Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2026 Features + Shorts Semi-Finalists

The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2026 semi-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
• 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
• Matriarchy by Zoe Young and Melanie Shaw
• Not Right Now by Karla Spika
• Sapped by Nick Henriquez
• Ski You In Hell by Andrea Bartunek and Kelly McInerney
• SLAY by Steve Lawson
• Space Trek by Jack Hefton
• The Guessing Game by Johnny Kurtzuba
• The Parlay by Olamide Ogunde
• The Short Game by Rick Mitchell
• The Trencherman by Ryan Clarke
• We Were Young by Zane Swift
• When Pigs Fly by Terry Luke Podnar and Ed Charles Learner

Drama Feature

• A Dirty Street in Boston by Katherine Bergeron
• A NOTE FROM AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE by Bill Walker
• Bekiri by Molly Brennan
• Beware My Mother, Detective! by Kim Roff
• Bouncer by Alastair Orr
• Casa Voyeur by Judy Klass
• Catch Rider by Jennifer Lyne
• Closing Costs by David Feldman
• Cross Currents by L. E. McClintock
• Departure Time by Michael Riedel
• DIZZY by John Hackwell
• Doggo by Brady O Bryson
• Dolla Bill by Anthony Cross
• ECHO CHAMBER by Rory Laughlin
• Excitable Boy by Justin Smotherman
• Feral Mountains by Terry Podnar
• Finale by Tracy Abrahamson and Sloane Koenig
• Fragile Reflections by Demi Koudounis
• Godspeed by Casey Nelson and Simon Sorrells
• Godwin by Theodore Ricciardi
• Holding Place by Jim Hendricks
• How to Marry a Millionaire — In 30 Days by F.R. Brady
• LA Money by Zane Swift
• Lunarian by Matthew Valvardi
• Made for Television by Emily Piller
• Moving In by Elias Campbell
• Murder Tour by Ryan Stack
• OCEANS WILD by Norm Hunter
• Orchid by Jarad Kopciak
• Orientation by Daniel Kim
• Roots by George Brighton
• Scripted by Dylan Halpin Hurley
• Shadow Dancer by Nikki Groton
• Shaved Ice Girl by Jack Aupperle
• Shepherd One by Rick Jones
• Sky Command by David Maguire
• SPIRIT WEEK by Jeremy Merrifield
• Steel City, Steel Forest by Laura Hou
• Still Gone by Sean Day
• The Blue Hour by Deborah Rosenfeld
• The Control Variable by Aaron Lieben
• The Cow by Jonathan Face
• The Death of Me by Blaire French and Sarah Corse
• THE DECOY by Stuart Feldman
• The Gift of Gabi by Taylor Blackwell
• The Half Nelson by Merissa Koller
• The Last Report by Kevin Wright
• The Man From Japan by Lloyd Tunstill
• The Notch Boys by Brent Smith
• 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
• WHITE HOUSE AT NIGHT by Richard Bailey

Shorts

• 11:55 by Craig Harner
• Alpharetta’s Tea Cakes by Alessandra Ashley
• Amy and Dad by Diana Robertson Bond
• Before We Knew by Lindsay Clift
• Dead Water by Kevin Machate
• Final Draft by Michael H. Moore
• Happy to Be Here! by Sewassew Kirubel
• If You Go by P.J. Palmer
• In the Mourning by J.P. Pressley
• Inheritance by Kevin Machate
• JAmerican by Jahvon Brown
• Kanna by Vivek Pranavamurthi
• Keep Him Comfortable by Justin Matthew Kohlas
• Let It Be by Angela Christine
• not THAT kind by Michael H. Moore
• Psychosis by Devian Wester
• Schrodinger’s Grandma by Alessandro Cerri
• Soul Contract by Alison Thalhammer
• Space for Pluto by Jon Gentry
• The Memory Test by Humza Malik
• The Revenge Club by Marla Eaton
• The Uxoricide by Jason Alderette
• Until God Listens by Paul Frank