Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered WeScreenplay Feature Screenwriting Lab 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 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 are improving all the time!
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 24th!
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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 2023 WeScreenplay Feature Screenwriting Lab Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| ¡Raza! | Victor Adame |
| (When You’re Ready To Go) | Amy B Tiong |
| 4 LUVOFMONEY | J.Patrick Hayden |
| 99 Jersey | Duchant Johnson |
| A Double Victory | Subrina Wood |
| A Fearful Trill | Matt MacDonald |
| A Simple Machine | Mark Hoffman |
| Adventures in Serial Killing | John Munn |
| Against All Entropy | Nick McMurdy |
| Always, Forever | Lucas Miller |
| An imaginary tale | Arka Mukhopadhyay |
| APACHE | Adam Seidel |
| At The Heart of Everything | Mayanka Goel |
| Back in the High Life | Larry Collins |
| Barbara the Barbarian | Des Burnison |
| Blackwind Run | Jonathan Case |
| Bonerpart | Matt MacDonald |
| Chó | Jon Shaivitz |
| Cling | AARON WARNER |
| COLOMI | Sam Yano |
| Coming Up Kupchik | Frank Oteri |
| Cool Boy | Andrew Wailes |
| Crabs In A Mother F*cking Bucket | Kari Mote |
| Dad Tokes | Anthony Rea III |
| Dauntless | Barry Leach |
| De Cuero | Michael Navarro |
| Don’t Cry | Stefan Alexander, Anthony Guilianti |
| Everyday Demons | Brian Birmingham |
| False Judgment | Jave Galt-Miller |
| FANGIRL | Julia Griffin |
| Field Day | Mackenzie Rohan |
| Fighting Back | Richard Periard |
| Fissure | Spencer Slovic |
| FITZY | John OShaughnessy |
| Found Objects | SHAWNA CHANCE |
| Frank M | Benin Trotter |
| God Bless Jess | Richie DeBiase, Ethan Cvitanic |
| Goodbye Everybody | Benjamin Lewis |
| Have No Fear | Jacob Rice |
| How the Light Gets In | Paul Bland |
| Hunting The Deckers | John Ravitz |
| I Think Therefore You Are | Genet Hughes |
| Ibu (Mother) | Friakanya Iwana |
| IDENTICAL OPPOSITES | Kevin J. Howard |
| Improv | Genet Hughes |
| In Gray We Trust | Judy Daghestani |
| Insatiable | Brian Koukol |
| InstaGraham | Harry Borland |
| Jimmy | Kent Moran |
| Kat Mandu | Jennifer Ramsey |
| KEEPER | R.L. Hooker |
| KISS OF DARKNESS | MICHAEL MCCLUNG |
| Knight Fight! | James Mulcahy |
| Kosovo | Timothy Guay |
| Liebe Lise | Luke Hart-Moynihan |
| Love Is Simple | Nick Perlman |
| Luminous Bodies | Daniel Carroll, Alethia Ward |
| Madame Butterfly’s Mad Jaunt | Barry Leach |
| Maggie | shona tuckman |
| Major Hacker’s War | Steve Blame |
| Marias Pass | Sydney Hoffner |
| MILES TO GO | Joy Frelinghuysen |
| Misinterpreted | Tristan Young Mercado |
| Miss Me When I’m Gone | Matthew Gomez |
| Moth | Melissa Sweazy |
| Museum Piece | Brian Koukol |
| My Cousin’s Car | Andrew Goldmeier |
| NO GOOD DEED | Heather Farlinger |
| Nobodys Heroes | Michael Elliott |
| Noriko and the Dream-Eater | Mickey Cooper |
| Of Popes, Kings and Princes | Jeffrey Glatz |
| Off-Label | Thomas Schrack |
| ONCE UPON ANOTHER LIFE | Carol Capomaccio |
| Orange | Lisa Weaklim |
| Out of Water | Madi Stine |
| Pardon The Interruption | Olivia Lee |
| Phantom Walls | Josh Michaels |
| Piece de Resistance | Barry Leach |
| POINTS NORTH | Liz Smith |
| Populous | Christa Butler |
| PROUD | Courtney Harrell |
| Raise Iron | Stan Moroncini |
| REBEKAH | Callum Williams |
| Red Christmas | Matthew Kelcourse |
| Reformation | Stephen Morgan-MacKay, Stefan Alexander |
| Rising Fawn | Rebecca Corrales |
| ROSEBUD | Kayla Hardy |
| Sacrificial | Michael Lucid |
| SAIGON DOLL | Tony Ferrendelli |
| She Used to be Zoey Darling | Nathan Cowan, Kat Francisco |
| SHE’S NOT GONE | Micky Levy |
| SHELBY KANE | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Simon Son Of Star | Ronen Tregerman, Jack Snyder |
| Solo | David Zeltser, Joseph Greco |
| Something About the Tide | Julia Morizawa |
| Stiff Griff | Alden Pernell |
| Take My Life | Larry Collins |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Thaw | Alex Bush |
| The Al Smith Story | Ramzi Ramadan |
| The Ambulance Driver | Barry Leach |
| The Art of Baseball | Anthony Rea |
| The Aviatrix | Stephen Kelly |
| The AWNING | Brefni O’Rourke |
| The Burden of Light | Helen Alexis Yonov |
| The Cat’s Silhouette | Nicholas Chan |
| The Cold Earth | Miles Kelly |
| The Compromise | Brian Leider |
| The Crimson Pool | Daniel Beals |
| The Dark Eleventh Hour | Jordyn Giddens |
| The Final Cut | Giuseppe Cocca |
| The Great Zombie Recess War | Daniel Beals |
| The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| The Knocking at the Marsh | Gina DeAngelis |
| The Mark | Carol Lewis |
| The Method | Aaron Michael Bailey, Troy Fresch |
| The Niihau Terror | Jeff Prahl |
| The Outskirts of Paradise | Montgomery Burt |
| The Pearl | Pelin Keskin |
| The Prosecution | Vir Srinivas |
| The Remnants | Kevin Long |
| THE SEA TAKES CARE OF HER OWN | Ellie Anthony |
| The Secret Life of Balthasar | Michael Burnet |
| THE SERVICE | Edward Klau |
| THE SILVIA SHOW | Alfredo Rodriguez-Allen |
| The Siren Keeps Calling | Andrew Montiveo |
| The Terror at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | Lee Krempel |
| The Volleyball Movie: Rick Dawson Spikes Back | Lizzie Boeck, Brittany Diamond |
| Ties that Bind | Luca Violante |
| Topher & Nate & The Invaders From Mars | Ryan Dooley |
| Trapped | Farrin Rosenthal |
| TRICE | Matt Foss, Carlos Washington |
| Tristan | Jocelyn Osier |
| Two Lane Forever | Andrew Jenner |
| Two Steps Back | Rory Torres |
| VIENNA CALLING | Renate Grassmugg |
| VIVIAN | David Woll |
| Wrightsborough | Mahonri Stewart |
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