The following is the shortlist for this quarter-finals 2024 ScreenCraft Action-Adventure Screenplay Competition. These outstanding scripts were selected from nearly 500 submissions. Congratulations to the authors so far, and thanks to everyone who submitted!
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Here are the quarterfinalists:
| 1066 | Ben Mansbridge |
| 20 battles: first seven | Leslie Ferra |
| a friend | Paul Godard |
| active shooter | Martin Taylor |
| alliance | Susan Griffin |
| Amazon | Jimmy Kairouz |
| intuitive touch | Jeffrey McCue, Allison Chaney |
| Eagle’s Arrow | Matthew Kans |
| Skill | Eric Murphy |
| avalanche | Andrew Vasconcelles |
| Return to Vienna | Nicholas Schmid |
| bad behavior | Kamran Gosio, Emma Mitchell |
| Bad dates and aliens | Navid Melyou |
| Bandits, bullets, and lots of bad stuff! | Philip Rogers |
| bangkok dice | Michael Arzzola |
| Boom the Conqueror | Anna R. Dominique |
| Breakthrough city | Brando Benetton |
| buried treasure | Kerry Gramsch |
| by speaker | Tang Kennedy |
| Activity | Leon Thomas Braun |
| Change of identity | Julia Amaya |
| Charlie 5 | Sean Meek |
| Chase and Ghost | Stephen Knox |
| code breaker | ocean mondello |
| cool blue | Jason James |
| believable fear | Jonathan Flick |
| Cartman | Edward Gadricks |
| Internet killings | Stephen Kuitniak |
| dancing on a tightrope | Jesse Calfield |
| veil of darkness | Chris Guidas |
| dead money | Mukilan Tangamani |
| devil son | Jackie Lee |
| Dragoon Squadron | Chuck Copeland |
| 8:32 | Tom Knight, Rick Mischke |
| “Matador” Volume 1 | thomas oliver hand |
| embargo | James Gearing |
| poison | Nishanth (Ander) Gotipati |
| existentialism | Brandon Malone |
| eye of destiny | Katherine Wright |
| first person | Max Lamkin |
| A fool’s errand | Eric Sandfer |
| Four weeks in SWARGA (Heaven) | Dashana Sangha |
| frostbite | Robert Yank |
| Ghost Mamba | Michael Zulak |
| protector of roman | Jacob Westergaard |
| His horse is crazy | polite anarchism |
| honey mountain | Genevieve McDevitt |
| hell protocol | Alex Sosin, Chris Courtner |
| Jack | Pablo Briz |
| north korean cowboy | Ross Denyer |
| Kratos | Chun Hua Dan |
| Ms. Seraphine | Jermaine Jones |
| polar star | Willis Curso |
| Lorenzo Savage is dead | Oscar Jordan |
| malicious domain | Dominic Bell |
| Mannahatta | Douglas Fuscal |
| Mercury retrograde | Nino Aldi |
| Damn snake | Stephen Crespel |
| murder mountain moonlight | Brett Elam |
| Derailed | grayson brook |
| Out of print | Richard Stringham |
| Overlord | Brian Streety |
| pray with bullets | Julius Galacki |
| store | Glenn Gebauer |
| Play with price | Eric Lin |
| emptiness | Edel Demytro Oksamit |
| riddle | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Robin’s “Hood” | Danielle Erlich |
| rogue unit | Ryan Lee |
| Ryder’s Escape | Rich Duisenberg |
| Savage start | Michael J. Alcorn |
| SEAL ’76 | Hori Takeo |
| forced separation | John Ravitz |
| shadowwalker | Tony Cuesta |
| Shelby Kane | Bridget Bell McMahon |
| six acts of sabotage | Jeff Edwards, Rob Yeager |
| six gun sage | Warren Lane |
| Steal the Mona Lisa | Eric Corradino |
| braking force | Andrew Jenner |
| Heart of the Storm | Meshal Alsalim |
| strike | Charles Berg, Johnny Vonnefonn |
| stuntman | Meredith Allen |
| Super heavy duty | Julia White |
| Talos | Chun Hua Dan |
| terminal | Alex wow |
| No. 10 | Rudy O’Meara |
| the art of lying | John Cooney |
| The Song of Bam Barlow | James Sismanis |
| american beast | Julia Jones |
| Book of Raquel | Olga Holz |
| C-level star | Benjamin Ingram |
| counterpart | Samantha Sher |
| Demon Hunter | Eddie Orton |
| devil, rebel, fool | Clay Fusco |
| disciple | Richard Duharski |
| eye in pyramid | Nick Herweg-Larsen |
| golden fountain | other smith |
| handover | Ariel Palin |
| Houdinis | Ron Monz |
| Ladies Pirates | Theresa Carey |
| wolf language | South Schmid |
| the last traveler | Darrell McGregor |
| longsword hunter | Chad Magnant |
| message | Ben Ellis |
| night watchman | Thomas Gunter |
| One percent | Ray Keller, Richard Schmidt |
| where we stand together | Katherine Wright |
| the Avengers | Ivan Muh Muh |
| scholar | Terrence Walker |
| tunnel | Paul Pastore |
| time slice | Eframpia Papadopoulos, Brett Stanning |
| totem | Jeffrey Kennedy |
| Triggered | Elliot Seidel |
| trophy | Peter Van Horn |
| Two guys, some kids, and an epic Viking curse | Laura Becker, Donny Becker |
| Unidentified | Darren Moran |
| alliance | Mark Moody |
| Victor, the Wild Child of Aveyron – The Musical! | Mark Moody |
| Battle head | Chuck O’Neal |
| wild race | David Cooper |
| wish list | Joseph Fattal |
| X/Wind | Richard Ball |
| year of the dead | Fernando Salez |
| Neutral line | Timothy Conger |
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