2025 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on March 18, 2025
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2025 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 Semifinalist announcement on our blog.
Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| 1000 Paths of Death | Alaric Rocha |
| A Fortunate Few | Ricardo Serena |
| A Girl, A Horse and The Wrong Boy | Guy Crawford |
| A House Remembers | Liz Biscevic |
| A Sick Twisted Game | Parker Bohner |
| A Sure Thing | James Mangan |
| Above Snakes | Jerold Wallace |
| Abroad in Paris | Julia Rae |
| Adam and Me | Michael (Mike) Ede |
| Addie & Esther | Annie Wood |
| Adventures in Serial Killing | Jack Warner |
| After You've Gone | Alessandra Mesa |
| All of Me | Jessica Mele |
| All Storms Brewing | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Amateurs | Michael Frank |
| American Gaman | Colin Ferri |
| An Institution | Daniel Takacs |
| Bad Conscience | M.J. Musey |
| Balsero | Arturo Corces |
| Based and Redpilled Sigma Samurai | Nicolas Rose |
| Battle of the Grands | Andrea Kirkham |
| Bay City | Isabelle Carasso |
| Belief | Alexis Roblan |
| Bessie's Place | Adam Sandel |
| Betty | Borcsa Vass |
| Bitchlorette | Randi Krasny |
| Blood Flower | Paul Rowe |
| Blue Shades | Alejandro Ivan Vilchis Palacios |
| Book F*cker | Lissette Jean-Marie |
| Brass Ring | Scott Saffran |
| Bronze Bullets | Brooke Solomon |
| Burmese Days | Thomas Oliver Hand |
| Care Source | Matthew Nicholson |
| Caught Stealing | Eljohn Macaranas |
| CC | Paul Sheridan |
| Chemical Messiah | Stuart Pollack |
| Choke Artist | Melanie Notinger |
| Chrome Plated | Sarah Ward |
| Cinema 99 | Jay Hodgkins |
| Civilians | Jonathan Lill |
| Clean Sweep | Isabelle Davis |
| Climbing High | Bill Jordan |
| Coco Chanel | Anne Aubert-Santelli & Dan Williams |
| Cold | Todd McComas |
| Condemned | Jose Monroy |
| Cougar Art | hadasa mercado |
| Crazy for You | Sofia Morris |
| Credence | C.M. Landrus |
| Cul-de-Sac | Nicholas Grant |
| Curved | Sagar Vasishtha |
| Cutest Couple | Lu Lenoxx |
| Dad Asses | Michael Harris |
| Dead Winter Run | Jake Hart |
| Dead, Yet? | Jacqueline Fisher |
| Decay | Sara Phoenix |
| Deuce | Zaity Salman |
| Dog Mom | Madi Stine |
| Early Retirement | Matt Demblowski |
| Enoch | Cory David Bortnicker |
| Escaping Paradise | Michael Roud |
| Every Ticket Tells A Story | Tamara Steren |
| Family of The Year | Shane Sandler |
| Father Trinity | Phoenix Black |
| Fire and Air | Lincoln Jones |
| Fracktured | Jack Brookman |
| Freudian Slip | Stephenie Howard |
| Gender Perfect | brian wapole |
| Genius | Tracey Houston |
| Ghost Singer | Kate Cheeseman |
| Glory Days | Matthew Hoch |
| Godspeed | Greg Kousoulis |
| Golden Oaks Nursing Home | Bri Kaisen |
| Good F*ck Charm | Isabelle Davis |
| Gore | Kerri Stephenson |
| Grim's Gambit | Peter Fraser |
| Growing Pains | Noel Neilson-Slabach |
| Guided by Death | Jake Kovanda |
| Hate Actually | Jacob Lazarow & Greta Guthrie |
| Hindsight | Braeson Herold |
| His Pain | Daryl Brown |
| Holiday Bromance | Cid Weinberg |
| Hugowood | Juan Gutierrez |
| Hyozan | Robin Lebeau |
| I Think Therefore You Are | Genet Hughes |
| I'll Give You My Heart | Tamara Steren |
| I’m Your Dog | Tess Goldwyn |
| Ice Cream Land | Logan Stark |
| In the Wake | Joel Mitchell |
| Indian Country | John Young |
| Inheritance | Johnny Gilligan |
| Initiation | Sheala Morrison |
| Is This It? | Joseph Steffel |
| Isolation | DD Myles |
| Izetta | Tamara Steren |
| Jacked | Pablo Briz |
| Jane | Kay Ownbey |
| Jesse and the Caterpillar Who Got Its Wings | Aaron Braxton |
| Jesus One-Stop | Frederik Ehrhardt |
| Keanu Reeves is My Muse, My Son is a Dragon | Phoenix Black |
| Kirby in Limbo | Jamie Campbell |
| Laffoon: Tales from the Quarter | Jack Hutsey |
| Las Soldaderas | Renee Magdaleno |
| Leave Him? | Josh Corrigan |
| Like, Forever | Diana Wright & Annie Girard |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Loose Ties | Orlando Todd |
| Loser(s) | M. Elizabeth Pustinger |
| Lossless | Michael Kimber |
| Lou Paganao | Rob Asaro |
| Love Fool | Zina Kresin |
| Love, Afterlife | Taylor Dupuis |
| Master Servant Mistress Squire | Thomas Park |
| Me Me Me | Keith Zivalich |
| Means & Methods | Sean Roper |
| Mendacity | Paul Baiguerra |
| Mendoza the Jew | Robin Russin |
| Middle Bennet | Emily Grand |
| Mindless | Drew Maron |
| Misinterpret | Koji Masutani |
| Modern Day Warriors | Sam Di |
| Mom's Third Husband | Isabelle Davis |
| Morph Trouble | Richard Hohenrath |
| Mother of God! | Rylee White |
| Murder Room | A.J. Esti |
| My Father Said | Tyler Morris |
| Negro-tism | Aadrise Johnson |
| New Earth | Devon Sharma |
| New Olympus | Matthew Nicholson |
| Next Semester | Gabe Berry |
| Night Father | Winnie Soldi |
| Nimrods | Caleb Dillon |
| No Popo | Yvie Jones |
| No Second Prize | Mick Wormald |
| Not That Anne | Kevin Bryce |
| Paper Tiger | Don Ahmad |
| Par 6 | Alec Bewkes |
| Pat and Matt Get Canceled | Zoe Miller |
| Play Nice | Christine McKeever |
| Premature | Kevin Walls |
| Public Servitude | Amr Kotb |
| Racer Unknown | Charles Jay LongHammer |
| Reality Check | Leo Schuehle |
| Revolutionary Medicine | Kristen McNaule |
| River Bottom Lullaby | Nick McMurdy |
| Road to Echie | T.L.O Onyejekwe |
| Roman's Daughter | Stephanie Alban |
| Roommates | Adam Simers |
| Roughead | Jake Mariani |
| Rumble | Mutaurwa Mapondera |
| Salvage | Katerina Bakolias |
| Sam and His Former Self | Samuel Penziner |
| Same Page | Chloe Borenstein-Lawee |
| San Rafael | Jordan Kartchner |
| Santa Wars | Lyndal Simpson |
| Saving Glory | Farook Qais |
| Scout's Honor | Dave Grove |
| Second Thoughts | Tara Parian |
| Seeking Sugar Mason | Christopher O'Bryant |
| Shed | Jim Hickcox |
| Show Stoppers | Hannah Faust & Lauren Knutti |
| Show Them All | Amanda Cole |
| Silent Waters | Erin Dugard |
| Since the Death of God | Elias Truitt |
| Skullduggery | Caleb Dillon |
| sometimes, i wish i was a fish | Yeajoon Cho |
| Songs of Madness | Veronica Rutledge |
| Sophie | Michelle Steele |
| Southbound | Ben Klopfenstein |
| Spetsnaz | Fernando Salaiz |
| Spitfire | Heidi Hornbacher |
| StephenTV | Tamara Steren |
| Suicide Squeeze | Brad Kallet |
| Summer with Sylvie | Mariel Tabachnick |
| Supernova | Connie Chang |
| Sweetheart | Tiffany Shinn |
| Symbionts | Johnny Gilligan |
| ThA Brethren | stephen neely |
| The 411 | Allyson Morgan |
| The Annihilation | Michael Winfield |
| The Automat | Alexander Blum |
| The Bright Lights | Anoop Desai |
| The Carvers | Breyden Boyd |
| The City of Ash | Emilio Medina |
| The Cockroach vs. The Maiden | Jagger Gravning |
| The Cunning Folk | Jennifer Lorene Ritenour |
| The Desert Fox | Pablo Briz |
| The Devil Down Under | Michael Egan |
| The Dreamfishers | Stephen Taylor |
| The Emergence of Carlyle | Anne-Marie Maidan |
| The Fairytale Effect | Sally Pitts |
| The Fates | Robin Lebeau |
| The Fifth Day | Garrick Foxx |
| The Giant of Guadarrama | Alia Zeid |
| The Gouging of the Earth | Callie Chiang |
| The Great God Pan | Adam Fried |
| The Gun Runner | Donavan Darius |
| The Hazard Room | Mike Cymanski |
| The Kingdom in the Sky | Kyle Naftel |
| The Lake | Kristjan Llana |
| The Lost Elixir Of Life | Przemyslaw Lukasik |
| The Magician | Tamara Steren |
| The Malian King | Francesco Capussela |
| The Moonlighters | Lorena Chiles |
| The Night I Got Arrested With Lenny Bruce | Jason Solomon |
| The Past is Not | Kevin Barney |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Schachter |
| The Poacher | Christine Noël |
| The Primordials | Rebecca Goulding |
| The Revanchist | Ivan Mooh Mooh |
| The Scarecrow | Hayden Lummus |
| The Secrets of Mead | Christine Hooper |
| The Sorcerer’s Protocols | Autumn Cavender & Scott Ryan |
| The Story of You & Me | Andrew Clemes |
| The Sun Won't Set | Thomas Wood |
| The Temp | Devi Snively |
| The Toledo War | Scott Saffran & Stephen Kipp |
| The Two Musketeers | Dustin Richardson |
| The Underworld Queen | Ariella Blum-Lemberg |
| The United States of Automata | Austin Langley |
| The Very Special One | Heidi Hornbacher |
| The Wonder-Filled Norah Minh Lê | Neena Phan |
| The Year It'll Happen | Anna Donnella |
| The Year The World Ended | Jacqueline Xerri |
| This Way Comes | Leonora Pitts |
| Three’s a Crowd | Matthew Hoch |
| Tomb of Secrets | Maegen Sacco |
| Totem Knights | Jannes Schouwstra |
| Transference | Johnny Gilligan |
| Trask | Jade Rona |
| Twin Flames | Izzy Ster |
| Unbound | Renn Tan |
| Undertow | Gabrielle Nehring |
| Unshakeable | Heather Farlinger |
| Unsubscribed | Laina Stassines |
| Valley Glen | Erin Sopapunta |
| Vengeance of Saints | Phillip Roquemore |
| Versus | Alex Marsha Sylvia |
| Versus! | Kevin Tavolaro |
| Vessel | Leila Garrison |
| Vigilantes | Briana Pozner |
| Waiting in the Shadows | Ben Mehlman |
| Wake Up, Kid! | Shane Weiss |
| Waking Up White | Jason Gregory |
| We Ourselves | Sheila Rinear |
| Whasian Blasian Indonasian - "Is your Mein Low, High or Rah?" | Kirtana Iwamoto |
| When the Tulips Bloom | Lauren Serpa |
| Who Let the Wallflowers Out? | Virginia Austin |
| Who Loves the Lovemakers? | Rob McNeil |
| Wisdom to Know the Difference | Cassandra Burge |
| Within | Thane Christopher |
| Women Who Don't Fuck | Martine Moore |
| World Shut Your Mouth | Karen Bishop |
| Worlds Apart | Thomas Gaunt |
| Worms | Steve Mitchell |
| Wrong Number Scam | Nick Fuller |
| Yes, Of Course | Maya Layne |
| You Are Going to Die Tomorrow | Elise Felber |
| Zoey Starr's Number One Fan | Sarah Farnam |
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