Scriptation Showcase Script Competition Announces 2021 Feature + Shorts Semi-Finalists

The Scriptation Showcase is pleased to announce its 2021 Semi-finalists for the Feature + Short categories! Congratulations to these talented writers and thanks to everyone who submitted this year.

Comedy Feature

  • 12 Steps of Christmas by Brian Allen

  • A Real Man by Magda Pazdej
  • And No One Mourned by Ky Rogers
  • Apocalyptical by Reynaldo Garza
  • Birth Mother of the Bride by Patrick McKenna
  • BREAKING NEWS by Samuel Spitale
  • CLUB47 by Adam Fischer
  • Die Again Tomorrow by Dylan Arnow
  • Don’t Glorp My Heart by Avery Girion
  • Double Booked by Jordan Holtzer
  • Final Spree by Mike Bianco
  • Gabby for God by Jennifer Cannady
  • Girl On A Swing by Shanna Reed
  • GOOD ENOUGH by Claire Partin
  • Horseman of the Esophagus by Adam Sedlak
  • I Am Not Myself by Jerry Pyle
  • Impossumible by Rich Swingley
  • Local Programming by Maxwell Lamkin
  • Organ Donor by Rustin Jarrell
  • Political Theater by Kaitlin Moleen
  • POWER COUPLE by Peter Andrews
  • QUEEN BEE by Elizabeth Weigandt
  • Rattlesnake Dan by Graham Raabe
  • Rewind by Bobby Gorman and Marc Adams
  • Run! by Jack Balta
  • Shelter in Place by MAX ORKIS
  • Shitstorm by Sandra Rosko
  • Shroomsday by Christopher Wade and Matthew Allen
  • Silent Sprung by William Gage
  • SpellDown by Robert Peterpaul
  • Stuck In Memoriam by Steven Bednar
  • The Carrier by Todd Restler
  • The Conclave by Edward Hicklin
  • The Holiday Trap by Lee Hoverd and David Widdicombe
  • The Hunt for Summer by Chelsea Perrotty Talbot
  • The Mount by Fiona Tuohy
  • The Mythical Club by Stevie Raymond
  • The Mythical Golden Trout by Craig Peters
  • The Psychedelic Fist by Nicholas Sennott
  • The Real Thing by Matthew Papadopoulos
  • Worst Top Chef by Matthew Dalto

Drama Feature

  • A Better Chance by L.T. Woody

  • A BLACK VEIL by Leslie Lyshkov
  • Adler by Soeun Lee
  • Ain’t No Grave by Jaime Conti
  • All We Perceive by Olympia Canales
  • Aloha ‘Oe (Farewell to Thee) by Ross Matlin
  • AMBROSIA by Alessandra Monti
  • An Ounce of Prevention by Christine Kaczynski-Cronin and Kinsey Leigh Cronin
  • Any Soldier by Doug Griffith
  • ASK: American Serial Killer by Cristian Xavier
  • Backwash City by Ian Berry
  • Batshit by Ian Martin
  • BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD by Marco Calvani
  • Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin
  • BFFs Never Say Die by K. Jennifer Ilagan
  • Big Girl by Cyn Harris
  • BIG SISTER by David Chester and Blake Pinter
  • Birmingham by Gary Jaworski
  • Black Heart Red by Mason Thomas Freeman
  • Black-Eyed Susans by Jared Hardy
  • Brink by Greg Kousoulis
  • Calabar by Olabisi Clinton and Daria Lewis
  • Calls To Virginia by Jason Ruscio
  • Can We Go Home Now? by Jonathon Charatsis
  • Captain Kidd by Brian Arterburn
  • Chicago Orgy by Ted Moss
  • Cold, Nevada by Chris Bean
  • Colorado Caliber by karan talwar
  • Cornerstone by Chris Arnold
  • Daughter of the Samurai by Esther Shihabi
  • David Boder by Jason Ruscio
  • Dead Woman Waltzing by Janine Horsburgh
  • Down the Lane by Johanna Moreau
  • Dreamboat by Aluísio Leite
  • Échappé by Allison Mattox
  • Father’s Funeral by Gianluca Morganti
  • FDNY by Michael Burke
  • Field Trip by Claudio Martinez-Valle
  • FIRENZE by Steve Birger and Michael Lucid
  • Flower Boy by Mike Salisbury
  • Flying Bird’s Diary by Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
  • From Below by Mirjana Kovac and Niksa Kovac
  • GUARDIAN by Jess Gupta
  • Hand Twins by Macee Binns
  • HATS: The Feature Film by Christopher Watkins
  • Hit the Road, Jack by Brett Stanning and Paul Hand
  • How to Smile in Photographs by Max Rifkind-Barron
  • Hurricane Hennley by Nicole Groton
  • Ibrahim by Terron Jones
  • Impenetrable by Daniel Broderick
  • In the Eye of the Storm by William Young
  • Indian Summer by Madhu Powar Garg
  • Infinite Man by Greg Robbins
  • It Came From Within by James Allerdyce and Steven Pierce
  • Jitterbug by Julianna Feit
  • Jubilee by Mason Thomas Freeman
  • JUMBO LOVE by Jay Moore
  • Jumpman by Matthew Breault and Alex George Pickering
  • Lady Reporter by Michael Lucid and Michael Lannan
  • Libo to Hero by Desmond Ngai
  • Luckenbach, TX by William Slough
  • Memory Lane Classics by Forrest Waage and Daniel Viau
  • Meridian by Forest Tennis
  • Meridian Response by Kevin Staake
  • Mind Games by Matthew Manson
  • Mo by Sarah Heinz
  • Newton’s Laws of Emotion by Eugene Ramos
  • No Direction Home by Greg Cayea
  • No Mexicans Allowed by Rene G. Salinas an Michael J. Trejo
  • NOBO by A.P. Boland
  • Nosedive by Brad Kinney
  • NUNLEY by Timothy Williams
  • Obscura by Carlos Marín
  • ODA by Matthew Renner
  • Of Martyrs and Miracles by John McCarthy
  • Only Way Out by Jason Sawyer and Sean Gallagher
  • Oprexium by Cody Pearce
  • Our Land by Nick Maiorano
  • Pain Killers by Glen Michel
  • Parodi and the Whales by Matias Cristaldi Vellutini and Robert Wolf Dunn
  • Party Boy by Alex Morris
  • Play Dead by Neil Stevens
  • Pornocracy by Ricardo de Montreuil and Will Stewart
  • Project Fog by Adva Reichman
  • Que to Murder by Matt Moon
  • Queen of the Jews by Chef Rossi
  • Rap Star (Birth of Denzel Cain) by Guillermo Machado
  • Real Heroes by Richard Hohenrath and Carolina Lovera
  • Recursion by Adam Files
  • Reno Drifters by Graham Lee
  • Return to Felicity by Jeff Ingber
  • Return to Spalding Drive by Kevin Brunner
  • Review by Jonathan Zarantonello
  • Rock Gods by Bryce Hatch
  • SAVING MARK TWAIN by Staton Rabin
  • Scuppernongs by Lynne Ashe
  • SEEING RED by Timothy Williams
  • Showcase by Bianca Smith
  • SINGING IN SHORTHAND by Wayne Baltz and Terry Baltz
  • Skull Rock by Laura Rauh
  • SNOWY STRANGEWAYS by Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel
  • Somewhere, Sometime in America by Matt Lewis
  • Sons of Liberty by Christian Delavie
  • Spartan Mansion by Stacey Spivey
  • Splintered Soul by Bobby Sacher
  • Spoken For by Micki Colker-Pearlman
  • sunflower by Amina Summers
  • The 49th Day by Craig Peters
  • The Arrangement by Kátia Kieling
  • The Art of Resistance by Andrew Caley and David Brown
  • THE ASH TREE HOTEL by David Herman
  • The Book of Sarah by Roger Walker
  • The Burdening by Adnan Ahmed
  • The Campaign by Kyle Griffin
  • THE CARLISLE INDIANS by Gillette Elvgren
  • The Cistern by Robert Kaprall and Steven Colbert
  • The Depths Below by Andrew Dean Pearson
  • The Diamondback by Michael Southworth
  • The Euripides Engine by Peter Andrews
  • The Future by Randy Yang
  • THE GIANT by Peter Noel
  • The Gods Curse by Elizabeth Reams and Vicky Neal
  • The Last Day of Paradise by Kiki Denis
  • The Last Stage, or Wyatt’s Earp Dying Dream by Bruce Scivally
  • THE LEGEND OF LIZZY FLYNN by Paul Awad and Kathryn O’Sullivan
  • The Legends of Bonny & Read by Carolyn Janis
  • The Long Trip Home by James Hsiao
  • The Lot by Kip Bennett and Joe Zappa
  • The Magnificent Harry Fly by L.E. Coleman
  • THE MAN-EATER OF KOT KINDRI by Douglas Graeme MacQueen
  • The Maze by Joey Haley
  • The Minefield by Jason Skorski and Quinn Redeker
  • The Other Mother Cried by Kelly Nugent
  • The Price of Ivory by Austin Rodriguez
  • The Pulpit by Tosin Morohunfola
  • THE ROMMEL GAMBIT by John Doble
  • The Seedling by Kevin J. Howard
  • The Show by Patrick McGrath
  • The Tale Of The Nightingale by Derrick Ingram
  • The Well by Patrick Leonard and Max Golden
  • The Wind Howls by Carlos J Matos
  • This is the Day by Nicole Sacker
  • This Love by Emmett Jack Lundberg
  • Thor Lake by Miia Piironen and Michael Williams
  • Three Roads To Oaxaca by Spencer Brewer and Evan Gaustad
  • TIGISI by JJ Koester and Jesse Koester
  • Time, Space, And The Poet by John Turner
  • To Secrets by Melisa D. Monts and Shereen Lani Younes
  • Unbridled Courage by Bruce Miles and Julia Phillips
  • Unison Kismet: The Twin Samaritan by Francesco Capussela
  • Unsatisfied by Evan Greenberg
  • Valley Kids by Nona Kocharyan
  • Wide Open Spaces by R.L. Hooker
  • Without Hesitation, Without Conscience by Michael Willis
  • WRESTL(H)ER by Susan Maddocks

Short Script

  • #YouToo by Adva Reichman

  • A Foot Apart, A Chasm Between by Brian Cohen
  • A Package of Dreams by Bradley Look
  • Admission by Carly Kimmel
  • afterbirth. by Marko Pandza
  • Argie Berman by Suzy Stein and Fernando Perez
  • Back Pockets on Tight Jeans by Thom Hilton
  • Bandit by Ali Keller
  • Bienvenidos a Los Angeles/Welcome to Los Angeles by Lisa Cole
  • Code Switch by Quamé Hamlin
  • Conversation On A Couch by Brian Cohen
  • Dangerous by Jacob Dalton
  • David by Matthew Malowany Forbes
  • Death is Only a Stranger Once by Larry Collins
  • Desired by Kate Harpootlian
  • EXPOSURE by Michelle Aldridge
  • First Days by Jen Prince
  • Free At Last (?) by Damon Norko
  • Gloomy Sunday by Kevin Machate
  • GRAVEN by Michael Clifton
  • HALFSISTERS by Olivia Blackmon and Gavin Benham
  • Hazelnut Chocolate by Nona Bankova
  • Identification by Larry Collins
  • Jane by Joseph Berg
  • Jupiter by Mida Chu
  • Little Gifts by Steven Luna
  • Nice To Murder You by Sofia Terpou
  • No Respect by Benjamin King
  • Over Here, Over There by Katherine Duff and Matthew Domenico
  • Pink Crocs by Timothy Hughes
  • Playground Wedding by Sarah White
  • Pretty Girl by Quentin Cohan
  • Recovery Chain by Quamé Hamlin
  • Room Service by Nieves Garcia Perchin
  • SABORRRR! by Z. J., Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz, and Zach Johnson
  • Scarred by Laura O. Solow
  • Self Checkout by Mark Flehmer
  • Five and a Half by Heidi Nyburg
  • Show and Tell by J.M. Kallet
  • Stormy Weather by Bill Vincent
  • Telekitties by Bea Lovett
  • The Covid-19 Affair – Where Loved Happened by Mychal Umi Cox
  • The Fourteen-Day Vegan by Tianhao He
  • The Last Dog On Earth by Olivia Roberts
  • The Old Flower Pot by Vera Neverkevich
  • The Reading by Darren Barber
  • The Selfie by Chad Wellinger
  • The World Is Always Ending by Gregory Pricoli
  • The Yellow Ribbon Around Jane’s Neck. by David Ho
  • Time Management by Bryan Campbell
  • To Die For by Graeme Benson
  • Vamp’d by Matthew Renner
  • Vegan-tarian by Brian Cohen
  • VEGAS VAMPS by David Ho
  • Waking Up From a Nap on a Long Day of Doing Nothing by Thom Hilton
  • Washing the Body by Peter Andrews
  • Waverly by Peter Andrews
  • Where To? by Odin Waters
  • You Look Pretty Up Here by Thom Hilton and Ethan River Cohen

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