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By Admin · May 5, 2023
Listed below are the Semifinalists of the 2023 TSL Free Screenplay Contest. These exceptional screenplays were selected from almost 11,900 submissions. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far!
Stay tuned for the Finalist announcement on May 26th 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:
| 49th Parallel | Isabella Sleeth |
| A Girl To Love | Joe Thayer |
| A Promise I Made to Mr. Bagels | Romeo Ciolfi |
| A Ship for The Shucked | Benjamin Pyne, Melissa Pyne |
| A Wretch Like Me | Duane Kellogg |
| ABDUCTED | Oluwadamisola Adeyinka |
| Adrift | Aaron Edwards |
| All the Places We Will Go | Lagueria Davis |
| All Things Weird and Wonderful | Lara Ameen |
| Amelia | Hilary Miller, Katie Savage |
| Amelia Earhart | Michael Dunker |
| Angus City | Cody Rea |
| Anne Bonny: A Pirate’s Story | Nicholas Leitzke |
| Aphrodite & The Apocalypse | Stacie Gancayco-Adlao |
| ASTOUNDING | Amanda Kowalski |
| Backwash | Katie Walenta |
| Beauty King | Annie Grace |
| BeefCAKE: FIRST BROOD | Jason Kyle Quesnoy |
| Being Bojack Horseman | Jov Almero |
| Benny’s Second Birthday | R.J. Glass |
| Best In The World | Marissa Lessnab |
| Beyond The Sea Wall | Shane Weiss |
| Bible Park | MEGAN SASS |
| Big Day | Taryn Crankshaw |
| Big Red | Blaise Santi |
| Billy England | Tony French |
| Birdmen | Daniel Fissmer, Dylan James Amick |
| Blitzkrieg Follies | Brian Whitaker, Devin Toohey |
| Bookertown | Sam Buckner |
| Border Hopper | Nico Casavecchia |
| boyfies | Tanaka Maria |
| BROWN DICK | Terry Nickelson |
| By the People | Owen Danoff |
| Cadenza | Alicia Grill |
| Call Of The Void | Ben Monaco |
| Caroline, or, Etiquette for Crooks, Thieves and Social Climbers | Niamh Dunne |
| Catch the Chain | Shawn Corridan |
| Cellies | Jeffrey Jones |
| Chasing Tumbleweeds | Lawrence Wood |
| Class Act | Kate Leslie |
| Cleo of the North | Nick Henry Jackson |
| Countryman | Evan J. Pearson |
| Crazy | Wendy Moulton Tate |
| CRAZY EYES | Catherine Mwitta |
| Crisis Activist | Matt Doyle |
| Crisps | Anna Krauze |
| Crybaby Bridge | Charles Huttinger-Navarro |
| Curiosity | Danielle Weinberg |
| Curse of the Colonel | Kristjan Kay |
| D.O.D: The Man With No Heart | Kevin Hohenberger |
| DADS | D’Marie Dowe |
| Dancing in The Wind | Andrea Ditch |
| DANGER ZONE | clive Morris |
| Dead Men Can’t Dance – An Emma Rose Mystery | Stephen Campbell |
| Death In The Family | Malikah Blake |
| Deep Down | Jesse Laurie |
| Deep East Texas | Rachel Liebling |
| DISCONNECT | Joey Day Hargrove |
| Double Features | Jordan Wold |
| Dracula: World at War | Jeff Dorer |
| Earl’s Gotta Die | Heather Shapiro |
| El Cuco | JACOB ESTRADA |
| ELLE AND THE DEFROSTER AGENT | Nathan Patton |
| Errant Good | Matthew Lucas |
| EXHALE | Kathryn Orwig |
| Eyes of Crimson Feature | Kasey Baptista |
| FABIO VS. BUSCH GARDENS | Kevin Curran |
| Fang Girls | Kevin Ryan |
| Field Day | Mackenzie Rohan |
| FINAL EXAM | C.J. Ehrlich |
| Finding McKinley | Madison Fyke |
| FIX | Jeff Bower |
| From Rupi | Samhitha Saiba |
| GARAGED | Amber Hodgkiss |
| Get in the Groove | Taiyo Yoshida |
| Ghost Writer | Eden McIntyre |
| Ghost Writer | Courtney Hull |
| Glorious ones of DD-593 | DALE TRUJILLO |
| Going Postal | Maxine Phoenix |
| Golden Garden Takeout | Maggie Wong |
| Good Times | Paloma Lamb |
| Grail | Jack Carey |
| Grand Slam | Thomas Yungerberg |
| Grievous | Miranda Zampogna |
| Gumshoe Brooklyn | Jordan Obey |
| Gyopo | Christina YR Jun |
| Happy’s | Jagger Boyd |
| Harvest | Ru Briant |
| Heartbeat Billionaires | Adrian Prospero |
| Hearts on Fire | Ryan Frances-Wright |
| Hell of a Hero | Yoran Praet |
| Hired Gunn | Nick Matthews |
| Hook | Victoria deMartin |
| Human Trophy | Jon Platt |
| I Hate You, Suzy Liu | Douglas Myers |
| In Layman’s Terms | Toby Marks |
| Inconceivable | Lesley Fera |
| It Comes in Stages | Jennifer Lynae Lee |
| It’s All in the Kiss | Marguerite Faure |
| J, D & Coke | Darren A. Furniss |
| JABRAT | Peter Dawson |
| Jeremy Is The Devil | Ryan Shovey |
| Juror #8 | Jai Franklin Sarki |
| Just Gone | Justin Daab |
| Karate is Fucking Useless | Adrian McNair |
| Kill The Quarterback | Tom Stovall |
| Killer High | Christopher Lizardi Clemente |
| Killing Time | Brian Hershkowitz |
| Knotty Dreams | Rio Johnson |
| Lady Into Fox | R.H. Farrell |
| Last Meal Mary: The Virgin Mary | T’arah Inam-McDermott |
| Leonard | Darrell McGregor |
| Liar | Schuyler Hunt |
| Like You Stole It | Stacey Russell |
| Lip Gloss | Rachel Asir |
| Literally Too Mad To Die | C. Raymond Martin |
| Little League | Manuel Victoria |
| Living Between | Damian Barray |
| LONE WOLVES | Luci Olivia |
| Louder than Hell | Geoffrey Hyatt |
| Love-15 | Natalie Malizia |
| Making a Killing | Valerie Bodurtha |
| Maplecove Manor | Melissa Sahagian |
| McAllen | Michael Chludzinski |
| Mia, T. & Me | Steven Snyder |
| Michigan Men | Dan McGraw |
| Mommy Issues | Yagmur Tok |
| Mother F | Samantha Clay |
| Muddy Shoes | Patrik Krivanek, Laurie Weltz |
| My Best Friend Leukemia | Alexander Venardos |
| Needs To Talk | Sarah Glees |
| Not The Doctor | Valentina Avayu |
| Objectionable Presence | Joanna Meyers |
| One Giant Leap | Andrew Morris |
| Out Here With You | Lee Thompson |
| Outside the Wire | Reinhard Cate |
| Over The Edge | Lauri Jon Caravella |
| PATROL | Rick Rowley |
| Petting Poodles | Laura Vorreyer |
| Pickled | Delani Wolf |
| PINOCCHIO | David Tataridis |
| Placebo | Kate Johnson |
| Playing With Friends | Matt Williams |
| Point Nemo | Alex Rivers |
| Porcupine Protagonist | Kari Barlas |
| Pre-Med | Diego Lanao |
| Problematic | Jerry J Sampson |
| PURE FUN | Kelsey Ann Wacker, Nathan Simpson |
| Queers and the City | Lena Mecano |
| REAPERS GAME | Michelle Wilcox |
| Refuge | Kathy Li |
| Rocky Elliot | Mihir Dhawan |
| Rodrigo | Francesco Staluppi |
| Round Table | Mia Farmer |
| Rumble in the Lanes | Brandon Carbaugh |
| Rumspringa | Juliana Rabadjija |
| Rupture | Sally Pitts |
| Sacrilege | Stephen Czerwinski |
| Sandcastles | Ako Panahi |
| Saving Cinderella | Melinda Saranchock, Chris Saranchock |
| Seasonal Work | Jordan Tandowsky |
| Silencers | Daniel Casanova |
| Sins of the Father | Marco Dos Reis |
| SKUNK | Derek Mari |
| Sledge Patrol | Alexander Bashkirov |
| Small Things | Aisha Rupasingha |
| Snack Shack | Kate Kowalski |
| Snakes On A Ten Car Train | Stephen Krespel |
| So Wicked | Mikey Jackson |
| Song Of The Selkie | Kerry Browne |
| Space TV Pilot | Ryan Bennett |
| SplitScreen | Alex Williams |
| Staring Contest | Phillip Dishon |
| Strange Currencies | John McManus |
| Strangers Affair | Peter Levedahl |
| Subbed | Chris Welch |
| Summer Cut | Jeffrey Howe |
| Super Senior | Spencer Sapienza, Kevin Palermo |
| SUSPENDED CONSCIENCE | Frank Santoro |
| Swamp Bones | Angela Townsend |
| Swan Boat and Vodka | Ke Liu |
| TARO: Legend of Japan | Blue Spruell |
| Tejas Pilot | Mason Bowles |
| That Drive Thru Monterey | Matthew Olmos |
| The Accident at Milner’s Gorge | Richard Doyle |
| The Air We Breathe | Zoe Bullock |
| The Ambiguous Couch Affair | Cecilia Michelangeli |
| The Announcer | Jacob Chattman, Jordan Butcher |
| The Astrologer | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| The Auld Sod | Maura Campbell |
| The Australian Girl | Elise Lamb |
| The Blouse | Ksenia Naughton |
| The Boca Shuffle | Tod Klinger |
| THE CHRISTMAS CAUSE | Erika Kathryn |
| The Crummiest Book | Daniel Sinclair |
| The Cuban | Faisal Qureshi |
| The Death Collector | Charlie Mezzano |
| The Delectable Azeezah Sama | Oluwafisayomi Ojabodu |
| The Depths Below | Andrew Dean Pearson |
| The Dirty Bird | Taylor McTague |
| The Doctor | Robert B. Gregg |
| THE DYBBUK OF WILLIAMSBURG | Max Kinchen |
| The Fat Girls Club | Mahalia Latortue-Pridgett, Erik Francisco Medina |
| The Glades | Dominique Gélin |
| The Gospels | Soneil Inayat |
| THE GREAT DISMAL SWAMP | Ben Samuels, Oliver Samuels |
| The Heretic | Michael Gordon |
| The Last Summer | Sergio Dudier Silla |
| THE LOVE INTERE$T | Katharine Densmore |
| The Mean Palms | James Parsons |
| The Misguided Gay Odyssey | Alexandra Walker |
| The Ones That Got Away | Bobby Gorman, Marc Adams |
| The Orphan Boy | Paul Casserly |
| The Outsider | Fred Skupenski |
| The Purple Gang | Cary Gitter |
| The Rival Poet | Arlynda Boyer |
| The Silent Room | David Schlow |
| The Sin Eater | Nathan Jollands |
| The Superb Lyrebird & Other Creatures | Wendy Young |
| The Tempest Sword | Alex Olivier |
| The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
| The Untitled Bear Suit Project | Alex Seligsohn |
| THE WILDS | Helen Adams |
| The Wind That Guides Us | Guilherme Levy Costa Cruz |
| The Zeroes | Kyle Kramer |
| Thicker Than Water | David Howard |
| Third Date | Joseph Pepitone |
| Time Crunch | Trevor Waggoner |
| Tom, Dick, and Harry | Andy Hammersmith |
| Tough Love | Warren Lane |
| Two Ways Out of the Mob | Amy C. Mäki |
| Ulster | Allison Mick |
| Uncanny Valley | Erin Leafe |
| Unleash The Dead | Jeff Kongs |
| Upstream | Jo Hewer |
| Vaudeville is Dead and So Are You | Chadwick Harman |
| Vigilant | Siddharth Raj |
| Voluspá | Jo Ferreira |
| W.H.E.E.L.S. O.F. S.T.E.E.L. | Jonas Oppenheim |
| Wakiza Territory | Helen Brower |
| Wanderland | Blake Williams |
| Welcome To Schaumburg | Warren Wagner |
| When Mangoes Start to Turn Yellow | Harika Bommana |
| When the River Runs Dry | Ella Cannon |
| Where The Wicked Find Rest | Nicholas Bickford |
| Who Is Aylin Cruz? | Taryn hillin |
| Women Who Love Me | Merryweather Cohen |
| Yokai | Kit Modica |
| Yorn Again | Sonya Goddy |
| Zenith Uncharted | Martha Duzett |
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Admin · April 7, 2023
