Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2026 Features + Shorts Quarter Finalists

The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2026 quarter finalists for the Features and Shorts categories! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.

Comedy Feature

• 2 Men and a Pig by Michael Cornetet
• Arbor Day by Benjamin Sharpe
• Audit of a Demon Hunter by Alan Lefebvre
• COMMITTED by Michael Mooring
• Confessions of a Killer Queen by Brendan Quinn
• From Above by Antti Majaniemi
• I WANT MY PRESENT BACK by Haley Mancini
• It’s Coming on Christmas by Sam Ellis
• Kiga Lake by Jon Portman
• Lady Volcano by Rosemary FrisinoToohey
• Life Outside the Silver Tube by Jim Hendricks
• Making It by Carl Stella
• Matriarchy by Zoe Young and Melanie Shaw
• Not Right Now by Karla Spika
• Rabbi Rifkind by Alex Barnett
• Salesmen by Erich Kloetzer
• Sapped by Nick Henriquez
• Serial Monogamy by Julian Cohen
• Ski You In Hell by Andrea Bartunek and Kelly McInerney
• SLAY by Steve Lawson
• Space Trek by Jack Hefton
• Templar Nightz by Nicolo Novek
• The Breeze by Susan Damato and Mary Mirabile
• The Guessing Game by Johnny Kurtzuba
• The Orangutan Guy by Tony Philips
• The Parlay by Olamide Ogunde
• The Short Game by Rick Mitchell
• The Trencherman by Ryan Clarke
• Till Death Do Us Part by Hadar Yaakovi
• We Were Young by Zane Swift
• When Pigs Fly by Terry Luke Podnar and Ed Charles Learner
• Wiener & Weasel in ‘Alienated’ by Marc Hershon

Drama Feature

• A Dirty Street in Boston by Katherine Bergeron
• A NOTE FROM AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE by Bill Walker
• A SEEPING WOUND by Darryl Wimberley
• Adventures in Serial Killing by Jack Warner
• All Them Little Horses by Mark Spasaro
• Artificial by Tsung-Long Wu
• Bekiri by Molly Brennan
• Between These Walls by George Johnson
• Beware My Mother, Detective! by Kim Roff
• Billy Donner’s Picnic by Richard Redlo
• Bouncer by Alastair Orr
• BY MEANS OF IT, IT GOES ON ALL FOURS by Olamide Ogunde
• Captain Canton by Gabriel Todd
• Casa Voyeur by Judy Klass
• Catch Rider by Jennifer Lyne
• Chassis by Ben Barnett
• Closing Costs by David Feldman
• Cross Currents by L. E. McClintock
• Crow Swamp by Sergey Nesterov
• Daughter Birmingham by Jim Hendricks
• Delay Deny Destroy by Devinda Fernando
• Departure Time by Michael Riedel
• Deuce by John A Kinney
• DIZZY by John Hackwell
• Doggo by Brady O Bryson
• Dolla Bill by Anthony Cross
• Dreamchasers by Michael Aguilar
• ECHO CHAMBER by Rory Laughlin
• ESPionage by Tom Easton and Frank Wu
• Excitable Boy by Justin Smotherman
• Fear of God by Mark Lindberg
• Feral Mountains by Terry Podnar
• Finale by Tracy Abrahamson and Sloane Koenig
• Flyers Club by Orlando Barrera II
• Foreign Exchange by Terrence Ross
• Fragile Reflections by Demi Koudounis
• FULL MOON by Joseph Robles
• Godspeed by Casey Nelson and Simon Sorrells
• Godwin by Theodore Ricciardi
• Green Falcon, Blue Sky by Patricio O’Donnell
• Greengage Mountain by Peter Koch
• Hidden in Plain Sight by David Max Brown
• Holding Place by Jim Hendricks
• How to Marry a Millionaire — In 30 Days by F.R. Brady
• I Love Wuhan by Alicia Lu
• Intrepid Spirit by David Tunno
• KALEIDOSCOPE by Darryl Wimberley
• Kill The Rest by Graeme Oxendale
• KIPLING’S SOLDIER by Iliyas Daudi
• LA Money by Zane Swift
• La Nariz by Steve Nathans
• Liminal by Eva Sofia Shaw
• Lunarian by Matthew Valvardi
• Made for Television by Emily Piller
• Maggie Noir by Elisa Donovan
• Mama by Igor Nikitin
• Moving In by Elias Campbell
• Murder Tour by Ryan Stack
• OCEANS WILD by Norm Hunter
• Orchid by Jarad Kopciak
• Orientation by Daniel Kim
• Por ti | For You by Leonora Anzaldua and Stephanie Wu
• Quintessential Orphan by Alicia Grill
• Ratiocination by Michael Robert Bucklin
• RESIDUE by Matilda Szydagis
• Richard Spong by Terry Luke Podnar
• Romeo ’n Juliet in Hell by Judy Tamashiro and Adam White
• Roots by George Brighton
• Samsara by Shanice Williamson
• Scripted by Dylan Halpin Hurley
• Shadow Dancer by Nikki Groton
• Shaved Ice Girl by Jack Aupperle
• Shepherd One by Rick Jones
• SILVER HALOS by Margaret Huyler Baker
• Six By Six by Georgia Well and John Arnold
• Sky Command by David Maguire
• Slicks by Glenn Powell
• Soft Animals by Bob X Akins
• Soft Boiled by Jarad Kopciak
• SPIRIT WEEK by Jeremy Merrifield
• Steel City, Steel Forest by Laura Hou
• Still Gone by Sean Day
• Surf City by Robert A Breedlove
• That’s My Name by Raymond Evtuch
• The Blue Hour by Deborah Rosenfeld
• The Control Variable by Aaron Lieben
• The Cow by Jonathan Face
• The Dark and the Cold by Joseph Robles
• The Death of Me by Blaire French and Sarah Corse
• THE DECOY by Stuart Feldman
• The Ellet Family Navy by Kris Hall
• The Gift of Gabi by Taylor Blackwell
• The Half Nelson by Merissa Koller
• The Last Report by Kevin Wright
• The Long Game by Don Famularo and Don Wells
• The Man From Japan by Lloyd Tunstill
• The Newcomer by Jonas Kulikauskas
• The Notch Boys by Brent Smith
• The Objection of My Affection by Richard Nguyen
• THE RIFT by Delaney Bishop
• Therapy for Birds by Vince Yap
• TOUCHING UNTOUCHABLE by Bryan Aran
• VIOLENCE by Maria Jose Moreno
• Wan Mei (Perfect) by Yiyi Yin
• What We Carry by Michael H. Moore
• What We Leave Unsaid by Rita Hanner-Ward
• WHITE HOUSE AT NIGHT by Richard Bailey

Shorts

• 11:55 by Craig Harner
• A Man’s Man by Jonas Kulikauskas
• Alpharetta’s Tea Cakes by Alessandra Ashley
• Amy and Dad by Diana Robertson Bond
• Before We Knew by Lindsay Clift
• Cherry by Christopher Rogers
• Dead Water by Kevin Machate
• Final Draft by Michael H. Moore
• Ghosted by Meredith Dietz
• Guest of Honor by Kevin Machate
• Happy to Be Here! by Sewassew Kirubel
• Heads Will Roll by Kylie Sparks
• If You Go by P.J. Palmer
• In the Mourning by J.P. Pressley
• IN THE TIME WE HAVE by Joe Leone
• Inheritance by Kevin Machate
• Inheritance by Michael H. Moore
• JAmerican by Jahvon Brown
• Kanna by Vivek Pranavamurthi
• Keep Him Comfortable by Justin Matthew Kohlas
• Last On The Lot by Natasha Rivera
• Let It Be by Angela Christine
• Linked by Dion Aralihalli
• Little Fish by Kameesha (Kam T.) Tate
• Marco and Nadiya by Aleksandr Makarov
• not THAT kind by Michael H. Moore
• Occupy Mars by Taylor Webster
• Prep by Hillary Wright
• Psychosis by Devian Wester
• Retrograde by Michael H. Moore
• Revenge Time by Kevin Giles
• Schrodinger’s Grandma by Alessandro Cerri
• Soul Contract by Alison Thalhammer
• Space for Pluto by Jon Gentry
• That Much by David R. Schleicher and Kristofer R. Schleicher
• THE APOLOGIST by Joseph Michael Leone
• The Memory Test by Humza Malik
• The Revenge Club by Marla Eaton
• The Uxoricide by Jason Alderette
• These Things Happen by Greg Berg
• Until God Listens by Paul Frank
• Unverified by Dion Aralihalli
• Wayward Journey by Don Carr

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