2019 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists Announced

by ScreenCraft - updated on September 25, 2019

Listed below are the quarterfinalists for the screenplay and concept categories of the fifth annual ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest, 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 creative executive from 20th Century Fox, and managers from Grandview, Mosaic, and Anonymous Content.

The winner of the concept category will receive an exclusive developmental mentoring prize package with Jonathan Wu of 20th Century Fox.

Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists, finalists, and grand prize winner here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!

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Here are the quarterfinalists:

Screenplay Category

*1NTEGER*	Jonathan Young
*A Cold Yellowstone Night*	Brendan Ford
*A.R.: Armored Resistance*	Paul Zeidman & Chris Stallworth
*Aegis*	Bryan Kelsey
*Alien Football Hero*	Joel Karlinsky
*Alone*	Emily O'Brien
*Amelia Fights the Universe*	Justin Bell
*Astraea: Goddess of Justice*	Stephen Dodd
*Astronaut U*	Darren Canakaris
*Belief*	Kris Kosaka
*Buccaneers of the Asteroid Belt*	Jeff Racho
*Chasing Unicorns*	Benjamin Sweet
*Civil Death*	Zac Loy
*Clem & Cletus Go to the Moon*	Sean McPharlin
*Cozen*	Ricky Tyree
*Crucial Destiny*	Burney Ashley
*Cumulus*	Matthew Silverman
*Darwin Rising*	Richard Geiwitz
*Deflection*	Robert Cholette
*Desolation*	Emilio Calcioli
*Disc*	N Quilter
*Disco Daze*	Harrison Pierce
*Do What You Please*	Ani Grimaudo
*Dragon Eyez*	Telly Liu
*Dream Rehearsal*	Winnie Khaw
*East of the Sun West of the Moon*	Helen Ounjian
*Emergent*	Brian Kazmarck
*Enchanter: It Could Be You*	Barry Gaines
*Escape From Area 51*	Chris Binning & Kyle Amann
*Extranjero Supremo*	Theo Sariklis
*Fascination Street*	Jay Adams
*Fate (And Other Holes In The Fabric Of The Universe)*	Kemmer Cope
*First Light*	Dylan Brody
*ForeCast*	Latisha Jones
*Frontiersmen*	Kevin Porntosapon
*Furious Storm: Curse of Egypt*	Connie Gunnlaugsson
*Galactic Heat*	Darin Beckstead
*GeneOS*	Eljohn Macaranas
*Ghosted*	Bob Canning
*Ghosts of Reykjavik*	Shannon Wells
*Gilford the Legend*	Anthony Rhodes
*Grid*	Joshua Tywater
*Griffins & Dragons: The Shogun of Soulvu*	Aaron Griffith
*Headspace*	Randy Horton
*Hell's Heaven*	Chars Bonin & Ira Livingston IV
*Heroes?*	David Prosser
*Home*	Rishi kumar
*Horrible Hannah*	Eric Sollars, Michael Sollars & Geoffrey Sollars
*How to Abandon Ship*	Hunter Patterson
*Ideals*	Ally Sedgwick
*In Control*	Darren Callahan
*Inscape*	Michael Levine
*Insighted: Dead to the World*	Anne-LaureGandon
*Intergalactic: Genesis*	Bradley Burgess
*Into the Numinous Moon*	John McCarthy
*King of the Clones*	Ben Bushell
*Leaving Irnia*	Jelena Borojevic
*Machine*	Paul Bird
*Magical Things*	McKinnon Powell
*Mechcraft*	Brian Fitzpatrick
*Megalopolis*	Moutaz Jad
*Men Like Gods*	Vincent DeVito
*Mind's Eye*	Chris Cobb
*Natural Causes*	Martin Blinder
*Naypollo*	James C. Schlicker
*Nordheim*	Duane Graves & Justin Meeks
*Omega Point*	James Bingham
*One Love One Quest*	Paul Banks
*Operation Makalu*	Slava Kirillov
*Over It*	Joy Goodwin
*Ozymandias*	Kyle Blackburn
*Patchwork*	Amanda Keener
*Pathway*	Daniel Russell
*Peter Pan in Space*	Ben Daves
*Pillars of Glass*	Micheal Polaski
*Prophets*	Brandon Goins & Sonia Blangiardo-Goins
*Reboot*	Neil Horner
*Renegade*	Anonymous
*Return to Life*	Paul Smith & Dino Costa
*Ripe*	Nikhail Asnani
*Rumpelstiltskin*	Kathryn Gould
*Sebastian of Mieryl*	Michael Doucette
*Shunko*	Alexis Blaess
*Siege Perilous*	Laura Miller
*Southern Sky*	Andrew Stein
*Space Junk*	Michele Remsen
*Space/Time*	Danny Baram
*Spectrum*	Susana Falcon
*Spin The Wheel*	Neil Chase
*Star Raider*	Joseph Dipiazza
*Stone Cold Crazy Mother Tucker*	Katterina Powers
*SuperDread I!*	Kristina Jordan
*Synthetic Heart*	Ameir Brown
*Templin Highway*	William Prosser
*The Book Of Monsters*	Leland Frankel
*The Chosen One*	Keith Elias
*The City of Gale*	Taylor Rankin
*The Cranberry Man*	Immanuel Mullen
*The Crooked Woods*	Matt McCarthy & Katherine Cox
*The Draugr*	Robin Russin
*The Eidolon*	Douglas Rich
*The Eremite's Song*	Scott Byrnes
*The Five-Hundred Guesses*	MJ Weerts
*The Flower At Slender Fastness*	Anna Storm
*The Girl in the Forest*	Simon Deeley
*The Girl Who Couldn't Drown*	Vivek Choudry
*The Gunscout*	Zach Waggoner
*The In-Between*	Eric Perchuk
*The Iron Tournament*	Elizabeth Blackmer
*The Longest Halloween*	Greg Gilman
*The Master Code*	Monica Hafer
*The Master of Storms*	Demetra Pittman
*The Memory Keeper*	Chu Yun Huang
*The Outrageously Homofunky Adventures of Sergio Menendez*	Felix Pire
*The Science of Chemistry*	Gillian Twining
*The Sin Eater*	Samantha Talbot
*The Slake Horses*	Christopher Doyle
*The Sphere if Time*	James Pendergast
*The Spirit of Delphi*	Jean Djet
*The Star*	Jon Medici
*The Sundered Keys*	Justin Kyker
*The Tunguska Effect*	Frederick Faett
*The World That Time Forgot*	Michael Rogers
*Thus Passes the Glory of the World*	Robert Bowman
*Time And Again*	Stuart Creque
*Time In Tilley*	Ted Fryia
*Tinkerer*	Joel Levin
*To Sing Death*	Artiom Barkun
*Warriors of Legend*	Bryan Kelsey
*We Shall Not Go Hungry*	Harry Aspinwall
*Werewolf Scouts*	Vinnie Hogan & Jacob Burns
*Year 73*	Jeff Shevlowitz
*Your Blood is Ours*	Sebastien Blanchard
*Your Blood, My Bones*	Gabriela Tollman

Concept Category

*Artificial*	Henry Haydel
*Battle Damage*	Julya Oui
*Discordia*	Nathan Cabaniss
*Ganymede*	Tulegen Baitukenov
*Jade*	Ralph Chapek
*Javelina*	Vanessa Smith
*Noctis*	Jessica Burn
*Pangaea*	William Rowe
*Re:Population*	Pui San Chan
*Sail away*	Sergey Khromykh
*Shadow Cell*	Anthony Ferguson
*Starting Over*	Marc Goodman
*The Fire-Drawn*	Ellen Beck
*The Harvesting*	Angelique Anderson
*The Human Conservation Program*	Kornblum Katz
*The Hybrid King*	Unnamed
*The Invention of Work*	karan sharma
*The legend of the blue planet*	Trisha Sarkar
*The New Form Project*	Kenneth Daniels
*The Suicide Circle*	Arran McDermott
*Where Fallen Angels Lie*	Brice Chandler