Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the 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 Quarterfinalist round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing. Stay tuned for the Semifinalist announcement on March 8th!
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 2022 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| (A)Sexual Awakening | Henry Jarvis |
| A FIRE INSIDE | Richard Martin |
| A Girl With Spirit | Britney Acuff |
| A KISS AFTER SUNSET | Daron Ross |
| A Man’s Castle | Joseph Whaley |
| A Real Man | Magda Pazdej |
| A Well Decorated Corner | Sam Kench |
| A Woman’s Choise, update | Paul Bloemers |
| Adult Acne | Jade Tremblay |
| AirB-n-Blood (feature) | Aaron Barrocas |
| All Art Is Quite Useless | Jeff Racho |
| American Homunculus | Allison Volk |
| Andante | Ray Goldberg |
| Ankle | Daley Nixon |
| Army of the Mortal Gods | Bryce Allen |
| Backwards McCloud | Vince Devlin |
| Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
| Bag of Cans | Kenny Tran |
| BALANCE | Edward Klau |
| Becoming Hillburns | Joshua Laufer |
| Before the Drought | Melinda Maerker |
| Before The Others | Meko Winbush |
| Beneath The Okanagan | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Big Secrets at the Small Mall | Bob Lind |
| Black Waters | Kate Imy |
| Blackland County | Josh Taylor |
| Boblo | Scott Fenton, George Fenton |
| Bone Moon | Elizabeth J. Musgrave |
| BONEYARD | Phoenix Black |
| Breast in Show | Andrea Berting |
| Breathe With Me | Mathew Rush |
| Breeder | Alex Goyette |
| Bunny | Heidi Hayward |
| CA$H4LIFE | Melvin Lima |
| Cadet Nurse Corps | Aimee McGuire LeMasters |
| Cellular | Kevin Kunze, Ellie Marks |
| Centurions | Sally Stubbs |
| Chasing Impala | Dylan Volman |
| Cheerleader Macbeth | Daniel Strange |
| Chivalry | George Alexanian |
| Cigarette Emojis Of The Upper East Side | Christopher Isenegger |
| City of Destiny | Jon Davis |
| COMMONWEALTH | Jared Hardy |
| Cultivating Mr. Perfect | Roopal Badheka |
| Darwin | George Japheth |
| Dauntless | Barry Leach |
| DEADFAKE | Andrew Carruthers |
| Death at a Murder | David Sajadi |
| Denham Fouts | Michael Johns |
| Desperate and Dated | Helen Wentland |
| Dirty Movies on VHS | Whitney Melton |
| Dolly’s Place | Eric Conger |
| Donna’s DNA | Nora Barry |
| Elias | Joe Marino |
| Ella | Michael Dean |
| Elsie | Fernanda Cardoso |
| Emerald Lagoon | Joseph Murillo |
| Esmeralda | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| Fallstreak | Kyle Curry |
| Femme Fatale in Stiletto Heels | Pam Price |
| Final Eclipse | Sean Mogridge |
| Fire Over The Hills | Alexander Chard |
| FLYOVER | Heather Faris |
| Found | Rebecca Mihocic, Andrew Devlin |
| Fratricide | Asante Jones |
| From the Outside, Everything’s Fine | Julie Dillemuth |
| Gang of One: Hurricane Ron | CJ Hatch |
| Gaslighting in the 21st Century | Aviyah Abrams |
| Gemma | Kellee Terrell |
| GIRL AT THE END OF THE WORLD | Dillon VanOort |
| Golden Hour | Jennifer Ramsey |
| Good Grief | Reina Abrevaya |
| Grass Snakes | Danny Katz |
| GUARDIAN | Jess Gupta |
| Guffy | Will Berry |
| Hanging By A Thread | Craig T. Williams |
| He Who Beat Napoleon | Michael Skaide |
| Holiday Help | karl Erikson |
| Homecoming | Blake Hawk, Brian J. Leitten |
| Homicide Hillz | Seti Jakada |
| How Rock and Roll Saved Tosca | Barry Leach |
| I Do | Natalie Hunter |
| I Love You, Margot Robbie | Sav Rodgers, Taylor Gates |
| IMPALA | Robert Wooldridge |
| In Bones and Soul | James LeJeune |
| In His Image | Kendra Christel |
| In My Head | Rebecca Baruch |
| In the habitat of Cougars | Jeanette Campbell |
| In the Meantime | Joe Wielosinski |
| Inca Gold | Sandy Steers |
| INFINITY | Dustin Castleberry |
| Instant Message | Sarah K. Moss |
| Into the Thicket | Devany Greenwood |
| Journey to the (Old) West | Jerry Redfield, Huang Shi |
| Joyride | Craig Paulsen |
| Keesha Goes To Camp | Rebecca Jordan Smith |
| Killed By Liam Neeson | Robert Benjamin |
| LEARNING TO BE… | J Frederick |
| Liberation | Stephen Colley |
| Life Ever After | Stig Edgren |
| Little Girl Blue | Maceo Greenberg |
| Lockdown | Joshua Deepan |
| Losers | Rebecca Baruch |
| Lost Time | Ben Hickernell |
| Lotus Dawn | Russell Silva |
| Love Loss | Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo |
| lovesix | Julia Barnard |
| Low Bar | Carlos Gabriel Ruiz |
| Make Me An Angel | Lauren Hendler |
| MANIAC MAGUIRE | Evan Ternullo |
| Marked | Catherine Bonny |
| Masters and Servants | John Enright |
| Mayfly | Alex Grossman |
| Meetings With Marty | Gregor Nicholas |
| Minor Sins | Matt Cochran |
| Murder Takes Time | Giacomo Giammatteo |
| My Hero | Alex Forstenhausler |
| N57 | David J. Buchanan |
| Need to Know | Judy Soo Hoo, Isaac Ho |
| Nina | Michael Catangay |
| Nine Days of Christmas | Munir Abedrabbo Campana |
| NOD | John Palfery-smith |
| NOLA’S LAST HEIST | Martina Muhoberac |
| Nora. And George. | Katherine Saviana |
| Oh Mists, My Mists | Guilherme Viegas |
| On Our Way to America | Zina Kresin |
| Once Upon a Crime: Capital City | Angelo Dania |
| Once Upon A Time In Australia | Storm Ashwood |
| OUT OF AUSCHWITZ | Mickey Falcone |
| PIECE OF MINDS | Bobby Alonzo |
| Pineapples in the Winter | Kelly Buchanan |
| Plague Of Red | Clare Reader Collins |
| Plume Raiders | Jeff Zampino |
| Poetry | Estelle Bajou |
| Prison To Paradise | Peter Narodny |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Purify My Heart | Kate Hackett |
| Raid | Josh Elliott |
| Return to Infinia | Josh Schaffer |
| REVOLUTIONARY SPY | James Foye |
| Rough Love | Mark Wasserman |
| Save the Night | Aaron Bradley |
| SAVING MARK TWAIN | Staton Rabin |
| Serial | Robert Benjamin |
| Sharctic | Esa Nurminen |
| Simulation | Peter Jang |
| Soma | Ian Hand |
| Son of A Man | Henri Roivas |
| SPIRIT WEEK | Jeremy Merrifield |
| STATE COLONY | Charels Carroll |
| Summer Nights in Paris | Chris M. Rutledge |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Technicolor Noir | Madison Sean Flannery |
| Teddybär | Tommy Tang, Ryan Van Slyck |
| The Art of Baseball | Anthony Rea |
| The Borkowskis | Leigh Costa |
| The Chosen Ones | Paul Sheridan |
| The Collaborator | Brandon Gardner |
| The Day the West Went Dry | Jeremiah Murphy |
| The Donor | Tyler Derench |
| The Duna Hotel | Ryan Berry |
| The Fambly Chambliss | Eric Thompson |
| The Farrell Girl | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Fly That Doesn’t Listen Follows The Corpse Into The Grave | Lu Asfaha |
| The Frozen Chosen | Alexander Waugh |
| The Glasgow Flash | Ross Furlong |
| The Grave Digger | AJ Eversley |
| The Gravedigger | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Hague Mother | Dave Moutray |
| The Infant | Randy Yang |
| The Last Good Soraya | TJ Berry |
| The Last Neanderthal | J. Baker Strauch |
| The Last Siren | Peter R. Feuchtwanger |
| The Lion of Engaziwa | J Woods |
| The Lost Cause | Owen Hornstein |
| The Lynching of Justitia Nigreos | Malcolm Johnson |
| THE MIRACLE MOMENT | B. E. Marvis |
| The Mirrored Room | Owen Hornstein |
| The Mural | Carolyn Bradley |
| The Neighborhood | Sara Strange |
| The Once and Future Earth | Will Saunders |
| The Outpost | Tonia Kempler |
| The Pottsville Maroons | Rowan Joseph, Derek Heeren |
| The Road from Babylon | Jordan Leipzig |
| The Roar Shack | Duncan Jones |
| THE SERVICE | Edward Klau |
| The Shadow in the Water | Garrett Ratcliff |
| The Summer We Ran | William Taylor |
| The Superwoman | Steven Ramirez |
| The Understudy | Jenna St. John |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Veil | Jeff Baker |
| The Visiting Stone | AJ Briones |
| The Voice That Seduced The World | Julius Barbosa |
| The White Guy Dies First | Nicholas Pangilinan |
| They Hunt | Mason Weigel |
| Thrash Canyon | Andrew Gilchrist |
| Ties That Bind | Donna Gooden |
| Toccata and Fugue | Jennifer Giacalone |
| Trinity | Andres Valentin Lopez |
| Trip | Shannon Sipher |
| Two Peas | Mike Turner, Shakita Devoe |
| Unbreak My Heart | Christie Allen, Patty Carey |
| Us and the Road | Saray Guidetti |
| VALLEY OF THE SHADOW | Logan Shaw |
| Vanity Kills | Cedric Grant |
| Vita Nova | sebastian magiera |
| Walking in Iowa | Alex Murawski |
| WAYFARING MEN OF ILL REPUTE | Zane McWilliams |
| What the Night Leaves Behind | Rob Sheely |
| White’s Guilt: A Tragicomedy | Greg Fortier |
| Wide Open Spaces | R.L. Hooker |
| WILD MAN | Maureen McEly |
| With You Always | Will Anderson |
| X; or The Ascension of Gold Mountain | Alexander Chard |
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