Announcing the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on August 31, 2018

We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the semifinalists of the 2018 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest. This competition highlights Hollywood's longstanding tradition of adaptations based on free intellectual property in the public domain, such as folk tales, fairy tales, mythology and books and plays published before 1923.

Our jury’s credits this year include Frost/Nixon, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Hook, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Machine Gun Preacher, Dredd, and The Brother's Grimm.

This year's contest is officially sponsored by the HartChart story-mapping software, created by ScreenCraft judge and acclaimed screenwriter James V. Hart.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the finalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! Without further ado, here are the semifinalists:

*A Better Place*	Katterina Powers
*American Colony*	Juan Francisco de la Guardia
*Anne Bonny*	Allison Quiller
*Black Wall Street*	Anand Fozard-McCall
*Bloodhounds*	David Marantz
*Candide*	Christian McDonald
*Catalpa*	Michael Kalesniko
*Charming*	Tom Albanese & Christopher Jones
*Crimson Skies: Flight of the Falcon*	Sean Wathen
*Devil's Delights*	Nickolas Shepherd & Toni Shepherd
*Dracula's Domain*	Jay Woelfel
*Finding Alexandria*	Sy Huq
*Flawed*	Becky Head
*Formerly Fat Housewife*	Hilary Gish & Carolyn Getches
*Galileo*	Matthew Pancer
*Heloise + Abelard*	Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough
*House Craven*	Kaycee Hughes
*Innsmouth*	Carolyn Johnson
*Insurrection*	Simon Bowler
*Lost Kids*	Molly Gerth
*Nottingham*	Karl Archer
*Oath*	Paul Frank
*Patrick's Road*	Terry Crist
*Pink Noir*	Matt Schutt
*Powderkeg*	Denise Meyers
*Sand Creek*	Jane Paulson & Marcy Kelly
*Sarah, Soldier*	Cara Winter
*Saving America*	Michael Lederer
*Scarlet*	Keaton McGruder
*Sedger Mor*	Catherine Wright
*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"*	Nur Shireen Talib binti Zulkernian
*That Sister Thang*	Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen & Dale Winton
*The Bronte Girls*	Caroline Franklin
*The Country Wife*	Micah Delhauer
*The Dark trail*	Mack Lewis & Todd Downing
*The Fall of the House of Usher*	Ronald Ecker
*The First Detective*	James Spector
*The Legend of the Forty Thieves*	Scott Hamilton
*The Lost Wendy*	Dominique Hinman
*The Michigan Assassin*	Mohummad Humza Elahi
*The Most Dangerous Game*	Paul da Silva
*The Silver Screen*	J.J. Bitters
*The Star*	Jonathan Medici
*The Witch of Pungo*	J Darin Wales
*Tillie*	David Chester & Blake Pinter
*Ulys*	B. E. Marvis
*Wonderland*	Ted Wilkes
*Yellow*	Zara Meerza
*Zenda*	Paul Mendelson & Paul Alexander