2024 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on October 25, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2024 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 2,100 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on November 22nd on our blog and on our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram pages! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Quarterfinalists:
| "A Slight Alteration" | Devin Barnes |
| "Dorfman" | Scott Dorfman |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| A Bright World According to Beto | Gabriele Almon |
| A Dog's Life | Sammy Leach |
| A Dollar Short | Barry Leach |
| A Dream of Death and Data | Gillian OMeagher |
| A Haunting Sight | Madelaine Guthrie |
| A Kidnapping | Matthew Serrins |
| A More Perfect Union | Ron Willis |
| A Second After Midnight | Tyler Schmieder |
| A.fter D.eath C.onsultants for Hire | Jordan Oliver |
| After | Troy Miller |
| After America | Jonathan Melenson |
| Algorithm | Taylor Whitelow |
| All My Friends Are Gay | Duncan Lewis |
| Alliance | Suzanne Griffin |
| Alone | Jon Eudowe |
| Alpha Beta Chinese | Christopher H-M Liu |
| ALPHASTATE | Johnny Gilligan |
| Alter X | Kari Kyle |
| American Ecstasy | Barbara Nitke |
| American Enterprise | Michael Rakoff, Don Purnell, Maui Holcomb |
| American Muscle | Jordan Blazak |
| Americool | Tim Janas |
| Amerika | Zaf Ayub |
| Ancient City Bait | Michael Kenney |
| Angel of Skid Row | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| Ann Arbor | Richard Redlo |
| Area Unknown: Eden | Troy Miller, J.R. Smith |
| Aris | V.P. Evans |
| Ascension | Darren Moran |
| ATHOR | Brian Streaty, Paul Rose |
| AUPUNI | Erik Ries |
| B. O. B. (Battery Operated Boyfriend) | L. A. Hunt |
| Babel | Marlowe Harris |
| Baby Lesbians | Lauren Dunitz |
| Bad Blood | David Vieux |
| Bad Soviet | Nik Sysuev |
| Baddies | Lilian Mehrel |
| Barking Wolf | James Everett |
| Beau Rivage | Logan Rees |
| Biddy | Karen Hood, Belinda Benko Dickey |
| Birdwatchers | Rebecca Workman |
| Black Caesar | Amanda Prentiss |
| Black Cop | Douglas Darby |
| BLACKBURN 'Dead Work' | Kathryn Smith |
| Blackfriar | Chris Bolton |
| Blackland County | Josh Taylor |
| Blackwood PI | J Brooke Bond |
| Blair & Tommie | Brody Burgess |
| Blessed | James Cushinery |
| Blind Pony | Samantha Hart |
| Bogged Down | Anthony Zonfrelli |
| Booth | Creighton Sillars |
| Bring Me The Sun | Kiva Da Costa |
| Broken | Dathan Paterno |
| Brokers | Todd Restler |
| Brothers In Arms | Jamal Henderson, Andrew English Jr |
| Burrowing | Madeline Kann |
| Butternut Blues | Joshua Perell |
| Can You Hear Me | David Vieux |
| Cancelled? | Thomas Ferguson |
| Captain Flynn's Log | Parker Starnes |
| Carbon Zero | Matthew Scheffler |
| Carnitas | Mariana Reider |
| Chameleon | Eugene Lee |
| Chavez Ravine | scott lettieri |
| Chicken With Gun | Andrew Mister |
| Chief | Melanie Abrams Fierstein |
| Class Warfare | Duncan Lewis |
| COINTELPRO | Matt Stewart |
| Connectify | Gianfranco Cuoco |
| Control-Alt-Delete - Pilot "Poking The Bear" | Rudi O'Meara |
| Cooperstown | John Licata |
| Corrosion | Ryan Patch, Paul Masarro |
| Cosmic Forces | Ryan LaSalle |
| Courtney Finds A Friend | Chris Upp |
| Crazy | Wendy Moulton Tate |
| Creatures of Chaos | James Moon |
| Creemore Village | Helmann Wilhelm |
| Crescent City | Michael Brandt |
| Crow | Matilda Corley Schulman |
| Culebron | Chema Solari |
| Cyberknights | Nikki Wallin |
| D.B. | Nicole Donadio |
| Daddy Issues | April Moreau |
| Daddy Issues | Cerina Aragones |
| Dawn of the Eclipse | Nico Wenzel |
| Dead Reckoning | Luke Martin |
| Deadhead Ep. 1- "DREAMCATCHER" | Apollo Hansen |
| Deadstick | Stephen Barber |
| Deadway | Mitchell Simms |
| Dean's List | Emily Duke |
| Dear infinite curiosity, | Christopher Alvarez |
| Dearly Departed | Rob Campoy |
| Deep Cut | Joel Jensen |
| Denise | Jake Cullen, Oliver Cullen |
| Devil's Empire | Sarah Gray |
| Devil's Son | Jackie Lee |
| Dire Transfers | Nate Suppaiah |
| Dirtbag Fantasies | Jay Tigers |
| Dirty Deeds | Sam E. Mack, Kirk Petruccelli |
| Dischordant | Melanie Munt |
| Djinn Hunterz | Seti Jakada |
| Doing Good | Darren Moran |
| Dream Parasite | Sora SH Chung |
| DRIFT | Eva Konstantopoulos |
| Dwell | David Clark |
| Edenville | Lee Crompton |
| Ego | Gennady McCracken |
| embassy row | Kelsey Ross |
| Enter the Dreamscape! | Peter Pappas |
| Eon | Kent Moran |
| Evergreen | Maryan Nagy Captan, Dini Parayitam |
| Everlost | Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li |
| ExPand-Man | Cliff Ryan |
| Experience Points | Kris Horowitz |
| Falling Skies - Episode 1: Chandelier | Tom McEvoy |
| Fine Lines | Jake Cullen, Oliver Cullen |
| First Kiss Last Kiss | Paul Lind |
| Foreverland | Bev Chukwu |
| Frontiers | Jarod Backens |
| Fugitives of Dust | J. Aldo Gonzalez, Justin T. Malone |
| Fun & Games | Sam Marchiano |
| Gal Pals | Miriam Sachs |
| Gallatin | Ryan Skinner |
| GAMESTOP | Sam Norman |
| Genius | Tracey Houston |
| GeriOsity | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Gilded Terrors | Jackie Todd |
| Go Green | Jodie Hewson |
| Going Home | Marilynn Loveless, Sara Dinga, Sherry Wachter, Patrick Dunphy |
| Gold Bricks! | Eli Elbogen, Hunter Ashton |
| Gold Coast | Ryan Galliher |
| Golem | Simon Brown |
| Golems | Steve Fisher |
| Good Bones | Brooke Becker |
| Good City | Natalia Chown |
| Good People | Kris Fordham |
| GoodBetter | Tagg West |
| Grace and the Aliens | Jennica Lynn Johnson |
| Grain of Salt | Ligia Maria Storrs Rojas, Justin Storrs |
| Grants Pass | Eric Shani |
| Hail Mary | Anne Dauchy |
| Hardware Store Detectives | Nan Schmid |
| Headers | Christopher Kelly |
| Held Under | Benjamin Morgan |
| Helium-3 | Aaron Sprecher |
| Hell County | Jodie Bullock |
| Helping The Dead | Ron Mondz |
| Here She Comes | Jasmine Aziz, Dan McNeil |
| Homecoming | Lynn Maleh |
| Honey Boba | Saro Acharya |
| Honeymoon | Shelly Mar |
| Honor | Sonya Davis |
| House of Miracles | Annina Black |
| Howl | Zoe Kerr |
| Humanely Human | Ryan Dellaquila |
| I Wanna Be the Lord of Darkness | Jackie Lee |
| I'm Going to Kill The Moon | Kumail Rizvi |
| Identities | Bruno Lyra |
| Illegal Aliens | Andrew Bryan Smith |
| Imaginary Friends | Bryce Berkowitz |
| In My Heaven All Faucets are Fountains | Jeremy Hsing |
| In the Light of a New Sun | Will Saunders |
| INK | Steve Garratt |
| Insane Clown Pussy | Tita Poe |
| Into The Ether | Steve Brown, Robert Rogers |
| INVADERS | Daniel G. King |
| Jesus Christ! | Hunter Gardner |
| Johanna Van Gogh | Patrick Griffith |
| Jungle | Tavish Gudgeon |
| Justin Case: Agent of S.Q.U.A.T. | Douglas Wentworth, David Hogan |
| Kaya | Etta Gray |
| Kill the Rabbit | Rebekah Mueller |
| KILLERS | Stephanie Stanley |
| Killing Boys | Keeley Bell |
| Killner | E Rissetto |
| Klown Town | Lindsay Jean Michelle & Pam Bassuk |
| Kush Garden | Michael Niehaus |
| L.O.T.U.S. | Nathan Patton |
| Lacie in the Wonderverse | Michael Ierulli |
| Lady Madonna | Debra Mooradian |
| LAPD 2043 | David Burton |
| Laughey Giraffey | Adrián Burke |
| Laughing Badger | Cory Jordan |
| Lazevnik Grove | Jon Portman |
| League Night | Nick Kokonas |
| Let Me Be Your Star | Joshua White |
| Liberated | Kyle Hughes |
| Life Begins | Barbara Haynes |
| life through the lens | Chad Hutson |
| Lifepasser | Ted Bronson |
| LOGOS | Alexander Blum |
| Lose Yourself | Richard Osborne |
| Love, Mary Todd | Bixby Elliot |
| Lunatic | Chris Allport |
| Luxury Estates | Bryan Chesters |
| Macabre Tales From Montague Manor | Rich Vecchione |
| MADS | Jan Pearson |
| Magddo | Paden Burger |
| Maggie Valley | Ezra Herz |
| Magneto | Brandon Gale |
| Male Pattern Boredness | Christopher Emanuel Smith |
| MAN MADE | Aaron Pritchard |
| Man Made | Denise Baughn |
| Man-Made | Ryan Cunningham |
| Marlowe | Simon Bowler Khan |
| Meaderville | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Memento Mori | Jason R. Kay |
| Michelin Star | Samantha D’Amico |
| Mid-Aughts | Rachel Gulotta |
| Midnight Cinema | Jon Davis |
| Mighty Mediocre Temporary Rangers | Rhys Schlichtholz-Garcia |
| Mind and Matter | Ben Myers |
| Mirrors | Christopher Lukens |
| Missing in the Midwest | Michael Streight |
| Mitra | Pranali Kamble |
| Moonrise | Rebekah Mueller |
| Moonstone Beach | Lisa Petersen |
| Mordred Rising | Larry Gilmore |
| Most Wanted | Cat Youell, Brad Crowe |
| Mound of Sh*t | Scott Phillips |
| Moving In | KJ Bell |
| My Job Is Hell | Joslin Underhill |
| My Space Therapy | Nate Raven |
| Nark | Eric Garner |
| Neon Dreaming | Ethan Westerfield |
| Neon Purgatory | Sean O'Brien |
| Never Let Go | Raven Petretti |
| Never Let Go | Raven Petretti |
| Night Passing | Scott Button |
| Nightfall | David B. Guthrie |
| Non-Monogamy | Richard Lister |
| NORJAK: The Lives of D.B. Cooper | Christopher Santambrogio |
| Northway | Brian Molongoski |
| Nothing Means Nothing | Andrew Zeoli, Christian Wagner |
| Nuclear Family | Gregory Abbey |
| Oasis Estates | Carrie White |
| Office Pawlitics | Tita Poe |
| Offsite | Marc Winter |
| Offspring | Allison McGevna-Cirino |
| Old Queens | Reid Pope |
| On the Sidelines | Mark Greene |
| One Wild Life | Nate Huntley, Maddie Hammond |
| Or I'll feed him to the Sharks | Colleen Henry |
| Our American | Rebecca Mlinek |
| Out of This World | Jeremy Pick |
| Out of Whack | Derek Nicoletto |
| Overworld | David Blue, Julie McNiven |
| Oy...A Jewish Comedy Series | Shara Ashley Zeiger |
| Pancetta | Jenah Silver |
| Pandora | Jeff Bower |
| PANSY | Jack Flynn |
| Paris, USA | Matthew Maisano |
| Past Lives | John Cerrito |
| Paul Gersey and The Whole World's Glory | Liam LoPinto |
| Peace, Love, and Aliens | Jackie Lee |
| Peaking | Charlotte Lobdell, Jack Flynn |
| Piaf | Maureen Mahon |
| Pickleballers | Carlos Gabriel Ruiz |
| Pink and Purple | Jazeel Gayle |
| Plastic Kingdom | Josiah Powell |
| Play | Alex Garcia-Laguer |
| Pleyn Delit | Tommy Cook |
| Power Couple | Ari Donnelly |
| Praise | Megan Hayes |
| Pregnant bi Polly | Ilana Garcia-Mittleman |
| Pretty OK | Amrita Pradhan |
| Primeval | Rocco Urso |
| Prisoner | Tony Conniff |
| Project Hope | Ralph Bishop |
| Proof | L.H. McQueen |
| Protocol One | Geoffrey Colo |
| Provocation | Art Blount |
| Public Access | Jordan Cipolla |
| Public Displays of Affection | Samantha Jose |
| Puppet Tears | John Cerrito |
| PWI | Tiara Masso |
| QUASH | John McCarney |
| Queen's English | Tyler Dwiggins |
| Queenmaker | Matija Sraj |
| R.P.S. | Cameron Tennyson |
| Rainbow Reloaded | Devin Gillis |
| Rare | Charlotte Gajek |
| Rat City | Ally Gilfeather |
| re.Form(ed) | Johnny Gilligan |
| Rear View | Timothy Gunatilaka |
| Red Scare | Paige Meintzer |
| REDFLAGS | Nathan Patton |
| Relatively Unrelated | Christa Butler |
| Reuben | Nella Dudova |
| Revelations | Adam Chuckryk |
| RIDGELAND | Ali Gordon-Goldstein |
| Righteous Side of Hell | Eric Sanchez |
| Rightly So | Mathew Kachur |
| Rim of the World | Chris Knauer |
| Rise of the Unbeliever | Jeff Viens |
| River Rats | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Rodeo Drafthouse | Peter Donaruma |
| Rubber Chicken | Peter Dawson |
| Rudy Champion and the Edge of the Earth | Philip Enchelmaier |
| Run! Run! Run! - The Lives of Abbie Hoffman | Michael J. Shapiro |
| Sadist | Jennifer Anderson |
| Same Old Tricks | Barry Leach |
| Second Set | Candace Egan |
| SEED | Nti Aning |
| Seven South | Sara Romeo-White |
| SHAKES | Matt Foss |
| Shark | Gregory Abbey |
| She/Hero | Dina Laura |
| SHIKSA | Sonya Goddy |
| Shitlaw | Kevin Hulick |
| Shoot from the Hip | James Barrett, Tony Robenalt |
| Shudder, West Virginia | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Silent Blades | Criss Gidas |
| Skála | Shauna Joy |
| Skin | Kelsey Kinney |
| Skylarks | Kate Delin |
| Slipstream | Imogen Cooper |
| SOMBRERO | Ricardo Mestre |
| Sorry Grandpa Hsiao | Candace Ho |
| Sour Dough | Carlton Norris |
| South of the Gnat Line | Georgia Norman |
| Spark & Iron-Strike | Aleksander Krutainis |
| SPOILD | Jay Tigers |
| SPOTLIGHT | Annie Mitchell, Ash Newman |
| St. Anne's | Olivia Macdonald |
| Stalemates | Sam Wiens |
| Stealth Help Inc. | Christin Balan |
| Strange Flesh | Devin Fearn |
| Stuck in Park | Jimmy Jo |
| Student Affairs | John Orozco |
| Sunset & Vine | Brandon Martin |
| Sweet Science | Peter Petralia |
| Swindled | Matt Sharp |
| SYMBIONTS | Johnny Gilligan |
| Talk Dirty To Me | Harris Korn |
| Tang | Matthew Giacheri |
| Tears Of The Feelers | Maor Pticha |
| Ten Percent Off | Sammy Sultan, Alan Niku |
| Terror and Virtue | Ernest Pysher |
| The Adventures of JD | Gabriela S. Rodriguez |
| The American War | Kelby George |
| The Assistant | Araceli Sanchez |
| The Babies of Luna Park | Bat-Sheva Guez |
| The Backrooms | Jon Addison |
| The Bad Newz | Jay Hodgkins |
| The Best of Us | James Barnes |
| The Blood in Our Veins | Garrett Hemmerich |
| The Book of Raquel | Olga Holtz |
| The Bubble | Jarod Backens |
| The Complex | Ben Carter Olcott |
| The Conservatory | Nate Washburn, Ben Bergin |
| The Creed of Man | Caden Stayner |
| The Dark Calm | Conner Reed |
| The Domino | Adam Hoelzel |
| The Dyson-Nüwa Project | Joey Yu |
| The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things | Sophie Hessekiel |
| The Endless House | Mark Zakeri |
| The Enterprise | Marisa Forrest |
| The Estate | Chris Squadrito |
| The Everest Project | Paula Cantillo |
| The Faceless | Harry Maxon, Holly Maxon |
| The Family Doctor | C.S. Woo |
| The Fire Dog Killers | Lit Kilpatrick |
| The Fruitlanders | Laurie Rivlin Heller |
| The Ghost Club | Mitch Smith |
| The Golden Children | Julia Weisberg |
| The Good Detective | Richard Stokes |
| The Good Girl Of Chinatown | M Lee Speyer |
| The Grind | Laurel Gans |
| The Headlands | Steve Bruno |
| The Heart Goes Missing | Tom Matthew Wolfe |
| The Hero and the Spare | Molly Gross |
| The Hopeful Romantic | Marissa Ziets |
| The Houdinis | Ron Mondz |
| The Hunt for Ezekiel Adams | Fred Kalmbach |
| The Invisibles | Sheri McMahon |
| The Jewish Office | Joe Abel |
| The Last Cabin Left on Old Sycamore Lane | Michael Rakoff |
| The Local | Mark Naccarato |
| The Long Odyssey of the Emily Mae | Spike Scarberry |
| The Loop | Whitney Crowder, Adam Hardman |
| The Marshal | Zach Pappas |
| The Match | Justin Ballheim |
| The Misdirect: "Monkeyshines" | Brennan Howard |
| The Monks | Jessie Cohen |
| The Mulligans AKA The Retreads | Christopher Sweeney |
| The Murder of Jensen Scott | Just Lunning |
| The Murder of Thomas Merton | John Fitch III, Mitch Smith |
| The Nightshift | Shiv B |
| The Nightshift | Shiv B |
| The Odds | Matthew Berns |
| The Orchard | Jeremy Pick |
| The People Team | Jonathan Weisbrod, William Stribling, Russ Nickel |
| The Phantom Of Venice | Daria Burge |
| The Primordials | Rebecca Goulding |
| The Project | Joshua Sanchez |
| The Renaissance Earth | Nicolas Charron |
| The Revolutionary Potential of Dance | William Keiser |
| The Rothschilds | Mimi Hasson, Steven Peros |
| The Satisfaction | Greg Sidman |
| The Singing Telegrams | Edward Grey |
| The Soloist | Daniel Hernandez-Zapata |
| The Son of Life | Tyler Blomstrom-Moore |
| The Source | Jeff Schick |
| The Substitutes | Stephen Krespel |
| The Talbot Group | Evan Lawless |
| The Terminal Club | Kimberly St.croix |
| The Terrorist | Jeremy Hudson |
| The Thin Place | Katie Seward |
| The Titanomachy: From Darkness | Mikael Holcombe-Scali |
| The Tomahawk | James Lujan |
| The Trade | Thomas Archer |
| The Turners' Daughters | Edoardo Vitaletti |
| The Union | AJ Currie |
| The United States of Automata | Austin Langley |
| The Washbournes | John Rodriguez |
| The White Company | Willem Lee, Mayuran Tiruchelvam |
| The Whitzeks | Sam Parker |
| The Wolves Within | Ginger Marin, J Bartell |
| The Wrestling Show | Julie Harrison-Harney |
| Therapeutic | Craig Berger |
| Thermal Maximum | Ellen Riverside |
| Thornfield | Amanda Cole |
| Those Loyal | Mike Fitzgerald |
| Threestyle | Matt C. Dawson |
| Thunderfoot | Carlton Welch |
| Til Death Do Us Part | Lachlan Vary |
| Times Scare | Sara Rose Carr |
| Transmissions | Brett Caron |
| Treasure Valley | Chapman Hyatt |
| Trigger Objects | Nik Perring |
| Triumvirate | David Alexander |
| Turf Wars | Lee Crompton |
| Under One Roof | Rose Casolari |
| UnderLand | Keren Green |
| United Beef | Russell Costanzo |
| Valerie August | Mak Deezal |
| Vetted | Sean Carmichael |
| Vigilant | Abhi Kumar |
| Vincent the Void | Jaye Younkin |
| VIPs | Jenna Larson |
| Vitals | Nelson Downend |
| Vortex | Jordan Bolinger, Anthony Marcon Marcon |
| Wake the System | Micah Sloat |
| Weird Things in the Sky | Gideon Shmorak |
| Welcome to Dalwood | Joshua Young |
| West Wing High | Joshua Kazemi |
| What Have I Done To Deserve This | Chris Phillips, Billy Walker |
| White Gold | Benjamin Del Vecchio, Jair Kornegay |
| White Hat | Sarah Granger |
| White Lies | Margaux Poupard |
| Wicked Saints | Matthew Thaler |
| Wild Life | Robert La Rocca |
| Wire Hangers | Jon Davis |
| Wonderama | Jack Mayer |
| World No More | Timothy Gannon |
| Wrecks | Joseph Capp |
| WWJD | Hannah van Dijk |
| Wytch (for streamers) | Travis Seppala |
| Yellow Tie | Jeffrey Shieh |
| You Are Not A Hero | Josh Jacobs |
| Zero Light | Christina Auriana |
| Zone 6 | Christian Emanuel |
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