Fall 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 16, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the Fall 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,100 submissions. Congratulations to those who have made it this far!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on September 6th on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Semifinalists:
| 97 | Allyson Rice |
| A Light In Canon City | AARON BEAR |
| Abdo and Saneya | Omar Bakry |
| ADA - MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT | Yael Melamede |
| 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 |
| APPETITE (working title) | Kevin Longa |
| As Easy As Closing Your Eyes | Aaron Golden, Parker Croft |
| Bare Skin | Mico Montes |
| Bella Noche | Antonina Kerguelen |
| Black Snow | Alina Simone |
| BLACKBELTS | Kan Muftic |
| Bumblebees Can't Fly | Andrew Jonathan Smith, Abraham Buckoke |
| Camping with Dad | Jeremy Davis |
| Coal Country | Jessica Blank, Eric Jensen, Audrey Rosenberg |
| CRAZY LEGS | Kristopher Garcia-Simms |
| Dawn Chorus | Laura Jayne Tunbridge |
| Don't be late, Myra | Afia Nathaniel |
| Downline | Jacob Zorn, Alexander Zorn |
| Dream Machine | Daniel Egan |
| El Cartel Cubano | Adrienne Hall |
| Enjoy Your Visit | Erin Cramer |
| Everything Falling Away | Julian Muller |
| F*ck That Guy | Hanna Gray Organschi |
| Family Dinner | Ethan Romaine |
| Forward Thinking | Jeremy Hsing, Abby Burton, Antonio Harper |
| Frankie & Sage | Seda Anbarci, Lissette Camacho |
| Greyhound 1170 | Zach Jansen |
| Grieving | Chris Chi |
| Growing Flowers on the Moon | Robert Bowersox |
| Gummy Worms | Sophie Bennett |
| Help! | Alex E. Chew |
| How to Sue the Klan | John Beder |
| I Am Kathy | jane therese |
| I Am Oronde | Halimah Iman, Teresa Schaeffer, Black Deniro |
| ILONA'S JOY DUST | C. Fitz |
| In Earth We Trust | Sophie Morgan |
| IRON LUNG | Vee Saieh |
| Is Gay Marriage Next? | Emily Clark |
| Isis and Osiris | Mezan Ayoka Morrison |
| Killing Time | Caroline Koonce |
| KONNICHIWA TOKYO | DAISY DENNERLINE |
| Life of Lola | Jacopo Campaiola |
| Long Days | Adam Keleman, Brian Trichon |
| Long Pork | Iris Dukatt |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| M | Calvin Nemeth |
| Maid to Steal | Derek Quick (Negane Meno) |
| Más Allá ("Beyond") | Bettina López Mendoza |
| My So-Called Iraqi-American Wedding | AYSER SALMAN |
| My Star | Parish Rahbar, Tara Moini |
| Niki Tomi Beto | Jon Ayon |
| 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 |
| NOEL & LEON | Dayna Hanson, Dave Proscia |
| Now, Hear Me Good | Dwayne LeBlanc |
| ONE | Alex Abdel Salam |
| One More from the Road | William Reilly |
| Out of Body | Ryan Kim |
| Ovary-Acting | Laura Jayne Tunbridge |
| Pearl Rising | Linda Dahlem Espinoza |
| Peki House Haunting | Emma Van Lare |
| Please, Call Me Back. | Eva Fabray |
| Portal to Hell | Woody Bess |
| Seed Money | Bartow Elmore |
| Shapeshifter | Bianca Catbagan |
| SIDES | Jonathan D'Rozario |
| Sitting Bird | Athena Han |
| Socks | Jiyeon Kim-Myung |
| Sons of The River | Katyayani Kumar |
| Spellbound: Women in Magic | Susan Dynner |
| Standing With The Ancients | Jen Muranetz |
| Stitched | Zach Goodwin |
| Strangers in the Night | Ivona Juka |
| Subversive Sea | Lara Carvalho |
| Sugar Daddy | Mike Cooke |
| Sun Falls | Aeden O'Connor Agurcia |
| Sunhat | Naomi Christie |
| THE (MIS)EDUCATION OF BLACK CHILDREN | Moreetsi Gabang |
| The Collins Film | Brennan Huizinga |
| The Designer | Em Johnson |
| THE HOUSE SITTER | Anne Hollister |
| The Hummingbird Trees (Diary of a Tree Girl) | Andrea Koehle Jones |
| The Sphinx | Chloë Myerson |
| The Stolen Children | Elizabeth Jacobs |
| THE WAYS OUR BODIES BURN | Daniel Egbert |
| The Weight of it All | Arthur Gay |
| Timetracker | Peter Quandt |
| Tokeru (Melting) | Yuki Soga |
| Under the Influencer | Skye Emerson |
| Unstaged | Elizabeth Shew |
| Ways to Fly | Kirby Marshall-Collins |
| Welcome to North Brother Island | Enzo Flores |
| Westhampton | Christian Nilsson |
| What Happens in the Bookstacks | Alexandra Miller |
| What Men Do For Love | karan talwar |
| Whitehead: The Improbably Charmed Life of Paul Whitehead | Heidi Hornbacher |
| Who Killed Alex Odeh? | William Youmans |
| Windy City Serenade | Harper Philbin |
| Winsome | Justin Lerner |
| WOODWORK | Alex Woodruff |
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