Hollyshorts Names 2025 Quarterfinalists

Hollyshorts has announced quarterfinalists across all genres for the 2025 Hollyshorts Screenplay Contest.

Animation
A6 – Akevo Jenkins
Above Average Heroes – Carlos Greaves
The Nose Whistler – Ben Hirschhorn
InQuest – Freddie Sawkins

Comedy
Square Grouper – Jonathan Levy, Dan Erickson
Bad to the Bone – Tim Young
Self-possessed women make me nervous – Nizami Murtuzayev
Problem Teachers – Nick Roth
Be Bold! – Ruby Mainieri
Operátion Verité – Alexios Nikolas Touloupis
Work: The Novela The Unauthorized Musical No One Asked For – Joelle Velez
Kissing of an Elysian Pomegranate – Zicheng Li
Skating With You – April Rock
Olivia Colman Says My Farts Don’t Stink – Lisa Marie Tedesco
Please Kill Me – Siham Yahya
Charles Somebody – Scott Corbett, Mark Cohen
A Wedding Affair – Jack Warner
The Evil That Men Do – Steve Hanisch
Cafe d'Automatique – Dave C. Hanson
THE DIRTY DOUBLE – Frankie Campisano, Sam Hayden
Spidey-Whities – Joshua Ortiz
Secretary of Arts – Julie Sharbutt
FENCED – Johanna Warren
Old Glory – Peter Besson
Just Breathe – Zaza
Sweetheart – Tiffany Shinn

Drama
Therapy – Sarah Polhaus
elle/elle – Ariel Mahler
Tidepooling – Cecilia Luoyi
BABKA (feature screenplay) – Serena Dykman
unequal parts – Michael Buonocore
Hear My Song - Feature Film Script – Rachel Walsh-Williams
To You...To Us – Camila Noriega
Welcome to America – Weiyang Liu
108 – Andrea Cabanas
Boyish – Cha Quallis
A Colorful Evening – Michael Mike Canon
Oh, Diane – Megan Hensley
Dope Friend – Matt Ferrucci
Truth or Die – James Tuverson
Let Us Prey – James Tuverson
The Dreamcatcher – Noah Robert Radant
Mijo – Johnny Baca
Beyond the Blue Light – Simone Brazzini
Happy Cry – Jen Grubbs
The Uterus (Usurped) – Stephanie Kalogriopoulos
Blink – Antuan Russ
Last Act – Bessie Amato
Artificial Light – Janine Cephra Stuart
A Pirate's Life For Me – Jessy Leigh
The Snack Shack – Haili Fransham, Roderick Fransham
Rush – Jiayun Zhang
Fetch – Patrick Curran
Quell – Katherine Fairfax Wright
KALI – Sai Karan Talwar
The Point After – Kris Kaiser
Hangmen – Kyle C. Mumford
SHEIGETZ – Joseph Schweitzer
Limbo – Melissa Puente
Our Team – Joshua Holtzman
Tortoiseshell – Sarah Polhaus
Waves in the Sky – Genevieve Skehan
'Sing Me Your Questions' – Steven T. Smith, Dan Reed
The Sweetest Silence – Ryan Crepack
Bully of the Brain – Ryan Crepack
Meeting Your Maker – Gregory JM Kasunich
Paradise Lanes – Chiara Motley
Misfits – Luke Allein
Still Us – Kunjue Li
Clark – Ryan Cunningham
Cluster – Kevin Dembinsky
Teacher's Pet – Mark Wakely
Baby Rattler – Scott Corbett
Kirby in Limbo – Jamie Campbell
WORTHY OF LIFE – Allison Norlian, Judith Rubin
Lily – Jesse Foy
Savings Bonds – Chris San Nicolas
Manibestation – Karen McDermott
BLACK AND GOLD – Kevin J. Howard
Embellecimiento – Jeremy Bradford
Eternal Mother – Emily Qiu, Ligia Schiozer
Ten Minutes of Eternity – Peter Besson
Maya – Xin Liu
Number One – Diorella Mirasol
Harris knight official – Aneel Ahmad
The Beach of Stones – William Armstrong
#1735 – Joshua Weeks
Orange Vests & Cigarettes – Kyle Ensrude
Plan D – Porcha Evans

Faith
JUDE – Timothy Parr, M. Sieve

Family
The Naughty List – Brandon Osterman

Fantasy
Tap Five Times for Elena – Victoria Villarreal
Homeless – Leonardo Ramirez
The Hole Troll – Loring Weisenberger
Diwata – Shea Formanes
The Fox, the Wolf, and the Moon – Peta Huang
Bootneck & Para – Jeffrey Golden

Historical
Flame of The Iceni: The Price of Peace (PILOT Episode) – Laura J Harris

Horror
The Emergence of Carlyle – Anne-Marie Maidan
Puppeteers – Matt Moeller
Mrs Stanley – Tamar Levine
The Unraveling – Samantha Mallory
The Second Circle – Jamie Alvey
Parking – Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
Alma's Will – Kelly Karam
BOTTOM FEEDER – Ari Groobman
Duppy Conqueror – Kanja Chen
The Greenhouse At Dark – John Ludwick
White Light / White Heat – Warren Myers
Murmur – Felipe Marinheiro
The Devil's Brew – Mark Renshaw
Hysteria – MK McGehee
Baby Tooth – Tania Luna
The Hatred – Lela Cermin

Sci-Fi
The Human Code – Asha Bagal Kelly
Vucheck – Angelita Mendoza
Eve – Kirsten Spalding
MEM0IR – Jacob Chattman, Jordan Butcher
"Live and Let Hide" – Steven Smith
The Surrogate – Adesua Okosun
My Pleiadian Wife – Agnieszka Baczkowska-Maśluszczak
Psilocybots – Scott Corbett
Proprietary Power Nappers – Aiden Choi

Thriller
Our Last Trip – Blake Van Curen
Breathe – Mitch Yapko
Peach Fuzz – Hannah Sperling
The Florist – Anne Gold
In With the Storm – Cara Marshall
THE REVVER – Mike Hanson, Kelly Susan Moothart
BENEATH – Alan Mah Baxter
IN 5 MINUTES – Imole Ladipo
The Scream of the Butterfly – Anjini Taneja Azhar, Ariya Akhavan

Miscellaneous
The Inheritance of Purpose – Alex Mehta
A Handyman, a Landlord, and a Struggling Artist – Sunny Mohajer
Order for Owen – Cameron Haruta
Swallows – Nathan Pearson
No More Good Girls – Shahine Ezell
Mudslide – Frederik Ehrhardt
Moonglow – Sky Cole
Last Call. – Mike Gallagher
L'Avocat – Rachel Walsh-Williams
Little Family Secret – Samuel Robert Van Fossen
Be Nice. Smile – Tasia Brown
Again (Znovu) – Katarzyna Müller
LOLLIE - script – Agnès Shinozaki, David Barbeschi
Michael AKA Michael Myers – Charles Dillon Ward
The Heavy – Alison Whitney
Lonely Street – Michelle Lindsay-Baharie
Load Shedding – Tendayi Nyeke
Routine Procedure – Jessica Mosher

Western
Ballad Of The Black Guitar – Omar Juarez
Reuben – Nella Dudova

Updated: 07/01/2025

Additional Contest Info: HollyShorts Screenplay Contest