“Unveiling the Next Generation of Screenwriting Talent: Meet the 2025 ScreenCraft Fellowship Quarterfinalists!”
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on our blog.
Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| 1000 Paths of Death | Alaric Rocha |
| A Fortunate Few | Ricardo Serena |
| A Girl, A Horse and The Wrong Boy | Guy Crawford |
| A House Remembers | Liz Biscevic |
| A Sick Twisted Game | Parker Bohner |
| A Sure Thing | James Mangan |
| Above Snakes | Jerold Wallace |
| Abroad in Paris | Julia Rae |
| Adam and Me | Michael (Mike) Ede |
| Addie & Esther | Annie Wood |
| Adventures in Serial Killing | Jack Warner |
| After You’ve Gone | Alessandra Mesa |
| All of Me | Jessica Mele |
| All Storms Brewing | Christopher O’Bryant |
| Amateurs | Michael Frank |
| American Gaman | Colin Ferri |
| An Institution | Daniel Takacs |
| Bad Conscience | M.J. Musey |
| Balsero | Arturo Corces |
| Based and Redpilled Sigma Samurai | Nicolas Rose |
| Battle of the Grands | Andrea Kirkham |
| Bay City | Isabelle Carasso |
| Belief | Alexis Roblan |
| Bessie’s Place | Adam Sandel |
| Betty | Borcsa Vass |
| Bitchlorette | Randi Krasny |
| Blood Flower | Paul Rowe |
| Blue Shades | Alejandro Ivan Vilchis Palacios |
| Book F*cker | Lissette Jean-Marie |
| Brass Ring | Scott Saffran |
| Bronze Bullets | Brooke Solomon |
| Burmese Days | Thomas Oliver Hand |
| Care Source | Matthew Nicholson |
| Caught Stealing | Eljohn Macaranas |
| CC | Paul Sheridan |
| Chemical Messiah | Stuart Pollack |
| Choke Artist | Melanie Notinger |
| Chrome Plated | Sarah Ward |
| Cinema 99 | Jay Hodgkins |
| Civilians | Jonathan Lill |
| Clean Sweep | Isabelle Davis |
| Climbing High | Bill Jordan |
| Coco Chanel | Anne Aubert-Santelli & Dan Williams |
| Cold | Todd McComas |
| Condemned | Jose Monroy |
| Cougar Art | hadasa mercado |
| Crazy for You | Sofia Morris |
| Credence | C.M. Landrus |
| Cul-de-Sac | Nicholas Grant |
| Curved | Sagar Vasishtha |
| Cutest Couple | Lu Lenoxx |
| Dad Asses | Michael Harris |
| Dead Winter Run | Jake Hart |
| Dead, Yet? | Jacqueline Fisher |
| Decay | Sara Phoenix |
| Deuce | Zaity Salman |
| Dog Mom | Madi Stine |
| Early Retirement | Matt Demblowski |
| Enoch | Cory David Bortnicker |
| Escaping Paradise | Michael Roud |
| Every Ticket Tells A Story | Tamara Steren |
| Family of The Year | Shane Sandler |
| Father Trinity | Phoenix Black |
| Fire and Air | Lincoln Jones |
| Fracktured | Jack Brookman |
| Freudian Slip | Stephenie Howard |
| Gender Perfect | brian wapole |
| Genius | Tracey Houston |
| Ghost Singer | Kate Cheeseman |
| Glory Days | Matthew Hoch |
| Godspeed | Greg Kousoulis |
| Golden Oaks Nursing Home | Bri Kaisen |
| Good F*ck Charm | Isabelle Davis |
| Gore | Kerri Stephenson |
| Grim’s Gambit | Peter Fraser |
| Growing Pains | Noel Neilson-Slabach |
| Guided by Death | Jake Kovanda |
| Hate Actually | Jacob Lazarow & Greta Guthrie |
| Hindsight | Braeson Herold |
| His Pain | Daryl Brown |
| Holiday Bromance | Cid Weinberg |
| Hugowood | Juan Gutierrez |
| Hyozan | Robin Lebeau |
| I Think Therefore You Are | Genet Hughes |
| I’ll Give You My Heart | Tamara Steren |
| I’m Your Dog | Tess Goldwyn |
| Ice Cream Land | Logan Stark |
| In the Wake | Joel Mitchell |
| Indian Country | John Young |
| Inheritance | Johnny Gilligan |
| Initiation | Sheala Morrison |
| Is This It? | Joseph Steffel |
| Isolation | DD Myles |
| Izetta | Tamara Steren |
| Jacked | Pablo Briz |
| Jane | Kay Ownbey |
| Jesse and the Caterpillar Who Got Its Wings | Aaron Braxton |
| Jesus One-Stop | Frederik Ehrhardt |
| Keanu Reeves is My Muse, My Son is a Dragon | Phoenix Black |
| Kirby in Limbo | Jamie Campbell |
| Laffoon: Tales from the Quarter | Jack Hutsey |
| Las Soldaderas | Renee Magdaleno |
| Leave Him? | Josh Corrigan |
| Like, Forever | Diana Wright & Annie Girard |
| Look At This Photograph | Avery Regen |
| Loose Ties | Orlando Todd |
| Loser(s) | M. Elizabeth Pustinger |
| Lossless | Michael Kimber |
| Lou Paganao | Rob Asaro |
| Love Fool | Zina Kresin |
| Love, Afterlife | Taylor Dupuis |
| Master Servant Mistress Squire | Thomas Park |
| Me Me Me | Keith Zivalich |
| Means & Methods | Sean Roper |
| Mendacity | Paul Baiguerra |
| Mendoza the Jew | Robin Russin |
| Middle Bennet | Emily Grand |
| Mindless | Drew Maron |
| Misinterpret | Koji Masutani |
| Modern Day Warriors | Sam Di |
| Mom’s Third Husband | Isabelle Davis |
| Morph Trouble | Richard Hohenrath |
| Mother of God! | Rylee White |
| Murder Room | A.J. Esti |
| My Father Said | Tyler Morris |
| Negro-tism | Aadrise Johnson |
| New Earth | Devon Sharma |
| New Olympus | Matthew Nicholson |
| Next Semester | Gabe Berry |
| Night Father | Winnie Soldi |
| Nimrods | Caleb Dillon |
| No Popo | Yvie Jones |
| No Second Prize | Mick Wormald |
| Not That Anne | Kevin Bryce |
| Paper Tiger | Don Ahmad |
| Par 6 | Alec Bewkes |
| Pat and Matt Get Canceled | Zoe Miller |
| Play Nice | Christine McKeever |
| Premature | Kevin Walls |
| Public Servitude | Amr Kotb |
| Racer Unknown | Charles Jay LongHammer |
| Reality Check | Leo Schuehle |
| Revolutionary Medicine | Kristen McNaule |
| River Bottom Lullaby | Nick McMurdy |
| Road to Echie | T.L.O Onyejekwe |
| Roman’s Daughter | Stephanie Alban |
| Roommates | Adam Simers |
| Roughead | Jake Mariani |
| Rumble | Mutaurwa Mapondera |
| Salvage | Katerina Bakolias |
| Sam and His Former Self | Samuel Penziner |
| Same Page | Chloe Borenstein-Lawee |
| San Rafael | Jordan Kartchner |
| Santa Wars | Lyndal Simpson |
| Saving Glory | Farook Qais |
| Scout’s Honor | Dave Grove |
| Second Thoughts | Tara Parian |
| Seeking Sugar Mason | Christopher O’Bryant |
| Shed | Jim Hickcox |
| Show Stoppers | Hannah Faust & Lauren Knutti |
| Show Them All | Amanda Cole |
| Silent Waters | Erin Dugard |
| Since the Death of God | Elias Truitt |
| Skullduggery | Caleb Dillon |
| sometimes, i wish i was a fish | Yeajoon Cho |
| Songs of Madness | Veronica Rutledge |
| Sophie | Michelle Steele |
| Southbound | Ben Klopfenstein |
| Spetsnaz | Fernando Salaiz |
| Spitfire | Heidi Hornbacher |
| StephenTV | Tamara Steren |
| Suicide Squeeze | Brad Kallet |
| Summer with Sylvie | Mariel Tabachnick |
| Supernova | Connie Chang |
| Sweetheart | Tiffany Shinn |
| Symbionts | Johnny Gilligan |
| ThA Brethren | stephen neely |
| The 411 | Allyson Morgan |
| The Annihilation | Michael Winfield |
| The Automat | Alexander Blum |
| The Bright Lights | Anoop Desai |
| The Carvers | Breyden Boyd |
| The City of Ash | Emilio Medina |
| The Cockroach vs. The Maiden | Jagger Gravning |
| The Cunning Folk | Jennifer Lorene Ritenour |
| The Desert Fox | Pablo Briz |
| The Devil Down Under | Michael Egan |
| The Dreamfishers | Stephen Taylor |
| The Emergence of Carlyle | Anne-Marie Maidan |
| The Fairytale Effect | Sally Pitts |
| The Fates | Robin Lebeau |
| The Fifth Day | Garrick Foxx |
| The Giant of Guadarrama | Alia Zeid |
| The Gouging of the Earth | Callie Chiang |
| The Great God Pan | Adam Fried |
| The Gun Runner | Donavan Darius |
| The Hazard Room | Mike Cymanski |
| The Kingdom in the Sky | Kyle Naftel |
| The Lake | Kristjan Llana |
| The Lost Elixir Of Life | Przemyslaw Lukasik |
| The Magician | Tamara Steren |
| The Malian King | Francesco Capussela |
| The Moonlighters | Lorena Chiles |
| The Night I Got Arrested With Lenny Bruce | Jason Solomon |
| The Past is Not | Kevin Barney |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Schachter |
| The Poacher | Christine Noël |
| The Primordials | Rebecca Goulding |
| The Revanchist | Ivan Mooh Mooh |
| The Scarecrow | Hayden Lummus |
| The Secrets of Mead | Christine Hooper |
| The Sorcerer’s Protocols | Autumn Cavender & Scott Ryan |
| The Story of You & Me | Andrew Clemes |
| The Sun Won’t Set | Thomas Wood |
| The Temp | Devi Snively |
| The Toledo War | Scott Saffran & Stephen Kipp |
| The Two Musketeers | Dustin Richardson |
| The Underworld Queen | Ariella Blum-Lemberg |
| The United States of Automata | Austin Langley |
| The Very Special One | Heidi Hornbacher |
| The Wonder-Filled Norah Minh Lê | Neena Phan |
| The Year It’ll Happen | Anna Donnella |
| The Year The World Ended | Jacqueline Xerri |
| This Way Comes | Leonora Pitts |
| Three’s a Crowd | Matthew Hoch |
| Tomb of Secrets | Maegen Sacco |
| Totem Knights | Jannes Schouwstra |
| Transference | Johnny Gilligan |
| Trask | Jade Rona |
| Twin Flames | Izzy Ster |
| Unbound | Renn Tan |
| Undertow | Gabrielle Nehring |
| Unshakeable | Heather Farlinger |
| Unsubscribed | Laina Stassines |
| Valley Glen | Erin Sopapunta |
| Vengeance of Saints | Phillip Roquemore |
| Versus | Alex Marsha Sylvia |
| Versus! | Kevin Tavolaro |
| Vessel | Leila Garrison |
| Vigilantes | Briana Pozner |
| Waiting in the Shadows | Ben Mehlman |
| Wake Up, Kid! | Shane Weiss |
| Waking Up White | Jason Gregory |
| We Ourselves | Sheila Rinear |
| Whasian Blasian Indonasian – “Is your Mein Low, High or Rah?” | Kirtana Iwamoto |
| When the Tulips Bloom | Lauren Serpa |
| Who Let the Wallflowers Out? | Virginia Austin |
| Who Loves the Lovemakers? | Rob McNeil |
| Wisdom to Know the Difference | Cassandra Burge |
| Within | Thane Christopher |
| Women Who Don’t Fuck | Martine Moore |
| World Shut Your Mouth | Karen Bishop |
| Worlds Apart | Thomas Gaunt |
| Worms | Steve Mitchell |
| Wrong Number Scam | Nick Fuller |
| Yes, Of Course | Maya Layne |
| You Are Going to Die Tomorrow | Elise Felber |
| Zoey Starr’s Number One Fan | Sarah Farnam |
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