StoryPros Names Awards Semifinalists
Semifinalists have just been announced for the 12th Annual StoryPros Awards Screenplay Contest.
| ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER | |
| A-Man | Jim Kowalski |
| Bad Listing | Brent Hartinger |
| Biscayne | Adam Hersh |
| Blind Pursuit | Debi Yazbeck |
| Blue Mustang | Devin Lucas |
| Carlisle | Jeff Davidson |
| Catherine's Ghost | Michael Goedecke |
| Chemical Attraction | Alan J. Field |
| Distortion | Travis J. Opgenorth |
| Euthanized | Don Stroud |
| False Sense | Craig Cambria |
| Family Remains | Bill Johnston |
| Goal on the 13th Floor | Patrick Thompson |
| How To Hunt An Angel | David Carren |
| In Action | Dan Scherr |
| Incision | Stephen Dexter |
| Lattice of Coincidence | Devin Lucas |
| Mustang | Gordon Phipps |
| Rational Panic | Robert Rhyne |
| South Left Bluff | David Piechowski |
| Suck Town | Ted Rodemeyer, Bill Rodemeyer |
| The Coldest Horizon | Jeffrey Howe |
| The Faction | Kevin Karp |
| The First Gentleman | Mark Gunnion |
| The Last Mile | Julian Renner |
| The Penetration Expert | Jeffrey Alan Chase |
| The Quantum Key | Gretchen Klein |
| Unseen | Atul Sharma |
| COMEDY | |
| A Holiday Sensation | Michael Snow |
| Amuse Me | Shreyas Ayaluri |
| Crushing It | Hamilton Mitchell |
| Dick 2.0 | Henry Sarwer-Foner |
| For Old Times' Sake | Ron Ecker |
| Life's A Beaut | Kelly Anelons |
| Love Virtually | Matthew Papadopoulos |
| Made Flesh | William Gerrard |
| Meet Cute | Michael Charron |
| Mother Lode | Mark Beech, Linda Gray |
| Playing Hero | Nathan Warren Lane |
| Power Couple | Peter Andrews |
| Security | Isaac Meyer Levy |
| Singletown | Alex Klein |
| Standby Hero | Shawn Mahan |
| Starting Over | Curt McCray |
| Sumo Football | Scott Jacobs |
| The Last Video Store in America | Chad Smith |
| The Oughthousers | Ari Krause |
| The Secret Of Life | Nick Roberts |
| Tres Banditos | Thomas Leupp |
| Turnover | Matthew Borlik |
| Tutankhamun Not In Common | Robert Rogers |
| Unhooking | Scott A. Aiman |
| DRAMA | |
| A Note from an Old Acquaintance | Bill Walker |
| A Relative Unknown | Lynne Logan |
| Alabama Sun | Katie Murphy |
| Ashes | Kevin Stuart Brodie |
| Barth | Scott Marshall Taylor |
| Boy Most Wanted | Tuck Tucker |
| Comic Book Kings | Amanda Keener |
| Cowboy | Alexander Mindt |
| Creep Factor | Philip Sedgwick |
| Death Games | Bobby Gorman |
| Deep East Texas | Shaun Ireland |
| Fireflies | Amanda Keener |
| If You Walk Away | Scott A. Aiman |
| Life Is Easy | Clark Kokich |
| Love and Insurrection | Ernestina Juarez |
| New Deal Road | Mark Rashid |
| Our Analyst | Christopher Heffelfinger |
| Our Fathers | Kyle Wilson |
| Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
| The Boy Who Painted Pictures | Robert Graziano |
| The Color of Dark | Lynne Logan |
| The Man From Gori | Kevin Karp |
| The Walk-Offs | Will Berry |
| The Woman With Chestnut Hair | Jim Valko |
| Welcome To The West | Greg Baldwin |
| Zigzag | Diana Mitchell, Linda Mitchell |
| FAMILY/TEEN/ANIMATION | |
| A Relative Unknown | Lynne Logan |
| Another Snow White | Eduardo Soto-Falcon |
| Breana - Betting Big on Basketball | Paul Mahoney |
| Letting Go | Estes Tarver |
| Monster Hunters | Eric Bachmann |
| Mrs. Claus Matchmaker: Sugarplum Inn | Tessa I. Shaffer |
| My Monster | David Carren |
| Off The Hook | John Arvai |
| Patchwork | Amanda Keener |
| Prentice Park and the Missing Monkey | Turi Haim |
| Rose's Ring | Sojean Peou |
| Sonoran Song | Anne Wallace |
| Stick-to-itiveness! | Gerald Large |
| Susan the Spy | Alva Moore |
| Take The Shot | Jim Norman |
| The City of Gale | Taylor Rankin |
| The Great Surrender | Romeo Ciolfi |
| Those We Leave Behind | Amanda Keener |
| Tippy The Elf | William Sikorski Jr., William Sikorski III |
| True Brit | Rosemary Zibart |
| Ty the Pie Guy: The Movie | Susan Lambert Hatem |
| SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR | |
| A Planet Called Eden | John Adcox |
| Anna's Reality | Craig Effrain |
| Blade, Blood, Bullets & Babes | Patrick Thompson |
| Boy Most Wanted | Tuck Tucker |
| Closer Than Love | Morris Clark, Rhonda Ermel |
| Cosmic Justice | David Carren |
| Cragencarn | Alan Howcroft |
| Darwin Rising | Richard Geiwitz |
| Drawing Dead | Quentin Ellis |
| Dumbest Generation | Leslie Lyshkov |
| Emergent | Brian Kazmarck |
| Hallow's Point | Brian W. Smith |
| Havenwood | Jai Brandon |
| His Name is Jeremiah | DJ McPherson |
| I Don't Belong Here | Ramon Antonio Olivo |
| I.R.L. In Real Life | Justin Shelton |
| Mandibles | Rudy Gray |
| Matryoshka | James Chiocchi |
| NightWalkers | Jeffrey Pedersen |
| Oasis | Randall Hahn |
| Of Human Origin | Wayne W. A. Newman |
| Omega Point | James Bingham |
| Plaquemines | Alex Salazar |
| Rosenwood | Jess Adducci |
| Seed of Knowledge | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Sole Survivors | Don Welch |
| Spire | Brandon Taylor |
| Splashdown | Don Stroud |
| The Audit | Giuseppe Cocca, Paul Young |
| The First Law | DJ McPherson, Jack Christian |
| The New Road | Michael Raymond |
| The Plutonauts | Philip Sedgwick |
| Tinkerer | Joel Levin |
| Undead Express | Evette Betancourt, Cassandra Betancourt |
Updated: 06/02/2019
Additional Contest Info: StoryPros Awards Contest
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