Spring 2022 ScreenCraft Film Fund Second Rounders
by ScreenCraft on January 12, 2022
Listed below are the Second Rounders of the Spring 2022 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 700 submissions. Congratulations to the creators who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Second Rounders:
| 1 Hour to Midnight | Jake Ross |
| 1989 | Chris Phillips |
| A Hundred Day Banquet | Peiqi Peng |
| A Long Road to Tao | michael allen |
| A Loud Quiet | Sofia Garza-Barba |
| A Place Where Horses Die | Thomas Banuelos |
| A Rustle of Leaves | Hunter Hadfield |
| A Small Dream | Sarraa Alshehhi |
| A Thousand Cuts | Cindy Zhang |
| A Very Queer Holiday | Marie Incontrera, Dianne Gebauer, Megan Zebrowski |
| A Well-Paid Job... | Erik Jasan |
| Abdo and Saneya | Omar Bakry |
| Accidents | Stephanie Ahn |
| Afternoon Hours | Victoria Kuzmina |
| Agua de tu Mamá | Naiyah Ambros |
| All the Things in the Dark | Elle Rinaldi |
| Alma Doesn't Know Her Father | Alexa Mercado |
| Alphabet Soup | Ron Artis Jr. |
| An Awful Thing Has Gone and Happened | Christopher Mitchell, Deborah Mitchell, Ian Goodman |
| Anti-Venom for a Snake | Gerardo Garcia |
| anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, (t)here | Asligul Armagan |
| Apocalypse | Srinivasa-Reddy Chilukala |
| Apophenia | Ean Olsen |
| Artifice | Katrin Kasper, Samuel Oates |
| Artist Unknown | Cinder Chou |
| ASTEROID | Alec Whittle |
| Astral Beacon | Ben Page |
| At the Edge of the Volcano | Jorge Granados Ross, Melik Kuru |
| Athenia's Last Voyage | Thomas Sanger |
| Avenida Revolución | Anthony Todaro |
| B Side (Formerly: On Two) | Caleigh Le Grand |
| B-Side: For Taylor | Christina YR Lim |
| Babycat | Dayna Hanson, Dave Proscia |
| Banana | Alan Khaw |
| Basil | Liza Shevchuk, Kseniya Zastavska |
| Bass | Armin Haghighi |
| BERENICE | Jessica Valentine, Richard Valentine |
| Bienvenido Juanito | David Orantes, Anna Lo Westlin |
| Bight | Cameron Cowperthwaite, Maiara Walsh |
| Bitter Honey Sins | Amanda Öman |
| Black Birth-workers Documentary | Eva Woolridge |
| Bodyguard | LaQuita Langhorn |
| Bombay Samourai | Dev Benegal |
| Boy Boi | Justus Macharia |
| Butched | Rickey Jewkes, Michael J. Jewkes |
| Capture | Matt Batten |
| Carolynn's Fingers | JOEY GARFIELD |
| Chloé | Madeline Stephenson |
| Choosing Bree | Joenique C. Rose |
| Common as Red Hair | Robbie Robertson |
| Crime or suicide: The mysterious death of Odebrecht's star witness | Jorge Duran |
| Crossing the Height of Land | Chris Ozminski |
| CURED | Emma Flanders, Emma Raimi |
| Curse of the Mountain Tun'r | Roger Terry |
| Dawn | Alexandra Ruggieri |
| Dirty Sheets | J.D.P Croy |
| Distanced | Tristan Daley |
| DOV | Kal Weber |
| Eat Bitter | Ningyi Sun |
| Edgar and the Undead | Montgomery Burt |
| Elegy For My Tongue | Omi Gupta |
| Emotional Wedding Video | Alex Familian |
| Entanglement | anasia Obioha |
| Erased | Karina Bezell |
| ESTRANGED BEHAVIOUR | Tanita Ross-Cady |
| Everyone Worries at Night | Anthony Nicolau |
| Fate vs. Elena | Laura Sedlak |
| Fish Bowl | Rachel Sweeney |
| Five Star Review | Kiley Rothweiler |
| Flawless: A Feminist Fairytale | Deborah Rayne, Catherine Eaton |
| For the Moon | Nile Price |
| Forever Flowers | Francesca Lin |
| Freedom World | Willie Ying |
| Freelance | Mike Gerbino |
| FULL MOON | Justin Horowitz, Shrayek Kapil |
| Further to Fly | Dev Benegal |
| Gallows | Unnamed |
| GAZER | Ryan Sloan |
| Glass Closets | Madison Sean Flannery |
| Going Lethal | Nicole Lenora |
| Going Varsity in Mariachi | Alejandra Vasquez |
| Good Side of Bad | Alethea Root, Jules Bruff, Ciera Danielle |
| Grey Area | Asaad Salleh |
| half light | Erin O'Connor |
| HAUNTED HEART | Mike Bencivenga |
| Have You SeenTeri | K. Dene Chinn |
| Hawaiian Vacation | Dyana Winkler |
| Headless Joe | Charlie Ainsworth |
| HEALING WATERS FILM | Derek Johnson |
| Heartbeat | Andrea Millard |
| Heartstrings | J.D. Zelman, Matthew Dushkes |
| Heatwave | Raúl Eduardo Galindo Peña, Andrea Porras |
| Heirlooms | Dan Abramovici, Peter Lavoie |
| Hey Diddle Diddle | Courtney Dabney |
| Hobo Santa | Michael Lopez |
| Holding Back the Tide | Elizabeth Beeson |
| HOME | Paul Fischer, Jack Weatherley |
| Home | Jason Monsalud |
| Hot Air | Cal McLean |
| HummingBird | Taz Lake |
| Hunger Surfaced | Justin Ross |
| Hunker Down | Ken Klein |
| I Don't Dream In Spanish Anymore | Missy Hernandez |
| I Hope This Email Finds You Well | Quinton Buxton |
| I Scared the Tree and the Tree Scared Me | Lilian Sumner |
| I See Me In You | Marlene Emilia Rios |
| I Stole a Boy | Aiyah Sibay |
| I Thought Prison Was a Silent Place | Pippa Dyer, Boitumelo Moroka |
| I Thought the Earth Remembered Me | Premstar Santana |
| I WAS WRONG | Tyler Cunningham, Bernie Leed |
| I Weigh Down | Kaith Karishma |
| I wish to Know Your Dreams | Chris Ozminski |
| I'm Having an Affair With My Wife! | Jen Finelli |
| If You Should Ever Leave Me | Mackenzie Watson |
| In Plain Sight | Sarah McClure |
| Interim | Isabel Monk Cade |
| International Closets | Rodrigo Carvalhedo |
| It's LITERALLY Always Sunny in L.A. | Jiwon Lee |
| Iusui | Maria Salgado, Berenice Heger-Hedloy |
| Jaws of Life | Urban Pekle |
| Just Desserts | Connor Matthews |
| Karelore - Fire | Catherine Lebedev |
| Karmic Retribution | Kimberly Nichelle Hardy |
| Keeper of the Bay | Unnamed |
| Kindred | Jamey Sadler |
| KING BABY | Kit Redstone |
| Lacuna | Kyle Credo |
| Last Night | Jahnvi Pananchikal |
| li | Alan Khaw |
| License & Registration | Jackson Ezinga |
| Lil Boo | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Lilith | Reece Lyons |
| Lily's Mirror | Linnea Frye |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| Loud & Longing | Isabel Ellison |
| Love School (working title) | Julia Maryanska |
| LOVELAND | Sofia Bonami |
| MAGPIE | Darren Markey |
| Mataron a Pedro | Kristian Mercado |
| Me, Myself & The Void | Timothy Hautekiet, Nik Oldershaw |
| Meadhbh | Luis Hindman |
| Mirage | Elizabeth S. Acevedo |
| MIRUMIRU (Bubble) | Allan George |
| MISSING IN COLOUR | Alice Charles |
| MONSTER TOWN (short) | Garrett Vander Leun |
| Moonbow | Richie Harrington |
| Morning Glory | William R. Winston |
| Moving Bangladesh | Nuhash Humayun |
| Ms Agility | Chris Gaspar |
| Murdered on the Fourth of July: A Documentary | Pj Perez |
| My Bully Mia | Laura Stubbs |
| Not So Prim & Proper | Bryce Pride |
| Oat Milk Mommy | Allie Scully |
| Old-growth | Volodymyr Denysenko |
| Omitama | Matthew Davies |
| Once in a Blue Moon | Valeria Sweet |
| Open to It | Frank Smith |
| Our First Priority | Ariel Baska |
| Our Neighbours' Nest | Kevin Walls |
| Our Sins | Anjini Taneja Azhar |
| Pareidolia | Vanessa Magic |
| Piece | Matthew Thompson |
| PILGRIM | JULIA STOVELL |
| Pinjara | Neil Gracias |
| Pistachio | Dorothy Nguyen |
| Poetry | Estelle Bajou |
| Potluck | LaLa Halsema |
| Preet | Karem Orrego |
| Prohibited | Richie Harrington |
| Prologue: Easy Money | Jeru Berry |
| Psychomanteum | Noel Thompson |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Pulling Strings | Joseph Baker, Jesse Gutierrez |
| PULP | Ann Lu |
| Qant | Kayleigh Gibbons |
| QUEUE | Jessica Wilson |
| Rabbits Under the Shed 2 | Evan Bode |
| Red ( 红色) | Madison Lin |
| Remedial | Laurie Gardiner |
| REUNION | Karl Gan |
| Revival | Joshua Han |
| Rider On The Storm | Harrison Killian |
| Rough diamond | Cristian Vasilescu |
| S.P.A. | Mara Mourao |
| Saleeg | Afnan Bawyan |
| Sandra Gets A New Fringe | Penelope Yeulet |
| Sathu - Year of the Rabbit | Joshua Trigg |
| Sea of Red | James Nguyen |
| Seventy-Two Spirits | Catherine Mwitta |
| Shakespeare's Heroines at the Gynecologist | Chriselle Almeida |
| Sirenetta: Part-Time Mermaid | Matthew Bruneau-Richardson |
| Sister/Brother | Brian Padian |
| SITRA ACHRA | Levi Buchanan |
| Son of Ares | Maverick Knox |
| Stay the Night | Allison Downey (Berg) |
| Stone Fate | Dani Craig, Angel Williams |
| Strawberry Princess | Iliyas Antar Akhmet |
| Tapestry Brewery | AMANDA JOHNSON |
| TATI’S PROVIDENCE | Amir Arison |
| Teenage Wildlife | Sam Carson |
| Terrificman | Sam Hendrian |
| Terror and Virtue | Ernest Pysher |
| The Basics of Love | Joshua Nathan |
| The Bucket List | Katusha Jin |
| The Coffin Club | Christopher Hills Eaton |
| The Commitment | Rachel Mariam |
| The Creative Explosion of a Sweet Potato Memory | Jenelle Valentine Davenport |
| The Defiant One | Veialu Aila-Unsworth |
| The Flower | Andrew Simmons |
| The Frog and the Ox | Ariel Zengotita |
| The Girl Who Killed God | Aldo Romero |
| The Good, the Bad, and the Doggie | Candra Adams |
| The Gospel According to Charlie | Kamal John Iskander |
| The Graff Lab | Myles Kramer |
| The Guilt | Giovanni D'Amaro |
| The Hill | Cade Margus |
| The Hub - Pilot | Alex Salsberg |
| The Killing of Cornelius Rhoads | Debora Perez |
| The Last Drop | Adam Joel |
| The Last Generation to Die | Tim Maupin |
| The Lesson | Kimberly Kalaja |
| The Letter | Brett Nelson |
| The Lost Blonde | Ian Beaumont |
| The Method | Jace Anderson |
| The Mid | Ada Heart |
| The Peregrine | Justin Giddings |
| The Perfect Boy | Alexandra Andreoni |
| The Pizza Dude | Ryan Corrigan |
| The Play | Josh Mann |
| The REVVER | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| The Riddle of the Doors | Joe Hawkins |
| The Row | Adam Trunell |
| The Runs | Grace Ngobeni, Quanny Carr, Sandra Oyeneyin, Rachel Yang, Semien Abay, Sharmila Sahni |
| The Sea Cellar, an underwater wine adventure | Luigi Melecchi |
| The Searchers | Chris Ozminski |
| The Snow Leopard | Taylor Joshua Rankin |
| The Snowpeople | Olivia Lilley |
| The Society for Paranormal Healing | Lori Chandler |
| The Soldier | Kal Weber |
| THE SOUND OF FIREWORKS | Nicole Vanden Broeck |
| The Sperm Bank | Rob Scerbo, Jeremy Culhane |
| The Suspicious Couple | Seth Nolan |
| The Thesis: Safe to Share | Ebonie Smith |
| The Things We Do To Each Other | Avi Yaffe |
| The Triathlon | Justice Whitaker |
| The War of Maynard High | Ryan Corrigan |
| The Year Between | Alex Heller |
| Thirty-Eight | Reginald Waters |
| This Heated Up | Carlos Gabriel Vergara M. |
| Tightrope Tango | Biljana Lipic |
| Tiny House | Dewey Taylor |
| Trace the Line | Alejandro Miranda Cruz |
| TRIGGER WARNING | Adam Lederer |
| Tucson | Dante Russo |
| Unspoken | Jeremy Borison |
| Untitled Israel/Palestine Documentary | Joy Sela |
| Uptempo | Maxwell Innis II |
| Valley of Exile | Anna Fahr |
| Waiting for the Sun | Christopher Eadicicco, Mia Allen |
| Wake | Conner De Mita, Ari Jacobson |
| Walls on the Road | Bárbara Fernández Pérez |
| Waste King | Joshua Yunis |
| We Are Pretty Loud | Jelena Tadic |
| We Go To The Beach To Fall In Love | Christian Ghosn |
| We Woke | Bradford Stevens |
| When Winter Comes | Yuan Yuan |
| WHERE IN THE HELL | Laramie Dennis |
| White Noise | Christina Saliba |
| Who's Annie? | Sophia Peer, Annie Sicherman |
| Wonderland Cave | Krista Bradley |
| Yield | Damian Chakhvorostov |
| You Had Me At Aloha | Joanne Rose |
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