2024 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on June 26, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenwriting Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,000 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:
| "What Are You Afraid Of?" | Buddy Mantia |
| A.S.T.R.A. | Linda Levy |
| ABDUCTED | Brian Buseck |
| After the Ravagers | Joel Michalak |
| Alien Safari | Tom Firestone, Martin Meunier |
| All God's Children | Bryce Thompson Emley |
| All I Ever Knew | David Hailes |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| Allie | Francesco Patella |
| Alone | Jon Eudowe |
| American Enterprise | Michael Rakoff |
| Anomaly | Daniel Parra |
| Apparitions of Kyoto | Corey Perkins |
| ARTIFICIAL ANGELS v The Predestination Paradox | Matthew Stevens |
| ATLANTICA | Donald Smith |
| AUTOPILOT | David Luz, J Randolph Harrison |
| B.O.R.N. | George Brighton |
| Bacteria Empire | Jarod Backens |
| Battle Born | Jeff Edwards, Rob Jaeger |
| Being Betazoid | Grayson Thagard |
| Black Hole Block Party | Nickolas Jakimow |
| Blood Bound | Josiah Brown |
| Blue Butterfly | Tingfeng Zhu |
| Chrysalis | Ayah Abdul-Rauf |
| Citizen Empire | David Salinas |
| Clawed Predator | Peter Kershaw |
| Cognition | Mohit Dhameeja |
| Combustion | Christopher Wright |
| Commodore Cindy | Bill Ellis |
| Contained | Jennifer Wilton |
| Coven | Charu Sinha |
| Crescent Sun | LaDarrion Williams |
| Cumulus | Matthew Silverman |
| Curses LLC | Thomas R. Wood |
| Cybercide | Stephen Kwietniak |
| Dark Matter | Pietro Corbetta |
| Dark Rain | Souvid Datta |
| Darkness and Fire | Tasja Hauk |
| Dead of Night: The Man-Thing | Garrett Dunne |
| Deadfellows | Kody Hamilton |
| Death Road | Adrian Davis |
| Death Valley | Adam Scott Mazer |
| Decades: My Grandfather's Records | Jayde Rossi |
| Desolate | Thomas Corrigan |
| Diaspora | Boaz Super |
| Division One | Lucca Leonardi |
| Dreamers | Daniel Russell |
| Dreams Come True | Anne Silke Czichos |
| Dwell | David Clark |
| E X 0 | Jian Cuizon |
| Earth Pig | Scooter Corkle, Phillip Thomas |
| EDEN CHIP | Scott Cramer |
| El Coco | Blake Robbins, Paul Barrett, Steve Murphy, Daniel Albino |
| Electric Lazarus | Ernest Langston |
| ELFHOME | Nandini Bapat |
| Elven | Matthew Tallacksen |
| Elysian Fields | Elise Shin |
| Erasure | Ryan Berry |
| Etherna | Tavare Baldwin |
| Evergreen | Kohl Jordan |
| Exo | Cody Ashford, Eric Vue |
| Faces of Lilith | Shelby Hagerdon |
| Fighting Time | Travis Bible |
| Free Time | Gavrielle Jacobovitz |
| Ghost Station | Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez |
| GIBORIM | Michal Schick |
| GIRL WITH CAT (Blue) | Sam Hawksmoor |
| Good Creation | W. Y. Geng |
| Growth | Casimir Nozkowski |
| Gut: Erasure | Georgii Maleev |
| Harvester | Jesse O'Brien |
| Hatter | Georgie Nickerson |
| HAVEN UPHILLS | Kem Joy Ukwu |
| Hazard Park | Reid Pickett, Briana Cox |
| Hellas | Matthew Evans |
| Hightower | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Homebound | Scotty Kauffman |
| Homestead | Kaden Watson |
| Horizon | Erik Wade |
| Hunger Pangs | Charles Miller |
| Hy-Brasil | Alia Zeid |
| I Think My Parents Are Trying To Kill Me | Scott Liapis |
| Ignition Switch | Len Vidson |
| Infertile | Ben Sharples |
| INTERNECION | John Battistessa |
| Into the Other Side | Sarah Millar |
| Into The Storm | Jacob Pinchen |
| Intuitive AI | Sarolta Mohaine-Palfi |
| It Ended When She Said Goodbye | David Hailes |
| It's All Been Done | Laura Becker |
| Kingdom Come | Vee Saieh |
| Kiss Me Dead | Ken Henderson |
| Kosmos | Alex Blumberg |
| La Maupin | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Lacie in the Wonderverse | Michael Ierulli |
| LANCE | Stephen Gleason |
| Last Breath | Brandon Camp |
| Last Seen Alive | Jillian Lozano |
| Legends Untold | Denton Adams |
| Lights In The Sky | Kieren Knapp |
| Live, from the Moon | Matt Lindenburg |
| Loch Awe | Stefan Alexander, Anthony Guilianti |
| MANTIS | Laura Lyte |
| March 18th | Ellen Barry |
| Martial Classes | Jackie Lee |
| Mattress Store Assassin | Christopher Loveland |
| MINDSET | Edward Smythe |
| Mirage | Carrington Walsh |
| Modulated | M. Scott Grimmett |
| Moksha | Saurin Lakhia |
| Mystic Springs | Sally Smith, Brett Ellen Block |
| Nexus | Ivan Gartner |
| Obsolete Hearts | Nick Porisch |
| Omnilingual | Rudi O'Meara |
| Open Wide | Cameron Martin |
| Origins | Kurt Wright |
| Panazuela | Koji Masutani |
| Past Lives | John Cerrito |
| Patchwork | Amanda Keener |
| Peter Pan: Now or Never | Joel Micah Donovan, Bailey Donovan |
| Phantom-I - The Vivarium | Igo C. S. Lyra |
| Placeholders | Dominic White |
| Plague | Joseph Southworth |
| Precursor | Steve Brown |
| Protocol 7 | Jason Sherman |
| Reminisce | Tatiana Paris |
| Revamp | Joanna Lamb Looby |
| Revived | Joe Estrada |
| Rose | Sylvia LaFleur |
| Runaway Wind | Michael Raymond |
| Runner | Refiner | CJ Voltz |
| SAINT K | Rachel Skarritt |
| Sandstorm | Terry Podnar |
| Sapience | Sean Griffiths |
| Secrets of a Hollow Earth | Gareth Root |
| Seed of Being | Alexandra Farias |
| SEEDS | Mike Johnston |
| Seth vs. Death | Danny Baram |
| Shadowlands | Richard Turgeon |
| SHIFTED | Mark Simborg |
| Snootwood | Daniel Callaghan |
| Sola and The Oracle | Léa Geronimo |
| Space Age Aristodemus | Paz Naranjo |
| Spectrum | Alan Slack |
| SPIRALMIND | Benito Perez, Jackson J Smith |
| Star Crossed | Rodolfo Salas |
| Star Wars: Parallax | Ronan Lobo |
| STARBURROW | Tyler Koford |
| STILL ALIVE | Rosemary Griggs |
| Stormheart | Meshal Alsaleem |
| Strange Blood | Melinda Saranchock, Chris Saranchock |
| Stygiana | Cairo Smith |
| Survival Lessons | Walker McKnight |
| Surviving Eden | Lisa Gonzales |
| Susannah Of Salem | Mikael Holcombe-Scali |
| Sweethearts Are Drowning | Andrew Blackman |
| Tales from the Mountains | Marco Moro |
| Telmah | Jake Duerden |
| Terminal | Alex Vaii |
| Tesser | Pamela Pinto-Oehme |
| The Age of the Empath | Steve Brown |
| The Angeldusters | Julian Martin |
| The Applicants | Justin Ballheim |
| The Ashen Veil | Polina Komissarova |
| The Big Switch | Simon Lewis |
| The Black Lion | Aaron Shaps |
| The Bliss Project | Ryan Bennett |
| The Blue Eyed Prince | Thomas De Luca |
| The Chair in the Garden | Drew Ross |
| The Countess: The Death of Dante Edmonds | Diana Densmore |
| The Dark Nowhere | Clay Fusco |
| The Decolonizers | Michael Boaks |
| The First Lost Boy | Amanda Milwood |
| The Forever Hotel | Justin Ballheim |
| The Fountain | Link York |
| The Fountain | Link York |
| The Fucked-up Version of Us | Steven Snell |
| The Gift | Miyuru Rambukwella |
| The Great Filter | Vito Ferraro |
| The Heart of Sri Katava | Cairo Smith |
| The Historian | David St. Clair |
| The Hybrid | Richard Turgeon |
| The Killing Dream | Aaron Heinrich |
| The King's Reeve | Patrick Carr |
| The Kingdom to Come | Jennifer Ball |
| The Last Book of Sand | Halasius Bradford |
| The Last Future | Lynda Levy |
| The Last Messenger | Tasia Williamson |
| The Last Relic | jacob richardson |
| The Last Vorthain | Kaela Arsenault |
| The Legend Of Sky City | W.W. Mitchell |
| The Lightning Herders | Bodhrán Mullan |
| The Long Haul | Rene Claveau |
| The Match | Justin Ballheim |
| The Muster Call | Duygu Aybar |
| The Operative | David Schroeder |
| The Paranormal Peculiarities of Martha Cratchit | Ryan Paige |
| The Primordials | Rebecca Goulding |
| The Raconteur | Colby Guillory |
| The Snip | Billy Hanson |
| The Stranger from the Sky | Solveig Nuin Stephens |
| The Ten Plagues | Elena Zucker |
| The Traitor | Forest B.G. |
| The Ultimate Bet | Frank Victoria |
| The War of the Elements | Maximos Veverka |
| The World Time Forgot | Mike Rogers |
| The Wyrd and The Ruin | Tyler Lofftus |
| ThinkHeal | Sarah Baloch |
| Thornbriar | Marilee Dahlman |
| Time Tourists | Josh Miller |
| Time Willinh | Renee Brown |
| TIMESTOP | John Dowalo |
| Titanium Island | Jeff J. Blix |
| TITANOMACHY | Mikael Holcombe-Scali |
| Total Eclipse Of The Heart | Jason Pawlett |
| TOUCH, INC. | Scott Cramer |
| Travellers | Georgina Mullany |
| Two Dudes, Some Kids, and an Epic Viking Curse | Laura Becker, Donnie Becker |
| Unidentified | Darren Moran |
| Universal Frequency | Richard Krzemien |
| Us Against The End | Clotilde Danis |
| Vacation on Earth | Steven Crozier |
| Vanishing Point | Annamarie Davidson |
| Void | Maren Patterson |
| Void | Adam Hoelzel |
| WASTE CITY | Marie-Emmanuelle T. Hartness |
| We Never Sleep | Nathan Helm |
| Witch Hunter | Tim Kontje |
| Wych Elm | Jada Lue Foung |
| XOVA7 | Quanah Hicks |
| Z-State | Lawrence Kajura |
| ZOMBS | Megan Lynch |
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