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2023 Semifinalists

 

We are proud to announce our 2023 Semifinalists!

Please find lists below for our Feature, Pilot and Short categories.

Our Finalists will be announced on May 9th.

Congratulations!

 

Features

There are 84 semifinalists out of a total of 2439 feature submissions.

Altars of Greed by Brennan Howard

Amarilla by Iain Anderson

Baby Teeth by Jacob Lazarow & Greta Guthrie

Becoming the One by Giulia Eve Flores

Black Hills Gold by JD Volk

Black To The Future by Matthew L. Stevens

Bottle Blondes by Eddie Prunoske

By Any Other Name by John Doble

Cancel Me by Avery Koenig

Car 5-1 by Benjamin Forster

Challenger by Michael Budalich

David Boder by Jason Ruscio

Delulu by  A.Jay.U.

Diesal Diaries by Kendra L Tuthill

Durga by Kalainithan Kalaichelvan

El Pino by Joseph Rios & Rich Kim

End of Scene by Jen Butler

Enduring Freedom by Gina Guerrieri

Everybody Hates Rosemary by Ashley King

Fakhreddine The Great by Alexander Bedria

Filthy by Lisa Cole

Flight to Freedom by Jeff Nowak

Freed From Desire by Ben Escobar

From Mud by Dave Pilson & Neil Holland

Frontwoman by Chris Stetson

Goodbye, Cruel World by Matt Porter

Hazel by Liam McIntosh

Hillbilly Bath by Lauren Kleman

Is Anyone There Anymore? by Samantha Sewell

It Comes in Waves by Julia Casal

King of Beasts by Mike Harris

Knees Backward by Christophe Barnes

Lazarus Canyon: Rise of the Dead by Jeff Martel

Liar’s Spring by Yasmin Bakhtiari

Life On The Run by Andrew Fuhr

Long in the Tooth by Aidan West

Man of Iron by Sam Kressner

Mangrove by Iain Anderson

Monk Honey by An Yu

More Than a Heart Can Hold by Julia Maddox

Most Likely to be Murdered by Daniel Gámez

Mouth to Mouth by Mathew Wright

Natty Light by Thomas R. Schrack

Nice Eggs by Sandi Farkas

No Good Deed by Heather Farlinger

No One Likes Him by Conor Hanney & Kevin Hanney Jr

On the King’s Highway by Colin Seekgood

Orson by Jared Egol

Pipeline Moe by Todd M Korgan

Plate O’ Shrimp by Nicola Fletcher

Rent Boy by R.W. Perkins

Rise of the Red Fish by Nick Caccese

Robot Party by Elizabeth Arredondo

Shadow of Death by Jeoff Hanser

Sistagrrrls by Laura Fielder

Sweetwater Insurrection by Harry Locke IV

Take My Hand by Sam Pavich

The Angel by Michael Leung

The Black Sheep by Jannik Ohlendieck

The Blue Space Man by Michael Donaldson

The Dark Art of Self-Preservation by Jess Sanders

The Dark Lady by Kirsta Peterson

The Girl Who Cried Wolf by Alicia Herder

The Green House by Zach Grossman

The Last Queen’s Painter by Lindsey Galloway

The Last Skywriter in the Universe by Steven Bogart

The Man Dance by Jerry Perez

The Pharmacist by Samsun Knight

The Pyramid Song by Rafael Hernán Gamboa

The Vessel by Phoebe Danaher

The Washroom by Omar Aldakheel & Elie El Choufany

The Way of Killing by Joseph Thomas

The Weather Just Got Sexy by Zoë Greenbaum

Thursdays with Earl by Michael Maitland

Toffee Nose by Daniel Smith

Turn A Blind Eye by Edward Leech

Uncle Nagorny by Stephen Curran

Unconditional by Jessica R Mastro

Under The Moon by Ari Silver

Unopened Containers by Ivo Raza

Visiting Darkness by Celeste Prater

When the Bass Drops by Marlene Rhein

Whisked by Skye Zhang

Wild Rushes by T. B. Johnson

Zombulimia by Molly Vogel

 

Pilots

There are 43 semifinalists out of a total of 967 pilot submissions.

A Land Fit For Heroes by Sam French

Baghdad is Hot, But Hell is Hotter by Michael Zakar & Zak Zakar

Black Sheep by Leah Degrazia

Chrumbs by Aubrey Joy Maddock

Crews by Swaner & Garfinkle

Eat Me by Leslie Thomas

Eleanor by Caroline Pace

Elixir by Nicholas Di Valerio

Ersatz by Jade Wu

Friendmance by Olivia Haller

Girl Gone Wild by Courtney Kocak

Honey Lemon by Kenny Mulfort

Hot Flash by Noemi Zeigler

I Think My Parents Are Trying To Kill Me! by Scott Liapis

K-Town Women by Jenny H. Lee & Heidi Shon

Ladybug by J. Malcolm Hill

Ladylike by Rachel Rios

Latin “X” by  Paul X Sanchez IV

Long Island Girls by Ellen Ancui

Manic Pixie Dream Girl & Friends by Laura Kindred

Neruda’s Blues by Laura Moe

Officer X by Michael Joiner

Offsprings by Jennifer Steets

On The Skulls of Giants by Zan Gillies

Our Own Devices by Joel Micah Donovan & Bailey Donovan

Red World by Kris Hall

Saint-Michel by Eric Patton

Sandwiches by Beth Evans & Hannah Jane Fox

Saviours by Guy Ducker

Sorcerers of Suburbia by Geoffrey Prather

Suspend Your Disbelief by Conor Hanney

Ten to Midnight by M Mantero De Las Casas

The 40 by M.B. Stevens

The Black Paintings by Finn Weatherstone

The Boystown Messiah by Lyndon Henley Hanrahan

The Legend Of The Golden Vagina by Becky Prosky

The Party Line by Ginny Hogan

Theodicy by David Andersson

Trauma, Inc. by Alex McGuire

Wasted on Youth by Brian LaPerche

Watchlist by Alex Vickery-Howe

We Heard A Boom by Teagan Trace

Whistlebower by Emily Daly

 

Shorts

There are 44 semifinalists out of a total of 513 short submissions.

After What Happened at the Library by Kyle Casey Chu & Roisin Isner

Bird Brains by Anthea Jones

Breaking and Entering by Catherine Andre

Burning Virtue by Bryan Harlow

Criminally Insane by Rich Smith

Desolation’s Edge by Michael Castaldo

Diary of a House Plant by Jessica Farrow

F*ck You by Eva Everett Irving

Found by Ellen Ancui

48 Men by Maja Simeoni Sruk

It Won’t Always Be Like This by Elijah Barry

Jake’s Quest for Perfection by Hannah Giles

Jesús Of Nazareth by Wayne Gibson

Korean Shooter by Jimmy Prosser

Lee by Michael & Alan Lucks

Lemonade by Milan Seeff

Life Eternal by John Le Brocq

Lonely Paradise by Jennine Okafor & Michael Lawrence

Lou + Alt – Delete by Cody Andrew Wasson

Magid-Zafar by Sufiyaan Salam & Luis Hindman

Miseria by Jiming Sun Lindal

Mr. Wu’s Eulogy by Kathy Meng & Harry Bacon

My Little Olive by Walid Said

No Running by Julia Kennedy Hunt

Pa’s Money by Laura Platino

Pedigree by Dominick Gasperini

Plastic Surgery by Guy Trevellyan

Randy Nooman’s Greatest Day by Aaron S. Barrocas

Shard by Jack Campbell

Slowly Gone by Ben Hanley

Staten Island Project by Jodi Carol Harrison & Sarah L. Taylor

Super by Lilla Crawford

That Kind of Girl by Olivia FitzGerald-Harewood

The Bad Guy by Morgan Ann Hammen

The Devil Took The Call by Roberto Alvarenga

The Goat by Helen Foster

The House on Ridgeway by Evan Cunningham

The Ossan by Venita Ozols-Graham & Brigitte Graham

The Super Man by Christopher Romano

The Welcomers by Matt O’Connor

There’s a Frog on Mars (It’s True!)  by Shaun Radecki

Tomás by Ferran Navarro-Beltrán

Transjordan by Jessica Jiji

When Walter meets Frau May Wong by Yunah Hong

 

To view our 2023 Quarterfinalists, go here.