2024 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on February 28, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,200 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:
| ...Walk Into a Barn | Richard Selvi |
| #1735 | Joshua Weeks |
| 46 GROVE | Lilli Kay |
| A Fatal Fortune | Stephen M. Levinson |
| A KID WALKS INTO A BAR | Heather Quinlan |
| A Midsummer Night's Disco | Kate Gray-Johnson |
| A.C.E. | Scott Marshutz |
| Acceptance | Cassidy Stahl |
| All You Can Carry | Max Orkis |
| ASHES | Nicole Ohara |
| Average Joe and Hackzilla: A Love Story | Vincenzo Lucciola, Anton Schettini |
| Baby Teeth | Scott Baker |
| Baller | Sophie McVeigh |
| BAT ZILLA | Orly Lewittes |
| Beasts | Julia Diddy |
| BEATS | Berenice Eveno |
| Become Death | Brendan Sullivan |
| Before My Time | Imogen Thomas |
| Best Served Dead | Jeanette Scherrer |
| Between a Hard Place and the Drawing Board | Odin Riter |
| Bowling, Alone | Casey Baum |
| Boxes | Benjamin Berger |
| Breathe With Me | Matt Curtis Slater |
| Bullseye | Riley Scott |
| Burned | Loren Davis |
| California Dreaming | Andres Luna III |
| Cálmate, mija | Victor Ridaura |
| CATCH AND RELEASE | Matthew Medrano |
| Chimera | Anne Lower |
| Clarke, At Home | Karla Spika |
| COFFEE FIX | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Cowgirl | Scott Mitchell Kelly |
| Crimson | Star Victoria |
| Crying on Command | Jake Fallon |
| Custody | Faisal Qureshi |
| Dagon | Jonathan Gamer |
| Damage Gets Done | Amber Adamez |
| Dance Man | Jerry Perez |
| Dandelion | Corey Pinchoff, Fiona Obertinca |
| Days not Weeks | Zac Low |
| Dead Dad Club | Beck Thompson |
| Dearly Departed | Darren Vukasinovic |
| Debbie's Gotta Dance | Laurel Kulow |
| Diane From Kernville | S.E. King |
| Dinner At Carmine's | Michael Brennan |
| Do You Care? | Sarah Lavis |
| Doe | Donte Carter |
| Double Cross | B. Moore |
| Dream Less | Michelle Blair Wilker |
| Dysania | Brandon Mercado, Zach DeLeon |
| Eggplant | Joaquin Palma |
| Else/Where | Michael Raver |
| Encuentro Americano | Liz Vazquez |
| END TIME | Michal Schick |
| Everyone needs a place to call home | Peter Schuyler |
| Everything is Fine, Just Fine, Constantly Fine, Nothing But Fine, Consistently Fine, Nothing But Fine, Forever | Tony Ayala Fuentes |
| Everything Is Melting | Taylor Tobin |
| Fairy Soup | Rose Winchester |
| Featherweight | Michael Ayres |
| Feed the Brute | Corsica Wilson |
| Fightin' Words | Laura Kemp |
| Flight | Kate Austin-Raffan |
| Flora & Niamh | Imogen Thomas |
| Floss | Alexander Gustaveson |
| Forgotten Bodies | JARED BREWER |
| FRANKSLIST | Christine Celozzi |
| free martin | Scott Thompson, Hayes Hart-Thompson |
| GEO | Kevin Miller |
| Ghosted | Nick OBrien |
| Glimmer | Werner Traut |
| Good Behavior | Caleb Dillon |
| Good Dogs | Morgan Smalley |
| Green | Alison Severs-Ruiz |
| Grima | Richie Harrington |
| Grow-Up | Roberto Ortuso |
| Guidelines | Liam Cairns |
| HANSEL ON THE MANTEL | Picazzo Stevens |
| Heartbreak afterglow | Joel Junior |
| How It Ends | Megan Robinson |
| hunger pains | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Hurt | Christian Krohn |
| I love you, mom and dad | luke orrell |
| IF YOU GIVE A GIRL A CANDLE | Nicole Kohut |
| Influence | Dan Nicholls, Alexa Morden |
| Influence | quinn katherman |
| It's Just My Mom | Ryan Cunningham |
| Johnny's Paradise | Daniel Taube Murray, Matt Compitiello |
| JUST FOR FUN: A HORROR LOVER’S FANZINE | Susan Eileen Jizba |
| Karma | Santiago Ortiz-Monasterio |
| KATIE | Rohan Bartosy |
| Kissyfoot | Michael Clifton |
| Korean Shooter | Jimmy Prosser |
| Lake Day | Sophia Varnai |
| LAMP | Cathriona Slammon |
| Lesbian Ditch Day | Marie Bland |
| Life and Death are spelled the same | Neil Knox |
| Light's Out | Michael Buzzelli |
| List of Grievances | Agnes Bookbinder |
| Little Dipper | Mia Alexander |
| Lobster | Melissa Kong |
| Lunch Box | Megan Carroll |
| Make a Wish | Lucy Johnson |
| Manos | Erick Torres |
| Mare | Halle Skye |
| Margot | Jessica OToole |
| Memaw's Dead | LaLa Halsema |
| Merrow | Alexander Seltzer |
| Merry Merry | Andrew Hurley |
| Minamidera | Kate Segal |
| Mother's Day | Kirsten Rasmussen |
| Mouth of Scary Creek | Aaron Ainsworth |
| Mr Big Hands | Annabel Maclean |
| My Lady Garden | Sally Llewellyn |
| Night Dancer | Christopher Stern |
| Night of the Living Veg | Greg Harvey |
| No Fault | Ashlee Harris |
| No Longer Human | Nick Vidler, James Haggarty, Sharlott Shi |
| NUBSVILLE | Anthony O'Brien |
| Numb | Travis Gonzalez |
| Oasis | Ly-Anne Thijs |
| Of What Grows Through Fire | Tevin Simpson, Bryce Marrero |
| Off to War | Ed Tasca |
| On Delivery | Tim Bryant |
| One Week Captive | Triston Kollister |
| One Wore Blue And One Wore Black | Diana Duric |
| Orange Grove | Adam Bailey |
| Orange Pekoe | Justin Smith-Fischer |
| Orna & the Urn (short film) | Ellen Barry |
| Our Long Goodbye | Dave Beamish |
| Outlaw | Louis Adorno |
| Pander | Rohan Zerna |
| Pangs (Formerly "First Blood") | Jessica McLaughlin |
| Pears & Misdemeanors | Jimmy Prosser |
| Pickup Line | Alexandre Cabello |
| Pigskin | Tishna Lodi |
| Prey/Predator | Sarah Ward |
| Prima | Becca E. Davis |
| Prison Moths | Nell Dickerson |
| PROFUNDO | Korbi Dean |
| Psycho/tic | Jeff Athey |
| Queen of Heaven | Lindsay Ripley |
| R.I.P. Jenny Lee | Jason Rice |
| Right Hook | Jennifer Boch-Wawrzyniak, Stephen Turselli |
| Roller World | Raquel Trujillo , Kim Caicedo |
| Romeo & Juliet: A New Epilogue | Adria Budd-Johnson |
| Same Race, Different Hurdles | Chijindu Martin Onyekachukwu |
| Scratch Fever | James Shepard |
| Seeing Red | Melanie Lizarraga |
| Seeing Red | Warren Lane |
| Sensei Matters | John Hallmann, Yashar Kafi |
| SeVen | Pablo Zubieta |
| Shiloh | David Schroeder |
| Siblings | Lily Giannoni |
| Sing Sweet Sparrow | A.J. Vasquez |
| Slayapalooza | Sebastian Watson |
| Slingshot | Maddie Close |
| Slow Fuse | Edward Therese |
| Smoke and Mirrors | Matt Curtsinger |
| Sober October | Alex Martinez |
| Soccer Moms | Oliver Schaffer |
| SoulStream | Nelou Keramati |
| STEALTH | Nancy Cristina |
| Sugar Baby | Rakesh Baruah |
| Sunday Sauce | Matt Campanella |
| Superior Intelligence | Leo Bassow |
| Sussicran | Paulo Cruz |
| Sweet Sixteen | Brian Larkins |
| SWINE | David Stobbe, Henry Weisel |
| SYZYGY | Tamela D'Amico |
| Taga | Jill Sachs |
| The Aedema | Oliver Thomas |
| The Air We Breathe | Zoe Bullock |
| The Anchoress | Matthew Fisher |
| The Balloon | Scott Younger |
| The Beach | Michael Shannon |
| The Boy Without Words | Debby Huvaere |
| THE BRIDE AND GOON | Hugh Murchison |
| THE CHOCOLATE KANDINSKY | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Closet | Joel KARLINSKY |
| The Comps | Julie Nelson |
| The Elf That Changed Christmas Forever | Andrew Neymarc, Remy Neymarc |
| The Embodiment | Joe Pan |
| The Evil That Men Do | Steve Hanisch |
| The First and Last Conversation | Grant Hunter |
| The German | Michael Mortimer |
| the Ghost Note | Keith Adams |
| The Girl at the Bar | Ryan Cunningham |
| The Human Experience | Judah Ray |
| THE JINGLE WRITER | Nerris Nevarez-Nassiri |
| The Less Dead | Christian Mott |
| The Light at the End | Lynda Simmons |
| The Little Things | Aaron Frank |
| The Lost Invader | Dylan Trail, Chloe Shelton |
| The Love Nest | Christopher Malcolm |
| The Masterpiece | Sean Griffiths |
| The Minesweeper | Matt Smith |
| The Naughty List | Michael Cumes |
| The Other Side | Mark Harris |
| The Quiet Notes | Will Derden |
| THE REVVER | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| The Rewind | Mikel Wisler |
| The Sleepy Agent | John Cleaver |
| The Snowman | Ezra Barron |
| The Songwriter | Todd McMullen |
| The Split | Lindsay Kent, Lauren Kent |
| The Stress of It | Rachael (Ray) Kuecher |
| The Switchblade Kids | Gavin Goldsmith |
| The Tower | Coale Coleman |
| The Tree | Vijay Singh |
| The Untamed | Olga Holtz |
| THE VIEW THAT COMES TO MIND | Dion Moosa |
| The Weather is Turning | Jonathan Lill |
| The Witch of Acadiana | Nick Mendoza |
| The Witness | Alfio Dilena, Justin Kwon |
| Thingamajigs — A Musical Fairy Tale (Revision 88a with laurels) | A. S. Templeton |
| THIRTEEN | Allison Norlian |
| Three Times Makes A Fact | Helen Fowler |
| thump | Richard Young |
| Token Christmas | Amish Patel, Joel Buxton |
| Tomorrow, I Promise (working title) | Julia Morizawa |
| TREE: WAKE OF BLOOD | Brandon Lohstreter |
| Trolley Man | Simon Diamond |
| Two Minutes | Sara Shohoud |
| Underwater | Amanda Cole |
| Venus in Furs | Liam Walsh |
| Viewer Satisfaction | Joseph Bertagna |
| Violent Delights | Jack Warren |
| w(0)ke | Matthew Dutton, Gareth Dutton |
| We are Seeds | Cheryl Isaacson |
| WE CAN NEVER GO BACK | Aminah Hughes, Dylan Kussman |
| WHAT I'D GIVE YOU | Spencer Lynn |
| What We Left Behind | Claudine Yip |
| When the Flame Goes Out | Joshua Matthews, Jason Sheedy |
| Where Do Memories Go | Brandon Tyson |
| Whitewash | Jerry Hsu |
| Who Are You, Nanu? | Anjini Taneja Azhar |
| WILL, GO Play | Mark Schmitz |
| WiNKY | Kelly Fulton |
| YAOGUAI | Mimi Lee, Vanessa Vo |
| Yggdrasil | Yaroslav Altunin |
| YIELD | Ned Farr |
| YOLO | Calum Chalmers |
| You Are Going To Die Today | Elise Felber |
| Your Song | Logan Long |
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