2024 ScreenCraft Drama Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 16, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Drama Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,400 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:
| [redacted] | Brandon Baer, Garrett Baer |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| A Conscious Endeavor | Seri DeYoung |
| A Good Day Will Come | Amir Zargara |
| A-Ma | Xiayang Li |
| Accidental Patriot | Jennifer Dana Deane |
| Across Enemy Lines | Julia Bergeron |
| Actuality | Mallory Diekmann |
| Affection of a Tiger | Khalid Abdulqaadir |
| After | Matthew Viscuse |
| After What Happened at the Library | Kyle Casey Chu, Roisin Isner |
| AKILI | Ivan Mooh Mooh |
| Akrasia | David Alexander |
| Alba | Erika Van Doren |
| All In | Paul Makkos |
| ALLIANCE | Suzanne Griffin |
| Amends | Carlan Morari |
| American Prestige | Justin Secor |
| An Axe For The Frozen Sea | Samantha Silvay |
| Anne Brontë | Kathleen Barth |
| ANYWHERE | Adam Seidel |
| Aporia | Lachlan Vary |
| appetite | Rylan Alexander |
| Arabesque | Holden Gilkey, Tana Ireland |
| Aria | Steven Bogart |
| Avenue of Regrets - Movie | Rogelio Pineiro |
| Baby Mine | Olivia Grant |
| Baby Rattler | Scott Corbett |
| Bacteria Empire | Jarod Backens |
| Balsero | Arturo Corces |
| BANGARANG - A MOTHER'S ODYSSEY | Sebastian John |
| Being Silver | Liz Lachman |
| Beneath the Rust | Justin Kohlas, Matthew Mikita |
| Beverly Hills Pharmacist | Stacey Powells, Griff Lambert |
| Beyond The Shadows | David Milwee |
| Bistro 22 | Emma MacGillivray |
| Black Death | Cam Smith |
| Blameless | Alex McAulay |
| Bloody Barcelona | Brett Da Silveira Cornwell |
| Bloody Bills | Evan A. Jordan |
| Bluebird | Daven Murphy |
| Bobtail | Travis Carr |
| Bondy Scholars | Sarah Baloch |
| Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
| Broken Bang | Ted Gavarkavich |
| Broken Chains | Julieanne Ford, Devan Ford |
| Burmese Days | Thomas Oliver Hand |
| Cadenza | Alicia Grill |
| Camp Amerika | Donna McNeely Burke |
| Casbah | Shreyas Ayaluri, Adham O. Adham |
| CHANGEOVER | Andy Kolker |
| Chasing 400 | Jason Noyes, Amos Kamil |
| City of Light | Patrick Hegarty |
| Clicks | Ross Schneiderman, Nick Kendrick |
| Consort | Janelle Gray |
| Correctional System | Maksym Tkachuk |
| COUNTERPOINT | Arden Earnest |
| Cowcatcher | Kendall Pendlebury |
| crab | Abi Perpall |
| Crazy | Wendy Moulton Tate |
| Crazy for You (2024) | Sofia Morris |
| Crimson Tape | Erin Parkinson |
| Cringe | Stephanie Mathless, Erik Fassnacht |
| Crisis of Faith | Richard Fletcher |
| CUL-DE-SAC | Nicholas Grant |
| Cultish | Michael Rakoff, Don Purnell |
| Darkness Gives Way | Rebecca Arroyo |
| DEA | Peter Noel |
| Deceive Me | Saksham Sharma |
| DEEPER | Bruce Guido |
| Deer Camp | Brian Cunningham |
| Demons | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Detour | John Morrison |
| Diablo Hills | Marshall Hoffman |
| Disco Queen | Maren Sullivan |
| Disco Tehran | Evan McGahey |
| Disinherit | Jeremy Pion-Berlin, Fred Salmon, Adam Linkenhelt |
| DOGS | David Swann |
| DOMINATOR | Marc Henderson |
| Dreme | Ashok Reddy |
| Dub City | Janelle Gray |
| Duke & Tess | Justin Douglas, Corinthian Maldonado |
| EAT DIRT | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| EATER | Cathriona Slammon |
| Ecstatic Wonder | Liat Krongrad |
| Elixir | Eda Benjakul |
| EON | Marine Mondelot |
| Evangeline | Elizabeth J Musgrave |
| Farang Fever | Pierre Düsing |
| Feelgood Colors | Ryan Wagner |
| Finding Hope Again | Faith Wrycha |
| Finding Out | Anne Silke Czichos |
| Five Tigers | Shiv B |
| FLOVERR | Anita Udeep |
| Fool's Silver | Terry Jacob |
| Forever51 | Pamela Skjolsvik |
| Forgotten Youth | Stephen Curran |
| Frontiers | Jarod Backens |
| Funhouse Chronicles | Michal Kościarz |
| Gadrian | Taylor Gunn |
| Glass Walls | Andrew Wilborn |
| Gloryland | Lauren Ferebee |
| Greetings From the Vodka Sea | Christopher Gudgeon |
| GRIT | Helen Cespedes, Sarah Hartmann |
| Gumshoes | Libby Doyne |
| Hail Daisy | Oliver Arnoldi |
| Halsted: Between Pleasure & Pain | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| HARDENED | MB Stevens |
| Headers | Christopher Kelly |
| Heart of the River | Tod Sorum Brilliant |
| Here Lies Tommy | Rodolfo Salas |
| High Class | Erica Warnock |
| Hirado | Jennifer Wilton |
| Hole in the Donut | Justin Neal |
| Holy Roller | Shaun Balbar |
| HOPPA | Nigel Lee, Ashley Barrios |
| House of a Higher Truth | Rebecca Arroyo |
| House Sitter | Rachel Brown |
| Hugowood | Juan Gutierrez |
| I Am The Storm | Sara Hallowell, Arabella Field |
| Immigré | Maryam Myika Day |
| In the Wake | Joel Mitchell |
| Indomito | Kevin Holmes |
| Influenced | Anika Shakir |
| Inheritance | Raquel Trujillo |
| Inn of Lost Souls | Ruben Negron, Ross McCarthy |
| Internal Affairs | B Maddox |
| It's Not About The Hair | Maryann Overstreet |
| Jaimie | Christopher Kemble |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jobber | Michael Ronca |
| JOJO'S SHOT | Braden Lindstrom |
| Julian | Asher Jelinsky |
| Just Like Heaven | Eric Caruso |
| Katinka | Chloe Beroud |
| Keep You Safe | Nana Okamoto |
| Killing Time | Jack Warner |
| Kiwi | Eric Rich |
| Lamb's Sacrifice | Tia Vashistha |
| Larum | Lilian Sumner |
| Last in Line | Ben Mansbridge |
| Laws of Wow | Robert Knoll |
| Legacy | Chantal Roy |
| Life Coach | George Ayres, Tim Hoch |
| Light | Cameron Webb |
| Little Bundles | Ruby Morgan |
| Little Hemingways | Christopher Kelly |
| Lone Rock | Stephen W Maidment |
| Lord Said So | Max Rissman |
| Lossless | Michael Kimber |
| Malkie's Galaxy | Mia Volta |
| Man Vs Ocean | Sean Roldan |
| Masked Woman | Mehrnaz Mohammadi |
| Master Servant Mistress Squire | Thomas Park |
| Matter | Bernardo Pellegrini |
| Melvin in Joyland | Jordana Howard |
| Messiah | Kyle Ferris |
| Milkweed | Marissa Michel |
| Mimesis | Jeremy Snowden |
| MINDLESS | Drew Maron |
| Misinterpret | Koji Masutani |
| Miss Trickery | Rebecca Karpas |
| Mist Among the Trees | Daniel Woburn |
| MOLOTOVS | HF Crum |
| Money While You Sleep | Craig Nobbs |
| Monsieur de Paris | Lindsay Kusiak |
| MOONSHOT | Michael Graf |
| Motherland | Chantal Barton |
| MUD | Judy Naidoo |
| Murder at the Orgy | Tanner Hayes, Sherry Rene |
| Murmurs | Kevin Romito, Andreas Aristides |
| My Friend Violet | John Ducey |
| My Sister's Keeper | Kenya Robinson |
| My sweet, sweet little baby | Maya Ricol |
| Never Kissed a Girl | James Gonzo |
| Next Semester | Gabe Berry |
| Nineveh | Gabrielle Reublin, David Andrew Calvillo |
| No Little Girl | Robert Wooldridge |
| No Thanks | Ann Eskridge, Brian Webster |
| No Water For Walk-Ons | Michael Cutler |
| Nothing Pink | Eric Glawe |
| Of Good Blood | Jennifer Rosenthal |
| On Healing and Vengeance | Rebi Jordan |
| On the Black | Kristen Mack, Kelley Mack |
| One Single Solitary Son | Sean Azze |
| OPEN | Travis J. Opgenorth |
| Orion's Belt | Giovanna Umpierrez |
| OŚWIĘCIM | Rachel Serada Barth |
| Other | Nicholas Ybarra |
| Overworld | David Blue, Julie McNiven |
| Parade | Sharon Kadosh |
| Pastoral | Emily Yewell |
| Pathological | Katherine Morris |
| Perception | Pauline McAlonan |
| Phoenix | Christopher Robin Hood |
| Play the Edge | Peter Horgan |
| Podiums | Marina Charalambides, Alexander Charalambides |
| Potential | Alex Marsha Sylvia |
| Precious Cargo | Elizabeth Mercado |
| Precursor | Steve Brown |
| Pretty Dead Girls | Louise Dewarrat |
| Quarry | Chris Binning, Kyle Amann |
| Rabbit Punch | Iain Anderson |
| Raising the Morning Star | Charles Farhadian, PhD |
| Randolph King and the Cosmic Cowboys | Clifton Dennis, Mark Barry |
| Reformation | Stephen Morgan-MacKay, Stefan Alexander |
| Remember Ivy Court | Soham Mehta, Jonathan John |
| Rent Boy | R.W. Perkins |
| Repair the Carrows | Johnny Cruz |
| Road to Echie | T.L.O Onyejekwe |
| Robinhacker | Shannon Murphy |
| Ruby Ridge | Lawrence Kane |
| Rum Dandy | Daniel Carroll |
| SAEED | Ivan Mooh Mooh |
| Safe Conduct | Liz Janzen |
| Same Love | Jonathan Jagdeo |
| SAWBONES | HF Crum |
| Scrambled | Kristen Schmidt |
| Searching Yellow Suns | Christopher Smith |
| SECLUSION | Avie Luthra |
| Sell Out | Anika Shakir |
| Shadow of the Monarch | Christopher Loveland |
| She Comes For You | Janet Rose Nguyen |
| Show Me State | Scotty Villhard |
| Silent Night - Un Holy Night | Lowell Thomas |
| So Too Shall It Be | Joe Jacobson |
| Something Darker | Armando Byrd |
| Sophie and the Bluebird | Thomas Ronca |
| South Wind Come | Ernestina Juarez |
| Speak Now | Michelle Somruthai D'Angelo |
| Starfield | Chris Jones |
| Stop Bath | Eisha Marjara |
| Strip | James Briggs |
| Sturgeon General | Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey |
| Sunnyslope | John Cummerford |
| Supernova | Jack Martino |
| Surface Tension | Letia Solomon |
| Sweet Child of Mine | Jordan Kartchner |
| Take Care of Her | Y.S. Kim |
| Taxidermied Youth | Brenna Kwon |
| Tea in Tehran | Kamran Gossieaux, Emma Mitchell |
| Texas Revenge | David Kaneen |
| The Applegate Estate | Price Garrison, Jason Cohen |
| The Badland | Josh Smith, Tate Smith |
| The Basement | J.D. Elliby |
| The Big Sneeze | Jen Butler |
| The Binding | Willem Bosch |
| The Bombing of Darwin | Amanda Dettrick |
| The Burn | James Warren |
| The Charismatic Son | Levi Bailey |
| The Chinese Daughter | Vivian Wang |
| The Counterpart | Samantha Schell |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Cuckoo Bird | Matthew Boggess |
| The Demon of Hope Street | Craig Peters |
| The Doctor and the Vampyre | Valerie Weich |
| The Evolution of Eve | Miranda Haley Kett |
| The Flycatcher | Andrew Grace |
| The Foal | Eric Schabla |
| The Ghosts of Okuma | Mitch Wieland |
| The Healing Room | Christine Hooper |
| The Immigrant Playbook | Amar Bhakta |
| The Kanes | Peter Horgan |
| The Lake Trip | Alex McAulay |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Las Tunas Connection | Richard Tur |
| The Last Resort | Jim Bishop |
| The Last Ride | Michael Davison, Dana Abraham |
| The Last Statesman | Dylan Gallimore |
| The Locum | Shiv B |
| The Makeup Artist | Jacob Hayden |
| The Man She Was | Kasi Brown, Ric Averill |
| The Man Who Killed the World | Guy Ducker |
| The Mark | Carol Lewis |
| The Match | Justin Ballheim |
| The Moonset Mistake | Michael Sarrow |
| The Nightshift | Shiv B |
| The Other | Jordan Pope |
| The Other Side of the Moon | Michael Brody |
| The Painted Key | James Barrett, Tony Robenalt |
| The Place Between | Marta Roncada |
| The Place We Stand Together | Catherine Wright |
| The Pulpit | Tosin Morohunfola |
| The Quiet Fire 090924 | Christopher McGuinness |
| The Remnants | Rich Vecchione |
| The Righteous Path | Adam Cohen |
| The Scammer | Bryan van Dijk |
| The Secret Court | Phil Gillen |
| The Settlement | Eric Schabla |
| The Spells at St. Agnes | Laura Hunter Drago |
| The Trapline | Jack Cox |
| The Unreality of Roma Mason | Shannon Denise Evans, Michael Mendiola |
| The Vanishing Act | Lexi Lieberman |
| The Way You Look Tonight | John Cerrito |
| The Worst Friend | Manju Reijmer |
| The Yoko Ono Story | Anzu Lawson |
| ThinkHeal | Sarah Baloch |
| Third Person | Courtney Froemming |
| This Is Our City | Marissa Lessman |
| Ties That Bind | Laura Harbin |
| To The Stars | K. Michelle Stewart |
| Treacle | Annie Haworth |
| Tricks of Ascension | Madison Perna |
| Troll | Steven Ackley |
| Two Fates | Kelsey Ann Wacker, Lori Lee Peters |
| Unmanageable | Jim Woods |
| Unpredictable | Lisa Hickey |
| Unscathed | Rebecca Lieberman |
| Utopia Dystopia | Talisha Elger |
| Vengeance of Saints | Phillip Roquemore |
| Versus | Alex Marsha Sylvia |
| Waffle House | Jeffrey Morgan |
| Wake Up, Kid! | Shane Weiss |
| Warning Signs | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| We Need Space | Umnia El-Neil |
| WELLNESS | Megan Gilbert |
| What Money Can Buy | Zachary Swickey |
| When the Tulips Bloom | Lauren Serpa |
| Where the Ocean Meets the Sound | Tristan Young Mercado |
| White Hawk Rising | Claudia Dato |
| Wilderness | Makana Lani |
| Winter Plunderland | Richard Eckert |
| X/WIND | Richard Pohl |
| Yahoo Boy | Wendy J Bednarz |
| You Can Call Me Cookie | Kamaria Williams |
| Your American Brother | Aamuro Kanda |
| Zero Light | Christina Auriana |
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