2024 ScreenCraft Animation and Family Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 28, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Animation and Family Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 900 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 Baker's Sweet Tale | Jessica Fallico |
| A Carriage Ride Home | Sandra Hendrickson Esch |
| A Fox's Tail | Meera Jay |
| A Ghost Story Of Christmas | Eddie Yaroch |
| Abominability At Law | Justin Durivou |
| Afro-Sentai | Jeremy Gay |
| Agents of C.O.W. | Leonardo Ramirez |
| Agni | Anirudh Iyengar, Christian Zanghellini |
| All I Want For Christmas | Linda Tancs |
| Alpha Flight | Darren Clift, Jose Guzman |
| Anacade Basin | Thomas Henson |
| Anansi and the Chest of Stories | Ayinde Ricco |
| Another Happily Ever After | Nathan Boyer |
| Anouk and the Magic Pebble | Tiauna Miller |
| App World | Lindsay Jean Michelle, Pam Bassuk |
| Arachnifabulous | Brian "Crusty" Horgan |
| Ardilla National Park | Martha Duzett |
| Askari | Christiaan Smit |
| Beast of the Seine | Jon Portman |
| Beauty and the Brick | Chloe Dowdle |
| Best Summer Never | Shaun Balbar, Alexia Coelho |
| Beyond The Sea Wall | Shane Weiss |
| Big Baller Boy | Jeremy Hsing |
| Birds of a Feather | Chris Stephens |
| Birds of Paradise | Tonia Relkov |
| Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
| Bottom Feeders | Simon Lewis, Ali Charmi |
| Bud & The Freedom Flighters | Randeep Brar |
| Burial | Madison Shields |
| Carts | Stephan Muehlberger |
| Charlie and the Unexplained - "Pilot" | Eric La Febre |
| Chasing Romeo - A Wolf Tale | Dave Pliler |
| Clara and the Nutcracker Prince | Ben Lokey |
| Claus Encounter | Carla Kanthak, Carl Zittrer |
| CRAB | Abi Perpall |
| Creeples! | Patrick Pidgeon |
| Crystallis | Sergio Pintore, Daryl D. Well |
| Cucuy | Erick Torres |
| Damsel Dash | Adrien Callahan |
| Dead Wait | William Perkins |
| Detective Agatha Catsy | Erika June Smith |
| Dimensional | Ogechi Echebiri |
| Dirt Bike Summer | Brendan McIvor Fleming, Justin Conrad |
| Dungeon of Fools | Millie Zandi |
| E*I*E*I*O | Max Pepose |
| Eclipsed | Olivier Loranger Gagnon |
| Essential Magic | Hannah Harmison |
| Exiles | Mahonri Stewart |
| Extra, Extra! | Anise Overton |
| Fabulous Lorelei Lee | Sophie Mutiara Nova |
| Fatima and the Foxes | Flossie McKnight |
| Finding Santa | Matthew Giacheri |
| Floppy the UN-magnificent | Natalie Williams |
| Flora the Fungus | Nicole Egna |
| Flutter | Terry Mitchell |
| Food Fight | Spencer Lenzie, Drew McInturff |
| Forward | Christiaan Smit |
| Frances the Fish | Anike Tourse |
| Galopin the Crow: How He Became King! | Sylvia Melanson |
| Gertie and the Mold | Paul Rowe |
| Ghost Hamster | Beverly Neufeld |
| Gingerline | Matt Warden |
| Glow | Collin Edwards |
| Gnome's Misfit Toymaker | Maximos Veverka |
| Good Breeding | Josh Wilcox |
| Goose & Chicken | Jim Woods |
| Grounded | Martin Tylicki |
| Gumption - Bears and Bigfoot | Kristen Brown |
| Halloween Park | Titika Stamouli |
| Higher Powers | Nicholas Erickson |
| Hiro's Journey | Danny Van |
| HomeBody | Gabriel Brosius |
| Hope | Alan Slack |
| Human-ish | Kelly Johnson |
| Hunger | Kevin Shabel |
| I Secretly Live With A Cat Named Harris | Buddy Caine, Louis Michael |
| I'm sorry I missed you | Ethan Rogers |
| Ice Base Envy | Dominik Contigo |
| IN OR OUT | Nicky Denovan |
| Indians | Diana Advani |
| Inn the Fantasy Business | Michael Barryte |
| Innate | Jerrica Carr-Lee, T Jackson |
| Intergalactic Noodles | Tobias Arguello |
| It Had To Be Hugh | Jeff Reese |
| Journey to the West | Jeff Patton |
| K1NDHEART | Scott McCarrey |
| Kilgore and the Adventures of the Barbarian Academy | Yousif Nash |
| Koun Apsara | Peter Sim Som |
| Little Green Mend | Brian Menz, Linda Whitmore |
| Lost and Found | Ina Ycasas |
| Louie | Steve Rooney |
| Love & Hexes | Robyn Bankston |
| Lucid Dream | Elyssa Catalfano |
| Lupita la Demonita | Charles Rutter |
| Major Freak | Anna Vecellio |
| Maplecove Manor | Melissa Sahagian |
| Marbles | Danielle Elise Olson |
| Marty & Lou | Kelsey Romo |
| Meet Madoodle | B Maddox |
| MiDog | Laura Antonelli |
| Minaymus: A Brownie's Tale | Chris Allport |
| Mirumiru (Bubble) | Allan George |
| Mole | Alex Wilson |
| Monster Agents: Bigfoot & Frogman | Brandon Prosek |
| Monster on Mars | Ginger Marin |
| Monsters In The Dark | Sandra Powers |
| Mr. Jenkins - High School Janitor | Charlie Braithe |
| Muck | Christopher Chou Slomiak |
| My Monster Buddy | Nic Gershon |
| Myrr | Jacqueline Valle |
| Mythika | Katherine Botts, Mischa Marcus |
| Night Of The Living Decorations | Steffany Sommers |
| Night of the Living Veg | Greg Harvey |
| Nova & The Cosmodians | Brent Fidler |
| Nuevo Jardín | Patricia Tabb |
| Offspring | Hannah Silverman |
| Ollie | Kelsey Ross |
| One More Story | Joey Pattison |
| Paintings | Zachary Churchard |
| Paired | Liz Anderson |
| Party Hardy 2024 | Mason King |
| PENNY | Adam Kollar |
| Petunia | Esther Pearl |
| Pigsford Hollow-The Gift | Jacqueline Valle |
| Pigskin | Susan Polk |
| Pink Lava | Sharon Powers |
| Power Couple | Ari Donnelly |
| Prehistoric Pre-High | Bryan van Dijk |
| Present | Lisa Lutes |
| Prof. Wexler, World Explorer: To the Ends of the Earth! | Patrick Pidgeon |
| Puddin' | Elizabeth Nunes |
| Pushpin and String | Jeff Ullman |
| PWI | Natalee Branham |
| QUEST UP! | Joey Capuana |
| Rabble Rousers | Caitlin Fein |
| Relics | Tristan Bellawala |
| Ruby Riff | Sophia Porter |
| SANKOVA | Xavier Burgin |
| SANTAMAN: REGIFTED | Colin O'Brien |
| Savannah & Jack | Ken Rogan |
| Say Cheese! | Radhika Mohan |
| School for Villains | Saleh Karaman |
| Second Star | Sam Solorzano |
| Seeds of Iris | Kayla Parker |
| Shrewdy | Paul Fulton |
| Siblings of Seasons | Octavia Clahar |
| Siren's Call | Robyn Bankston |
| SLUG FEST | Mao Natori |
| Small Fry, Private Eye | Denny Siegel |
| Smell My Feet | M.R. Horhager, Joel Buxton |
| SNACKFINDER | Luca Belloiu |
| Sola, The Diamond Princess | Myna Sky |
| Soul Suckers | Zachary Ward |
| Spirit of the Rain | John Tupper |
| Star Ducks | Jake Lynch |
| STARBURROW | Tyler Koford |
| Strays, Gays & Holidays | Ashley Bower |
| Strings | Matthew Millard, Sierra Millard |
| STUCK | Carol Bass |
| Sultana | Melissa Sweazy |
| Supernova | Connie Chang |
| Temoc in the Sky | Juan Gutierrez |
| Terraces at Milton Road | Logan Dunn |
| That Dirty B! | Laura Canty-Samuel |
| The Adorables | Kevin Eis |
| The Adventure West | Bairbre Meade |
| The Anniversary Dance | Matthew Godsey |
| The Anti-Claus | Adam Hebel |
| The Best Super Hero | Gabriel A. Perez |
| The Book of Truth | Ashley Tropea |
| The Chair in the Garden | Drew Ross |
| The Freaks of Laurel Creek | Ava Sins |
| The Haircut | Cody Stickels |
| The Heart of Sri Katava | Cairo Smith |
| The Illuminati Kid | Toby Tieger |
| The Imaginary Adventures of Tumble Jones | Ian Bocking |
| The Legend of Omnificent | Johnathan Sparks |
| The Legend of the Knightwatch - The Bear's Tale | Dan Baker |
| The Lightning Herders | Bodhrán Mullan |
| The Little Warrior Princess | Sean Wilde, Vida Wu |
| The Macabre Man | Gabriel A. Perez |
| The Mandrake of Merryweather Woods | Brad Starr |
| The Miraculous Adventures of Archie Bishop and Dodge Callahan | Ryan Schwenning |
| The Monster Wrangler | Lukas Ridge |
| The Mythical Life of Ellie Aquino | Sheena Santamaria |
| The Naughty List | Brandon Osterman, Thomas Bell |
| The Nethermead | Evan Allgood |
| The Odyssey of the Golden Elephant | Victorio Korjhan |
| The Pale Chessman | Adam Luff |
| The Scholarship | Mollie Feerick |
| The Silent Giant | Nando Garza |
| The SimpleTwins | Tiffany Alzatti, Ruby Montoya |
| The Spy Who Licked Me | Danny Stack, Tim Clague |
| The Z Word | Christine Lim |
| Thunderfoot | Carlton Welch |
| Ticket for Life | Jeffrey Huish |
| Time Will Tell | Jonathan Winehouse, Terry Newman |
| Top Elf | Arun Narayanan |
| TRAPPED IN PLAIN SIGHT (aka THE PUZZLE) | Tammy Klembith, George Klembith |
| Trick | Jeff Ullman |
| Undead Overtime | Elizabeth Miller |
| Vanessa L. Singh | Chris Binning, Kyle Amann |
| Vigil | James Carpenter |
| Vivarium | Alexander Ferries |
| Voyager | Kateryna Kurganska Gorbanov |
| Waking Up White | Jason Gregory |
| Wando, Slim & The Light Within | Matt Jacobs, Grant Harris |
| Wanted | Duane Piedmont |
| Werewolf Sword | Dan Malyk |
| Whitebeard | Abhi Jeyakkumar, Cathy Randall |
| Wild Goose Chase | Audrey Hackett |
| With a Little Luck | Laura Becker |
| Within the Willows | Melvin Johnson |
| Working Dogs | Elise Jolie |
| Yellowstoned! | Morgan Herrmann |
| Your Grandmother is a Witch! | Mark Forler |
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