Fall 2023 ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft - updated on June 5, 2024

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the Fall 2023 ScreenCraft Virtual Pitch. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!

Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on October 18th 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 here.

Here are the Semifinalists:

*"Johnstown"*	Raymond Leech
*"Offstage"*	George Hamaty
28	Steve Fisher
*A Few Boards The Ben Jones Story*	Wiley Jones
*Afterwards*	Leonid Shmelkov, Anna Kadykova
*Aisles*	Jonathan Di Rocco
*All the Gallant Men*	Ken Gire
*Amanda Breadbrenner*	Aaron Carter
*Amateurs*	Andrew Rickel
*América Jonze: A streaming series pitch*	Zareh Artinian
*Ascension*	Darren Moran
*Bacél Bonito and The Big Apple*	Zack Fernández
*Be-Mused*	Joey Day Hargrove
*Before We Were*	Katelyn Henslin
*Blood and Ice*	Michael Di Raimondo
*Body Count*	Rory Applin, George Nelson
*Bridge of Sighs*	Frederick Rauschenbach
*Caregiver*	Zach Drummer
*Chas & Sid*	Lyric Nelson
*Child(less)*	Thea Gagliardi
*Chimera*	Ross Denyer
*Code Breakers*	Kevin Gibson
*Code Death*	Olga Gabris
*Crowley*	Ed Purchla
*Darkest Before the Dawn*	William Parsons
*De-Code Switch*	April Kimble
*Deadline*	William Hyland

*Dogcatchers*	Darren Moran
*Doing Good*	Darren Moran
*Dylan P.I.*	susan lerner
*Endora*	FJ Roebuck
*First Resort*	Spencer Paez
*For The Good of Mankind*	Harvey Waters Jr
*Forbidden in the City (TV Series)*	Michelle Dong
*Franken-Fried Alien Pitch*	Juliet Mace
*Free Swing*	Lindsay Stidham
*Freedom Island*	Thomas Williams
*Frida does Flamenco*	eva midgley
*Galapagos*	Jordan Mitchell
*Gasp!*	Donovan Erskine
*Ghosts of Winter*	Antoinette Dietkus
*Girl Shaped Ghost*	Graeme Morrice
*Going Batty*	Maya Florin
*Golems*	Steve Fisher
*Government Exorcists: The Department of Infernal Affairs*	Malt Schlitzmann
*Group B*	Paul Thomas
*Honeymoon*	Ali Mesgaran
*How To Survive A Narcissist*	Steffany Sommers
*Hype High*	Julie Harrison-Harney
*I Won't Let You Kill Me — A Love Story*	Leslie Singer, Mara Leveritt, Richard Zuckerberg
*I'm Not Dead, I'm Dreaming*	Peter Petralia
*If Pens Could Speak*	Lester Scott
*Incident*	Shane Mountain
*Isabela's Revolution*	Farrah Pereira
*Jobber*	Brock Cohen
*Koolah*	chandni srivastava
*Kurrachee*	Basir Ahmed
*Liam's List*	Kevin Smithers
*Line of Scrimmage*	Gary Gurner
*Longfield*	Brandon Pantry-Melsom
*Love Unveiled*	Evie Joy
*Loverboy*	James Barnes
*Luca*	Michelle Harris
*Madonna - Before Cinderella*	Amarilis Pereira
*Martha*	Lisa Laine
*Meet Gilda Rae*	Hilary Abraham
*Megan's Law*	Nick Cariddo
*My God Parents*	Marine Mondelot
*My Mother Es Mi Madre*	Kathleen Oneill
*Night Witches*	Phae Amara, Kathryn Wright
*No Fear*	Samantha Higgins
*No Return To Myer's Island: Pitch*	Isabelle Byrne
*Nothing But Glory Pitch*	Onil Lad
Ö	M. Hildbrand
*One More Round*	Ethan Gomes
*Out of This World*	Jeremy Pick
*Pen Pal*	Jamie Rose
*Pitch: Camouflage and Lipstick*	Lawrence Daly
*Redline*	Scott Saffran
*Rejuvenation - Pitch*	Rudi O'Meara
*Relatable*	Arjuna Mahenthiran
*Rival*	Sumitra Rajagopalan
*Rose Episode Pitch*	Vanessa Le
Rx	F J Roebuck
*Sanity Road (Virtual Pitch 350 words)*	Eric Kelso
*Santo Clos*	Al Lopez
*Seeing Stars*	Steve Budd
*Shackled*	Bec MacIntyre
*Simon*	Lakena Hinnant
*Single Person (pitch)*	Matt Foss
*Snow Job*	Karla Moriarty, Wilbur Rice, Michael Bacon
*So Much Love*	Malwina Grochowska
*Soul Camp*	Christie Quarton
*Stealing Home For The Holidays*	Wendy Young
*Strike Paper*	Jason Gallagher
*Study Abroad*	Mary Chasen
*Sturgeon General*	Molly Bandt, Celia Ramsey
*Sugar*	Kerri Quinn
*Superlame*	Darren Moran
*Teacher*	Brian Rohrig
*The Age of Desire - Pitch - 350 words*	Suzanne Griffin
*The Bridal Posse*	Scott Cox
*The Bubble*	Jarod Backens
*The Butcher's Daughter*	Ashley Scarbro, Travis Scarbro
*The CCO*	Loyall Wilson
*The Chronocar*	Steve Bellinger
*The King's Legionnaire*	Matthew Skeate
*The Mind Palace*	Hassan Nadeem
*The Old G.O.A.T.*	Arley Ryder
*The Psychiatrist*	Hailey Coleman
*The Refs*	Brendan Lynch
*The Sangeet*	Arjuna Mahenthiran
*The Sherlock Holem Boys*	Judnel Antoine
*The Show Must Go On*	Stefano Anania
*The Snow Children (Pitch)*	Michael Basha
*The Streamer*	Cam Parkes
*The Trial of Aeneas*	Amelia McNamara
*The Waitresses*	Cindi Marshall Oakey
*The Woman at the Lake Pitch*	Chris Inekhomon
*There’s So Much More to Fishing Than Catching Fish*	Roger Corea
*Three Lakes*	Barbara Gilmore
*Timberland*	C. Shane Davis
*Tink*	Ashley MacPherson
*Tooled*	Katie Ward
*Townie*	Suemedha Sood
*Trophy Bass*	Roy Thomasson
*Troy Story*	Deborah Gero
*Under Pressure*	Steven T. Smith
*Ungifted*	Giles Brown
*Unschooled*	Bronwyn Isaac
*Walter*	Amanda Hanson
*War Crimes*	Alexander Rosenstein
*We are coming*	Jesse Pridham
*When We Were Mermaids*	Amy Bizzarri
*Where the hell is Lubbock?*	Yvonne Racz
*Wild Willy*	Jeroen van der Zee
*Wiley Jones In Bloody Kansas*	Wiley Jones
*Women Who Lay Eggs and The Men Who Hatch Them*	Dalila Bailey, Gerardo Garcia
*You Dirty Rat*	Robert Bartolome
*Zitkala-Sa*	Robert Jackson