Fall 2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 14, 2024
Listed below are the Semifinalists 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!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on September 11th 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:
| A City Ruled By Three | Stuart Allison |
| A Matter of Poultry | Nandini Bapat |
| ADA | Nora Jaenicke |
| Bark & Boo | Rodolfo Salas |
| Black Sphere | Matthew Weiner |
| Blood Knot | Tapan Sharma |
| Brownsville Bred | Elaine Del Valle |
| Children of War | Mimi Nguyen |
| Conditional Birth | Ahmad Alyaseer |
| Cora, Eat Your Spaghetti | Shannon Sutherland |
| Day of A Lion | Bianca Foscht, Dilara Foscht |
| Disputed Honor | Stephen Curran |
| Documented | Brandon Young |
| DOMICIDAL | Joe Dzikiewicz |
| Ecosphere | Vito Pistone |
| Epigone | Laurie Fahy |
| Flying Like a Bird | Hanyun Zhang |
| free martin (short) | Scott Thompson |
| Free the Panther 21 | Mike De Caro |
| From Sidney, With Love | East Elliott |
| Giant Snake | Zach Siegel |
| Good Boy | Ben Leonberg, Alex Cannon |
| Good Kids | Bella Smith |
| Green Reckoning | David Vassar |
| Greenwood 2050 | Tiasia OBrien |
| Groovy Chocolates | Allison Volk |
| HAND | Jennifer Winterbotham |
| Happy Place | Sara Monge |
| Here I Am v2 | Marc J. Francis |
| Heroes of Hope: Ukraine in Triage | Kristina Usaite |
| HINDSIGHT | Sarah Nolen |
| Hot Chocolate | Elyse Levesque |
| Hound Bitch Documentary | Maritza Carbajal |
| How to Build a Library | Maia Lekow |
| How's Archie? | Jessie Posthumus |
| Hummingbird | Lamar Woods |
| Hurts Like Hell | Joey Poach |
| Influence | Sabrina Ehlert |
| ISLE CHILD | Thomas Kim |
| It's Not About The Food | Jason Christou |
| KEMA | Sara Morsi |
| Kismet | Giovanna Molina |
| Kitchen Talk | Eli Makovetsky, Max Makovetsky |
| Legacy League | Halima Lucas |
| Legado | Ana Peres |
| Locals | Miles Kahn |
| Major Minor Details | Brooke Berman |
| Mama | Maria Biber-Ferro |
| Match Dot Mom | Tara Parian |
| Maybe When You're older | Becky Portman |
| Merrow | Alexander Seltzer |
| Micro Budget | Morgan Evans |
| Not Haunted | Katie Ennis |
| Novel Romance | Phoebe Zimmerer, Lauren Ferebee, Ken Viteri-Lynn |
| Of Music and Men | Kayona Ebony Brown |
| Of What Grows Through Fire | Tevin Simpson, Bryce Marrero |
| One Day in Sedona | Monique Sorgen |
| One Kind Favor | Joe Marks, Timo Nelson |
| Our Bodies & Other Shames | Malka Wallick |
| Our Long Goodbye | Dave Beamish |
| Panic | Matthew Cooke |
| Party Hearse | Neil Wishman |
| PETERSONS - Site 3 | Jay Saunders |
| Pink Slipped | Bobbie Lucas |
| Please Hang Up | Andrea Tellez, Sophie Tellez |
| Poster Boy | India Opzoomer, Daniel Young Kim, Fergus Burnand |
| Potato Eaters | Willa Cuthrell-Tuttleman |
| PRIMATE | Kieran Turnbull |
| Que Viva | Ben Montoya |
| SAMA' | Juna Suleiman |
| Slip | Lara Hill |
| Something About the Tide | Julia Morizawa |
| SPACES | Modupe Thompson |
| Spin Cycle | Angela M. Sanchez |
| Stained Glass: The Black Gospel Window | Judy Korin |
| STRANDED | Joseph Casillias, Preston Maestri |
| Subversive Sea | Lara Carvalho |
| Summer Abroad | Sabina Vajraca |
| tell me i'm yours | Gabi Grossman |
| Tender | Adam Hoelzel |
| TETHER | J. Scott Worthington |
| The Calling | Chris Retts |
| The Girl | Anna Klassen |
| The Imposter | Jenny Deller |
| The Lemurian Candidate | Crossing Bridges |
| The Odd Case of Timmy Two-Shoes | Nicholas McDonough |
| The Scream of the Butterfly | Anjini Taneja Azhar, Ariya Akhavan |
| The Trek | James C. Williamson, J. Hannah Massyn, Sandulela Asanda |
| The Truth About Space | Jeremiah Towolawi |
| This Is Not A Love Story | Leah Sarbib |
| Those Who Live in the Cherry Tree | Sambit Dattachaudhuri |
| Three On A Match | Goldie Jones |
| True North | Jonathan London |
| Tunnelmouth | Guy Pooles |
| UNDER PRESSURE: Saad's Survival Guide to Climate Change | Madeleine Carter |
| Vidiots Documentary | Erick Kwiecien |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| Watermelons | Cheryl Wong |
| We Were Born Dead | Leland Frankel, Juan Felipe Zuleta |
| Western Avenue | Yoo Seok Jong |
| Westhampton | Christian Nilsson |
| WETIKO | Kerry Mondragon |
| When the Flame Goes Out | Joshua David Matthews, Jason Sheedy |
| Wild Ones | Leone DiSantis |
| WORMS | Will Goodfellow |
| Yes | Randi Barros |
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