2018 ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists Announced
by ScreenCraft - updated on September 6, 2018
Listed below are the quarterfinalists of the fourth annual ScreenCraft Sci-fi Screenplay Contest, culled from nearly 800 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far, and thanks to everyone who submitted. The jury this year includes development executives from 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures and United Pictures Group. Stay tuned for the upcoming announcements of the semifinalists and grand prize winners here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks!
Here are the 2018 Sci-fi Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists:
| #throwbackthursday | Tyrel Lougheed |
| 2.24.z | Freddy Deane |
| A Bomb Called Benjamin | Gary Irons |
| A Dark Tale | Jamie Lewis |
| A Player Born | Kirby Ward |
| A.R.: Armored Resistance | Paul Zeidman & Chris Anthony |
| Abby | Gilbert Cuevas |
| Aegis | Bryan Kelsey |
| Aisa | Sarah Fischer |
| Akasha: The Record Keeper | Laura Bialobos |
| AKLA-RA: The Quest for the Capra Crystal | R. Brad Wozny |
| All of Us | Anthony Povah |
| Amaris | Ian White |
| American Myths of Black & White | Aaron Yarber |
| Anima | David Bullard |
| Arabian Knights | Richard Sweeney |
| Artasium | Amanda Palasciano |
| Artemis 1 | Nicole Cohen |
| As it Rains on the City | Satoshi Katada |
| Ascension | Jessica Brice |
| Atlantica | Donald Smith |
| Atom | Mitchell LeBlanc |
| Beyond | Dan Rivais |
| Big Red | Aaron McCann & Dominic Pearce |
| Biomass | Rob Tymchyshyn |
| Black Hole | Greg Hall |
| Blackwell | Tracey Bradley |
| Bloodrite | Erich Ebner |
| Bre'gan's Fist | Tom Emerick |
| Broken Highway | Michael Raymond |
| Buccaneers of the Asteroid Belt | Jeff Racho |
| Buggout | Dan Martinez |
| Bunny | Laddie Ervin |
| Burt Dirk And The Gliesezoids | Andrew Harris |
| Catching Carter | Megan Megahee |
| Catspiracy! | Kate Sheffield |
| Charlene | Dan Schneidkraut |
| Christian of this Galaxy | Pablo Aguila |
| Composition | Kevin Carothers |
| Copy | Mir Noorata |
| Cumulus | Matt Silverman |
| CyberPlay | Ed Beverly |
| Cylor's Revenge | Christopher Sax |
| Daffodil | Nikai Johnson |
| Darryn the Bold and the Sword of Boldness | Justin Best |
| Dawn of World | Cedrick May |
| Death of a Fool | Ismael Gomez & Joe Leone |
| Disclosure | Glenn Breuninger |
| Distant Journeys | Gary Robinson |
| Doran | Peter Gazdag |
| Dragon Flowers | Brandon Osterman |
| Dragons Fly | Haris Leventi |
| Draya | Christian Klevstad Caspersen |
| Dying to Retire | Jonathan Solinsky |
| Ears | Ryan Costello |
| Echoes, Whispers, and Lies | Michelle Levigne |
| Eden | Jean Barker |
| Enchanter : It could be you | Barry Gaines |
| Endangered Species | Mark Flood |
| Enyo Part I: Relentless | Ande Case |
| Erotomania | Joe Hurst |
| Escape to Planet B346 | Thomas Thorpe |
| Esper | Joan Albright |
| Exodus To Earth | Jim Evry |
| Expanse of Us | Brea Grant |
| Extraction | Sam Ingraffia |
| Falling Up | Steve Tornello |
| Far Down Below... | Christopher Condon |
| Fated | Sara O'Reilly & Jeremy Foley |
| Figmentality | Brian Howrey |
| Forget-Me-Nots | John Dummer |
| Galápagos | Lukas Hassel |
| Game of Kings | Andres Rivera |
| Girl Out of Time | Jay J. Falconer |
| Goldilocks Zone | Harry Kleinman |
| Gracie Popoff | Tommy Simpson |
| Gridiron | Cedric Gillis |
| Grudge | Robert Santiago |
| Hawk Moon | Cal Athan |
| Haywire | Kenneth Smith |
| Helena's Hope | Erik Wecks |
| Hellbound | Roberto Saieh |
| Hi-Jinx | Megan Megahee |
| Him & SHE | Brian Kowalchuk |
| Hole in the Sky | John Cooney |
| I Want To Live a Dream | Guilherme Viegas |
| Ilah Hahn | Alex Setzer |
| In our Image | David Steiner |
| In the Holy City | Gilbert Cuevas |
| Inscape | Michael Levine |
| Intraverse | Philip Huber |
| Isol Trilogy Part 2 | Noel O' Sullivan |
| Isol Trilogy Part 3 | Noel O' Sullivan |
| Joe August: Paranormal Detective | Jim Harkins |
| Kameleon | Miles Joyner |
| Kargo City Blues | Peter Bartels |
| Kindred | Phil Parker & Josh Bryer |
| Kingdoms of Men | Michael Hahn |
| Kore | Christopher Morrison |
| Last Days of Last | João Figueiredo |
| Legal Alien | Jeff Delaney |
| Legend of the Phoenix: Rise of Crescent | Gabriel Gonzalez |
| Love Nation | Katherine Carter |
| Luana | Danielle Erlich |
| Luna Ferry One | Alec Garcia |
| Machine | Scott Jones |
| Mad Planet | Kurt Peterson |
| Make Time | Jonathan Medici |
| Mama | Caleigh Bacchus |
| Mantis | Laura Bialobos |
| Mara | Maggie Calton |
| Marasmus | Mark Rose |
| Matriculation | Mark Rose |
| Mavelynn Strivener & The Elemental Bracelets | Desmond Hew |
| Max Bringer | Min-Young (Auggie) Chung |
| Maya | Rohit Gill |
| Molly | Justin Kwon |
| Mom, This is Paleon | Jaquille Jones |
| Monster Hunters | Sandino Moya-Smith |
| New Eden | Chris Leonard |
| New World Holiday | Chase Bradburn |
| Nicholas | Thomas Gatus |
| Nine Days Gone | Sean Mogridge |
| Ninja Mom | Ren Hanami |
| Ocean Effect | Heather Farlinger |
| Once More for the Cheap Seats | Spencer Slovic |
| Orbit | Satish More |
| Orpheus: The Muse Warrior | Richard Giarraffa |
| Other Doors | G. Lloyd Helm |
| Out There | Mark Gaebler |
| P. Leasure | Marina Bendocchi Alves |
| Parents Weekend | Aaron Chung |
| Patchwork | Amanda Keener |
| Pig | Georgina Love |
| Pillars of Glass | Michael Polaski |
| Prime Life | William Levesque |
| Promise | John T. Frederick |
| Quantum Driver | Rebeca Melara |
| Quest for the Tiger's Eye | Dylan Morgan |
| Ravagers | Matthew Dixon |
| Realeyes | Andrew Elling |
| Red Rock | Scott Hamilton & PJ Hamilton |
| Retirement | Mitchell Lazar |
| Revolt 2145 | Genevi Engle |
| Riley and the Invisibles | Jordan Jeffries |
| Robot Zero | Geoffrey Uhl |
| Runaway Ship | Theodore Carl Soderberg |
| Salting Cure | Catherine Murdoch |
| Save the Princess | Eric Jeske |
| Savior | Bo Sanders |
| Savior | Eugene Mont |
| Sentinels of Tzurac: Zarkwin's Revenge | James Raven |
| Shadow Blade | Justin Hughes |
| Shore | Reno Nordkamp |
| Shreever Inc. | Dennis Donovan |
| Shrimp | Nicole Jones |
| Siege Perilous | Brian Kazmarck |
| Singularity By Lyssa | Zac Loy |
| Skin | Audrey Rosenberg |
| Sky Blade | Steve Lainer |
| Slayer | Alan Loubeau |
| Sleepless | Daniel Holland |
| Smoke | Carlos Perez |
| Sons of Light | Michael Savisky |
| Space/Time | Danny Baram |
| Spacey and Strange | Michael Angelella |
| Spirit of Truth | Tarus Stills |
| Splashdown | Don Stroud |
| Starlight | Carl Rogers |
| Stormcatchers | Mike J. Donald |
| Supacabra | David Willis |
| Synapse | Scott Westby |
| Sync | Jeff Murzynski |
| Tallok | David Luz |
| Tarzan Reborn | Kevin Bauer |
| The Advance Team | Paul Carson |
| The Alternate | Dennis Luu |
| The Astral Grid | Eduardo Soto-Falcon |
| The Book of Evolution | Justin Murphy |
| The Boy Who Destroyed The World | Jordan Jeffries |
| The Caregiver | Joelle Luman |
| The Catalyst | Daniel Sheiman |
| The Commune | Clayton Bennett |
| The Corpse Illusion | Steven Farrell |
| The Crossing | Paul Sheridan |
| The Dawn of "Eve" | James Bingham |
| The Dinosaur Four | Greg Rhem |
| The Family Trade | Erin Hays |
| The Farmer | Clive Howard |
| The Flight of Man | D.C. Lozar |
| The Forever Man | Paul Watson |
| The Garden | David Chang |
| The Goblin Spy | Rafael Gamboa |
| The Greatest Escape | Jason Baum |
| The Hiding Place | Stephen Martin |
| The Keeper | Daniel Judson |
| The Last Bookstore | Brooke Purdy |
| The Last Caretaker | Shannon Litt |
| The Last Prison | Richard Geiwitz |
| The Lighthouse | Neal Dhand |
| The Lost Prince | Brev Tanner |
| The Memory Bank | Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper |
| The Music Ghost | Jim Evry |
| The New Road | Michael Raymond |
| The Oak of Dendriata | Clayton Samuels |
| The Power of X | Paul B Allen III |
| The Procedure | Joshua Deepan |
| The Santa Job | Robert Husted |
| The Screening | Katherine Press |
| The Spark | Paul Dupree |
| The Sum of Us | Nye Green |
| The Thingee | Casimir Nozkowski |
| The Time Rippers | Phil Moore |
| The Undiscovered Country | Lovell Holder |
| Time Mail | Evan Kimball |
| Time-Traveling Idea Bandits | Harrison Demchick |
| Tranquility | Nicholas Leitzke |
| Tranquility | Harry Kleinman |
| Transience | R.J. Patteson |
| Tree People | Guy Polin |
| Tsera's Gift | Connie Hodges |
| Two | Joey Lanai |
| Two Miles Below | David van den Berg |
| Type 0 | Craig Efros |
| Under Gobi | Willard Whitson |
| Verse | Steven Cooney |
| VerticalVille | stephen neely |
| Virginia Rose and the Lost City of Gold | Bryan Kelsey |
| Western Dragons | John T. Frederick |
| Will to Power | Michael Mul |
| Zarkwin's Revenge | James Raven |
| Zero Child | Justin Marr |
| Zoe and the Aegis | AJ Wedding |
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