Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2024 Features + Shorts Semi-Finalists

The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2024 Semi-finalists for the Features and Shorts categories! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.

Comedy Feature

  • 2nd Date by Jaik Andino

  • American Digital

    by Greg Robbins

  • Ars Gratia Artis by Stefan Alexander and Eric Williford
  • ArtWorks by Jeffrey Meyer
  • Children of the Night: Virgin Blood by Mark Newbauer
  • Crazy Honey by Tim Young
  • Crime Wave by Tammy Klembith and George Klembith
  • Dog Dash by Matt Lewis
  • Happy Landing by Dianne Blomberg and Joseph Carabello
  • I’m Not Leaving by Jonathan T. Coleman
  • Jen O Cide by Jason Bynoe
  • Not Your Parents’ Christmas Story by Toni Gallagher
  • Nuns with Guns by Mark Wakely
  • Queen! by Kevin Glidden
  • Restoration by Blaire French and Sarah Corse
  • Stuck Uploading by Chris O’Leary
  • The Crude by Zach Green
  • The Marriage Maker by Cam Seamus, Dave Bone, and Laury Falter
  • The Mob and I by Mark Wakely
  • The Vegan Vigilante by Isaac Ergas
  • The Warmth of the Sun by Philip Fenlon
  • Three Iranian-Americans Walk into a Hostage Crisis by Omid Niliaram
  • Toilet Sharks by Bruce Griffiths
  • Vacationing with the Family by Barry Glauberman
  • Victims and Killers by Susanda Wolf and Palma Carretta
  • Vistas by Sean O’Brien
  • Xerxes, It’s Bitch to Be the King! by Adam Javan


Drama Feature

  • Adventures in Serial Killing

    by Jack Warner

  • Animal Botanical by Conroy Esterhuizen
  • Astronaut by Lukas Hassel
  • Begg Rock by Nathan Foulger
  • Belief by Susan Kelejian
  • Broken Worlds by Terry Podnar
  • Don’t Cry by Stefan Alexander and Anthony Guilianti
  • Dread White & Blue by Alex Watson
  • Emily Anomaly by Larry Ziman
  • Fighting Back by Richard Periard
  • Flux by Shane White
  • Geist by Michel Monty
  • Grave Dangers: Blood of the Jaguar by Zachary Sabra
  • Hart Crane by David Kaneen
  • How to Ruin Thanksgiving by Diana Robertson Bond
  • In the Dark by Stefan Alexander and Anthony Guilianti
  • Infinite Man by Greg Robbins
  • Iron Indian by George Gier
  • Last Santa by Tapan Sharma
  • Live Animals by Emerson Fonseca
  • Love & Detroit by Michael Dunker
  • Love, Crime, and Boots by Janice Naehu
  • Man of Another Age by David Warren
  • Masked by Adam Lapish
  • Moonscope by David Hunter Fein
  • Mr. Shakespeare’s Plays by Christena Ann Alcorn
  • Muffled Screams by David Kaneen
  • Odyssey by Tosin Gbadegesin
  • Operation Thunder Storm by Bill Dierberger and Dan Borunda
  • Painless by Darrin Reed and Ian Rabin
  • Racing the Storm by Mike Macke
  • Red Men in Red Square by Claude Clayton Smith
  • Satchell by Chad Shields
  • Semi-Divine Creature by Brandon Lunzman and Mitchell Perera
  • Sophie and the Bluebird by Thomas Ronca
  • Sovereign Risk by Michael Winfield
  • Stormheart by Meshal Alsaleem
  • Takedown by Mark Cooper
  • Teddy by Tania Gunadi
  • Teddy Ridge by Bryan Arbor
  • The Arrangement by Kátia Kieling
  • The Halfling Princess and The Fool by Helen Williams
  • The Island Calls by Patrick Hogan
  • The Lyon of Times Square by Christopher Loveland
  • The Retreat by Robert McEveety
  • The Runaway Pact by Amanda Sedaka
  • The Sacred Profane by Shadd Williams and Michael Duffy
  • The Scorpion by Jeff Burgett
  • The Way Down by Katherine Morein
  • Third Person by Courtney Froemming
  • Tornado by William Hunt
  • Unleaded Rage by Jackson Sansoucie
  • Untouchable by Sam O’Neal
  • Winnie & Clyde by Matthew Rafferty
  • You Have Value by Meredith Kratochwill

Shorts

  • 7:00 PM

    by Guilherme Somensato

  • Avant-Guard by CR Sherman
  • Bank Robbery Hottie by Ruby Mainieri
  • Between a Hard Place and the Drawing Board by Odin Riter
  • Cake & Whiskey by Justis Kinney
  • Dead Letters by Kel Vance
  • Four Knocks at the Door by Raimo Strangis
  • Freeborn by Shane Harbinson
  • Mindweaver, A Short Film by Andrew Fong
  • One Way or Another by Katie Kelly
  • Pat by Quamé Hamlin
  • Please Leave Me Alone, I’m Already Dead by Gonçalo Oliveira
  • Reservatory by Nicholas David Shanman
  • Slayfest by Mark Renshaw
  • Subway Weed by Ndlela Nkobi
  • The Chocolate Train by Katharine Rex
  • The Deal by Jeno Hodi, Dorottya Durr, and Arpad Herman
  • The Fishfolk of Luton Hill by Marcos Pinto-Leite
  • The Fright Stuff by Ben Blacker
  • The Grind by Jarrell Scott Barnes
  • The Lost Camp by Connor Etter
  • The Modern Age by Max Kemp
  • The One-Two by Esther Binstock
  • Threats by Quamé Hamlin

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