Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2025 Features and Shorts Semi-Finalists
The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2025 semi-finalists for the Features and Shorts categories! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.
Comedy Feature
- 114 Magpie Lane by Claire Natale
- A Day at the Beach by Mike Henry
- A Gefilte Fish Out of Water by G.L. Sherman
- Ashes to Ashes by Mitchell Thomas and Michael Bernard
- Bad Dates and Aliens by Navid Mehrjou
- Bread by Jeffrey Conlon
- Bring a Date to D&D by Tim Bennett and Michael Hartigan
- Cold Hard Cash by Tom Silva
- Corked by Rick Labelle and Chad Desrochers
- Crazy Rich Arabs by Walid Chaya and Jimmy Monack
- Cutty’s Ark by Ariel Broggi
- Dance Dynasty by Tairmae Kangarloo
- Dapple of a Maple / Kaede’s Dapple by Doug Mattis
- Diamond Mafia by Andrew Parks
- Don’t Trip by Blake Kaiser
- Dudes & Bros by William Sobel
- ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING by Darren Coyle
- Eve of Dysfunction by David Munnell
- Gloom and Boom! by Omid Niliaram
- Good Stuff by Theo Whitehead
- Grimm Lake by Edward Field and Emery Gare
- Imposter Syndrome by Vangeli Tsompanidis
- Indigo Monday by Nicole Palo
- Inner Demons by Katie Harriman
- Kringle & Co by Sanchez Taylor
- Margaux from Manhattan by Quincy Rose
- Mr. Davis Goes to Washington by Rajan Awasthi
- My Pal Sal by Mike Pace
- One-Upmanship by Helen Rana
- Stupid Cupid by Laura Willard
- SUE CITY by Stuart Feldman
- Suicidal Ideation by Luis Ortiz and Tsunami Ortiz
- The Ashes of El Dorado by Christopher Botvidson and Chris Smith
- The Crude by Zach Green
- The Demotivator by Ashley Pilfold and Mitchell Pickett
- The Green Lightning Bug by Tom Wardach
- THE IMPOSTERS by Joe Leone
- The King of Christmas Crunk by Robert Bracken
- The Orangutan Guy by Tony Philips
- The Property Manager by James Gain
- The Reluctant Messiah by G.L. Sherman
- The Servant Girl Annihilator by A.J. Goodrich and Mark Metivier
- UHaul’d by Kylie Sparks
- You Hauled by Ed Rowe
Drama Feature
- Adventures in Serial Killing by Jack Warner
- After What Happened at the Library by Kyle Casey Chu and Roisin Isner
- All Our Past Lives by Celeste Garcia
- Bad Girls by Kevin Machate
- BAKING BAD by Tricia Tribble and Roger Tribble
- BEACHWOOD CANYON by Dominic Rustam
- Beloved By God by Derek Weinstock
- Black Hills Wolf by Brett Stone
- By Way of Canarsie by Rob Cuccurullo and Stacey Nation
- Callers to Our World by Salvatore Bono
- Chairman by Dan Kim
- CHASING AVICII by Ross Langill
- Dementia Praecox by Eric Sprague
- Departure by Anna Lomakina
- ELIXIR by David Warner
- Evaders by Hudson Shelton
- FAULTLINES by Cynthia Damon
- Feral Mountains by Terry Podnar
- Final Girl Fckry by Sophie Mutiara Nova
- Full Court Quest by G Mark Seal
- Gasping For Air by Adam Castillo
- GOLDEN by Jeff Kaufman
- Goldfish by Matthew Howie
- Heirloom by Dan Kim
- Here We Go Again by Sadie May
- Imagine Me, Tommy by West Liang
- Impending Doom by Matthew Cole Levine
- Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol by Tom Mula and Amy Powell
- Kim’s Money Tree by Kyung-Ja Lee
- Kirby in Limbo by Jamie Campbell
- LAPD 2074 by Bernard Calissendorff
- Leaving Behind Little Snowmen by Dena Acolatse
- Life as a mesoplankton by Ariella Stoian
- Losing Nelson by Lewis John Carlino and Alessandra Carlino
- Lost In Paradise by Nancy Fitzgerald
- Lupae by Edris Caige
- Madame of Sunset by Stefanie Webb
- McClory: The Battle for 007 by Neil McDonnell
- Moth 12 by Fred Wagner
- My Friend Charlie by Tony Freeman
- New Slasher by Joey McIntyre
- Nocturne by Lindsay Wyath
- Old Wounds by Tom Wardach
- On the Run by David Simons
- Pandora’s Cauldron by Steve Herman
- Paper Thin by Katherine Garner
- Partisans of Light by Billy Adkins
- Pieces of You by Jack Warner
- PLAYBOOK by Randy Perry
- Queen by Joel Shepherd
- RED NOTICE by Julia Arnold
- SAVANT by Ramsey Luke
- Simon Son Of Star by Ronen Tregerman and Jack Snyder
- Since We’re Still Stupid by Daniel Jones
- SnG by Michael-Kai Ho Below
- Snowman by Taylor Phillips
- Soft Spots by Tyler Masse
- Splinters of a broken heart by Sabine Birrer
- SS3 by Gage Miles
- STALAG by Bill Walker and Brian Anthony
- String Lights by VP Boyle
- Take Care by Olivier Ross-Parent
- The Caterpillar and The Butterfly by Eliyannah Amirah Yisrael
- The Culling by Daniel Levy
- The Emergence of Carlyle by Anne-Marie Maidan
- The First A.I. President by Bernard Smith
- The Fourth Psalm by John Martins III
- The Ghost of Albert Yves Le Pointe by Natalie Campisi
- The Guardians of Kabardia by Jonathan Isshak
- The Jam by Jerry Pyle
- The Last Lightkeeper by Harrison Davies
- The Linguist by Maggie Tsavaris
- THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER by Fausto Politi
- The Origin of Gold by Leah Cesarini
- The Power by Michael Woods
- The Recipient by Michael Marentette
- The Red Zone by Terry Podnar
- The Rhineland Bastard. by Stephan Boka
- The Tomorrow Plot by William Hunt
- These Uncertain Times by Brian Rawlins
- Trust Me by Aimee Kuge
- Ultimate Werewolf by Brian Ulrich
- Unbound by Renn Tan
- Unconditional by Max Lamkin
- Vicious by Eric Thompson
- VIOLET by Sarah Deakins
- Voiceless by Colin Tracy
- We Are Not Alone by Mark Rigney
- West Eleven by Rhey Ramirez
- What The Wind Blows In by Shawn Austin
- What’s a Zayde? by Andrew Epstein
- WHISP by D Andrew Hartfield
- Wildland by Kathryn Carbone
- You Again by Ravi Chaganty
- You Can Call Anywhere by Neil Stephens
Shorts
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Bomb Ass Boss(es) by Shanice Williamson
- Camden Town: Punk Rock Angel by Raimo Strangis
- Car Salesmen by Matt Hill
- DETENTION: ROOM 107 by Joseph Michael Leone
- Durango by Daniel Ricottone
- Echoes of War by Bill Walker
- Ghost in the Glass by Chuck Griffith
- Hunger by Tiffany Lin
- I Love You, Sunshine by Addy Farmer
- Last Act by Bessie Amato
- Last Stand at Butte City by Natalie Schwan
- Mount Misery by Marissa Ziets
- MUTE by Elloise Thomson
- One for the Box by Kevin Machate
- Our Father by Sterling Tyson
- Parallel Lines by Ryker Capielo
- PAUSED by Jacquie Scott Lynch
- Play On by Nikolay Moss
- RETREAT by Mari SanGiovanni
- Say the Wrong Thing by Aiden Choi
- Stardust Motel by Colin Scully
- T.D.F. by Kevin Machate
- The Comfort Woman Statue by Kyung-Ja Lee
- The Court by Christopher St. Pierre
- The Fate of Teddy Pendernaps by Todd Deus
- The Gift by J.N. Gould
- The One by Leah Nash
- The Program by Immanuel Baldwin
- The Song of a Flightless Bird by Miranda Wilson
- Tics and Stones by Angelo Rocha and Sandra Gutierrez
- Tripping Falls by Dane Madrid
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