Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay Shorts Contest this year! Your hard work, talent, and dedication to storytelling shines through in the entries we received.
It was very exciting to see so many writers at the Seed&Spark webinar that was held exclusively for our Shorts writers! We look forward to seeing many of your films out in the world down the line.
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. Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on August 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 Shorts Contest Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| 3 – 2 – Gone | Russell Southam |
| A Cotton Moon | Zack Hosseini |
| A Dancer Dies Twice | Shalishah Franklin |
| A Lovely Day | Marcus Stricklin |
| A Pickle and a Coke | Alex Kokenis |
| A Prayer for Spiderman Underwear | Briana Chatters |
| A Room in Pittsburgh | Ryan Dancho |
| A Toe in the Deep End | Nelson Knight |
| A Town Dressed In Black | Gregory Fishwick |
| Against My Brothers | Paul Cahill |
| Aim High | Alexandre Jerard Davis, Robert Capron |
| Airmid | Steve McCarten |
| Anime Iron Cook | Will Yoder |
| Ariella | Kristy Lussier |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Assisted Living | Anna Robertson |
| Baby in the Backseat | Clara Wong |
| Babygate | Daryn Robinson |
| Bad at Being Good | Christopher Roman |
| Bad Things | Eoin Wickham |
| Banana Triangle Six | Marc Crandall |
| Belated | Leah Chen Baker |
| Bentobox | Victoria Castro |
| Bienvenidos a Los Angeles | Lisa Cole |
| Birds of a Feather | B Mast |
| Bureau 121 | Helene Taylor |
| But First, Three Questions | Jazmyn Wright |
| Butterflies | Kassia Neckles |
| Colorville | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| Come Sunday | Stephanie Anne Lewis |
| Copal | Kiki Tsakalakis |
| Cycle Lunaire | Mark Dispenza |
| Dangerous | Jacob Dalton |
| Death is Only a Stranger Once | Larry Collins |
| Deep | Desmond Jackson |
| Delirium | Sean Birney |
| Delivery | Ellen Shanley |
| Demand Greatness | Mike Garcia |
| EBO | L.E. Coleman |
| El Vals (The Waltz) | Alycya Magana |
| Entrance of Pink Elephants | Tatiana Fedorovskaya |
| Esther | Diana F. Bryden |
| Exposure | Michelle Aldridge |
| Fatal Ambition | Angel Connell |
| Fateful | Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett |
| Festival 2017 | Matthew Lessall |
| Filter Face | Will Jones |
| Fishmonger | Neil Ferron, Alexandra Dennis-Renner |
| Foot In the Door | Joshua Boultwood-Neale |
| Fragment | Angel Nunez |
| Fraud | Chris Conway |
| From: Him To: You by Me | Joshua Pabon |
| Frost | Mickey Robinson |
| Gloomy Sunday | Kevin Machate |
| Good Grief | Ellis Sutton, Areeta Asgharzadeh |
| Good Morning | Robert Waddell |
| Harlem Candle | Alana Branch |
| Hazelnut cookie | Remi Brandely |
| Heartworms | Terry Irwin |
| Hide Your Crazy | Austin Kase |
| Hiroshi’s Last Race | Michael Danon |
| Holy Man | Tamara Ignatowski |
| Hooky | Anne Carmack |
| Humans I Can Save You! | Jerry Toth |
| I’m Not Being Funny | George Bartlett |
| Identification | Larry Collins |
| Imagine It | Andrea Ohnesorge |
| Improper Dosage | Adam McDaniel |
| Intercession | Alessandra Alma |
| Into the Valley | Emily Somers |
| Iridescence | Jeremy Hsing |
| Jade | Eris Qian |
| Jailbreak | Gerald Prophete |
| Journey to Negritude | Jeanell Allen |
| Just Kids | Alessandro Riconda |
| Justice | Simon Feuer |
| Khilonay (Toys) | Samah V |
| La Ultima Muñeca | Ty Ross |
| Life Search | Ben Tedesco |
| Lita | Ian Lyndon, Francesca Cappucci |
| Lovely Lane | Paul Rowe |
| Magic Spool | Shaun Radecki |
| Mine | Joey Connolley |
| Missing Piece | Eva Kantor |
| My Chinese Neighbor | Hongyu Li, Larry LaFond |
| My Life as a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist | Amanda Dinsmore |
| Nighttime Is No Fun Anymore, Otherwise Known as NTINFA | Jennifer Trudrung |
| Old Habits Die Hard | Sanni Kämäräinen |
| Onion What? | Colin Ryan |
| Outward Bound | Jared Tetreau |
| Permission | Yuchi Chiu |
| Phantom War | Scott Jeschke, Micah McFarland |
| Piece of Cake | Jamaal Pittman |
| Playback | Brent Pollard |
| Possum | Lyndal Simpson |
| Prevail | Briana Chatters |
| Rain for Jo | J.L. Reed |
| Real | Amanda Dinsmore |
| Reconcile | Gabriela Matarazzo |
| Reconsolidation | Blake Ellis, Brandon Weis, Michael Oldham |
| Regarding the Pain of Others | Phil Vengrinovich |
| Riding with the King | Salvatore Liuzzi |
| Rob & Lucy | Adam Breseman |
| San Miguel | Alan Perlo |
| Say Yes | Gabe Berry |
| Self Checkout | Mark Flehmer |
| Show and Tell | J.M. Kallet |
| Show the Way | Marina Castillo |
| Sky-Dream | Marco Amato |
| Snapshot | The Gideon Brothers |
| Sneezing | Victor Osorio |
| So You Majored In Philosophy | Steven Demmler |
| Sorky | Paula Aguilera |
| Starman | Madeleine Weatherhead |
| Stray | Monica Lucas |
| Stuck | Katy Erin |
| Sweet Kool -aid | Devyne Carr |
| Take Care | Gabe Braxton |
| Take It Or Leave It | Brian Smith |
| Talon | Heather Parra |
| The Anything Room | Shannon Sipher |
| The Astronaut | Dicot Alvarado |
| The Birthday Card | Daniel Yi |
| The Body of Chris | Erin Brown Thomas |
| The Clerk and The Cocksman | Nick Coleman |
| The Consiglieres | Michael “Mickey” Falcone |
| The Cornucopia | William Leiren |
| The Curlew | James Bray |
| The Doppelganger | Steve Walter |
| The End of a Marriage | Zach Sims |
| The Flower of Battle | Gedaly Guberek, Reuben Guberek |
| The Great Wingzini | Shaun Radecki |
| The Hard R | Adad Warda, Levi Gordon |
| The Last Fax Ever | Steven Demmler |
| The Little Monster of Ravenswood Manor | Katherine Sainte Marie |
| The Missing Ingredient | Travis Kehoe |
| The Mold | Jon Comulada |
| The Note | Dale Janda |
| The People of Long, Long Ago v. Caterpillar | Shaun Radecki |
| The Protest | Steve Walter |
| The Rest is Silence | Aayushi A. Shah |
| The REVVER | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| The Shed Next Door | Virginia Youngren |
| The Sinners | Kosmo Crocco |
| The Victor V | Garrett Ratcliff |
| The Voyeur | Ravi Shankar Muppa |
| There Stands The Glass | Kevin Hohenberger |
| Town Street | Dylan Amick |
| Two-Bed Terrace With Original Features | Cathriona Slammon |
| Uncle Ray | Matthew Adams |
| Underpassers | Robin Johnston |
| Until Valhalla | Arturo Mireles |
| Vegan-tarian | Brian Cohen |
| Viral | Jordan Lavender |
| Walter and the 20-Million-Year-Old Spider | Shaun Radecki |
| Wildcat | Cat Dale |
| Wound Licking | Sam Terry |
| Zero Waste | Aliki Raisis, Emma Rosenthal |
| Ziggy | Marissa Boquet |
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