2017 ScreenCraft Screenwriters Residency Program in Jamaica Quarter-Finalists Announced
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 |
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