Fall 2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on July 17, 2024
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the Fall 2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects 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 Quarterfinalists:
| "Estranged" | John Goshorn |
| "In The Life" of Joe Beam | MIKAL ODOM |
| "Mein Beileid" ("Sorry For Your Loss") | Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi |
| "Ties" - Pilot | Eric Wright |
| 100 Days in Portland | Ifanyi Bell, Geeta Gandbhir, Samantha Knowles |
| 1st GEN American | Kashana Sarvis |
| A City Ruled By Three | Stuart Allison |
| A Day at Beth Shalom | Brandon Gross |
| A Drowning Heart | David Lee |
| A Funny Kind of Love | Tony Pallo, DeAnna Charett |
| A Man About A Horse | Casse Kihúut |
| A Matter of Poultry | Nandini Bapat |
| A Moment | Kasia Kaczmarek, Felix Garriock |
| A Novel Romance | Shahnaz Mahmud |
| A Piacere | Emelye Moulton |
| A Picture of my Heart | Kyle Damiao |
| A Profiled Life | Ran Jing |
| Accents | Landis Stokes |
| ADA | Nora Jaenicke |
| Again and Again Then The End – A Branded Feature Film by Benjamin Font | Benjamin Font |
| AGNI TAPASYA | Rohil Khatke |
| Ahoy! | Julian Alvarez |
| Aimless | Cyrus Richardson |
| Alberta and the Possum | Federica Arevalo |
| Almasi Ya Kifo | Anthony Guilianti |
| Alternate | Makana Lani |
| American Dream | Kate Surinskaya |
| Anomalous | Leah Curney |
| Apartment Story | Michael Ahern |
| AprilX | Michel Parandi |
| Aroos | Michelle Siouty |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Aurora | Tyler Adams, Hannah Robertson |
| aWoken | Brent Harvey |
| BABKA | Serena Dykman |
| Baby | Lexi Goldi |
| Baby Cupid and Mars Valentine | Tahira Baig, Gillian Allou |
| Bagg-age | Suzanne Moreau |
| Bambi | Kole Akintujoye |
| Banished Shaman | Lee Arter |
| Bark & Boo | Rodolfo Salas |
| Bashert | Elana Rubin |
| Bear of the Woods | Daviti Garuchava |
| BEARDOGS | Daniel Workman |
| Becca | Neil Wishman |
| Being Silver | Liz Lachman |
| Bellyache | Van Ditthavong |
| Bike Lane Ends | Noah Glenn |
| BLACK ROSE | Merridith Allen |
| Black Sphere | Matthew Weiner |
| Blood Knot | Tapan Sharma |
| Bloom | Lily Ekimian Ragheb, Ahmed Ragheb |
| Blue Sky Out of the Oresteia | Katherine Taylor |
| BODY SHOP | Maria Mealla |
| Box Camera | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Brad Pitt is (hopefully) Not a Monster | Shannon Baker Davis |
| BRAVE LITTLE | VERA CHERNY |
| Bridge | Daniel Beals |
| Broke(Rs) - Ep. 1 "Welcome to Freeman Pack Realty" | Devin Jones |
| Brownsville Bred | Elaine Del Valle |
| Bury Me Standing | Mishka Brown |
| BY PROXY | Bianca Ahonor |
| Cavewoman | Christopher Rohrbeck |
| Child(less) | Thea Gagliardi |
| Children of War | Mimi Nguyen |
| Chrysalis of Time | Laura Lieben |
| Circus School | Juliette Eisner |
| Citations | Charlene Logan |
| Clairstupid | Vicky Cassis |
| Code Demon | Mikel Wisler |
| Comatose | Céline Ribard |
| Concrete Rose | Amanda Ramirez |
| Conditional Birth | Ahmad Alyaseer |
| Contingent | Savanna Crasto |
| Cora, Eat Your Spaghetti | Shannon Sutherland |
| CRABS IN A MOTHER F*CKING BUCKET | Kari Mote |
| Cramming | Dan Perlman |
| CUB | Sofia Rubin |
| Curse of the Mountain Tun'r | Roger Terry |
| Curtain Call | Christopher Taylor |
| DADA: A defiant witness | Vuk Boskovic, Elizabeta Betinski, Vladimir Dekic |
| Dark Triad | Robert Byrd |
| Day of A Lion | Bianca Foscht, Dilara Foscht |
| Deadbolt | Réka Shikli |
| Deal With It | Tristan Reed, Isabella Bonanno |
| Death Comes for Danny | Julia Maddox |
| Death Incorporated | Sophia Conte |
| Dedication | Nicola Kraus |
| Deerfield Beach | Erick Castrillon |
| Demon Twink | Steven George |
| Descendants Of The Dragon | Alan Sim |
| Desolation | Jake Schiel |
| Detective Dentures | Tyler Pistorius |
| Dimensional | Ogechi Echebiri |
| Dinner, Diamond and Death | Sean Nwachukwu |
| Disco de la Raza: A Chicano Story | Paloma Rabinov |
| Disinherit | Jeremy Pion-Berlin, Adam Linkenhelt, Fred Salmon |
| Disputed Honor | Stephen Curran |
| Do You Still Love Me? | Henrik A. Meyer |
| Documented | Brandon Young |
| Dog Park | Harold Taw |
| DOMICIDAL | Joe Dzikiewicz |
| Double Trouble Bubblegum | Shayla Durbois |
| DOUEN II | Alyscia Cunningham |
| Ducky | Jazz Darius |
| Ecosphere | Vito Pistone |
| Eden | Hankyeol Lee |
| Ensnared | Katarina Severen |
| Ephemeral Joy (Dinner with Death) | Scott Vancil |
| Epigone | Laurie Fahy |
| Equal To Or More Than One | Alex Zajicek |
| EuroVisionary | Jeneffa Soldatić, Katy Hoy |
| Famous Lake Park | Susannah Dalton, Braden Greenawalt |
| Fatherland | Rachel Serada Barth |
| Feathers | Braedon David Kay |
| Finding My Half Brother | Joohun Lee |
| Fish God | Aubrey Wang |
| Flying Like a Bird | Hanyun Zhang |
| For Them | Andrei Kogolenok |
| Foreign Object | Yinuo Wang, Orlando Torres |
| Fortified | Ross Compton |
| Free Joan Little | Yoruba Richen |
| free martin (short) | Scott Thompson |
| Free the Panther 21 | Mike De Caro |
| From Sidney, With Love | East Elliott |
| G.O.G. | Rebekah Miskin |
| Gardeners | Merry May Ma |
| Get in the Groove | Taiyo Yoshida |
| Giant Snake | Zach Siegel |
| Girl Crush | Grace Melon |
| Girl in the Mirror | Camilla Shae, Juri Watanabe |
| Give The Drummer Some | Trevor Banks |
| Good Boy | Ben Leonberg, Alex Cannon |
| Good Kids | Bella Smith |
| Goodbye Taos | Connor Rousseau |
| Green Reckoning | David Vassar |
| Greenwood 2050 | Tiasia OBrien |
| Groovy Chocolates | Allison Volk |
| Guardian | Brianna da Silva |
| Guinea | Alyssa Mullings |
| Gunpowder | Jonathan Reid-Edwards |
| Half Life | Jordan Jordan |
| Hallucinations Of War | Nath Milburn |
| HAND | Jennifer Winterbotham |
| Happy Place | Sara Monge |
| Heavenly Wickedness | Daniel Carberry |
| Hell is Other People | Adrianne Owings |
| HELP! | Andrei Kogolenok, Franco Machado-Pesce |
| Hemmed Up | Destiny Macon |
| HERA | Hannah Moore |
| HERE | Pete Restrick |
| Here I Am v2 | Marc J. Francis |
| Heroes of Hope: Ukraine in Triage | Kristina Usaite |
| Hey, Baby | Kaitlin Fontana |
| HINDSIGHT | Sarah Nolen |
| Holy Water | Jamie Yuan |
| Hot Chocolate | Elyse Levesque |
| Hotel | Alexander Misiti |
| HOTEL ENTENTE | Joe Hawkins |
| Hound Bitch Documentary | Maritza Carbajal |
| How to Build a Library | Maia Lekow |
| How's Archie? | Jessie Posthumus |
| Hummingbird | Lamar Woods |
| Hurt the One You Love (Short) | Braden LuBell |
| Hurts Like Hell | Joey Poach |
| I Am, For You | Saba Askari |
| I Got Next | CHRISTOPHER BAXTER |
| Imagine Nation 2024 | Quinn Doherty |
| Immortal | Sikandar Sidhu |
| In A Bright Bright City | Alla Turovskaya |
| In Ink | Steele Filipek |
| Influence | Sabrina Ehlert |
| IRiS | Randall R. Reese |
| Is it me | Adam Dooley, Frank Crim |
| Is It Still Me | Joanna Arida |
| ISLE CHILD | Thomas Kim |
| It's Always Sunni | Sonia Malfa |
| It's Not About The Food | Jason Christou |
| Jane's Not Here | Jonathan Oster |
| Joining The Band | Stephen Sanow |
| Judas Goat | Luwam Tekeste |
| Jules and Jonas: The Vertical Truth | Mike Lars White, Lanie Lim, Michael James Wong |
| Just Married -- Italian Style | Anthony Palmiotto |
| Katayaburi | Sho Schrock-Manabe |
| Keeper | Richard Martin, Brandan Dennehy |
| KEMA | Sara Morsi |
| Kick the Can | Yasu Tanaka |
| Kismet | Giovanna Molina |
| Kitchen Talk | Eli Makovetsky, Max Makovetsky |
| Laadli (My Darling) | Sheba Karim, Afia Nathaniel |
| LAMB | Jillian Corsie |
| Land Lies | Alix Yumi Cho |
| LAWYERED UP | Tatiana Blackington James |
| LEFTY | M Douglas Silverstein |
| Legacy | Harry Hadden-Paton |
| Legacy League | Halima Lucas |
| Legado | Ana Peres |
| Life Cycle 63 | Jordan Wade |
| Life on Mercury (working title) | Mathieu Constantin |
| Life on the Land | Catherine Bonny |
| Little Bunny | Holly Hawgood |
| Little Pieces | Traci Mark |
| Little Things | Joshua Chamberlain |
| Locals | Miles Kahn |
| LOOK | Lawrence Gotkin |
| Lost Islands | Daniel Burity |
| Love & Detroit - Short Film | Michael Dunker |
| Love After Love | Niki Koss |
| Love's Duty | Joy Cheriel Brown |
| Lucio | Diego Hammarlund |
| Major Minor Details | Brooke Berman |
| MAJOR PROBLEMS | THOMAS R. WARD |
| Mama | Maria Biber-Ferro |
| Mantis Green | Farah Mourad Vera |
| Mantras At Midnight | Takai Ginwright |
| Margarita | Kristin Zimney |
| MARILYN ON THE COUCH | Hans Galesloot |
| Match Dot Mom | Tara Parian |
| Maybe When You're older | Becky Portman |
| Merrow | Alexander Seltzer |
| Micro Budget | Morgan Evans |
| Mirror Image | Sheen Faulconer |
| Misfit Love | Mackenzie Mauro |
| Momma | Christianna Carmine |
| Morning | Ryan Lipscomb |
| Murder at the Renaissance Faire | John Patrick Daly |
| My Lemon Puppy | Konstantin Pivovar |
| Navigating North | Olivia Kuan |
| Nexus | Ivan Gartner |
| Nightcap | JJ Pollack |
| No Man is an Island | ALSO Sisters |
| No Words Necessary | Mariel Gomsrud |
| Not Haunted | Katie Ennis |
| not-yet-here | Giorgio Bosisio |
| Novel Romance | Phoebe Zimmerer, Lauren Ferebee, Ken Viteri-Lynn |
| Nowhere To Be | Deirdre O'Connor |
| Nuclearette | Laura Hunter Drago |
| Of Hollowed Ground | Ron Condon, Sue Condon |
| OF MUSIC AND MEN | Kayona Ebony Brown |
| Of What Grows Through Fire | Tevin Simpson, Bryce Marrero |
| Olga: Pilot Proof | Nikki Scamuffo |
| One Day in Sedona | Monique Sorgen |
| One Kind Favor | Joe Marks, Timo Nelson |
| One Last Night | Howard Campell |
| Orian | Derrick Perez |
| Our Beloved Iago | Deborah Goemans |
| Our Bodies & Other Shames | Malka Wallick |
| Our Long Goodbye | Dave Beamish |
| Oy...A Jewish Comedy Series | Shara Ashley Zeiger |
| Panic | Matthew Cooke |
| Party Hearse | Neil Wishman |
| Patio Pals | Danielle Bruncati |
| Payback Pie | Maxine Gatt |
| Pelican’s Touch | Jack Burr |
| PETERSONS - Site 3 | Jay Saunders |
| Phoenixia | Dima Iyudin |
| Pictures Only | Charles Honeywood |
| Pink Slipped | Bobbie Lucas |
| PLAYOFFS | EMMANUEL SAINT-ANGE |
| Please Hang Up | Andrea Tellez, Sophie Tellez |
| Pool On The Hill | Matthew Goodhue |
| Poster Boy | India Opzoomer, Daniel Young Kim, Fergus Burnand |
| Potato Eaters | Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman |
| Potluck | Eda Benjakul |
| Prima Ballerina | Catalina Guerra |
| PRIMATE | KIERAN TURNBULL |
| Que Viva | Ben Montoya |
| Rapper Weed | James Earl |
| RARE | Lainey Moseley |
| Ready For My Close-Up | Elijah Guo |
| Redroom | Liz George |
| Reel Fear: An Exploration of the Unearthly Summerwind Manor | Adam Krause |
| Reflections: A Korean Adoptee's Journey Through Family and Identity | Jill Mann |
| Remedy | Steven Allerick |
| Retrospect | Sheikh Shahnawaz |
| Rhapsodist | Anna Wright |
| Riis: A Queer Odd-ussy | Claire McClain |
| Rocket To Freedom | Carl Georg Rodsten |
| RSVP | Zen Dot |
| Run On For A Long Time | Gabriel Pranter |
| SAMA' | Juna Suleiman |
| Scam Alert | Asif Bashir |
| See You in the Year of the Dragon | Abby Li |
| Seed | Sara Roberts |
| Sharing the Street | Aladen Gulmohamad |
| SHAUM | Jasmine Elist |
| She Creature: The Ugly Duckling | Maria Krovatin, Chris Krovatin, Lize Johnston |
| She Said, Yes | Lauren James |
| SHIMMERING ON THE PLACID WATER | Anna Smoliy |
| Shinobi of the West | B.A. Buffong |
| Short of Breath | Brian Nguyen |
| SIGHT UNSEEN | Oriana Schwindt, Stephen Parkhurst |
| Silent Screams - A Girls Journey To Reclaim Her Voice | Anu Verma |
| Silly Girl | Sam Roden |
| Sin Child | John Cerrito |
| SINS OF THE FATHER | Christopher Guerrero |
| Slay | KP Junberry |
| Slip | Lara Hill |
| Small Fry | Hannah Traylen |
| Something About the Tide | Julia Morizawa |
| Sons of Detroit | Jeremy Xido |
| Soul, searching | Tyson Night |
| Soup Bitch | Robbie Snow |
| SPACES | Modupe Thompson |
| Spanish Flu | Isabel Steuble-Johnson, Amy H C Wilson |
| SPIN CYCLE | Angela M. Sanchez |
| Squish | Taylor Coriell |
| St. Jones' Ditch | Sarah Brockmann |
| Stained Glass: The Black Gospel Window | Judy Korin |
| Stalkers | Juan Gil |
| STRANDED | Joseph Casillias, Preston Maestri |
| Stranger | Jiin Chang |
| Subversive Sea | Lara Carvalho |
| Sugar | Simon Croker, Benjamin Nichol |
| Sugar Daddy | Mike Cooke, William Roebuck |
| Suggestive Thinking | Sara Apple Maliki |
| Summer Abroad | Sabina Vajraca |
| Sunflower | Siqi Yang |
| SUNSET | Juan Ignacio Pena Espina |
| Symptoms May Include Teleportation | Max Albrecht, Jack Evans, Conrad Pollock |
| Takedown | Mark Cooper |
| Taking Stock | Jonathan Ozburn |
| TAO | Esther Casas Roura |
| Tardigrades in Space | Jonathan Anderson |
| TASTE | BriAnna Olson |
| tell me i'm yours | Gabi Grossman |
| Ten Candles | Matt van den Meiracker |
| Tender | Adam Hoelzel |
| TETHER | J. Scott Worthington |
| That's A Hit | Charlie Ward |
| The Atonement | Vanessa Anthony |
| THE BEAUTIFUL BEER | OLI STENING |
| The Boyfriend | Ashim Ahluwalia |
| THE CALLING | Chris Retts |
| The Cockroach vs. The Maiden | Jagger Gravning |
| The Cost | Mike Hogan, Jerome Keith |
| The Craftsmen of James County | HT Fleming |
| The Dark Days of Cassidy Krystian | Emily Troedson |
| The Doorway | Bragi Schut Jr |
| THE DOPPELGÄNGER | Franci Montgomery |
| The Empathy Project | Samantha Mallory |
| The Girl | Anna Klassen |
| The Good Eggs Children's Video Series | Sandy Ciaramitaro |
| The Grind | Terence Fisher |
| The Harborview Confessions | Ian Boisvert |
| THE IMPOSTER | Jenny Deller |
| The Ingenue | Kyle Andrews |
| The King's Head | Michael McCormick |
| The Lake | Jonathan Everett |
| The Last Shift | Juan Morales |
| The Last Vigil | Vivekananda Kondapalli |
| The Lemurian Candidate | Crossing Bridges |
| The Mandela Effect | Andrew Rubio |
| The Odd Case of Timmy Two-Shoes | Nicholas McDonough |
| The Oracle | Stephen Barkanic |
| The Places We'll Go | Stephanie Romero |
| The Privateers | Whitney Hamilton |
| The Prophet | Ique Langa |
| The Really Big One | Daniel Wright |
| The Same Heart | Sabi Liebl |
| The Scream of the Butterfly | Anjini Taneja Azhar, Ariya Akhavan |
| The Shadow | Sean Carson |
| The Stress Of It | Rachael Kuecher |
| The Trek | James C. Williamson, J. Hannah Massyn, Sandulela Asanda |
| The Truth About Space | Jeremiah Towolawi |
| THE TWINK MURDERS | Michael Barnard |
| The Untamed | Olga Holtz |
| THE VALE | Abigail Hing Wen |
| The Wolf | Tom Wilton |
| their Last Semester | Jake Foy, Kirsten Comerford |
| They Echo | Lu Asfaha |
| Thirty, Dirty and Trying | Spencer Cohen |
| THIS IS NOT A LOVE STORY | Leah Sarbib |
| Those Who Live in the Cherry Tree | Sambit Dattachaudhuri |
| Three On A Match | Goldie Jones |
| Through Eyes Unclouded | Heather Parra |
| Tidal | Demelza Lacaze, Léonore Lacaze |
| Tithe for the Sinner | Ricardo Alvarado |
| Tomorrow, I Promise (working title) | Julia Morizawa |
| Transaction Cancelled | Sebastian Kim |
| True North | Jonathan London |
| Tunnelmouth | Guy Pooles |
| Twist | Faye Viviana, Caroline Patz |
| Two Good Reliable Women | Toby Marks |
| UNDER PRESSURE: Saad's Survival Guide to Climate Change | Madeleine Carter |
| Under the Shade of the Banana Tree | Ellin Aldana |
| Untold Valor | Ise White |
| Valentine's Day | Jazz Darius |
| Velvet | JoNo Balanag |
| Vidiots Documentary | Erick Kwiecien |
| Visions of Beauty | Bailey Fear |
| Waiting Game | Tina O'Donnell, Meaghan Cleary |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| Water Has Another Dream | Oates Yinchao |
| Watermelons | Cheryl Wong |
| We Bloom In Spring | May Thatun |
| We Were Born Dead | Leland Frankel, Juan Felipe Zuleta |
| Wendy and the Lost Boy | Alec Patchin |
| Western Avenue | Yoo Seok Jong |
| Westhampton | Christian Nilsson |
| WETIKO | Kerry Mondragon |
| What Do You Do? Season 3 | Jacob Markham |
| What Ever Happened to Sneaky Suburbs? | Jed Bookout, Ben Bronson, Kevin Marcus |
| What Happened, Happened | Danny Jiminian |
| What We All Want | Erin Vassilopoulos |
| When The Caged Bird Sings | Skyler Cooper |
| When the Flame Goes Out | Joshua David Matthews, Jason Sheedy |
| Where Is Juan Moctezuma? | Alaric Rocha |
| White Rabbit | Marie Jones |
| WHOSE MANS IS THIS? | Nnamdi Simon |
| Wild Ones | Leone DiSantis |
| Winter Song | Kate Schermerhorn, David Schermerhorn |
| Witness to Breath | Doug Conant |
| WOMXN WALK | Melissa Daniels |
| Won't Be Displaced | Piera Van de Wiel |
| Worlds Within Worlds | Ningyi Sun |
| WORMS | Will Goodfellow |
| Y2 ¿QUÉ? | Miguel Vega |
| Yes | Randi Barros |
| Yo We're Dying | Keisha Phoenixx |
| You Must Be This Tall | Randall Reese |
| You're Sick | Cerise Kellie |
| Young Behemoths | Olivia Cauthen |
| Youthful Pleasures | Rex Provost |
| Zen In the Art of Couples Therapy | Jacob Hayden |
| Zits | David Bornstein |
| ZOMBAE | Greg Gager |
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