Spring 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund Semifinalists

by ScreenCraft on February 8, 2023

Listed below are the Semifinalists of the Spring 2023 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!

Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on March 1st 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 Semifinalists:

*(When You're Ready To Go)*	Amy B Tiong
*A Reflection*	Laurie Barraclough
*A Walk on the Cold Sky*	Meseret Haddis
*All the Beautiful Things*	A.M. Lewis
*American Retail*	Carlotta Summers
*ARIAD*	Semra Michaels
*Aunty Untitled Film*	Aunty Untitled Film
*Baby's Breath*	Elijah Noble El
*BaeWatch ATL*	Roger Alexander
*Beige*	Olivia D'Lima
*Beneath the Grass*	William Bermudez, Sam Friedman
*Blue Collar America - Starbucks*	Mark Mori
*Born A Stray*	Adel Morales
*Brownsville Bred*	Elaine Del Valle
*Caiman*	Charles Borg, Joshua Bruce
*Calamity & Mercy*	Daniel Smith
*Camaro*	Lisa Lagace
*Chantoto'o*	Jesse Garcia
*Class Clown*	Eythan Maidhof
*CLINIC*	Aleshia Jackson
*Confidence, Man*	Matthew Goodhue
*Daly City*	Nick Hartanto
*Dirty Water*	Minda Martin
*Don Doko Don: The Yamakiya Taiko Club Story*	Darryl Wharton-Rigby
*DROPPING*	Anna Klassen
*Everybody Has An Andy Dick Story*	Cathy Carlson
*Exchange Place*	Jeff Geoffray
*Far Tortuga*	Jack Evans
*Fight*	Julien Hawthorne
*FILTHY*	Lisa Cole
*FIRST GENS*	Nahreen Tarzi
*Flamingo Camp*	Chris Coats
*Framing Her*	Coco Wouters
*Golden Hour*	Maureen McEly
*Hammer*	Alejandra Parody, Ben Sottak
*Haunted Halls*	Caroline Rodriguez
*HE IS A GEISHA*	Koodae Kim
*Here I Am*	Marc Francis
*I AM KATHY*	jane therese
*I Do*	Alexander Seltzer
*In the Garden of Tulips*	Ava Lalezarzadeh
*Inertia*	Michael Conroy
*INHERITANCE*	Eric Wong
*Jack and Sam*	Jordan Horowitz
*Jazz at Pearl's*	Tracy Held
*JOHN F#&%ING CALDWELL: WINE SMUGGLER*	Charles Miller
*Judy-ism*	Emily Nash
*Kodama*	Brian Tang
*Last Autumn*	Sam Holst
*Last HAWAIIAN SUGAR*	Deja Bernhardt
*Little Genes*	Matthew Clingempeel, Skye Emerson
*Lola Dust*	Dom Cutrupi
*Matthew*	Devin Peluso
*MEN*	Rebecca Dreyfus
*Microbudget*	Morgan Evans
*Miriam*	Lauren Blumenfeld
*Mosquito Mother*	Benjamin Kadie
*On the Brink - Miscalculation: Kennedy and Khrushchev*	Darin Nellis
*Papa Bear*	Michael Swaim, Abe Epperson
*Paris By Night*	Jeane Wong
*Pepo Kali*	Lydia Matata
*Petrol Head*	Patrick Swain
*Pink Flags*	Misha Calvert
*Prophet*	Diana Savone
*Pure*	Nava Silton
*Sanctuary*	Aaron Lorick
*Save the Cat*	Jordan Horowitz
*Shakespeare's Women*	Lorien Haynes
*Shark*	Bruna Pias
*SHERYL*	Justin Best
*Show Business Is My Life, But I Can't Prove It*	HEATHER WILK
*Smoke*	Josh Gallas, Lizette Barrera
*Spool*	Mike Gerbino
*Straight On Till Morning*	Craig Ouellette, Neal McLaughlin
*Stripper Boyz*	Stephen Sanow
*SUBJECT*	Tristan Barr
*Suka*	Tsu Shan Chambers
*Sympathy for the Devil*	Helena Holland Breger
*Taliban 2.0: A New Dawn*	Rishi Ghosh-Curling
*Te Llaman Las Olas*	Ana Verde
*The Bad Guy*	Morgan Ann Hammen
*The Blossom*	Shahnaz Mahmud
*The Chase*	Adam Loxley
*The Collins Film*	Brennan Huizinga
*The Countdown*	Heidi-Marie Ferren, Shannon McLemore
*The Girls Next Door*	Nelson Isava
*The Heart Grows Old in Autumn*	Michael Steves, Rafi Jahan, Lucas San Juan
*The Inevitable Return of an Atomic Being*	Zachary Zezima
*The Last Daughter*	Melissa Richer
*The Mourning Of*	Merced Elizondo
*The Robosexual*	Alden Peters
*The Unfinished Film*	Gemma Clarke , Hannah Antman
*Towards Happy Alleys*	Sreemoyee Singh
*Two Indians*	Cara Myers, Pritesh Shah, Dennis Fallon
*Unmuted*	Milena Warns
*UnScarred*	Elise Jaffe
*Untitled Gray/Roth Documentary*	Alexandra Dickson Gray
*Vial*	Caroline Iaffaldano
*When Trees Bloom*	Jacob Melamed
*Who Are You, Nanu?*	Anjini Taneja Azhar
*WITCHING HOUR*	Judith Park
*ᏓᏗᏬᏂᏏ (We Will Speak)*	Schon Duncan