Announcing The Fall 2017 Film Fund Quarter-Finalists!

The following projects have been shortlisted as quarterfinalists to be recipients of the 2017 Fall ScreenCraft Film Fund backed by BondIt. Culled from nearly two thousand applications, the projects in contention are listed below.
Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!
The 2017 Fall cycle introduced three new categories: Features, Documentaries and TV Pilots.
We're also proud to announce MUBI as a new partner for our 2018 Spring Film Fund, which is now open for applications!
MUBI is a community for lovers of great cinema and a streaming service showing the best independent, award-winning, and classic films from around the globe. Whether it’s an exclusive festival gem, a cult sensation, or a beloved masterpiece, every film is hand-picked by experts. All Spring 2018 Film Fund applicants will receive a free month subscription to MUBI, and the top 10 finalists will receive a full year subscription, compliments of MUBI!
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the semifinalists on February 5th on here, on our Facebook and Twitter pages, and via @Bondit_film.
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10.31 | Laurie Ashbourne |
5150 | Cydney Griffin |
#FML | Robin Conly |
#OpenLetterInteractive | Eliza Capai |
24/7 | Mitch Smith |
5 Blocks | Dan Goldes |
86 Melrose Avenue | Lili Matta |
A | David Aragon |
A Family Business | Richard Harrington |
A Girl from Mogadishu | Mary McGuckian |
A Girl Who Cried Wolf | Kenyaha Hoskins |
A Sheep In Wolf's Clothing | Giacomo Zacchia |
A Twisted Tail | Donna Allen |
A User's Guide to Black People | Jonathon Ramsey |
A Week With My Father | Giacomo Knox |
A Winter Love | Rhiana Yazzie |
A-Day | Thomas Heban |
Across | Laura Sweeney |
After the Fall: Snowfall | Matthew Manyak |
Ageusia | Will Schneider |
Al Jidar: The Wall | Amie Williams |
Alien | Paul burt |
Alieu the Dreamer | Quincy Ledbetter |
All the Flowers That Cut Through the Earth | Ward Crockett |
All the Little Pieces | Chelese Belmont |
All the Way Down | Mark Netter |
Aloha | Brandi Nicole Payne |
Am I a Man Yet? | David Koutsouridis |
Amadi Comes Home | Laura Bray |
Amber | Johnny Sanchez |
America, Subverted | Hugh Brownstone |
American Ballad | Chris Candelario |
American Gothic | Matt Hartley |
Among Mountain Crags | Erin Frederick & Kyle Frederick |
Amy: The Late Night Experience | Tanay Joshi |
An Empty Briefcase | Jacob Paul Eisenstein |
Another Day on the Subway | Michelle Robinson |
Aperture | David Cowell |
Arceneaux | Jason Buch |
Are You Still Singing? | Gilly Barnes |
Art Camp | Alysse Campbell |
Artesia | Emily Tomson |
At Home | Marissa High |
At the Dragon's Gate | Paulio Shakespeare |
Aurora | Travis Opgenorth |
Baby Grand | Stephanie Szerlip |
Baby Noah | Vivian Miranda |
Backsliding | Anjalika Lobo |
Bad Reception | Eleanna Santorinaiou |
Barbara Jean PI | James Earl |
Bautizo | Alex Avila |
Beards | Becca Grumet |
Belonging: Rohingya Refugee Camp | Ashique Mostafa |
Bird Set Free | Dana Lynn |
Bitches in Season | Sasha Feiler |
Bitter Melons | Thavary Krouch |
Bizzy and the AIMEs | Benjamin Bode |
Black Lions | Beng Poh Neo |
Bleed With Me | Amelia Moses |
Blessings | Roe Moore |
Blood Brothers | Peter Hunziker & Cynthia Riddle |
Bloodlands | David Kushner |
Blue Pigeon Flying | Johnny Baca |
Bob & Dale | David Rosfeld |
Bodega | Rebecca Halfon |
Boone | Justin Havey |
Bootneck & Para | Jeffrey Golden |
Borders of life | Mohamed Karim |
Bouba & Kiki | Jack Goessens |
Brainwashers | Tito Kamel |
Branded | Jordan Bunton-Williams |
Branson | Michael Doshier |
Brave | Joffre Silva |
Break The Stage | Erik V Wolter |
Bronte Time | Stacy Milbourn |
Bucko! | Deni Cheng |
Buffalo Girls | Aaron Gordon |
Burning Brigade | David Kushner |
Burt's Wormhole | Kiki Shaw |
Captain American | Patrick Lipscomb |
Carnation | Lili Matta |
Castro's Spies | Ollie Aslin |
Cat Dexx: Inkosi | Linda Palmer |
Cephalopod | Dani Parker |
Chenoah | Jordan Garry |
Chin's A+ Chinese Laundry | Daniel Pederson |
Chrome: A Dark Turn | Souvid Datta |
City Creatures | Michael Johnston |
Claws | Steven O'Grady |
Cleveland Strangler: Untold Story Documentary | Charles Newton |
Clever Like a Snake | Sophia Loffreda |
Close Enough To Perfect | Dan Williams |
Collage | Dilia Oviedo-Luciano |
Columbus Avenue Boys | David Carraturo |
Comic Strips | Jaime Andrews |
Compassion | Jeff Corpening |
Conversion | Tiffany Wu |
Conviction | Anju Andre-Bergmann |
Cool Air | Edward Case |
Costa Brava Lebanon | Mounia Akl |
Crime of the Century | Noah Southam |
Crossroads Station | Cliff Bailey |
Cul An Ti (The Back Of The House) | Emma Pyne |
Cut Throat City | P.G. Cuscheri |
Dancing Joy | Kate Tsubata |
Dark Safari | Kristin Alexandre |
Day One | Andre Andreev |
De Colores | Luz Zamora |
Deany Bean is Dead | Allison Volk |
Death By Misadventure | Pippa Hinchley |
Death Metal Grandma | Leah Galant |
Death Of A Telemarketer | Khaled Ridgeway |
Decompression | Kobi Mizrahi |
Defect | Jax Smith |
Delusions of Grandeur | Ali Nooriafshar |
Denture Capitalists | Niki Galiano |
Detour | Zelong Peng |
Diana de Santa Fe | Carmen Oquendo |
Digging for Weldon Irvine | Victorious De Costa |
Divinity | Nelson Downend |
Dogs' Honour | Julian Boote |
Doll Parts | Richard Harrington |
Dorpie | Julia Jaki |
Down River | Kerry nnssell |
Drastic | Lynne Cahill |
Drawn by Evil | Trevor Lawrence |
Dwelling in Niagara Falls | Nick Butler |
Eagle Feather | Pasquale Encell |
Eden | Jean Barker |
Ekstasis | Raleigh Moore |
El Beso de Despedida | Afonso Henrique |
El Norte | Will Souders |
Elven Blade: Revenge of the Shadow Queen | Demond Kirk |
Emma Without Edmund | Nicolas Minas |
Empirical | Jennifer Harrington |
Enby | Sam Macneil |
Ernestine | LeRon Lee |
Even A Just Man Falls | Mark Christopher Boyd |
Everything is Beautiful | Paulina Casey |
Ex Disposer | Daniel Ferrer |
Fanwei | Kira Simon-Kennedy |
Far Frontiers | Maxim Dashkin |
Fetch | Sam Gill |
Fighting Johnny O'Brian | Terry Lynam |
Fin | John Galli |
Flat Pack & Puncture | Estella McCusker-Delicado |
Flesh | Marcella Forster |
Flor | Marlene Rios |
For the Good of the Child | Marina Donahue |
Forever Flowers | Erin Granat |
Four Days | Josh Leblanc |
Fourth Quarter Blues | Joshua Hargrave |
Foxed | James Stewart |
Fractal | Mariana Gonzalez |
Francie | Victoria Lucia |
From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock | Kevin Mckiernan |
Gentle Warriors | Giedre Zickyte |
Germophobia | Anastasiia Vorotniuk |
Girls Are Strong Here | Scott Burkhardt |
Give Me All Your Sunsets | Andrew Gayman |
Give Me Love | Dikelo Mamiala |
Giving Birth to a Butterfly | Theodore Schaefer |
Go Live! | Lori Rowton |
Godly | Anna Salinas |
Golem | Austin Kase |
Good Girls Don't | Bryn Woznicki |
Good Luck Miss Wyckoff | Robert Weinbach |
Goodbye, Papa | David Williams |
Gravers | Chuck Micallef |
Greb | Lazarre Simckes |
Gretel and Hansel: A New Musical | Alex Preston |
Grief | Leal Naim |
Grown | Janea West |
Guest In The House | Caycee Black |
Hand Made | Andrea Pietrangeli |
Hard Dead Nazi Dick | William Luke Schreiber |
Hathor | Ziyi Zheng |
Headshots | Chris O'Neill |
Hello Goodnight | Khaled Ridgeway |
Help Is On The Way | Brian Levin |
Hexagon | Grant Harvey |
Hidden | Jon Smith |
Home Bodies | Warren Sefton |
Honey Boy | Shia Labeouf, Otis Lort |
Honor | Rafe Judkins |
Hopeful Romantics | Tom Jenkins |
Hostess | Chelsea Frei |
Hostile Takeover | Michael Woodard |
Huelga! | Dante Betteo |
Hum | Stefano Nurra |
HuMech | David Greenley |
Hurria | Amelia Solomon |
I Am Erica | Amanda Parham |
I am Mackenzie | Artemis Anastasiadou |
I Am The Wolf | Timothy Driscoll |
I Shall Not Care | Tom Griffiths |
I.E. | Toby Roberts |
I'll See You Around | Daniel Pfeffer |
Identification: Laura Bracken | Charles Lane |
Immigrant Outpost | John Hay |
In My Shoes | Iulia Nastase |
In Sight | Dylan Boom |
In the Night I Remember Your Name | Vicki Speegle |
In the Thick | Meghan Lennox |
In the Voodoo Parlour of Marie Laveau | M.C. Beato |
In The Wake Of Things | Jennifer Carta |
In Your Shoes | Dani Reule |
In-Justice | Sam French |
Inga | Steve Emmons |
Into the Fog | Christine Weatherup |
Irish Coffee | Tevin Simpson |
Isle | Lyndsay Sarah Doyle |
It's the AZN | Philip Liao |
Jeff Gets an Interview | Josh Taylor |
Jenkem | Jeffrey Sutton |
Jeronimo: The Untold Tales of Koreans in Cuba | Marlies Gabriele Prinzl |
Jizo | Sonia Kim |
Jolene | Sabrina Besla |
Karachi's Unknown Dead | Owen Kean |
Keeps | Brian Arnold |
Kell's Ride For a Cure | Elizabeth McLeish |
Kid Combat | Christopher Helwink |
Kilo 64 | Amir El-Shenawy |
Kung Pao Boom | David Howard |
L - A Story Of Genderfluidity | Vartanoush Torossian |
La Motochorra | Clarice Bales |
Lana Jing, Professional(?) Lecture Editor | Alex Zajicek |
Larger Than Life | Kelli Reilly |
Larunda | Susanna Boney, Daniel Marino |
Las Minas de Altar (The Mines of Altar) | Jon Alonso Ayon |
Last Call | Warren Sefton |
Last Meals | Eric Salmon |
Latent Image | Alexander Birrell |
Like an Artist | Caitlin Ouano |
Little Sicily | Nina Juliano |
Little Texas | Marissa Vonn |
Little Wilderness | Lindsey Martin |
Living Wills | Jax Smith |
Lloyd's Automotive | Montgomery Burt |
Loafers | Danny Binstock |
Lollipop | Hanaa Saleh Alfassi |
Lost Bayou | Brian Richard |
Love in Kilnerry | Daniel Keith |
Love Incomplete | Ilina Perianova |
Loveseat | Grace (Eun Young) Kim |
Lucy In The Sky | Jennifer Rudin |
Magdali | Varun Chopra |
Magic Window | Nina Gielen |
Maintenance In Space | Mate Boegi |
MallWalkers | Leonard VanScott |
Manhood | Rodney Stringfellow |
Manila is Full of Men Named Boy | Stephen Lee |
Manufactured Dissent | Brooks Roscoe |
Margot | Miryam Rabinowitz |
Mayor Mohamed | Jeffrey Togman |
Me & Jezebel | Lucinda Spurling |
Me,Her | Jaskaran Singh |
Memoria | Alice Del Corso |
Mercy | Tiffany Frances |
Michoud Saigon '95 (A Fire Burns) | Mike Augustine |
Model Minority | Sam Mohney |
Money Man | Raoul Dyssell |
Montison Alone | Julian McHutchison |
Motswakwa [Foreigner] | Moreetsi Gabang |
Mr. Rugoff | Ira Deutchman |
Mutiny | Alanah Rafferty |
My City of Ruins | Joseph Fahim |
My Father's Daughter | Lea Podhradska |
My Florida Home | Matthew Herbertz |
Nascent State | Beanie Barnes |
Nasty | Molleshree Karna |
Never Loving David | Kelly Karam |
Nice Guys Finish Last | Enoch McKie |
No Dominion: The Ian Horvath Story | Margaret Mullin |
No Fault | Myna Joseph |
Nocturne in Black | Jimmy Keyrouz |
Nora | Skyler Lawson |
Nostalgia | Justin Woods |
Nothing Left to Lose | Alex Kronstein |
Nyla | Sabrina Naqvi |
Old Fox | Briana Rayner |
Old Soul | Jon Emm |
Once We Were Hunters | Todd Bendera |
One Day Notice | Bryce Marrero |
Orange Crush | Paul Trainor |
Other Almosts | Sarah Fischer |
Our Father... | Luis Aldana |
Ourself | Nicholas Stott |
Out | Danielle Braund |
Out Cold | Tracy Scarlato |
Out of the Mouths of Babes | Alec Weinberg |
Outlier | John Evans |
Outmoder | Azhur Saleem |
Pants, Comrade! | Shekhar Bassi |
Pari's Dowry | Puja Maewal |
Pariah Dog | Jesse Alk |
Perception | Ilana Rein |
PG 30 | Vidhya Iyer |
Phase Shift | Sara Lindsey |
Phil. | Marissa Lessman |
Pieces | Chris Phillips |
Pinebox | D. R. Tibbits |
Pit | Benjamin Howard |
Play | Moises Velasquez |
Playing With Beethoven | Christopher Edgar |
Podsnappery | Melissa Woodside |
Poe Boys | David Van Hooser |
Polybius | Jimmy Kelly |
Pretty Bun | Mateen Kemet |
Pride Jewel | Armen Dilanchian |
Prism | Kim Kennedy |
Prisoners of X | Gren Wells |
PULP: Puppets Under Life's Pressures | Raphael Loucadellis |
Pushing Upward | Andrea Adler |
Qalb | Hasnain Ali |
Quest for the Silver Pearl | Philip Todd |
Quill | Edward Hicklin |
Quintana | William LiPera |
Realia | Francisco Jaquez |
Really Weeley | Toby Roberts |
Red By Night | Frank Graziano |
Red Light | Dempsey Tillman |
Reel Big Studios | Donald Nguyen |
Refusing to Ghost | Sara Ross-Samko |
Rehearsal | Linda Rumney |
Remember the Pueblo | William Hawkrigg |
Resist | Ricardo Benni |
Revival | Christoph Schultz |
Roadside Angel | Daniel Lyddon |
Roano Moreno's Colorful Canvases | Chad Davis |
Robbed Blind | Josh Fonseca |
Rocked | Tracy Scarlato |
Rosie and the Bear | Fernando Macedo |
Rubber Baby | Parker Briscoe |
Run For Your Life | Alex Lanipekun |
Run! Run! Run! - The Lives Of Abbie Hoffman | Michael J Shapiro |
Sidecar | Christopher Lovick |
Salvator Mundi | Joel Vazquez Cardenas |
Samland | Juan Reyes |
Satantown Varsity Volleyball | Grant Pardee |
Saving the Rabbits of Ravensbrück | Stacey Fitzgerald |
Saving Washington | Jane Hampton Cook |
Saviors | Christopher Greenslate |
Screw City | Joselito Seldera |
Seaquins | Michael Beddoes |
Season of Sacrifice | Nick Jones |
Season of the Witch | Sherri Scott |
Sebastian | Eric Swinderman |
See All | Kenny Heidt |
Sexpectations | Jenna St. John |
Shanda | Jillian Lauren |
She Dreams of Neon | Michael Graham |
She Who Rises From The Ashes | Kaz Cai |
Shepherds | Erica Bardin |
Silencio | Russell Sharman |
Silvermaster | David McCracken |
Six Letter Word | Lisanne Sartor |
Slander | Phyllis Housen, Marjory Kaptanoglu & Ilo Orleans |
Solomon | David Hines |
Solstice | Florencia Manovil |
Solus | Jordan Butcher, Jacob Chattman |
Some Kind of Madness | Casey Walker |
Sometimes, I | Stefanie Abel Horowitz |
Sothea | Kate-Marie Engberg |
Souvenir | Marc-Aurèle Palla |
SpaceShip | Conor McMahon |
Speechless | Tom Helberg |
SPIC | Johnny Sanchez |
Stan's Killing Himself | Aanchal Khaneja |
Standing Woman | Tony Hipwell |
Still Here | Julien Devlin |
Stillwater | Darren Bailey |
Straight Edge Kegger | Jason Zink |
Straw | Curtis Adair |
Stretched On Your Grave | Jason Buch |
Stronger Than Pretty | Jaret Martino |
Stunt Life | Noah Lang |
Sub-Standard | Michael Hinton |
Suburban Turban | Arun Vir |
Summersault | Tanilo Errazuriz |
Surfing Ducky | Adam Anton |
Switchman | Henry Leeker |
Sylvie | John Say |
Synthesize Happy | Daniel Smith Coleman |
Syrup | Alexa Green |
Talking in Circles | Amber Laird |
Taminex | Anya Meksin |
Terror Dactyl | Eufemia Scarfone |
Thank You For Waiting | Jake Leister |
The Acolyte | Sammy James, Jr. |
The Age of Agile | Araceli De Leon |
The Assassin's Wife | Dakota Thomas |
The Bank of Mum | Joseph Betteridge |
The Bankateers | Larry Simmons |
The Birthday Gift | Penny Hollis |
The Boatman | Richard O'Reilly |
The Boy On The Bus | Matia Anne Karrell |
The Bride's Wedding | Nikila Cole |
The Brother | Tanya Baston-Savage |
The Bundy Tapes | Thomas Banuelos |
The Camp of God's Tears | Marilyn Lee |
The Colonies Have Not Declared Independence Yet | Nasser Samara |
The Company Race | Janice Leverett |
The Complaint Desk | Elizabeth Fraser |
THE CONTESTANT | James Hibbard |
The Cosmological Constant | Ron Ford |
The Damian Cross File | Chaz Fatur |
The Dance Crusader | Marcos Davalos |
The Daughter | Summer Agnew |
The Devil & Robert Johnson | Matthias Sundberg |
The Devil Will Drive You Mad | Michael Pitts |
The Disembodied | Dianna Ippolito |
The Everybodies | Cody Lee |
The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop | Jennifer Potts |
The Forest Fenced Becomes Backyards, Like Songs Are Born From Sound | Ryan M. Moore |
The God of Rain and Thunder | Mesh Flinders |
The Gospel According to Charlie | Kamal Iskander |
The Great Pretenders | Jillian Lauren |
The Hellion of Aplomb | George Spyros |
The Hive | Paul Lingas |
The Illegal | Danish Renzu |
The Incredible Adventures of Bridget Banks | Carrie Stett |
The Interview | Ande Case |
The Introspect | Rome Mubarak |
The Jew (Based on a True Story) | Dominik Poleski |
The Kindling | Monique Matthews |
The Last Song | Ian Masters |
The Learning Curve | James Napoli |
The Legend of Jorgito Diez | Kevin Rios |
The Long Shadow | Daniel Lafrentz |
The Lowest Place On Earth | Helli Hardy |
The Magnificents | Benjamin McGinley |
The Map to Paradise | Danielle Ryan |
The Memory Bank | Adam Cooper |
The Minuteman | Tobias Ohlsson |
The Mitigation Gene | Robert Tobin |
The New Normal/El Nuevo Normal | Erick Probeck |
The Place You Were Last | Kate Murdoch |
The Pollinators | Peter Nelson |
The Robocop Legacy | William Robert Webb III |
The Romantic Method | Maggie Hart |
The Rose Lady | Nick Cammilleri |
The Royal Nonesuch | John Gross |
The Secret Life of Ghosts | Shani Drake |
The Shame Game | Susan Sassi |
The Siren | David Smith |
The Sound Of Darkness | Melody Cooper |
The Sound of Memory | Helen Truong |
The Sugar Hill Express | Christopher Grant |
The Tenant | Sushrut Jain |
The Tunnel | Muhammad Bayazid |
The Un-Eff-Able Sam Bistritzky | Maggie Herskowitz |
The Undiscovered Country | Lovell Holder |
The Viking of 6th Avenue | Holly Elson |
The Weight Of Lies | Amanda Samaroo |
The Whole-Timers | Bibhusan Basnet |
This World of Ghosts | Amanda See |
Throwing Hammers | Michael Graf |
Time Now | Spencer King |
Title | Writers |
Tla Issumatavik-arnak (The Snow Queen) | Jacob Leyva |
To Be Right Is To Never Be Wrong | Nicholas Andrews |
TOD (Time Of Death) | Patricia Santana |
Toots | Susan Sassi |
Transfelted | Chandler Kilgore-Parshall |
Transitions | Steven Dean |
Trust | Diane Lansing |
Truth Against The World | Denise Meyers |
Turn 'n' Burn | Doug Raymond |
Turnover | Linda Palmer |
Twisted | LeRon Lee |
Two Weeks With Texra | Kaytlyn Turner |
Undocumented Moments | Steve Parrillo |
Unforgettable | Mary Katzke |
Until Death Do Us Part | Alex Backstrom |
Untitled | Greg Rhem |
Untitled (American Dream Project) | Cait Davis |
Untitled Chelli Look/ CHC Documentary | Jason & Blue Gerber |
Untitled Little River Project | Sanford Jenkins Jr. |
Vagabond | Bob Reynolds |
Vines | Clare Fog |
Viral | Guy Noland |
Voices from the Unconscious | Jamie Facenda |
Vultures | Grant Sissons |
Warne Marsh: An Improvised Life | K.C. Marsh |
Warsha | Dania Bdeir |
Waste | Justine Raczkiewicz |
Watch Room | Noah Wagner |
Water | Jennifer Houlton |
Waterfall | Joyce Datiles |
We Are King | Benjamin Altarescu |
We Are Not Princesses | Hal Scardino |
Weekend In Berlin | Aviv Kosloff |
West of the Sun | Katelyn Laird |
Westhampton | Christian Nilsson |
Westinghouse | Dorian Keyes |
Wet | Lewayne White |
What Are You? | Staci Young |
What Awaits Us | Dan Riesser |
What You Take With You | Joel Salaysay |
When I'm Done Dying | Nisan Dag |
Where Does it Go? | Mark Morris |
Where the Boys Are | Joshua Gleason |
Where We Lay | Andie Morgenlander |
White Rock Skate | Mary Dauterman |
Whitetail | Vincent Sweeney |
Who Is Patina Manly? | Daniel Cardone |
Wilde Geburt | J.C. Barclay |
Willowport | Jess Ansik |
Witch Hunt | Trevor Christie |
Wolf! | Jake Buchanan |
Woman Moves Out of One City to Move in with Boy in Another | Dylan Rex |
Woodchopper | Peter Force |
Writer's Block | Jeffrey Kerr |
Writer's Duel | Tini Wider |
Wuman | Joshua Morrison |
Yonge Street Strip | Lisa Gold |
You As You Are | David Cihelna |
You Gotta Do | Heidi Dill |
You're Not Alone | Casey Zenner |
Young Aleister Crowley | Greg Wayne |
Yours Forever | Shaun Peterson |
Zip | William Castonzo |
Zod Stories | Nicole Quinn |
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