2024 ScreenCraft Feature Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 10, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Feature Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,600 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on August 7th 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 Quarterfinalists:
| "Ban the Bullet" | Salvatore Klezmer Riggio |
| "The Girl From Krakow" | Staton Rabin |
| 07 Honda Civic | John Schlirf |
| 777 BISTRO | Ranjith R |
| 80 AND OUT! | Steve Fisher |
| A Debt Unpaid | Luke Guidici |
| A Halloween Happening | Kyle Knopf |
| A Labour of Love | Olga Holtz |
| A Mind Heist | Marc Henderson |
| A Minor Cut | Joseph Mwamba |
| A Seeping Wound | Darryl Wimberley |
| A Wild World | Maxson Davis |
| A Woman Scorned | Sean Kael Williams |
| A Woman's Touch | Brendan Wade |
| Adventures in Serial Killing | Jack Warner |
| After The Exorcism | Zach Siegel |
| AKILI | Ivan Mooh Mooh |
| All Great Neptune's Ocean | Barry Leach |
| AMBERGRIS | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| AMIRA | Bob Celli |
| An Incubus to Plague Mankind | Abdullah Alhendyani |
| And India | Stephen Shapiro |
| Angel of the Anthracite | Elizabeth Dunn |
| Anne with a Van | Paul Taylor |
| Aria | Steven Bogart |
| As the Rush Comes | Nicolas Diaz |
| AUTHORESS | Carolyn Kras |
| B.O.R.N. | George Brighton |
| Bad Dates and Aliens | Navid Mehrjou |
| BALANCE | Edward Klau |
| Ballplayers | Jack Highberger, Jim Bulluck |
| Beef Heist | Sam Thomasson |
| Best Summer Never | Shaun Balbar, Alexia Coelho |
| Betray All | Francis Toselli |
| Between Us | Katie Wells |
| Black Hole Block Party | Nickolas Jakimow |
| BLACK SUN | Rick Rowley |
| Bloody Mary | Kylie Boersma |
| Blue Butterfly | Geno Marx |
| Blue Moonlight | Jenna Ramiro, Angelica Diaz |
| Boom the Conqueror | Ana R. Dominick |
| Boomerang | Michael Alter |
| Boulevard of Bold Dreams | LaDarrion Williams |
| BREAKING FAST | Arthur Goldbart, Andrew Gerstenblatt |
| Bring the Body | T.C. Matherne, Jeff Burkes |
| Brinkman | Sherman Neil |
| Broken Stones | Rudi O'Meara |
| Call Me Frank | Graham Kosakoski |
| Camera Man | Cairo Smith |
| Can't We Be Friends? | Victoria Bullock |
| Capital Sins | Pablo Briz |
| Cariño | Taylor Tejada |
| Carrion | Jordan Schiff |
| Casbah | Shreyas Ayaluri, Adham O. Adham |
| Cascade Effect | Lori Planz |
| Caught Stealing | Eljohn Macaranas |
| Chasing Romeo - A Wolf Tale | Dave Pliler |
| Checkout | Hunter Davis, Bryan Bock |
| Chessboard Rumble | Jens 'Pil' Pilegaard |
| Chickens On A Plane | Earl Nulton |
| CHOKEPOINT | Tamra Teig |
| Climbing High | Bill Jordan |
| Closer to Fine | Marisa Forrest |
| COLD TRACKS | Cliff Wang |
| Contained | Jennifer Wilton |
| Cotard's Crescendo | Barry Leach |
| COUNTERPOINT | Arden Earnest |
| CRAB | Abi Perpall |
| Creature Feature | Caleb Ellis |
| Crimes in the Holy City | Natalia Cruz |
| Crisis of Faith | Richard Fletcher |
| Crystalline | Christopher Cunetto |
| Cultish | Michael Rakoff, Don Purnell |
| Cutter's Caskets | Nathan Weinreich |
| Dead Money | Mukilan THANGAMANI |
| Death Valley | Adam Scott Mazer |
| Demanding an Answer From God | Kevin J. Howard |
| Double Features | Jordan Wold |
| Drowning | Keshia Smith, Natasha Richards Armodoros |
| Dying to Reach You | June Ball |
| Elysia's Knot | Philip Weisman |
| Encounter | Mike Pappa |
| Equinox | Mira Atwah |
| Eve | Jackie Lee |
| Everybody's Got One | Nicholas David Shanman |
| Faces of Lilith | Shelby Hagerdon |
| Falling Up the Ladder | Leah Claire Borrie |
| Falls County | Chris Phillips |
| FDR | Tony Conniff |
| Fertile Coast | Skyler Berman |
| Fighting the Fade | Lisa Shostal, Laura Kehler |
| Final Gals | Nathaniel Feeley |
| Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
| Fisher of Men | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| Five Tigers | Shiv B |
| FKA Mother | Olivia Cohen |
| Fleur | Virginie Harp |
| fool | Scott Sandler |
| For Blood | Bennett Weinschenk, Imogen Lolos |
| Forever Mine | Collette Letendre |
| FORSAKEN | Tye Nelson |
| Four Corners | Kishore Kraleti |
| Freaky Viernes | Steve Miranda |
| Furious | Sender Tarlovsky |
| Gal Baby | Tommy Roswell |
| Gamer Girl’s Nightmare Odyssey | Tom Burke |
| Generations | Nader Salem |
| Georgia Pool | Gregory Caruso |
| Giant Snake | Zach Siegel |
| Glass Walls | Andrew Wilborn |
| Goddess Underachiever | J Rainsnow |
| Godot | Oren Shai, David N Meyer |
| Good Creation | W. Y. Geng |
| Good Mother, Lavender Vine | Stacey Pierce |
| Gordo | Robert Medrano |
| Gorgon | Richard Humphries |
| Grand Guignol | Alex Schor |
| Graves of Lesser Men | Conor King Devitt |
| Groupies | Corinne Foxx |
| Grover The Great Adventurer! | Jessica Margaret Trott |
| GRÝLA | Carol Bass |
| Gusto! | Ally Gilfeather |
| Harming Prince Charming | Lyndal Simpson |
| Heartless | Wen Kim Chan |
| HEARTRACE | Will Bermender |
| Hennessy's Disguise | Dea Divi |
| Hey, Compass, How do I find Happiness? | Brittany Strong |
| HIGH | Tisha Robinson-Daly, Jonathan Mason |
| Hitler's Choirboys | Andrew Boyd |
| Homecoming | Anuraag Asiwal |
| Homestead | Kaden Watson |
| How Hollywood destroyed my life. And why I let it. | Guilherme Viegas |
| How Rock and Roll Saved Tosca | Barry Leach |
| Hoxie Twenty One | Marc Moody |
| HUNTER | Alan Sanchez |
| Huntress | Kylie Eaton |
| Indah and the Spirits | Sophie Mutiara Nova |
| Insubordinate | Pat Kiss |
| International Boulevard | Luke Domet |
| Into the Stars | Louis Mateu |
| It Girl | Mac Watson |
| It's Only Life | Joseph Stephen Meadows |
| Ivy Eight | Kevin Jokipii |
| Jellyfish | Spyder Dobrofsky |
| JERRY | Ryan Lipscomb |
| Jesus Land | Saila Kariat |
| Just Another Hero | Denise Hamilton |
| K, THE ART OF LOVE | Kanica Suy |
| Kimera | Pedro Santos |
| L'Aragosta (The Lobster) | Matthew Campanella |
| Labyrinth of Destiny | Ernestina Juarez |
| Land Of The Free | Cody Beavers |
| Langston and Bacari's Time Travel Adventure - Bla(ck) to the Past | LaRue Hasty |
| Lark | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Legacy Of Shadows | B. Parker Lindner |
| Let's Get Lost | Michel Laflamme |
| Life or Seth: A Love Story About the Right to Die | Zoey Sidwell |
| LIFT | Abraham Amkpa, John Hibey |
| Lightning Lee | Nick Duke |
| Limping Towards Babylon | Julius Galacki |
| LIONS FLIGHT | Diana Collins |
| Living Together | Julian Ralston |
| Long Haul | Brad Starr |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Lord of Space | Cairo Smith |
| Loser | David Bowler, Bill Bowler |
| Lucile | Ian Wee |
| Lunatic | Alexander Whitrow |
| Lure | Tom Castillo |
| Maddie and Frannie | Virginia Austin |
| Made Wright | Tedros Habib |
| Make You Believe | Laura Jane McHugh |
| Making Estrangements | Rachel Paulson, Will Sterling |
| Masked Men | Eileen Dennehy |
| MAX 101 - Edge Of Forever | Sam Lu |
| Melting Point | Michel Laflamme |
| Messiah | Kyle Ferris |
| Mia & The Skeletons' Night From Hell | Ryan Maples |
| Middle Men | Adam Linhares |
| Midnight Rainbow | Kelly Song |
| Minerva Reef | Christian Ruhen |
| Misinterpret | Koji Masutani, Gareth Lee |
| Miss Creator | Rudiger Sturm |
| Moksha | Saurin Lakhia |
| Monster In My Back Yard | Sylvia LaFleur |
| Moriah | Alexa Eden |
| Moving the Line | Colin Edward Lawrence |
| Munro | Edgar Ortiz, Martin Krejci |
| MURDERAMA | Edward Klau |
| My Name Is Arif | McKenzie Moser |
| Naturalized | Tim Caron |
| Nick Tungsten: Nightmare Hunter | John Deaver, William Walker |
| No Ghosts Tonight | Adele Smaill |
| No Little Girl | Robert Wooldridge |
| Normal Girl | Morgan Holub |
| Not Athletic Regular People | John Coady |
| Nummo | Emmanuel YOKA |
| Oeuvre | James Wolf |
| Old Dog | William Sterling |
| One Last Trip | Ryan Cornnor |
| Ordnung | Marc Moody |
| Our Man In Hollywood | Joshua Rebell |
| Over the Hill | Laura Kemp |
| OVERLORDE | Brian Streaty |
| Pastor Bob is Not a Good Guy | Paul Mowry |
| Pater | Oliver Silver |
| Pawn | Rosario Pellerito |
| PENELOPE'S WAR!! | Nancy "Sunny" Ellis, Marc L. Ellis |
| Peter Pan: Now or Never | Joel Micah Donovan, Bailey Donovan |
| Pi Kappa Die | Ashton Avila, Adam Navas |
| Picayune | Holland Gallagher |
| Piledriver | Jordan Lazieh |
| Pili & Me | Zachary Swickey |
| Play the Edge | Peter Horgan |
| Playtime | Louis Parkes-Talbot |
| Pride and Prudence | Fran Ervin |
| Privacy | Jameson Rich |
| Purity Sterling | Robert Gallagher |
| Pustka | Edel Dmytro Oksamyt |
| Pyramid Scheme | Kelly Campbell |
| Rabbit Hunt | Richard Wilkinson |
| Racer Unknown | C.J. LongHammer |
| Reach For the Skyler | Mark Higgins |
| Rebel | James Lee, James Lee |
| Revengia | Gianfranco Cuoco |
| Reverse Course | Gregory Cohen |
| REZ | Listening Raven |
| RIVETERS | Max Rissman |
| Rough Cut | Mitchell Slan |
| Royalty | Kevin Jokipii |
| Ruby Rose | Tamu Favorite |
| Sanctuary | Olivia Whiteley |
| Sarah in the City | Lexi Brandt |
| Sarla | Pooja Nayyar |
| Saturday at the MET | Layne Friedman |
| School Can Be a Killer | Paula Gleeson |
| Seducer | Anthony Clifton |
| Seeker | Mason Weigel |
| Semi-Divine Creature | Brandon Lunzman, Mitchell Perera |
| Sex Talk | Jessica L. Folk |
| Sexperiment | Alex Murawski |
| She Died Famous | Kyle Rutkin |
| Shockapine | Chris Hewitt |
| Short Time | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| Sin Child | John Cerrito |
| Sixgun Saint | Warren Lane |
| Sleeping with Strangers | Genie Leslie |
| Smoke & Sons | Will Lebowitz |
| Sophomoric | TJ Coughlin |
| South of Purgatory | Algis Danaitis |
| Sovereign Citizen | Craig Peters |
| Space Cadets | Arturo Corces |
| Speak Easy | Christopher O. Lukens |
| Speak Now | Michelle Somruthai D'Angelo |
| Spirit Week | Soma Mei Sheng Frazier |
| Split Happens | Logan Serr, Kevin Adelaja |
| Stanton's Promise | Gary D. Jaworski |
| Strange Bedfellows | Brian Laffey |
| Striker | Rich Tuckman |
| Sturgeon General | Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey |
| Sublimis | Mohit Dhameeja |
| Substitute Teacher | Spot Kelly |
| Summer Nights | Pablo Lopez |
| Superlame | Darren Moran |
| Swine Lake | Michael Rakoff |
| Systema | Jeff Harvey |
| Takedown | Mark Cooper |
| Targets | Rick Lucas |
| Ten Good Deeds | Anwen Bull |
| TEST THIS!! | Gregory Corrado, Rick Wernli |
| The 28th Amendment | Nader Salem |
| The Applicants | Justin Ballheim |
| The Arc of Nirvana | Jim Kuehnis |
| The Art of Lies | John Cooney |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Battlefields | Steve Lane |
| The Beast of America | Julia Jones |
| The Bedmaker | Kristen Mack |
| The Binding of Isaac | Luke Edward |
| The Bombing of Darwin | Amanda Dettrick |
| The City of Ash | Emilio Medina |
| The Cosmic Refuge | David St. Clair |
| The Costumer | Andrew Collinson |
| The Crab | Corey Maddox |
| The Cursing Tree | Nan Schmid |
| The Deadhead | Justin Ballheim |
| The Desert Fox | Pablo Briz |
| The Elwood Butcher | Sean Whitney |
| The Executioner | Derrick Denicola |
| The First Cowboy | James Wolf |
| The Forever Hotel | Justin Ballheim |
| The Fountain | Link York |
| The Fucked-up Version of Us | Steven Snell |
| The Garfield Guy | Jeff Longsworth |
| The Gateway | Parm Saini |
| The Gibson Girls | Shington Lamy |
| The Golden City | Michael Yuen |
| The High Tide | John Saveland |
| The Hotel | Giovanni Pugliese |
| The House | Graham Waldrop |
| The Immaculate Deception | Stewart Fergus |
| The Kid From Juvie | Danny Castro |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Last Single Girl | Folayo Lasaki |
| The Last Weekend | Pavel Sanaev |
| The Legacy | Alexandra Freeman |
| The Light of Xoranthia | Adam Rogers |
| The Lost Treasure of the Mayans | Julius Galacki |
| THE MAKERS | Terrance Henry |
| The Mandrake of Merryweather Woods | Brad Starr |
| The Maze | Liz Janzen |
| The Monsters that Live Among US | Jasmine McLeod |
| The Moon Has Left the Heavens | Jenn Fonteyn |
| The Moonset Mistake | Michael Sarrow |
| The Natural Order | Rio Contrada |
| The Night Watch | Eric LePage |
| The Opposite of Normal | David Sacks |
| The Paper Squadron | Carlton Welch |
| The Photographer's Mule | Jannike Nordensson |
| The Protocol | Alex Blumberg, Shan Harris |
| The Queen of Nothing | Garret McKay |
| The Realtor | Jack Newsome |
| The Refrain | Jarrett Bens |
| The Retreat | Robert McEveety |
| The Road Out: A True Story | Gail Makulowich |
| The Scammer | Bryan van Dijk |
| The Sisters of Mount Carmel | Natalie Zimmerman |
| The Sleep | Trevor McKenna, Cody May |
| The Slog | Simon Herbert |
| The Star Thrower | Kathleen Welton |
| The Train To Bad | Paul Simmons |
| The Tremendous Twyces | William Leavengood |
| The Van | Patrick Hatten |
| The Ventriloquist | Michael Mortimer |
| The Way We Walk | Joseph Kibler |
| The Wilder Family | Chris Binning |
| The Witch's Husband | Hannah Rebecca Carlson |
| The Woodpecker | Denise Widman |
| These Cuffs Followed Me Home | Vijay Ilankamban |
| They Seem Nice | Nathan Weinreich |
| ThinkHeal | Sarah Baloch |
| Third Culture | Christian Navarrete |
| Third Person | Courtney Froemming |
| Thorpedo | Olivia Mayberry |
| Three Orphan Ninjas | Joseph Kryder, Dustin Drye |
| Three Paddies | Dominic Graham |
| Time Tourists | Josh Miller |
| Titan | Jay Adams |
| Topher & Nate & The Invaders From Mars | Ryan Dooley |
| TOUCH, INC. | Scott Cramer |
| Touchwood | Amy Charlesworth |
| Unbecoming | Melissa Alfredson |
| Unhinged | Charles Coulter |
| UNHOLY | Laura Lyte |
| Unidentified | Darren Moran |
| UNION | Marc Moody |
| Untie Your Knots | Gregory Collins |
| Up River | David X Bush |
| Utopia Dystopia | Talisha Elger |
| Victor, The Wild Child of Aveyron - The Musical! | Marc Moody |
| Vinland | D.I. Riordan |
| Viva | Jesse Gi, Grant Singer |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| WASTE CITY | Marie-Emmanuelle T. Hartness |
| Wayfaring Stranger | Simona De Angelis |
| Welcome Home Eugene | Noah Jorgensen, Nolan Watt |
| What You Can't See | Monica Keaton |
| When MYRA Met SAM | Rich Wingerter |
| When the Bears Took Bourbon Street | Preston Parker |
| With Grace | Carrie Shaw |
| World Ender | Zach Grossman, Sasha Grossman |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
| Write or Die! | Christine OKeefe |
| Yom Kippur | Madyson Hearsh |
| You Probably Think This is About You | Sarah Lai |
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