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HollyShorts Announces Contest Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced for the 2022 HollyShorts Screenplay Competition:
8:46PM. Harriet Arrives. | Aimiende Negbenebor Sela |
A Chinatown Story | Nicolee Tsin |
Adam | Bremer Davis |
Afternoons with Joe | Ryan Luevano |
An Old Friend | Dan Martin |
Apart of Me | Riley Madincea |
Be My Boy | Ethan Homen |
Bed Time | A J Roberts |
Bela Sefer | Kiki D and Liya K |
Boneseed | Joshua David Matthews and Brett Brooks |
BREATHE | Mark Labella |
Call Me Dad | Cole Rosenberg-Pach and Lindsay Eady |
CARROTS | Jake Redmond |
Catering Karl & The Parties of Pure Evil | Warren Lane |
Chrome Plated | Sarah Ward |
Cinderella Tango | Victoria Murad |
Courier Seven | Nick Williams |
Crimson | Star Victoria |
Dine With Me | Monica Keaton |
Elegy For My Tongue | Omi Gupta |
FERGUSON | Jon Alston |
For Sale | Annelise Muir Tompkins |
Forsyth County | James Sasser |
Gloves | Michael Clifton |
Good Guy | Brian Gene White |
Heartstrings | J.D. Zelman and Matthew Dushkes |
Hero | Olivia Mackenzie-Smith |
Houdini of the Mind | Sophia Jennings |
How Did I Get Here | Kate Hamilton |
How Ya Like Me Now | Craig T. Williams |
I, Food | Eduardo Hanson de Moura |
Identification | Larry Collins |
In the Garden of Tulips | Ava Lalezarzadeh |
Jonesy, the Sitcom | Caledonia Hanson |
KIPEPEO | Jessica Rowlands |
KSOL | Rogelio Salinas de la Torre |
Last Ship East | Eris Qian |
Lifeline | Seymour Zeynalli |
Lunch Time | Andrew Kaberline |
MAKING WAVES | Drew Larimore |
Mars Rovers | Marley Medina and Jordan Medina |
MIDNIGHT BAIT AND AMMO | Alfred Thomas Catalfo |
Mina Finds Her Edge! | Robin Rose Singer |
Misha's Visit | Kelvin Wong |
MODEL MINORITY | Tapan Sharma |
Moon Palace Motel | Nirav Bhakta |
MURDER BY GASLIGHT | William Jeffery |
My Ancestors’ Song | Melissa Mars |
One Eye On The Milkshake | Monique Hayes |
Orbital | Michael Shaun Sandy |
Out of Luck | Vickery Eckhoff |
Over and Out | Callie LeClaire |
Pap Sbeer | Marta Reeder |
Piece By Piece | Courtney Kim |
Players | Pearson Jenks |
Prevail | Briana Chatters |
Queer and Southern God | Shawn-Caulin Young andMelisse Prusinski |
Rebirth | Andy Volk |
Rob & Lucy | Adam Breseman |
Shadow | Noel Estrada |
Shadow Boxer | Scott Walker |
Siren | Josh Foulkes |
Sister Mary Murphy: Vampire Slayer |
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Slayfest | Mark Renshaw |
Smoke Signals | Zach Thorpe |
Spark | Chelsea Gonzalez andBernardo Cubría |
STOOL | Gavin Carlton |
Super Dumb | Mary Risk |
The Art Painting | John Broadhead |
The Celestial | Pamela Tom |
The Door in the Mirror | Geoff Murillo |
The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms | David Sanders |
The Ossan | Venita Ozols-Graham and Brigitte Graham |
The Other Family | Juan Pablo Daranas Molina |
The Red Shoes | Arielle Beth Klein |
The Story of This Life | Zhijia Jiang |
The Super Man | Christopher Romano |
The Talk | Gabriela Lima |
The Turning Point | Alex Murphy |
The Wild Harts | Kim Hornsby |
The Worth of Things | Jane Ballentyne |
There's a Frog on Mars (It's True!) | Shaun Radecki |
Tiffany's Funeral | Amanda Alvich |
Two Questions and a Wish | Suhashini Krishnan |
Unsettled Short Film | Mario Garza |
Vague! | Lady Aria Grey |
Vibrations | Nicholas Valentin Andros |
Wet Fish | Toby McShane |
What Do We Call This | Anna Mikami |
X | Ezra Li |
ZEPHYR | Amy Allen |
Updated: 07/28/2022
Additional Contest Info: HollyShorts Screenplay Contest
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
ENDLESS COURAGE ( formerly Drop In Squad)
There’s the family you’re born into and the one you choose: Aging out of foster care meets elder aging in place when a sharp-witted teen and a feisty elder activist team up to conquer the housing crisis in a world stacked against them.
THE QUISLING
A young lawyer defends a wanted terrorist from international extradition.
MIRACLE BOY
After dying from meningitis and glimpsing Paradise, a troubled seven-year-old mountain boy is sent back to Earth with a promise of eighty more years—but when he wakens with no memory of his past, he must struggle through a lifetime of doubt, hardship, and temptation to rediscover his purpose and fulfill a divine mission that could save not only his family, but his soul.
Dark Latitude
When a young woman discovers a hidden photograph in the family album of a murdered WWII survivor, she becomes the target of a decades-old conspiracy linking Nazi fugitives, a secret escape flight from Germany, and a deadly cover-up that kills to protect its secrets.
Knock on Wood
To survive a week against a vengeful universe, a legendary hitman must trade his "Celestial Mathematics" for genuine morality after a botched job fractures his luck and begins to liquefy reality.
Ilium Ridge
To brothers Zeus, Poseidon and Hades, the First World War is but a game to stave off the boredom of immortality.
Christmas Island
Sissy and Kenneth return to their home in the northern woods for their mother's funeral, to find that their parents plan to snatch their bodies.
Tam Lin
In a modern romantic fantasy based on an ancient Scottish fairy tale, a strong young woman risks everything to save her mysterious lover from the evil Fairy Queen, and bring him back to a world he's never known.
