Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 800 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on May 22nd on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram 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 Quarterfinalists:
| “Dear Grandson” | SCOTT RENEAU |
| (True) North | HF Crum |
| 10 Days in a Madhouse | Julia Stier |
| 901 | Phillip Charles |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| A DANGEROUS, GLAMOROUS JOB | Rangeley Wallace |
| A Doll’s House | Emily Duke |
| A Fairy Tale Life | Daniel Benjamin |
| A Holiday Carol | John Woodard |
| A Labour of Love | Olga Holtz |
| A Lawless Bloodshed | Judge Martin |
| A Modest Proposal… | Daniel Shutler-Ojeda |
| A Noble Path | Stephen Barber |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | Lisa Rosenberg |
| A Question of Choice | Cody McDevitt |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Alexandra Dudley |
| Affirmed & Alydar | Kyle Thomas |
| Amanda Here | Cairo Smith |
| Annie Oakley | Morgan Milender |
| Anton & Jayne | Jonathan Lang |
| Apollo | Thomas J Ryan |
| AUTHORESS | Carolyn Kras |
| Ayden Brewer | Kishore Kraleti |
| Balancing The life of Belle Da Costa Greene (A fictional telling of true events) | Judith Abingdon |
| Bam | Matt Mulcahy |
| BEAST | Mark Kindred |
| Beat Me In St. Louis | Nick Clarke |
| Becoming Modern | HyoJeong Choi |
| Beheaded | David Draper |
| Black Road: Juárez | Charles Miller |
| Box Canyon | Mark Laing |
| BUFFALO CREEK | Vaughn Roste |
| Calabrese | Jeffrey Marks |
| Charlotte | Imre Bartal |
| Coco Chanel | Anne Aubert-Santelli, Dan Williams |
| COGITO ERGO | Jade Wu |
| Cut Time | Marcus Ostermiller |
| Dancing on a Tightrope | Jesse Kalfel |
| DONKEY SKIN | LAURA LYTE |
| Double Crossings | Caio Alves |
| Dr. Jekyll | Dave Del Greco |
| Electric Beings | Jacob Rice |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| END OF THE LINE | Nickolas Gilbert |
| F is for Fake: Orson Welles Causes Panic | Neil Dua, Sean Doyle |
| Family Fun | K. R. Perkins |
| Finger Lickin’ Good | Kyle Stout |
| Flight of the Enola Gay | Jeremy Gough |
| Frankenstein on Mars | Stephen van Vuuren |
| FREE HUEY | Phillip Charles |
| Freedom Code | Ricki Linksman, Laurie Ashbourne |
| Galatea of the Spheres | Steven Bogart |
| Ginnie | Ryan Conklin |
| GOLD COAST | Ryan Galliher |
| Groomer | Vanessa Carmichael |
| Grounded in Éire | Ralph Keefer |
| HAHA | Sophia Porter |
| HART CRANE | DAVID KANEEN |
| Hatter | Georgie Nickerson |
| Her Children | Nate Irvin |
| Herschel | Nick Annas |
| Hick Darling | LeeAnne Lowry |
| Hotbed | Rachel Eskin Fisher |
| Illicit | Paul Mroczka |
| Impossible | Tom Salinsky |
| Insurrection | Ed Fuller |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jimmy | Kent Moran |
| John Wayne Must Die! | Blair Cosby |
| Kevin | Camrus Johnson |
| Lacie in the Wonderverse | Michael Ierulli |
| Lady Jay | Alexandra Amadio |
| Last Flight From Kabul | Joshua Keller Katz |
| Le Train | William Swanson |
| Leningrad | Emily Lansbury |
| LET THEM FALL | P.L. Miranda |
| Liebe Lise | Luke Hart-Moynihan |
| Live From New York | Hilary Gish, Carolyn Getches |
| LONE STAR | Albert Cook |
| Lord of Space | Cairo Smith |
| Lowry | Michael Colucci |
| Ludwig, Lord of Chaos | Adam Welch |
| Madame Ram | Isabelle Davis |
| Magician of Light | Carla Kanthak, Carl Zittrer |
| Maid Maleen | Susana Rengifo |
| Margaret | Janet Janetprescott6@gmail.com |
| Martha’s Mustang | Jenny Waldo |
| Michelangelo vs. Giants | Kelly Campbell |
| Miss Perkins | Rachel Eskin Fisher |
| Moby Dick: Call Me Ishmael | Aritrika Malakar |
| Money While You Sleep | Craig Nobbs |
| Monsieur de Paris | Lindsay Kusiak |
| Most Wanted Dad | Janet McGinn |
| My Husband Shot John Lennon | Sean O’Connor |
| Never the Forgotten | Don Santiago |
| Newley! | Graham Mulvein |
| Nichols and May | Laurence Harlan Jacobs |
| Number $even | JanEric Ohrn, Alan J. Field |
| Oligarchy | Nikhil Kalyanpur |
| Ona in America | John Barnett |
| OPERATION PAPERCLIP | Michael Arnold |
| Parsons | Thuc Nguyen |
| Prince of Late Night | Faraz Majid |
| QUILL | Christopher Berardi |
| R.U.R. Pilot: Genesis | Leah Ramsay |
| Rite of Spring | Elizabeth Lunday |
| Rosemary | Daniel Casanova |
| RUBBERBAND BILLIONAIRES | Christopher Berardi |
| RUNAWAY SHIP | Theodore Carl Soderberg |
| Sacred and Profane Love | Rebecca Patt |
| Satchell | Chad Shields |
| SEPTEMBER | M.L. Bordner |
| Sexually Speaking | Danielle Tjoelker |
| SHAKES | Matt Foss |
| SHINE | Lauren Craig |
| Shooting for Saddam | jamie shearing |
| Silent Cal | Claire McKey Berkman |
| Solo | David Zeltser, Joseph Greco |
| Somewhere In New Mexico | Ross Marks |
| Soviet Rebel Girl – Pilot | Andy Roninson |
| Speed Trap | Sarah Juma |
| Steam | Kim Kavin |
| Stone Unturned | Nitara Osbourne, Steve Leifer |
| Such Times as These | Elliott Ohannes |
| Sun Also Rises | James Mulcahy |
| Tell No One | Christopher O. Lukens |
| TENN | Richard Chapman |
| The Ass’ Head | Evlampia Papadopoulos |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| THE AUTOMAT | Alexander Blum |
| The Book of Raquel | Olga Holtz |
| The Confessor | Melissa Birks |
| The Displacement | David Chang |
| The Escapist | Rudi O’Meara |
| The ESSA | Scott Wagner |
| The Forgotten Queen | Georgia Waters |
| The Gardener | Case Barden |
| the good guys! | Julien Perez |
| The Great Catastrophe | Evlampia Papadopoulos |
| The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| The High Tide | John Saveland |
| The Immigrants Son | Lisa Iannini, Nicholas Scafidi |
| The Lady and The Tiger | Agnes Bookbinder |
| The Landlord | Nick Rose |
| The Larson Episode | John Norton |
| The Late Great Race | Ben lokey |
| The Longest Mourning | Sydney Ortman |
| The Lost Girl | Shane Redding |
| The Meeting House | Sophie Neville |
| The Metamorphosis | Harvey John |
| The Moneyer | Jonathan Young |
| THE NEVERLANDS | Aaron Maxwell Williams |
| The Operative | David Schroeder |
| The Other Boy | Jim Lake |
| The Pardon | Brian Thompson |
| The Red Branch | Luke Hart-Moynihan |
| The Roe Baby | CG Morand |
| The Sacred Bone Princess | Cindy Lee |
| The Scarecrow | Iam Typn |
| The Scottish Play | Kevin Shabel, Emily Feldt |
| The Son of Life | Tyler Blomstrom-Moore |
| The Temple | Nicholas Grant |
| THE ULTIMATE THRILL | Alan Mah Baxter |
| The Vanquished: FATHERS | Vanessa Carmichael |
| The XVIIIth | Vanessa Carmichael |
| These Were My Orders | James Shepard |
| Three Days in Boston | Alan Aymie |
| Three Sheets to the Wind | Thomas Schrack |
| Tiger Zero Three | Ken Henderson |
| TILLY’S PROMISE | James Dillon |
| Truly Criminal | Megan Burr |
| Valiant | Charles Cordaro |
| Vengeance – Pilot – “Poor Boy, You’re Bound to Die” | Jon Musgrave |
| Vukojebina/ Where the Wolves Fuck | Meghan Allen |
| WAR DOG | E. A. Dawson |
| Water Journey | Uzo Chijioke |
| Weetamoo | James Lee, Robyn Lee Van Vecten |
| Welcome to America | Weiyang Liu |
| What Happened At Münster | Bennett Morgan |
| Where the Dead Are | CAROLINE CHADBOURNE |
| Where There’s A Will | Erin Hickman |
| Who is Mary Wollstonecraft | Amanda Dettrick |
| Winter Will Find Us | Drew Maidment |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
| Yellow | Andrew Sego |
| Young Arthur and the Lady of the Lake | Barry Ambrose, Christopher Stapleton |
| Zitkála-Šá | Robert Jackson |
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