Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2023 Features + Shorts Quarter Finalists

The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2023 quarter finalists for the Features + Shorts category! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.

Comedy Feature

• A Ravenous Man by CK Eastman
• Adult Onset by Daniel Rehnberg
• Adventures in Serial Killing by John Munn
• AllStore by Holden Weihs
• And the Little Dog Laughed by Kevin Brunner
• Athena the Sasquatch Plays for Keeps by Christine Trageser
• Backsliding by Bill Kelman
• Bad Bottom by Alex Diehl
• Ball Don’t Lie by Isaiah Mouw
• Barnstorming by Jay Ferraro
• Brew by Kimberly Dilts
• Cate Starr vs The Giant Space Squid by Holden Weihs
• Cowboys & Indians by Amisha Patel
• Crunkillmatic by Max Gaspard
• Cult Family Reunion by Lori Fischer
• Dad Undead by Adam Brown and Kyle I. Kelley
• Dead Authors by Olivia Turnbull
• DeLorean Disco by Saida Tilkin
• Divorce, Marry, Kill by Alex Watson
• EBUG by Paul Sokal
• ELFless by Roland László Papp
• Falling in Time by Alikona Shizue
• Fast Forward by Brian Wapole
• For the Love of Latte by Miriam E Bavly
• FrankenDad by Andrew Varhol
• Heartless Romantic by Keegan Duncan
• I Am Santa by Matt Burns
• I’ll Be Doggone by Robert Cole
• Jepp by Dana Hammer
• Journey Boys by Michael Mortimer
• Killing Squirrel Creek by Erik Howard
• Local-ized by Leonidas Stanescu
• Lost in Bodie by Leo Bulgarini
• Love and Rockets by Christopher Foley
• Love in the Time of Coronavirus by Emilio Santín
• Magus by Holden Weihs
• Mic Check; Karaoke Love by Gregory Bonds
• Mr. Box & Boogy’s Big City Blues by Al Diaz
• Mr. Jingles by Ned Thorne
• My Thinner Self is Trying to Kill Me by Aysha Wax
• Narayana Neurosis by Karan Talwar
• No Rules by Ashley Gianni
• Our Lady of the Artichokes by Katherine Vaz
• Pal’s Quest for the Silly Woman by Jeff Fong
• Pick by Bernhard Riedhammer
• Porcini by Christine DeLozier and Scott Finnegan
• Posthumous by Josh Granovsky
• Psycho Bitches by Daniel Duane
• Ramona by Robert Tota
• Scout’s Honor by Cynthia Mersten
• Seclusion by Bill Hochhauser
• Squished by Dan Chaimowitz
• Strangeless Teens by Brian Thomas
• Stripper Moms by Tricia Horvath
• Subject 77 by Mark Anthony Mosolino
• T-Rexorcist: The Musical by Dana Hammer
• Technicolor Noir by Madison Sean Flannery
• Tender & Mild by Finn Caulfield
• The Band by Kathryn Cehrs
• The Crisis by Omid Niliaram
• The Jesus Nut by John Prather
• The Other Room by Rafael Roa and Virginia McLure
• The Shirley Brothers Comeback by Alana Gerdes
• Toxic Femininity by Ania Dent
• Turn of the Scrooge by Mark Snelson
• Verbatim by Anthony Clifton
• Zayde and Becky by Andrew Epstein
• Zero to Eighty by Sylvia Mulholland

Drama Feature

• A Fire Within by Jack Murray Balta
• A Little Dead by Ben Richardson
• A Million Miles Away from Home by Adriano Falconi
• A Pill to Die For by Claudia Dato
• A Song of Bullets by Lizzy Shannon
• A Spider Sat Beside Her by Karen Lanning
• A Voyage to Forgiveness by Anthony Greenstone
• A Woman’s Touch by Brendan Wade
• AbaS&Ment by Rick Limentani
• Acorn by Matt Lowerre
• Across the Sea by Kathryn Cehrs
• Adam by Hayden Howe
• After the Underground by Amisha Patel
• Alaka’i Prep by Ross Matlin
• Alferd by Jarad Kopciak
• Alligator Juice by Vatisha King
• Amarilla by Iain Anderson
• And the Victor Is… by John Eloff and Mikael Sahlberg
• Atlantis by Jeremy Gluck
• Belinda & the Great Storm by Angeline Walsh
• Beneath the Underdog by S. Wilbur Frazier
• Bingo Hollabouth by Francesco Capussela
• Bitch-Fi by Emily Rodriguez-Kaufman
• Black Shaman by Xueli Han
• Blue Dream by Lee Peterkin
• Blue Moon by Taylor Ghrist
• Broken Compass Ranch by Sarah James
• Brother Rosalino by Frank Kyazze
• Burying Marshal Campion by Mark Rigney
• Capable People by Matt Stewart
• Cat Darling by Rie Anders
• Chosen by Cosmo Wallace
• Church Choir Christmas Party by Becca Blackmore
• Coach Lion by Rory Karpf
• Collision of Duty by Jermaine Jones
• Covert by Kevin Luna
• Cutter’s Caskets by Nathan Weinreich
• Dawgs: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them by Meredith Wargo
• Deadline by William Hyland
• Delulu by Adam Jay Ung
• Devil’s Gold by Julie Korzenko
• Displaced Persons by David Dancyger
• Down in Arizona by Corey Finnegan
• Down, Down, Baby by Stephen Wuensch
• Downriver by Dana Coen
• Dr. Vigilante by Alberto Hazan
• East Jesus by Duane Graves
• Edelweiss by Duane Graves
• Effigy by Jason Kaleko
• Epic Dharma TV by David Bernal
• Fiddler’s Gun Part 1 by Harrison MacDonald and Pete Peterson
• Freight by Emily Sheehan and Andrea Sheehan
• Full Contact by Dave Kraft
• Gamer Girl’s Nightmare Odyssey by Tom Burke
• Gemini by James LeJeune
• Georgy Girl by Alison Yardley
• Girls Night by Tapan Sharma
• Gone Bad by Mark Laurnoff
• Grace and the Good Bishop by Alan O’Connor
• Grown by Ant Rivera
• Guilt by Craig Heiting
• Half Life by Kate Metroka
• Henry by Robert Evans and John Cutler
• Her Voodoo Tattoo by Justin Ball
• Hometown by S.M. Ruze
• House Guest by Elias Campbell
• How Green Was My Uncanny Valley by Ryan Imhoff
• Hungry by Kate Gleason
• I Chose Earth Over Heaven by Tom Burke
• In the Dirt by Chris Cusumano
• Inferno by Railey Jane Savage and Clara Derrick Gallagher
• Infinite Man by Greg Robbins
• Inheritance by Kelly McClellan
• Inside Out by Jack Kearney
• Jackie, Holly, Candy & Craig by Craig Highberger
• Jamaica Station by Kaitlin Oster
• Jimmy by Kent Moran
• Just Kids by Margo Rosenberg and Joan Noroff Katz
• Keeper by R.L. Hooker
• King Crimson by Samuel Sleiman
• La Jaula by Ruben Gloria and Jett Salazar
• Lake Como by Leslie Luke and Cody Smart Luke
• Law and Deceit by Chandra Gerson
• Lion’s Mane by Alexandria Albanese
• Locked-In by Paul Sokal
• Love Me, Love My Dog by Courtney Froemming
• Love You Better When You’re Wild by Brian Wapole
• Magic Bus by Jeff Lester
• Mangrove by Iain Anderson
• Manual Override by Ryan Sterrenberg
• Martyr’s Ridge by Alister Brooks
• Meetings with Marty by Gregor Nicholas
• Mermaid by Vincent Nel
• Metamorphosis of the Woman in the Tree by Randa Garrana and Chiara Miniconi
• Meth Gators by Emily Colón-McMonigle
• Miracle by Réka Divinyi and Krisztina Goda
• Mission Story by Andrew Blackwood
• Mix*ed by Tobias Daniels
• Montezuma’s Treasure by Hal Streckert
• Moonscope by David Fein
• Mother by Charles Stein
• Moxy by Kimberly Cisneros
• My Nana’s Voice by Alicia McMahon
• My Only Everything by Gillie G. Perkins
• Nobody’s Heroes by Michael Elliott
• Off the Mat by John Acquaviva
• Ombre by Kevin Brunner
• On the Other Side by Naji Awad
• Once Upon Another Life by Carol Capomaccio
• Only Apparently Real by Michael Richter
• Out of Place by Hannah Garfield
• P.I. by Alexander Winter
• Pacifica by Ava Barry
• Parallel by Ryan Werner
• Patriots and Tyrants: Graveyard of Empires by Jack Gorman and Shannon Walsh
• Peach Fuzz by Matthew Preston-Bloom
• Perry by RJ Watson
• Porcini by Christine DeLozier and Scott Finnegan
• Predestined by Selton Shaw
• Prisoners of Our Own Device by Andrew Gajer
• Quintessential Orphan by Alicia Grill
• Rebels by Brett Gaul
• Richard Spong by Terry Podnar
• Rivals by Caeden Fial
• Round Robin by Karla Droege
• RoY by Konrad Maximilian Piotrowski
• Running Blind by Guy Mansfield
• Sacrificial by Michael Lucid
• Salt Away by Megan Schoenberg
• Salt Kiss by Bixby Elliot
• Saving Roses by Louann Fernald
• Sentinel by Robert Wagner
• Seventy-Four by Christopher Goodenough
• Shine by Kayli Carter, Austin Kirk, Ian Mather, & Anne-Marie Trabolsi
• SINder by Danielle R Erlich
• Solice by George Basiev
• Someday Sweetheart by Misha Segal and Michael Steves
• Sonoran by Jack Aupperle
• Standing on Borrowed Legs by Landon Purser
• Steven’s Pass by Amanda Renee Knox
• Sturgeon General by Molly Bandt and Celia Ramsey
• Tady Earther by Susan Shoemaker
• Tango of Hope by Mikhail Bogomolny
• Tender Outcast by Douglas Soesbe
• The Applicants by Justin Ballheim
• The Battle of Lexington and Concord by Damon Wolf
• The Blood Before by Leigh Hyser
• The Blue Bicycle by Parker Case
• The Bonsai by Jason Whiton
• The Butterfly Never Dies by Roland László Papp
• The Cycle by Josh Snyder
• The Deadhead by Justin Ballheim
• The Final Mission by Claudia O’Brien
• The Forever Hotel by Justin Ballheim
• The Fountain by Link York
• The Fourth Psalm by John L Martins III
• The Freedom Swimmers by Kent Wong
• The Ghost Under My Bed by Sara Caldwell
• The Grim Reaper by Juhani Nurmi
• The Hermit by Kevin Staake
• The Incel by Ryan Imhoff
• The Judas Apocalypse by Dan McNeil and Jasmine Aziz
• The Kindness of Strangers by Mick Torres and Ashley Torres
• The Last Skywriter in the Universe by Steven Keith Bogart
• The Litigator by Desmond Ngai
• The Lost Girls by Anya Camilleri
• The Man Who Turned His Back on New York by Liam Callander
• The Miracle of Birth by Holden Weihs
• The Outworlder by Gordon Meyer
• The Pickleball Killer by Jim Carroll
• The Recluse by Eric Duffy
• The Renter by Lindsay Smith
• The Sun Also Rises by Phillip Hardy
• The Titanomachy by Mikael Holcombe-Scali
• The Walrus-Man by Evan Gwynne
• The Wardrobe by Peter Noel
• The White Fence by Claudia Dato
• They Seem Nice by Nathan Weinreich
• This Wonderful Life by Sam Juergens
• Time, Space & the Poet by John Turner
• Time, Space, and the Poet- Part 2 by John Turner
• Trash Baby by Jacy Mairs
• Triumph of the Wolves by D.B. Lloyd
• Unknown God by Alexander Blum
• Until We’re Fish by Susannah Rodriguez Drissi
• Vegetable Soup by Dionne Ferrell
• Volk by Frank Parrinello
• Voodoo Child by Natalie Rodriguez
• Warning Signs by Aaron Michael Bailey
• What You Remember Saves You by Brett Schneider
• Where the Sun Never Sets by Amr Nabeel
• Wide-Body Exchange by Robert Cecka
• William Tell by Silvan Schmid
• Witchblood by Richard Hohenrath
• Woman Unburied by Campbell Dalglish
• WorldWind by Brett Schneider
• Wrench in the Plan by Jay Shirtz

Short

• 387 by Megan Sass
• A Woman’s Body by Tiffany Tenille
• After What Happened at the Library by Kyle Chu and Roisin Isner
• All Fairies Can’t Fly by Sivaram Anandan
• Anokhi by Rohini Jadhav
• Anti-Life by David Holcombe
• Apocalypse! Behind the Scenes by Alex Paulk
• Appreciate by Pamela Carboon
• Authentic Leadership Mastercraft with Dmitry Medvedev by Evan Mathew Weinstein
• Average Joe and Hackzilla: A Love Story by Vincenzo Lucciola and Anton Schettini
• Baggage by Jacueline Fitzgerald
• Bella Nova by Khadija Roane
• Bittersweet by Alec Gutherz
• Border by Jacueline Fitzgerald
• But Wait … There’s More by John Boal
• By The People by Thomas Marrier
• Caiaphas by Thomas McCone and Lucas McCone
• Changes by Martyn Eaden
• Count on Me by Graeme MacQueen
• Darla vs. Hockey by Montgomery Burt
• Do Unto Others by Joseph Michael Leone
• Do You Remember Me? by Tonia Magras
• Exhale by Joe Klaunberg
• Faithless by Patrick Lazzara
• Feed the Brute by Corsica Wilson
• Fifty-Four’s List by Charles Saunders
• Flight by Kate Austin-Raffan
• Forgiving Retribution by Curt Samlaska, MD, FACP, FAAD
• Freeborn by Shane Harbinson
• Glitch by Sharon Burrell and Darren Lee Murphy
• Gone by Adva Reichman
• Grave Business by Danielle Tjoelker
• Hearts in a Sling by Stephanie Gould
• I Know How to Swim by Cheryl Lewis
• In With the Storm by Cara Marshall
• It’s Just My Mom by Ryan Cunningham
• Johnny Jump Up by Shiva Ramanathan
• Just Ahead of Home by Lynda Simmons
• Killer Intern by Angel Ramirez
• Kitty by Holden Weihs
• Know the Enemy by Charles Tucker
• Korean Shooter by Jimmy Prosser
• Loaded by Jacueline Fitzgerald
• My Phone by Attiyya Brown
• New Year Nightmare by Cindy Sanabria
• Nielheim by Elyssa Catalfano
• Occupational Hazards by Laura Medeiros
• Oh Come, All Ye by Hawken Vance
• Open Letter by Diego Martin
• Out of Time by Deanne Gittens
• Overworkd by Victoria Castro
• Paper by Sara Brown
• Peak Water by John Boal
• Perfect Vision by Matt Curtsinger
• Pietra Fredda by Matthew Nicholson
• Pocket of Love by Shawn Zou
• Pok Pok by Eda Benjakul
• Reformed by Mark Flehmer
• Scratcher by Alex Castillo and Joe Quintero
• Shift by Sharon Burrell and Darren Lee Murphy
• Shiloh by David Schroeder
• Shout! by Finn Caulfield
• Single Fatherhood by Joseph Schmidt
• Smoke and Mirrors by Matt Curtsinger
• Spitball News by John Boal
• Splash ‘n’ Dash by Robert Meagher
• Superman Doesn’t Steal by Tamika Lamison
• Tempting Fate by Terry Podnar
• Testimony by Gina Marie Rodriguez
• The Beholder by Ryan Lee Gregory
• The Corpse by David Churchill
• The Dead Stroke by Alex Scigliano
• The Electricity in Me by Mat Sheldon
• The Giant by Jocsan Hernandez
• The Legacy by Margo Rosenberg and Joan Noroff Katz
• The Light at the End by Lynda Simmons
• The Painting by Rob Shearer
• The Quiet Affair in Ohio by Eric Bender
• The Ride by Alysha Haran
• There for All the Moments by Alek Abate
• Third Wheel by Kylie Sparks
• This Is the Life by D Warren Rose and Gordon Giddings
• To Behold by Farook Qais
• Tough Cookie by Kofi Tendai
• Triceratops Summer by Michael Richter
• Two Americas by Jeff Lester
• Ubiquitous Indignities: A Tragedy by J. Treacy Cole
• Unchosen by Alexander James Dingeman
• Walk This Way by Penny Jackson
• What We Leave Behind by Jasmyne Le
• When Big People Lie by Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz and Pablo Cervera
• Wontons by Shannyn Soliven
• Worry Court by Laurel Gans
• Worst Enemy by Kevin Machate and Todd Rodgers

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