2023 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
by ScreenCraft on August 2, 2023
Listed below are the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Action & Adventure Screenplay Competition. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on September 6th 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:
| 50/50 K/O | Joshua Nicolás Prits |
| A DANGEROUS WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES | Phillip Hardy |
| A Kind of Guilt | john cooney |
| A TO B | DT Yang |
| After Power | Vinnie Mancuso |
| All That Is Seen and Unseen | Laura Becker |
| Almost Cuban | Trevor Bermudez |
| ASSASSINS | David Meister |
| ATHOR | Brian Streaty, Paul Rose |
| ATLANTEANS | Mark Abriel |
| Away From All Suns | Rian McNamara |
| Bailout Over Normandy | Madeleine Fahrenwald, Maria Maiella |
| Bait and Switch | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| Bitking | Oscar Garcia |
| Black Butterfly | Tim Kontje |
| Blackstone Jess and the Island of the Warshadows | Michael Hahn |
| Blitzkrieg Follies | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Blood Trigger | Ron Podell |
| BLOTTER | HF Crum |
| Blowback | Eric Murphy |
| Bodyguard Z | Lee Whittaker, Kara Myers |
| Caper | Graham Nelson |
| Cate Starr Vs The Giant Space Squid | Holden Weihs |
| CHAMP | Joel Jensen |
| CHASE AND GHOSTS | Stephen Knox |
| Christopher Pan | James Yantko |
| Citizen | Eric Kallevig |
| City on the Edge | Stephen Yaffe, Barbara Vaccaro |
| Contained | Jennifer Wilton |
| Cross Path | Przemyslaw Lukasik |
| Daddy Daughter Day | Ethan Chapman, Nathan Cox |
| Dead Water | Lisa Rysinger |
| Desert Belles | Candace Egan |
| DETONATOR | Donn Kennedy |
| Detroit Run | Odin Ozdil |
| Día de las Carpas | Marina Kato |
| Dracula: World at War | Jeff Dorer |
| DRY LIGHTNING | Christopher Barranti |
| DTA | Alex Kochetkov |
| East Jesus | Duane Graves |
| El MATADOR | Thomas Oliver Hand |
| Emery & Ellsworth Make a Picture | Madi Stine |
| Episode Six | Joe Amadon |
| ESCAPE FROM EDEN | Bob Graham, Kate Quillan-Graham |
| Eyes of Fate | Catherine Wright |
| Fightanic | Jacob Serlen |
| Flight to Freedom | Jeff Nowak |
| Fools' Errand | Eric Sandefur |
| FORCED TO KILL | James Lakas |
| Fright Masks | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| GARDENIA | Eva Swan |
| Genesis Home | Matthew Kelcourse |
| Ghost Mamba | Michael Dzurak |
| Good Company | Trevor Benoit, Robert Benoit |
| Guardian of Rome | Jakob Vestergaard |
| HEARTRACE | Will Bermender |
| Helping The Dead | Ron Mondz |
| Henchmen | Zachary Tomlinson |
| Heroes and Villains | Timothy Burgess, John Burgess |
| His Horse is Crazy | Sven Anarki |
| History Emergent: Janus Nasim and the Identity Crisis Part 1 | Kyle Moser |
| How The Brooks Saved Christmas | Parker Starnes |
| Identities | Bruno Lyra |
| In Vain | Jake Nordby |
| International Incident | Johnny Fairchild, Jared Pettit |
| Into The Ether | Steve Brown, Robert Rogers |
| INTO THE WEST | Matthew Dixon |
| Island Kingdom: "Surf Enforcers" | Hiroshi Mori |
| Jacked | Pablo Briz |
| Jumpstart | Brady Pierce |
| Just A Game | Paul DeStefano |
| KILL SCHOOL | Katrina Skender |
| King of Pain | David Page |
| LIFELINK | Johnny Gilligan |
| Lost Knife | Sam Lu |
| Lost Souls | Jeremiah Granden |
| Lure | Tom Castillo |
| MAGE | Daniel Corrieri |
| Magnitude | Douglas Charles Macleod |
| Manual Override | Ryan Sterrenberg |
| Marco Polo | David Dodson |
| Meek | Talisa Chang |
| Mexican Overdrive | Paul Fenn |
| MIDDLE AGED | Mark Griffin |
| Mientras Cae el Sol II | Trenton Bouie |
| Mods | Tom Moriarty |
| Mokabi Hunter | Charlotte Zielinski |
| Moon Flower | Phil Reilly |
| No Greater Sin | Joe Favalaro |
| OCHO | Adam Best |
| Operation Babylift | John Mccarney |
| Orion | M. Lloyd Cui |
| Paradise Divide | Richard Curtis |
| Patriots and Tyrants: Graveyard of Empires | Jack Gorman, Shannon Walsh |
| Phantom in Time | Douglas Charles Macleod |
| Phoenix | Lee Lawson |
| PIKERS | Aaron Patton |
| Plague Walkers | Heather Wilk, Michael McIlraith |
| Point Blank Range | Bill Kelman |
| PRISONERS OF THE RISING SUN | Mark Arament |
| Prospero's Island, Pilot: "The Duke of Milan" | Mahonri Stewart |
| Queen for a Day | Andrew Parker |
| Re:Collection | Jake Fogel |
| Reckoning Road | Joshua Weeks |
| SALT MINE MAYHEM | Elizabeth Weigandt |
| SEAL Team '76 | Takeo Hori |
| Shadow Walkers | Aashish Gadhvi |
| Sisters Incarcerated | Alexis Rosas |
| Six Sabotage | Jeff Edwards, Rob Jaeger |
| Smoke | Erik Cardona |
| Sol Horizon | Autumn Cavender |
| Soldiers of Martial Law | Alex Tackett |
| Stopping Power | Andrew Jenner |
| Stray Dog | Caleb Ellis |
| Strength Beneath the Surface | Dallas Stiles |
| Superlame | Darren Moran |
| SYZYGY | Samantha Erickson |
| Ten Cent Beer Night | Nick Hawks |
| Tender | Trina Colon |
| The 10th | Rudi O'Meara |
| The 7 | Steve Ronaldson |
| THE APPLICANTS | Justin Ballheim |
| The Before Trilogy | The Rhees |
| The Biologist | Alex Lyras |
| The Book of Raquel | Olga Holtz |
| The Code | David Asmussen |
| THE DEADHEAD | Justin Ballheim |
| The Devil, a Rebel, a Fool | Clay Fusco |
| The Double Life | MARY WORKMAN |
| The Handler 1 - Junkyard Dog | Lawrence Whitener |
| The Heat | Ben Carter Olcott |
| The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| THE HOUDINIS | Ron Mondz |
| The Kill Box | Andrew Jenner |
| The Lamb | John Ingle |
| The Language Of Wolves | Nan Schmid |
| The Last Gate Pilot | Nikhil Emmadi, Mark Dudley |
| The Last Soul | Manuel Cantu |
| The Last Travelers | Darrell McGregor |
| The Left Hand of The West | Omar Iturriaga |
| THE LOST AND THE ROTTEN: PART ONE | Ryan Chong |
| THE MATCH | Justin Ballheim |
| The One Percent | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The One They Call the Fighter | Joshua Scammell |
| The Out Foxes | Luigi Gonzalez |
| The Pale Horse | Kyle Rizor |
| The Paleontologist | Ross Peacock |
| The Place We Stand Together | Catherine Wright |
| THE ROMMEL GAMBIT | John Doble |
| The Runner | Debra Equassance |
| The Savage World | Tom Moriarty |
| The Savant | Tom Moriarty |
| The Taking of North Pole 1-2-3 | Robert Husted |
| The Tribe | Erik Leifson |
| The Wages of Sin | Byron James, Stephen Johns |
| TOW TRUCK | Jud Cremata |
| Treasure Hunters | Peter Bucke |
| Triggered | Elliot Seidel |
| Trophies | Peter Van Horne |
| TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN | Diane Joy Schmidt |
| Two Lane Forever | Andrew Jenner |
| Unlikely Stars | Donald Dugan |
| Unscathed | Rebecca Lieberman |
| Vampires of the Amazon | T.J. Hamilton |
| VANILLA | John Darbonne |
| Vigilant | Abhi Kumar |
| VOLANTINO | Russ Eisenman |
| Wasteland Britannia | Aaron Hector |
| Where They're Kept | L.X Mitev |
| Yi Hao and the Wild West | Eljohn Macaranas |
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