2023 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Semifinalists
by ScreenCraft on May 24, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition. These exceptional projects were selected from almost 900 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!
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Here are the Semifinalists:
| "The Shotgun Killer" | Ray Proya |
| 1962 | Dean Jaloudi |
| A brand new day | Lissette Mehl |
| A Need to Kill | Mark Pettit, AJ Jones |
| American Babylon | Yvan Iturriaga |
| AMERICAN RED | David Marlett |
| Angel Eyes | Richard Mauro |
| Bardot | David George |
| BLACK CADILLAC | Beth Brickell |
| Box Canyon | Mark Laing |
| But Some of Us Are Brave | Jainaba Seckan |
| Camelot | Kaleb Tuttle |
| Chasing Demons | Nicholas Deroo |
| Color & Light | Louis Reyes McWilliams |
| Deep East Texas | Rachel Liebling |
| Desire | Katherine Cronyn |
| Fairy Tale in Red | Ben Carter Olcott |
| Fortune | Lisa Kröger |
| Heaven's Gate | DJ Burr |
| Hidden Death: True Crime | Lady Khadi Madama |
| Hole In The Woods | Jennifer Dornbush |
| HOPING | Eric Yang |
| Hunter's Law | Marieke Randoy |
| IN THE SHADOW OF A MONSTER | Russell Boston |
| John & Meryl (Pilot) | Jimmy Prosser |
| KEANU REEVES IS MY MUSE, MY SON IS A DRAGON | Phoenix Black |
| knockin' on Heavens Door | Sallieann Brinton |
| Lady Driver | Stephanie Diaz, Rick Reilly |
| Lake George | Hamid Castro |
| Lion & Lamb | Jenny Kleiman |
| Lobo | Patrick Mahon |
| MIKE AND MAUD | Beth Brickell |
| My Fight For Justice | Robbi Bryant |
| Once and Future | Kylie Boersma |
| One Mad Apple | Tom Pratt |
| Operation Babylift | John Mccarney |
| Philip Glass, Philip Glass | Martin Barshai |
| Polar Vortex | Robert Kraska |
| Prince of the Rich: Respect, Revenge, and Retaliation | Grant Gruber |
| Privileged Deceit | Warren Hull, Annette Hull |
| Quiet Bodies | Sofia Drummond-Moore |
| re.Form(ed) | Johnny Gilligan |
| Red, White, & Juan | Ross Fischer |
| She is Worthy | Rene Gutteridge |
| Sin of the Stormbird | Mike Streng |
| Skyjackers | Josh Guffey |
| Sutton Holler | Tennessee Martin |
| The Boy Scout | Dan Williams |
| The Cannibal Poet | Michael Clifton |
| The Children | Lauren Boyd |
| The Fairest of Them All | Patrick Bradley-Moore |
| The Forgotten 6 of I-295 | Tasha McLemore |
| The James Bond Gang | Christopher Surrey |
| THE LAVENDER PANTHERS | Heather Farlinger |
| The Salamander Letter | Liz Lachman, Cynthia Greening |
| The Story of Saint-Domingue | Shawn Boursiquot |
| The Transformation of Forrest Asa Carter | E.B. Boccuzzi |
| Three Sheets to the Wind | Thomas Schrack |
| Tipping the Scales | Laura Kirk |
| Trahor Fatis | Autumn Cavender |
| Two Kgs of Marmalade | Megan Mazer |
| Unsettled | Courtney Weaver |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
| You Should Never Tell | Tian Boothe |
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