By Admin · May 3, 2024
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2024 TSL Free Screenplay Contest. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 15,200 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on May 24th 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:
| “Rotted Roots” | Xavion Niles |
| “They Eat Their Young” | Steve Smith |
| 2100 | Chris Dye |
| 27 Rounds in the Sun | Michael OLeary |
| 3 People in a UFO | Jason Paradis |
| A Story of the London Fog | Robert Simpson |
| A Tale of Two Tales | Stephen Avitabile |
| A Woman Called Dusty | Jackie McLeod |
| Abandoned Places | Travis Seppala |
| Abbey House | Gary Dimmett |
| Ain’t Dead Yet | Kari Barlas |
| All In A Day’s Work | Calvin Mann |
| American Folklore: A Midwife’s Tale | Erik Miguel Gervais |
| Astrolingua | Kyle Acosta |
| At Close of Day | Zephyr Quintain |
| Baby Fever | Genevieve Quenon |
| Bicurious | Nick Roberts |
| Black Parables | Andrew Flores |
| Blood Brothers | Peter Hunziker, Cynthia Riddle |
| Blood Moon Shine | Connor Savage |
| Bloody Knuckles | Justin Jayne |
| Bodies of Rust | Ed Gardiner |
| Bound by Blood | Elton de Almeida |
| Break Away | Romeo Ciolfi |
| Burying Granddad | Sam Harding |
| Can’t Buy Me Love: The Cynthia Lennon Story | Kelly Gaudet |
| Capitola | Joseph Kibler |
| Casket Girl | John Darbonne |
| Cassandra, Who No One Believes | Brit Cowan |
| Child Support | Jenny Phillips |
| Circle of Malice: And the Circle Begins | Sean Mason |
| Cliff Effect | Esra Cengel |
| Clutch | Will Jackson |
| Coastal Watch | Danielle Weinberg |
| Corked | Nikki Wheeler |
| Crippled | Brian Kettler |
| Croak | Issac Nunez |
| Crossing The Phantom Horizon | Andrew Freedom |
| Cuckoo | Matthew White |
| Curses LLC | Thomas R. Wood |
| Cut Time | Marcus Ostermiller |
| Deadbolt | Réka Shikli |
| Delta Grammas | Amanda O’Donnell |
| Desert Wind | Virginia Shine |
| Don’t Live In Fear | Rankin Fithian |
| DownSTexas – Welcome To County | Keith Devrey |
| Driveshift | Jay Brock |
| Drunk Prophets | Ali Wilkie |
| Duke City | Mary Kay Holmes, Jeanette Scherrer |
| Empty House | Sean O’Connor |
| Esperanza | Jamee Decio |
| EVERYLIFE | Hunter (she/her) Liguore |
| F**K ME | Neal Stansel |
| Fire Station #23 | Matt Plonsker |
| Fire the Editor | Kerby Marcelin |
| First Cat | Lee Field |
| Fountain of Ruth | Maia Mulcahy |
| Four Strangers and a Captain | Matthew Wright |
| Freaky Flora Dolittle | Pia Ashberry |
| Freedom Fort | Clint Williams |
| Froyo Consideration | Missak Artinian |
| Fulfillment | Sarah Kennedy |
| Get Chino! | Dayna Noffke |
| Get The Elf Out | Catherine McKenzie |
| Get The Sun | Jon Mishner |
| Ghost Soldier | Brett Elam |
| Giles v Harris | Melanie Jeffcoat |
| God Willing | Nicholas Hamilton |
| God! | Taisia Pirogova |
| Gotta Get Me Good | Roberto Lopez Vaca |
| Graves | Emeka Orjiakor |
| Green Fee | Morgan Smith |
| Halsted: Between Pleasure & Pain | Jacobo Fe Gismera |
| Hellbound | Christina Farber |
| Hillingar | Adam Thomas Lumb |
| Homeless Ness | Adam Mir |
| How Do I Live With This | Raphael Chinca |
| Humanely Human | Ryan Dellaquila |
| Hypnagogia | Joanne Rose |
| i, bogeyman | Sean Steinberg |
| I.C.E.E. (Intergalactic Cultural Exploration Endeavour) | Lucy Layton |
| I’ll F*cking Kill You! (A Romantic Comedy) | Ryan Brennan |
| I’m Home | Safie Dorsey |
| If It’s The Last Thing I Do | Barry Jay |
| Impaled: A Love Story | Josh Litman |
| In the Scrape | Mark Steensland, James Newman |
| Inside Me | Darien Harte |
| Izanami | Michael Rogers |
| Kathleen’s Sound Bath | Devin Jane Febbroriello |
| KIT | Lottie Amor |
| Las Maldecidas (The Cursed Ones) | Alycya Magana |
| Laws of Wow | Robert Knoll |
| Let’s Go Mutts! | Robert Potter |
| Lift | Abraham Amkpa |
| Lifted Secrets | Joshua Black |
| Liminal | Sarah Jones |
| Love Psycho | Jim Picariello |
| Love, Cake & Airplanes | Edward Thomas |
| Luther | Jaxson Shoemaker |
| M – Demon Killer | Mark Hammond |
| Madame Speakers | Deborah Pearson |
| Memories After Midnight | Vishnu Perumal |
| Mina Finds Her Edge! | Robin Rose Singer |
| Mister Miss America | Neil D’Astolfo |
| Model Citizen | Olivia Casci |
| Moments Before | Louis Choi |
| Mr. Neptune | Michael Zammit |
| Mr. Shakespeare’s Plays | Christena Ann Alcorn |
| My Way | Caleb Rivera |
| Noah & Mary | Gareth Latraille, Joseph Middleton |
| Nobody’s Listening | Caroline Baker |
| Nothing to Lose | Jane Bernard |
| OASIS | Randall Hahn |
| Obeying Orders | Steve Walker |
| Old Mom | Stephanie Ogozaly |
| On Air | Lucy Mastrullo |
| On Call | Will Mayhew |
| One More Round | Ryan Parker |
| Paper Flowers | Allison Masloske |
| Passenger: A Red Suitcase | Danny Lee |
| Peaches | TC Matherne |
| Pixie’s World, 1×01 | Daniel Kelley Vargas |
| Potential | Alex Marsha Sylvia |
| Praise God | Joshua Keith |
| Pyre | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Quality Control | Steele Mitchell |
| Queen Sue | Sam Wright |
| Race Music | Hasan Oracius, Eric Weber |
| Rainier | Peter Roach |
| Reality Check | Leo Schuehle |
| Reapers- Episode 1: The Last Petal/ Six Bullets | Blake Kellinger |
| Red Death | Constantin Gurgu |
| Red Wedding | Adam Daniel |
| Reformation | Laura Ketchum |
| Reg | Tom of Allpress |
| Repercussion(s) | Kelsey Nerrie |
| Reveille | Reinard Palisoc |
| Robin With The Red Nails | Lance Marshall |
| Rosemarked | Livia Blackburne |
| Rough Cut | Mitchell Slan |
| Safe Food | Sarah Agor |
| Safe Space | Ella Schaefer |
| Say Please | Victoria de la Concha |
| See Them Coming | Matt McCarthy, Katherine Cox |
| Seeker | Mason Weigel |
| Self Storage | Robert Walcott |
| sELFie | Elisa Eliot |
| Seoul Switch | Liann Kaye |
| Shiksas Are For Practice | Benj Austin |
| Show & Tell | Thomas Thonson |
| SHUTTLECOCK | Tapan Sharma |
| Single Person | Matt Foss |
| Sinners | April Son |
| Sleifwiki | Liam Cope |
| Slit | AJ Currie |
| Social Distancing | Jasmine Johnson |
| Socks | Jiyeon Kim-Myung |
| Son of a Beekeeper | Marcus Ross |
| Soniquete | Alexandra Adomaitis |
| Sons Of Legacy | Ed Christmas |
| Spectre | Kyle McGuiness |
| Spew | Anthony Armentano |
| SPUD | Alison Rayner |
| Standstill | Matthew Griffey |
| Starvation Heights | Jennifer Conner |
| Sticky Fingers | Lezlie Wade |
| Still Waters | Nicole Jones-Dion |
| Story One | Andrew Price, Jordan Ros |
| Sub Stealer | Jay Thachet |
| Sunset & Vine | Brandon Martin |
| SVARAK | Naman Gupta, Jordan Trippeer |
| Swish | Kevin Jokipii |
| TETHERED | Brandon Maynard |
| The 23-Year One Night Stand | Sarah Knapp |
| The Belonging | Kathy Robinson |
| The Blood in Our Veins | Garrett Hemmerich |
| The Burg | Jack Cherry |
| The Callback | Connor Raikes |
| The Claim | Chuck Oneil |
| The Crones of Anarchy | Kate Kugler |
| The Dead Don’t Dream | Marco Gonzalez |
| The Deserted | David Draper |
| THE DOPPELGÄNGER | Franci Montgomery |
| The Estranged | Dylan James Amick |
| The Everest Game | Larry Woldenberg |
| The Everest Project | Paula Cantillo |
| The Family Tree | Molly Clark |
| The Fishfolk of Luton Hill | Marcos Pinto-Leite |
| The Fix | Heath Woodlief |
| The Foster Queen | Matt Lowerre |
| The Fucket List | Caroline Tsai |
| The Gaffney’s Curse | Camila Bentancur |
| The Golden Frog | Matthew Shears |
| The Happy Reaper | Andy Lowe |
| The High Tide | John Saveland |
| The Human Detective | Tasha Staples |
| The Impersonator | Eve Florin, Corey Mackey |
| The Kamenka Experiment | Anthony Straeger |
| The Knowledge of Good & Evil | Luke Edward |
| The Larson Episode | John Norton |
| The Last Meal | Eleanor Cho |
| The Latchkey Kids | Richard Martin |
| The Lost Princess | Jordan Qin |
| The Lucky Frog Detective Agency | Alexander Venardos |
| The Man Called Dingo | Alexander Whitrow |
| The North | Kevin Keenan |
| The olive grove | Ivan Germano |
| The Omegas | Jerrod Smith |
| The Opossum | Joel Barragan |
| The Order of The Nine Seals | Andrea Nocchetti |
| The Procreators | Daniel Grove |
| The Rainy City | Berlyn Lee |
| The Risen | Christopher Bell |
| The Shut-Ins | John Tan |
| The Sound of Exploding Silence | Vincent De Milo |
| The Stray | Caz McGovern |
| The Undefeated Man | Joel Fishbane |
| The Volleyball Movie: Rick Dawson Spikes Back | Lizzie Boeck, Brittany Diamond |
| The Wardrobe | Peter Noel |
| The Waste | Jacob Wiebe |
| This Bloody Isle | Alex Moran |
| This Land Is Our Land | Che Rucker |
| Through The Night | Kelsey Duffy |
| Time Out | Vishal Reddy |
| TRANSFERENCE | Johnny Gilligan |
| Transplant | Tala Calil |
| Trash Castle | Marissa Gawel |
| Tribute: Series Pilot | Ethan Peterson |
| True North | Richard Guimond |
| Tunnelmouth | Guy Pooles |
| Uncanny | Patrick Guera |
| Under Faded Stars | Drew Robinson |
| Underwater | KORSTIAAN VANDIVER |
| Unmatched | Arthur Tiersky |
| Unschooled | Bronwyn Isaac |
| UPSTAGED | Cynthia Riddle |
| VAINGLORIOUS | Adam Bailey |
| Very Little Room | Dan Sinclair |
| Virgin Island | Peter Kovic |
| WANT | Geraldine Creed |
| Wanted | Peter Dodds |
| Water | Robert Davis |
| We Three Kings | Felix Genting |
| WEIRDO | Joseph Pleasants |
| Welcome to America | Weiyang Liu |
| White Wedding | Jessica Grace |
| Wolf Candy | Richard Stringham |
| Work Is Torture | Chris Pecchenino |
| Writhing | Corey Baker |
| You Are Cordially Invited to the Nuptials of Gwendolyn Pressley Cabot and Kevin | Steven Pipps |
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Admin · April 5, 2024
