2025 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on March 3, 2025

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft Short Film Screenplay Competition. These exceptional scripts were selected from almost 1,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on our blog.

Here are the Semifinalists:

*A Lot of Night Left*	Blake Goodman
*A Slice of Pie*	Elizaveta Vinogradova
*Afterglow*	Matt Curtis Slater
*All Roads Lead Back*	Christian Sögaard
*Always*	Sasha Das
*American Values*	Ryan Mekenian
*Baby heart*	Bérangère Tosello
*Blessed*	Warren Lane & Jon Tenzing Neralich
*Blind Spot*	Michael Dalby
*Cringe*	Warren Lane
*Desolation Heart*	Chad Michael Ward
*Discipline*	Don Ahmad
*Do Not Disturb*	Kirsten Helen Hansen
*Dustin*	Melissa Yu
*Eternity*	Karim Sorefan
*Fabo and Bildi*	Jon Lee-Vroman
*Final Dawn*	Heather Farlinger
*For the Many Mores of Us*	Jesse Kuba
*Green Scheme*	Debbi Mack
*Guardians*	Michelle Domanowski
*I Saved the World*	Laurie Waplington
*Ladies of Lawrence*	Suzanne Birrell
*Lejos de Aquí (Far From Here)*	Missy Hernandez
*Liminal U*	Jared Ruddell
*Love Thy Neighbor*	Lizzie Sorrell
*Mindweaver*	Andrew Fong
*Mini Me*	Allison Oddman
*My Yoga Mat*	MICHAEL MONTEIRO
*Not Without Laughter*	Jermaine Manigault
*Oh, Brother*	Harry Twomey
*Payback Pie*	Maxine Gatt
*Possess*	Beau Bridge
*Psycho Vision*	Marc Roussel
*Real Life*	Finn Connor
*Requiem*	Ted Bronson
*Romantaswipe*	Rose Frankel
*Seeing Red*	Warren Lane
*Snow Daze*	Joe Torrez
*Spiral*	Jesse Kuba
*Strung Up*	Brian Spadafora
*Sure Shot*	Miranda Haley Kett
*Take The Wrong Way Home*	Bill Zide
*Tallahassee Twin*	Andrew Kaberline
*The Attachment*	Mikal Whitney Ewing
*The Bunyip*	Anwen Bull & Luca Fangeaux
*The Dizzies*	Marc Hoover
*The Echoes We Chase*	Alix Marello
*The Emerald Purse*	Kimberly Olsen
*The Little Goblin*	Joanne Lecuyer
*The Lockbox*	Diamond Chinnery
*The Naughty List*	Brandon Osterman & Thomas Bell
*The Ride*	Brian Larkins
*The Scream of the Butterfly*	Anjini Taneja Azhar & Ariya Akhavan
*The Sheep and The Elephant*	Laura Hoffheimer
*The Twisted Tale of the Long Toothed Stranger*	Benoit Ganesan
*The Wheel of Destiny*	Mbugua Muchoki
*They Came for Me*	Douglas Lieberman
*Thursday*	Tom Morgan
*Tryst*	keith myers
*Unfinished Projects*	William Patton
*Unsaid*	Data Svanadze
*wake up.*	Davon Cecil
*WILL, GO Play*	Mark Schmitz
*Wishful Thinking*	KM Ly