Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition 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, starting with this competition, 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.
From over 1,000 entries, we are thrilled to advance 223 entries to the quarterfinal round for another read. A huge congratulations to every writer advancing.
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 2018 WeScreenplay Feature Contest Quarterfinalists:
| MANIFESTO written by Khaila Amazan |
| The Battle written by Jay Hawkins, Alison Honaker |
| Good Mother, Lavender Vine written by Stacey Pierce |
| Half-Cocked written by Chris Chymiy |
| The Farmer written by Clive Howard |
| Fiber written by Lukas Valderrama |
| Rough Surface written by Tim Brennan |
| Who’s In Charge? written by Jordan Tandowsky |
| Freedom to Be written by Meryle Sachs |
| Convergence written by Paul Sheridan |
| SKYFOXES written by Marisa Forrest |
| Desdemona written by Nelson Downend |
| Flat-rate Frank written by Jeffrey Howe |
| THEY TOOK HER written by Brock Newell |
| When Loved Ones Are Near written by Aurora George |
| THE ENCHANTING HERR SCHMIDT written by Brock Newell |
| Your Time Has Come written by Gary Champagne |
| Little Bird written by Thomas Downs |
| Those Who Hear It written by Charles Hopkins |
| Herschell’s Hill written by Jon Chamis |
| Honey’s Unicorn written by D. A. Jolivette |
| Man’s Lost Friend written by anthony Mazzarella |
| WING MEN written by Jonathon Payne |
| The Witch of Dresden written by Tim Fasano |
| The Hawk of Quraysh written by Laila Ujayli |
| Adultery for the Honest Man written by Anthony Bradley |
| Ty the Pie Guy: The Movie written by Ty Freedman |
| Flight Behavior written by Amelie Yeager |
| Barth written by Scott Marshall Taylor |
| OPIA written by Nik Kacevski |
| A Boy, A House, A Ghost written by Blake Hawk |
| 3D At The Palace written by Kent Wilson |
| In Chrysalis written by Nelson Downend |
| Rebuild written by Paul Santana, Tate Ammons |
| ZEST written by Emilio Sanchez |
| A Great Big Love written by Samuel Johnson |
| The Last Line written by Brandon Maynard |
| The First Law written by Jack Christian, D. J. McPherson |
| Desire Named Katie written by Georgina Bradley |
| Plan C written by David Ngo |
| The Ferris Wheel written by Pricilla Kumar |
| Turnabout V2 written by Bill Hanan |
| THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME written by Alexander Vargas |
| The Saint written by Ellen Winburn |
| The Church of Party written by Jonathan Pack |
| The Barley Gang Crew written by Vijay Ilankamban |
| You Are Not My Trigger written by Paul Ashton |
| Tres Banditos written by Thomas Leupp |
| Spectrum written by Jennifer Trudrung |
| Good Luck, Nightingale written by Shannon Wells |
| Penthouse B written by Casey Schroen |
| The Confection Connection written by Surj Das |
| Last to Fall written by Jim Maceda |
| Buried written by Karen Frank |
| Killing Ordinary People written by Curtis Smith, L.E. Henderson |
| Mall Stars written by Erica Fagan |
| Treehuggers written by Lisa Joyce, Baz Hatfield |
| Showing Parts written by Toni Nagy |
| Epip By The Nubian Lake written by Maria Abdelrahman |
| CHANGE OF FATE written by Cheryl Smith |
| The Tower written by Ed Wiles |
| TORCH written by Jason McBeth |
| No One Left Behind written by Ariel Mayer |
| Synthetic Heart written by Ameir Brown |
| Bounce Back written by Alex Perez |
| Roomies written by Gareth Wronski |
| Raw Data written by Gareth Wronski |
| Traumatized written by Kris Lippert |
| Out of Options written by Joel Stunkard, Andrew Uscher |
| Homeless Love written by Andrew Gobel |
| Homeward Brother written by Alec Garcia |
| SHOOTING STARS written by Michael Lederer |
| Fireflies written by Tyler Welch |
| Don’t Tread on Don written by Tyler Welch |
| Lost Words written by Daniel Lauder |
| Escape Pod written by Eugene La Haye, Buster La Haye |
| Jackal written by Alex Clark |
| The Superb Lyrebird and Other Creatures written by Wendy Young |
| Monster(s) written by Aidan Largey |
| Fatal Affairs written by John Paul Gonzales |
| Childproof written by Michael Noonan |
| STONE COLD CRAZY MOTHER TUCKER written by Katterina Powers |
| Maximum Protection: The Delicate Balance Between Strength and Sensitivity written by Joseph Nybyk |
| Haunted written by Jesse Klein |
| A War on Terror written by Peter Haig |
| Guilt written by Jamie Severson |
| The Hero of The World written by Staci Greason, Linda Hill |
| In Too Deep: The Brian Futz Story (A Long Lost 80’s Movie) written by Zack Smith |
| Orion written by Sebastian McGrogan |
| Avery written by Bryan Kelsey |
| Hal, The Spud King of Japan written by John Thibault |
| The Tower written by Kevin King |
| The Cries of The Children written by Nattacha Delhomme |
| STUNG written by Sean Nogues |
| The Method and His Madness written by Mimosa Jones |
| AFTER ALCATRAZ – surviving the escape written by Kevin Bruce |
| Holding On To You written by Anich D’Jae |
| Virginia Rose and the Lost City of Gold written by Bryan Kelsey |
| Cake and Candles written by Sally Fitz |
| Trashed written by Samuel Brett Williams |
| Mom written by Jordan Champagne |
| Living Hell written by Philip Davey |
| Glow written by Lee Burgess |
| Drymouth written by Kyle Fowler |
| Cat Lady written by Joe Case |
| Rogue written by Carly Miller |
| The Hammer written by Jason Hunter |
| THE PRODIGAL SUM written by Michael Prosser |
| BLOOD-LINK written by Michael Prosser |
| The Liberator written by Joshua Carback |
| Little Girl Blue written by Maceo Greenberg |
| The Man by the River written by Bryan Kelsey |
| Open House written by Sean J.S. Jourdan, John Ingle |
| Because of Tennessee written by Karli Cae Adams |
| Oliver’s Sea Monster written by Michael Gibney |
| Black beauty and blood written by William Maxwell |
| Into Silence written by C. Andrew Hall |
| The Moment Between the Blink and the Pull written by Lori Bowen |
| JUNK written by Doug Mallette |
| Lost Coyote written by Gustavo Freitas |
| Driftwood written by Carl MacLaren |
| Learning to Crawl written by JON Gagnon |
| Full Take (Title Page/No Info) written by Morgan Lariah |
| BURNER written by Mukilan Thangamani |
| The Delivery written by Gil Seltzer |
| Warriors of Legend written by Bryan Kelsey |
| Warrior of Allah written by Joshua Payne |
| The Myth of Mathew written by Rodrigo Moreno |
| WHITE COYOTE written by arla bowers |
| The Car Thief written by Mark Bethune |
| The Emperor of Wyoming written by Michael Hamblin |
| SACRED PROFANITY written by Malcolm Wong |
| Rescue written by E.S. Dolan Dix |
| BROTHER PROOF written by Michael Sollars, Geoffrey Sollars, Eric Sollars |
| Rainbow Man written by Bruce Gelfand |
| A Realistic Hero written by Steve Miranda |
| Selva written by Nadia Desyatnikova |
| Go, Nina, Go! written by Luisa Parnes |
| Music To Dream By written by Jason Long |
| Ms Greer written by Alica Gwinner |
| The Late Night Creep written by jamal dedeaux |
| Burnt Isles written by Jeff Prater |
| The Courageous Life of Jeremy Braxton written by Emily Maroutian |
| The Paper Bag Test written by C Revey Jones |
| Friday Night Frenzy written by Richard Stringham |
| McBrides written by Erna Mueller |
| What’s Mine written by Asya Perkins |
| The Way We Speak written by Ian Ebright |
| SILENCE written by John Edward Flynt |
| The Girl in Green written by James Beaman |
| H.P. Lovecraft’s Tales Of Terror written by Samuel Fisch |
| The Trouble With Swift written by Rusty Lofgren |
| Fall Not Into Darkness written by Philip Hogan |
| Elsa written by Joann Buckley Collins |
| CHERRY written by Sophie Galibert and Arthur Cohen |
| Dreamland is Burning written by Michael Goedecke |
| Lemons and Things written by Tilda Fay |
| Newcomer written by Michael Leung |
| The Announcer written by Justin Sanders |
| The Devil, a Rebel, a Fool written by Clayton Fusco |
| The Hedgehogs Who Saved Christmas written by SJ Murray |
| Here I Go Again written by Tony Nichols |
| The Last Wild Indian written by Heather Ragsdale |
| The Favor written by Randall Jedinak |
| Area 54 written by Aaron Barrocas |
| STRAWBERRY BITCH written by Patrick Poff |
| Blood and the Rye written by Rajiv Shah |
| Sergeant Watkins written by Louis Spirito, Gary ‘Max’ McGill |
| The Angel’s Right Hand written by Douglas Spaltro |
| Susan the Spy written by Alva Moore |
| Cyborn written by Mark Renshaw |
| Ain’t No Cowboys in Nashville written by Christopher O’Bryant |
| American Myths of Black & White written by Aaron Yarber |
| Tussle written by Aaron Yarber |
| THE FIGHTING GIRLFRIEND written by Alexander Vargas |
| Karmarama written by Russell Smith |
| Soul to Squeeze written by Alex Arabian |
| FENCE OFF written by Karolyn Szot |
| Winter Jasmine written by Jennifer Cooney |
| Bikini Blues: My Summer at Fat Camp written by Christina Lopez-Hidalgo |
| The Fool’s Errand written by John Murphy, Chris Bramante |
| Patchwork written by Amanda Keener |
| Fireflies written by Amanda Keener |
| A Suspect in Arms written by Selcen Onsan |
| Christmas, MI written by Rafael Waack |
| Oath written by Paul Frank |
| BLOOD IN THE WATER written by Laura Gillis |
| Albatross Gardens written by Lee Whitten |
| Disc written by Nicola Quilter |
| Forty Winks written by Andrew Stein |
| Imani written by Desmond Coleman |
| Hattie McD written by Sylvia-Anne Parker |
| Bullet written by Nikola Stojkovic |
| A Ski Mask Way written by Joshua Edwards |
| Ersatz written by Charles Ancelle |
| Hunny Bunny written by Ken Green |
| The Fulfillment written by David Flanagan |
| Bad Medicine written by Tom Becker |
| BROTHERS written by Gary Miranda |
| The Saxon written by Louis Spirito |
| Zharkov’s Masterpiece written by Elizabeth Samaroo |
| The Memory Bank written by Daniel Cooper, Adam Cooper |
| The Plague Doctor written by Emanuele Mengotti |
| The Last Frontier written by Holly Holstein |
| Exiled written by Matthew Miller |
| SPACE JUNK written by Christopher Mancuso, Jason Porcino |
| White Crow written by David BARBESCHI |
| Distortion written by Travis Opgenorth |
| THE APPARITIONIST written by Travis Opgenorth |
| Icemaiden written by Derrick Vaughan |
| For a few brief moments written by Jonathan Soler |
| Cricket written by Ohad Ira Amram |
| Blue Comedy written by Vincent Accettola |
| Rabbit Hole Southside written by Alexandre Okada Figueiredo |
| City of Trees written by Christian Lybrook |
| The Method & His Madness written by Mimosa Jones Tunney |
| I’M WITH AIDS written by Warren Wagner |
| Cross Country Lofthouse written by Caitlin Vukorpa |
| Successful Steps for Coping with Cancer written by Olivia Bono |
| The Slowest Gun In The West written by Jason Baum |
| The Boy with the Pink Triangle written by Amy Reedy |
| Space/Time written by Danny Baram |
| Without written by Christopher O’Bryant |
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