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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