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.
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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 December 15th!
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 Spring 2022 Diverse Voices Quarterfinalists can be found on Coverfly here or below.
| “The Missing Link” | Mark Mc Quown |
| #She Said Z-Said” | Georgette Long |
| 23 & NOT ME | Maren Leggett |
| A Blue Dawn | Thato Mwosa |
| A Handsome Sense of Pride | Ariana Quiñónez |
| A Nasty Habit | Sadie Fearon |
| A Place To Call Home | Luke Fuller |
| Affirmative | Andrew Quailes |
| Agnes of Los Angeles | Melinda Maerker |
| Agnoshtick | Daliah Bernstein |
| Always, Foreverland | Cheran Rush |
| An Enemy of Angels | Jaz Garewal |
| An Ideal Wife | Sarah Knight |
| Approved | Sajini Subhaskaran |
| Around the Multiverse in 80 Years | Grace Chapple |
| Ashes to Ashes | Rachel McClard |
| Ask Already | Sandra Lince |
| ATTACK THERAPY | Warren Clarke |
| AWFUL EXES | Victor Dean |
| Babelsberg | Jon Davis |
| Backstitch | Amber Lena-Miller |
| BASHEER DOES AMERICA | Marwan Naji |
| Before The Others | Meko Winbush |
| Believe the Hype | Allison Jackson |
| Ben Johnson Day | Kerena Marchant |
| BIFURIOUS | Lucia Rubio |
| Billie & Sadie | OShea Myles |
| Black Honey | Teresa Warner |
| BLACKSEED | NOVA BLACK |
| Blitz | Levena Ostergaard |
| Blood and Dreams – “Complicit” | Suzanne Griffin |
| Bloody Mary | Sara Kimura |
| Blue | Andres Valentin Lopez |
| Blue Eighteen | Michael Meyers |
| Boom Or Bust | Carlton Gillespie |
| Boricua | tony barone |
| Box of Chocolates | Kazeem Rahman |
| Boy Wonder | Denis Theriault |
| Brood | Annie Grace |
| Bunnies | Hann McEwen |
| Calls From Home | Laura DeBar |
| Carmen Cox: “Always Pick C” | Shanice Anderson Tchamambé |
| Cayenne and Dee | Laura LeeLun |
| Centurions (feature) | Sally Stubbs |
| Ceremony | Harrison Clark |
| Ch*nk in the Armor | Andy Jiang |
| Chart Topper | Ariel Goldberg |
| Chlorine | Kish Fernandez |
| Christmas Cuff | Sumona Roy |
| City of Six | Anna Cowley |
| CIU: Crisis Intervention Unit | Jacalyn Wetzel |
| Clearwater | Ellen Young |
| Clementine | Stacie Gancayco-Adlao |
| CLIMB | TERRENCE KELSEY |
| Cocoa | Ashley Boge |
| codeswitch | Sasha Kai Parker |
| COMMONWEALTH | Jared Hardy |
| Coney | Jesse Klein |
| CORDON | Bart Baker |
| Cream City | Jeffrey James Keyes, Matt W. Cody |
| Da Club | Christopher Celestin |
| Daddy’s Little Girl | Rob Poquez |
| Dancing Soldier | Daisy Rosato |
| Dark Matter | Olga Holtz |
| Dead Mom Friend Summertime Fun Club | Alex Walker |
| Dead Water | Lisa Rysinger |
| Deadline | Jen Boxall |
| Death & Detroit | Katharine Densmore |
| Deep Conditioner | Ryan Simantel |
| Deliver Us | Olivia Baptista, Christina Paterno |
| Demented | Tristan Mercado |
| Detroit Run | Odin Ozdil |
| Diaz Party | Roxana Altamirano |
| Dig | David Vieux |
| Distant Stars | Illimani Ferreira |
| Dog Person | Jeanee Ledoux |
| Doing Business As | TOM KUHL |
| Elevate | Emma and Dustin Bates and Castleberry |
| Esperanza – One Hour Pilot | David Christopher Loya |
| Eulogy | Andi Avery |
| Famewrecked | Charlotte de Anda |
| FANNY AND BEANIE GET OUT OF TOWN | pamela winfrey |
| Feminoid | Alexandria Lane |
| Fighters | Michael Oluokun |
| Final Boy | C.J. Redfield |
| FINDING A LOST PEN | Joseph Mwamba |
| Fine-tuned, Supersonic, Speed Machine | Unnamed |
| Firecrackers | Connor Smith |
| Fireflies | Michael Chen |
| Five With A Bullet | Christopher Isenegger |
| Forsyth County | James Sasser |
| Fratricide | Asante Jones |
| GARDENIAS IN THE DARKNESS | George Graham |
| Ghost Spa | Gretchen Cathcart |
| Gigantica | duane smith, stefane barbeau |
| GLOBAL GOOD | Barbara Nunberg |
| Going South | Kacey Johnson |
| GONE HOLLYWOOD | Sara Hallowell |
| Good Husbands | Ari Halevy |
| Good Neighbors | Luis Lassen |
| Good Things | Scott Button |
| Gospel of Blaze | Wes Miller |
| Grace of God | Libby Ewing |
| GREEN WARS | WARREN CLARKE |
| Guidance | Zach Paul Brown |
| Handle With Care | Luisa Parnes |
| HANUI | Elsa Hana Chung |
| Harper | Ariel Hartzman |
| HEAVEN | John McPhaul III |
| Her Giant Self | Catharine Parke |
| HOT AIR | Avery Russell |
| Hot Cake | Debi Bradshaw |
| Hurricane Hennley | Nicole Groton |
| I Am Bruce Lee | Erin Falconer |
| I am the Dragon King | Michael Choi |
| In Real Life | Josie Kaye |
| IN THE AESTHETIC OF DESMOND | D.K. UZOUKWU |
| Jan, Janitor | Anushka Bhagavathula |
| Jaw Crusher | Santiago Fernandez-Concha |
| Jersey Boy | Jaskaran Singh |
| Jim | Yannick Marshall |
| Journey to the Enchanted Inkwell | LD Green |
| Karachi Vice | Faisal Qureshi |
| Keith Sweats | Lexx Truss |
| Kingdom of Ivory Coast | Sean Davis |
| Kiss & Makeup | Catherine Durickas |
| L.A. | Jillian Ibarra |
| La Villana (The Villain) | Munir Abedrabbo Campana |
| LAME | Rachel Handler, Kara Moulter |
| Leah Rose | Colin Larkin |
| LEASES | Wanda J. Coppage |
| Leaving the Party | Janet Scanlon, Rose Bonomo |
| Levels | Adam Esquenazi Douglas |
| Liberty City | Jessy Lauren Smith |
| Lil Boo | Alexander Etseyatse |
| Long Walk Home | Luisa Parnes |
| Loss | Brian Beatty |
| Low | Brandon Burke |
| Lucha | Danny Cavada Montenegro |
| Made in USA | Desdemona Chiang |
| MAFIA BEACH CLUB | Amanda Miller |
| malaya | Stacie Gancayco-Adlao |
| Martha Gellhorn vs. Hemingway | Gail Brice |
| MATCH | opeyemi |
| Mato Sapa | Kara Uranga |
| Maya of Brooklyn | Brittany Ramjattan |
| Meet Me in a Dark Alley | Jessy Lauren Smith |
| Memorial Day | Alan Jenkins |
| Men’s Magazine | Saj Pothiawala |
| Mi Casa, Tu Casa | David Aguilar Rodriguez |
| Middlehood TV Pilot Episode | Alison McGrath |
| Moonboy | Brent McKnight |
| Murder-in-Marsh | Elisabeth Hayward |
| My Best Friend’s Love Story | Ushmey Chakraborty |
| My Daughter Maya | Sarah McCulley |
| Mystic | Cody Ashford & Eric Vue |
| Nanking Road | Joanna Pickering |
| NERVES | Cooper Shaw |
| NEST | Dustin Liu |
| Nice Restaurant | Dorothy Nguyen |
| No More Allies. | Pierce Livingston |
| North Amerikay | Elizabeth Dwyer |
| Not Your China Doll | Veronica Chavira |
| O.T.i.S. | K.J. Sparrow |
| Our Bodies & Other Shames | Malka Wallick |
| Out Again | Raye Schiller |
| OUT AND ABOUT | Zoe Albano-Oritt |
| OUT OF AUSCHWITZ | Mickey Falcone |
| Outlier | Denise Hernandez |
| OVER NIGHT | KELLY LI |
| Parallels | Praxis Fernandez |
| Parents Optional | Anna Yee |
| Pastor Kamal | Navid Mehrjou |
| Peasant Ridge | Frank Anthony Polito |
| POLYDACTYLY | Joni Rodgers |
| Pretty Broken | Maria Pendolino |
| PSYCHO FREE | Amy Blackwelder |
| PULP | Ann Lu |
| Queerdriplegic | Nicolet Satran |
| Reaching for Rye | Andrew Guerrero |
| Rearranged | Sajini Subaskaran |
| REBIRTH OF A NATION | Michael Lockett |
| Reboot | Blaine Ross |
| Release | Stacie Shellner |
| Reparations | Marilynn Loveless |
| Reunion | William Mager |
| River and Tree | Jessy Lauren Smith |
| Roopa and The Bloobs: Pandemmy Blizzy | Gilani Sumida-Moiseff |
| RPG: Dungeons & Dopeness | MICHAEL SEMINERIO |
| Ruck | Nora Kaye |
| Runner | Adrian McNair |
| SALT | Abdul Malik |
| School of Life | Robert Douglas |
| Searching for Tutankhamun | Ariane Hahusseau |
| SECOND ACT | SHARONDA SHEPPARD |
| See My Evil | Kirkland Morris |
| Shadow | Mercedes Street |
| She’s Your Super | Tristan J Shuler |
| Skin in the Game | Julie Zografos |
| Skin in the Game | Kofi Oliver |
| Sky Trolley | Samuel Krauss |
| Spring Break | Allegra Licci |
| Starstruck | Elizabeth Dwyer |
| Stay Positive | Larry Collins |
| Storme | John Lowe |
| Suck It | RAMATEJA JANAMANCHI |
| Superwife | Seda Anbarci |
| Synergy | Robyn Hutson |
| Taxi Moto | Guy Prevost, Mario Malivert |
| Technicolor Noir | Madison Sean Flannery |
| Teddybär | Tommy Tang, Ryan Van Slyck |
| Tenure | Ronald Eltanal |
| The Abduction Club | Sarah Soderquist, Kallie Tenney |
| The Adventures of Catfish & Zombie Tom | Evan Kuykendall |
| THE AGE OF DESIRE | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Arrangement | Kátia Kieling |
| The Bermuda Shipwreck | Eric Murphy |
| The Brimstone Guild | Alex Hurt II |
| The Dark Lady | Carmen Brie |
| The Devil and Dick Gregory | Sean Slater |
| The Dream Life of a Clown | Roy Hsu |
| The Fifth Sun | Ellen Barry |
| The Free World | Marcus Thomas |
| The Geist Murders (aka The Ghost Murders) | Todd Bronson |
| THE GRIND | FV Everleigh |
| The Hayes House is Haunted – Pilot | Austin S. Harris |
| The Honeymoon | Ryan Latchmansingh |
| The Italian Lover | Suzanne Griffin |
| THE KING OF COLORED TOWN | Darryl Wimberley |
| The Longest Goodbye | Aaron Braxton |
| The Neon Bandit | Alejandro Cardenas |
| The Nexus | R.J. Morgan |
| The Off-Brands | Shayla Racquel |
| The Proposition | neha aziz |
| The Queen of Dairy | Vanessa Pegram |
| The Recipe | Gabriel Shanks |
| The Second Death | Zoë Tyler |
| The Spirit Photographer | Spencer McCall, Philicia Saunders |
| The Terminals | Kora Vandervall |
| The Truth About Lies | Tiffany Yarde |
| The Vampire Prince | Kyle Hinton |
| The Way We Look at Horses | Meghan K. Lees |
| The Witiwig | Maria Wilson |
| THIS IS AMERICA | Lyric Fergusson |
| This Is How You Lose Her – Pilot | Luis G. Santos |
| Thugs of Delhi | Palvinder Jagait, Ik Jagait, Joel Joseph Jacob |
| To Be American | Laura Lujan |
| To Heck With It! | Teddi Shaffer |
| TOM BOY | Cameron Tendaji |
| Transference | Dyaus Rai |
| Tremendo Mission | Victoria Freyre Adler |
| Turf Wars | Kelsey Ross |
| Un-Saved By The Bell | Zach Freshley |
| Uncle Bike | Joslyn Jensen |
| Under The Moon | Ari Silver |
| VALLEY OF THE SHADOW | Logan Shaw |
| Veni, Vidi, Vivi. | Olivia Baptista, Christina Paterno |
| Wampus Cat | Jessica Wei |
| Wanderland | Blake Williams |
| Warrior King | Shekinah Williams |
| We Are Still Here | Phoenix Rivera |
| We Good | Keisha Prince |
| WE WERE ONCE | Rebecca Stahl |
| Weigh In | Rudy Bamenga |
| Welcome to the Sovereign Nation of Kasovia (pop. 57) | Diogo Beltran |
| Welcome To Thystle | Mike Carreon |
| When Joey Met Gemma | Britt Wilkinson |
| Whitefish | Vishnu Vallabhaneni |
| WILL B. FREE | bill SINDELAR, Brad Gottfred |
| Work the Rooms | Sanjit Patel |
| X/WIND | Richard Pohl |
| YELLOW | Thom Ang |
| You Go Boy | Matija Sraj |
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