Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2025 Features & Shorts Quarter Finalists

The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2025 quarter 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
• According to Plan by John Adler
• As Christmas As Humanly Possible by Joe Doran
• 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
• Canterbury Trails by Michael Brose
• Castling by Przemysław Wojtach
• Cheaper Than Therapy by Marlene Bell
• Cold Hard Cash by Tom Silva
• Corked by Rick Labelle and Chad Desrochers
• Crazy Rich Arabs by Walid Chaya
• Cutty’s Ark by Ariel Broggi
• Dance Dynasty by Tairmae Kangarloo
• Dapple of a Maple / Kaede’s Dapple by Doug Mattis
• Dead, Yet? by Jacqueline Fisher
• Deity = Delta by Sophie Mutiara Nova
• Deuteronomy in the Nude by Claude Clayton Smith
• 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
• First Time Swinger by Mike Hendry and Sara Bloom
• Firstborn by Yarin Levi
• Gimme Some Lovin’ by Xavier Greene
• Gloom and Boom! by Omid Niliaram
• Good Stuff by Theo Whitehead
• Grimm Lake by Edward Field and Emery Gare
• Guncle by Douglas Soesbe
• Happy Yet? by Laura Gray
• Hey by Shaun McCormack
• Imposter Syndrome by Vangeli Tsompanidis
• Indigo Monday by Nicole Palo
• Inner Demons by Katie Harriman
• Isn’t She Darling? by Megan Karasch
• Kill Kelko by Kieran Angelini
• Kirkside Detroit by Joe Johnsey
• Kringle & Co by Sanchez Taylor
• Margaux from Manhattan by Quincy Rose
• Midnight Quesadilla by Ryan McGrady
• Mothership by Joseph Michael Leone
• Mr. Davis Goes to Washington by Rajan Awasthi
• My Crazy Spiritual Journey by George Maschmeyer
• My Pal Sal by Mike Pace
• Nederland S.I. by Daniel Hunt
• Nonscience by Mia Zayl
• One-Upmanship by Helen Rana
• Patriot Liberty by Terry Miller
• Payback! by Gregory Berg
• Rearview Mirror Now by Bart Bealmear and Michael Keeley
• Ruff Night by Alex Barbatsis and Johny Bosworth
• Self-Persuasion by Rebecca Blondin
• Shaved Ice Girl by Jack Aupperle
• Slim & Nunn by James Lowery
• Space Trek by Jonathan Hefler
• St. Joe by Quentin James
• Stupid Cupid by Laura Willard
• Sue City by Stuart Feldman
• Suicidal Ideation by Luis Ortiz and Tsunami Ortiz
• Target Audience by Rory Laughlin
• The Ashes of El Dorado by Christopher Botvidson and Chris Smith
• The Crude by Zach Green
• The Day the Earth Ran Out of Coffee by Curtis James Larade
• 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 Life of Riley by Michael O’Looney
• The Manager by Omid Yaldayi
• The Network by Rory Laughlin
• The Orangutan Guy by Tony Philips
• The Pact by Dana Hammer
• 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
• Zine Revival by Matthew Scott Hoffman
• Zombros by Charles Meagher

Drama Feature

• 33 Buchanan Road by Daniel Mahoney

• A Great Hunger by Tyler Masse

• A Woman’s Touch by Brendan Wade
• Abnormal by Marcia Irina Arbenz
• 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
• Almost Human by Sky Liam
• Audacity by Dave Pearce
• Bad Girls by Kevin Machate
• Baking Bad by Tricia Tribble and Roger Tribble
• Beachwood Canyon by Dominic Rustam
• Beasties by Amy Kolquist
• Beloved by God by Derek Weinstock
• Besties by Roberta Smith
• Black and Gold by Kevin J. Howard
• Black Hills Wolf by Brett Stone
• Blow Out the Light by Robert Ruffin and James Robinson
• Bluebird by Samuel Beaumont
• Bombshell — by Ludwig Leidig, Brett Williams, and Yuri Joakimidis
• By Way of Canarsie by Rob Cuccurullo and Stacey Nation
• Callers to Our World by Salvatore Bono
• Camshaft by Mark Donnell
• Chairman by Dan Kim
• Chasing Avicii by Ross Langill
• Corpse of Love by Rafael Barreto Guevara
• Dementia Praecox by Eric Sprague
• Departure by Anna Lomakina
• Depredations by George Gier
• Drop the Location by Nicholas Davison
• Elixir by David Warner
• Evaders by Hudson Shelton
• Exploitation by Peter Kalisch
• Fantasy Quest by Melanie Seilbach
• Faultlines by Cynthia Damon
• Feral Mountains by Terry Podnar
• Fimbulwinter by Dylan Cheely
• Final Girl Fckry by Sophie Mutiara Nova
• Full Court Quest by G Mark Seal
• Gang Agley by Jeremy Hogan and Aaron Krygier
• Gasping for Air by Adam Castillo
• Golden by Jeff Kaufman
• Goldfish by Matthew Howie
• Gypsum by Tom Sime
• Hail Mary by Frankie Gilmore
• Heirloom by Daniel Kim
• Hekate Rising by Shira Marin
• Here We Go Again by Sadie May
• Hired Education by Richard Vadimsky
• How to Draw a Horse by Daniel Newman
• If I Killed a Man for You by Brian McGrath
• If I Were a Fool by Kennedy Brabham
• Imagine Me, Tommy by West Liang
• Impending Doom by Matthew Cole Levine
• Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol by Tom Mula and Amy Powell
• Junk Actors by Vincent O’Neil
• K3+ by Erasmo Acosta
• Killing Time by Jack Warner
• Kim’s Money Tree by Kyung-Ja Lee
• Kirby in Limbo by Jamie Campbell
• Lady Lava by Marshall Kiernan
• LAPD 2074 by Bernard Calissendorff
• Leaving Behind Little Snowmen by Dena Acolatse
• Life as a Mesoplankton by Ariella Stoian
• Life Debt by James Sweeney
• 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
• Mascogos by John Mercado
• McClory: The Battle for 007 by Neil McDonnell
• Most Precious Blood by Steve Lavagnino
• Moth 12 by Fred Wagner
• My Friend Charlie by Tony Freeman
• Naman by Lambert Bouley
• New Slasher by Joey McIntyre
• No Exit by Gary Blackwood
• No Sleep ’Til Vengeance by Joe Joyce
• Nocturne by Lindsay Wyath
• Nosferatu Caligari by Courtney Bowen
• Old Wounds by Tom Wardach
• On the Run by David Simons
• Online Treasure: Yamashita’s Gold by Steve Bradford
• Pandora’s Cauldron by Steve Herman
• Paper Thin by Katherine Garner
• Partisans of Light by Billy Adkins
• Path of the Caterpillar by Jeffrey Clifford
• Pieces of You by Jack Warner
• Playbook by Randy Perry
• Princess Ballerina by Briar Pennington
• Project Void by Amit Wankhade
• Pulse: The Hunt by Robbie Bergstrom
• Queen by Joel Shepherd
• Records of a Vision by Timothy Gulstine
• Red Notice by Julia Arnold
• Red Serpent by Jack Coleman
• Ripples from Float Island by James Noble
• Sallie by Chase Yancey
• Savant by Ramsey Luke
• Simon Son of Star by Ronen Tregerman and Jack Snyder
• Since We’re Still Stupid by Daniel Jones
• Slicks by Glenn Powell
• SnG by Michael-Kai Ho Below
• Snowman by Taylor Phillips
• Soft Spots by Tyler Masse
• Spin Me Around by PJ Carter
• Spirit of the Season by Brian Lamont
• Splinters of a Broken Heart by Sabine Birrer
• SS3 by Gage Miles
• Stalag by Bill Walker and Brian Anthony
• String Lights by VP Boyle
• Suckerfish by Kaye Gill
• Take Care by Olivier Ross-Parent
• Take Revenge on Every Day by Ross Inman
• The Abduction of Lilly Waters by George Zouvelos and Armen Garo
• The Appointment by Dustin Campbell
• The Broken Racket by David Babich
• The Caterpillar and the Butterfly by Eliyannah Amirah Yisrael
• The Culling by Daniel Levy
• The Emergence of Carlyle by Anne-Marie Maidan
• The Encantamento Odyssey by Shane Halladin
• 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 Ghost of Grosse Pointe Farms by Michael Nickolas
• The Gods of Wild Places by Mary Schnepf
• The Guardians of Kabardia by Jonathan Isshak
• The Inheritance of Memory by Alex Mehta
• The Jam by Jerry Pyle
• The Kāmohoaliʻi Encounter (Aumākua) by Phil Garthright
• The Last Lightkeeper by Harrison Davies
• The Last Master by Spencer Longmore and Nick Montalvo
• The Linguist by Maggie Tsavaris
• The Long Farewell by Brenda Lee
• The Man Who Killed Hitler by Fausto Politi
• The Mirror (Not for Us) by Jaganatha Prabu Mathiyalagan
• The Origin of Gold by Leah Cesarini
• The Power by Michael Woods
• The Professor’s Outline by Jason Holt
• The Rats by Robert Kaercher
• The Recipient by Michael Marentette
• The Red Zone by Terry Podnar
• The Renter by Lindsay Eleanor Smith
• The Rhineland Bastard by Stephan Boka
• The Rommel Gambit by John Doble
• The Seer by Matthew Karges
• The Summer My Brother Left Home by Paul Dooley and Adam Dooley
• The Takeoff by Greg Mantell
• The Tomorrow Plot by William Hunt
• These Uncertain Times by Brian Rawlins
• Tree in Horse Thief Canyon by Josh Walker
• Trust Me by Aimee Kuge
• UAP by Richard Stenerson
• Ultimate Werewolf by Brian Ulrich
• Unbound by Renn Tan
• Unconditional by Max Lamkin
• Vasquez by Rick Avery and Heather Parsons
• Vicious by Eric Thompson
• Violet by Sarah Deakins
• Visions of Perla by Robert Speiser
• Viv + Eddie by Andi Watson
• Voiceless by Colin Tracy
• Wandering Star by Richele Caragianis
• Waterbomb 1: The Dam by Michael Curran
• We Are Not Alone by Mark Rigney
• West Eleven by Rhey Ramirez
• What the Wind Blows In by Shawn Austin
• What Water Stains the Innocent by Eric Cook
• What’s a Zayde? by Andrew Epstein
• Where the Eyes Go by Egor Trukhin and Sam Treskunov
• Where the Heart Lies by Andy Kelly
• Where the Shadow Ends by Jonathan Hefler
• Whisp by D. Andrew Hartfield
• White Crows — by Michael Ulin Edwards
• White Rage by Bob Ladimir
• Wildland by Kathryn Carbone
• Xerxes – The Rad King! by Adam Javan
• Xi-Vo by James Grabowski
• Xova7 by Quanah Hicks
• You Again by Ravi Chaganty
• You Can Call Anywhere by Neil Stephens
• Zero Flux by J.B. Dunn
• Zugzwang of Ober Lieutenant Bruno Thevs by Iliyas Daudi

Shorts

• Animal Attraction by Brian Cohen

• Bomb Ass Boss(es) by Shanice Williamson
• Bridge the Gap by Cleveen Dominguez
• Camden Town: Punk Rock Angel by Raimo Strangis
• Car Salesmen by Matt Hill
• Cigarette Daydream by Eleanor Zhao
• Detention: Room 107 by Joseph Michael Leone
• Drawing Blood by Zachary Tirgan
• Durango by Daniel Ricottone
• Echoes of War by Bill Walker
• Family by Mehrdad Soltani Ghombavani
• Fattasha by Abdalla Jamal
• Ghost in the Glass by Chuck Griffith
• Handgun by Martijn Winkler
• Hunger by Tiffany Lin
• I Love You, Sunshine by Addy Farmer
• Last Act by Bessie Amato
• Last Stand at Butte City by Natalie Schwan
• Mars by Eva Everett Irving
• Mount Misery by Marissa Ziets
• Mrs. Anne Parker by Elisabeth Hayward
• Mute by Elloise Thomson
• One Among You by Jorge Rivera
• One for the Box by Kevin Machate
• One Hour in Neukölln by Kevin Ryan
• Only Mortals Can Be Heroes by Craig Fisher
• Our Father by Sterling Tyson
• Parallel Lines by Ryker Capielo
• Paused by Jacquie Scott Lynch
• Peak Water by John Boal
• Play On by Nikolay Moss
• Positivity (or Whatever) by Spencer Levine
• Retreat by Mari SanGiovanni
• Savage Child by Eugene Erlikh
• Say the Wrong Thing by Aiden Choi
• Skirt That Bleeds by Abhishek Mishrra
• Sleep Jack by Jon Howell
• Stardust Motel by Colin Scully
• Sunshine by Sarah Deakins
• T.D.F. by Kevin Machate
• The Comfort Woman Statue by Kyung-Ja Lee
• The Court by Christopher St. Pierre
• The Diner by Christina Connerton
• The Fate of Teddy Pendernaps by Todd Deus
• The Gift by J.N. Gould
• The Last Mural by Aurelia Gold
• The One by Leah Nash
• The Program by Immanuel Baldwin
• The Secret by Reneida Eliz Ferraro
• The Song of a Flightless Bird by Miranda Wilson
• The Survivor by Kevin Machate
• Tics and Stones by Angelo Rocha and Sandra Gutierrez
• Tripping Falls by Dane Madrid
• Weight by Marissa Ziets
• Winged Hourglass by Kübra Mengi

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