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2024 Semifinalists

We are proud to announce our 2024 Semifinalists!

Our Finalists will be announced on April 30th.

Congratulations!

 

Features

There are 52 semifinalists out of a total of 2,231 feature submissions.

American Chop Suey by Kara Rada

Angels Twice Descending by Cecile Callan

Archmere by Aisha Tounkara

Baby Boy by Patrick Ford

Ballplayers by Jack Highberger & Jim Bulluck

Boomerang the Great by Ana R. Dominick

Bumps by Riley Hamilton

Cactus by Millie Donaldson

Cate Starr Vs The Giant Space Squid by Holden Spalding Weihs

Chants and Rituals by Jennifer Griffith Dunbar

Dead Men’s Switch by Nick Caccese

Disconnect by Joey Day Hargrove

Fallen Angel by Weiyang Liu

Family Business by Scott Gabriel & Joshua Losben

Find Me In Your Smile by Guilherme Viegas

Homestalker by Olivia Jampol

Hot Pot by A. L. Lee

I’m Worried About You by Hari Ziyad

Infernal by David Jaffe

Invisible by Corey Heinz

Kid Gloves by Mathew Wright

Lightweights by Will Warren

Locust Street by Sadie Rose Schoenberger

Love, Elephant & Tourbillon by Shan Jiang

Loves Company by Jason Laurits

Making Friends by Sophia Bennett Holmes

Mine by Jonathan Angelo Concepcion

Mole by Alex Wilson

Mythos by Kalen Boykin

Paper Tigers by Nathan Ellis

Queen Sue by Samuel Wright

Shady Cove by Brian “Crusty” Horgan

Stupid Dead Boy by Alex Vickery-Howe

Sweetie Pie by J. Bulluck

Swimming Through The Wreckage by Will Robinson

Terms and Conditions by Andy Gonzalez-Bendiksen & Tate Panovich

The Corpse Dresser by Daniel Cooper & Adam Cooper

The Ghost Under My Bed by Sara Caldwell

The Holler by Michelle Ford

The Idea Men by Noah Campbell Smith & Matthew Gottlieb

The Knowledge of Good & Evil by Luke Edward

The Nazi Ate Quiche by Joy Bennett

The Overthrow of King Pig by Philip Doherty

The Shakers by Steven Prieto

The Triple by Ginny Hogan

They Seem Nice by Nathan Weinreich

Thirteen Silver Dollars by Ray King

Undocumented Minors by Weiyang Liu

Unman by Ella Skidmore

While Owls Sleep by N. Batchelder

Wind by Jeffrey Dunbar

Yatra by Vee Kumari & David Barbeschi

 

Pilots

There are 28 semifinalists out of a total of 828 pilot submissions.

A Lost Lady by Holly Swenson

Agency by Helen Sun & Laura Malatos

Area 51-B by John Edward Uth

AV by Adam Hopwood

Axum by Jamaul Phillips

Blood Suckers by Luis De Leon

Breaking the Lockharts by Julia Maddox & Mark Lamb

Call Of The Void by Ben Monaco

Closing Costs by Dominick Bagnato & Joe Starosielec

Cuban Crossroads by Jim Littlejohn

Deadheaders by Bruce Davidson

Eagle / Fear by Chris Grady

Flatlands by Anna Yamamoto

I Want To Be Evil by Vanessa Magic

Jack Hammer: Male Stewardess by N. Fituri Scown

Jesus One Stop by Frederik Ehrhardt

Liebe by Jamaul Benjamin Phillips

Mostly Virgin by Ana Lazarevic & Baldvin Kari

Seeds of Denial by Amelia Nashe

The 71st by Amber Scott

The Brokers by Kenneth Kamona

The Cats of Hydra by Christian Ray

The Fox of Kernow by Anita Ramdharry

The Next Best Thing by Ezra Lerner

The Opossum by Joel Barragan

Working Girl by Elizabeth Kim

Yakima by Aaron Craven

ZKC by Heather Foster

 

Shorts

There are 28 semifinalists out of a total of 707 short submissions.

83 to Hunstivlle by Dami Akinmeji

A Dead Cartographer’s Uncertain Guide To Space Travel by Markus Meedt

A Tempo by Lorelai Jo-hsuan Lin

American Dream by Gene Cartier

Baba in Graceland by Melis Aker

Blood Loss by Miriam Cooke

Dawn Chorus by Laura Jayne Tunbridge

Downline by Jacob Zorn & Alexander Zorn

Eight Walls Two Doors by Miaochun Zhang

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

HeLa by Alfonso Jaramillo Gomez

Infinite Excess by Matthew J. Gibbs

New Utopia by Waylon Bacon

Ovary-Acting by Laura Jayne Tunbridge

Point and Shoot by Gilliland Hobbs

Psychopomp by Nicole Catania

Reintegration: Subject 147 (Malik Robinson) by Desmond Lewis

The Alfred Waltz by Alexander Yew

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 Last Man on Earth by Cesare Joly

This is Jan by Robert Larriviere & Hunter Burke & Nick Lavin