2024 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on March 27, 2024
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition. These exceptional scripts were selected from almost 1,200 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on April 24th 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:
| ...Walk Into a Barn | Richard Selvi |
| #1735 | Joshua Weeks |
| 46 GROVE | Lilli Kay |
| A Midsummer Night's Disco | Kate Gray-Johnson |
| Ashes | Nicole Ohara |
| Baby Teeth | Scott Baker |
| BAT ZILLA | Orly Lewittes |
| Beasts | Julia Diddy |
| Bullseye | Riley Scott |
| Burned | Loren Davis |
| Cálmate, mija | Victor Ridaura |
| Catch and Release | Matthew Medrano |
| Chimera | Anne Lower |
| Clarke, At Home | Karla Spika |
| Dance Man | Jerry Perez |
| Dandelion | Corey Pinchoff, Fiona Obertinca |
| Dead Dad Club | Beck Thompson |
| Double Cross | B. Moore |
| Eggplant | Joaquin Palma |
| Encuentro Americano | Liz Vazquez |
| Everything is Fine, Just Fine, Constantly Fine, Nothing But Fine, Consistently Fine, Nothing But Fine, Forever | Tony Ayala Fuentes |
| Forgotten Bodies | Jared Brewer |
| free martin | Scott Thompson, Hayes Hart-Thompson |
| GEO | Kevin Miller |
| Glimmer | Werner Traut |
| Green | Alison Severs-Ruiz |
| Hurt | Christian Krohn |
| List of Grievances | Agnes Bookbinder |
| Little Dipper | Mia Alexander |
| Lobster | Melissa Kong |
| Manos | Erick Torres |
| Memaw's Dead | LaLa Halsema |
| Merrow | Alexander Seltzer |
| Mr Big Hands | Annabel Maclean |
| Night Dancer | Christopher Stern |
| Orange Grove | Adam Bailey |
| Orna & the Urn | Ellen Barry |
| Our Long Goodbye | Dave Beamish |
| Pears & Misdemeanors | Jimmy Prosser |
| Prey/Predator | Sarah Ward |
| PROFUNDO | Korbi Dean |
| R.I.P. Jenny Lee | Jason Rice |
| Right Hook | Jennifer Boch-Wawrzyniak, Stephen Turselli |
| Roller World | Raquel Trujillo , Kim Caicedo |
| Slingshot | Maddie Close |
| Sugar Baby | Rakesh Baruah |
| SWINE | David Stobbe, Henry Weisel |
| Taga | Jill Sachs |
| The Air We Breathe | Zoe Bullock |
| The Chocolate Kandinsky | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Embodiment | Joe Pan |
| The Light at the End | Lynda Simmons |
| The Little Things | Aaron Frank |
| The Masterpiece | Sean Griffiths |
| The Minesweeper | Matt Smith |
| The Sleepy Agent | John Cleaver |
| The Songwriter | Todd McMullen |
| The Split | Lindsay Kent, Lauren Kent |
| Tomorrow, I Promise | Julia Morizawa |
| When the Flame Goes Out | Jason Sheedy, Joshua David Matthews |
| Who Are You, Nanu? | Anjini Taneja Azhar |
| YOLO | Calum Chalmers |
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