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Announcing the 2019 WeScreenplay Shorts Semifinalists

By September 11, 2019September 13th, 2019No Comments

The WeScreenplay Shorts Competition is dedicated to connecting talented short film writers with Oscar-nominated short film directors and creators for advice on how to create emotionally impactful storytelling in short-form content.

A sincere congratulations to the writers who are advancing.  Please make sure to congratulate these writers on the Facebook announcement and Twitter announcement — they deserve it!

And now, the 2019 WeScreenplay Shorts Semifinalists:

A Crown for Queenie written by Tiffany Lin
A F*cking Starbucks on Bleecker Street written by zack r. smith
Abby Dreams of Humans written by Michelle Sarkany
An Angel Whispers written by Jeremy Storey
Ava written by Angelique Wilson
Breaking Out written by Mandy Vicsai
Clatterz on Highwayz  written by Eva MeiLing Pollitt
Constellation written by Anne Dagenais
Cream, No Sugar written by Alaina Pinkney
Death Sentence written by Kristen Joy Bjorge
deepwater written by Linda  H.  Codega
Floss written by Alexander Gustaveson
Ghosted written by Leah Wood
Greg the Puddle written by Shaun Radecki
HOTLINE written by Douglas Spaltro
How The Other Half Live written by Michael Kitlas
How to Kill Your Roommate written by Dave Byer
Hypochondriac written by spencer banfield
I Live Alone, Everyone Does written by George Snape
Juana Pelos  written by Maria MEALLA
Karmic Moon written by Carlton Saito
Kid Midnight written by Mychal Sargent
LIBERTY written by Nikhil Kamkolkar
Lost in Orbit written by Duane Garcia
Lucky  Kitchen written by WEI LIU
Making Up written by Ryan Paige
MAN written by Cathriona Slammon
Melville written by Jeremy Storey
Mover: Loosely Based on an Alternatively Factual Account of My Life as a Data Trafficker written by Gerry Walker
Nutri-Fit written by Eleanor Utting
Other People’s Lives written by Montgomery Burt
Pink & Blue written by Nike Uche Kadri
Possum written by Lyndal Simpson
Rage written by Goldie Jones
Rat In The Sauce written by Peter Donaruma
Red House written by Holly Sereni
Reel Life written by Jeremy Span
Reset written by Emily McDermott
Say Yes written by Gabe Berry
So it Begins written by Peter Gazdag
Springerle written by Finley Mulligan
The Astronaut written by Joey Connolley
The Circle of Chawce written by Randi LeClair
The Cricket written by Gabe Berry
The Grave Digger written by Sam  Watson
The Last Creation written by Brad Cooper
The Light written by Tony Ferrendelli
The Prospector written by Ross Denyer
This Land written by Riley Madincea
Trust written by Steve Marra
Unlucky Luck written by Ashley Gwen Patrick
Winemaker  written by Miriam Rahimi-Cholensky
You written by Janine Gilbert

We want to thank every entrant for submitting their work. And if you’d like alerts when this contest re-opens, sign up via Coverfly here.


Congrats to all these fantastic writers! All placements have been updated on Coverfly.

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