Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay TV Contest this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
As you probably know — WeScreenplay believes that the best way for writers to grow is through feedback. That is why WeScreenplay is providing free, written feedback with every single competition entry. We are glad to hear from so many of you how helpful the notes were and excited to see WeScreenplay writers are improving all the time!
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We are thrilled to advance entries to the Quarterfinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing.
We also want to acknowledge all of the strong scripts that did not advance. If your script is not on this list, it does not at all mean that our judges didn’t enjoy the read – in fact, we’re confident some of the scripts not advancing will bring their writers success in the very near future. Thank you for entering your script and always keep writing.
Without further ado, the 2020 WeScreenplay TV Contest Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| ‘Graphers | Jeremy Engler |
| (Dis)Connected | Jaime Osnato-Rosario |
| 1066 | Sam Wright |
| 4/18 | John Chipman |
| A Coven of Thieves | Eugene Ramos |
| A Grim Fate | Gerardo Lara |
| A Guide to Good Ceasing | Eric Thompson |
| A Lady Among Lions Episode 1: New Blood | Meghan Thompson |
| A Little Race-Ish | Ursula Taherian |
| A Rogue Story | Kristopher MacNeill |
| After D!sney | Jenny Gorelick |
| After School | Aaron Barrocas |
| Alexandria | Evyn Williams |
| All About Mimi | Tyler Seecof |
| All is Not Lost | Ruth Johnson |
| American Easy | Judd Schlossberg |
| Anna Roberts | Dan Girolamo |
| Antillia: Conquest Gold | Jason Todd |
| As Dead As It Gets | Bruce Kalish , Mackenzie Kalish |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| Backroom Closers | Xan Wynne-Jones |
| Bad Hombres | Filup Molina |
| BARBARY | Haley Bartels |
| Bedlam | Holly Holstein |
| Before We Arrive | William McGhee |
| Behavioral Sink | Thomas Muller, Eugene Mont |
| Being Positive | Tyler Barnes |
| Best F*cking Friends Forever (BFFF) | Ryan O’Donoghue |
| Best Texas Land – Pilot: Sweet Dreams | Aleks Lyons, Danielle Durini Alongi |
| Beyond Reach (Chapter One: “Ran To See”) | Ben Davies |
| Big Star | Melanie Holmes |
| Big Stick | Linda MacPherson Davidson |
| Bisbee | Chris Warner |
| Black-ish: Gentrification is the new Black | Angel Hobbs |
| Blind Mice | Sal Ciolfi, Guido Cocomello |
| Blood and Dreams – “Complicit” | Suzanne Griffin |
| Blood and Syrup | Gabriel Duran |
| Blood Dog | Audrey Lorea |
| Blood Trail | Hind Metwalli |
| Bloodlands | David Guthrie, Emma Carter |
| Brother, Mine | Amalie Brinck |
| BTW, I’m An Alien | J. L. Paxxiel |
| Bully | S. E. McMeans |
| Burger and Chips | Lyndon Booth |
| By The Book | Andrea Lawson |
| CADETS: Call of the Tribe | Jonathan Finnegan, Andrew Kaufman, Mark Molyneaux |
| Candidate | Sascha Gomberg |
| Carpetbaggers | Matt Thomas |
| Cartunion | Alessandro M. B. King |
| Chances of Survival | Alicja Wawrzyniak |
| Chaos in Paradise | Jay Smith |
| Charade | louisa Klein |
| Chariots of Summer | Edward Huery |
| Chart Toppers | Ariel Goldberg |
| Chasing the Dark | Mike Bencivenga |
| Cherry Lips | Lauren Hussey |
| Co-Signed “Pilot” | Tyler Coates, Jill Pangallo |
| COBAR | Robert Roworth |
| Conduits | Hussain Pirani |
| Cottonheads | Alexandria Mitchell |
| Crippled | Brian Kettler |
| Crocodile | Chri§ Holt |
| Cuba Libre | Tiger Curran |
| Cured | Calvin Perez |
| Cut | Danielle Holman |
| D&D | Gerardo Lara |
| Dangerous Choices | Susan Lerner |
| Darkness Reigns | Kirk Doering |
| Deadland | Tony Grady Martin |
| Deadshot Girls | Heidi James |
| Debbie | Matt Thomas |
| Deep Creek | Gary DeMoss |
| Demon of Kings | Charlie Tetiyevsky |
| Desmond and the Devil | Sydney Dire |
| Detention Centers | Kevin Johnson |
| Diamonds | Carlton Gillespie |
| Ditto | Adam Pietropaolo |
| Divemasters | Celina Dobson |
| DOM | Georgia Ximenes Lifsher |
| Drug Lords | Jacob Andrews |
| Ebb + Flow | Jacob Cullen |
| Emergency Break | Danielle Schwartz |
| enabling | Jon Dabach |
| Escaping Hell | Sylvain Laporte, Lane Cochrane |
| Everyone Dies Alone | Mad Matthewz |
| Fat Carrie Bradshaw | Chris Burns, Zeke Smith |
| Feature Creatures | Sophie Hessekiel |
| Feint Productions | Malachy Cole |
| Fifty One Fifty | Zachary Surprenant |
| First Responders | Ellie Guzman |
| Five Points | Vivian Kerr |
| Five Queens | Craig Berger |
| Flawless: A Feminist Fairytale | Deborah Rayne, Catherine Eaton |
| Flew It | Adam Vaughn |
| Forsyth County | James Sasser |
| Fort | Francis Maxwell |
| Forward Family | Tyler Ellzey |
| Fragrance | Tanmaya Shekhar |
| Frankenstein Unleashed | Neal Wiser |
| Frankie & the Estrellas | Roxana Altamirano |
| Fräulein Schreiber’s Mixtape | Nathan Dame |
| From Top To Bottom | Matt Seiiji Ketai |
| Furred, Feathered, and Fanged | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Game On | Allison Waxman |
| Gold-e-Locks | Tom Hartig |
| Golden Gate | Holly Holstein |
| Good Housekeeping | Alexandria Bigelow |
| Good Things – Pilot – Out with the Old | Aaron Matis |
| Good Vibes Only | Kyra Jones |
| Grace in the Clutch | Addie Talbott |
| Gransassin | Vanessa Leigh, Aaron Bennett |
| Graphic | Jeff Perreca |
| Gravediggers | Chris Kasparoza |
| Ground Control | Elvira Ibragimova |
| Gut Job | Josh Sullivan |
| Hard Work | Horton Emory |
| Harriet Mills – Private Detective? | Kalee StClair |
| Hated | Ghazi Albuliwi |
| Hearth | Dalton Short |
| Heavy | Collette Legault |
| Hideaway – Pilot | Lamar Lewis |
| High | Eva MeiLing Pollitt |
| Hissy Fit | Laura Germano |
| Hit Men | Adam Christy |
| Hole in the Donut | Justin Neal |
| Home Truths | David Hutter |
| Homeboy | Landis Stokes |
| How I Met My Father: The Stripper | Harmony Hasbrook |
| How We Roll | Katey Clausen |
| Hubris | Peter Ronson |
| I Am That Man | Christopher De Paola |
| I Need Black Friends | Kelechi Urama |
| In A Place Of Lesser Men | Josh Charbot |
| In the Margins | Ray-Alan Cameron |
| In the Name of Jamie Wakefield | Lenny Pinna |
| In the Night (Pilot) | Alexander Gray |
| Infection | Alex Spangler |
| Into the Red Centre | Adrian Goodman |
| It’s Not Your Fault | Jared Lyons-Wolf |
| Jack Bea Bristol | Daniel Gallant |
| Jade | Star Victoria |
| Keyoka the Monster Killa | Mukhtar Vanmali |
| King of Lesotho | Amadou Diallo |
| L.A. Transplant | Julian Barnett |
| LA Cult | Michael Lucid |
| La Madrina | Adam Santa María |
| LAWS | Sade Griffin, Candace Parker |
| Leads to Life | Benjamin Gabriel |
| Legalized | Bryan Torresdey |
| Life After Baby: Sausage Promise | Jennifer Le Roux |
| Limelight | Justin Bonilla |
| Lizzie | Jen Bashian |
| Long Pine Shadows | Gabe Conville, Layla Soileau |
| Look At Me Now | JD Owens |
| Lottery | Timothy Mason |
| Madams | Lainee Frizzo, John Forrest |
| Mademoiselle Maupin | Brandon Gale |
| Maladaptive | Ana Moreira |
| Malinko | Spencer McCall, Ryan Hessel |
| Man On Fire | Vikas Bandhu |
| Mean Spirit | Louis Macovsky |
| Migrant Mothers | Ashley Rebecca Farley |
| Minority | Tiffani Joseph |
| Money is the Root of All Evil | Terry Rousseau |
| Monstrous | Andrew McAllister, Aaron Strongoni |
| Motel California | Connor O’Connor |
| Mr. Tinkles | Anthony Rea |
| Mrs. V | Natalie Cederholm, Daesha Lynn |
| Murder Ballads | Jennifer Dunn |
| Museum Campus | Shelby Doubek |
| Music Street | Tony Ferrendelli, Tonia Kempler, Al Finocchio |
| Must Have Accessories | shawn dempewolff |
| My Dead Dad | David Lawrence Hill |
| My White Friend | Lanre Olabisi, Tiffany Smile, Peter Stone |
| Narcissus | Michael Ouzas |
| Nativeland | Tegan McLeod |
| Natural Selection | Michael Lee |
| Near Fall | Juliana Rabadjija |
| Neeroy and the TPL Taskforce | Tirath Sandhu |
| Nemesis | Helena Derett |
| Next in Line | Kayla Hendy |
| Nightingale | Dhruv Kanungo |
| No Quarter, “Welcome to Arcadia” | Travis Kehoe |
| Not Dead Yet | Leah Bognanni |
| Nudge | David Crosman |
| NY’s Most Eligible | Ambika Vas |
| Nyanga | Javier Tessari |
| Nydus Gaming | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| NZR | Leon Masters |
| Old Coast | Saro Acharya |
| Oleandrin | Nick Davis |
| Oligarchs | Jonny King |
| On The Rocks | Lolia Etomi, Ashlei Foushée |
| One Track | Alexander Greenblatt |
| Outside the Garden | Benjamin Lewis |
| Pandemia | Ayn Carrillo-Gailey, Peter Lin Carrillo, Samuel Gailey |
| Paradis Reclaimed | Becca Davis |
| PEN15 spec – Just Tattoo of Us | Annaliese Eisenstadt |
| Phojo | Nick Kuiper |
| Pigpen | Maud Ferrari |
| Pikeys | Brian Pracht |
| All Blood Runs Red | Douglas Raine |
| Poly Esther | Rae Johnson |
| Pose to Pose | Joey Rayburn |
| Prey | Ezra W Nachman |
| Pulitzer Post | Kendra Koger |
| Quash | John McCarney |
| Queens of H Street | India Gurley |
| Radical | Evan Despian |
| Rangers | Timothy Mason |
| Raven’s Gate | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Re-Arranged | Shari Ortner |
| re.Form(ed) | Johnny Gilligan |
| Red raven | Thomas Kowa, Markus Reinhardt |
| Red Spy Queen | Leslie Lyshkov |
| Red Summer | Ryan Porter |
| Reparations | Richard Plowden |
| Repression | Molly Vogel |
| RNWY Galaxies | P.A. Lopez |
| Rock the Bloc | Alexander Vargas |
| Rocks Don’t Cry | Konstantin Selivan |
| Roll Call | Anngelica-Marie Eshesimua |
| Royal Flush | Rob Mellinger |
| Rubbernecker | Tom Hancock, Varun Raman |
| Safe Harbour | Jon Smith, Ian Masters |
| Salvador Dolly | Brandon Burkhart |
| Sandstone | Jean Maye |
| Savant | Johnny Gilligan |
| Sexy Teen Squad: Undercover Monster Hunters | Jon Bershad |
| Shazam Air | Christine Freschi |
| She Rides in the Smoking Car | Barbara Nunberg |
| Shenanigans | Peter Donaruma |
| Sherwood | Evan Dwyer |
| Shift | Michael Riesen |
| Smut | Nancy Amestoy, Stephen Gemmiti |
| Son of Dan | Nathaniel Feeley |
| South China Sea – Pilot: A Woman’s Worth | Yancey Wang |
| Southern Hospitality | Kate Harbert |
| Southern Justice Pilot | Brenda Boddy |
| Special Toys | Benjamin Lewis |
| Spirit Box | Rumi Oyama, Joseph Pham |
| Squad | Tevin Knight |
| Squad Goals | Jessica Traxler |
| Still March | Joe (Robert) Barbor |
| Stuck in Committee | Chayla Wolfberg |
| Sun Woman, Moon Man | Lyndal Simpson |
| Sweet Home Detroit | Derrick Sanders |
| Tapped Out | Matthew Lindstrom, Steve Bonanno |
| Telemedicine | Patrick Tierney |
| Ten Percent | Spike Morales-Westlake |
| The Academy | Damon Faulkner |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Active Voice | Jim Ketchum |
| The Algorithm | RD Bishop |
| The Bank Robbery Squad | Sean Logan, Clark Beasley, Sean Sheer |
| The Betty Fam | Ellen Doyle |
| The Bliss Killer | Lele Park |
| The Brats of La Cienega | Bryce Marrero |
| The Brothers Sun | Byron Wu |
| The Cabinet of Curios & Cryptids | Tory Smith |
| The Chutes | Xavier Vazquez |
| The Conduit | Owen Busch, Robert Walcott |
| The Exodusters | Mark Naccarato |
| The Fairy Knight – Pilot | Sam Tracton |
| The Flat Earth Lunch Club | Benjamin Goodall, Andrew Sansom |
| The Gang Gets Diverse | Jordan Champagne |
| The Ghosts of Rashburn Hall | S. E. McMeans |
| The Good Ones | Gerardo Lara |
| The Gravity Well – Episode 1 – “BigBen” | Tom Fisher |
| The Grey Quill Society | Victoria Bullock |
| The Hollywood Canteen: Pilot | Alison Wroblewski |
| The Hospitalist | Patrick Tierney |
| The Illusionist Club | Dan Carrillo, Eugenio Villamar |
| The Killer B’s | Dave Chan |
| The Knight’s Phoenix | Joseph Mwamba |
| The Lake | Adam Seidel |
| The Last Black Man on Earth | Joel Harold |
| The Lokono Legacy | Juan Villa, Joe Minoso |
| The Long Con | Alex Ovadal |
| The Mad Queen – “No One Trusts A Traitor” | Cindy Matta |
| The Memoir | Elissa Aron |
| The Memory Bank | Coopers |
| The Middle-Aged Vampire’s Guide to Un-Living | Lana Cooper |
| The Monarch Guild | Jason Ancona |
| The Nut Farm | Warren Clarke |
| The Other Side | Matthew Kunkel, Audrey Kunkel |
| The Parish | Joe (Robert) Barbor |
| The President’s Doctor | Stewart Summers |
| The Real Story | Alan Perlo, Andres Paciuc |
| The Repatriots | Andrea Lawson |
| The Rez | Danielle Stratton |
| The Rumor Factory | Clark Kosene |
| The Scumbags of ’83 | Alex Estrada, John Sartori |
| The Showrunner | Jonathan Clancy |
| The Sisterhood (2nd Draft) | Destin Hicks |
| The Song & Dance Man | Alford Daley |
| The Surgeon | Richard Delancy |
| The Syndicate | Daniel Yi |
| The Tales of Magic Patt | Tali Chais |
| The Townhouse | David Neal |
| The True Story of the S.S. Rex | Paula Dixon |
| The Underground | Anika Shakir |
| The Unit | Finola Waller |
| The Unordinary | Justin McLachlan |
| They Listen | Debora Bottino |
| Those People | Andrew Zeoli, Christian Wagner, Greg Stevens |
| Through Violet Eyes | Stephen Woodworth |
| Thruple | Maggie Callis |
| Time Janitors | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Token Idiots | Matthew Lutz |
| Trailer Trash | Gerardo Lara |
| Tucker | Rachel Fischer |
| Type A | Joseph Adams |
| Under The Surface – Pilot | Anna Abrashina |
| Undertow | Elena Perez |
| Unfamous | Raven Monroe |
| Union Made | Rikki Bleiweiss |
| Unlimited Breadsticks | Erica Lane |
| Unqualified Success | Christopher Sweeney |
| Upstaged | Eamon McIvor, Olivia Hinebaugh |
| Valentino’s Day Massacre | Heather Mikles |
| Vigilante Nancy | Denise Miotke |
| Vindicta: Pilot | Austen Eberhardt |
| Voice of America | Adam Klugman |
| Walk and Roll | Lesley Hennen |
| Welcome to 2025 | T.J. Peters |
| Were | Carter Friend |
| Whether We Like It or Not | Matt Gomez Hidaka |
| Wild | Josh Doke, Austin Wagoner |
| Wildwood | Sarah Martellaro |
| Wing Night | Saj Pothiawala |
| Winning | Cherice Hunt |
| Worst Case Scenario | Raymond Ford |
| Wrestlers | Ryan Wolin |
| Ya Paso | Jennifer Monteagudo |
| You Can’t Win | Danny Bernardo |
| Zac Trevor: Live! | Collin Schuster |
| Zero Day After | Mitchell Golden |
| Zombie Video | Sarah Bockian |
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