“Unveiling the Rising Stars: Meet the Semifinalists of the 2025 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition!”
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on January 8th 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 Semifinalists:
| (Kinda) Young. (Formerly) Gifted. (Still) Black. | Armanti Reed |
| A Stand-Up Guy | Nico Collins, Jonathan Mizrahi |
| Adams Colliding | Lira Kellerman |
| Agnes | John Bickerstaff |
| All Good Things | Tessa Duke |
| Alma of the Immaculate Heart | Etta Gray |
| ALPHASTATE | Johnny Gilligan |
| AMBERICA | Amber Nelson, Mokotsi Rukundo |
| American Reckoning – “Every Knee Shall Bow” | Robert William McCormack |
| Anika Ronin | Andrew Chan |
| Animal Mayhem | Stewart Skelton |
| Anne-lightened | Richard Lee |
| Apothecary Girls | Mashael Alqahtani |
| BAD MAGIC – The Life and Wild Times of Nick Star | Steve Valentine |
| Bait | Christopher Holt |
| Better Days | Peter Sorcher |
| Black Death | Cam Smith |
| Body by Bishop | Monica Hand |
| Bounty Hunter Bridesmaids | Josh Colwell |
| Burning Blue | Federico Sanna |
| Camp Amerika | Donna McNeely Burke |
| CHAMPS | Seth Yaitanes |
| Circe and Associates | Rose Casolari |
| City FM | C.J. LongHammer |
| Clicks | Ross Schneiderman, Nick Kendrick |
| Collette’s Caleb | Trinette Faint |
| Colony 14 | Helena Zhen |
| COOKIE + ISAAC | Christian Kamaal |
| Counterfeit | Emily Renée |
| Creatures Of Habit | Rebecca Sharp |
| Dark State | Jessica McLaughlan |
| Dead in Osmont | Elisa Greenberg |
| Dead Woman Walking | Samuel Hutchison |
| DEALBABY | Mand Paskuski |
| DevOUT | Maddie Smith, Air Durnell |
| Esperanza | David Christopher Loya |
| ExSpelled | Janet Rose Nguyen |
| Fare Well | Javier Sandoval |
| Ferris’ Wheel | Normann Pokorny |
| Framily | Shellie Lewis |
| Frontiers | Jarod Backens |
| Gentlemen Prefer Whores | Anne-Marie Maidan |
| Goody | Julie Sharbutt |
| Grounded | Alec Bewkes |
| Half Dead | Hannah Furst |
| How Are You Feeling Today? | Anna Vecellio |
| Humankind | Jacintha Brown |
| I Would Kill For That | Matthew Hoch, Jason Noyes |
| IMPROVISING – (Pilot) “The Big Streamer” | Dwayne Colbert |
| Island Time | Emily Copp |
| Killer of Kings | Joe Tremba |
| King of the B’s | David Aguilar Rodriguez, Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodriguez |
| Late Bloomers | Kyle Kennan |
| Machete | Naomi Frometa |
| Malkie’s Galaxy | Mia Volta |
| Masks | Southisone Garner |
| Miss Demeanor | Ruby Mainieri |
| Modern Day Warriors | Sam Di |
| Murder at the Orgy | Tanner Hayes, Sherry Rene |
| On The Green | Brian Nolin |
| On the Line | Matt Hyams |
| Out of Orbit | Martin Fleming |
| Passing Practice | T Dumas |
| Peri Does Europe | Trinette Faint |
| Port Royal | Jay Fjestad |
| Precursor | Steve Brown |
| Rage Baby | Gilani Sumida-Moiseff |
| Rat Squad | Joe Testa |
| Reefer Madness | Dana Carrabon |
| Refugee | Ed Wiles |
| Return to Mecca | Saj Pothiawala |
| REVELATIONS | Johnny Gilligan |
| RUBICON | Matthew Casado |
| Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
| SAWBONES | HF Crum |
| Seamless | Layne Friedman |
| See You In My Dreams | Miida Chu |
| Sheltered | Brad Waskewich |
| Sheriff Toni Diaz | Ken Orman |
| SICK | Melanie Zoey Weinstein |
| Smoke Eaters | Martyn Rowland |
| Sprawl | Michael Ronca, Danika Jackson |
| Strung Out | Stephen Chen |
| Stunties | Vaia Zaganas |
| Sumner Falls | Michael Parsons |
| Surge | Ruth Jiang |
| Tell No One | Christopher O. Lukens |
| The Accidental Terrorist | Gary Mahmoud, Amadeo Fusca, Josh Apter |
| The Cause | Angela Trevino |
| The Commuter Rail | Jainaba Seckan |
| The Duke of Essex | Mike O’Neill |
| The Dying Light | Erik Stjernholm Friis |
| The Dynasty | CJ Voltz |
| The Explorers | Garrett Rowe, Joe Varkle |
| The Firekeeper | Daniel Stevens |
| The Flycatcher | Andrew Grace |
| The Great Cool Down | Sara Dolin |
| The Great Glorious Kingdom of Ückerburg | Jorge Moratal |
| The Green | Braden LuBell |
| The Hilarious Hijinks Of EA Poe | Ike Flitcraft |
| THE HOUDINIS | Ron Mondz |
| The Kingmaker | J.D. Elliby |
| The Machetero | Giovanni Maldonado Chinea, Myles Clifford Hawthorne |
| The Middle Ages | Fraser Thomas White |
| The Nemesis File | Comika Hartford |
| The Pardon | Brian Thompson |
| The Plaza | Gail Travers |
| The Price of Youth | Phyllis Strong |
| The Red Scare | Michael Deigh |
| The Serpent’s Path | Samuel Windle |
| The Thronebreaker | Ran Li |
| The Zookeeper’s Daughter | Lisa Hickey |
| Tom & Rishi | Matty Smith |
| Tricks of Ascension | Madison Perna |
| Unhirable | Tia Devlin |
| Unpredictable | Lisa Hickey |
| Vaudeville | Kevin Engelking |
| Voyageurs | Christopher Virnig |
| Zoey Starr’s Number One Fan | Sarah Farnam |
| Zone of Death | Sarah Isaacson |
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