Announcing The Spring 2018 Film Fund Quarterfinalists!
by ScreenCraft on August 20, 2018
The following projects have been shortlisted as quarterfinalists to be recipients of the 2018 Spring 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! And let's give a warm round of congratulations to them via Facebook here. And on Twitter here.
We’re also proud to partner MUBI for our 2018 Spring Film Fund.
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!
The 2018 Fall Film Fund is currently open for applications on this page here.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of the semifinalists on September 12th on here, on our Facebook and Twitter pages, and via @Bondit_film.
Without further ado, here are the quarterfinalists:
| "That's Not Fair!" - The Game | Daniel Ramirez |
| 2 Billion Beats | Cameron Lennon |
| 36 Weeks | A.R. Hall |
| 9 Inch Blade | Colm Field |
| 9 Lives | Gabrielle Miller |
| A Better Place | Nikhil Prakash |
| A Girl from Mogadishu | Mary McGuckian |
| A Journey of Winter and Summer | Amie Williams |
| A Lesson on Dying | Brandon Tarver |
| A Life | Zachary Beck |
| A Little Fellow | Anna Laclergue |
| A Penny | Mehmet Sarigul |
| A Second Chance | Manny Jimenez Sr. |
| A Woman's Work | Yu Gu |
| Abdo and Saneya | Omar Bakry |
| About Face | Cameron Flagel |
| Against the Sky | Colton Williamson & Jake Grefenstette |
| Air | J.R. Wicker & Joey Sisson |
| All Their Names | Daria Gracevich |
| Amal | Dilek Ince |
| Amendment | Belinda Gosbee |
| American Drag Queen | John Higgins |
| American Zero | Dillon Tucker |
| And then we will be happy | Diego dos Anjos & Daniel Fraiha |
| Angels | Camille Griffin |
| Angels Four | Manlio Roseano |
| Anomaly | Chris Butler |
| Another Day in Baghdad | Maysoon Pachachi & Irada Al Jabbouri |
| Arctic Sound | Matthew Ferraro |
| Art, Love & Money | Patrick Levy |
| Awake | Andrew Palmer |
| Ay Mariposa | Krista Schlyer |
| Aye, Boy | My-Hanh Lac |
| Barbie Girl | Kim Booker |
| Bautizo, or "The Young Wolf" | Alex Avila |
| BB | Melody Herr |
| Benchside Warfare | Zander Jones |
| Bigger than trauma | Mirta Puhlovski |
| Bingo | Annakate Chappell |
| Birth of a Diaspora | Marie Judes Richard Senecal |
| Birth/Rebirth | Laura Moss |
| Birthright | Daniel Mitura |
| Black Hands in Red Lands | Larry Baer |
| Black Thing | Whitney Ellis |
| Blank Shores | Alex Kyrou |
| Blink | Kyle Lavore |
| Blue Smoke | Matthew Harris |
| Body and Son | Christopher Hamilton |
| Bon Fet | Emily Marquet |
| Bookmarked for Christmas | Greg Schultz |
| Boundary Bay | Justin Neal |
| Breathe | Cassandra Rochelle Fetters |
| Broken Things | Nicci Gilbert-Daniels & Luchia Ashe |
| Can You Take My Picture | Cameron Thrower |
| Catching the Bus | Rebecca Wackler & Eddie Levi Lee |
| Catfight | Ariel Sinelnikoff & Sarah Mahan |
| Cautious | Tonia Boies-McNeill |
| Chair(s) | Jon Stout |
| Cheer Up, Charlie | Kara Grace Miller & Anthony Holiday |
| Cherry Blossoms in March | Riley Rheyan |
| Cherry Pie | Dominic Finocchiaro |
| Chestnut | Richard Abramov |
| Circle of Heat | Sarah Mevissen |
| Circles | Renée Marie Petropoulos |
| Citric Acid | Elenie Chung |
| Clara Callan | Rick Whelan |
| Como se Dice | Gwendolyn Hulet |
| Complimentary Colors | Alyssa Haddad |
| Crane | Amanda Dreschler |
| Cuerpo | Mark Zuniga |
| Cupcake | Obiageli Odimegwu |
| Dancing with Natalia | Susy Pena |
| Dark Chocolate | Teri Brown-Jackson |
| Daruma | Kelli McNeil |
| Darya | Alies Sluiter |
| Dead Shelter | Tim Hewitt |
| Deathless | Thomas Curry |
| Deep Tissue | Meredith Alloway |
| Demon's Vale | Zebulon Eckles |
| Devils from the Goats | Christina Masciotti |
| Dinner For Us | Franchesco Ramos |
| Discord | Helene Taylor & Jax Smith |
| Dissonance | Jonathan Everett |
| Douk | Michelle Hernandez |
| Down in the woods | William Besly |
| Drastic Measures | Wade Alexander |
| Drown | Luis Lassen |
| Duet | Lisanne Sartor |
| Duty Free | Sian-Pierre Regis |
| Dynamic | Jim Smith |
| Echidnee | Mathilde Anglade |
| El | Luke Howe |
| El Pueblo Unido (The People United) | Jonathan Machado |
| Elegy | John Flynn |
| End Zone | Guy Kozak |
| Enpassant | Tony Kolega & Michael Valenti |
| Escape on the Danube | Daniel Costa |
| Execution Day | Mike Reid |
| Expectations | Sara Brink |
| Express | Ezra Ani |
| Exquisite Wasteland | David Vassar |
| Fender Bender | Jeremy Foley & Sara O'Reilly |
| Finding Charlie | Lisa Vasconcellos |
| Firecracker | William Stewart & Robert L. Richard |
| First Words | Meegan May |
| Fish & Chip | Hank Isaac |
| Flames of Fury | Gloria Yazdani |
| Flicker | Brandon La Fleur |
| For Your Own Sake | Trevor Campbell |
| Free | Ben Hartley |
| Freezer | Elisabeth Watts |
| Girls Like Me | Mateo Lynch |
| God, The Crackhouse & The Devil | Levy Lee Simon |
| Good Night, Moon | Saaret Yoseph |
| Gramercy | Jamil McGinnis & Pat Heywood |
| Great Idea | Grant Gadbois & Jack Widman |
| Greatland | Dana Ziyasheva |
| Greetings from Nowhere | Lindsay Bruno |
| Guns, Bombs & Violence: A Love Story | Emmanuel itier |
| Happy As Lark | Stefanie Davis |
| Hells Canyon | Jo Hannah Afton |
| Here Comes Your Man | Alex Neher & Ben Kabialis |
| Here, then There | Paul Sargia |
| Hidalgo: The Ingenious Sheriff | Pablo Riesgo Almonacid |
| Hiking Buddies | Megan Morrison |
| Hill in Harlem | Keith Josef Adkins |
| His Name | Patrick Biesemans |
| Home | Nir Shelter |
| Honor Thy Father | Will Goodfellow |
| How Does It Start? | Matt Miller |
| How to Have an American Baby | Leslie Tai |
| How to Think Your Way Out of Love | Anna Sagatov |
| Hunt for Magic | Rose McGinley-Redon |
| I believe in you, Salomé | Mario Garza & Sarah Gamazo |
| Ice Cream | Ora Yashar |
| If I Say | Goldschmidt Ivan & Massart Olivier |
| Imagine - "Epitaph for Eleanor Rigby" | Thomas O'Connor |
| In Arms | Laurie Barraclough |
| Inez and Doug and Kira | Julia Kots |
| Inhuman | Steffan Delpiano |
| Insignificant | Wendy Wilkins |
| Into The Dark | Randy Kornfield |
| Ivy League | Thom Browder |
| Javelin | Cinqué Lee |
| Jersey | Patrick Ford |
| Jon the Seagull | Caleb Scott |
| Judge/Jury/Execute | Aurin Squire |
| Kachina | Julia Eringer |
| Kaylee, Age 8 | Molly Coffee |
| Kiki: A Cat Tale | Jake Thomas |
| Kikimora | Marcus Iles |
| King Ester | Dui Jarrod |
| Lama-La | Rachel Barth |
| Layla Superior | Anna Salinas |
| Leila's Gift | Mithra Alavi |
| Lifelike | Jay Reid |
| Lily | Philip Staal |
| Lion Killer | Adam Scheiner |
| Little Brother | Sheridan O'Donnell |
| Little Chief | Erica Tremblay |
| Little Lying Wild | Samantha Aldana & Bryce Parsons-Twesten |
| Little Men | Ayesha Adu |
| Little Red Hot | Dawn Brown |
| Locked Away | Jeremy Frazier |
| Lotus & Jazmine | Afnan Linjawi |
| Love in Shooting | Luisa (Luile) Eckmann |
| Love, Alfonsina | Caroline Crawley |
| Love. Hate. Repeat | Francesca Fowler |
| Lucid | Holly Stanford-Brown |
| Mamba | Paul Holbrook & Sam Dawe |
| Man on the Mountain | Nathan Ellis |
| Maricruz | Christine McAuliffe & Aaron Amal |
| Marwan the Magnificent | David & Keith Lynch |
| Meadow | Alyse Kano |
| Miss Violet | Christopher Schrack |
| Missus Softee | Cinder Chou |
| Modern Life is Rubbish | Louisa Harris |
| Moon Manor | Erin Granat & Elizabeth Brissenden |
| More Than Bacon | Wanda Reinholdt |
| Morning Glory | William Winston |
| Mother Tongue | George Ghanem |
| Mr. Moon | Mike Langer |
| Mutiny Bay | Van Manson & Andrew Geimer |
| My Brother | Muneeb Hassan |
| My G. | Miguel Ortiz |
| My Secret Country | Marlo McKenzie |
| My Week With Maisy | Mark Oxtoby |
| Myth | Matthew Thorne |
| Nafsi (Swahili for Soul) | Reuben Odanga |
| Nayeli Valiente | Ashley George |
| Nemesis | Adrian Leon |
| Nest | Allysa Sing |
| Night Shift | Chris Phillips |
| Nobody's Listening | Caroline Baker |
| Not Black Enough | Jermaine Manigault |
| Number One | Mohammad Homouda |
| Ocean Child | Michael Leung |
| Odium: A Requiem for Love | Annika Pampel |
| Old Dog Dream | Colt Sheldon |
| Olympia | McKenzie Chinn |
| One Last Run | Daniel Grasskamp |
| Operation Brother Sam | Gustavo Freitas |
| Orientation | Eve Symington |
| Our Court | Kahlil Maskati |
| Our Uncle, Keith | Lorna King |
| Out the Door | Maggie Farley |
| Pacific Palisades | Andrew Ryan |
| Pals | James Mitchell |
| Paradise | Deni Cheng |
| Past & Repast | Nick Cavalier |
| Pedestrian (Rahadari) | Shahir Daud |
| Philosophy: The Motion Picture | Matt Schutt |
| Please, Hold… | Pavel Tabutov |
| Poison | Teal Greyhavens & Nick von Keller |
| Porter | Amy Chacon |
| Post Traumatic White Folks Syndrome: A Mockumentary | Karan Kendrick |
| Progeny | Anthony Weintraub |
| Project Gordon | Al Hallak |
| Puppy Love | Marnie Mahannah |
| Queen of Lapa | Carolina Monnerat |
| Quest | Kamee Abrahamian & Lee Williams Boudakian |
| Quicksand | Jennifer Bianchi |
| R3ALITY | Caleb Slain |
| Radiant Spirits | Sarah McLeod |
| Raise: Salida | Vivien Hartmann |
| Raspberries | Irina Lambert |
| Rectitude Or Justice | Lewis Reckline II |
| Redpaw | Skyler Lawson |
| Redwall | Pearl Marley |
| Reflections | Ande Case |
| Regan | Panos Katsimperis |
| Remember | Mannika Mishra |
| Remember the Alamo | Andrew van Baal |
| Rerun | Jayesh Mehta |
| Ringmen | Clarence Deng & Ryan Lee |
| Road To Pandemonium | Sam Dabbs & R.J. Harbour |
| Road Trip to the Biggest Pierogi in the World | Michal Lavi |
| Robo Peche | Stefani Saintonge |
| Rocking Horses | Rachel Barth |
| Rocksteady | Jed Goldstein |
| Rooster | Kyle Rynicki |
| Run Red Tomahawk | Preston Janis |
| Rust | Daniel Drummond |
| Sacrifice Zones: The 48217 | Ben Corona |
| Safelight | Olivia Sulkowicz |
| Saint. Sinner. | J. Franklin Evans |
| Samichay | Mauricio Franco Tosso |
| Scarpegoat! | Nan Schmid |
| Scent of Chocolate | Thiago Dalt |
| Scout | Samuel Goodwin |
| Searching for Justice | Raza Rizvi |
| Seeing Beyond: With 20/20 Vision | Trishunda Mooney |
| Serpentine | Payten Brewer |
| Shazia | Dilshad Vadsaria |
| Shelly | Gillian Zinser |
| Showpony | Scott Kalberer |
| Shutters down | Rick Limentani |
| Sila | Mischa Hedges |
| Single Family Home | Tara Hall |
| Sink | Paul Walker & Ilan Cohen |
| Sinners short screenplay | James Hoyle |
| Six Letter Word | Lisanne Sartor |
| Skarnen | Tim Archibald |
| Solomon | JB Amrstrong & Michael Alberstadt |
| Something Not There | Marc Rosenberg |
| Son of No Man | Sean Minogue |
| Sound of the Somme | Alexander Menu & Thomas Besançon |
| Spoken | Tricia Lee |
| Staring into Infinity | Nicholas Carleton |
| Starship Rogue Dragon | Qishi Li |
| State of Mind | Pia Storck |
| Stella Incarnated | Avi Glick |
| Sticks | Van Jensen |
| Sting | Frank Graziano |
| Stone Drive: The Movie | Sylvia Marie Llewellyn |
| Storage | Wendy Stetson |
| Strapped | Sammy Anderson |
| Stronghold | Julia Camara |
| Stuck | Fasika Addis |
| Sucking Wind | David Kennedy & Ruby Baker |
| Sumo Football | Scott Jacobs |
| Survival Skills | Quinn Armstrong |
| Tackling Homelessness: A Hard Look at Why We Fail the Homeless Community | Robert Fisher |
| The Adventurers Diary | Jean Maye |
| The Baron of Nulford | Leevi Ikonen & Heikki Ikonen |
| The Book of Job | Andrew Oh |
| The Bounty | Alan Thornburg |
| The Brutalist Project | Carlotta Berti |
| The Campaign of Miner Bo | Todd Drezner |
| The Chocolate Kandinsky | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Condor & The Eagle | Clement Guerra |
| The Confessions of Billie the Kid | Kyle D'Odorico |
| The Dead Ones | Fred Armesto |
| The Descendants | Nicole Collins |
| The Devil's Crown | Jessica Valentine & Richard Valentine |
| The Discarded | James Boyce |
| The District of Skid Row | Spencer Riley |
| The False Mirror | Johnny Coffeen |
| The Forest Boy | Jason Morillo |
| The Fruit of Your Womb | Marina Shron |
| The Girl With Seven Names | Madeleine Gavin |
| The Handy Man | Nicholas Clifford |
| The Hard Song | Christen Kembell |
| The History of White People in America | Jonathan Halperin |
| The House on Carter Road | Shawn Gerrard |
| The Hunter and the Mystic | Whitney Hamilton & Lorraine Farris |
| The Institution | Christopher Crane |
| The Kilima Chain | Josh Folan |
| The Last Encore | Julia Mentz & Daniel Mentz |
| The Loneliest Whale | Brad Klipfel |
| The Love Bugs | Allison Otto |
| The Mind Expander | John Zecchini |
| The Molok | Xander Chauncey & Sam Wilson |
| The Moon | Danny Turkiewicz |
| The NN | Milo Carballo |
| The Offshore Pirate | Ryan M. Moore |
| The Pareto Effect | Scotch Rutherford |
| The Perpetrator | Jessica Franz |
| The Picture Show | Madeline Stephenson |
| The Raft | Holly Stanford-Brown |
| The Rock Of Ages | Eron Sheehan |
| The Rose | Tavyn Gentry |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | David Ruben |
| The Seal | Richa Rudola |
| The Shop Around the Corner | Heather Magee-McDonald |
| The Showboat Mangini | Drew Macias |
| The Snow Panda | Michelle Calderon |
| The Space Between | Cole Fremed |
| The Specter | Adam Thede |
| The Speed of Light | Jorge Barboza |
| The Story of Merlin and Magic | Lori Sines |
| The Sweet Science | Alec McKay |
| The Thorns In Our Side | Tony Gapastione |
| The Three Bobs | Roxanne Marciniak |
| The Village That Once Was | Tyrrell Shaffner |
| The Violinist | Michael Lavers |
| The Waiting Dead | Meryl O'Connor |
| The Warriors' Concerto | Jamaal Pittman & Lila Hood |
| The Way We Look at Horses | Meghan Lees |
| The Wind | Janae Green & Maria Mitchell |
| The Woman in the Arena | Patrick Frey & Rachel Wilke |
| The Wrought | Emily Clark |
| Things That Fall | Sy Huq |
| This Missing Night | Mike Tolliver |
| This Time Away | Magali Barbe |
| Three Categories or Less | Penny Pauletich |
| Tiger Dreamer Prisoner | William Chen |
| Together | Ryan Still |
| Tomorrow Men | Alison Reeger Cook |
| Touch-lines | Thomas McMahon |
| Transfer | Sage Mears |
| Transistor Radio | Georgia Bloo Nicolaou |
| Triple Threat | Gina Surles |
| Tucumcari | Kristin Goodman |
| Tumbleweed | Christopher Seehase |
| Turner Falls | Dashiell Finley |
| Twister | Evan Kelman |
| Ultra | Victoria Negri |
| Undercut | Kelly Pike |
| Unfinished Works | Shanna Riker |
| Untitled Rodeo Film | Darius Dawson |
| Venus Melite: Venus of Honey | Scott Lyman |
| Violence | Ian Stoker-Long |
| Volleyball! | Alex Carroll & Cameron Martinez |
| Wander | Elie Choufany |
| Werewhite | Mukilan Thangamani & Roseanne Liang |
| Westhampton | Christian Nilsson |
| what ever happened to him? | David Mandell |
| What Kind of Woman | Elizabeth Block |
| What Would Dolly Do? | Kd Amond |
| When My Time Comes | Diane Naughton & Joe Fab |
| When The Desert Was Home | Corey Deshon |
| Whispering Pines | Todd Waring |
| Wild Horses, Dragged Away | Lucy Smith-Williams |
| Wingmen | Nicole Emanuele |
| Woe | Matthew Goodhue |
| Wolves Inside | Samantha Ireland |
| Women of the Holocaust | Bob Massie |
| Ze | Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir |
| Zed | Tavis Putnam |
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