2025 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on April 16, 2025

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement!
Here are the Semifinalists:
A Boy Called Freddie | Sophie Neville |
Austin | Sam King |
Code Name Gin | Leila Fenton |
Conviction | Glenn Forbes |
Dark Arts | Noah Lang & Harold "Blake" Hoss |
Different From The Others | Ben Samuels |
Exposition Girl | Sofia Drummond-Moore |
Golden Boy | Connor Martin |
Graft | Lisa Rosenberg |
In a Full Moon's Fortnight | Caroline Rovello |
Jeb | Craig Bettendorf |
Locked In | Tiziana Giammarino & Jacques Thelamaque |
Long John | Ryan Anker |
Memories of the Farm | Rich Orstad |
Red Harvest | Brandon King |
Rulers of Wander-land | Courtney Bowen |
Selection | Jonathan Fear |
Sin Child | John Cerrito |
Still Perfect | Michael Fitzer |
The Blue Engine | Sean O'Connor |
The Embassy | Christopher Datta |
The Meeting House | Sophie Neville |
The Ransom of Oz | Leslie Borchert |
The Star Wolf | Andy Sieger |
The Yoko Ono Story | Anzu Lawson |
Two Fates | Kelsey Ann Wacker & Lori Lee Peters |
Welcome to America | Weiyang Liu |
Wide Awake | Sam Ellis & Zac Brazenas |
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