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.
WeScreenplay believes that the best way for writers to grow is through feedback. That is why WeScreenplay provides 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 getting traction in the industry!
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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 September 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 Semifinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| 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 Town Dressed In Black | Gregory Fishwick |
| Against My Brothers | Paul Cahill |
| Airmid | Steve McCarten |
| Assimilated | Christopher Guerrero |
| Assisted Living | Anna Robertson |
| Baby in the Backseat | Clara Wong |
| Bad at Being Good | Christopher Roman |
| Banana Triangle Six | Marc Crandall |
| Belated | Leah Chen Baker |
| Bentobox | Victoria Castro |
| Butterflies | Kassia Neckles |
| Copal | Kiki Tsakalakis |
| Dangerous | Jacob Dalton |
| Deep | Desmond Jackson |
| Delivery | Ellen Shanley |
| Demand Greatness | Mike Garcia |
| El Vals (The Waltz) | Alycya Magana |
| Entrance of Pink Elephants | Tatiana Fedorovskaya |
| Esther | Diana F. Bryden |
| Exposure | Michelle Aldridge |
| Fatal Ambition | Angel Connell |
| Fishmonger | Neil Ferron, Alexandra Dennis-Renner |
| Foot In The Door | Joshua Boultwood-Neale |
| Frost | Mickey Robinson |
| Good Morning | Robert Waddell |
| Hazelnut Cookie | Remi Brandely |
| Hooky | Anne Carmack |
| Identification | Larry Collins |
| Intercession | Alessandra Alma |
| Iridescence | Jeremy Hsing |
| Jade | Eris Qian |
| Just Kids | Alessandro Riconda |
| Khilonay (Toys) | Samah V |
| Mine | Joey Connolley |
| Missing Piece | Eva Kantor |
| My Chinese Neighbor | Hongyu Li, Larry LaFond |
| My Life as a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist | Amanda Dinsmore |
| Old Habits Die Hard | Sanni Kämäräinen |
| Onion What? | Colin Ryan |
| Outward Bound | Jared Tetreau |
| Phantom War | Scott Jeschke, Micah McFarland |
| Playback | Brent Pollard |
| Possum | Lyndal Simpson |
| Prevail | Briana Chatters |
| Rain for Jo | J.L. Reed |
| Reconcile | Gabriela Matarazzo |
| Reconsolidation | Blake Ellis, Brandon Weis, Michael Oldham |
| Regarding the Pain of Others | Phil Vengrinovich |
| Rob & Lucy | Adam Breseman |
| Say Yes | Gabe Berry |
| Show and Tell | J.M. Kallet |
| So You Majored In Philosophy | Steven Demmler |
| Starman | Madeleine Weatherhead |
| Stuck | Katy Erin |
| Sweet Kool -aid | Devyne Carr |
| Talon | Heather Parra |
| The Birthday Card | Daniel Yi |
| The Consiglieres | Michael “Mickey” Falcone |
| The Cornucopia | William Leiren |
| The Doppelganger | Steve Walter |
| The Flower of Battle | Gedaly Guberek, Reuben Guberek |
| 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 Note | Dale Janda |
| The People of Long, Long Ago v. Caterpillar | Shaun Radecki |
| The Rest is Silence | Aayushi A. Shah |
| The REVVER | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| There Stands The Glass | Kevin Hohenberger |
| Town Street | Dylan Amick |
| Viral | Jordan Lavender |
| Wildcat | Cat Dale |
| Ziggy | Marissa Boquet |
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