Announcing the 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 28, 2019
We’re excited to feature the scripts listed below that comprise the quarterfinalists of the 2019 ScreenCraft Short Screenplay Competition. With the rise in demand for high-quality short content across new platforms and devices, and the increased industry importance placed on short filmmaking worldwide, we are honoring the craft of short-form narrative screenwriting via this competition, which features a prestigious jury of industry-leading professionals.
This year's jury includes executives and programmers from the Sundance Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Short of the Week, and Shorts.TV.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists, finalists and grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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.
Without further ado, here are the quarterfinalists:
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12/8/80 |
Alex Simon |
| 6:18 to Omaha | Leah Curney |
| A Balloon Story | Joe Taft |
| A Beautiful Day | Logan Alexander |
| A Crowded Bed | Eric Althen |
| A Dream of Flight | Neil Westley |
| A Feather Within the Fog | Dave Drinkwater |
| A Graduation | Peier Shen |
| A Lady of Vassar | Anthony Fernandez |
| A Last Night In LA | Jameel Shivji |
| A Machine For Time | John Broadhead |
| A Mother's Love | Camille J. Mitchell |
| A Portrait of Fances, Enclosed | Jacob Levy |
| Active Shooter | Amanda Herley |
| Adhan | Charles Vuolo |
| Adjunto | Felix Pineiro |
| Affirmation | Greg Willybiro |
| Agwajiing the Sanatorium | Michael O'Rourke |
| AlieNation | Ray Raghavan & Nick Purrier |
| Angel | Anna Koukouli |
| Animal Guardian | Denisha Read |
| Anyone Listening? | Yvonne Arnett |
| Appointed | Benjamin Stenner |
| Arboreal | Simon Deeley |
| Arriving At Manuel | Fil Medina |
| Ashes | Edith Rodriguez |
| Asking For It | Yusra Khan |
| Ava | Angelique Wilson |
| Background Check | Ellen Rodnianski |
| Bad Weather | Chris Walkley |
| Bahar, Born At Night | Michael Bina |
| Battle Rapped | Elliott Pascascio |
| Becky | Walter Diaz |
| Before Dishonor | Travis J. Opgenorth |
| Below The Surface | Sam Kidd |
| Best Laid Plans | Richard Geiwitz |
| Bingo-The Last True Blood Sport | Joe Starzyk |
| Bird's Eye | Mike Kravinsky |
| Birds of a Feather | Claire Lawson |
| Blackbird | Mike Thompson |
| Blood and Ash | Kenneth Sanabria |
| Blood on the Run | Michael Flannelly |
| Blood Rush | William Glenn |
| BloodGuilt | Daymond Roman |
| bOb | Alberto Chumaceiro |
| Borrowed Time | Geoff Murillo |
| Bruno | Charlotte Daniel |
| Bull and Bear: A Love Story | David Healy |
| Canary | jasper chen |
| Car / Love | Marc Barrett |
| Careful, She Bites | Mary Farmer & Greg Stolze |
| Catfish Killer | Gil Hizon & Seth Harrington |
| Cease | Jamiyl Samuels |
| Cheap Fertilizer | Jacob Heayes |
| Chef's Special | Caleb Hermann |
| Chiaroscuro | Camille Cotteverte |
| Chill | Daniel Gillis |
| Christina | Julian Camillieri |
| Christopher & the Bug | Vanessa Esteves |
| Chualar | Ann Pace |
| Clatterz on Highwayz | Eva MeiLing Pollitt |
| Coat | Jordan Ferrell |
| Cold Water | Shaun Perry & Jay Perry' |
| Complicity | Andrew Cooper |
| Confessions of a Las Vegas Phone Girl | Aimee Adell Johnson |
| Conscience | Brandon Kelley |
| Creativity | Mare Jones |
| Crush | Jason Swanson |
| Dark Timber | Ryan Dingus |
| Dawn | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Dead Jesus | Richard Santoro |
| Dead Weight | Riley Longworth |
| Dearest Dolly Darling | Beckley Vincent |
| Demons | Dianna Craig |
| DiMaggio | Taylor Zaccario |
| Dirty Angels | Julie Hays |
| Disappearing | Daniel Corrieri |
| DNR | Sarah Polhaus |
| Do It For Her | Luke Janisko |
| Do you agree? | Ludo Vici |
| Dry Heave | Adam Rocke |
| Duck | Hilary Burgoon |
| Dunked | John Bickerstaff |
| Earth Witch | Sandy K Baiju |
| Eight Seconds | Bailey Martin |
| El Barrio | Cassidy Harrison & Adam Prince |
| Elkhart | Jaclyn Parker |
| Every Single One of You | Mily Mumford |
| Figurines | Wendy Chandra |
| Final Issue | Ricardo Carrion |
| For Little Girls Who Are Afraid To Speak | Charles Hayes IV |
| Forest for the Trees | Spencer Gillis |
| Formicarium: Or The Unrelenting Allure of Complacency | Jarrett Paperno |
| Forward | Antoine Remy |
| Fraud | Chris Conway |
| Friendly Fire | Riley Longworth |
| From Far and Wide | Jaskaran Gill |
| Genie | Paul Frank |
| Ghost Ride | Eduardo Hanson de Moura |
| Girl, You Better Chill | Tracy Schumer |
| Girls Who Run | Joi B. |
| Glass Bottles | David González |
| Glass State | Shaun Grimsley & Matt Whittle |
| Greenwood | Evan Murray |
| Greetings | Cody Rose |
| Greg the Puddle | Shaun Radecki |
| Group | Justin James Farley & Ashley Bailey Farley |
| Habibi | Christin Campbell |
| Haniya | Nancy Vogl |
| Harriet | Sarah Mize |
| Hats McGrew | Charlotte Barnes |
| He Was Unarmed | Bryce Marrero |
| Healing (a verb) | Bailey Belzora |
| Henry | Owen Dando |
| Her Babies | Letícia Bianco |
| Hero | Lane Stroud |
| Homefulness | Dan LaTourette |
| Hourglass | Kevin Nikroo |
| How Can I Help You? | Thao Nguyen |
| How To Be A Gem | Spade Robinson |
| Hush Little Baby | Ricardo Bravo |
| I Am Other | Tiffany Silver-Tucker |
| Icarus | Christos Kardana |
| Il Cappello | Mickey Vincent |
| Ilsa | William Patton |
| Impersonal | Jacquelyn Li |
| In Spite of Ourselves | Sam Blumenthal |
| Initiation | Pia Cook |
| Innocent Goodbye | Theresa Picciallo |
| Inside Roderick Kayne | Louis Alvarez |
| It's OK. He's Friendly. | Brian Menz |
| James | Adam Jones |
| Juana Pelos | Maria Mealla |
| Judith-13 | Sydney Freedberg |
| Kade | Devin Hermanson |
| Kid Midnight | Mychal Sargent |
| Killer | Samantha Talbot |
| Killer | Anna Lauren Tufekci |
| Last Rental | Joe Gordon |
| Last Trip To India | Joshua Young |
| Last Womb On Earth | Nancy Safavi |
| Latchkey Kids | David Deignan |
| Lee and Lelia | Hanxiong Bo |
| Leila's Gift | Mithra Alavi |
| Leonard's Fourteen Lives | Molly Stark-Ragsdale |
| Let the Games Begin | Elaine Kleinberg |
| Letting Go | Bill Langan |
| Liberation | Leigh Hyser |
| Life is a Drag | Kyle de Villafane |
| Little Fish | D.L. Watson |
| Little Pistol | Gil Saint |
| Living in the past | Bernhard Riedhammer |
| Lonesome Demon Killing Blues | Sean Kelly |
| Lunchbox | Anne Hu |
| Macho Men | Maximilian Williamson |
| Made Man Cleaning | Dylan Wolf |
| Making & Breaking | Rahima Rice |
| Mala Noche | Aurora Acosta |
| Mason & Jay Save The World! | John Woosley |
| Maxwell's Supplies for the End of Days | Matthew Little |
| Me, Myself, and Ides | Edward-Clinton Vasquez |
| Meadow Valley Dollhouse Competition | Kristy Ellington |
| Metamorphose | Simon Deeley |
| Miles From Home | Robert Goodman |
| Missed Connections | Zach Griffin |
| Missing | Ertugrul Musluoglu |
| Monstre | sean birney |
| Morgue | Keith Williams |
| Moving Day | Howard Harband |
| Muse | Laura Vogels |
| My Arcadia | Dianne Cutlack |
| My Creature | J. Franklin Evans |
| My Mallard Memoir | Jakob Brittain |
| My Name is Tuna Boat | Ron Maede |
| My New Purse | Montgomery Burt |
| My Soul To Take | Roniel Tessler |
| My Sunshine | Netania Allen & Welai Kao |
| Natalie | R. Shanea Williams |
| Neo-Dome | Matthew Pfeffer |
| Never the Bride | Luigi Gonzalez |
| Night Night | Zoe Rae |
| Night of the Shtriga | DiDi Goldberg |
| Night Terror | jerrel lawson |
| Nineveh | Jim Gourley |
| No Future for Rock Stars | Sean Taylor |
| No Good Deed: The Oliver Sipple Story | Heather Farlinger |
| Now That We're Men | Celine Held & Logan George |
| Nuclear | Sarah Mitravich |
| Of Natural Causes | Morgan Lariah |
| One of the (Big) Girls | Stephen Marshburn |
| Only Rock N' Roll | Chris Wallis |
| Outings | Will Pei |
| Over | James Smith |
| Overdue | Shaun Radecki |
| Overseer | Federico Casal |
| Pap Sbeer | Marta Reeder |
| Paper Cranes | Emily Vere Nicoll |
| Past and Future Lives | Simon Abbott |
| Peaches and Cream | Chloe White |
| Perfect Stranger | Linda Collison |
| Personals | Sasha Argirov |
| Pillow Talk | Everett Kelsey |
| Pizza | Susan Vermeer |
| Poemb | Daniel Tysdal |
| Possum | Lyndal Simpson |
| Postive | Anna Borden |
| Precious Life | Kenry Cruz |
| Press Start | Claudia Carino |
| Progeny | Anthony Weintraub |
| Puppet Rising | Raynor Arkenbout |
| Purgatory | Samuel Hatcher |
| Reaper Drive: Ethan | Christopher Mendez |
| Receiver | Cavan Campbell |
| Red Centre | Martin Rake |
| Regular Ordinary Citizen | David Hill |
| Rent-A-Friend | Davin Dmitruk-Cook |
| Reself | Omer Ben-Shacar |
| Residue | Matt Thomas & Braden LuBell |
| Return to Sender | Blake Simon |
| Revelation | Tamim Almousa |
| Ringloom | Justin Solaiman |
| Robotnik | Brandon Reid |
| Rock of Ages | Alexandra Keister |
| Rubber and Glue | Cat Dale |
| Saavan | Sidhant Tilokani |
| Sabina | Nicole Starrett |
| Saigon Kiss | Hong Anh Nguyen |
| Saul's Dance | Kosmo Crocco & Matteo Tronchin |
| Saving Daniel | Angela Perkins |
| Searching | Austin Jayes |
| Shilo's War | Nick Denbeigh |
| Sight | Mo Morgan |
| Sinner's List | Simon Sager |
| Skinface Gary | Daniel Giachetti |
| Slow Wave. | Matt None |
| Smile | Samuel Nuñez |
| Snow Day | Brian Sullivan |
| Snowbird | Patrick Curran |
| Sold | Logan Palmer |
| Soul of the River | CL Russo |
| Soup and a Single Windsor | Joel Franke |
| Space Christ | River Donaghey |
| Space Wankers | Robert Duncan |
| Springerle | Finley Mulligan |
| Steak & Beans | Foxx Cant |
| Sunflower | Kenneth Forrest |
| Sunny Side Up | Jacob Mynatt |
| Survivors | Dan Sullivan |
| Sweet Spot | Yoav Rosenberg |
| Taipei Suicide Story | Kevin Wang |
| Teddy | Andrij Witiuk |
| Tell Tale Walk | James Everett |
| Tent Sx | Mary Farmer |
| Test Drive | Brett Hauze |
| Text, Actually | Luke Ward & Elena Melener |
| Thank You for Soliciting | Patrick Murray |
| The Barn | Sophie Black & Tommy Draper |
| The Battle of the Backwoods | Drake Folk |
| The Bum | Kyle Scimone |
| The Castle Is My Plus-One | Gary Irons |
| The Children | Zahid Gamieldien |
| The Circle of Chawce | Randi LeClair |
| The Convention | Katelyn Harbert |
| The Cricket | Gabe Berry |
| The Crossing | Tom Levesque |
| The Deal | Mitch Olson |
| The Deal that Debbie Made One Night on a Dark Road in Allegheny County | Alec Silberblatt |
| The Devil's Spawn | Christopher Stoll |
| The Divination of Lilith | Katie Ritz |
| The Drugs Do Work | Edward Fisher |
| The End | Fraser White |
| The First Time Traveler Ever | Jared Barnett |
| The Games Men Play | Chelsea Barns |
| The Good Girl | Noelle Loizos |
| The Guy | Matthew Rollins |
| The History of Obyeah | Anisha Woodley |
| The Influence | Anastasia Kousakis |
| The Killing Room Floor | Kyle Andrews |
| The Kitten Tree | Anthony Velgich |
| The Lab | Celeste Courtemanche |
| The Lamb | Sam Blumenthal |
| The Last Book Shop | Michael Crame |
| The Last Cigarette | Robin Hardy |
| The Lion and The Hare | Michael McCoy |
| The Little Astronaut | Brody McKinnon |
| The Lot | Trevor Young |
| The Nightwatchman | Steve George |
| The Nudist | Michael Joseph |
| The Nuns' Referendum | Suzy Miller |
| The Only One | Sandra O'Connell |
| The Opera Ran Late, or The Best Three Hours in an Otherwise Sorry Excuse of a Life | Aidan Kaczynski |
| The Other Side | Snigdha Kapoor |
| The Other Side | Daniel Kim |
| The Plot | Melinda Maerker |
| The Poet's Daughter | Hannah Eakin |
| The Prophecy | Richard Neher |
| The Radio | Thomas Conway |
| The Railway Ghost | Adam Lucas |
| The Red Mirror | Steve Rooney |
| The Ritualist | Jake Lemmen |
| The Scientist | Cameron Thrower & Joe McKernan |
| The Second Man | Dan Duthie |
| The Seeker's Key | Alessa Ellefson |
| The Shark that Lived in the Pool | Mark Haselden |
| The Telling | Jacob Combs |
| The Unseen | Jonathan Laflamme |
| The Widow and the Witch | Moses Hershberger |
| The Wolf's Whistle | Alexandra Nyman |
| The Woman Under The Tree | Prashant Thakker & Roberto Donso |
| The Wood Thrush | Peter Forbes |
| The Would-Be's Are on the Anvil | John Porter |
| The Year of Lexi and Dawn | Carolyn Mazanec |
| They Were the Wanderers | Nicholas Cassol |
| Thieves | Anthony Brenneman |
| This Is Silence | Steven Miller |
| This Little Cowboy | Jordan Keith |
| This New West | Ryan Evans |
| Thumbs Up | Nick Grimwood |
| Tickets | Joel Foster |
| Til Death Two Us Part | Brandon Stroughter |
| Tomato Pie | Tom Flynn |
| Tony and Annette | Daisy Eagan |
| Toro | Jeff Beauvoir |
| Town Business | Jack Larkin |
| Trapped under a table | Nehal Ezz |
| Two Birds, One Stone | Yuko Nakanishi |
| Two Shores | Eva Rodart & Maks Kubis |
| Unadoptable | Sara D'Amico |
| Unforgettable | Raihven Minter |
| Unforsaken | Jeff Guenther |
| Unorthodox | Jonas Oppenheim & Nick Turner |
| Until the Last One Falls | Gabe Berry |
| Viva Maria | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Voices | James Beeler |
| Weird | Vicky Buxton |
| Welcome to America | Richard Geiwitz |
| Welcome to the Homeland | Royce Wilmot |
| Wendigo | Jefferson C Robinson |
| What Child Is This? | Joel Reeves |
| What The Fuck Bryan! | Richard Pengelley |
| Where the Dog is Buried | Santiago Bukovsky |
| Who Wants To Live In A World? | Pamela Perry |
| Winging It | Christine Feldman |
| Winkies | Daniel Duranleau |
| Xander Sun: Queen Protector of the DiVerse | Harold L. Brown |
| You | Janine Gilbert |
| You Are My Fish And I Will Keep You Alive | Emily Frederick |
| Younger | Mare Jones |
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