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.
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