By Admin · May 6, 2022
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2022 TSL Free Screenplay Contest. These exceptional scripts were selected from almost 9,600 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 27th 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:
| (A)Sexual Awakening | Henry Jarvis |
| 4-F: Operation Underworld | Greg Beck |
| A Cup of Cocoa | Dan Stearns |
| A Real Man | Magda Pazdej |
| A Revolutionary Act | Lisa Russell |
| A Year in the Woods | Paul Merrill |
| A.W.A.Y. From H.E.R.E. | Sean McDonald |
| ALEK- Episode 1: Visible Speech | Dylan James Amick, Daniel Glenn Fissmer |
| ALEXEI NAVALNY | J.R. Howell |
| Aliens, Androids, and Other Facades | Adedamola Adeyemi |
| Alkyonides | Adonis Tsistrakis |
| All My Friends Are Dead | Ally Turcotte |
| AMERICAN GAMBIT | Kae Bahar |
| American Suicide Vest | Tungamirai Mutsau |
| Angel Island | Cindy Chu |
| ASSISTANTS | Mahtub Mochanloo |
| At Your Earliest Convenience | Sanjana Malhotra |
| ATLANTICA | Donald Smith |
| B.D.I. (Blacks, Dogs, Irish) | Stephen Hunt, Tolu Ogunsola |
| BARNSTORM | Albert Wang |
| Beckwitch | Liz Prugh |
| Big Words | Julie Anne Wight |
| Black Holes & Broken Hearts | Pelé Hearne |
| BLAXIT | Pauline Gray |
| Blind Pursuit | DEBI YAZBECK |
| Blood of the Lamb | Christina Cigala, Brad Harris |
| BLOOD QUEENS | Ronald Glass |
| Blue Comedy | Vincent Accettola |
| Bluebird | Ryan Pollock |
| Body and Blood | Olivia Silvia Loccisano |
| Body Image | Jamie Bowden |
| Bonny and Read | Evan Rogerson |
| Brides and Goddesses | Yasmeen Alkooheji |
| BURN PATTERN | Laura Kemp |
| BUT I’M WEARING A SARI | Mahtub Zare |
| CAMP | Jessie Kahnweiler |
| Careless People | Niamh Dunne |
| Carpathia | Ashling Aisulu Sugrue |
| Chameleon | Pat Brown |
| Charade | Caroline Tsai |
| Christmas with the Weisses | Alex Rubin |
| Church Boy | David Chang |
| Compulsion | Matthew Yongue |
| Concrete Anomaly | William Holby |
| CONFESSIONS OF A LAS VEGAS PHONE GIRL | AIMEE ADELL JOHNSON |
| Conspire | Aaron Strand |
| Contraband | Thomas Behe |
| Convent | Mike Underwood |
| Corona Heat | Glenn Kimball, Annie Papadellis |
| Crazy Athol | C Cannon Rosenau |
| Cupbearer | Dan Duddy |
| Danny Hudson and the Legend of The Half Moon | Richard Nash, Ronald Top |
| Dark Magic Kingdom | Stephen Polakiewicz |
| Decomposer | Mason McDonald |
| Decoy | Dominic Prevost |
| Deliverance 2 | Ben Berkman |
| Desire | Rebecca Ann Bentley |
| Different (Pilot) | Tiara Carbin |
| Dissension | Stacey Spivey |
| Dissonance | Jon Knecht |
| Distant Stars | Illimani Ferreira |
| Dom | Anthony Alves dos Santos |
| Don’t Break The Rules | Nolan Bryand |
| Dona Sebastiana | Patricia Chavez |
| Double Features | Jordan Wold |
| Dust on Dirt | Adele Smaill |
| Echo The Wind | Thomas Mazzola |
| English | Rishan Dhamija |
| Eve | Cal Mcghee |
| EVERYLIFE | Hunter (she/her) Liguore |
| EVERYTHING IS FINE | Kenson Junicue |
| Ex-Dimensional Crisis! | Nick Krostag |
| Exorcism of the Car-Mart | Ryan Brandt |
| F*A*N*S | Samuel Maxwell |
| Fear Catcher | Shane Thompson |
| Fetish | Pam Price |
| FLYOVER | Heather Faris |
| Gemini | Earl Garner |
| Gemini | James LeJeune |
| Georgie and Beelzebub | Sammy Leach |
| GREAT DAME | Anne Hollister |
| GUYS ON SATURDAY NIGHT | A. P. Hello |
| Hell House | Nicole Blandford |
| Help Wanted | Michael Guy |
| Hollerith Data | Tracy Boothman |
| Homebodies | Lucy Hannah |
| House Alis | Benzi Pichhadze |
| How Do You Spell Ransom? | Jonathan Isshak |
| I Didn’t Want to Remember You Dead | Rudy Riveron Sanchez |
| I Don’t Dream In Spanish Anymore | Missy Hernandez |
| I, Sexbot | Andrew Mueth |
| If Only the Sea Could Talk | Susan Boggio |
| In Memoriam | Chadd Alciati |
| In Plain Sight | Terron Jones |
| In the Eye of the Storm | William Young |
| In The Family Way | Miyako Fuqua |
| IN THE SILENCE | Imogen Bole |
| Infestation | Tom Hartig |
| Into the Fire | adam Fidler |
| Island West | Carolyn Saunders |
| Jaded | pp Hsiung |
| Jonesy, the Sitcom | Caledonia Hanson |
| Kagai | Trey Sorensen |
| Kandlestick Men | Frank Monteleone |
| Kathy | Christy Krawietz |
| Kinfolk: The Series | Sh’Kia Augustin |
| KISS OF DARKNESS | MICHAEL MCCLUNG |
| Knight Time | Joe Estrada |
| Kulam | Caleb Rivera |
| La Mochila Express | Sarah Marsh |
| Last Stand to Nowhere | Michelle Muldoon |
| Lawman | Dennis Smith |
| Los Cubanos | George Perez |
| LOST COAST | Liz Beall |
| Love Loss | Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo |
| Maiden to Monster | Darrell Hazelrig |
| Marathon Bride | Kate McCreary |
| Marcel | David Soll |
| MARCOS | Janelle Gatchalian |
| Maternity Leave | Angel Orona |
| Max and Associates | Devon Jones |
| Meaderville | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Mensch | Tallulah Bark-Huss |
| Migrant Spirits | Mickey Martinez |
| Montana Quagmire | David Biscevic |
| More Than One Idiot Brother | Pearse Lehane |
| Morning Deliveries | Bastian Reichardt |
| Mundos Aparte | Maalik Evans |
| My Birthday Bob | Dazhi Huang |
| Mystic | Cody Ashford & Eric Vue |
| Neptune 21 | Grzegorz Bielski |
| New Dawn | Andrea Scanu |
| New Graceland | Christian Ward |
| Nice Family | Alex M Langenfeld |
| Nice Jewish Boys | Robert Axelrod |
| Nice Jewish Girls | V Marks |
| Nun Ya Business | Justin Dial, Scott Kirkeeng |
| Of Lies And Dust | Elisa Scubla |
| Offspring | Hannah Silverman |
| ON A FIELD OF LEGENDS | Nicholas Julius |
| Our Harlem | Michael Sloman |
| Our Lady of Justice | David Daniels |
| Over Analyzed | Becca Stephenson |
| Pantheon | Ray Goldberg |
| Party Girl | Jess Fisher |
| Pet | Brittany Lamoureux |
| Phoenix | Chaise Gerber |
| PM Dude | Julian Chomet |
| Preaching to the Choir | Aaron Carling |
| Puer Diablo | Jason Boje |
| PULP | Ann Lu |
| Punk Bitch | Taylor Berger |
| Ranger | Allen Baldwin, Jane Ackermann |
| Rare Form | Jason Saucier |
| Real Heroes | Richard Hohenrath, Carolina Lovera |
| REAPERS GAME | Michelle Wilcox |
| REDFLAGS | Nathan Patton |
| Remember Me, The Luigi Tenco Story | Stephen Krespel |
| Repair The Carrows | Johnny Cruz |
| REPRODUCTIVE | Noor Amiry |
| Reunion | William Mager |
| Rupture | Sally Pitts |
| Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Safe House! | Troy Collins |
| Saigon Doll | Tony Ferrendelli |
| Scream After Me | Gary Piazza |
| SHADOWLANDS | Russel McLean |
| Shangri-La | Quinn Hopkins |
| SHAPE SHIFTER | Leigh Rudd |
| She’s Your Super | Tristan J Shuler |
| Silent Women | Christine Garver |
| Son of a Riot | Hakim Hill |
| Spokes of Love | Lara Ameen |
| Stay Positive | Larry Collins |
| Street Lights | Terrence Thompson |
| Stuck | Ashley Bower |
| Swamp Rat | Alex Mills |
| Talk To Me | Stephen Nolly |
| Tang | Matthew Giacheri |
| Tell. Me. Everything. | Heather Cowan |
| The Activity | Mike Garcia |
| The Anarchists | nwaobiala . |
| The Bean Better Detectives | Tyler Dowey |
| The Bone Woman | Rachel Coomes |
| THE BOY WHO HAD THREE ARMS | Christian J. Hearn |
| The Celestials | Belinda Tang |
| THE CRAYON LETTER | Charels Carroll |
| The Devil Has Many Faces | Surinder Singh |
| The Devil Who Was | George Lin |
| The Devil’s Road | R. Austin Barrow |
| The Dirge’s Legacy | Reed Tsuda |
| THE FIFTH PRISONER | Lynn Esta Goldman |
| The Garden Ate | BRIAN MILLARD |
| The Ghostodians | Leila Murton Poole |
| The Golem of Cotopaxi | Arnon Shorr |
| The Heart Lies Slain | Luca Zamparini, Dario Marcucci |
| The James Dean Show | Jason Turk |
| The Last Passenger | Julie Eakin |
| The Last Savior | Jalleh Doty |
| The Last Siren | Peter R. Feuchtwanger |
| The Legend | Eric Han |
| The Lion’s Roar | Teju Prasad |
| The Lucky and the Strong | Tiffany Alexander |
| The Nautilus File | Rachel Morgan |
| The Nightfall Dolls | Amanda Smith |
| The Painted Man | Glen Hosking |
| The Passion of Pauli Murray | Sean Slater |
| The Pilot | Jay Kidd |
| The place of the little birds | A Tuck |
| The Prayer in San Fernando | Jimwell Camilon |
| The Psycho Creeps | Mark Larsen |
| The Rapper | Jot Singh |
| The Safe House | dQ Kaufman |
| The Shenandoah Experment | Zack Van Eyck |
| THE SIXTH BOROUGH | Raymond Urrutia |
| The Smiling Alligator | Malek Haneen |
| The Town Musician of Bremen | Emily Al-Jbouri |
| The True Stories of Atlantis and Beyond | Mya Taylor |
| The Visiting Stone | AJ Briones |
| The Westchester Boys | Kevyn Richmond |
| The Wraith of Mrs. McGuire | George Petersen |
| Thicker Than Blood | Salvador Medina |
| Things We Cannot See | Marshall Axani |
| Thirtyeight | Dan Schneidkraut |
| THIS IS AMERICA | Lyric Fergusson |
| THREE STRIKES | Raphie Cantor |
| To Heck With It! | Teddi Shaffer |
| Too Many Aliens | Kevin Barry |
| Too Many Wades | Stirling McLaughlin, Wilder Konschak |
| Tower of Magic | Kendall Myers |
| Transmigration | Ben Holbrook |
| Trophy | Jody Ellis |
| True North | Hope C. Tarr, Raj Moorjani |
| TUMBLERS | David Nathan Schwartz, Michael J. McDonough |
| Tunguska | Mauro Fieschi |
| Turnstile | Raul Sharma |
| Vampaw | David Nelson |
| Vicissitude | Mike Sullivan |
| Virago | Dana Langston |
| VOLVER | Miguel Ramirez |
| VORACIOUS | David Draper |
| WASTA | Manaal Khan |
| We Will Not See Heaven | Isaiah Burwell |
| When Harry Kidnapped Claire | Indigo Hinton |
| Wing | Tiffany Wice, Becca Clapperton |
| Witch, Please! | Meg Swertlow |
| Written By Henrietta Bloom | Robin Shushan |
| X or (The Ascension of Gold Mountain) | Alexander Chard |
| You Don’t Know Jack | Les Zig |
| Zero | Justin Nosler |
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Admin · April 8, 2022
