Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2020 Feature + Shorts Quarter Finalists
The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2020 quarter finalists for the Feature + Short categories! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.
Comedy Feature
- 801 by Doug Keating
- A Cozy Little Town by Edward Hicklin
- Backup Plan by Tom Jordan
- Balifornia by Daniel Forest and Ben Robson
- Balls Up by Xavier Nathan
- Band-Its! by Matthew Heston and Brett Fountain
- C-Sectioned by Andrew MacQuarrie
- Criminal’s Wake by Mike Melo
- Dance-Bros by Matt Lewis
- Dead Viking Rehab by Dana Hammer
- Dregslist by Karen Diane Tengwald
- Dumbest Generation by Leslie Lyshkov
- Educated by Jeremy Bradford
- Father McNulty’s Discount Exorcisms by Brendan Boogie
- Ghosted by Matt Gallagher
- Hal, The Spud King of Japan by John Thibault
- Half Fathers by Brian Hayes
- Herding Cats by Jessica Desjardins and Chip Desjardins
- Jumpland by Danny Homan
- MAP OF YOUR LIFE by Jordan Galland
- Match Made in Heaven by Maryanne Woods
- Merrily, Nebraska by Daniel Stephens and Mark Booker
- Milbert’s Tortoiseshell by Erik Charbonneau
- Original Tru by Adam Huss
- Other Mike by Adrian Prospero
- Painting with Dog by Eliot Applestein and Marta Vogel
- Peyton by Rachel Chapman
- Popcorn by Katy Berry
- Red Ink on Steel by John Thibault
- Renaissance Man by Robert Tolz
- Same Same But Different by Craig Brown
- Sled Race by Kevin Jordan
- Super Turbo Overdrive by Peter Hsieh
- Supernormal by Nadia Matar
- The Breakup List by Grant Lyon
- The Guys All Die by Drew Muxlow
- THE ONE by Steve Birger
- The Prince of Sheep by Jamy Johansen
- Unicorns by Morgan Schaffer
- UTOPIA by Dee Landerman
- Welcome to Valhalla by Karl Mather
- Workaholics by Brian Feinberg
Drama Feature
- 1999 by Chad Lama
- A Killer of Lions by Stan Weisleder
- A Life’s Unraveling by Michael Aparicio
- A Reindeer Story by Jay Jorgensen and Lisa Juslin
- AJAX by Matt Kawecki and Aaron Kadkhodai
- All Things Truly Wicked by Emily Nye
- An American Death by Nathan Newman
- Angel City by Al Mertens
- Audrey’s Children by Julia Fisher Farbman
- Badaass Yellahboy by Dylan Braud
- Beheaded by Helen Williams
- Black Mo by Peter Noel
- Book of Daniel by Michael Germant and Mel Tuck
- Carry Me Back by Claire Fortier
- CIRCUS TRAIN by Billy Baker
- Code Red by Alia Zeid
- Comfortably Numb by Wyatt Mitchell
- COOP by Joe Leone
- Crash Site by John Thibault
- Cuddabuh by Leah Bognanni
- Deadhorse by Cory Carroll
- Dimension X by Michael Price
- Dinner Theater by Emil Terziev
- Domovina by Kate Surinskaya
- Endangered by Kevin Staake
- F.U.C.K. by Noe Vitoux
- For What It’s Worth by Douglas Metzger and Michael Stergis
- Fun and Dames by Samuel Strantz
- Gentle Giant by Greg Bennett
- Going All In by Brian Haye
- Good Bad People by Joshua Amar
- Grand Central by John Fellas
- Happy Medium by Aaron Lieben
- HIGH CRIMES by Eric Sollars, Geoffrey Sollars, and Michael Sollars
- Home by Isaac Woofter
- House of Teeth by Miguel Parga
- Hurricane Tara by Kyle Curry
- I Am The Wolf by Adam Groff
- In Country by Scott Peterman and Cat Davis
- Inversion by Suzy Stein Fernando Perez
- It’s Personal by Shawn McClelland
- Left with Only Rain by Todd Bogin
- Legend of the Meteor Sword by Yiyi Yin
- Lines in the Sand by Anonymous
- Little Things Mean a Lot by Michael Monteith
- Lost Planet by Thomas Thorpe
- Lupus Milites by Samantha Brennan
- Magical Golden Glow by Scott Vogel
- Malady of Mine by Jon Portman
- Marathon of Hope by Parker Ames
- Martyrdom by Paul Munger
- Mind Games by Matthew Manson
- Modern Art by Laurence Fuller
- Ocean Avenue Syndrome by Mitchell Coriell
- One More Mountain by DeLayne Haga and J. Barrick Griffiths
- Out by Cory Carroll
- Paint for Your Life by Sherry Lamoreaux
- Paruousia by Kenneth Guilfoyle
- Pendulum by Edie Casille
- PENNED by James Allerdyce and Steven Pierce
- Penumbra by Andy P.
- Playground by Micaela Silberstein
- Plums Taste Different Here by Sarah Reader Harris
- POPULAR by Marley Schneier
- Presidummy by William Putnam
- Provocation by Brett Stanning and Michael Kitson
- Queen of Newburgh by Lisa Cole and Veronica Moody
- Quiet Eyes by Janet Chollet
- rad, bro: A Gender Story by Zachary Bell
- Review by Jonathan Zarantonello
- Rhubarb by Jordan Gustafson
- Rum and Raspberries by Braden Lust
- Running by Sean Chandler
- Sands of Lanikai by Greg Blair
- Selfless by Simon Björk
- Seven West by Michael Shove
- Seventh Angel by Richard Perry
- Shattered Glass by Eli Schwartz
- Sheesha and the Storm by Jean Barker
- Shotgun Ashes by Krysten Resnick
- SLAY! by Evan Deng
- Sonny Boy by Nick Maccarone
- Spartan Mansion by Stacey Spivey
- Spilled Milk by Kelly Randis and Bruce Harrison Smith
- Stark and Gina by Stoyan Derimanov and Geo Derimanov
- Starving by Jose Amor Christensen
- Steal D.B. Cooper’s Money by Mark Price
- Stories I Told My Father by William Ebert
- Sunrise by Andres Valentin Lopez
- SUNSET & FIFTH by Monty Floyd
- Tabitha Drowning by Anu Sukhdial
- Texas Hold’em by Rennie Blalock
- The 4th Wall by Brian McFadden and Ryan Rogers
- The Abolitionists by Leslie Lyshkov
- THE AMEN SISTERHOOD by John Doble
- THE APPLICANTS by Justin Ballheim
- The Arc by Buck McWhorter
- The Day The Sun Died by Harrison Fowler
- The Easy Way by Stan Weisleder
- THE GODSON by GARY M. KOEPPEL
- The Great Escape, and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves by Courtney Froemming
- The Itch by Jeremy Bradford
- The Last Legionary by Joshua Chou
- THE LEGEND OF BLUE HAIR by Hoodeh Vakili
- The Lotus by Alister Brooks
- The Millionaire by Darryl F. Gariglio and Dave Rooney
- The Moving Sea by Satch Watanabe
- The People’s Haven by Benjamin Monaco
- The President’s Daredevils by Tim Fitzharris
- The Proven Killers Are Still Free by Paul Gordon
- The Serene Perception by Regina Sadono
- The Statue Garden by Peter Hsieh
- The Wonderful by Demitra Papadinis
- Those We Leave Behind by Will Stewart
- Thrums by Brett Stanning and Evlampia Papadopoulos
- Uncivilized by Vadim Egoul
- Veiled Promises by Jeff Baker
- Visceral Fatherland by LeLe Park
- When Iris Came to Town by Aron Hernandez
- Why, Arizona by Isaiah Mouw and Mark Botts
Short Script
- … by Rafael Pires Basanez
- 27 Candles by Naaji Adzimah
- A Dirty Break by William Putnam
- A House Filled with Treasures by Nayoung Jin
- A Vegan Love Story by Desmond Ngai
- ACHE by LeLe Park
- Arverne by the Sea by Daisy Rosato
- Back On The Horse. by Jacqueline Williamson
- BYOB by Andrew Powers
- Come Along, Harry Higgins by Kevin Machate
- Como La Flor (Like a Flower) by Alba Manuela Daza
- Corporate Goes Kind by Jaclyn Natoli
- Dangerous by Jacob Dalton
- DEADWEIGHT by Mat Sheldon
- Death Doesn’t Like Me by Stephen Daniels
- DIRE CONSEQUENCES by Joseph Leone
- DIVERSITY HIRE by Raj Tawney and Ravi Tawney
- Do Not Donate by Dorian Frankel
- Emi & Marina by Jesse Zavala
- Family by Mehrdad Soltani
- Flowing in the Cosmos by Jocsan Hernandez
- Forgive or Forget by Patrick Gallagher
- Help by Joseph Gonzalez
- Hurricane by Mitchell Graham Colley
- I Wouldn’t Touch That by Meik V. Fischer
- In Reflections by Marina Resh
- Independence Night by Paul Weidknecht
- Just As Easily by Mehrdad Soltani
- Kid of No Nation by Homero Bueno
- Know Justice by Shawn Kathryn Kane
- Last Thursday by Kevin Machate
- Lost to the Beyond by James Boyle
- Man of Action by Ibrahima Fall
- MIJO by John McCarney
- Mismatch by Bernhard Riedhammer
- My New Purse by Montgomery Burt
- NUCLEAR by Barron Leung
- One Last For My Heart by Hakim Benshila
- Out of Pocket by Nathaniel Shriver and Traci Hays
- Peanut Monkey and the Dolphin by Nicole Kelly
- Pieces of Us by Sam Cavalcanti
- Quentin’s Fever Dream by Christopher Phipps
- Single Stall by Masen Colucci
- Small Fruits by Seth David Mitchell
- Stay by Shawn Kathryn Kane
- STEM Girls by Phoebe Mattana
- Stupid Cupid by Cole Friedman
- Superbug by Gio Forlenza
- The Butterfly by Lorenzo Breschi
- The Drawer by Josef Clark
- The End Is Nigh by Nick Padmore
- The Haunting by RJ Brown and Ian Adelson
- THE POWERS THAT BE by Gina Yull
- The Sketch by Isaac Woofter
- The Sleepover by Kurtis Ratliff
- To Mars by Patrick Rahill
- ZIP Code by Ashley Luke
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