Fall 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund Second Rounders
by ScreenCraft on July 19, 2023
Listed below are the Second Rounders of the Fall 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 1,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Second Rounders:
| ...And Before We're Condemned | Gavin Fields |
| "The Riddle of the Doors" | JOE HAWKINS |
| (True) North | HF Crum |
| 04:30 | Russell Sharman |
| 1 Star Review | Simon Darkman |
| 1000 Feet Down | Ben Strang |
| 113 | Aladen Gulmohamad |
| 2 Soles | Ashlyn Forbes |
| 3 Cold Dishes | Asurf Oluseyi |
| 8:46PM. Harriet Arrives. | Aimiende Negbenebor Sela |
| 97 | Allyson Rice (I'm an Exec. Producer on the documentary) |
| A City in the | Lev Omelchenko |
| A Gettysburg Haunting | Rabia Bouchiba |
| A Sacred Piece of Home | Amita Sarin |
| Abdo and Saneya | Omar Bakry |
| Ada - My Mother the Architect | Yael Melamede |
| Adult Conversation | Hanani Taylor |
| After What Happened at the Library | Kyle Casey Chu, Roisin Isner |
| Against The Current | Jo Erickson , Kibwe Cooper |
| Ali 1978: The Butterfly's Last Dance | Eddie Goines |
| All I Wanted To Say Was (그냥 보고싶었다고) | Julie Shin |
| All the Beautiful Things | A.M. Lewis |
| All The Little Things | Joshua Chamberlain |
| All the small things | Christian Sinclair Wolf, David Barton |
| Alone with you | Adam Clark |
| Alterations | Sean Wainsteim |
| America's Other Irish -- A Musical Journey | Chris Moser |
| American Fallout | Harry Kakatsakis |
| American Paragon | Quinn Matthews |
| Anchored | Noah Arjomand, Kate Soper |
| Antyesti | Oz Go |
| Appetite | Kevin Longa |
| As Easy As Closing Your Eyes | Aaron Golden, Parker Croft |
| Ashes | Stephanie Domini |
| Ashes Under The Sand | Richard LePow |
| At First Light | DARREN MARKEY |
| At the Right Decision Turn Left | Alexandra Case |
| Awake | Joshua Nicholas Moreno |
| Ayşegül on Tuesdays | Amy Omar |
| Aysha | Lauren Burgueno |
| Baby Daddy Road Trip | Aubrey Reynolds |
| Baby Names | Josh Sullivan |
| Baby's Breath | Elijah Noble El |
| Bare Skin | Mico Montes |
| Beej (Seed) | Meghna Haldar |
| Bella Noche | Antonina Kerguelen |
| Beware The Preacher | Jannik Ohlendieck |
| Beware The Trojan Horse | Tim Hewitt |
| Big Jim's- Pick Your Coffin | Kelton Arcado, Connor Cooper |
| Black Canvas | Stephen Reyes |
| Black Snow | Alina Simone |
| Blackbelts | Kan Muftic |
| Bleed - A Julie d’Aubigny Story | Jim Onyemenam |
| Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary | Emma Mueller |
| Bloom | Seren Sensei |
| Boar Hunting | Cortney Stowers |
| bOb | Alberto Chumaceiro |
| Bob's Hops | Agatha Whitechapel |
| Boxed | Harry Baruch |
| Breakthrough | AARON BEAR |
| Brown Babies | Zaire Davis |
| Bum Next Door | Irina Chernikina |
| Bumblebees Can't Fly | Andrew Jonathan Smith, Abraham Buckoke |
| Burning Bush | Mallory Sparks |
| Burro | Hannah Lerner |
| Buscando Alma | Melissa Fisher, Mair Flores |
| By The Grape Of God | Kevin Hickey |
| BZRK | Chandler Clarke |
| Cabe | Sarah Bishop |
| Caller Unavailable | Bella Maxwell |
| Camping with Dad | Jeremy Davis |
| Candy and Debris | Mere Walton |
| Carrots | Jake Redmond |
| Catharsis | Debora Liss |
| Changes | Martyn Eaden |
| Cherry-Colored Funk | Chelsie Pennello, Corbett Blair |
| Cheryl | Shelly Mar, Steven Polletta |
| Child of Woe | Samuel Perrone, Michael Perrone |
| Choices | Sean Nash |
| Christmas With Jerks | Leanna Adams |
| Chronic | Chloe White |
| Chuck and Fern | Henry Alexander Kelly |
| Clothes | Rachel Barnett-Jones |
| Cluster | Kevin Dembinsky |
| Coal Country | Jessica Blank, Eric Jensen, Audrey Rosenberg |
| Collapse | Alex Criqui |
| Collapsed | Vincent Bain |
| Country Dog | Eduardo Costas Cordero |
| Couple Goals | Tom Bridger, Jonny Gillard |
| Crazy Legs | Kristopher Garcia-Simms |
| Cruiser | Alexa Best |
| Cue Applause | Benj Welmond |
| Dawn Chorus | Laura Jayne Tunbridge |
| Deepfake | Matt Eames |
| Degrees of Separation | Eva Grant |
| Demon | Ana Liza Muravina |
| Derailment | Danielle Alberico |
| Disco de la Raza: A Chicano Story | Paloma Rabinov |
| Dissonance | Andrew Brame |
| Dog Eat Dog Eat Dog | Chas Chang |
| Dog Park, Mother Fucker | Jason Slotkin |
| Dogsoup | Brockton Komon |
| Don't be late, Myra | Afia Nathaniel |
| Downline | Jacob Zorn, Alexander Zorn |
| Drawing Blood | Zachary Tirgan |
| Dream Machine | Daniel Egan |
| Drip | Phoebe Gibb |
| Earbuds | Archana Shinde |
| Earth and Moon | Kai-han Huang |
| El Cartel Cubano | Adrienne Hall |
| El Cohete | Eric Jacobo |
| End Pointe | Eva Seymour |
| Enjoy Your Visit | Erin Cramer |
| Everglow | Mohammed Mamdouh |
| Everything Falling Away | Julian Muller |
| Everything Is Good | Tori La Desma |
| Everything Is Perfect And I Have Nothing To Complain About | Mark L. Feinsod |
| Exceptional | Steve Beta |
| Eyes Wide Open - Short Film | Yasir Raza, Cindy Bonilla |
| Eyesore | Jonathan Shander |
| F*ck That Guy | Hanna Gray Organschi |
| Family Dinner | Ethan Romaine |
| Father to Son | George Perrin |
| Finding JaMia's Spirit | Candace Patrick |
| Fire and Coolant | Olivia Webb |
| Fire Lily | Phil Dunn |
| Firecracker | William Stewart |
| First Blood | Jessica McLaughlin |
| Flat Over Crest Short | Iris Davis-Quick |
| Flowers from the Front Line | Carmela Corbett |
| For The Love Of Jupiter | Rakhi Varma |
| Forward Thinking | Jeremy Hsing, Abby Burton, Antonio Harper |
| Fractal | Anslem Richardson |
| Frankie & Sage | Seda Anbarci, Lissette Camacho |
| From Remote Places | Philip Hamilton |
| Girls Together | Christie Arnold, Issy Halpin |
| Gold | Kylie Murphy |
| Good Bad Things | Shane Stanger |
| Green Grass | Laura Hauschild |
| Greyhound 1170 | Zach Jansen |
| Grieving | Chris Chi |
| Gris and Mrs. Garcia | Claudia Barcenas |
| Growing Flowers on the Moon | Robert Bowersox |
| Gummy Worms | Sophie Bennett |
| Gun Golem | Michael Winingham |
| Guns Down | Robert Sweeting, Rob Alicea |
| Hangman | Aleks Spurmanis, Danielle James, Durga Myakala |
| Hangtown | Stuart Harmon |
| Happy Ending | Ahmad Bakrin |
| Harley | Andy Lyberopoulos |
| Hate | Darion Trotman |
| Haunted Heart | Mike Bencivenga |
| Hearts in a Sling | Stephanie Gould |
| Help! | Alex E. Chew |
| How Do I Live With This | Raphael Chinca |
| How To Get Ahead | Emily Goode |
| How to Sue the Klan | John Beder |
| How We Escaped Our Certain Fate | Alistair Legrand |
| Human Interest - Pilot | Laurie Waplington |
| Hungry Man | Andrew Appelle |
| I Am Home | Pavitra Chalam |
| I Am Kathy | jane therese |
| I Am Oronde | Halimah Iman, Teresa Schaeffer, Black Deniro |
| I Came Back To Life | Amina Elfiki |
| I Dared My Best Friend To Ruin My Life: He's Succeeding | Michael Morgenstern |
| I Don't Dream In Spanish Anymore | Missy Hernandez |
| I'm So Sorry Baby | Friday Anderson |
| Ilona's Joy Dust | C. Fitz |
| In Earth We Trust | Sophie Morgan |
| In Search of Sister Hai | Richard Hall |
| In The Belly | Zora Kovac |
| Incisor | Julia Barlow |
| InfesTatioN | JJ Condon |
| Irish Love Story | Aisling Corristine |
| Iron Lung | Vee Saieh |
| Is Gay Marriage Next? | Emily Clark |
| Isis and Osiris | Mezan Ayoka Morrison |
| It Started with Small Things | Katherine Landry |
| Jessica | Nina Ljeti |
| Just Dance | Carlos Cardona |
| Kaboom - Kin | Anthony Vercoe, Margaret MacDonald |
| Killing Time | Caroline Koonce |
| Kisses and Bullets | Faranak Sahafian |
| Kissyfoot | Michael Clifton |
| Kleptomania | Mallika Kavadi |
| Koko Suzanne | Zach Bandler, Emmanuel Epenge |
| Konnichiwa Tokyo | DAISY DENNERLINE |
| Ladies Night | EMMANUEL SAINT-ANGE |
| Lady Lazarus | Lucy Benson-Brown |
| Last Call | Rebecca L. Hargrove, Kedren Spencer |
| Last One: A Journey into Heaven's Gate | Corey Wells |
| Learning to Play | Steen Agro |
| Lia, 19 | Liz Singh |
| Liana | Werner Vivier |
| Life Cycle 63 | Jordan Wade |
| Life of Lola | Jacopo Campaiola |
| Ligaw (Stray) | Ian Alessandro Abaya |
| Ligeia | john reshetar |
| Limbo | Carlos Gutierrez |
| Local Haunts | Katie Sanderson |
| Locard's Principle | jacob richardson |
| Long Days | Adam Keleman, Brian Trichon |
| Long Pork | Iris Dukatt |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| Love School | Julia Maryanska |
| Love, from Ellie | Chantelle James |
| Lovebug | Blake Kaiser |
| Lullaby | Lorenzo Nera |
| Lyrical | Carter Stewart |
| M | Calvin Nemeth |
| Maid to Steal | Derek Quick (Negane Meno) |
| Malia & Dalia | Francisco Lorite, Marilyn Sanabria |
| Mallwalkers | Debra Kirschner |
| Malocchio | Alex Knell |
| Más Allá ("Beyond") | Bettina López Mendoza |
| Miles & Melodies | Ronjoy Borthakur |
| Miss Liberty the Movie | Victoria Moran, William Melton |
| Model Minority | Tapan Sharma |
| Mondorama | Morten Thorning |
| Monogamish | Maggie Callis |
| Moonrise | Beo Lerman |
| Moose Jaw | Melissa Puente |
| Moshe and Amira | Eliot Gelberg-Wilson |
| Move | Ayako Karasawa |
| Movement, Light, and Life | Winston Stemler |
| Mr Perfect | Desi Lyon |
| My So-Called Iraqi-American Wedding | AYSER SALMAN |
| My Star | Parish Rahbar, Tara Moini |
| My Truck | Cory Dean Ford |
| Nana | Alfredo Vidal |
| Nema | Marlene Emilia Rios |
| Niki Tomi Beto | Jon Ayon |
| No Filter | Mary DeMatteo |
| No More Wet Feet | Martin Calvo |
| No Rules | Ashley Gianni |
| No Strings Attached | Heather Alexis |
| Nobody's Leaving til Jesus Comes (aka Save Me!) | Jean Barker |
| Nocturne | Lindsay Wyath |
| Noel & Leon | Dayna Hanson, Dave Proscia |
| Now, Hear Me Good | Dwayne LeBlanc |
| NYCW (NYC Witches) | Dave Solomon |
| Old Mate | Mitchell Charman |
| On Firm Ground | JUSTIN JONES |
| Once Trees... | GLENN BIREN |
| Once Upon the City: A Hella Cracked Short Film | Myles Bergman |
| One | Alex Abdel Salam |
| One More from the Road | William Reilly |
| Open Up | Tiina Chisola Lantz-Hirvonen |
| Orpheus | Steve Wieclaw |
| Our Bodies & Other Shames | Malka Wallick |
| Out of Body | Ryan Kim |
| Out of Sight | Jack Goessens |
| Ovary-Acting | Laura Jayne Tunbridge |
| Over the Rolling Green Hills | Emily Pudalov |
| Paper Monsters | Michael Clifton |
| Papaer Plates | Brian Nguyen |
| Park Benches | Joe Favalaro, Dan Braga Ulvestad |
| Party O'Clock | Lindsey Robertson |
| Pearl Rising | Linda Dahlem Espinoza |
| Pegs | Ethan Evans, Jess Bartlett |
| Peki House Haunting | Emma Van Lare |
| Penny's Circle | Alexa Salimpour |
| Persuasion | Michelle Calderon, Zoë DeLeon |
| Pillow Talk | Ra-ey Saleh |
| Please Make Sense | Alexander Ullom |
| Please, Call Me Back. | Eva Fabray |
| Plus One | Zayn Alexander |
| Portal to Hell | Woody Bess |
| Portrait | Allegra Oxborough |
| Portrait of a Persian Cat | Abraham de Cugnac |
| Presumption of Death | Gustavo Hernandez-Perez |
| Punching Bag | Rob Ayling |
| Quran Camp | Samah Meghjee |
| Rapunzel | Becca Sugar, Margarita Milne |
| Recurring Gig | Adam Hutchinson |
| Red Fish | Anastasiya Sergienya, Helga Landauer |
| Reveal | Kevin McCloskey, Donna Miller |
| Reverberate | Jewel Hargrove |
| Ride Or Die | Alex Parkinson |
| Robin Hood: The Golden Arrow | Tyson Vick |
| Role Play | Elizabeth Katz |
| Runner | Jordan Riggs |
| Ruthie Joins a Death Cult | Nina Concepción, Kyle Kenyon |
| Saffron Highway | Alex Tyson |
| Salsa Sangre | Nathan Castiel, Keith Boos |
| Scary Dog | Onyeka Oduh |
| Seed Money | Bartow Elmore |
| Self Reflections | Sharie Vance |
| Shame | Nadia Tabbara |
| Shapeshifter | Bianca Catbagan |
| Sharkkin | Tommy Garcia |
| Shifts | Laura Cotterill |
| Shock Jock | Ross McGowan |
| Sides | Jonathan D'Rozario |
| Sins of the Father | Christopher Guerrero |
| Siren Song | Stephen Coll |
| Sitting Bird | Athena Han |
| Slick Rick | Alex Garcia |
| Smile...The Worst is Yet to Come | joseph mancuso |
| Smokeeasy | Courtney Thomas, Amy Copperman |
| Snakeeater | Tore Knos, Aron Flasher |
| Socks | Jiyeon Kim-Myung |
| Sonder | Oluwatimilehin Faderin |
| Sons of The River | Katyayani Kumar |
| Spellbound: Women in Magic | Susan Dynner |
| Standing in Fire | Philip Musey |
| Standing With The Ancients | Jen Muranetz |
| Starburst | Dmitry Chaplin |
| Stitched | Zach Goodwin |
| Stolen Dough | Stefano Da Frè |
| Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth | Nicki Carrico, Julia Pontecorvo |
| Stranger After Fall | Stephen Murphy |
| Strangers in the Night | Ivona Juka |
| Strega | Richard Cotzabuyucas |
| Stupid C*nt | Ksenia Nikto, Polina Zabrodskaya |
| Subtext/Clipped Wings | Christina McInulty, Erin Morgan |
| Subversive Sea | Lara Carvalho |
| Sugar Daddy | Mike Cooke |
| Sukkot | Mandy Clinton |
| Sun Falls | Aeden O'Connor Agurcia |
| Sunday Morning | Jason Wallace |
| Sunhat | Naomi Christie |
| Sweet Dreams | Gary Alvarez |
| Talon | Heather Parra |
| Test Drive | Mitchell Lazar, Sam Downey |
| Text Ya Later | Jeniffer Hernandez |
| Thank You, Places! | Timothy Mark Davis, Luis Roberto Herrera |
| The (Mis)Education of Clack Children | Moreetsi Gabang |
| The Astrum Wranglers | Samuel Keene |
| The Ballerina | Daniel Marques |
| The Biggest Alien | Renee Kester, Samantha Mandich |
| The Blind Couple From Mali | Sonia Gooding Togobo |
| The Blossom | Shahnaz Mahmud |
| The Bobbsey Twins Go to Hell | Gil Luna |
| The Bus Stop | Parker Briscoe |
| The Call Out | Jess C Wheatley |
| The Cima Project | Anna Katarina |
| The Clam Guy | Jen Nista, Max Beckerman |
| The Collins Film | Brennan Huizinga |
| The Compatriots | Spencer Cohen |
| The Cutting Room Floor | Victoria deMartin |
| The Designer | Em Johnson |
| The Dyson-Nüwa Project | Joey Yu |
| The Extraordinary Inner Life of Engineer Atul Kulkarni - Short | Jyothi Kalyan Sura |
| The Flip Side | Alise Morales |
| The Gentlemen of Sig Alph Chi | Vasco Munoz, Sahil Rustami |
| The Great Divide | John Skipp |
| The Great Tit is a Bird | Ar Ducao |
| The Gringo in the Hammock | Joe Tripician |
| The House Sitter | Anne Hollister |
| The Hummingbird Trees (Diary of a Tree Girl) | Andrea Koehle Jones |
| The Ingenue | Kyle Andrews, Frances Wendorf |
| The Invisibles | Julia Beney |
| The Maker | Andio Manguray |
| The Meeting Spot | Lauren Sick |
| The Method | Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch |
| The Officers | Sebastien Michel |
| The Other Moon | Benjamin Font |
| The Ride | Alysha Haran |
| The Rite of Spring | Nick Nocera |
| The Rosewood Interview | Andy Dispensa |
| The Sound of Silents | Nicholas Reynolds |
| The Sphinx | Chloë Myerson |
| The Stolen Children | Elizabeth Jacobs |
| The Test | Addyson Douglas, Andrea Meister |
| The Tyrant | Peter Bussian |
| The Untamed | Olga Holtz |
| The Ways Our Bodies Burn | Daniel Egbert |
| The Weight of a Dog | Lucy Sandler, Mechi Lakatos |
| The Weight of it All | Arthur Gay |
| The Wicked: Reborn | Matthew Stalletti |
| Them | Charlie S. Jensen |
| There's So Much More to Fishing Than Catching Fish | Roger Corea |
| They Chose The Sea | Nnamdi Kanaga, Tunray Femi |
| They Will Bleed Us Dry | Phillip Dixon |
| Thirst Trap | Lizzie Parmenter |
| Thump | Richard Young |
| Timetracker | Peter Quandt |
| To the Moon | Michael Dukakis |
| Todo el Tiempo en el Mundo | Stephanie Ibarra |
| Tokeru (Melting) | Yuki Soga |
| Trash Baby | Jacy Mairs |
| Trimester | Narlyia Sterling |
| Tummy Monster | Ciaran Lyons |
| Two for One | Spencer Tuggle, Eric McCorkle |
| Under the Influencer | Skye Emerson |
| Unheard Voices: A Mothers Quest for Freedom | TOSHA MILLS |
| Unicorn Boy | Joe Tripician |
| Unstaged | Elizabeth Shew |
| Untitled North Miami Project | Edson Jean |
| Untouchable | Adam Lapallo |
| Vanishing Cowboy | Randi Johns |
| Verity | Tim Maupin |
| Watermelons | Cheryl Wong |
| Ways to Fly | Kirby Marshall-Collins |
| We Can Never Go Back | Aminah Hughes, Dylan Kussman |
| Welcome to North Brother Island | Enzo Flores |
| Westhampton | Christian Nilsson |
| What are You Called? | Briana Monet |
| What Happens in the Bookstacks | Alexandra Miller |
| What is the Criteria? [Criteria Kya Hai?] | Aneesa Khan |
| What Men Do For Love | karan talwar |
| What We Leave Behind | Yashoda Parthasarthy, Vijesh Rajan |
| Where's Harlem | Donaldo Prescod |
| Whistle Down Wind | Andie Morgenlander |
| Whitch | Hoku Uchiyama |
| Whitehead: The Improbably Charmed Life of Paul Whitehead | Heidi Hornbacher |
| Who Killed Alex Odeh? | William Youmans |
| Wildflowers | Jeff Lucky |
| Willow and Wu | Kathy Meng, Harry Bacon |
| Windy City Serenade | Harper Philbin |
| Winsome | Justin Lerner |
| Wishes Sink in Man Made Lakes | Faye Ruiz |
| Woodwork | Alex Woodruff |
| Xin Xin: The Last Panda in Latin America | Anna Wang |
| Yes Emmie, You Can! | Nori Ortiz |
| Zero Light | Christina Auriana |
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