Thank you to all of the incredible writers who entered Diverse Voices 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 July 7th!
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 Fall 2021 Diverse Voices Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| “Single A.F.” | Tosin Morohunfola |
| “The Pulpit” | Tosin Morohunfola |
| (No) Sex Required | Mexi Gremillion |
| A Second Short | Patrick McGrath |
| A Beautiful Brother | Lance Marshall |
| A Better Chance | L.T. Woody |
| A Day Closer to Sunday | Kiersten Villanueva |
| A Fair Fight | Peter Gazdag |
| A Family Reunion | Xavier Burgin, Thomas Wright |
| A Mystic Fog I Carry | Yen Huang |
| A Storybook Ending | Lanre Olabisi |
| Across The Hudson | Alia Ashkenazi |
| Admissions | Delani Wolf |
| Alien of Extraordinary Ability | Rishan Dhamija, Sola Fadiran, Edwin Joseph |
| All Art | Oscar Lemus |
| Alone, Together | Marcus Stricklin |
| Amadi | Karl Sanders |
| American Doctor | Veronica Reyes-How |
| American Fluid (E1 “Jason”) | Gabriel Sunday |
| Americano | James Tison, Gus Constantellis |
| An End to the Means | Martha Dunne |
| And A Child Will Lead | Jamil Akim O’Quinn |
| And One | Reno Ursal |
| Anila & Jay | Neha Aziz |
| Ann Arbor | Trevor Zhou |
| Ann Lowe | Rodney Wilkins |
| Anthony & Miguel | Trevor Brown |
| Arcana | Chandler Patton |
| Argos | Ellen Shanley |
| Arlis | Zoë Hodge |
| Arrangements | Sarah Casey |
| Ascend. | Quincy Ledbetter |
| Astronomica | Matthew Wollin |
| Awakening | Zaelyna Beck |
| Babel: Pilot | Patty Carey |
| Bacchae (The) | Jake Neville |
| Backbone | Annette Cohen |
| Bad Mango! | Meghan Weinstein |
| Ban | Bahar Ataai |
| Band Of Misfits | Manny Fonseca |
| Bandit House | Kiley Rothweiler |
| Beasts Of Nowhere | Vishwas Vishwas |
| Below The Fold | Kevin Wolfe |
| Besharam | Luveza Mubashar |
| Big Mama V2 | Clara Martínez-Lázaro |
| Binding | Mike Sheriff |
| Bitter “WakeUp!” | Cashmere Jasmine |
| Black Box | Alexandra Shields |
| Black Kaleidoscope | Alison Rayner |
| Black Men Waiting | John Lowe |
| Black Santa | Parco Richardson, Aiden Chapparone |
| Blood and the Rye | Rajiv Shah |
| Blood Rush | Norman Yeung, Darragh McDonald |
| Blowback | Eric Murphy |
| Blue Ridge Rhapsody | Rod Moore |
| Booted | Lisa J Dooley |
| Borders | Frank Velasquez |
| Broken House | Christos Anastasopoulos |
| Bucky Johnson | James Barnes, Garrett Vanderwielen |
| Built By Hart | Alison Bonn |
| Butch | Holly Austin, Zoe McDonald |
| Butthole Avenue | Maya Vyas |
| Cambados, NJ | Thomas Rivera Montes |
| Cambridge | Marilyn Hegefeld |
| Can You See Me | Yen Huang |
| Captain F*ck It | Melanie Holmes |
| Castro Street | Monica Farrell |
| Caveat Emptor | Ray Goldberg |
| Chain Free | N A Williams |
| Chancleta | Jorge Rivera |
| Chasing Fathers | Marc Henderson |
| Chasing Honey | Laura Shamas |
| Cheaters | Brittany Harris, Caitlin Gallo |
| Chilmark | Stephen Nolly |
| Chokepoint | Tamra Teig |
| Circle of Illumination | Trisha Difazio |
| City of SKOL | Jason Cho |
| Closet Hearts | Kyle T. Cowan |
| Cody | David Smith |
| Color Blind | Mier Liu, Tamela D’Amico |
| Colour My Love | Starlett Hill |
| Coming of Age – Feature Film | Karin De La Peña Collison |
| Commonwealth | Jared Hardy |
| Concrete Evidence | Paul Clarke |
| Confection | Christa Boarini |
| Confederate Ghoul | Mark Solomon |
| Conquer the World | Gary Champagne |
| Control Z | Jorge Pulido |
| Copper Ridge | Rebecca Ghusn |
| Corporal Reed | Tess Rutherford |
| Cricket Song | Evelyne Werzowa |
| Crowded | Cori Woods |
| Curfew | Rodolfo Pereira |
| Cursed Lands | Lore V. Olivera |
| Cyberpink | P.A. Lopez |
| Daddies | Ramon Watkins |
| Dark Magnolia | Sam Overton |
| Dawn Of The Apocalypse | Bret Grafton |
| Defunded | Ruby Smith |
| Dentata | Shakthi Jothianandan |
| Descent | Carmen Fulton |
| Día de las Carpas | Marina Kato |
| Dog Mom | Tamra Teig |
| Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow | Matt McKinzie |
| Don’t Leave Me This Way | Elise D’Haene |
| Don’t Worry, It’s Nothing | Flossie McKnight |
| Double Negative | Kelsea Mayfield |
| Dreamgirl ’87 | Y.S. Kim |
| Ectogirls | Elena Perez |
| El Coyote | Mehul Shah |
| El Negro Que Tango | Ian Jackson |
| El Otro Lado | Jianna Maarten Saada |
| Ela | Antonio Aguinaga |
| ELiRiUM | Nikhil Kamkolkar |
| Elsie | Fernanda Cardoso |
| Endling | Fiona Luong |
| Enter the Kingdom | David Chang |
| EOS10 | Justin McLachlan |
| Exhale | Charlie Tidmas |
| Exodus | Shyam Popat |
| F1rst | Adriana Alexandrova |
| Fatherland | Billy Rose |
| Feebee Frankenstein | David Siegel |
| Fight For Life | Melvin Webb |
| Firebird | David Jones |
| Five Swords Under Heaven | Logan Shaw |
| Fly Girl | Christine Hoang |
| For When You Can’t Find Me | Theo Luoma |
| Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran | Farbod Ardebili |
| Fragments | Reyam Rammahi, Lawrence Rothfield |
| Freak | Amir Ohebsion |
| Free Huey | Phillip Alan |
| Freedom’s Slave | Linda Bosteels |
| Full Disclosure | Zachary Pen |
| Gail’s Classic Video | Harrison Pierce |
| Garment | Shannon Amborn |
| Generationals | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Get Diva Laid | Jack Tracy |
| Ghost Dreamers | Angela Iranna Perkins |
| Glorious Empire | Amanda Eberhardt |
| Gloryland | Lauren Ferebee |
| God’s Country | Shar Carter |
| God’s Own Heart | Preston Fox |
| Gods Of Rock | Bryce Hatch |
| Goliath | June Carryl |
| Grunt Work | Sal Bardo |
| Hank and Larry | Hilari Scarl |
| Happy Campers | Sarah Tither-Kaplan |
| Hatch | Karim Khan |
| Heart Strings | Jasper Chen |
| Help Yourself | Helen Fernandez |
| Her Mortal Remains | Tracy Clifton |
| Here and Now | Chandler Hubbard |
| Here Tomorrow | Jongson Park |
| Hero | Nandini Bapat |
| Hey , Wait A Minute! | Michael-Leon Wooley |
| Hoe-Mission | Eric Pou |
| How I Became a Vengeful, Psycho Killer | Laura Becker |
| How to Make it in Hollywood | Beatriz Celani de Macedo |
| Huseins’ Hut | Mariyam Mahbub |
| Hypefeast | Sid Patwa |
| I Enjoy Being a Girl! | Brandon Krajewski |
| I Love You, Margot Robbie | Sav Rodgers, Taylor Gates |
| I Wear Black | Shania Banton |
| Ideal Man | Jimmy Clabots |
| If I Didn’t Love You | Melinda Maerker |
| Immunity | Bryan Chesters |
| Incarnations | Albert M. Chan |
| Inconceivable | Lindsay Levy |
| Infinity Plus One | Stefani Zabner Fink |
| Iniquity | R.J Mendez |
| Intended | Joe Vallese |
| Into the Silk | Jaclyn Parker |
| Jaded | Sid Patwa |
| Join The Club | Waleed Mansour |
| Joon | Michael Shayan |
| Journey to Othello | Charline St.Charles |
| Journey to the Enchanted Inkwell | LD Green |
| Just Us | Mexi Gremillion |
| Kick Push Coast | Hannah Meyer Wong |
| Lady Libertine | Lina Khan |
| Leatherette | Michael KY Yip |
| Leche | Gabriella Moses |
| Legacy | Kellen Hertz |
| Legend of Siren Island | Drina Connors Kay |
| Legends | Suhashini Krishnan |
| Less Actives | Daniel Spencer |
| Life During Wartime: Nowhere Fast | Mark Bowes |
| Life’s Unfair | Tray Epps |
| Lift | Allison Orr Block |
| Lift Off | W.E. Richardson |
| Lightning Ridge | Lana Slezic |
| Long Shot | Ariel Goldberg |
| Long Way Home | Jamaal Pittman |
| Lottery Entanglement | Michael Casey |
| Loyal Americans | Margaret Dane |
| Lucky Number 7: Another Possession of Another Emily | Jessica Coleman |
| Mabel | Elisa Manzini |
| Made Guy | Christopher Vallario, Grace Foster |
| Major Hacker’s War | Steve Blame |
| Mama Bares | Jennifer Paz, Deedee Magno Hall |
| Mary Mallon | Anna Vecellio |
| Me Me Me! | Renata Martins |
| Midnite America | Antonio Battle |
| Miles Apart | Bobby Ray Cauley, Jr. |
| Miles Away From Home | Brit Cowan |
| Miss America’s a Cannibal! | Amanda Scherker |
| Miss Fortune | Breeze Vincinz |
| Miss Shepherd | Alison Headrick |
| Model Minorities | Delon Villanueva |
| Modus Operandi | Shannon Vaughan |
| Monastic | Diana Aydin |
| Motherload | Layla Soileau |
| Murder on the Tranquil Row | Wayne Middleton |
| My Best Friend’s Ashes | McKenzie Moser |
| My Better Half | Naomi Lorrain |
| My Girl | Crystal Rudds |
| My Girl Kyle | Allison Masloske |
| Myth Squashers | Molly Vogel |
| Nanking Road | Joanna Pickering |
| Nekkid | William Gammon |
| Night Life | Ben Leary |
| Night vs. Day | Lele Park |
| Nightcapped | JJ Tyson |
| Nip It in the Bud | Elissa Hunter |
| No Good Deed | Heather Farlinger |
| No One Lives Here | Justin Bonilla |
| No Post Code | Richard Nyeila |
| No Traveler Returns | Randall Thom |
| No Weddings and a Funeral | Patricia Serrano Chungsathaporn |
| Noble Intentions | James Turner |
| Nonexistent | Mrittika Sarin |
| Noob | Zina Kresin |
| Noor | Ryan Lynch |
| NPC | Kenneth Pulgar-Vidal |
| Obviously I Love You, Mexico | Mohja Rhoads |
| Ode to Orange | Catherine Delaloye |
| Off The Field | Jormond Thompson |
| Oh Country | David Yoon |
| Ok, Bye | Pamela Reis |
| Olivia’s Diary | Devorn Hannah |
| On The Boundary | Sejal Pachisia |
| One Night in Tulsa | Drew Robinson |
| Onny – Pilot | Nonie Shiverick |
| Original Tru | Adam Huss |
| Our Story | Nondumiso Tembe |
| Our Town | Talya Klein, Emmett Anderson |
| Out/Sourced (Pilot: “Stranger Than Fiction”) | Noa Aimeé, Wesley Tysdale |
| Outspoken | Matthew Ward |
| Outspoken – The Untold Story of Helen Keller | Kathryn Fox |
| P***Y | Connie Shi |
| Panspermia | Mason O’Sullivan |
| Panza Loca | Rodrigo Moreno Fernandez |
| Parallel | Stefanie Gray |
| Park Versus Patel | Sarovar Banka |
| Party Crashers | Laura Mannino |
| Party-L | Fielding Freed |
| Patty Cake | Shay Ball |
| Peckerwood | Clayton Rye |
| Pendulum | Dae Dunn |
| Perdido | Eduardo Maytorena |
| Picture Book Perfect | Gian-Paul Bergeron |
| Pig Lake | Joslyn Jensen |
| Pigpen | Maud Ferrari |
| Piss Tank | Kathryn Mockler |
| Play Gurrrls | Olaiya Olayemi |
| Plum Town | Kelly Yu |
| Pocho | Marco Patino |
| Point Game | Wayne Phillips |
| Pole Moles | David Morris |
| Popous Pane | Derrick Anthony |
| Positive Lee | Dale Winton, Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen |
| Predatory | Ashley Rose Wellman |
| Prosciutto Princess | Demi Ellis |
| Proud Marys | Jennifer Paz |
| Pulling Seedlings | Eris Qian |
| Queen of the Amazons | JL Ivory |
| Queens | Anika Shakir |
| Raison D’etre | Noni Salma |
| Ralph | Derek Nicoletto |
| Rebranded | Caro Ribeiro |
| Reconblue | Elena Perez |
| Recovery Chain | Quamé Hamlin |
| Rendez-Vous | Coxy Rodoni |
| Represent | Susan Cinoman |
| Resilient: Below Poverty | Tommy Watson |
| Righteous | Kathy Patterson |
| Root | Katherine Street |
| Rum Dandy | Daniel Carroll |
| Sacred Shapes | Anastasia Le Gendre |
| Salt | Holly Sereni |
| Sanctum | Chad Alexander |
| Saturday Night Lesbian | Tracie Laymon |
| Sauced | Janet Quinonez |
| Say What? | Stuart Forrest |
| Seahorse | Aisha Evelyna |
| Second Numbers | Eulonda Lea |
| Secondhand Miracles | Jared Pascoe |
| Separately And Together | Shane O’Neill |
| Séverin | Maggy Torres-Rodriguez |
| Sexy Asian Man | Jarrett Jung |
| Sheep | Michele Mathis |
| Shiny Things | Shelby Doubek |
| Sk8er Boiz | Christopher Sullivan |
| Slaughter Lane | Charlie Ainsworth |
| Snow Globe | Sheikh Jallow |
| So, Where Is the Skull? | Richard Marcum |
| Soar | Becca Mann |
| Sojourning | Lamar Legend |
| Solidarity | Alison Townson |
| Soul Samurai | Dennis James Clarke |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| Sounds of Cars | Nancy Gamino |
| South Central L.A | Brenda E. Alvarez |
| Southern Hospitality | Kate Harbert |
| Sovereign “The Usual” | Jekeva Phillips |
| Speechless | Molly Gerth |
| Spirit In The Dark | Daniel Lopez Kaufman |
| Spoken For | Micki Colker-Pearlman |
| Steel Cutter | Claire Tran |
| Stella | Juan Topete |
| Stepping On Dad | Alexander Troxler |
| Submission | Yolanda Hellmanns Carvajal |
| Suburbahood | Danielle Holman |
| Summer Of Scott | Tom Holowach |
| Sun Woman, Moon Man | Lyndal Simpson |
| Sunset Alley | Sam Watson |
| Sunshine Shifts | Rebecca Davis |
| Suspended Animation | Jay Thompson |
| Swimming in Cuba | Josie Melendez |
| Switch! | Brent Lewis |
| Tasteless | Lottie Finklaire |
| Technicolor Noir | Madison Sean Flannery |
| The Academy | Brit Cowan |
| The Age of Desire | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Author | J.P. Pressley |
| The Beauty Hunter | Emily Rose Laochua |
| The Book of David | Cindy Heath |
| The Chaser Equation | Sunna Bee |
| The Clocktower | Tammy Olsen |
| The Darkest of Souls | D.E.S Collins |
| The Devil | Jennifer Hawkins |
| The Fishbowl Effect | Megan Plank |
| The Full Moon Beer Drinkers Club | Katie Hennicke |
| The Girls & Rodney (Script) | Lawrence Wallace |
| The Gravedigger | Lyndal Simpson |
| The Heroine of Wrangel Island | Aaron Michael Bailey |
| The Home | Efrain Aldaco |
| The House in Coyoacán | Lore V. Olivera |
| The Italian Lover | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Jet | GM Woodruff |
| The Jewel Box | Justin Anthony Long |
| The Last Day of Paradise | Kiki Denis |
| The Last Drop | A. D. Smith |
| The List: A Single Lady’s Guide to Finding the Perfect Baby Daddy | Brit Cowan |
| The Lost Sons | Renate Grassmugg |
| The Mender | R.B. Ripley |
| The Midnight Train | Helen Kwok |
| The Mural | Carolyn Bradley |
| The Observatory | Erin Macdonald |
| The Only Safe Place Left Is The Dark | Warren Wagner |
| The Open Window | Marcia McNair |
| The Other Half | Stephaan Harris |
| The Othered | Minh Anh Vo Dinh |
| The Present | Chris Givens, Mark Becker |
| The Privateers | Whitney Hamilton |
| The Procreators | Daniel Grove |
| The Purpose of a Lighthouse | Gabe Berry |
| The Radical | Bandar Albuliwi |
| The Savior | Marie-Louise Elia |
| The Sea Takes Care of Her Own | Ellie Anthony |
| The Sensualist – A Woman in Black | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Things I Cannot Change | Aaron Lomeli |
| The Track | Margaret Lebron |
| The Trade Winds | Christina DeHayes |
| The Triangle | Lizbeth Finn |
| The Up & Up | Steve Robillard |
| The Vet | Karan Talwar |
| The White Mouse: Witch | Heather Farlinger |
| The Work | Adelita E. Lopez, Amanda Lopez |
| The Wrong Kind of Man | Mira Baz |
| They Got You | Marlon St.John Green |
| Thicker Than Water | Buki Koshoni |
| This is Happening | Shannon Herbert |
| Three Dimensional | Melissa Remy |
| Tierra Paz (A Pacified Land) | Eugene Michael Santiago |
| Tiger Sea | Suki Kaiser |
| Tiny-Time Hustlers | Yvette Wren |
| To Secrets | Melisa D. Monts, Shereen Lani Younes |
| Trolling | Connor Colebrook |
| Twin Talons Lady Society for Acceptable Women | Alex Otis |
| Twisted Dreams – When Dreams and Reality Collide | Yvette Patton-Walters |
| Untitled Detroit Project | Josh Gibert, Charlie Newhart |
| Untitled Penpal Project | Haley Daniels, Owen Thiele |
| Urban Ed | Wade Wofford |
| Verity’s Game | Jennifer Giacalone |
| VODOUN series | Stuart Creque |
| Waltz of the Shadows | Ellie Anthony |
| Wanderland | Blake Williams |
| Wasteman | Joe Leather |
| We are the Jungle | Josh Bourne |
| Web Warriors | Joanna Beveridge |
| Wendy the Domme | Rachel Music |
| What Happened to Johanna? | Gabe Braxton |
| When In RŌHM | Vanisha Renee Pierce |
| Where Nobody Knows Her Name | Gabriel Vallejo |
| Whirlwind | Monika Moreno-Lapp |
| Whispering Canyons | Kris Crenwelge |
| White Belt | Samuel Oh |
| White Terror | Philip Lyu |
| Wilderness | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Wilderness of Mirrors | Tahir Jon, Thomas Dolan-Gavitt |
| Wildfires | Eudie Pak |
| William | Sarah Wolf |
| Wingman | Andrea Apuy |
| Wings | Vítor Kappel |
| Winston | Aashish Gadhvi |
| Wrong Place, Wrong Time | Fernando Segall, Joao Segall |
| X | Estevan |
| Yagit | Mark Labella |
| Yellow Fever | Winnie Kemp |
| Yorkville | Robert Landau |
| You & I | Nilendra Fonseka |
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