Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Public Domain Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 10, 2019
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the quarterfinalists of the 2019 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 American Sniper, The Post, On the Basis of Sex, The Simone Biles Story, Romeo & Juliet, 11/22/63, The Crown, and this year's Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Green Book.
And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! Without further ado, here are the quarterfinalists:
| A Forgiving Fire | Olin Fregia |
| A Good Story | Tony Sbrana |
| A Piece Of Steak | Graham Waldrop |
| Aaron's Law | David Boyd |
| Abuse of Power | Gila Zalon |
| Accidental Patriot | JD Deane |
| Agent Thumb | Alison Parker & Rodriguez Fruitbat |
| Amazing Grace | Jackie Perez |
| America First | Barbara nunberg |
| An Improbable Life | Matthew Myers |
| Around the World in 72 Days | Vijay Varman |
| Around the World with Nellie Bly | Kimberly Stewart |
| Bakersfield Mist | Stephen Sachs |
| Baron of Havana | Alex Simon |
| Black Widow Begins | Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds |
| Blind Justice | Ramona Taylor |
| Bread | Danna Scott |
| Bully | Joshua Cohen |
| Bunny and Raffles | Eliot Routh Routh |
| Caravaggio | Zach Grossman |
| Carol | Susan Polk |
| Dodger | Marty Williams |
| Dragon Girl | Michael Tracy |
| Ebenezer | Duncan Ralston |
| Esther | Nicole Feste |
| Father Mucker | Peter Gazdag |
| Fever | Carl Byker |
| FIRE GIRL | Kevin Hill |
| Flom | Sarah Shockey |
| Forever Blue | Karen Bryson |
| Four Horsemen | Michael Vance |
| Frank & Stein | Danny Baram |
| Full Metal Gretel | Corrin Evans |
| Goddess | Steven Peros |
| Grace Omalley: Pirate Queen of Connaught | Susan O. Wade |
| Greely's Rescue: Escape from Cape Sabine | George Cagala |
| Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
| H.P. Lovecraft's Tales Of Terror | Samuel Ezra Fisch |
| Heck | Chris Hicks |
| Heloise + Abelard | Gayla Kraetsch Hartsough |
| His Name is Vincent | Kelly Luu & Kevin Luu |
| House of David | Melissa Alfredson |
| Houston: The Man Who Lynched Jim Crow | Gregory Lemmons & Marc Theriault |
| How the Wizard Came to Oz | Donald Abbott |
| Hoxie 29 | Marc Moody |
| Hyde | Tony Robenalt & James Barrett |
| IDA | Dru Murray |
| If the Shoe Fits | Diana Regolizio |
| Into Bloom | Ali Qassim |
| Ivaylo the Cabbage | Sascha Gomberg |
| Julie La Maupin | Jack Steeley |
| Katharine to Tesla, Faithfully Yours | Natalie Paige Bentley |
| Kings Road | Jonathan Protass |
| Last to Fall | Jim Maceda |
| Little Eva | Isaac Rathbone & Joel Willis |
| Loved by You | Trisha Dotson |
| Ludlow | Bruce Leaf |
| Magician of Light | Carla Kanthak & Carl Zittrer |
| Mariana | Katherine Vaz |
| Martha & George | David Power |
| Masoch | Pete Carboni |
| Master of Horror | Sebastien Blanchard |
| Miller's Monster | Tim Evans |
| Milligan's Son | Ramona Kathi Kones |
| Milton Hershey: A Sweet Life | Mike Runion |
| Morien | John Thomas |
| Nellie | Alice Packard |
| Night Fall | Tom Waters |
| Novel Endings | Christine Bendorf |
| Outspoken: The Untold Story of Helen Keller | Kathryn Fox |
| Palisades | Richard P. Alvarez |
| Passaic | Michael Klausner |
| PG-17 | Araz Edward |
| Phantom | Ulvrik "Wolf" Kraft |
| Phantom Of The Opera | Travis Seppala |
| Pola | Yvonne Potter & Lea Sellers |
| Potato Dreams of America | Wes Hurley |
| Princess Isabel | Jessica Stanford |
| Red Hand, Black Blood | Frank Jordan |
| Renfield | Ellen Ireland |
| Richer Than a White Man | Christine Stevens DeLorenzo |
| Riva Ridge | William Holland |
| Robert Smalls | John Harris |
| Robyn | Jennifer Smith & Kate Smith |
| Rosaline & Juliet: A Musical | W.A.W. Parker |
| Saints and Sinners | Brit Cowan |
| Savage Lands | Colin Gray |
| Saving America | Michael Lederer |
| Secret Ellington | Trai Cartwright |
| Secret Weapon | Gretchen Somerfield |
| Sedger Mor | Catherine Wright |
| Severed Souls: "Uline Ice Company" | B. Isabella Bodnar |
| Shelby's Last March | Kathaleen Brewer |
| Sinbad and the Sky Thieves | Jose Ernand |
| Slave to Honor | Stephen Easton |
| Small Decisions | Gary Rose |
| Smalls | Dave Eisenstark |
| So Comes Love | Meaghan Hynes |
| Soldiers & Bandits | Eduardo Soto-Falcon |
| Son of a Sheriff | Travis Davidson |
| Stagecoach Mary | Taylor Hopkins |
| Stir the Children | Brennan Howard |
| Strom | Zach Tirone |
| Suits of Woe | Richard Minkoff |
| Tail Of The Underdog: The Sylvester Stallone Story - Round One | David Davies |
| Taking Back Wonderland | Louise Douglas |
| The Adventurers | James Farwell |
| The Appeal | Yoav Potash |
| The Asherah | Ronald Ecker |
| The B-Files | Steven Laflamme |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Tim Olshefski |
| The Candy Bombers | Mark Lorenz |
| The Copeland Kids | Cecilia Copeland |
| The Empress of Heaven: Mystical City of God | David O'Neill |
| The Fierce White Lady of Chinatown | Jason Chan |
| The Ghost | Lindsey Gudritz |
| The Glass Slippers | Faith Rivens |
| The Gray Mare | Jackie Young & Tim Sloan |
| The Great Adventure of the Bentley Girls | Elisa Herrmann |
| The Great Fire | Brad Briggs |
| The Heart of a Tiger | S.R. Kuy |
| The Heroes of Hosingen | Alice Flynn |
| The Humphreys of Oz | John Lagerholm |
| The Incommunicable | Spencer Janes |
| The Inventors | Ronald Drescher |
| The Keeper | Kevin Nelson |
| The Last Templar | Rick Abercrombie |
| The Lost Girls | Dustin Schmidt |
| The Man in Room Five | Simon Kincade |
| The Man Who Was Thursday | Jason Amareld |
| The March King's Daughter | Robert Fleet |
| The Marys | Amanda Dettrick |
| The Master of Storms | Demetra Pittman |
| The Most Dangerous Game | Evan James |
| The Mouth of the Wolf | Eric Berg |
| The Napoleon of Crime | Mel Evans |
| The Quake Papers | Jane Murphy |
| The Queen of Magic | Roxanne Beck |
| The Quest for Fire | Marat Sarsembayev, Mansur Sarsembayev & Maxud Sarsembayev |
| The Rough Riders | Holly Saunders |
| The Saxon | Louis Spirito |
| The Sociopath Saint | Daniel Choi |
| The Steagles | Jeanie M. Clark |
| The Vicar of Wakefield | Ari Krause |
| The Whip | Karen Kondazian & Ryan Oksenberg |
| The White Mouse | Molly Gardner |
| The White Mouse: Witch | Heather Farlinger |
| Tillie | David Chester & Blake Pinter |
| Timewarped | Gary Sharp |
| Two by Two | Mickey Martinez |
| Unbought and Unbossed | Travis Carr |
| W. Smith | Sophie Hexter |
| Warbrave | Andres Rivera |
| When The Stars Came Out | Paul Walder |
| When the World Was Ours | Steven Hartman |
| Willi Won't Play | L.T. Gordon |
| With Further Ado | Beverly Peders |
| Young Arthur and the Lady of the Lake | Barry Ambrose & Christopher Stapleton |
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