By Admin · September 15, 2021
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2021 TSL Free Screenplay Contest. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 12,700 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on October 4th here and on our Twitter and Facebook pages within the next few weeks! And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Semifinalists:
| (Dis)Honorable | Gino Demarco |
| #Karen | Nicole Jones |
| 2 Falls Forward, 1 Step Back | Ada Lee Halofsky |
| 3 Month Slide | Mike Hurst |
| 50 | Mary Cross |
| A Christmas Cheer | Clint Ford |
| A Family Reunion | Xavier Burgin, Thomas Wright |
| A Handsome Sense of Pride | Ariana Quiñónez |
| A Lost Time | Alicia McClendon |
| A Mother’s Love | Nathan Olson |
| A Prospect of Death | Ash Corristine |
| ABCD | Laurie Lamson |
| Across The Hudson | Alia Ashkenazi |
| Agnostic | Kyra Brown |
| Alien of Extraordinary Ability | Rishan Dhamija, Edwin Joseph, Sola Fadiran |
| All In Your Head | Mehmet Sarigul |
| All My Friends Are Going Death | Alessandro Pulisci |
| Altagracia | Isabella Breton |
| American Psyche | Richard Nguyen |
| American Retail | Gabriel Malasig |
| Arkham MA: Pilot – The Statement of Randolph Carter | Charlotte Groombridge |
| Asians Can’t Play Jazz | Carlos Gutierrez, Michael Goldenberg |
| At The Displeasure Of The President | Brian Cohen |
| Back Fires | Alex Blumberg |
| Bad News | Jon Oliver |
| Bad Pennies | Benjamin Mair |
| Bad Romance | Chad Wellinger |
| Barberton Daisy | Tiaan van Niekerk |
| Becoming Sinatra | Richard Muti |
| Being Women | Adrian Urbina |
| Bestowal | Wayne Middleton |
| Better Judgement | Mark Marino |
| Between the Lines | Priscilla Nguyen |
| BIG SISTER | David Chester, Blake Pinter |
| Blood and Dreams – “Complicit” | Suzanne Griffin |
| Blood and the Rye | Rajiv Shah |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Bo! | Isis Dunthorne |
| BollyWine | Tim Jones |
| Bootneck & Para | Jeffrey Golden |
| Bounty | Gary M. Howell |
| Bucky Johnson | James Barnes, Garrett Vanderwielen |
| Burner | Mukilan Thangamani |
| California | Adam Seidel |
| Call Out | Neer Shelter |
| Callbacks | Bryce Marrero |
| Candles and Moths | Dan Beglov |
| Canusa Street | Zack Morrison |
| Cardef Hill | Scott Parisien |
| Cascadia | Tim Millette |
| Catman | Nola C |
| Chanel Bonfire | Cara Winter |
| Chasing Susanna | Jennifer Giacalone |
| Cheat the Night | Conleth Hogan |
| Cherry Wine | Kev Clinsc, E.V. Wills |
| Child | Giovanni Labadessa |
| Chilmark | Stephen Nolly |
| Citizen Hans | Rajko Stiglic |
| Coach Kid | Conor Izzett, Adam Levy |
| Collaboration | Alessio Franko |
| Commonwealth | Jared Hardy |
| Comrade Freud | Mick Cohen-Carroll |
| Cop Killer | Greg Goodness |
| Cracksmen | Daniel Corey |
| Crazy John and His Ghosts | Marylouisa Nwafor |
| Cricket Song | Evelyne Werzowa |
| Cupid | Michael Orlando |
| De Er Fri | Hannah Marsh |
| Dear Eszter | Alex Balassa, Marisol Mijares, Alejandro Orozco, Mario Székely |
| Demon Code | Patrick Kelly |
| Dicks | Cristi Rumpza |
| Dirty Bird | Arland DiGirolamo, Alana Wexler |
| Disordered. | Alice Wallis |
| Disposable | Josh Evans |
| Down By The River | Thomas Thonson |
| Dún Laoghaire | William Lancaster |
| Echo The Wind | Thomas Mazzola |
| Ed Gein, But Make it Fashion | Dustin Boland |
| Esperanza – One Hour Pilot | David Christopher Loya |
| Eve & Adam | Jessica Wynn, Michael Regilio |
| Everything Has Changed | Sufian Abulohom |
| Eyes to Your Soul | Jon Karamatsu |
| Ǝ Ꙅ Я Ǝ V Ǝ Я | Carlo Carere, Erin Carere |
| F-YOU! I’M A TEACHER | Michael Lipoma |
| Fallstreak | Kyle Curry |
| Fetch | Sam Gill |
| Fire On Holy Mountain | Daniel Grove |
| Fire on the Line | Max Kaplow |
| First Day | Boris Vymenets |
| First Drop of Rain | James Brosnahan |
| Firsthand Memories | Jules Caldeira |
| Flesh and Blood | Kulvinder Gill |
| Flesh and Blood | James Murphy |
| Forgive Us Our Sins | Omar Khalifa |
| Found | Chad Briggs |
| Future King | Dawn Prato |
| Garamba | Aaron C. Wong |
| Gay Robber | Rhys Bellamy |
| Genre Genesis Pilot | Aidan Kidd |
| Gifted | Jonny King |
| Gloomtown | Lyndal Simpson |
| Golden Age | Jon Davis |
| Good Guys, Inc. | Troy Collins |
| Gordito | Miguel Castillo |
| Gramma and Kate | Emily Austin |
| Greenwood | Nathan Patton |
| Grief Leech | Shayna Hack |
| Guardian | Jess Gupta |
| Gwen’s Girl | Karina Banno |
| Hancock Park | Dale Janda |
| Hard Rice | Mary Nguyen |
| Haunted Heart | Mike Bencivenga |
| Have You Heard About Harvey? | Sam Wright |
| Hexagon | Grant Boman Harvey |
| HILA | Jan Pearson |
| Holy Man | Michael John Petty |
| Hood | Irina Rodriguez |
| Hot Toddy | Scott Cox |
| Hotshot | Ella Scott |
| House for Sale – Up On The Market | Shannon Dicipulo |
| Hyde and Seek the Musical and feature film | June Rachelson-Ospa, Jon Ospa |
| I Could Do That | Rachael Millanta |
| I Killed Elvis | Wolf Bukowski |
| I Would Like To Thank | Benedict Ransley |
| I, Gavel’s Poetry | Youssef Kholti |
| I’m a Prisoner in an Alien Zoo | Adam Kaiser |
| Interior: Supermarket | T.E. Scales |
| Into the Lion’s Den | Jane Gideon |
| Invading Forces | Jack Mulligan |
| Invisible Prisons | Hoyt Richards, Lawrence Nelson II |
| Jaegerfell | Andy Smith |
| Jail Break | Jordan Taylor |
| Jersey | David Schlow |
| Jiyan | Daniela Saioni, Mazdak Taebi |
| Kāinga (Home) | Allan George |
| King of Appalachia | Chase Brown |
| King Street | Justin Kohlas |
| Kyla’s War – Series Pilot – “Snow Angels” | Hank Isaac |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, a Restoration Comedy | Linda Jenkins |
| Ladylike | Miranda Rawson |
| Last of the Burly Girls | John Pisano-Thomsen |
| Leatherette | Michael KY Yip |
| Lefty | Robert Potter |
| Legendary Outlaws | Allan Traylor |
| Letting Go | Estes Tarver |
| Lion City Radio Show | Val Tan |
| Living the Dream | Vicky Hinault |
| Lock ‘N Load | Aaron Liebman |
| Lost In Transit | Mike Spohr |
| Love and Other Beautiful Messes | Stacie Shellner |
| Lucy Lucid: Heiress of Dreams | Joshua Pitta |
| Mabel | Elisa Manzini |
| Machorras | Jessica Ghitis |
| Mademoiselle Maupin | Brandon Gale |
| Maestra | Susan Polk |
| Make a Wish | Jory S |
| Making Friends with the Pinewoods Monster | Julian Lung |
| Mama Moo | Nimish Tanna |
| Marina | Andrew Nixon |
| Martha | Alex Moran |
| Mask | Margaret Kane-Rowe |
| Match Made in Heaven | Ariane Anantaputri |
| Medieval | Joey Paschall |
| Melly and Melanie | Kaushik Mukerjee |
| Migrant Mothers | Ashley Rebecca Farley |
| Miss Demeanor | Ruby Mainieri |
| Mission Trip | Katie Congrove, Joey DeMers |
| Momo | Matthew Cameron |
| Moving On | Ricky King |
| My Cousin Numbers | Christos Kardana |
| Necropolis | Caledonia Hanson |
| New York Movie | Ian Nicksic |
| Night Beat | Sean Arenas |
| No Outlet | Sophia Eptamenitis |
| Nocturnal | Madison Rose |
| Offspring | Hannah Silverman |
| Olivia’s War | Avishai Weinberger |
| Only at Night | Daina Njuguna |
| Opera Valley | Nathaniel Nauert |
| Oprexium | Cody Pearce |
| Otter Town | Jule Jessenberger |
| Otooman | Cindy Matta |
| Pages From the Green Book | Janae Green, Aileen Natalia |
| Panic | Rachel Mariam |
| Paratha | Tansu Philip |
| Parlay | Mike Santoro |
| Paternal Problems | Whitney Glover |
| Patria | David Aguilar |
| Perchance to Dream | David B Jacobs |
| Perfect Flower | Brent Delaney |
| Photoman | Lynn Lee |
| Play It All Night Long | Quinn Bailey |
| Please Pity Ryan Parker | Jade Small |
| Poor Man’s Son | Jennifer Giacalone |
| Powder | Ria Fend |
| Powers & Glory | P James Norris |
| Predator | Stephanie Moore |
| Quantum | Brian Meade |
| Queer Kafir | Danial Gondal |
| Quinn Girl | Tandy Versyp |
| Raised by Foxes | Martina Muhoberac |
| Really Rapunzel | Maria Agusta Faust |
| Reclaimed | Straton Rushing |
| Red Dust | Richard Pengelley |
| Red Hook Records | Jared Hada Smith |
| Remember Me | Lagueria Davis |
| Revelations (Feature) | Johnny Gilligan |
| Revenant | Mezi Mulugeta |
| Ridgefield | Schyler Martin |
| Righteous | Kathy Patterson |
| Road to Bernal | Guillermo Lozano Martínez |
| Room 099 | Sarah Mokh |
| Rose & Thorns | Stephanie Glover |
| Roses in the Water | La’Chris Jordan |
| Rubbernecker | Tom Hancock, Varun Raman |
| Runner Up | Samantha Bissonnette |
| Sandstone | Rebecca Cromar |
| Scare Me To Death | Joe Borriello |
| Sea Change | Steven Miller |
| session_five.map | Alexander Dilley |
| Shadow of Deceit | Marlyn Bandiero |
| Shelter County | Micah Taylor |
| Simon Christ | Selena Lohan |
| Skyjacker | Peter Donaruma |
| Sleeping With Bears | Bruce Sloman |
| Slush | T.J. Peters, KayDee Kersten |
| Soma | Ian Hand |
| Something In Common | Kylie Bolter |
| Something You Don’t See Everyday | Benjamin Johnson |
| Song of the Shadows | Les Zig |
| Spare Parts | Lukas Kendall |
| Spirit Guide | Matthew Gutierrez |
| Spirit In The Dark | Daniel Lopez Kaufman |
| Starfish | Daniel Ahn |
| Starring… John Dillinger | Bill Walker |
| Station Number Six | Tim Sasaki |
| Steel Cutter | Claire Tran |
| Still | Douglas Spaltro |
| Tarantino | Kyle Ryan |
| Tell-Tale | Peter Sreckovic |
| The Alice Solution | Emily Redinbo |
| The Alpha | Dirk Patton |
| The Beast of America | Julia Jones |
| The Big Eighties | Betty Ouyang |
| The Bitterroot Chronicles | Debbie Castanha |
| The Boy Who Died Twice | Guy Collins |
| The Carrington Affair | Devon Lehr |
| The Deadleys | David Finley |
| The Devil’s Mistress | Andy Volk |
| The Divinity Cycle | Nelson Downend |
| The Dreamer | Alejandro Leopardi, Sean McKenzie |
| The Fear | Lane Bachelder |
| The Fight Inside | Merridith Allen |
| The Film Professor Who Kills Hot Students for Fame and Healthcare | Greg Benevent |
| The Future Prime | Glenn Forbes |
| The Future We Were Given | Craig Siebels |
| The Gospel According to Charlie | Kamal John Iskander |
| The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived | Michael Goldenberg, Carlos Gutierrez |
| The Gyre Mission | Brian Martin |
| The Hitchhiker | Dan Ast |
| The Iron Horse of Lucy Steele | Paul Zeidman |
| The Iron Snake | Justus Macharia |
| The Last Farm | David Wappel |
| The Last Game | Phil Kaufman |
| The Lion’s Roar | Teju Prasad |
| The Midnight Tour | Chris Bolton |
| The Monitor | Erik Sternberger |
| THE Motherland Underground | Christopher Harmon |
| The News Wars | Julie Gervais Welke |
| The Night Anonymous | Hamish Sturgeon |
| The One That Got Away | Jarrod Roberts |
| The Otherkin | Louyse Leonard, Robert Higden |
| The Real McCoy | Tyler Ham Pong |
| The Rebound | Christian Wolf, Chase Badgett |
| The Recovery Agents – TV PILOT | Marco Santiago |
| The Red White & Brutes! | Alex M Langenfeld |
| THE Ruin of Eden | Jessica Romagnoli, Patrick Ireland |
| The Soft-Boiled Detective | Katherine Shea |
| The Summer Of Impossible Things | Enrique Posner |
| The Swing Note | Brian Hershkowitz, Robert D’Orazio |
| The Taste and The Smell | Tope Ogundare |
| The Tea Vendor | Clement Obropta |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Unseen | Ariel Relaford |
| The Witching | William Keaton |
| Therapeutic | Craig Berger |
| Thick Skin | Robert Axelrod |
| Time Janitors | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Time Tourists | Josh Miller |
| To the Moon & Back | Paul Howard Hunt |
| Treading Lava | Paul Frank |
| Trokita | Bernardo Duran |
| Trunk of an Elephant | Stephanie Bianca |
| Tumbleweeds | Tiffany Alzatti |
| Typhoid Gary | Julio DeSanctis |
| U[Dys]topia | Kyle Vieira |
| Until It Sleeps | Meg Turner |
| Vanilla | John Darbonne |
| Veritas Academy | Nanar Khamo |
| Vienna Calling | Renate Grassmugg |
| Virgins | Sophie Hessekiel |
| Weekend at Bernie’s III | Craig Miller, Pete Johnson |
| Welcome to the Machine | Angel Contreras |
| Were | Carter Friend |
| What If You Knew? | Rolf Pfannerer |
| Wild Horses | Brian Kowalchuk |
| YOLO | Megan Bacharach |
| Zapruder | Joshua Thomas |
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