2019 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition Finalists Announced

by ScreenCraft on July 3, 2019

Listed below are the Top 50 finalists for the screenplay and concept categories of the 2019 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition, selected from nearly 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. The jury this year includes a development executive from 20th Century Fox, and managers from Anonymous Content, Grandview, and Mosaic.

The winner of the concept category will receive an exclusive developmental mentoring prize package with development executive Jonathan Wu, formerly of 20th Century Fox, and now Vice President of Film and Television at Hello Sunshine, the production company of actress Reese Witherspoon.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the grand prize winner and runner-up here on our website, and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.

Here are the 2019 Sci-Fi finalists:

Screenplay Category

Scott Hamilton	The Devil's Symphony
Max Kronick, Eliza Janssen	Those Who Pass Through
Miranda Fennimore	Rio
Esmeralda Seay-Reynolds	Eat Me!
Ari Dassa	Axium Effect
Tyrel Lougheed	#throwbackthursday
Camryn Hernandez	Reconnect
Joe Borriello	Pop Goes The World
Joe Borriello	Alien In My Pocket
Jonathan WC Mills	RUSALKA
Dan Benamor	VENERY
Dan Benamor	OUTSIDERS
Max Gee	Golems Inc
Edward Coffey	Rise
Colin West	Linoleum
Justin Best	DARRYN THE BOLD AND THE SWORD OF BOLDNESS
Kylie Eaton	Kinetic
Alexander Voltz	Symbiotic
John McDermott	The Singularity War
Adam Stern	Levels
Margaret MacDonald	The Hive
Jesmond Francis	Mother Inside
Lee Whitten	The Humming
Yonatan Berkovits	1
Daniel Judson	The Keeper
Adam Bain, Erik Martinez	The Choice Machine
Nye Green	Steam
David Sajadi	The Steven of Planet Earth
Ralph Archibald	Roland and Belinda
Stephen O'Kane	Out of the Coffin
Eugene La Haye, Buster La Haye	Escape Pod
Derick Tsai	Dawnbringer
Nabil Chowdhary	Pod
Guy Pooles	Rust
Ash Mallory	Next Stop
Tom Harrison	The Machine
Tal Almog	Crabs in a Bucket
Jason Lee	The Tiger's Daughter
Bryan Kelsey	The Lady in the Lake
Arun Croll	The Sun Ghost
Kendrick Wallace	Steam Powered
Jenna St. John	The Understudy
Jackson Murray	The Mothman

Concept Category:

Takudzwa Tarenyika	Hurriya Trials
Takudzwa Tarenyika	Peace Is The Mission
Elliot Seidel	The Iron Gate
Grant Harvey, Ijaaz Noohu	Nirvana
Amara Mesnik	In Suspension
Elliot Seidel	12 Dead In Yolkona
Caitlin Scherer	The Boxcar Girls