Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2023 Features + Shorts Semi-Finalists
The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2023 semi-finalists for the Features + Shorts category! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.
Comedy Feature
- Adult Onset by Daniel Rehnberg
- Adventures in Serial Killing by John Munn
- AllStore by Holden Weihs
- Athena the Sasquatch Plays for Keeps by Christine Trageser
- Ball Don’t Lie by Isaiah Mouw
- Brew by Kimberly Dilts
- Cate Starr Vs The Giant Space Squid by Holden Weihs
- Cult Family Reunion by Lori Fischer
- Divorce, Marry, Kill by Alex Watson
- FrankenDad by Andrew Varhol
- Heartless Romantic by Keegan Duncan
- I’ll Be Doggone by Robert Cole
- Journey Boys by Michael Mortimer
- Magus by Holden Weihs
- No Rules by Ashley Gianni
- Posthumous by Josh Granovsky
- Scout’s Honor by Cynthia Mersten
- SQUISHED by Dan Chaimowitz
- Technicolor Noir by Madison Sean Flannery
- The Shirley Brothers Comeback by Alana Gerdes
Drama Feature
- A Voyage to Forgiveness by Anthony Greenstone
- A Woman’s Touch by Brendan Wade
- Acorn by Matt Lowerre
- Adam by Hayden Howe
- Alferd by Jarad Kopciak
- Amarilla by Iain Anderson
- Atlantis by Jeremy Gluck
- Belinda & the Great Storm by Angeline Walsh
- Beneath the Underdog by S. Wilbur Frazier
- Blue Dream by Lee Peterkin
- Broken Compass Ranch by Sarah James
- Burying Marshal Campion by Mark Rigney
- Capable People by Matt Stewart
- Chosen by Cosmo Wallace
- Coach Lion by Rory Karpf
- East Jesus by Duane Graves
- Edelweiss by Duane Graves
- Effigy by Jason Kaleko
- Freight by Emily Sheehan and Andrea Sheehan
- House Guest by Elias Campbell
- Hungry by Kate Gleason
- Infinite Man by Greg Robbins
- Keeper by R.L. Hooker
- La Jaula by Ruben Gloria and Jett Salazar
- Lion’s Mane by Alexandria Albanese
- Love You Better When You’re Wild by Brian Wapole
- Meetings With Marty by Gregor Nicholas
- Miracle by Réka Divinyi and Krisztina Goda
- On the Other Side by Naji Awad
- Only Apparently Real by Michael Richter
- P.I. by Alexander Winter
- Parallel by Ryan Werner
- Patriots and Tyrants: Graveyard of Empires by Jack Gorman and Shannon Walsh
- Perry by RJ Watson
- Porcini by Christine DeLozier and Scott Finnegan
- Richard Spong by Terry Podnar
- Sonoran by Jack Aupperle
- Tango of Hope by Mikhail Bogomolny
- Tender Outcast by Douglas Soesbe
- The Blood Before by Leigh Hyser
- The Blue Bicycle by Parker Case
- The Bonsai by Jason Whiton
- The Final Mission by Claudia O’Brien
- The Fountain by Link York
- The Ghost Under My Bed by Sara Caldwell
- The Grim Reaper by Juhani Nurmi
- The Judas Apocalypse by Dan McNeil and Jasmine Aziz
- The Miracle of Birth by Holden Weihs
- The Recluse by Eric Duffy
- The Sun Also Rises by Phillip Hardy
- The Walrus-Man by Evan Gwynne
- The Wardrobe by Peter Noel
- They Seem Nice by Nathan Weinreich
- Trash Baby by Jacy Mairs
- Warning Signs by Aaron Michael Bailey
- What You Remember Saves You by Brett Schneider
Short
- 387 by Megan Sass
- Anokhi by Rohini Jadhav
- Apocalypse! Behind the Scenes by Alex Paulk
- Average Joe and Hackzilla: A Love Story by Vincenzo Lucciola and Anton Schettini
- Bella Nova by Khadija Roane
- Changes by Martyn Eaden
- Do Unto Others by Joseph Michael Leone
- Exhale by Joe Klaunberg
- Faithless by Patrick Lazzara
- Feed the Brute by Corsica Wilson
- Freeborn by Shane Harbinson
- Hearts in a Sling by Stephanie Gould
- In With the Storm by Cara Marshall
- It’s Just My Mom by Ryan Cunningham
- Johnny Jump Up by Shiva Ramanathan
- Kitty by Holden Weihs
- Know the Enemy by Charles Tucker
- Korean Shooter by Jimmy Prosser
- Loaded by Jacqueline Fitzgerald
- Oh Come, All Ye by Hawken Vance
- Open Letter by Diego Martin
- Out of Time by Deanne Gittens
- Overworked by Victoria Castro
- Pietra Fredda by Matthew Nicholson
- Pocket of Love by Shawn Zou
- Shiloh by David Schroeder
- Single Fatherhood by Joseph Schmidt
- Testimony by Gina Marie Rodriguez
- The Beholder by Ryan Lee Gregory
- The Corpse by David Churchill
- The Painting by Rob Shearer
- The Ride by Alysha Haran
- Tough Cookie by Kofi Tendai
- Triceratops Summer by Michael Richter
- 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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