StoryPros Awards Names Semifinalists
Semifinalists have been announced the 14th Annual Story Pros Awards Screenwriting Competition:
ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER | |
Act of Love | Elvin Betancourt |
Auntie | Deirdre Patterson |
Bloodhound | Danny Katz |
Book Of Whys | B.E. Marvis |
Broken Wings | Joseph Waldygo |
Core Ruleset | Timothy Bryan |
Dangerous Ground | Brian Whiteman |
Descent Into The Maelstrom | Thomas Thonson |
Fire Load | Laura M. Kemp |
I Can See Clearly Now | P.K. Silverson |
In Action | Daniel Scherr |
Kudzu | Marisa Forrest |
MIA | Despina Moraitou Politzi |
Minotaur | Tim Auld |
Monica Stiletto | Enza Fangio, Ron Fangio |
Mustang | Gordon Phipps |
Only Way Out | Jason Sawyer, Sean Gallagher |
Quest for the Shamir | Candyce Petersen |
Rational Panic | Robert G. Rhyne |
Raven Winters & The Spirit Vortex | Heather Ostrove |
Resurrection Run | Sean Mick |
Rock Tarpeian | Salvatore Bono |
Runaway Ship | Theodore Carl Soderberg |
Sirens Vendetta | Antoine Mizel |
Sold Short | Joe Marrino |
The Bandidos and the Desperados | David Kurtz |
The Demon Of Hope Street | Craig Peters |
The Euripides Engine | Peter Andrews |
The Price Of Ivory | Austin Rodriguez |
The Ranch | Geoff Ryan |
The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
Through Violet Eyes | Stephen Woodworth |
Wasteland | Sean Mick |
COMEDY | |
Amuse Me | Shreyas Ayaluri |
And No One Mourned | Ky Rogers |
Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
Cecil's Woods | Christopher Hatch, Kevin Renshaw |
Children's Party War | Warren Lane |
Clean | Jason Laurits |
Commander 84 | Robert Skollar |
Elvis Escobar & Juniper Lea | Shreyas Ayaluri |
Hail Larry | Evan Frondorf, Andrew Osentoski |
Impossumible | Rich Swingley |
Let's Make A Baby | Jason Laurits |
Marriage Material | Shelly Paino |
Mergers and Acquisitions | Emmett Loverde |
Neutral Mobility | Sean Doyle |
Not Super | Ethan Schneier |
OMG, Same | Terence Brody |
One Bad Apple | Christine Stocke, Dan Stocke |
Pot Life | A.J. Leonard |
Power Couple | Peter Andrews |
Silver Alert! | Tim O'Shea |
Speak English | Kieran Angelini |
Standby Hero | Shawn Mahan |
StoneDead | Matthew Corley |
Stupid American | Rob Sitter |
Teriyaki Mosley Will Not Save Your Planet | Boris Coll |
The Best Last Family Christmas | Christine OKeefe |
The Dooling Twins | Robert Rogers |
The Grandmother | Robert Rossetti |
The Real Thing | Matthew Papadopoulos |
The Trials of Job | Curt McCray, Kent McCray |
The Wraith of Mrs. McGuire | George Petersen |
Transplanted | Matthew Conlin |
Undercover L.A.P.E. | Christopher Prince |
Zombie Cheerleaders from Long Island | Joshua Davis |
DRAMA | |
0 & 2 | Thomas Brian Scott |
1000 Miles To Ontario | Freddie Vaziri |
A Relative Unknown | Lynne Logan |
Beguiling Dreams | Fred G. Stemme |
Blues For The Father | Joseph Harrison, Barry Kohl |
Break Away | Romeo Ciolfi |
Captain F*ck It | Melanie Holmes |
Change Gonna Come | Ryan Philander |
Chasing Victory | Margaret Riseley |
Dead Reckoning | Chad Hutson |
Do It Scared | Paul Mahoney |
Douglass | John Murphy |
Down By The River | Thomas Thonson, Susan Mathison |
Esperanza: Lydia & Ajei | Jamee Decio |
Fire Mountain | David Harrienger |
Firestorm | Randy Nelson |
Flying Bird's Diary | Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel |
Ground Zero | Michael Burke |
Guardian | Ky Rogers |
Heard | Alex George Pickering |
Language Of Light | Jackson Grace Gay, Wendy Weckwerth |
Loose Ends | Larry Leinoff |
Lottery Entanglement | Michael Casey |
Marcia Moore | Robert Brown |
Minor Miracle | Dave Henderson |
More Than One Idiot Brother | Pearse Lehane |
Of Saints & Scholars | Amy Allen |
Orson | Jared Egol |
Potter's Ground | Pearse Lehane |
Ravine | Kevin Stuart Brodie |
Riding With Charlie | Shintaro Ogai |
Seraphim's Miracle | J.B. Storey |
Sister | Alex Blumberg |
Soul to Squeeze | Alex Arabian |
Spartan Mansion | Stacey Spivey |
Starlight | Jay Lawson |
Still Time to Change | Jim Grieco |
Strays | Robert Wooldridge |
Tent Town | Phyllis Allison |
The American Barkeeper | Stephen Krespel |
The Buzzing Tree | K. Carlton Mayfield |
The Change Jar | Hal Harris |
The Doors Of Perception | Johnny Cruz |
The Inglorious Patriot | Jay Natelle |
The Lies We Tell Ourselves | Courtney Froemming |
The Man Doctrine | Christopher Prince |
The Portage | Jason Partridge |
The Show | Patrick McGrath |
Timeless Baggage | Barbara Albers Jackson |
Trip | David E. Baugnon |
Virtuous Lad | Thomas J. Sisk |
Voice | Levi Buchanan, L. Kris Gowen |
Voices | Susan Klos |
Wheelchair | Andrew McLinden |
FAMILY/TEEN/ANIMATION | |
A Leap into Darkness | Ray Petrolino |
A Long Way Home | Steven Bogart |
A No Fly Zone | John Helms |
Broom of Fury | Ryan Brandt |
Cascadia | Tim Millette |
Clouds | Jose Cardona Gonzalez |
Escape from EveryWorld | Paul Shiban |
Game 4 | Steve Freehauf |
Home Team Blues | Ken Robb |
In His Eyes | Tom Sevener |
In the Footsteps of Thaddeus Thackeray | Adam McDaniel |
Jolly's Christmas | Ken Robb |
Leave A Like | Jordan Gustafson, Cody Gustafson |
Oh, Percy | Richard Sirianni |
One More Hit | Brad Max |
Out of My Comfort Zone | Ivy Vale, Rick Reil |
Pretty Normal | Matthew Edlin |
Shoe In | Pawel Grajnert |
Talk Is Cheap | Michelle Palmer |
The Miracle Moment | B.E. Marvis, Brian Doyle |
The Music Scrooge | Jim Evry |
The Ordinary House of Extraordinary Lane | Robert Walcott |
Under 'S' for Sucker | Peggy Hanna |
SCI-FI/FANTASY/HORROR | |
Access | Kate Gleason |
All the Bad Things | Ervin Anderson |
Amazing | Geoff Ryan |
Arca | Nicholas Thurkettle |
BFFs Never Say Die | K. Jennifer Ilagan |
Callers to Our World | Salvatore Bono |
Chindi | Timothy Bryan |
Die Party Monsters Die | Cornelis Craane |
Duivel Claus | Patrick Michalak |
Fauna | Salvatore Brown |
Faye of Avaline | Alan Howcroft |
Glimpses | Tammy Klembith |
Gloomtown | Lyndal Simpson |
Glory Everlasting | Bryan Bakker |
Green Flash | Garrett Rowe, Joe Varkle |
Guardian | Jess Gupta |
Hypnotic | Clint Mathewson |
Incarnations | Albert M. Chan |
Inside Me | Darien Harte |
Kosmos | Alex Blumberg |
Letheland | Patrick Hatten |
Mandibles | Rudy Gray |
Miskatonic U. | Chris Bolton |
Praesidia | Timothy Bryan |
Quantum | Brian Meade |
Quantum Driver | Rebeca Melara |
Redirklus | Kevin Shorter |
Revelations | Johnny Gilligan |
Solace | Steven Colbert |
Song of the Shadows | Les Zig |
Starcrossed | Jeffrey Howe |
The 13th Chair | Troy Wade |
The Celestial Highway | Kevin J. Howard |
The Children | Russell Southam, Brian Kazmarck |
The Extreme Weight Loss Program | Dana Hammer |
The Horned God | Alessandro Guarino |
The Huntsman of Corvinus | Timothy Bryan |
The Other Side of Time | Isabella Bodnar |
The Seedling | Kevin J. Howard |
Trapped In Plain Sight | Tammy Klembith, George Klembith |
We Made a Zombie | Isabella Bodnar |
When Horror Met Sally... | Ervin Anderson |
Why the Wolf Howls | Eric Mulder |
Widow | Brett Brooks |
Wolves Don't Cry | Scott Fleishman |
Updated: 06/02/2021
Additional Contest Info: StoryPros Awards Contest
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