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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

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