Announcing the Spring 2019 ScreenCraft Film Fund Semifinalists

The following projects have been shortlisted for the semifinalist round of consideration for the Spring 2019 ScreenCraft Film Fund backed by BondIt. Selected from over a 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.
The Fall 2019 Film Fund is currently open for applications on this page here.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
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Here are the semifinalists:
¡salsa! | Antonina Kerguelen |
4 Little Girls: Moving Portraits of American Civil Rights | Kerri Edge |
Addie & Addy | Adenike Thomas |
After Parkland, Healing a Community and a Nation | Linda Corley |
All the Children | Martin Barshai |
Alors On Danse | Irene Ashu |
Asking For It | Rebecca Scott |
Asking For It | Yusra Khan |
Beach Babe | Cheryl Wong |
Birth of a Queen | Shaun Escayg |
Blood On Black Leather | Thomas Banuelos |
Blurb | Matt Schuman |
Bone China | Sophie Nash |
Brick House | Olivia Kuan |
Bun in the Coven | Sara Lohman |
By Reason Of | Clare Sladden |
Call Me When You Get There | Shawn Gerrard |
Carousel | Brady Morell |
Charlie Horse | Zack Frizzell |
Choj | Siddesh Shetty |
Coming Home | Matia Karrell |
Cracked | Lin Que Ayoung |
Crate | Alex Pickering & Matthew Breault |
Crescent | Edward Worthy |
Cuttlefish | Alexandra Geller |
Day of the White Rabbit | Elizabeth Tabish & Janet Travis |
DayDreaming | Claudia Graf |
De-Escalation | Lillian Glass |
Disco Acqua Santa | Peter Spark |
Dragonfly | Julia Morizawa |
Dream State | Jolan Bastien |
Dunked | John Bickerstaff |
dusso | Erin Day |
El Cadejo Blanco | Justin Lerner |
Fashion Reimagined | becky hutner |
Five Years North | Chris Temple |
Flying Bird's Diary | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
Hildie & Sonny | Ryan Ward |
Home | Nir Shelter |
Hood. | Finn Mactaggart |
House of Balls | Kristina Thomas |
How We Love/F*ck | Lillian Isabella |
Hyperbola | Jason Ragosta |
Illegally Brown | Gabriela Lugo |
Impersonal | Jacquelyn Li |
Inside Exile: Kathleen Neal Cleaver and her Black Panther Family | Robin Hayes |
It's Me | Anya Beyersdorf |
Izzie and Yuo-Chen on a Date in Autumn | Matt Ocks |
Jane Lives Her Life | Kelly Walker |
Joppatown Hustle | Michael Mirabella |
Just Add Milk | Sasha Cuneo |
Kensington | Kevin Curran |
Land of Dry Bones | Darrell Lake |
lapwing | Laura Turner |
Lemon Grove | Chip Warren & Artie Gonzales |
Lenny | Kristen McNaule |
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Higher Education | Genesis Tolentino |
Linoleum | Colin West |
London Chained | Ulvrik Kraft |
Lost Cause | Naomi Sheridan |
Loulou | Noelle Soulier |
Loved By You | Trisha Dotson |
Luangwa | Ashley Scott Davison |
Lush Life | Paula Walker |
Make Me The Tennessee | Sasha Pasternak |
Mande | Pascui Rivas |
Margo & Perry | Becca Roth |
Mater Mortis | Rishi Gandhi |
Mid-Century | Mike Stern |
Monstrous | April Rouveyrol |
Mornings | Celine Held & Logan George |
No Dominion: The Ian Horvath Story | Margaret Mullin |
No Man's Land | Elad Ziv |
Orphan Club | Sebastian Lemke |
Overdubbed | Thom Smalley & Tess Marie Garneau |
Pachuke | Kendra Arimoto |
Parkland | Cheryl Horner McDonough |
PB&J | Tihemme Gagnon |
Playing the Game | Tyler Gooden |
Pop Screen | Meg Steedle 7 Zach Bandler |
Potato Dreams of America | Wes Hurley |
Queer as Sketch | Sam Macneil |
Revelations of Divine Love | Caroline Golum |
Room Moms | Nicole Kemper |
Safer Stuff | William Hemminger |
Serenade's End | Timothy Hautekiet & Paul Neafcy |
Shadow Players | Mel Piper |
Sheila E. Documentary | Jennifer Steinman Sternin |
Sold Out | Susan Brightbill |
Stupid Cupid | Sarah Hunt & Yaroslav Altunin |
The Chemical Factory | Andrew Leung |
The Children Of Concrete and Steel | Christopher Derrick |
The Chocolate Kandinsky | Suzanne Griffin |
The Color of the Heart | Tijuana Layne |
The Game | Ana Lazarevic |
The Gray Hours | Alyson Mead |
The Killing Room Floor | Kyle Andrews |
The Lease of Nature | Anderson Boyd |
The Long Way Around | Anne Pasquale |
The Nine Month Mother | Kelly Ladd |
The Peregrine | Justin Giddings |
The Perfect Victim | Helen Bolter |
The Pilbara | Will Storr & Curtis Hill |
The Rock of Ages | Eron Sheean |
The Scenesters | Robbi Moolji & Hamid Assian |
The Secret Headquarters | Shaun McLaughlin |
The Sweet Science | Alec McKay |
The Visit | Jessica OKeefe |
The Wolves | Courtney Pape |
Their Name is L | Varta Torossian |
To All Those Birds Of Time. | Monde Gumede & Dan Nitescu |
Tumbleweed | Christopher Seehase |
Two Yellow Lines | Derek Bauer |
Untitled Ady Barkan Documentary | Amanda Roddy |
Venus | Andrew McGee |
When The Desert Was Home | Corey Deshon |
Whoopsie Daisy | Esther Caszo |
Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them | Avi Bernard |
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