Spring 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund Second Rounders
by ScreenCraft on January 18, 2023
Listed below are the Second Round Quarterfinalists of the Spring 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These projects were selected from almost 1,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on February 8th on our blog and on our Twitter and Facebook pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Second Rounders:
| "cat" | Jessica Redish |
| (When You're Ready To Go) | Amy B Tiong |
| 1000 Paths of Death | Alaric Rocha |
| 50 Meters | Yomna Khattab |
| 5480 Days | Nikki Wallin |
| 55: The Untold Story of the 1993 Dunbar Basketball Team | Angel Williams |
| 8Nights | Sam Evoy |
| A Good Day Will Come | Amir Zargara |
| A Good Neighbor | Maggie Hart |
| A League Of Our Own | Fran Harris |
| A Life In Music | Richard Essilfie-Bondzie |
| A Reflection | Laurie Barraclough |
| A Walk on the Cold Sky | Meseret Haddis |
| Abby's Turn | Joy Fox |
| ADA | Nora Jaenicke |
| After she died | Shivani Khattar |
| After What Happened at the Library | Kyle Casey Chu, Roisin Isner |
| All the Beautiful Things | A.M. Lewis |
| Alphas | Jeanette Scherrer |
| American Retail | Carlotta Summers |
| Anywhere the Wind Blows | Jay Liu |
| ARIAD | Semra Michaels |
| As We Fall Silent | Lauren Wagner |
| Asphalt Flowers | Leslie Alejandro |
| At Night | Michael Wells |
| Aunty Untitled Film | Aunty Untitled Film |
| Baby Boys | Darcy Cagen |
| Baby Love | Kate Kelsen |
| Baby's Breath | Elijah Noble El |
| BAD NEWS | Benjamin Christopher |
| BaeWatch ATL | Roger Alexander |
| BANANAHEAD | Christopher Greenslate |
| Bastard | Peppur Chambers |
| Beige | Olivia D'Lima |
| Beneath the Grass | William Bermudez, Sam Friedman |
| Bhodee | Lisa Romagnoli |
| Bleak Oblivion | Christian Rousseau |
| Bless | Drea Castro |
| Blessed by the Best: The Struggles & Triumphs of Krsnanandini Dasi | Krisztina Danka |
| Blight | Markus Hoeckner |
| Blood on Blood | J. Soren Viuf |
| Blue Collar America - Starbucks | Mark Mori |
| Bodies of Horror | Palmira Muniz |
| Bogotá Story | Esteban Pedraza |
| Boomerangst | George Johnson |
| Born A Stray | Adel Morales |
| BRAND NEW | Denzel Whitaker, Quincy G. Ledbetter |
| Brave Little Hawk | Leah Bedrosian Peterson |
| Bravo, Burkina! | Wale Oyejide |
| Breath Play | Jeremy Schmidt |
| Brownsville Bred | Elaine Del Valle |
| Bwa Kayiman | Yves Beneche |
| C B D C | Marko Knezic |
| Caiman | Charles Borg, Joshua Bruce |
| Calamity & Mercy | Daniel Smith |
| Camaro | Lisa Lagace |
| Chantoto'o | Jesse Garcia |
| Child of Woe | Samuel Perrone, Michael Perrone |
| Chispa | Karina Lomelin Ripper |
| Chuck and Fern | Henry Alexander Kelly |
| Citizens of Nowhere | Nathan Powell |
| City Of Rats | Gavin McClenaghan |
| Class Act | Mike Vannelli, David Wright, Ryan Lefton, Greg Audino, Tim Buel |
| Class Clown | Eythan Maidhof |
| Clifton Park | Maren Lavelle, Matt Steiner |
| CLINIC | Aleshia Jackson |
| Cold Dead Hands | Michael Dunker |
| Comedy & Tragedy | Jake Binstock, Parker Rouse |
| Confidence, Man | Matthew Goodhue |
| Controlling the Narrative | Eva Moss |
| Courtside | Joy Shi |
| crystal cross | Richie follin |
| CYBERGRANNY | Yaroslav Voytseshek |
| Daly City | Nick Hartanto |
| Dear TC, Please Love Me | Mega Dafiaghor |
| Death and Life | OJ Hansen |
| Decatur Blues | Odera Isaac |
| DELIVERUS | Kirsten Keeton |
| Despair Change | Neil Saul |
| Devil Makes Three | Goldie Jones |
| Dick Bunny | Susan Mendoza |
| Dirty Water | Minda Martin |
| Disco Power | Suhra Nahib |
| Dispatchment | Rafael Jordan, Patrick Jones |
| Displacement | Jonathan Everett |
| Dogs and Cats Living Together | Kerry Bailey |
| Don Doko Don: The Yamakiya Taiko Club Story | Darryl Wharton-Rigby |
| DONE | Joe Pezzula, James Ninness |
| DOWNSTATE | Erin Murphy West |
| DROPPING | Anna Klassen |
| Earl's Gotta Die | Heather Shapiro |
| Empathica | Taylor Bibat |
| Even In The Light | valeria Avina |
| Everybody Has An Andy Dick Story | Cathy Carlson |
| Everybody Wins | Alex Bragan, Griffin Johnston |
| Exchange Place | Jeff Geoffray |
| Far Tortuga | Jack Evans |
| Female Captive | Brittany Crawshaw |
| FERAL | Nihaarika Negi |
| Fight | Julien Hawthorne |
| FILTHY | Lisa Cole |
| First Date | Emil Gallardo |
| FIRST GENS | Nahreen Tarzi |
| Flamingo Camp | Chris Coats |
| Flat Martha | Rosemary Lokhorst |
| Flour Girl | Jada Bethea |
| Flying Lessons | Sarah Waldron |
| Fomosexuals | Gabriel Notarangelo |
| Fou | Gabrielle Barlatier |
| Framing Her | Coco Wouters |
| Free | Juan Martinez Vera |
| Game Night | Ellis Sutton, Jasper Ross |
| GATEWAY | Justin Calen-Chenn |
| Giant Void | Michael Reisinger |
| Gifted - The Docuseries | Robert Horsey |
| God, Help Me! | Angela Gulner |
| Golden Child | Hannah Levin |
| Golden Garden Takeout | Maggie Wong |
| Golden Hour | Maureen McEly |
| Good Girl | Haley Dercher |
| Good Guy with a Pun | Dmitry Milkin |
| Goodbye, Hello | Omkar Phatak |
| Grandpa rocks school | Christoph Kathollnig |
| Gravel Road | Arden Teresa Lewis |
| Greetings From Arizona | Margaret Sclafani, Zach Singer |
| Growing Pains | Catherine Argyrople, Mariana Fabian |
| Hair Wraith | Jennifer Popovich |
| Hammer | Alejandra Parody, Ben Sottak |
| Happy Bellies Happy Jia | Alice Yang |
| Happy Campers | Amy Nicholson |
| Happy Endings | Madison Leonard |
| Hardcastle | Donna Brodsky |
| HATCHBACK | Lynelle White |
| Haunted Halls | Caroline Rodriguez |
| HAUNTED HEART | Mike Bencivenga |
| HAWAIIAN VACATION | Dyana Winkler |
| HE IS A GEISHA | Koodae Kim |
| He Is Without His Guns | Gilles Geary |
| Heartworm | Miriam Arens, Mitchell Arens |
| Here I Am | Marc Francis |
| Home Game | Natalia Nylec |
| Human...by any other name | Georgia Van Cuylenburg |
| I AM KATHY | jane therese |
| I Do | Alexander Seltzer |
| I Have Love In Me | Anne DeMelo |
| I Was Here | Noëlle Gentile |
| I Wish I Were Pretty | Hanah Chang |
| Ice(d) Cream | Alonso Indacochea |
| If I am Here It is By Mystery | Érica Sarmet |
| If the Ocean Could Talk - A Voice for the North Atlantic | Bonnie Monteleone |
| ILONA's JOYDUST | C. Fitz |
| Immigrants | MUSTAFA KNIGHT |
| In the Garden of Tulips | Ava Lalezarzadeh |
| Independence Night - Weidknecht | Paul Weidknecht |
| Inertia | Michael Conroy |
| INHERITANCE | Eric Wong |
| INK | Michael Lancaster, Michael Lovan |
| interlude | Sophia Khan |
| Ivy | Eddie Sánchez |
| Jack and Sam | Jordan Horowitz |
| JAJU | Greg Dorchak |
| Jazz at Pearl's | Tracy Held |
| Jeff Gets A Job | Emmanuel Duga |
| JERUSALEM ROAD | Simone Yehuda |
| Jesus Freak | Naomi Christie |
| JOHN F#&%ING CALDWELL: WINE SMUGGLER | Charles Miller |
| Josephine Campbell | Dominique Generaux |
| Judy-ism | Emily Nash |
| Junglefowl | Kalainithan Kalaichelvan |
| Just Married - Italian Style | Anthony Palmiotto |
| KABOOM - KIN | Anthony Vercoe |
| Kabuk | Nepal Arslan |
| Katie's Mom AKA The Dropout | Meryl Branch-McTiernan |
| Killburn | Michael Phelan |
| Kodama | Brian Tang |
| Last Autumn | Sam Holst |
| Last HAWAIIAN SUGAR | Deja Bernhardt |
| Leave | Alan Mendez |
| Life During Wartime: Pilot Episode - Nowhere Fast | Mark Bowes |
| Little Genes | Matthew Clingempeel, Skye Emerson |
| Lo | Truitt Glover |
| Lola | Aliya Brooks |
| Lola Dust | Dom Cutrupi |
| Long Pork | Iris Dukatt |
| LOOK BACK AT IT | Felicia Pride |
| Lost the Lead | Michael Johnson |
| LOST/FOUND | Paula Puryear |
| Louella | Erin Cantelo |
| Makeup & Medicine | Cyn Hilaire |
| Mamá Lola | Valentina Hueck |
| Marias Pass | Sydney Hoffner |
| Maternal Negligence | Autumn Martin |
| Matthew | Devin Peluso |
| Maxine | Lynne Bond |
| MEN | Rebecca Dreyfus |
| Menarche | Lara Carvalho |
| Microbudget | Morgan Evans |
| MIKE | Duc Anh Nguyen |
| Millie Goes To The Doctor | Maria Belafonte, Michaela Boutros-Ghali |
| Miriam | Lauren Blumenfeld |
| Mis-Alignment | Pablo Riesgo Almonacid |
| Miss Me When I’m Gone | Matthew Gomez |
| Mom I Met a Chica | Francesco Giacomarra |
| Monte de suenos | Leonora Anzaldua |
| More Honored in the Breach | Juan Villegas |
| Mosquito Mother | Benjamin Kadie |
| My Heart Is In The Sea | Taha Ismail |
| Neon Vowels | Sergio Caballero |
| Neutrals | Jacob Horne |
| No Filter | Mary DeMatteo |
| No One Special | Mike Ellis |
| No Vacancy | Jay Sherer, Nathan Scheck |
| No. | Jeanette Scherrer |
| Nobody In Japan | Dale Crawford |
| NOLA: The Beginning | Mildred Langford |
| Northern Lights | Jenna Putnam |
| Not Walter Jenkins! | AP Hello |
| On the Brink - Miscalculation: Kennedy and Khrushchev | Darin Nellis |
| Open to It | Frank Smith |
| Out of My Comfort Zone | Ivy Vale, Rick Reil |
| PADATING NA | Chris Osterndorf, Joseph Gonzales |
| Papa Bear | Michael Swaim, Abe Epperson |
| Paris By Night | Jeane Wong |
| Peacock | Cory Steele |
| Pepo Kali | Lydia Matata |
| PERFECT | Anna Rose Moore Kessler |
| Petrol Head | Patrick Swain |
| Physical Therapy | Ahuatl Amaro |
| Pink Flags | Misha Calvert |
| Play It By Ear | Simon Kienitz Kincade, Emily Ann Zisko, Brian Reilly, Dillon Antonius Bentlage |
| Pleasant Child | Anna Schatte |
| Polaris | Darryl Wharton-Rigby |
| PRESENTE! | Livia Perini, Dani Wieczorek |
| Pritty: The Animation | Terrance Daye |
| Prométeme (Promise Me) | Katherine J. Espi |
| Prophet | Diana Savone |
| Puncture | Emily Honey |
| Punderneath It All | Abby Hagan |
| Puppets Of Faith | Eric Brown, Chandler Pratt II |
| Pure | Nava Silton |
| Purple | Aaron Therol |
| Puzzle | Chase Hirt |
| QUEUE | Jessica Wilson |
| r.e.g.g.i.N | A. D. Smith |
| Rapunzel | Margarita Milne, Becca Sugar |
| Reborn | Matthew Maloney |
| Reckless Behavior: The Series | Michaela Shelton |
| Reg | Tom of Allpress |
| Reggie & June | Brandon Thomas |
| Reluctant Recluse | Ari Cubangbang |
| Reparations Day | Ashlee Harris |
| REVIVAL | Narine Voskanyan, Monique Peterson |
| Rockstar, Guru, Hustler | Daniel Yadin |
| Rodney on the River | David Gantz |
| Sanctuary | Aaron Lorick |
| Save the Cat | Jordan Horowitz |
| Saved By a Maidl With a Kof K Tattoo | Mendel Weintraub |
| Say My Name | Hassiem Muhammad |
| Scarlet | Govind Chandran, Kelsey Cooke |
| Sea Salt | Natalia Pavlove |
| Searching For Yoo | Marissa Lichwick |
| Second Generation | Frank Smith |
| Semblance | Alex Loucas |
| Senior | Toroes Thomas |
| Serena Versus | Jessica OKeefe |
| Shakespeare's Women | Lorien Haynes |
| Shark | Bruna Pias |
| SHERYL | Justin Best |
| Show Business Is My Life, But I Can't Prove It | HEATHER WILK |
| Simmer | Joshua Afiriyie |
| SIRENS | Thomas Sawyer |
| Slow Down | Lee Matthew Goldberg |
| Smoke | Josh Gallas, Lizette Barrera |
| Sonny's Blues | Tevin Simpson |
| Spool | Mike Gerbino |
| STARBORN | Kylie Eaton |
| Still Life | Kelly Song |
| Stolen Dough | Stefano Da Frè |
| Stone Fate | Dani Craig, Angel Williams |
| Straight On Till Morning | Craig Ouellette, Neal McLaughlin |
| Stripper Boyz | Stephen Sanow |
| SUBJECT | Tristan Barr |
| Sudanese Cindarella | Maha Jafaar |
| Suka | Tsu Shan Chambers |
| Sundown | Tony Marquez, Kathleen Barth |
| Sundowning | Faith Liu |
| Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) | Sierra Falconer |
| Surviving the Enemy | Denise Ross |
| Sweeping Graves | Kevin Wong, Vanessa Gentry |
| Switch | Amanda Whiteley |
| Sympathy for the Devil | Helena Holland Breger |
| t4t | Ariel Mahler, Matisse Haddad |
| Table | Matthew Moore |
| Taliban 2.0: A New Dawn | Rishi Ghosh-Curling |
| Te Llaman Las Olas | Ana Verde |
| Tears of the Field | Michael Schilf |
| Tender | Trina Colon |
| The 22 | Amanda Gecewicz |
| The Anne Frank Gift Shop | Mickey Rapkin |
| The Bad Guy | Morgan Ann Hammen |
| The Ballerina's Curse | Juming Delmas |
| The Belonging | Kathy Robinson |
| The Blossom | Shahnaz Mahmud |
| The Bog | Andrea Millard |
| The Bornless | Timothy Stevens |
| The Chase | Adam Loxley |
| THE CHOCOLATE KANDINSKY | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Class | Kirsta Peterson |
| The Collins Film | Brennan Huizinga |
| The Consequence | Kammy Darweish |
| The Countdown | Heidi-Marie Ferren, Shannon McLemore |
| The Cutting Room Floor | Victoria deMartin |
| The Day The Japanese Invaded Kansas | Roxane Llanque |
| THE DRIVER | Alex Brown |
| The Ever Curious Man | Jake Ewald |
| The Extraordinary World of Cecily Blinkstop | Jennifer Potts |
| The Fisherman's Tale | Nate Chitwood |
| The Flesh People | Keshav Srinivasan |
| The Girls Next Door | Nelson Isava |
| The Great God Pan | Haley Bartels |
| The Green Flash | Jodi Cash |
| The Growth | Samantha Clay |
| The Heart Grows Old in Autumn | Michael Steves, Rafi Jahan, Lucas San Juan |
| The Inevitable Return of an Atomic Being | Zachary Zezima |
| The Iron Leech | Neal O'Bryan, Chad Thurman, Sean O'Bryan |
| The Lake in the Sky | Caleb Reese Paul |
| The Last Butterflies | Whitney Wegman-Wood |
| The Last Daughter | Melissa Richer |
| The Legend of Damarosch | Emily Vere Nicoll, Rachel Vere Nicoll |
| The Long Dinner Date | William Pinke |
| The Lost & Found - Anthology | Marc Castaldo, Reeth Mazumder-Roberts |
| The Magic of Making Deaf Theatre | Matthew Moore |
| The Magic Trick | Aurielle Bryan |
| The Miracle Tailor | Mike Horvath, Joel Kohn |
| The Moment Between | Kyla Sylvers |
| The Mourning Of | Merced Elizondo |
| The Name of the Film is Untitled | Lucia Plaza |
| The Night is Yours | Adam Ciancio |
| The Offering | Spencer Scanlon |
| The Perfect Boy | Alexandra Andreoni |
| The Propagandist | Randy M. Salo, Blake Ryan Lewis |
| The Queen, The Knight, and The Witch | Letia Solomon |
| The Question | Peter Tamaribuchi |
| The REVVER | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| The Robosexual | Alden Peters |
| The Stand | Sonja Kelly |
| The Super Exciting Gang | Ricky Lorenzo, Matthew Brian Cohen |
| The Taster | Louis Cox |
| The Unfinished Film | Gemma Clarke , Hannah Antman |
| The Untamed | Olga Holtz |
| The Wall | Karina Castillo |
| The Well Cover Method | Mohamed Jaza |
| TheLifeguards | Johnny Antonini |
| There's a Part of Yourself That's Mean To Yourself | Kerry O'Neill |
| Thirsty Thursday | Jeff Oliver |
| Those who love me will follow me | Alessandro Giovanni Lunghi, Ailish Elzy |
| Threadbeat Dad | Crystal Jin Kim |
| Throuple | Michael Doshier |
| Time of Insurrection | Gabriel Fernández-Gil |
| Time's Up | Amanda Bright |
| Towards Happy Alleys | Sreemoyee Singh |
| Transjordan | Jessica Jiji |
| Trapped | Christian Fink-Irizarry |
| Trickle & Flow | Jen Scott |
| Tryst | Claire Epstein |
| Two Indians | Cara Myers, Pritesh Shah, Dennis Fallon |
| UBIQUITOUS | Lexis Hooton |
| Unconditional | Zao Wang, Tom Toro, Carmiel Banasky |
| Under the Boardwalk | Michael Graham |
| Undesirables | Sarah Marsh |
| unfiltered | Chelsi Bullard |
| Unmuted | Milena Warns |
| UnScarred | Elise Jaffe |
| Until the Buzzing Stops | Abd al Kader Habak |
| Until The Night Turns | Rebecca Strom |
| Untitled Gray/Roth Documentary | Alexandra Dickson Gray |
| Urban Ed | Wade Wofford |
| Vanilla | Alisha Bhowmik, Amanda Centeno |
| Vanitas | Lucy Gamades |
| Vape Barn | Scout Stolpmann |
| Vial | Caroline Iaffaldano |
| Wake | Ayasylla Ghosn |
| Walk In The Light | Princella Smith |
| Washed | Brooke Dooley |
| Water Girl | Nnamdi Kanaga |
| We are THE BEAT | Jonathan Lewis |
| What Happens After Midnight | Jack Wickliffe |
| When the Bass Drops | Marlene Rhein |
| When Trees Bloom | Jacob Melamed |
| When Winter Comes | Yuan Yuan |
| Where Life Begins | Khaled Ridgeway |
| Whiskey Mountain Days | Bill Walker |
| White in America | JLove Calderon |
| White Shorts | Michele Olivieri |
| Who Are You, Nanu? | Anjini Taneja Azhar |
| whole·some | Saladin White II |
| Wild Love | Skyler Thomas |
| WITCHING HOUR | Judith Park |
| WITCHLAND | Tim Mulligan |
| Within Her Memories | Opal Bradbury |
| Worst Date, Best Date | Cameron Thrower, Heather Turman |
| Yard Bird | Jeff Alper |
| Yasmeen's Element | Amman Abbasi |
| Yellow | Jazzy Hawley |
| Yesterday Ended Last Night | Oana Tenter |
| You Can Go Home Whenever You Want | Matt Everitt |
| Zaina | Mohadeseh Jalilvand |
| ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak) | Schon Duncan |
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