Spring 2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund Second Rounders
by ScreenCraft on January 17, 2024
Listed below are the Second Rounders of the Spring 2024 ScreenCraft Film Fund. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 1,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
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Here are the Second Rounders:
| 'Stached | Sofia Soldevila, David Romani II, Kelly Farmer |
| "Our Hearts are Bleeding: Sex Trafficking in India" | Jonah Lawton |
| "They Eat Their Young" | Steve Smith |
| 1 | Daniel Obzejta |
| 12 Hours | kelly stanphill |
| 17 Days | Marwah Ghazi |
| 25 IFEDOLA STREET | Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake, Tareowei Oki |
| 36 Weeks to Go | Daniel Fabelo, Maria Mealla |
| 46 GROVE | Lilli Kay |
| 97 | Allyson Rice (a Producer on the documentary) |
| A Few Perfect Heads | Ben Hirschhorn |
| A Game We Played | Travis Schweiger |
| A Light in the Slaughterhouse | James Lingwood |
| A Mother | Zoe Kerr |
| A Perfect Copy | Brittany Marasciulo-Rivera |
| A Song That Sears the Sky | WL Freeman |
| A Trapped Dog | XINYING LAO |
| A War Within | Emil Gallardo, Derek Ho |
| A Year to Remember | April Noel |
| Abortion Weekend | Jairis Carter, Mareshah Dupree |
| Absent | Thomas Booker |
| Afterglow | Arturo Alanis Garza |
| Alison | Mara Lesemann |
| All Grown Up | Benny Segal |
| All the Beautiful Things | A.M. Lewis |
| All The Love I Could Handle | Ruby Fludzinski |
| All Things Corrode | Sidney Kreitzer |
| Always On | Evan Fonseca |
| Ambrosia | Michael Wellvang |
| Angel | Daniel Tucker |
| Angels Play Dirty | Suzette Ferretti |
| Anna's House (Working title*) | John Garet Stoker |
| Anokhi | Rohini Jadhav |
| Another Day | Kyle Baughman |
| Anything is Possible | Tylie Cox |
| APOLITICAL | Manu Rewal |
| Ash Woman | Ian Hawkes |
| Audentes Fortuna Iuvat | Larissa Kruesi |
| Auntie | Helene Dunlop |
| AUTOMATION // Delicacies | Natasha Reilly |
| Backyard/Desert | Ethan Felizzari-Castillo, Nancy Irene Kelly |
| Bad Party | Jack Puluka |
| BADDIES | Lilian Mehrel |
| Baller | Sophie McVeigh |
| Bar Mitzvah Man | Max Kinchen, Suzanne Bressler |
| Barrio | Alexander Ibarra |
| Be My Host | James Everett |
| Belonging | Liz Fields |
| Betsy and Napoleon | Michelle Tattenbaum |
| Big Metal Stick: A Pole Dance Documentary | Irene Young |
| Birdo | Bryan Fitzgerald |
| Black Winemakers' Story | Marvin L Glover |
| Blacks, Dogs, Irish | Stephen Hunt |
| Blighted | Sheba Karim |
| Bloomsberries | Joe DiMiceli |
| Boneseed | Brett Brooks, Joshua David Matthews |
| Border | Ahad Mohammad Karami |
| Born To Lose | Carlos Cardona |
| BOSS LADY...the Legend | Meshall Shumate |
| Breakfast for Dinner | Henry Ainsworth |
| Breaking Point | Lochlan Graham |
| Broken Beak | Christian Carroll |
| Brookhaven Prep | Virginia Watkins |
| Bullet Brain | Joshua Conn |
| Burned | Paula Rhodes |
| Burnout | Liz Singh |
| Bury Your Worries | Cheyenne Siearra Gallon |
| By The Grape Of God | Kevin Hickey |
| Cache-22 | Chris Aresco |
| Cafuné | Joanne Nguyen |
| Camera Obscura | Vera Graziadei |
| Carte | Rhym Guisse |
| CATTLE KIDS | Jack Liechtung |
| Chashmish | Ilina Bhatia |
| Chickentown | Madeline Poeta |
| Child of God | Adison Oliveras |
| Civilian | Mazin Gamar |
| Classics Undone | Di Quon Wilms |
| Colors We Made | Amanda Morell |
| Combat Island | Frank Anderson |
| Come Home With Me | Samantha Shada |
| Companion | Ian Pozzebon, Igor Petrov |
| CRASHCAM | Mattison Lewis |
| Crossing The Desert | Anu Bhatt |
| Curses! | Tulica Singh |
| Cut Off | Remi Rosmarin |
| CUT TIME: Pilot - “Eighty eight” | Marcus Ostermiller |
| Cut, Color, & Blow Me | Aimee DuFresne |
| DADA: A haunting witness | Vuk Boskovic, Elizabeta Betinski, Vladimir Dekic |
| Dark Green | Alex Lyras, Robert McCaskill |
| Dark Tastes | Daniel Couto |
| Death Do Us Part | Sabrina Ehlert |
| Definitely Real Time Loop | Molly Daniels, Simon McCulloch |
| Delicate Arch | Matt Warren |
| Delivery | Garrett Schweighauser |
| Demented | Andrea Lwin, Debbie Chesebro |
| Dino Hart | Lizzie Mayes |
| Don't be late, Myra | Afia Nathaniel |
| Don't Be Weird | Emma Josephson, Tara Umesh |
| Down the Drain | Nat Roberts |
| Drepper | The Happiest Man on Earth | Mason Aksamit |
| Drifts | Peter Coccoma |
| Driving Lesson | Gillian Gordon |
| Echoes of Yesterday: Unveiling Identity Amidst Murder | Michael Alexander |
| Every Rose Has Its Thorns | Eden Kannistan, Jonas Pascual |
| Fake Friends | CG Martin |
| Fallen Heroes: The Blue Water Veterans of Vietnam | Matt Conrad |
| Family or Freedom | Musarat Coombs |
| Fatherland | Patrick Ireland |
| Filthy | Lisa Cole |
| Finding Lucky | Seamus Quinn |
| First Day | Peter Mackie |
| Flat Martha | Rosemary Lokhorst |
| For Coloreds Only | Johnny Ray Gill |
| For Dawn | Setareh Saleh |
| Fugue | Julia van de Graaff |
| GENOA | Neal Dhand |
| Georgie Romero Is Done For Pilot Short | Kat Walker Shea |
| GIFTED: The Docuseries | Robert Horsey |
| Gitta | Beatrix Ryle, Marcus Ryle |
| Glimmer | Austin Phalin |
| GLOBEHEADS | Briana Cox |
| Goldrain | Yasmin Yaacob, Aisha Hassan |
| Good Behavior | Caleb Dillon |
| Good Daze | Jonelle Belcourt |
| Good Intentions | Zach Litwack |
| Good Morning | Ben Gordon |
| Goodbye Stranger | Neil Zafar Haeems |
| Grace Goes to Hell | Aidan Macaluso |
| Grima | Richie Harrington |
| Groomer | Christopher Lukens |
| Hands Off | Meagan Noel Fulps |
| Harlem 58 | Diana C. Zollicoffer, Marc Furmie |
| HASH | Jameson Paull, Hassan Al Maqtari, Islam Omer |
| Hate Served Cold | Kimberly Divad |
| Hearing Red | Kristen McNaule |
| Hell is Other People | Adrianne Owings |
| Highway Robbery | Somari Davis |
| Honoured | Lizzie Goodman |
| Horse Girls | Eva Sterrett |
| House of La Mancha | Adrianna Wang |
| Huh? | Jessica Dixon |
| Hurt | Christian Krohn |
| I Don't Dream In Spanish Anymore | Missy Hernandez |
| I Love You So Much | Tasha Hardy |
| If Trumpets Had Eyes | Trevor McGhie |
| Imagine Nation | Quinn Doherty |
| Immaculate | Kristen Swinkels |
| Jack & Blue | Katherine Sheyno |
| Joanna's Journey Film | Michael Stern |
| JOHN F#&%ING CALDWELL: WINE SMUGGLER | Charles Miller |
| Keep My Brother | Sharona D'Ornellas |
| Keeper | Richard Martin, Brandan Dennehy |
| King of the Moon | Tyler Landis |
| Kodiak | Rebekah Strauss |
| La Serenata | Adelina Anthony |
| Lady Parts | Riley Scott |
| Last Call | Frank Calo |
| Laying Pipe | Johnny Ray Gill |
| Leela's Song | Alka Raghuram |
| Legacy | Ronjoy Borthakur |
| Like Sea Billows Roll | Andrew Nielson |
| Locard's Principle | Jacob Richardson |
| Lone Rider | Adam Jumba |
| Loretta Young and the monsters | Javier Andrade |
| Lost And Found | Quinn Moore |
| Love Letter to A Female Gym Teacher | Alyson Titkemeyer |
| LOVELAND (Short) | Sofia Bonami |
| Magdalena, Te Amo. | Andrea Calao |
| MALA | Luna Sofía Miranda |
| Man Down | Henrik A. Meyer |
| Maria, Lisboa | Bruno Barros |
| Maternity Leave | HYTEN DAVIDSON |
| Max Distance | Marissa Goldman |
| Mean Goals | Ahuatl Amaro |
| MERRYMOUNT | Vicki Marquette, Tony Infante |
| Mirage | Guadalupe Garcia, Carlton Semple |
| Mister Sandman | Chad Costen |
| Moderator | Benedict Cohen |
| Motoboys | Joe Tripician |
| Mottainai | Kim J.Y. Han |
| Mr Alexander's Hat (wt) | Simon Brann Thorpe |
| Mr Big Hands | Annabel Maclean |
| Mrs Escobar | Nicolas Entel |
| My Dear Professor | Lina Mahmoud |
| My Eyes | Tsu Shan Chambers |
| MY NAME IS JONAS (pilot + short film) | Cory David Bortnicker |
| My New Purse (Pilot) | Montgomery Burt |
| NAIRA | Gabriela Quiroz |
| Native New Yorkers: A Pigeon Documentary | Jacque Quigley |
| Natural Selection | Alessandro Chille, Isabelle Van Vleet |
| Needs More Yin | Anthony Bailey |
| Nellie's Bathroom Window Movie | Ellen Humphreys |
| NELTUME | Samuel Pigott, Benjamin Espinoza |
| Neptune's Net | Hassan Said |
| Never Alive, Already Dead | ZhiMin Hu |
| Nigh! | David Rhoads |
| Nine | Rachael DeCruz |
| Nineveh | Gabrielle Reublin, David Andrew Calvillo |
| No Ghost Inside | Antonio Morales |
| No Right of Return | Linda Sills |
| Notes of a Nomad | Erkin Momunov |
| Nothing Left to Lose | R.B. Ripley |
| Nyx Nari (Night Lady) | Palini Sunkara, Debra Najor |
| Obverse | John J Miller IV |
| Odyssey at the End of the World | Albert Wang |
| On a String | Isabel Hagen |
| On the Last Day | Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid |
| One Bad Day | William Nagy |
| One More from the Road | William Reilly |
| Ostrich Boy | Ricardo Bonisoli, Rodmon Sevilla |
| Ot-Z: A Prehist-horror-cal Zombie Tale | CJ Hatch |
| Our Long Goodbye | Dave Beamish |
| Ouroboros | Alejandro Marquez Vela |
| Outen The Light | Michael Lamarra |
| Outside Salem | Jonesy Moore |
| Ovary-Acting | Laura Jayne Tunbridge |
| Paisley & Willis | Isaiah Frank |
| Parachutes | Leslie Alejandro |
| Paring | Heather McCallum |
| Paris By Night | Jeane Wong |
| Peaches | TC Matherne |
| Persona | Alwin Firmansyah |
| Pheasant | Claire Molloy, Anna Moore |
| PIGEON | Emily Grace |
| Pining | David Jaffe |
| Pit Bulls & Piranhas | Tabatha Mudra |
| Places in Between | Anna Fahr |
| Play the Edge | Peter Horgan |
| Please Leave | Sam Pates |
| Polaris | Darryl Wharton-Rigby |
| POWERLESS | Justin Zagri |
| Primordial(Aadim in Hindi) | Sohil Vaidya |
| Queen of the Night | Lauren Pruitt |
| Rainbow Girls | Nana Duffuor |
| Recollection | Ariel Hartzman |
| Reefer Madness | Dana Carrabon |
| Refuge | Helena Zhen |
| Rehash | Kevin Giles |
| Repairs | Nat Rovit |
| Requirements | Alexandra Tsarkova |
| Riddle | Shiva Ramanathan |
| RISE | Melody Cooper |
| River Within | Lais Sambugaro, Gabriela Boeri |
| Robbed | Ben Crisp |
| Rockweed | Clare Olson |
| Run | Netty Leach, Chelsey Fuller |
| Rupture | Ariel Bond |
| Sargassum: The vacation killer | Claude Barnes |
| Scarred Hearts | Andrew Akler |
| School Dance: A Silent Dance Comedy | Wendy Seyb |
| Screams of the Silent | SherLann D. Moore |
| Searching Yellow Suns | Christopher Emanuel Smith |
| Seed | Sara Roberts |
| Seekin | Brianna Mottey |
| Shadow Play | Albert Vidal |
| Shire | Ross Peacock |
| Shoshanna | Justin Olstein |
| Showgals | Jeff Nucera |
| Siblings | Lily Giannoni |
| Sidewalks and Skeletons | Patrick Thies |
| Silent Partner | Roderick Lawrence, James Johnson, Eric Branco |
| Sins of the Father | Christopher Guerrero |
| Sister Claire | Zegan Doyle |
| Skirt That Bleeds | Abhishek Mishrra |
| SLEEPING WITH YOUR EYES WIDE OPEN (& similar endeavors to enjoy on top of a mountain) | Cesar Aranda |
| Starling Street | Christia Crocker, Heather Konowal |
| Step-Friend | Selyna Warren, Marissa Read |
| Storyteller | Moisés Moreno |
| STRIVE | Jussi Rautaniemi |
| Subway Affair | Gennesis Pantaleon |
| Succubus | R J Daniel Hanna |
| Sugar Daddy | Mike Cooke |
| Suicide Lottery | Anton Teichmann |
| Sundown | Eve Symington |
| sundowning | Stephanie Kratzel |
| Super Taco | Rima Lyn |
| Superlative Day | Harleigh Shaw |
| Swimmers | Ryan Nesbitt |
| Sync | Carolina Alvarez |
| Take It Slow | Chase Lee |
| Talon | Heather Parra |
| Teen Gay Fairytale | Rachel Billings |
| Tepache | Carlos Garcia, Jr., Whitney Waller |
| Thanks Dad | Michael Burnet, Nicholas Dunn |
| The Alfred Waltz | Alexander Yew |
| The Angel | Barrett Burgin, Daniel Yen Tu |
| The Bad Guy | Morgan Ann Hammen |
| The Blossom: A Short Film | Shahnaz Mahmud |
| The Brain Vats | Alec Inagamov |
| The Camera | Steve Sasaki |
| The Continuum | Robin Munshaw |
| The Corpse Dresser | Daniel Cooper, Adam Cooper |
| The Cutting Room Floor | Victoria deMartin |
| The Devil in France | Constantine Costopoulos |
| The Director | Noel Pichardo |
| The Elevator Pitch | Jess Stainbrook |
| The Embodiment | Joe Pan |
| The Fallen | Charlie S. Jensen |
| The Fallows | Celina Igwe |
| The Fisherman's Tale | Nate Chitwood, Nate Morris |
| The Fixer | Richie Harrington |
| The Flower Witch | Zoë Hutber |
| The Genius Code: How To Change The World | Jared Horvath |
| The Godmothers | Micki Pagano |
| The Good Eggs Children's Video Series | Sandra Mals |
| The Incredible Sensational Fiancée of Dr. Seyi Ajayi | Abbesi Akhamie |
| The Invisible Murders | Emma Sullivan |
| The Last Call | Phenice Arielle |
| The Last Cigarette | Robin Hardy |
| The Lemurian Candidate | Crossing Bridges |
| The Lesson | Kimberly Kalaja |
| The Miracle Tailor | Joel Kohn, Mike Horvath |
| The Most Marvelous Man In The World | Khris Burton, Colin Scott |
| The Pale - Pilot Episode | Ira Fuchs |
| The Prologue Film | Jessica Thomas |
| The RatKing | Esme Auster |
| The Republic | Tony Butt |
| The Romantics | Elisabeth Felson |
| The Scars of Our Hands | Matthew Smaldone |
| The Sister in Red | Elle Rinaldi |
| The Sun, The Moon, and The Truth | Jack Dalrymple |
| The VelociPastor 2 | Jesse Gouldsbury, Brendan Steere |
| The Wake | Zachary Meyer |
| The Wes Anderson Dimensional | Marcus Stricklin |
| Thirstygirl | Alexandra Qin |
| Til I Rot | Nathan Walker, Ian Harmening |
| To Catch A Siren | Harvey John |
| Tomorrow, I Promise (working title) | Julia Morizawa |
| Tough Enough | Laura Somers |
| Tout | Richie Harrington |
| Treasure of the Lost Reel | Nate Neal |
| Treeline | Samuel Goodwin |
| Tri-County | Gerard Shaka |
| Trust Us | Robert Smithline |
| Twelve (formerly Antique/Hourglass) | Alexandra Redwood |
| Twenty Marks | Daniel Luke Allen, Savas Alpaltun |
| Two for One | Eric McCorkle |
| Untouchable | Adam Lapallo |
| Upstream | Natalie Berger, Moira Fett |
| Vanishing Cowboy | Randi Johns |
| Vincent (Working Title) | Kristin Krall |
| Vinegar | Michelle Lindsay-Baharie, Robert Baharie |
| Vital | Gabe Berry (Written by, Story by), Amir Zargara (Story by) |
| Wah Lau | Tanya Jade |
| Waiting Room | Emery Thanathiti |
| War Cares Little | Tom Beechcroft |
| We are Seeds | Cheryl Isaacson |
| We Woke | Bradford stevens |
| We're Not Married? | Rae Lashea |
| What Happened to Luna? | Brian Niles |
| What makes Leni run? | Barry Smyth, Martin Nee |
| What's the Deal With Birds? | Taylor Bakken |
| When I Was A Human | Akemi Tosto |
| When It Rains Down Here | Josef Wright |
| When the Bass Drops | Marlene Rhein |
| When Will We Be Together Again | Varun Chharia |
| Whitewash | Jerry Hsu |
| Who Are You, Nanu? | Anjini Taneja Azhar |
| Who Raised You? | Daniel Gonzalez |
| Winsome | Justin Lerner |
| With Might and Grace | Sherren Lee |
| Worst Enemy | Kevin Machate, Todd Rodgers |
| You & I, You & Me | Gabriel Dunn |
| You Belong to Me | Clara Gallagher, Railey Savage |
| Your Monster | Melanie Donkers |
| Zacatecas | Davis Dolores |
| Zone of Death | Julien Perez |
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