Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay Feature 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 Semifinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing. Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on April 15th!
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 2021 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
10 Rounds Deep | Parker Bohner |
1892 | P.D. Hogan |
Advice from my 14-year-old Self | Keith Rivers, Steve Stockman |
Always | Jessie Holder Tourtellotte |
American Fallout | Harry Kakatsakis |
Ana Undone | Catherine Delaloye |
Andi and I | Frank Hill |
Angel Hair | Jack Vandagriff |
Auntie | Deirdre Patterson |
Bad Choice | Gary Lippman |
Blind Justice | Ramona Taylor |
Blood Thief | Winnie Soldi |
Blue Vein Society | Marcia McKenna |
Born Again | Jason Fraley |
Breaking News | Samuel Spitale |
Burn Valley | Jesse Thompson |
By the Light of the Moon | Quinlan Orear |
Camp Tenebres | John Coo |
Can’t Buy Me Love: The Cynthia Lennon Story | Kelly Gaudet |
Caveat Emptor | Ray Goldberg |
Charlie Bonner | Benjamin Seay |
Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
Christmastime Girl | Caroline Keeler |
Condemned | Tara Hall |
Confederate Ghoul | Mark Solomon |
Cop Killer | Greg Goodness |
Crawdaddies | Andrew Zeoli, Christian Wagner |
Crimelords | John Mahony |
Dark Pacific | Jeff Chasin |
Date | Christian Canterbury |
Desperate Measures | Evan Kornfeld |
Devil’s Rain | Tami Ryder |
Dog of War | Katterina Powers |
Eating Bitter | Tiffany Lin |
Eephus | Anthony Rea |
Egypt | Dominique Jordan |
Encore | Simon Schneider |
Enemy of My Enemy | Clayton Callahan |
Escape to Cuba | Ryan Porter |
Fantasy | Murdoch MacNeil |
Fear | Peter Jang |
Fever Dream | Jordan Matthew Horowitz |
Find Your Light | Maia Henkin |
First Drop of Rain | James Brosnahan |
Fish | Michael Langer, Phil Davis |
Fix | Jeff Bower |
Flight Plans | Keith Rivers |
Foodie: The Begrudging Palate of Berwin Trug | Xan Wynne-Jones |
Foreign Soil | Sean Logan, Andy Hassell |
Grandeur | Shaun Perry, Jay Perry |
Grasse Stains | Nora Barry |
Green Wars | Warren Clarke |
Grief Backpack | Danielle Smith |
Grief Leech | Shayna Hack |
Grip | Steven Bennett |
Gunsel | John Ingle |
Gunship | Dan Fraser |
Have You Heard About Harvey? | Sam Wright |
Hell is Other People | Chase Karpus |
Here To Stay | Sara Robin, Shirley Miller |
Hometown Pride | Maggie Callis |
I’m Digging a Hole | Noel Taylor |
If I Needed You | Joey Rayburn |
Infohazards | Stephen Padgett |
Jakayla | J. Gabriel Ware |
Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
Johnny’s Pico | Sean Monahan, Scott Hennelly |
Jumpman | Matthew Breault, Alex George Pickering |
Jumpman: The Legend of Shigeru Miyamoto | Nick Hurwitch |
Just A Dog | Jeanne Rosenberg |
Keep Talking | Joseph Lee |
Kill Him | Ryan Jeffrey |
Knockout | Gianni Baha, Samuel Lukas |
L.A. City Council: District #11 | Ryan Anker |
Land of Gold | Nardeep Khurmi |
Le Havre | Tim Vanvilla |
Let ‘er Buck | Maren Curtis |
Level Up | Hymnson Chan |
Life’s So Sweet | Tom Palmer |
Lift Off | W.E. Richardson |
Little Girl Found | Julian Renner |
Lowlands | Alex Ovadal |
Main Drag | Ryan Thorsen |
Manifest | Anthony Benigno |
Marvin | Jason Gilmore |
Metastasis | Alessandro Guarino |
Miles Away From Home | Brit Cowan |
Mind Game | Martin McSweeney |
Mind Games | Matthew Manson |
Miss Dickpuncher | Emily-Anne Mikos |
Modern Art | Laurence Fuller |
More Than One Idiot Brother | Pearse Lehane |
Most Decorated Soldier | Ellie Bambach |
My Own Flesh and Blood | Jacob Harpel |
Ned Gets To Kill | Michael Noonan |
Needle Woman | Nicole Newman |
No Weddings and a Funeral | Patricia Serrano Chungsathaporn |
North Beyond East | Alex Farhandi |
Operation Babylift-Children Of The Dust | John Mccarney |
Oracle | Holly Holstein |
Other Half | Emily Lerer |
Our Ugly Baby | Ray Keller |
Pathfinders | Martin Arnest |
Plan A | Tara Hall |
Pocket Mom | Bryan Firks |
Popular | Marley Schneier |
Repair The Carrows | Johnny Cruz |
Restless Nights | Rod Kashani |
Results in Ten Days | Sarah Smick |
Salone | Jordyn Giddens |
Save Our Souls | Justin Conrad |
Saving Yourself | Abby Berendt Lavoi |
Seed of Knowledge | Eleonora Mignoli |
Seraphim’s Miracle | J.B. Storey |
Sledgehammer | Vinny Smith |
Slow Moe | Xan Wynne-Jones |
Some Travel Required | Linda Simeone |
Sorry For Your Loss | Sophia Sabella, Pablo Feldman |
Sounds | Laura Denton |
Space Cadet | Nicole Delprado |
Space/Time | Danny Baram |
Spoken For | Micki Colker-Pearlman |
Starlight | Hunter Cline |
Steve Wants to Die | Josh Corrigan |
Surviving Uranus | Michael Wohl |
Sweeper | Nick Drago |
Teacher | James Shaw |
Thanksgiving | David Lombroso |
The 84 | Sonja Perryman |
The Advantages of Whiskey Over Dogs | Michael Begg, Barry A. Lemoine |
The Art of Losing | Steven Lankenau |
The Boy with the Pink Triangle | Amy Reedy Asbjørnsen |
The Culture | James Shippy |
The Desert Shrine | V. R. Marianne Zahn |
The Doors Of Perception | Johnny Cruz |
The Eideticour Connection | Sabrina Miller |
The Fallowship | Jeff Lewis |
The Flid Show | Richard Willett |
The Great Hunger | Paul G Andrews |
The Great Spaggiari | Chris Mul, Michael Mul |
The Great White | Shannon N Sprouse |
The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
The Hiding | Christian Hearn |
The Hotel Barbers | Daniel Woburn |
The Hunt for Summer | Chelsea Perrotty Talbot |
The Jeweler | Jason Tremblay |
The Kids’ Kingdom | Luca Violante |
The King of Greenwich Village | Jorge Moratal |
The Last Lost Boy | Mike Cochnar |
The Listeners | Will Berry |
The Nature of It | Kate Kelsen |
The Other Half | Dana Yong |
The Pill and the Fury | David Scala |
The Purpose of a Lighthouse | Gabe Berry |
The Real Thing | Matthew Papadopoulos |
The Reluctant Hero | Rudy Gray |
The Second Location | Tracy Schumer |
The Sisyphus of Happiness | Josh Elliott |
The Sleeping House | Suzanne Griffin |
The Way We Say Pizza | Alexander Rojas |
The Week After | Michael Noonan |
The Wolf and the Lamb | Marcus Harmon |
The Youth Pastor | Aaron Mobley |
Upside Downers | Nicole Donadio |
Weekend at Bernie’s III | Craig Miller, Pete Johnson |
Whatever After | Jamie Michelle Fox, Josh Cootner |
Wild World | Anne Carmack |
Willie Haven’s Noir | Alex Arjuna Hughes |
Write or Die! | Christine OKeefe |
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