Gifts | Kevin Lewis |
| Deserted | Paris Herbert-Taylor |
| Equal Opportunity | Rick-kendy Noziere, Francesco Nuzzi |
| Feral | Matthew Phenix |
| First Kiss | Gary Rose |
| Flour Girl | Jada Bethea |
| Fomosexuals | Gabriel Notarangelo |
| Glitter in the Air | Aja Payton |
| Go Ah (Orphan) | Joy (MiYu) Cha |
| Gravel | Eliesha Steel |
| Gusto! | Jacob Watson |
| Halloween Kisses | Veronica Cooper |
| Ham | Jenna Ebersberger |
| Heartbreak Hotel | Annabel Zammit |
| HERO MOM | Abra Moore |
| I'm Not Here | DeDe Drake |
| Kitty | Holden Weihs |
| Last Ship East | Eris Qian |
| Leading Man | Whitney Houser |
| Lesbophilia | Tennessee Martin |
| Lost & Found Again | Dion Moosa |
| Mira's Big Plan | Kevin Tavolaro |
| Mom | Leslie Hoppenrath |
| My World's On Fire, How About Yours? | Samantha Shane |
| Niki Tomi Beto | Jon Ayon Alonso |
| Occupational Hazards | Laura Medeiros |
| Open Up | Tiina Chisola Lantz-Hirvonen |
| Other People | Kat Svaldi |
| Over There | Andrew Phillips |
| Pie and Pancakes | Liz Kovac |
| Please and Thank You | Hal Kirkland |
| Put To Sleep | Eric Yang |
| Quarter-Life-Crisis | Andrew Kauffman |
| r.e.g.g.i.N | A. D. Smith |
| Screaming | Nick Ray McCann |
| Set Me Free | Emily Li |
| Speed Humps | Kimberley Pember |
| Spilled Flowers | Nancy Castro |
| STARPOWER | Sam Thor |
| Sunhat | Naomi Christie |
| superстарик | Andrew McGowan |
| The Communion of Isaac Frankenstein | Lucas Hardwick |
| The Flower Girl | Anne Carmack |
| The Ghostodians | Leila Murton Poole |
| The Monkey Bars | Matt Farquharson |
| The Rhyme of the Ancient Pensioner | Ryan McDaid |
| The Soul Train | Abubakar Alawy |
| The Specimen | Ed Wiles |
| The Super Man | Christopher Romano |
| THE UNICORN LOAN | Janine DeMaria |
| The Worth of Things | Jane Ballentyne |
| Though I Do Not Know This Raven, We Seem to Share a Familiar Pain. | Evan Siegal |
| Together | Simamkele Dlamba |
| Tryst | Claire Epstein |
| Wanted | Pete Michaels |
| WE ARE THE DEAD GIRLS | Kylie Boersma |
| What I Want | Bennett Weinschenk |
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