2024 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 15, 2024
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,900 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on June 12th 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:
| 10 Days in a Madhouse | Julia Stier |
| A Better Life | Cassandra Burge |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| Adult Orphan Club | Eevin Hartsough |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| Anchors | Brian Mates, Jennifer Levinson |
| Atlas Dr0p: "The Golden Parachute" | Charles Mesa |
| Babelsberg | Jon Davis |
| Bagley & Co. | Unnamed |
| Barnaby and Bella | Georgina Boeheim |
| BEASTS | Katerina Munis |
| Behind the Orange Curtain | Mia Volta |
| Best Little Boy | Daniel Hirsch |
| Big Sister | Rebecca Faith Quinn |
| Bloodhounds | Anthony Musella |
| Blunt Babe | Brandon Prosek, Meagan Martin |
| Body Count | Jenny Walton |
| BrightLife | Sebastian Magiera |
| Call Of The Void | Ben Monaco |
| Cariño | Taylor Tejada |
| Carrier Pigeon | Graham Nelson |
| Centre Court | Justin Carter |
| Citizen | Eric Kallevig |
| Crescent Sun | LaDarrion Williams |
| Cut Time | Marcus Ostermiller |
| Dead Dad's Club | Christopher Kelly |
| Double Effect | Jonathan Flicker |
| Dreamwalker | Jeremy Hsing |
| Eden | Josh Bromfield Davis |
| Edges | Kat Jiang |
| Ether Run | Westin Lee |
| Eventyr | Tori Larsen |
| Everything I Ever Wanted | Daniella Tovar |
| Falastini | Nader Salem |
| Forever My Child | Wesley Du |
| Forgive Me, Father | Olivia Cohen |
| Found | Alyssa Amer |
| From The Darkest Place | Thom Egelston |
| G.O.G. | Rebekah Miskin |
| Genesys: Dawn of the Nephilytes | Kourtney D. Cooper |
| Golden Hour | Maureen McEly |
| Gotta Eat | Will Lapp |
| Grace Goes to Hell | Aidan Macaluso |
| Hellen Burns | Charlie McCoach |
| HOMESTALKER | Olivia Jampol |
| HONK | Alexandra Scarborough |
| House of a Higher Truth | Rebecca Arroyo |
| Hugowood | Juan Gutierrez |
| I Don't Want To Fight Anymore | James Tison |
| Immigré | Maryam Myika Day |
| INK | Steve Garratt |
| Jackie Cochran's Story | Krista Gallagher |
| KILLERS | Stephanie Stanley |
| Kiwi | Eric Rich |
| Ladies Night | Zoe Belle Gronner |
| Lark | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Let Me Save The World | Mariia Rudenko |
| Losing It | Laura Walters |
| Love, from Ellie | Chantelle James |
| MASH | Christa Butler |
| Midnight Cinema | Jon Davis |
| Midnight Lotus | Arun Miriyala |
| Mrs. Claus: Secret Agent | Tony Gapastione |
| Murder at the Renaissance Faire | John Patrick Daly |
| Neon Kingdom | Alex Britten |
| Nights of Delilah | Jacqueline Postajian |
| No Man's Land | Rachel A. Hein |
| No Return | Devin Rydel Kelly |
| Orna & The Urn | Ellen Barry |
| Pandora's Box | Sara Bresciani |
| Party USA | Jared Sprouse |
| Peeking | Matthew Lai |
| Perfect | Carrie Finn |
| PIMP | Mackenzie Sammeth |
| Play On | Kirsten Cornay |
| Polar Bear Adoption Camp | Eva von Schweinitz |
| Pure Intentions | Sarah Peele |
| Pustka | Edel Dmytro Oksamyt |
| QB1 | Michael Weinreb |
| Ripe Fruit | Drew Westcott |
| RIVETERS | Max Rissman |
| ROMEO and Julia | Darren Moran |
| Rouge | Victoria Lu |
| Senioritis | Julian Berger |
| She Done It | Betsy Nagler |
| Sketchbook | Heather Long, Alicia Marotto |
| Sleeping with Strangers | Genie Leslie |
| Slit | AJ Currie |
| Something About the Tide | Julia Morizawa |
| Soul Searching | Vee Saieh |
| Sound of My Dreams | Miida Chu |
| Spark of a Hero | Milan Sanghani |
| Speedway | Danielle Tjoelker |
| Suckers | Sharon Lennon |
| Take Care of Her | Y.S. Kim |
| The Barracuda Alchemist | Myles Yaksich |
| The Bastard Children of Javier Ortiz | Arianna Ortiz |
| The Catalog | Conor Stechschulte |
| The Cursing Tree | Nan Schmid |
| The Detail | Jonah Einstein |
| The Dirty Double | Frankie Campisano, Sam Hayden |
| The End | Laura Spaeth |
| The Fire UpStairs | Hunter Burke, Nick Lavin |
| The First Artist | Eli Fenix |
| The Fix | Heath Woodlief |
| The Gardener | Case Barden |
| The Golden City | Michael Yuen |
| The Gunslinger Bride | Charmaine Colina |
| The High Tide | John Saveland |
| The Honor Code | Charlotte Duerden |
| The Impala's Last Stand | David Woll |
| The Last Best Deal | Craig Paulsen |
| The Means | Nic Cohen |
| The Mentor | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| The New Hire | John Costello |
| The Promoter | Jack Westhead |
| The Pundit | Chris Jenkins |
| The Sleeping House | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Sound of Exploding Silence | Vincent De Milo |
| The Spirit of Detroit | Don Downie |
| The Thin Place | Chris Hicks |
| The Ursuline | Angela Gulner |
| Threestyle | Matt Curtis Slater |
| Thumbs Down | John Schlirf |
| To The Top | Cynthia Mersten |
| Trash Castle | Marissa Gawel |
| True Nature | CJ Conway |
| Twin Flames | Craig Paulsen |
| UNCUFFED | Elizabeth Stamp |
| Underbelly | Julianna Yonis |
| Valley Dicks | Sam Allemang |
| VERSUS! | Kevin Tavolaro |
| Virtual Reality | Dave Grove |
| Warrior Coach | Josiah Jones |
| Waste City | Marie-Emmanuelle T. Hartness |
| Waypoint | Tim Hitpas |
| We’ll Always Have Stockholm | Bill Poore |
| Wheel Bite | Jackson DeLoach |
| WHIRLPOOL | Jud Cremata |
| Who's Gonna Love You! | Lane Stanley |
| Wrightsville 21 | Cheran Rush, Brandon Chase |
| Yeshiva | Eytan Raphaely |
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