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Scriptapalooza Names Quarterfinalists

Scriptapalooza has announced their 2020 Feature Screenplay Competition quarterfinalists. Semifinalists will be announced on August 5th. All the levels of the SHORTS competition will be announced when winners are announced.

12 Debts by Stephen Moore
24hr Donuts by Danny Shoshan
A Couple of Months by Deborah Riley
A Dishonourable Woman by Erica Eisdorfer
A Dream of Mortals by Steven Epp
A Girl to Love by Joe Thayer
A King and a God by Vincent J. Sgro
A Man Called White by Randy Hines
A Million Miles from Home by Steve Scarlett
A Moment in Life by Dino Yangou
A Mutually Beneficial Arrangement by Mark Feinsod
A Reindeer Story by Jay Michael Jorgensen & Lisa Juslin
A Rising Sun on the River by Trevor Teehan
A Storybook Ending by Lanre Olabisi
A Tent on Jupiter by Derek Nicoletto
A Thousand and One Witnesses by Rachel Morgan
Airmed One by Ty Strange
All Art is Quite Useless by Jeff Racho
All Bets Are Off by Rich Durazzo, Jr.
All Souls Day by Stephen John Beyer
All the Ghosts Are Girls by Christine Trageser
All Things Truly Wicked by Emily Nye
Alterations by Christina Masciotti
American Massacre by Joe Bousquin
AmeriCon Dreamers by Sydney Blackburn & Michael Waller
An Epiphany of Sorts by Brendan O'Driscoll
Angel by Craig Lee
Arcane by Sebastian Watson
Astronomica by Matthew Wollin
Audrey's Children by Julia Fisher Farbman
Auro by Bradley Dreif
Away With My Heart by Hoyt Richards
Bad Dog by Morgan Smith
Bad History by James Bray
Baker Street by Kolby Runager
Balloons in the Backseat by Maria Soscia
Beautiful Daughter Of The Stars by Natalie Johnson
Beautiful Heartbeat by Michael Matias
Below Blue, Above Amber by Nima Goudarzi
Bette by Caitlin Scherer
As You Wish by Suhashini Krishnan
Birth of a Supervillian by Alec Gibbons
Bison Man by Michael Rhodes
Black Creek Trail by Jaime Saginor
Black Dust by Hunter Davis
Bleeding Edge by Jess Gupta
Blood and Roses by Robert Hamm
Blood and Steel by John Barnett
Blue Blood by Mark Davidson
Bonanzaville by Mike Schaffer
Bonejack by Logan Shaw
Borrowed Time by Paul Hart
Boxing Day by Carl Sorheim
Boycott by Stella Arshad
Breaking Bread by Alexandre Duong
Breaking Reach by Jacob Young
Breaking Tom by Michael Faunce-Brown
Bristlecone by Brandon F. Bongar
Brown Christmas by Maya Vyas
Can Anything Good Come Out of Nazareth? by Jim Ballinger
Can't Tell by Donna Kipp
Canaries by Craig Cambria
Capsized by Scott Corbett
Captain Midnight by Jay Spenser
Carlisle by Jeffrey W. Davidson
Castrato by Jacob Seltzer
Cautionary Tale by Peter Folsom
Ceasar by Tommy McLaughlin
Chance Day by Jill Murphy Long
Charlie Patton by D'Artagnan Hardiman
Chasing Heaven by Patrick Makin
Cheerleader Macbeth by Daniel Strange
Chokepoint by Tamra Teig
Cinds & Milla by Billie Bates
Circus Train by Billy Baker
Citizen Hans by Rajko Stiglic
City Councillors: Extermination by Jon Garcia
Close To You by J. Rapier
Closer Than Love by Morris Clark & Rhonda Ermel
Coalescence by Jacob Harpel
Cold Hands by Oliver Smuhar
Colony_01 by Morgan Lariah
Come In by Vitor Kappel
Concubine by Beverly Neufeld
Consumption by Victor Falco
Core Ruleset by Timothy Bryan
Cracked Aces by Jeff Zampino
Creatures Down Below by Brian Hershkowitz & Robert D'Orazio
Crushing It by Hamilton Mitchell
Cuba Libre by Tiger Curran
Cyber Security by Rich Blackwell
Dad Rock by Mark Raymond
Dangerous Ground by Brian Whiteman
Daniel Carpenter by Gerard Frunzi
Darkly by Matthew Rochester
Dead Game by Mimi Cocquyt, Cheyne Gilmore & L. Midnight
Dead Seas by Joseph Parisi
Deadly Assignment by Caroline Koivisto
Death Actually by Ervin Anderson
Death Four Eyes by Byron Hamel
Delicate Creatures by Sara Larner
Demgel by Stanislav Kovalev
Denham Fouts by Michael Johns
Devil on my Back by Syd Blue
Devil's Child for President by Gwen-Florelei Luib 
Devolving by Shanyse Scott
Digital Dreams by Philippe Laurin
Do You Love Me Now? by Liza Kumjian-Smith
Dogs Vs. Cellphones by Zed martin & Thomas Joseph
Don Control by Henry Hinder
Dormant by Mark Arament
Dot Con by Steven Haas & Ross Raventos
Double Take by Howard Saxe
Down Came the Rain by Sherry Peterson
Downward Dog by Rory Waltzer
Dracula – Rising of An Emperor by Rinoj Varghese
Dracula By the Light of a Black Sun by Dennis Donahue
Drag Queen Ninjas by Michael Van Patten
Dreamhome by Jackson Murray & Chance Smith
Dreamweaver by Karl Gerhardt
Earth and Sky by Kimberly Cronkite
Elapsed Time by Chris Christenson
Emile by Louise Bylicki
Encounter in Rendlesham Forest by Richard Monahan
End of Line by Paul Hunt
Endgames by Jon Smith
Englewood by Christopher Rutledge
Enough by Sam Keller
Eternity by Jeff Perreca
Eucharist by Christian Horning & Mayo Whaley
Everyone Laughs at Charley by Joseph Greer
Excellent by Ell Orion
Expect Delays by Paul Vogel
Experimental by A. S. Thompson
F You, Big Pharma by Grant Troyer
False Sense by Craig Cambria
Fangs by Malcolm Badewitz
Faster Pastor by Michael A. Cramer
Fatty by Joe Farr
Fault Lines by Sergio Umansky
Feynman the Challenger by C.V. Herst
Finding Happiness in Plane Crashes by Jesse L. Varner
Finding the Reins by Lyric Fergusson
Fire on Holy Mountain by Daniel Grove
Fix Daddy by Thomas Gresham
Flux by Elizabeth Ward
For Love of Country by Ron & Tony Basso
Found by Chad Briggs
Friends & Lovers by Ryan Patrick Philander
Fun, Fun, Fun by Brian Hershkowitz
Gandhi Island by Kirk Ballog
Geneva by Genevieve McDevitt
Get Chino! By Dayna Noffke
Ghost Hunt by Chris O'Neill
Ghost in Toronto by Martina Muhoberac
Glitter and Ash by Brad Wergley
Gods, Demons and other Things by Nick Marciano
Going Down in Flames by Michael & Matthew Ramirez
Goldie and Pearl by Farzin Farzam
Gone Phishing by Sylvie Matter
Grand Central by John Fellas
Grim & Son by Gunar Hochheiden
Gub by Gary Smith
Ha Ha by Joe Wielosinski
Happily Ever Aftermath by Joe Palumbo
Happy Family by Fernando Racy Haberfeld
Hard Drive by Alex Workman
Have You Heard About Harvey? by Sam Wright
Haven by Bernadette Smith
Hell'n, Texas by Randall Stevens
Helldorado by Billie Bates
Hello, Dimitri! By Melissa Mizel
Hellwalkers by Trevor Markwart
Henry by Craig Lee
Heveas by Daniel Kim
Higher Ground by Pamela Ryckman
Highway to Heck by Joey Day Hargrove
Hold You So Tight by Eric Rudnick
Holding Hope's Hand by James Rucker
Holy Smokes! By Russ Brandon
Honor Among Thieves by Theodore Kallet
I Don't Know by Arthur Tiersky
I Knew You First by Becky Fink
I Once Knew A Cop by Erin King
Infiltration by Blake Ellis
Influence by Michael Spohr
Intergalactic by David Williams
Intersection by Michael Learner
Inversion by Suzy Stein
Isaiah by Christopher Dauer
Island Happy by Thomas Gelsthorpe
It Was Written by Valeria Vallejos
Jane in Tri-Cities of Faraway by Charles Scott
Jessica in a Red Dress by Kevin Jokipii
Jesumine by Claudia Kindl
Jim's Not Dead by Carolee Caffrey
Jinn-9 by Patrick Wolf
Judy Stardust by Mads Feldballe
Junk by Doug Mallette
Jurema by Lucas Martins
Just Drive by Meshal Alsaleem
Just My Imagination by Troy McCombs
Kid Angel by Michael Latta
Killers Limited by Stephen Barker
Killing Polly by Brian King
Kingdom of Shadows by Mike Reynolds
Kip McGregor by Heath Miller
Knight of Destiny by George Alexanian
Knightman by Jun Sekiya
Kooky Takes a Powder by Craig Paulsen
Kyojin by Chris Mul
L.A. Lies by John Paley
Laika by Jackie Perez
Lancaster Pastoral by Raymond Cho
Land of Tiny Trees by Audra Gorman
Land's End by Jonny King
Last Will by Daniel Stevens
Late Bloomers by Kylie Jacobs
Lawmaker by Ross S. Rowe
Leah Rose by Colin Larkin
Left Behind by Yara Caubet
Legally Dead by Lillis Hendrickson
Lejeune by Kim Carr
Let it Shine by Romeo Ciolfi
Life Lessons by Alex Kaplan
Lift by Ashley Perryman-Quach
Little Miss Rylee-Belle by Suzanne Varney
Little Sister by Barbara Ward Thall
Lockdown by Emiliana Dore
Look At Me by Jessie Holder Tourtellotte
Lord Have Mercy by Juju Smith
Losing Sight of Shore by Laurie Andreano Bryant
Lost & Found by Jonathan A. Phillips
Lost Laundry by Devyne Johnson & Alanna Bryant
Lottery Entanglement by Michael Casey
Love Dance by Parker Babbidge
Love of War by Doug Karr
Loving Me Straight by Ruby Smith
Lowlands by Alex Ovadal
Lucy and Ricky by Nick Roberts
M by Aaron Yarber
Macho Man by Elizabeth Wilkie
Madam, I'm Adam by Christopher King
Man in the Arena by Keon Hedayati
Man of the Hour by Evan Kralovec
Manifest Destiny by Mitch Finn
Marantha Gospel by Ajibola Taiwo
Martyrdom by Paul Munger
Mask Of Samuel by Cameron Moquin
Mask of the Red Death by Bernadette Smith
Mass Ave by Omar Kamara
Match Made in Heaven by Maryanne Melloan Woods
Matriculation by Mark Rose
Mayan by Jill Gurr
Me and My Warlord by Edward Gines
Meet Me in a Dark Alley by Jessy Lauren Smith
Melina – I Was Born Greek by Melina Mercouri
Mello & Ronnie Get Evicted
Merrily, Nebraska by Mark Booker & Daniel G. Stephens
Mia's Accidentals by G. DeAngelis
Midnight Confessions by Jack Polo
Mile Zero by Sienna Golden Malik
Milka's Story by Lorenzo Newman
Milwaukee by Barry Ambrose
Mimic by Angel Carr
Mind Blown by Paul Jarnagin
Mindjacker by Doug Ellis
Minor Modifications by Shia Labeouf
Mirror Lake by John Pachl
Missing in El Paso by Raymond Gill
Mission to Indochina by Lewis Ritter
Mister Missed Her by Matthew J. Keats & Van Poynton
MOB by Sophia Lee
Mojave Massacre by Craig Ouellette
Morry by Shelly Lipkin & Suzanne Fagan
Moscow on the Thames by Steve Walter
Mr. Simpee Returns by John Montgomery
Mrs. C by Mike Harris
Mystic and Severe by Scott Corbett
Nature Boy by Elizabeth Johnson
New Master by Matthew Albanese
Next Time We Meet by Robert Gokay
Night Coach from Sonora by Hilary Van Hoose
Nightmares by Javier Perez Frombold
No Refuge by Karena Krull
No Sticks Nor Stones by Duane Rodney
Nobody's Heroes by Michael Elliott
Not Half Anything by David Gray
Not in my Blood by Caroline Gaspar Da Silva
Nutcrackers by Chrissy Lessey
Nüversity by Don Bapst
Obligate by Ann Dwyer
Occult by Gregory Williamson
Ocean Effect by Heather Farlinger
Odessa by James Kirk
On A Dark Matter by John McDermott
On Consignment by Orges Bakalli
On Time by Xavier Burgin
Once A General by Thomas Sgro
One Last Save by A.C. Maki
One Small Step For Neil by Tracie Laymon
Operation Spring Break by Megan Nager
Opposition Research by Tracy Schumer
Organics by David Christopher
Origins by Ric Marshall
Otherwise Intelligent Women by Barbara Bedont
Our Neighborhood by Jarrod Distrola
Our Own Heroes by Pamela Magee
Our Secret Universe by Emmanuel Douge
Out of Nowhere by Alec White
Out of Sight by Gena Ellis
Outlaws and Angels by Paul Penley
Overload by Scott Vogel & Kendra Liedle
Pachucos by Robert Cuen
Pantomime by Brooke Greeling
Paperboy by Todd Heilesen
Paranormal P.I. by Julianne Bianchi
Pass the Mic by Bryant Chapman
Passion's Last Dance by Philip Langer
Patriots Rising by Victor Fitzpatrick
Pay As You Go by Andrew McLinden
Peace Corpse by Hans Petersen
Peakland by Lawrence Pumfrey
Pick by Bernhard Riedhammer
Picnik by Lee Kitchen
Pilar by John Lange
Plain Boy, Undercover Girl by Audrey Pfister
Plan2Win by Manuel Salazar
Playing With Chopsticks by James Abney
Poker Dollface by Alex Beattie
Poly Amorous by Carlton Sugarman
Pop Goes the World by Joe Borriello
Powerless by Callum Parkes
Preacher Man by Jay Kanzler
Presidents Day by Eduardo Presa
Psychometrics by Jon Stone
Pursuing Piper by Jennifer Ball
Puzzled by Ana Moreira
Pyramidion by Henry Hinder
Queen of Cuba by Brendan Gore
Queen Punks by Alison Reeger Cook
Rat King by Omar Iturriaga & Jahziel Chu
Reckoning by Brian McQuery
Recoil by Robert Armanyous
Release the State by Sandra Toll
Relocation by Warren Clarke
Remember? By Gustavo Garzon
Rent A Life by Phyllis Allison
Repair the Carrows by Johnny Cruz
Rhubarb by Jordan Gustafson
Rifle by Franka Potente 
Rose and Betsy by Maria Sanchez
Running on Hopeless by Tyler Derench
Ruthie's Bluebird Ghosthouse by Jason Sheedy
Savory by Harish Kumar
School Nights by John Killoran
Sedger Mor by Catherine Wright
Seeing Stars by Steve Budd
Semblance by Bill Whirity
Send Me by Mike Garcia
Seven Washington Place by Larry Leinoff
Sex Magick by Nicholas Brown
Shadow of Despair by Arthur Glenn
Six Foot Under Noise by Sarah Peterson
Sketches of an Alternative Sixties Icon by Nick LaTorre
Slay! by Evan Deng
Smile Bright Baby Judith by Michael Mirabella
Sodus Point by Jose Casado
Something Else Ever After by Sylvie Beaudin
Southern Hospitality by Alan Douglas
Space Gamers by Joseph Jaussi
Sparing Fight by Mike Fredrickson
Spooky Action at a Distance by Sandra Fugate
Starstruck by Elizabeth Dwyer
Station Number Six by Tim Sasaki
Steel Cutter by Claire Tran
Storm-Blind by Jeanne Haskin
Stuck by Faith Wender
Stupid Cupid by Marena Domingo-Young
Subtitles by David Hill
Sumo Football by Scott Jacobs
Sunbeam by Nick Padmore
Supposed To Be by Dr. Beth-Anne Blue
Surfdiver by Bradley Meyer
Swirl City by L. E. Coleman
Taken Away by Katherine Hill
Talents by Max Lorne
Taxi Lady by Laurie Kraus
The Armored League: Bloodlines by Cassia Taylor
The Art of Letting Go by Jason Chan
The Art of Losing by Steven Lankenau
The Ascendant by Andrew Carrigan
The Beast by Tyler Jane
The Cat by Brittney McCallum
The Comic by Shaun McConoughey
The Dissenters by Jason Christensen
The Divorce by Frank Russdale
The Domino Theory by George Gary
The Donnellys of Biddulph Township by Roger Westry
The Entrepreneur by Georgette Franklin
The Ghost by Adam Lucas
The Hollywood Tower by Laurie Whitaker
The Hotel Barbers by Daniel Woburn
The Immigration Game by Asad Farooqui
The Impresario by Daniel Leventhal
The In-Between by Jaime Chapin
The Interdiction by Paul Frank
The Island of Always by Stephen Evans
The Lion of Engaziwa by J Woods
The Lower Levels by Emma Hicklin
The Maccabees – The Story of Hannukah by Zev Ledman
The March by Richard Neher
The Method by Aaron Michael Bailey
The Missing Year by Jessica Clothier
The Mixing Bowl by John Lange
The Monsters of Saint Margaret by Rachel Stevens
The Mourning Star by Christopher Salmieri
The Naked Man List by Morgan Pepper
The Orphaned by Brian Beatty
The Pinch by James Raynor
The Pit by Joseph Guerrieri
The Princess Spy by Ryan Lynch
The Punishment by Enni Red
The Red Arrow by Mark Rodney, Ronald Wenick & Anat Golan
The Remnants by William P. Osborn
The Road Home by Victor Fitzpatrick
The Road To and From by Julian Brantley
The Rookery by Scott William Baumgartner
The Seventh Circle by Zach Bradshaw & Robert Ham
The Time Wasters by Kyle Works
The Timeline by Ryan Torres
The Ugly Brothers by Oliver Warren
The unnatural Order by Becca Davis
The Walk-Offs by Will Berry
The Warehouse Boys by Gonzalo Cappielli
The Wayward Son by Keith & Cassie Hayasaka
The Weatherway Conspiracy by Ryan Lange & Alan Peery
The Wendigo by Charles McLravy
Think Tank by Phil Davey
This Is How It Ends by Melia Gabriel
Three Kinds of Crazy by Giles Brown
Together Apart by Christopher Sullivan
Trapping Woe by Rose Cavanagh
Travel Buddies by Amanda Jaros
Twain by Nate Early
Two Cops by Brian Corcoran
Uncle Savage by Rick Omi
Undercurrent by Debby Huvaere
Unfortunate Sons of Presidio, Texas by Kevin Chappell
Unparalled by Daniel Albino
Until Someday by Sandra Oles
Untitled Possession Script by Mark Davidson
Untouchable by Dhruv Kanungo
Veiled Promises by Jeff Baker
Veldt by Madison Flannery
War-Gaming by Ritvik Kukreja
Western Star, Bus 11 by Robert Gibson
Who Wants Dessert? by Venita Ozols-Graham
Who Wants to Live Forever by Alastair Collinson
Why Goofy Hates Mickey by Rick Helin
Wilkes-Barre by Michael Wilbert
Wilmington by George Ruelas
Wire Hangers by Jon Davis
Wiseacre by Remington Henderson
Woke by Erik Orjiako
Woodcalling by Wes Crandall
Yia Yia's Kitchen by Tamara Steren
Young Adolf by Thomas David Kehoe
Young Blood by Katie Lymn

Updated: 07/29/2020

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