We are proud to announce our 2024 Quarterfinalists!
Please find lists below for our Feature, Pilot and Short categories.
Our Semifinalists will be announced on April 9th.
Thanks to everyone who submitted your wonderful work. 🙂
Congratulations!
Features
There are 192 quarterfinalists out of a total of 2,231 feature submissions.
A Band of Wolves by Reynaldo Leal
A Forgotten Time by David Price
A Visit From My Teenage Self by The Mad Hapa
Adventures In Serial Killing by Jack Warner
All Things Considered by Jamie Albright
American Chop Suey by Kara Rada
Amerie’s Wish by George Allen
Angels Twice Descending by Cecile Callan
Anthem of the Sprites by Marie Robinson
Archmere by Aisha Tounkara
Ascension by Saro Varjabedian
Asmodeus by Mary Noel Hoffmann
Baby Boy by Patrick Ford
Back Ten by Chip Carter
Ballplayers by Jack Highberger & Jim Bulluck
Beyond Us by Shaughn Cameron & James Cox
Black Sunday by Katreana Bellew
Blank Pages by Elvina Kireeva
Blood Eden by Dan Howell
Blossom by Bec Pittard
Blue by David McAbee & Adam Means
Blue Moon by Taylor Ghrist
Boomerang the Great by Ana R. Dominick
Brother Lustig by Peter Fink
Buffalo Soldiers by EJ Tanner
Bumps by Riley Hamilton
But It Helps by Aiden Spackman
By Any Other Name by John Doble
By The Reservoir by Tomas Enrico Narvaez
Cactus by Millie Donaldson
Cate Starr Vs The Giant Space Squid by Holden Spalding Weihs
Centurions by Sally Stubbs
Chances by Parish-Rahbar
Chants and Rituals by Jennifer Griffith Dunbar
Coke Oven Kings by Ray Mears
Cold Dead Fingers by Jack Warner
Coyote Warrior by Roberta Rovner-Pieczenik
Dan Hugsby, His Friends, Superblue, and The Factory of Childhood Dreams by Dave Mac
Dance of the Fairies by Mary LaMont
Dead Men Tell No Tales in High School by Michelle Blair Wilker
Dead Men’s Switch by Nick Caccese
Deadline by William G. Hyland
Death by Lottery by James R. Roddy
Deep Dive with Dinny by James Prenderville
Die Until You’re Dead by Gary Bunis
Disconnect by Joey Day Hargrove
Doomsday Clock by Wyck R. Linder
Drama Queen by Stephanie Scott
Earmark by Tom Zarnowski
8 Up by Levi Kind Holiman & Theraysa Gapasin
Ember by Chris Kentis
Everyone Dies by Dean Hewison
Fainting Robin by John Jerro
Fallen Angel by Weiyang Liu
Family Business by Scott Gabriel & Joshua Losben
Father’s Day by The Boyd Brothers
Find Me In Your Smile by Guilherme Viegas
Flickerbeat by Dana Hawthorne
Forever My Child by Wesley Du
Forever Young by Lawrence Eisenman
Forged by Ethan Harmon
From A Distance Dad by Ken Orman
Gat Finger by C.J. Walworth
Ghosts in Bright Sunlight by John Brennan
Gloom and Boom! by Omid Niliaram
Gold of the Forest by Susana Vanessa Oliveira
Grinding Halt by Michael Sladek
Grounded in Eire by Ralph Keefer
Happy Creatures by Pogo New
Homestalker by Olivia Jampol
Honey Pot by Adam Zammiello
Hot Pot by A. L. Lee
House of Wu by Kirtana Banskota & Andy Yang
Hurricane Sammy by Steve Terlitzky
I’m Worried About You by Hari Ziyad
Iguana You Back by Noah Pohl
Infernal by David Jaffe
Invisible by Corey Heinz
Isabela’s Revolution by Farrah Pereira
Istanbul Crossing by Timothy Jay Smith
Jeff’s Junk by Karl Mather
Jesus Land by Saila Kariat
Jihadi Joe by Ernest Brawley
Juliet, Harriet and Ella by Jesse Russell & Olga Rojer
Katie Sterling by Jason Davidson
Kid Gloves by Mathew Wright
Kubrick’s Waterloo by Mike Mann
Lightweights by Will Warren
Locals by Miles Kahn
Locust Street by Sadie Rose Schoenberger
Love On Mars by Anna Matz
Love You Better When You’re Wild by Brian Wapole
Love, Elephant & Tourbillon by Shan Jiang
Loves Company by Jason Laurits
Machines of Love and Grace by Steph Lloyd Jones
Madness by Chris Poore
Making Friends by Sophia Bennett Holmes
Marley and the Magical Candy Cane by Ana Maria Medici
Maybe This Christmas by Kate Green & Christopher Campbell
Mega Bowl by Jadarrel Belser & Tim Mathis
Mestengo by Theresa A. Carey
Mine by Jonathan Angelo Concepcion
Mole by Alex Wilson
Mothers by Christina Macaulay
My Amoeba by Michael Clasby
My Only Everything by Gillie Perkins
Mythos by Kalen Boykin
Nando’s Legacy by Davida Lippman
No Matter What by Lisa Duffy
Obstacles Of The Heart by Stuart Pollack
Olvidado by D.B. Roderick
Operator by Nicholas Storm
Paloma Streets by Danielle Reid
Paper Tigers by Nathan Ellis
Patmos by Nic Ismirnioglou
Pride and Arrogance by Ron Basso
Purgatory H.S. by Sandy Fugate
Queen Sue by Sam Wright
Quiet Coyote by Garland Scott
Reverse Migration by Jennifer Griffith Dunbar
Ride by Eric Lane
Rise of the Dark Horse by Antoine Bonner
Rodeo Joe by Rodeo Joe
Sacred Text by Tony Green
Salt Away by Megan B. Schoenberg
Sarajevo 1914 by John Sampson
Seahorse by Aisha Evelyna
Searching for Marceau by Dan Abramovici
Shadowmen by Dan Loschack
Shady Cove by Brian “Crusty” Horgan
Six by Six by Georgia Lee Well & John Chimo Arnold
Skate to the Stage by Kyle Matthew Hamilton
Sled Race by Kevin Jordan
Solarcadia by James Alva
Soldier and the Clown by C.J. Walworth
Stalkers Anonymous by Paul Silverman
Struggling Up The Slope by Peter Noel
Stupid Dead Boy by Alex Vickery-Howe
SuperHeroIsh! by André Paul Thierry
Surviving the Savannah by Charlotte Nash
Sweetie Pie by J. Bulluck
Swimming Through The Wreckage by Will Robinson
Terms and Conditions by Andy Gonzalez-Bendiksen & Tate Panovich
Thanks, But No Thanks by Zebidiah Millett & Jason Schneider
The Breakup Gift by Jennifer Minigh
The Clinic by Andrew Pascal & Andes Hruby
The Clover Mites by Tom Richard O’Shea
The Corpse Dresser by Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper
The Cruise by Jeremy DeCoursey
The Cully Hill Boys by Tim Planagan
The Dead Stroke by Alex Scigliano
The Death Factory by Timothy Hastings
The Followers by Mark Moore & Steven Clark & Michael Kospiah
The G.O.A.T. by Alex Scigliano
The Ghost Under My Bed by Sara Caldwell
The Great Creator by Avi Glick
The Holler by Michelle Ford
The Idea Men by Noah Campbell Smith & Matthew Gottlieb
The Knowledge of Good & Evil by Luke Edward
The Last Battleship by Michael A. Levine
The Long Con by Brian Devaney
The Metropolitan Social Club by Louis Matta
The Nazi Ate Quiche by Joy Bennett
The Overthrow of King Pig by Philip Doherty
The Phantom Shakespeare by Aaron Fitzgerald
The Physics of Flight by Mikelle Kruger & Patrick O. McKenna
The Secret Notes of Professor Thomas by Joni Ravenna & Josh Zellner
The Shakers by Steven Prieto
The Triple by Ginny Hogan
They Seem Nice by Nathan Weinreich
Thirteen Silver Dollars by Ray King
Tijuana Touchdown by R. D. Smith
Tilly’s Promise by James Patrick Dillon
Tinseltown by Dennis Grace
Together We Are An Ocean by Kevin Rexroat
Trick ‘r Pete by Sean Winans
True Love by Stephen Leach
Tupelo to Graceland by Anna McCullough
Undocumented Minors by Weiyang Liu
Unman by Ella Skidmore
Until Forever Is Over by Kyle Taubken
Vassago by Aaron Doolittle
Wayne and the Wanderers by Joe Berardi
We Sell Conchas by Alessandro Spataro
We’re Cops! by Markus Lundborg
Wendy Miller by Kasi Brown & Brandon Walter
Where There’s A Will by Erin Lander-Hickman
While Owls Sleep by N. Batchelder
Wind by Jeffrey Dunbar
XOVA7 by Quanah Jay Hicks
Y2Kids by Cole Thompson & Hogan Hiatt
Yatra by Vee Kumari & David Barbeschi
Pilots
There are 103 quarterfinalists out of a total of 828 pilot submissions.
A Glass Darkly by Jonathan Talbert
A Lost Lady by Holly Swenson
ADX by Brady Beaubien
Agency by Helen Sun & Laura Malatos
Airport Security by John E. Uth
Area 51-B by John Edward Uth
AV by Adam Hopwood
Axum by Jamaul Phillips
Bad Beat by Ryan Veselsky
Blood Suckers by Luis De Leon
Blurry by Erin Day
Breaking the Lockharts by Julia Maddox & Mark Lamb
Brown Country by Asad Farooqui
Call Of The Void by Ben Monaco
Closing Costs by Dominick Bagnato & Joe Starosielec
Cuban Crossroads by Jim Littlejohn
Deadheaders by Bruce Davidson
Deadline by Kevin Rexroat
Deceptive by Keisha Green
Displacement by Toby Marks
Eagle / Fear by Chris Grady
Eden’s Valley by Parker Whitmore
Edenville by Lee Crompton
Ethical Alice by Shira Weitz
Father’s Day by Brian Boyd & Scott Boyd
Ferals by M.R. Fitzgerald
Flatlands by Anna Yamamoto
Floaties! by Jacob Presson
Funeral Crashers by Jesse Klein
Gemini Books by Maria Shehata & Lottie Field
Give it to Guerrero by Ralph Waine Hoy
Grand Theft Post-Mortem by Linda Jane Butler
Gurus by Isaac Flattau
House of Wu by Andy Yang
I Am Not A Role Model by Kahleil Burroughs
I Want To Be Evil by Vanessa Magic
Incipience by Steve Warner
Industry City by Gerry Kim
Inflection Points by Peter Andrews
Jack Hammer: Male Stewardess by N. Fituri Scown
Jesus One Stop by Frederik Ehrhardt
Keaton by Paul David Lisy
Leo Lavender by Juliet Cassidy
Liebe by Jamaul Benjamin Phillips
Life Through the Lens by Chad Hutson
Liminal by Sarah Jones
M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction) by David Smith & David Tenenbaum
Me Also by Lawrence Eisenman
Merlin Rx by Alfredo Diaz
Millennial Marriage by Sh’Kia & Daniel Augustin
Mostly Virgin by Ana Lazarevic & Baldvin Kari
Movement by Benedict Cohen
My Intelligence by Samantha Nelson-Philipp & Aliza Pearl
Officer X by Michael Joiner
On Island by Rie Anders
Outskirts by Peggy Green
Oy Vey! by Alexander Bozicevich
Past Shift by Sabina Sattar
Past Time by William McGhee
Poppy Napkins by Pepper Berry
Rape of the Vatican by Felix Babu Sephen
Reconstruction by Jacob Thomas
Reefer Madness by Dana Carrabon & Mehdi Sidali
Roomies by Sandhya Hermon
Say Something by Emily Holleman
SecurUS by Peter Andrew Williams
Seeds of Denial by Amelia Nashe
Sisters of Sorrow by Aly Miller
Sleepless Beauty by Cheryl Lodovico
Spark & Iron-Strike by Aleksander Krutainis
Stepfam by Jason A. Kessler
Summer at Conti’s by Mark Zakeri
Suzanne Valadon: The Sin I Will Commit Again by Mikelle Kruger & Patrick O. McKenna
The Blood Club by Alexander Drummond
The Brokers by Kenneth Kamona
The Cats of Hydra by Christian Ray
The Cost of Living by Kim Taylor
The Dunes by Gregory Lofrano
The Endless House by Mark Zakeri
The Fifth Mutation by David Holroyd
The Fox of Kernow by Anita Ramdharry
The Girl with the Devil Eues by Toby Marks
The King of Kansas City by Christopher Loveland
The Lost Secrets of Zig Zag Island by Jason A. Kessler
The Lottery Liar by Andy Redfern
The Next Best Thing by Ezra Lerner
The Opossum by Joel Barragan
The Pandora Particle by Ginger Kearns & Chelsey Ng
The Phatman by Dale Melgaard
The 71st by Amber Scott
The Skids by Jonathan Talbert
The Snug On Thomas Street by Mac Scheldt
The Stewards by Chris McGee
The Transcendentalist by Zachary Torres
Tragically Greek by M.M. Gumbin
Trucker by Charles Andrew & Derek Nelson
Vintrospection by Lisa Isaacson
Virgin / Demon by Glenn Millican
Was-Leeu by Jamaul Benjamin Phillips
William VI by Ernest J. Alleva
Working Girl by Elizabeth Kim
Yakima by Aaron Craven
ZKC by Heather Foster
Shorts
There are 106 quarterfinalists out of a total of 707 short submissions.
A Combat of the Most Intriguing Mind by Abhishek Mishrra
A Dead Cartographer’s Uncertain Guide To Space Travel by Markus Meedt
A Fine Line by Steph Borklund & Kerri Yost
A Good Man by Rupert Andrew
A Mermaid’s Wish by Jeffrey Sheu
A Tempo by Lorelai Jo-hsuan Lin
Alabama Jubilee by Kristin Margaret Leary
American Dream by Gene Cartier
An Actor Always Reacts by Christopher Loeber
Baba in Graceland by Melis Aker
Bardo by Scott Satenspiel
Bark! by Peter Wolodzko
Blood Loss by Miriam Cooke
Colors We Made by Amanda Morell
Cost by OisÃn-Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
Crinkum Crankum by Alicia Norman
Dawn Chorus by Laura Jayne Tunbridge
Desolate by Angus Penland
Diane From Kernville by S.E. King
Downline by Jacob Zorn & Alexander Zorn
Eight Walls Two Doors by Miaochun Zhang
83 to Hunstivlle by Dami Akinmeji
Fatum by Lisa Aldin
Feed the Brute by Corsica Wilson
Free Martin by Scott Thompson & Hayes Hart-Thompson
Full Moon Dreams by Damian Nikita
Geraldine by Alfonso Jaramillo Gomez
Grace by Christopher Dylan White
Greedy For Life by Emma Selinski
Greywolf by Joshua Warren
HeLa by Alfonso Jaramillo Gomez
Her Lover by Elizabeth Stuelke
Hombre by Chris Martinez
Human Dropout by Mark Martinez
Hunger by Juan Belardi
Hymn of the Birds by Victoria Zubick
I Define Me by Leon Oldstrong
I’m Matt Damon by Michael Yocum
In McMurtry’s Shadow by Wayne Gibson
Infinite Excess by Matthew J. Gibbs
Intermission by Anna Cappello & Frank G. Danna
It Had To Be You by Shelly Cassivi
Jonah vs the World by Jonathan Goetzman
Lifeguard by Alexis Stier & Megan Stier
Love & Zombies by Andy Redfern
Luv by Catherine Losing
Maddness by Raymond Davenport
Make a Wish by Lucy Johnson
Mare by Halle Skye
Method by Julia James
Millennial Ghost by Raymond Maspons
Missy’s Battle by David Hatton
Mother by Emma Shae Stewart
Ms.45: Lady Vengeance by Raymond Davenport
My Father’s Son by Aaron Coleman
My Friend Sandy by Savanah Joeckel
New Utopia by Waylon Bacon
Nurse Black by Raymond Archie Davenport
Only Man For Me by Kevin Dobbs
Ovary-Acting by Laura Jayne Tunbridge
Pests by Josh Kron
Pillow Talk by Sam Warton
Point and Shoot by Gilliland Hobbs
Pontus by Nicolas Diaz
Psychopomp by Nicole Catania
Reintegration: Subject 147 (Malik Robinson) by Desmond Lewis
Right Hook by Jennifer Boch-Wawrzyniak
Romance Cleanup Aisle Five by Richard Morell
Romantic Tale by Melanie Graysmith
Sad Lisa by Jonah Z. Helms
Shock by Sarah Robertson
Simple Money by Natalie Campisi
Situation Room by Søren Bredberg
Skirt That Bleeds by Abhishek Mishrra
Sledgehammer by Mobin Maalirad
Smoking love by Dimitris Sokolakis
Sorina and Paolina by Kim E. Baker
South for Winter by Jill Ferrari
The Aedema by Oliver Thomas
The Alfred Waltz by Alexander Yew
The Andover Incident by Randy Vallejos
The Bakery of Life by Madison Marie Timm
The Cost by Mike Hogan & Jerome C. Keith
The Deadline by Mike Gallagher
The Exorcism of Father Gabriel by Pierre Langenegger
The Fairchild Equation of Artemis Frost by Gary Scott Irons
The Good Guy by Vishnu Sudarsannan
The Handsel by John Shea
The Last Man on Earth by Cesare Joly
The Link by Satish Kumar.T
The Message by Florin Hanganu
The Naughty List by Michael Cumes
The Net Between by Ahmed “Aki” Aslan
The Present Machine by Damon Norko
The Rusty Nail by John Acquaviva
The Telephonoscope by Bruce Green
The Truth and Nothing But by Oscar Ballyvolane
This is Jan by Robert Larriviere & Hunter Burke & Nick Lavin
Tick Season by Claire Crowley
To Robin by Mekhai Lee
Unwritten by Hugh Oyake Murchison
Wall Drug by Ben Matthews
What I’d Give You by Spencer Lynn
When Flames Dance: A Colorful Evening by Michael Mike Canon
White Feathers by Susie Schecter
You Got This, Rookie by Anthea Jones
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