By Admin · August 12, 2020
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2020 TSL Free Screenplay Contest. These exceptional screenplays were selected from over 13,000 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for future announcements 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:
| “Land that we love” | Julian Awoonor Renner |
| “The Left-Swipes” | Jerrod Brito |
| #blessed | Annika Jarvis |
| 25 YEARS – LATER | Monica Schimmer |
| 31 Days In September | Jordan Bernhard |
| 6 Fairview Drive | paul charisse |
| A Bloody Affair | Scott Jeschke |
| A Crown for Queenie | Tiffany Lin |
| A Hero’s Tale | William Richardson |
| A Native Land | Caitlin McCarthy |
| A Shore Odyssey | alexander guerriero |
| A Study in Scarlett | Jennifer Woldman, David Maddox |
| AD·OP·TA·TION | Jake Arky |
| Adam & the Astronaut | Robby Justiss, Jordan Maze |
| Adventourist | Tim Hitpas |
| All the Birds are Flown | Warren Dodds |
| Along the Fortune Trail | Harvey Goodman |
| AMERICAN INFAMY | Takeo Hori |
| An Affair of Honor | Jon Jefferson |
| Angel | Alex Alaniz |
| Angel Real Estate | Mike Hadley |
| ANGIE & MARIA | Stan Lieberman |
| Anything and Everything | Sarah King |
| Arthur & Clara | Kieran Bourne |
| Ashes | Alicia Ocana |
| Ask Me Anything | Kal Brightwell |
| Aunt Beriah’s Kitchen of Eternal Delights | Cleve Nettles |
| Aunt Margaret | Julie Tortorici |
| Away With My Heart | HOYT RICHARDS |
| Baphomet’s Face | Brenden Maranan |
| Best Friends Forever | Daniel LoBrace |
| Bill & Anne | Michel Lichand |
| Bitter Milk | Jacob Watkinson |
| Black Friday | Patrick Kelly |
| Black Mourning Cemetery | Briana Bougard |
| Blessed Is He | Timothy Agresta |
| Blue Heat | Skyler Thomas |
| Bridges we burn | Andreas Vakalios |
| BRUTE | Brian McCauley Johnson |
| Bull Boy | Ryan Ebert |
| Burning Shield | Landon J. Napoleon |
| Cadenza | Mark Nahuysen |
| Camp Amerika | Donna Burke |
| Caught | Kalley Hoshaw |
| Choice | Lois Parise, Herbert Lipschutz, MD |
| Chronicler | Kirwin Sullivan |
| Cienfuegos | Brandon Gale |
| Cimmaron | Jonas Watson |
| Civil Savages | Daniel Griswold |
| Claire’s War | Halle McGowan |
| Coalescence | Jacob Harpel |
| Combustione | Nicola Quilter |
| Confessions of a Cadaver | Matthew Taylor |
| Creatures Down Below | Brian Hershkowitz, Robert D’Orazio |
| CRY | Kevin Michael Irvine |
| Cryptid | Regina Kim |
| Cuddle Queen | Miriam Katz |
| Cursive Lines | Todd Tavolazzi |
| Curtain | Michael Davison |
| Cyber | Joe Dzikiewicz |
| Daisy | Nicholas Anthony |
| Dancing With Dog’s | Rich Greatrex |
| Darkmatter | Storm Ashwood |
| Dead Cat Bounce | Jack Caswell |
| Dead Man’s Deed | Michael Winingham |
| Deerslayer | Nathan Cabaniss |
| Dirty Hands | Travis Burgess |
| Do Not Go Gentle | Paul de Havilland |
| Domestic Partners | Kyra Brown |
| Don’t Fear The Reaper | blaine wells |
| Down Harris Lane | Paul Early |
| Drain The Swamp | Alex Enriquez Drummond |
| Dreaming Of You, Peter Hart | Aaron Abeyta |
| Eagle Rock | Eleanor Wells |
| Edgewater | Matthew Sorvillo |
| Eekia | Lea Pascal |
| Endless Forest | Tsonko Bumbalov |
| Engine Gopi | Kamal Chopra |
| Ephebe | Thomas Mann |
| Escape Artists | Leticia Burin |
| Esto no es una telenovela | Michele Serrapica |
| Eternity Package | Magdelena Ilieva |
| Event Point | DIRK PATTON |
| EVERYLIFE | Hunter Liguore |
| Fabrications | James Tichenor |
| Family Medicine | Missy Hernandez |
| Faraday: The Notice | Kevin White, Corey Kirby |
| FASTER THAN BULLETS | Pat Holden |
| Fate Ball | Richard Sirianni, Adam Jones |
| FEATURE CREATURES | Sophie Hessekiel |
| FEEDER | Justin Hurt |
| Finders Keepers | Ian Masters |
| Finding Resilience | Michael Tabb |
| FIREBIRD | Kathryn Machi |
| Fix | Jeff Bower |
| Flowers of April | Terry Nickelson |
| Fluid | Johnny Cole |
| FOREVERLY | Ray O’Conor |
| Four Corners Curse | Catherine Y Fridey |
| Full F*cking Moon | Brad Helmink |
| Funeral Season | Jake Hirsch |
| Go For Broke! | Roy Tjioe |
| Go Ham | Adam Epelbaum |
| GOLDEN SHOWERS: The Search for the Presidential Pee Tape | Joe Ayella |
| Goldsby-Buffalo Soldier | Georgianne Landy-Kordis |
| Goodbye, Iraq | Vanar Jaddou |
| Grim | Joseph Servodio |
| GUARDIAN | Jess Gupta |
| Guns of October | Mike Skerrett |
| Gyopo | Christina Ye Rim Jun |
| H.R. | Eric Myrick, Kelly Campbell |
| Hack Mom | Tal Almog |
| Happy Alone | Lloyd Seddon |
| Haunters | Chelsea Perrotty Talbot |
| He Has Your Eyes | Ryan Eicher |
| HEARTLESS | Lee Kehoe |
| Hell’s Peak | Joshua Deepan |
| How To Hire An Escort | Werner Vivier |
| HUM | Stefano Nurra, Maria Grazia Cassalia |
| Hunk of Burning Love | Jenna Cornell, Craig Knitt |
| I Want My Own Name Back | Florence Buchanan |
| ibrahim | Terron Jones |
| Indigo Child | Jackie Jorgenson |
| Inheritance | Kurt Choate |
| INTENDED | Joe Vallese |
| Into the Hollow | Dan Gittens |
| IT CHOOSES YOU | Jordan Galland |
| Jaded | pp Hsiung |
| Japanese for Baseball | Ray Keller |
| Jim’s Not Dead | Carolee Caffrey |
| Joyless | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Jumper and Jake | Caitlin Amans |
| June War | Clea Montville-Wood |
| KENOVA | Khaila Amazan |
| Keyoka the Monster Killah | Mukhtar Vanmali |
| KILLING SQUIRREL CREEK | Erik Howard |
| KINFOLK | D.K. UZOUKWU |
| Kings of Mississippi | G. Robert Frazier, Jay Wright |
| Laurence Has A Purpose | Cian McGarrigle |
| Lemmings | Chris Bolton |
| Lily | Mike Fardy |
| Lit Lounge | Thaddeus McCants |
| Little Sister | Barbara Ward Thall |
| Little White Lies | Ian Masters |
| Living In Sin | ERIAL TOMPKINS |
| Madonnas | Fabrizio Muscia |
| Miami Miles | Charmain Johnson, Tae Daaz |
| Milbert’s Tortoiseshell | Erik Charbonneau |
| Miss Violet | Christopher Schrack |
| Morning of Stone | Josh Flower |
| Muddy Shoes | Patrik Krivanek |
| My Mom Is My Pimp | Jeremy Sender, Lilliana Winkworth |
| NATURAL LAW | Nick Marini |
| Ninja Boys | Danny Gendron |
| No Hit-Backs | Paul Martinez |
| No Man’s Land | Sydney Brey |
| NORTH STAR | P.J. Palmer |
| NOT IN THE STARS | Erica Miner |
| NOTHING GOOD EVER HAPPENS IN NEW JERSEY | Karen Bryson |
| Nüversity | Don Bapst |
| O.T.i.S. | K.J. Sparrow |
| Of Darkness and Fog | John Burr |
| Oilman | Matt Lowerre |
| Ok, Boomer | shaun polakow |
| On Thin Ice | Laura Ranney |
| Once Upon a Heist | Patrick Sawyer |
| ONE MORE MOUNTAIN | J. Barrick Griffiths, DeLayne Haga |
| One More Run | Kathie OBrien |
| Opposition Research | Tracy Schumer |
| Orson | Jared Egol |
| Osama bin Laden: A Love Story | Amir Mo |
| Otherworld | Dawn Prato |
| Papergirl | Louisa Makaron |
| Paroxysm | Juan Manuel Cabral |
| Pawns | Nicolas Scroggins |
| PEARL HART, THE BANDIT GIRL | Denise Meyers |
| PENNED | Steven Pierce |
| Perspectives: Big Brad Wolfe | Tim Dutton |
| Plaçage | Michelle Robinson |
| Players | Sharon Rapose |
| Pole Moles | David Morris |
| Polyester Law | Joshua Dorian |
| POPULAR | Marley Schneier |
| Possum | Lyndal Simpson |
| POUNDTOWN | Bill Hanson |
| Prep | Alexa Droubay |
| Pride of Hollywood | Devin Toohey, Brian Whitaker |
| Pros and Cons | Kylie Rolincik |
| Publicity Stunt | Kate McCreary |
| Putting Love On The Menu | andrew mcgivern |
| Queen Punks | Alison Reeger Cook |
| Rain Wars | Nicolas Motte |
| Red Dust | Richard Pengelley |
| Remnant | Frederick Faett |
| Republic of Winneconne | Lisa Franek |
| Rescue Dog | Brent Delaney |
| Ret-Con | Paul Sheridan |
| Revolutionary | Kate Weyant |
| Rube | Dan OBrien |
| Salvadora | Oscar Moreno |
| Santapalooza | Toni Perling |
| Sapper Dorothy | Michael Mortimer |
| Scribe Wielders | Cameron Posey |
| Secret Sidewalk | Vince White |
| Seed of Knowledge | Eleonora Mignoli |
| Seize the Day | David Pearlberg |
| Seldon Seen | Peter R Feuchtwanger |
| Sexy Asian Man | Jarrett Jung |
| Sick of Nowhere | DiAnte Jenkins |
| Sirena Del Norte | Emily Pintor |
| Six Foot Under Noise | Sarah Peterson |
| Skin Skippers | Kim Lozelle |
| Sleepaway | Sam Rosenberg |
| SOJOURN | Christopher Murray |
| Soul Bound | Jeannie Stivers |
| Space Bud | Erik Rodriguez |
| Stagecoach Mary | Taylor Hopkins |
| Stay! | Kit Redstone, Arran Shearing |
| Strange As Angels | Akiva Penaloza |
| Strange, CA | Ben Warner |
| SUPER-CRAZY MOM | Vanessa Every-Burns |
| Take the Reins | Marsha Pincus |
| Ten Dollar Man | Alex Pearcy |
| Thank God for Mississippi | Alexie Basil |
| The Accident | Jason Collett, Kellen Boyle |
| The Baltimore Run | Mal August |
| The Black Patch War | Austin Madding |
| The Blue Circus | Dennis Foley |
| The Boy with the Pink Triangle | Amy Reedy Asbjørnsen |
| THE BREAK | Lee Cooper |
| The Breaking | Nako Adodoadji |
| The Butter Street Hitchhiker | Chris Hicks |
| The Christmas Invitation | Kate Kasch |
| The Contest | John Wood |
| The Daffodil Field | Simon Wilkinson |
| The Dirty Spoon | Lauren Glover |
| The Divorce Ranch | Haley Bresnahan |
| The Eighth Planet | Carl Lunden |
| THE ESTHER CODE | ESA NURMINEN |
| The Fifth Dentist | Edward Gretz |
| The Fighting Unicorns | Will Zech, Alex Cope |
| The Freshmen | Adam Karlson, Joe Hayes |
| The G.O.A.T. | Sid Patwa |
| THE GOLDEN HOUR | DANISH RENZU |
| The Hardest Hit | Sam Juergens |
| The Harvester | Mark Grossardt |
| The Head In The Heartland | William Neary |
| The Hitchhiker | Dan Ast |
| The Hotel California | Montana Twinem |
| The Legends Within | Zayda Exeliz |
| The Margret Home | Lydia Kane, Rana Mancini Cavanaugh |
| The Mayfly | Ryan Curtin, Todd K |
| The Midnight Tour | Chris Bolton |
| The Night Doctors | Christian Maxwell |
| The One Percent – TV Pilot | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Other Side of Town | Darian O’Neil |
| The Race | Barney Elliott, Conrado Falco Raez |
| The Revver | Mike Hanson, Kelly Moothart |
| THE SANCHEZ SISTERS | April Capil |
| The Sleepover | Dayna Noffke |
| The Sound Side | Alex Blumberg, Mitchell Waranch |
| The Spider and the Moth | Jake Baskin |
| The Tenth Round | Stephanie Bianca |
| The Things We Left To Do | Nicole Coronel |
| The Tides | James Allerdyce |
| The Toyol | Russell Southam, Brian Kazmarck |
| The Trail 1×01: It Begins With Blood | Josh Hamelin |
| The Unpredictables | Clifton Keenswijk |
| The Vineyard | Tyler Morris |
| The Waiting Room | Alex May |
| The Wayward Son | Keith and Cassie Hayasaka |
| The Wilds | Corinna Jill |
| Things That Fall | Sy Huq |
| Time Hustlers | Andrew Hopps |
| Tithes | Victoria Vertuga |
| TOKEN IDIOTS | Matthew Lutz |
| Trigger | Brandon Bongar |
| TT FLIES – Pilot | Karen Franz |
| Turn A Blind Eye | Edward Leech |
| UNFINISHED | Eric Giancola, Tricia Olds |
| UNLIMITED PARTNERS | Jace Serrano |
| Unscripted | Erin Dooley |
| Up / Down | RAYMOND ZACHARIASSE |
| Valinov | Lori Reza |
| Vessel of Light | Michael Fitzgerald |
| Vicious | Sasha Pasternak |
| Victoria II | Ruth Trippitt |
| Violet Sun | David Alexander |
| WALLS | AHMED UTHMAN |
| We, Who Lived Silently | Thom O’Driscoll |
| WHAT WE FIND AT NIGHT | Ginny Hill |
| What We Know | Ashley Lenz |
| WHEN? NOW! | Ana Moreira |
| WHITE TUNA | Peter Marshall Smith, Stanton Hill |
| WILD LIFE | Carmiel Banasky |
| Willowwood | Christopher Locke |
| Wolf Bite | Scott Pittock |
| YOANNA | Precious Egwuonwu |
| Young Adolf | Thomas David Kehoe |
| Yves | Laura Piety |
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