2017 ScreenCraft Screenwriters Residency Program in Jamaica Quarter-Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on May 19, 2017

Listed below are the quarter-finalists in contention for the 4 full scholarships to the inaugural ScreenCraft Screenwriters Residency Program in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, presented by the Calabash Literary Festival and the Jamaica Film & Television Association (JAFTA).

These writers listed below remain in contention to be selected for our full scholarship program which will provide four (4) screenwriters with free tuition to this six-day program in Jamaica, featuring mentorship with an all-star group of Hollywood professionals. Mentors include: Vanessa Ford from the Weinstein Company, screenwriters Peter Craig (THE TOWN, HUNGER GAMES MOCKINGJAY), Geoffrey Fletcher (OSCAR-winning writer of PRECIOUS), TV screenwriter and showrunner Zack Estrin (PRISON BREAK, new LOST IN SPACE on Netflix), Sony Pictures VP Eric Fineman and literary manager Hannah Ozer from Kaplan/Perrone Management.

Congratulations to the talented writers who have made it this far, and thank you to everyone who submitted.

Stay tuned for the semifinalists announcement here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next couple weeks. We’re accepting ten additional tuition-paying applicants until June 15th, 2017. Click here to apply now!

Congratulations to these talented quarter-finalists:

#In28Days	Zachary	Carson
00:16 to Shinjuku	Eric	McEver
10 Bucks A Gram	Nadia	Selvaggi
Adam	Kodi-Anne	Brown
Almost	Kiana	Butler
Anointed	Randy	Mckinnon
At Death's Door - Pilot	Matthew	Catanzano
At-Risk	Robbie	Robertson
Blown	Jill	Miller
Baggage	Ryan	Elkins
Bamboo Paper	Su Ching	Teh
Becoming Aphrodite	Karin	Maxey
Beginner's History	Emily	Cheever
Belief	Kris	Kosaka
Birthday Pie	Arthur	Wooten
Blame It On The Bossa Nova	Mark	Bowes
Blindsighted	Leslie	Henderson
Blood Brothers	Peter	Hunziker
Blue On Blue	David	Dasilma
Blue Watch	Andrew	Judge
Bluefields	Mezan	Morrison
Bo$$ Moms	Chanté	Bowser
Botany Bay	Eleanor	Burgess
Broad Tree Gun Club	Luke	McKenzie
Broken Head	Clare	Sladden
Castel Montini	Maria	Cozzi
Choking Back The Tears	Oren	Weitz
Claude	Hannah	Patterson
Colonials	Ian	Fletcher
Conversations with Gunner	Nadine	Truong
Covered	Oscar	Wilmott
Crossing Borders	April	Adams
Curtain Call	TJ	King
Darknet	Jake	Bradbury
Default	Hannah	Dillon
Detroit Breakdown: Then It Was Dark	Gary	Allison
Device	CJ	Pelham
Divine Providence	Ann	Rosen
Dorian	Keryl	Brown
Dreamlanders	Angela	Magnus
El Dorado	Juanita	Cepero
Endangered Species	Paul	Bucknor
Enemyway	Patricia	Meyer
Etched in Stone	Adam	Fidler
Eternalizing Chihiro	Liam	Engels
Ethel & Dolores	Yanique	Sappleton
Evolution	Cara	Winter
Face Time	Robert	Tobin
Fairhaven	Kurt	Wright
Fated	Sara	OReilly
FuturePerfect	Kimon	Koufogiannis
Game Boy	Barney	Elliott
Greenwood	Nathan	Patton
H is for Happiness	Lisa	Hoppe
Hawk	Thomas	Graziano
Hell	May-Mei	Lee
Holly Springs	Maria	Edible
How to Deter a Robber	Maria	Bissell
Induction: Pilot	Joseph	Duerst
Inhibition	Holly	Baldwin
Iron Maidens	John	Smith
Jack's Final Five	Michael	Grimm
Jail Bound	Amelia	Solommon
Kukhuree (Chicken)	Rodney	Wilson
Leche	Gabriella	Moses
Little Con Lili	Gabriela	Garcia Medina
Mad Like Me	Melinda	Maerker
Malediction	Leslie	Henderson
Man in the Box	Casey	Lehto
Martyr	Scott	Pittock
Meet Cute	Mariyam	Mahbub
Mercurial	Edison	Bailey
Middle America	Joe	Fernandez
Most High	Xavier	Neal-Burgin
Mount Pleasant	Cat	Dale
Necromancer	Alec	Liddle
Overtaken	Matthew	Weddis
Paradise Lost	Amy	Taylor
Pilgrimage	Heather	Huntington
Poly	Merridith	Allen
Portcullis	Eveline	Powell
Provenance	Tiffany	Ho
Resonance	Julie	Restivo
Rebel Junction	Anika	Jarrett
Red Legs	Justen	Naughton
Reggae	Krystal	Dawkins
Ripple	Heather	Faris
Rise By Sin	Harris	Kauffman
Roommates	Andrew	Anderson
ROSE	Chris	Caleo
Scattering Jake	Erica	Tachoir
Secret and Confidential	Ben	Maraniss
Sedger Mor	Catherine	Wright
Seriously?!	Jodi	Asadourian
Shady Birch	Nichole	Kanney
Shelf Life	Leslie	Henderson
Shoot The Girl	Tony	Hendriks
Sinclair	Roddy	Williams
Six Letter Word	Lisanne	Sartor
Some Elsewhere	Tessa	Duke
Somnia	Danielle	Davis
SOUP	Robert	Porter
Southern Cross	Vin	Morreale
St. Claire	Jessica	Sieff
Stone Drive	Sylvia Marie	Llewellyn
Strawberry Lassi	Lovinder	Gill
Super!	Tate	Hanyok
Take Me to Church	Caren	Day
Taking Liberties	Lauren	Volpone
The 30: Pilot	Michael	Wickham
The Bell	Nan	Dillon
The Charmed Life of Mrs. Conroy	Amir	Mohabbat
The Consultant	Hannah	Fitzpatrick
The Dance of the Bull	Alex	Hodgson
The Desert Jewel	Aimee	Johnson
The Forest	Kaz	Cai
The Hanging of Marie-Joseph Angelique	Shelley	Krawchuk
The Jane Collective	Lisa	Romagnoli
The Joyrider	Kirk	Davis
The Lean	Pearse	Lehane
The Lions of Mesopotamia	Robin Rose	Singer
The Lowrie Gang	Andy	Froemke
The Magdalene Ranch: Hustle Up, Buttercup	Charlotte	Winters
The Roar	Lynsey	Murdoch
The Schleck Family Wrestling Alliance	Ryan	DeGama
The Seashell Sutra	Matthew	Wanniski
The Tenth And Final	Christopher	Browne
TheDIVISION	Clea	Frost
Time Again	Derek	Foster
To Take a Life	Phill	Lane
Tree House	Jay	Mullings
Tucked	Dale	Winton
Up Yours, Bridet Jones	Pippa	Hinchley
We Killed the Boss	Alana	Igbe
Weimar	Ben	Maraniss
Western Approaches	Andrew	Judge
What Rough Beast	Kranti	Pally
Within Our Gates	Dustin	Amick
Wonderfully Extraordinary & Excitingly Strange	Forrest	Naylor
World War III: Age of Atlantis	Jose	Arana
Yellow	Zara	Meerza
Yesterday's Rainbow	Gretchen	Hayduk-Wroblewski