We are so excited to announce our 2018 Quarterfinalists!
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There are 231 quarterfinalists out of a total of 2472 submissions.
| A Clear Duty | by | Jeffrey Kerr |
| A Culture of Conflict | by | Josh Kaplan |
| A Fine Body of Gentlemen | by | Kevin Hopgood |
| A Game of Supers | by | Khamanna Iskandarova |
| A Parallax View | by | Peter Horgan |
| A Shot in Heaven | by | Jeff Bay Smith |
| A Yacht in the Apache Junction | by | Avi Glick |
| Amaranthine | by | Megan Turner |
| Amber | by | Johnny Sanchez |
| American Heroes | by | M. T. Miller |
| Among The Willows | by | Justin Krickovich |
| Anew | by | Becca Babcock |
| Argolis: Banquet of the Curse | by | E.M. Rooney |
| Bears on the run | by | Willard Whitson |
| Behind the Badge | by | John L. Martins III |
| Big Bad Wolves | by | Rachel James |
| Big In Japan | by | Anastasia Zerakiel |
| Big Red | by | Brennig Hayden |
| Biters (How My Vegan Girlfriend Became a Flesh-Eating Cannibal) | by | Farrin Rosenthal |
| Blinder | by | Maryam Mir |
| Blood and Coal: The Herrin Mine Massacre | by | Kristel Taylor |
| Blood and Ivory | by | Robert Porter |
| Blood Land | by | Deborah & Neal Havener |
| Blood of the Lamb | by | Jonathan M D Croom |
| Boss Lady | by | Demetria Elmore |
| Breakfast at Twilight (Dawn) | by | Amber Lee & Alvin Adadevoh |
| Brilliant Corners | by | Seyi River |
| Brown Eyes Blue | by | Wyatt Wakeman |
| Brunch In Bel Air | by | Frank Palmieri |
| Buzz | by | Jeffrey Alan Chase |
| Carbon | by | Claire McClanahan |
| Change of Program | by | Manu Rewal |
| Circle | by | Clifton Robinson |
| Combustion | by | Craig Oliver |
| Comic Book Kings | by | Amanda Keener |
| Cookies | by | Morgan Slade |
| Crazy S.O.B. | by | Steve Cross |
| Crime Extraordinaire | by | Howard Fridkin |
| Daffodil | by | Nikai Johnson |
| Dago Harlem | by | Chris Caleo |
| Damnation | by | Chris Bryant & Tony Baker |
| Dead in the Water | by | Will Mustin |
| Dead On The Inside | by | Selene Raffel |
| Death of a Fool | by | Ismael Gomez III & Joe Leone |
| Demolished | by | Brian P. Gross |
| Depredations | by | George Gier |
| Diablo’s Rest | by | Philip Henry |
| Ditch | by | Ryan Little |
| Don Quixote | by | Rachel Wesberry |
| Don’t Look Back in Anger | by | Adam Pliskin & Stuey Pliskin |
| Double Redemption | by | Steve Sherman |
| Dream Catcher | by | Jameelah Jones |
| Easy Nothin’ | by | Sherry Engle |
| Eleanor, Invisible | by | Tory Kamen |
| Emancipating Maryland | by | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| Escher | by | Jason Kessler |
| Evangeline | by | Clint Adams |
| Exodus | by | Paul Joseph Thomas |
| Falling Up | by | Steve Tornello |
| Fast Fashion | by | David Mandell |
| Father Mucker | by | Peter Gazdag |
| Fell Swoop | by | Clay Prietsch |
| 50 Miles From Boomtown | by | Flo Linus Baumann |
| First Lady | by | Nina May |
| Fleet | by | Ari Brown |
| Flyover State | by | Sarah Tither-Kaplan |
| For Elise | by | William Gammon |
| Forbidden Steps | by | Iram Parveen Bilal |
| 46 Seconds To Impact | by | Vince Mazzara |
| From A to Zoe | by | Andy Silverman |
| Garden Hill Kumite | by | Blaine Tyler & Dane Reade |
| Garden of the Gods | by | Marisa Roman |
| Get Me This William Shakespeare | by | Pearse Lehane |
| Green Softness | by | Ana Lasic |
| Greenland | by | Simon Frank |
| H2 O | by | Jennifer Lamar & Marc Peterson |
| Hacked | by | Dylan Dockery |
| Heartland | by | Evan Shadlun |
| Her Weight On Me | by | Rebecca Shuhan Lou & Sofia Drummond-Moore |
| Here Comes AntiClaus | by | John E Galbraith |
| Here Lies Jane | by | Carol Fahey |
| High School Spider Apocalypse | by | Adlee Fayyaz |
| In Bocca Al Lupo | by | Jonah Zimmerberg-Helms |
| Indigo Sheep | by | Kimberly Nicole Walker |
| Jamal Garcia | by | Nora Contreras |
| James Hook | by | Travis Seppala |
| Jesus Christ | by | Brandon Tamburri |
| Jihadi Joe | by | Ernest Brawley |
| Karma | by | Kwok Keong |
| Killin’ It | by | Sean Kenealy |
| Kiss My Aura | by | Ross Evison |
| Last Chance in Munich | by | Kurt Haenicke |
| Last Days of August | by | Will Malin |
| Last Orders | by | Alistair Hudson |
| Life After Life | by | Andres Rivera |
| Long Call | by | Andrew Ferguson |
| Luckmann | by | Francisco Zamudio Jr. |
| Machine Learning | by | Ryan Vaughn & Anna Vosbigian |
| Magic Research Society | by | Amanda Keener |
| Maitland Road | by | Jeffery Richards |
| Mama’s Boys | by | Havon K Baraka |
| Mecha | by | Victoria Murphy |
| Men | by | Rebecca Dreyfus |
| Messengers | by | Anthony Ingoglia |
| Midnight Oil | by | Kristin Stuart Valdes |
| Misery Trail | by | Bruce H. Bosley & Danial Fields |
| Miske | by | Louis Spirito and Ron & Justine Fontes |
| Miss Hercules | by | Martin Hiew |
| Moor America | by | Brandon Lampley |
| My Cryin’ Heart | by | Charles Gorgano, Karl Lentini |
| My Monster | by | David B. Carren |
| Nekkid | by | William Gammon |
| New Eden | by | Chris Leonard |
| No Blood, No Foul | by | Frank Vespe |
| No Place | by | Sean Jennings |
| North | by | Jason Wright |
| Not My Emergency | by | Matthew Conlin |
| Nothing To Report | by | Amanda Pellegrino |
| Oh Mists, My Mists | by | Guilherme Viegas |
| Old Moon | by | Calvin Patrick Pembroke |
| Old South | by | Max Cusimano |
| On Writing – Murphy’s Law | by | Sean Patrick O’Brien |
| One Child | by | Marc Weinberg & Victoria Fraser |
| One Nighter | by | Vandon Gibbs |
| Onni in the Sauna | by | Bill Kelly Jr |
| Out in The Vineyard | by | Brian Brockway |
| Over West Main Hill | by | Nick McMurdy |
| Palimpsest | by | Mirtha Vega |
| Passage | by | Firdaus F. Bilimoria |
| Passing Stars | by | Daniel Hainey & Robin Benson |
| Perfectus | by | Pia Chaudhuri |
| Pigs with Paws | by | Kevin Rexroat |
| Playhouse | by | Amy Tasillo |
| Psycho | by | Fabia Sabella |
| Pushing Buttons | by | Lou Wollin |
| Queens | by | Max Sokoloff |
| Radio Silence | by | Samuel Masters |
| Ravenous | by | Brock Newell |
| Rayner | by | Angelina Gibson |
| Reason to Live | by | David Homick |
| Red In Tooth And Claw | by | Brennig Hayden |
| Red Light | by | Dempsey Tillman & Ted Dewberry |
| Renata | by | Kaelan Denali Dickinson |
| Revenge of the Reptiles | by | David Mills |
| River | by | Roderick E. Stevens |
| Roger | by | Brendan Cleaves & Stuart Foreman |
| Rumspringa | by | Jeb Banegas & Pierre Reboul |
| San Francisco | by | John J. Perez |
| Sardis the Merciful | by | Christian Thomas |
| Save the Butterfly | by | Keith Mallory |
| Saving Grace | by | Nick Shafir |
| Shamed | by | Daniel Rutka & Jon Laxer |
| She’s Someone’s Daughter | by | Kevin Donner |
| Shine | by | Matthew Viscuse |
| Shine a Light | by | Jordan Blilie |
| Shrimp | by | Nicole Jones |
| Sky Feather | by | David Lane Williams |
| Smiley the Elf: A Christmas Commie-D | by | Zack Pinsky & Jeff Leibovich |
| Snake Oil | by | Liam Allen-McGoran |
| Spring Cleaning | by | Isabella Cohen |
| Starring Kip Donovan | by | Alex Williams |
| State School | by | Sean Price |
| Studio City | by | Ryan Vaughn |
| Suck My Deke | by | Ritchie Arthurson & Jack Sandberg |
| Teenage Bodyguard | by | Gordon Frank Hayes |
| Thank You for Understanding | by | Nathaniel Missildine |
| The 12th King | by | Julia Phillips |
| The Animal Act of Human Cruelty | by | Nick Arvay |
| The Arrow Collar Man | by | Ellen Snedeker |
| The Barking | by | Dana Garrity |
| The Bridge of Locks | by | Christian Conte |
| The Burial of the White Swami | by | Avi Glick |
| The Captain | by | Ryan Vaughn & Anna Vosbigian |
| The Catalyst | by | Daniel Sheiman |
| The Day I Danced | by | Faith D. Cox |
| The Detail Guys | by | David Nathan Schwartz & Michael J. McDonough |
| The Devil’s Crown | by | Jessica Valentine & Richard Valentine |
| The Devils Are Here | by | Paul Alan Cope |
| The Eagles of Kandahar | by | J.D. Mathes |
| The Earth Whisperer | by | Alex Markoff |
| The Fetch | by | Bill Ellis |
| The Fighting Girlfriend | by | Alexander Vargas |
| The Firstborn | by | Phil Smith |
| The Flying Island | by | Christopher Rucinski |
| The Four Divorces | by | Richard John Smith |
| The Frying Pan | by | Daniel Stine |
| The Gates of Paris | by | Jordan Zignego |
| The Grim Gumshoe | by | Jed Keith Woods |
| The Homestead | by | Julie McKay |
| The House That Jack Built | by | Jill A. Russell |
| The House that Jack Built | by | Barry Jones |
| The Ice King | by | Nestor Villalobos |
| The Last Best Place | by | Caleb Coffey |
| The Last Watchman of Mars | by | Philip T Brewster & Shona M Brewster |
| The Love Effect | by | Drue Metz |
| The Maidservant’s Cap | by | Jeff Opdyke |
| The Opposer | by | Andrew Brown |
| The Pocketknife | by | Jerry Perez |
| The Remnants of Lucy Jordan | by | Stacy Hullah |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | by | David A Ruben |
| The Sea and Summer | by | Mhairi McIntyre |
| The Slammer | by | Tara Cocco |
| The Spy Slave | by | James Foye |
| The Superb Lyrebird and Other Creatures | by | Wendy Britton Young |
| The Suspect Within | by | Adam J. Fortner |
| The Time-trap | by | Mark Flood |
| The Unrepentant | by | Tom Carmody & Greg Hurd |
| The Urban Creepers | by | Dreama Elmore |
| The Vidiots | by | Sasha Tolmachyov |
| The Warriors’ Concerto | by | Jamaal D. Pittman & Lila Hood |
| The Weight of Paper Planes | by | Debra Farea |
| These Stories and More | by | Sarah Phillips |
| This Is Happening | by | Mike Salisbury |
| Three Gardens | by | Jacqueline Owens |
| To Kill a Secret | by | Caitlin Eha |
| Touch | by | Cameron Berner |
| Triggers | by | Robert J. Sawyer |
| Turn | by | Eva G.Szigriszt |
| Unforgettable | by | Joshua Capizzi |
| Valentyne | by | Dashiell Finley |
| Viper | by | Atul Sharma |
| Walking With Elvis | by | Matthew Lyne-Watt |
| We Planted Our Garden in Quicksand | by | Kevin Donner |
| WEDJAT | by | Robert Rogers |
| When It Rings | by | Ty Haisten & David Rivers |
| Wildfire | by | Duncan Ralston |
| Willowport | by | Jess Ansik |
| Winter Quarters | by | Nathan Floody |
| You Look Rested | by | Ted Ryan J. Christopher Sloan |
| You’ve Got Scam | by | Brian Brockway |
| Your Big Indian Sumo | by | Piyush Thakur, Deepak Lohana & Alap Mohile |
Pilot – Hour
There are 59 quarterfinalists out of a total of 586 submissions.
| A House Divided | by | Geoff Bakken |
| Adlon | by | Tom Leif Anderson |
| Age of Jackson | by | Ryan Vallo |
| Al Malone, Private Eye | by | Tim O’Leary |
| And Yourself | by | Benjamin Meyer |
| Bluebirds | by | Simon Wilkinson |
| Buffalo Nation | by | Alexander Major |
| By Design | by | Scott Davis |
| Chrysalis | by | Keaton McGruder |
| Clocks: Tick Tock | by | Elizabeth Preston |
| Cooking With Jane | by | Antonio Salinas |
| Crave | by | Jenna Lyles |
| Cusp | by | Sid Grey |
| Desert 10 | by | Zach Tomlinson |
| Eat Me | by | Catlan McClelland & Matthew Schlissel |
| Facing North | by | Jorge Perez |
| Free Brian Thomas | by | Vincent Macaluso |
| Gilt | by | Andrew Crook |
| Halfway To The Stars | by | Howard Harband |
| Heirloom | by | Oliver Brackenbury |
| Hubris+Paranoia | by | Phil Connell |
| Hush | by | Samantha |
| I Love You, Mr. Freeze | by | Randy Rex |
| In Chrysalis | by | Nelson Downend |
| Insurrection | by | Simon Bowler |
| Kingdom Of Children | by | Kristen Joy Bjorge |
| Manninger | by | Richard John Smith |
| Master Race | by | Joseph O’Driscoll |
| Mirror Men | by | Jeffery Mack |
| Miskatonic University | by | J.W. Bentley |
| Monsterville | by | Dave Champoux |
| News Values | by | Jacob Paine Krasnow |
| Night Witches | by | Nic Yulo |
| Odessa | by | Isaac Siegemund-Broka |
| Outlaws | by | Bryan Kelsey |
| Pipe Bomb | by | Michael Orlando |
| Psycho Spa | by | Allison Rose Phelan |
| Pulp Action: Rotten Cove | by | Morris Jackson |
| Radicals | by | Tim Fasano |
| Sheer Happiness | by | Magdalena Wilms |
| Takes a Monster | by | January Wiryawan |
| Tangents | by | Titus Maclaren |
| The Backyard You Know | by | Ben Philippe |
| The Christian King of the Jews | by | Brian Comerford |
| The Dive | by | Levi Scott |
| The Divinity Cycle | by | Nelson Downend |
| The Fates | by | The Cosci Brothers |
| The Golden Age | by | Lauren Hussey |
| The Harvest | by | Keith Turner |
| The Kiss and Cry | by | Kristen Gerweck |
| The Line | by | Andrew Lewellen |
| The Machine | by | Doug Rao |
| The Monarch Guild | by | Jason Ancona |
| The Portal | by | Ricardo Bravo |
| The Sensualist | by | Suzanne Griffin |
| The Twelve Chairs | by | Gregg Greenberg |
| Twin Sight | by | Kate Delin |
| Yiffy Kitten | by | Arvin Donner |
Pilot – Half Hour
There are 43 quarterfinalists out of a total of 423 submissions.
| Adullhood | by | Vadim Egoul & Caleb Graves |
| Area 51 | by | Josh Smooha |
| At The End | by | Sergio Garcia |
| Black Cabs | by | Christopher Maudsley |
| Black Republican | by | Joe Abel & Dwayne Perkins |
| Can’t Help Myself | by | Elaine Loh |
| Carol Cares | by | Jennifer DeFilippo & Mu Sun |
| Charm City Cheddar | by | Brett Melnick |
| Cloudland | by | Kincaid Walker |
| Conception | by | Samuel Josephs |
| Craig and his Uncle Ron | by | Craig Miller & Dustin Chafin |
| Crazy People | by | Daisy Rogozinsky |
| EPS | by | Holly Scarabosio, Christopher Carson Emmons & Michael Miceli |
| 5 Freaks in a Van | by | Thomas Cunningham & Patrick Guera |
| FUBAR | by | Richard Martin |
| Genre Gap | by | Lindsay Rootare |
| Infinite Gary | by | Joey Siara |
| Issues | by | Pogo New |
| Jennifer’s Last Stand | by | Heather Kennedy |
| Kink | by | Lisa Carroll |
| Madam Caraveil’s Caravan of Curiosities | by | Amanda Keener |
| Mercy | by | Mackenzie Austin Kalish & Bruce Kalish |
| Model Minority | by | Emily Wahlund |
| Never Ready | by | Michael Bramante |
| Oh God | by | Nick Skardarasy |
| Out Of Their League | by | Tim Rege |
| Psychos | by | Laurel Kulow |
| PULP: Puppets Under Life’s Pressures | by | Raphael Loucadellis |
| Real M*thr | by | Claire McClanahan & Vanessa Stewart |
| Reaper & Joe | by | Michael Heubel & Aaron Guttenberg |
| Schism: Renewal | by | Malcolm Taylor |
| SimCal | by | Matthew Shafeek |
| Special | by | Jay Cundiff & Kyle Jorgensen |
| Talk Therapy | by | Thomas Moore |
| The Embers | by | Tanner Tovar |
| The Rest Stop at The End of the Universe | by | Sam Suksiri |
| The Shame Game | by | Susan Sassi |
| The SportsChannel | by | Erin Quinn |
| The Vault | by | January Rain |
| To The Fullest | by | Jordan Imbrey |
| Tutors | by | Valerie Work |
| Unplanned | by | Joshua KAplan |
| Welcome to Wall Street | by | Richard Davidian |
| Wild Quiet | by | Liz Thompson |
Short
There are 71 quarterfinalists out of a total of 762 submissions.
| A Blood Throne | by | Xavier and Jonathan Garcia |
| A Diary for War | by | Larry Gibbs, Jr. |
| A Favorable Promotion | by | Emanuel Nisan |
| A War On Terror | by | Peter Haig |
| Absolute Beginner | by | Shekhar & Shalinder Bassi |
| Amadi Comes Home | by | Laura Bray & April Matthis |
| Bautizo | by | Alex Z. Avila |
| Beyond the Fuchsias | by | Tara Jackson |
| Born to See | by | Kristina Usaite |
| Call History | by | Lillian Paterson |
| Canon | by | Jaydn Gosselin |
| Carcosa | by | Will DeWitt |
| Cardboard Box | by | Bernhard Riedhammer |
| Deaf Men See | by | Blake Ofstedal |
| Demeter Revelation, The | by | John Petrizzi & Brad C. Hodson |
| Dogs | by | Jake Fallon |
| Downstairs | by | Marion Dauriac |
| Emmanuel | by | Sam Herath |
| Every Dog Has His Day | by | Matthew S. Alaniz |
| First Day First Show | by | Piyush Thakur, Deepak Lohana |
| First Words | by | Meegan May |
| For the Love of Fear | by | Luke Hanlon |
| Freezer | by | Elisabeth Watts |
| Ginger And Fred | by | Miranda Jane Sen |
| Help Wanted | by | Ikechukwu “Ike” Nwoko |
| Holier Than Thou | by | Janelle Tweed |
| Horizon | by | Nic Yulo |
| Hunted | by | James Elmes |
| Icon | by | Max Blakeley |
| If I Can’t Be Happy | by | Kathryn Mockler |
| In Loving Memory | by | Andrea Bang |
| Jersey | by | Patrick John Ford |
| Juliette | by | Ellie C. Bright |
| Just A Taste | by | Margaret M. Spirito |
| Kiersten | by | Brian Lose |
| Laundry Day | by | Perry Stoutt II |
| Life Tune | by | Tommy Garcia |
| Loser | by | Austin Alexander |
| Lost Memories | by | Bernhard Riedhammer |
| Melville | by | Jeremy Storey |
| New Hampshire | by | Brandon “Chipp” Ohl & Brogan McCuen |
| No Going Back | by | Connor Mackay |
| Olly’s Cabin | by | Jake DeRose |
| On Track | by | Lauren Christie |
| Pants, Comrade! | by | Shekhar & Shalinder Bassi |
| Pozole | by | Jessica Mendez Siqueiros |
| Recidivism | by | Stina Carlstedt |
| Reynolds | by | Jessica Sinyard |
| Ruby | by | Luke Howe |
| Seeing the Light | by | Bronwyn King |
| Serial Killer Agency | by | Andrew Mang |
| Snapshot | by | Sharon Murray |
| Spic | by | Johnny Sanchez |
| Switchman | by | Henry Leeker |
| The Farm | by | Deborah Riley |
| The Forgotten Skeleton | by | Dilpreet Kaur Walia |
| The Gambler’s Imp | by | Jonathan A. Johnson |
| The Kilima Chain | by | Josh Folan |
| The Last Call | by | Kristen Gerweck |
| The Last Horizon | by | Franziska Morai |
| The Players Game | by | Garrett Shay |
| The Tale of a Bloody Bounty | by | Matthew James Ridgewell |
| The Target | by | Brendan Cleaves |
| The Trucker | by | Rod Kashani |
| The Undisputed Champion of the World | by | John Morrison |
| Tower of Strength | by | Jeremy Storey |
| 1219FM | by | Ruthie Hanson |
| Wa Wa | by | Amy Wang |
| White Ferrari | by | Sarah Smith |
| White-Collar Crime for Kids | by | Jason Petrovitch |
| Wormfood | by | Sarah Higgins |
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