The following is the shortlist for this quarterfinals 2024 ScreenCraft Animation and Family Screenplay Competition. These outstanding scripts were selected from nearly 900 submissions. Congratulations to the authors so far, and thanks to everyone who submitted!
Please stay tuned for the announcement of the semi-finalists on our blog and on our website on October 2nd twitter, Facebookand Instagram Number of pages! If you would like to be notified when this competition reopens for entry, you can subscribe to updates through Coverfly here.
Here are the quarterfinalists:
| The sweet story of the baker | Jessica Farico |
| Take a carriage home | Sandra Hendrickson Esch |
| fox tail | mira jay |
| Christmas ghost stories | Eddie Jarok |
| legal abomination | Justin Duriveau |
| african team | Jeremy Gay |
| COW agent | Leonardo Ramirez |
| Agni | Anirudh Iyengar, Christian Zanghrini |
| everything i want for christmas | Linda Tank |
| alpha flight | Darren Clift, Jose Guzman |
| anakad basin | Thomas Hansen |
| Annecy and the story box | Ayind Rico |
| Another happily ever after | Nathan Boyer |
| Anouk and the Philosopher’s Stone | Tiona Miller |
| application world | Lindsay Jean Michel, Pam Bassuk |
| spider man | Brian “Crust” Hogan |
| adira national park | Martha Douzette |
| Askari | Christian Smit |
| beast of the seine | Jon Portman |
| Beauty and Brick | Chloe Dowdell |
| best summer ever | Sean Barbar, Alexia Coelho |
| beyond seawall | Sean Weiss |
| Big ball boy | Jerry Xin |
| Birds of a feather flock together | Chris Stephens |
| bird of paradise | Tonya Relkov |
| Boom the Conqueror | Anna R. Dominique |
| bottom feeder | Simon Lewis, Ali Chami |
| Bud and the Free Flyers | Randeep Brar |
| funeral | Madison Shields |
| cart | Stephen Milberg |
| Charlie and the Unexplainable – “The Pilot” | Eric La Fabre |
| Chasing Romeo – Wolf Story | Dave Pulller |
| Clara and the Nutcracker Prince | Ben Rocky |
| Klaus encounter | Kara Kansak, Carl Zeitler |
| Crab | Abby Pepper |
| Reptiles! | Patrick Pidgeon |
| crystal | Sergio Pintore, Darryl D. Weir |
| Kukui | Eric Torres |
| girl dash | Adrian Callaghan |
| Waiting to death | William Perkins |
| Agatha Cayce Detective | Erica Joan Smith |
| Dimensions | Time is blocked |
| off road vehicle summer | Brendan McKeever-Fleming, Justin Conrad |
| Dungeon of Fools | Millie Zandi |
| E*I*E*I*O | Max Peppers |
| overshadowed | Olivier Laurent Gagnon |
| basic magic | Hannah Harmison |
| exile | Mahonrie Stewart |
| Extra, extra! | Fennel Overton |
| Fabulous Lorelei Lee | Sophie Pearl Nova |
| Fatima and the Fox | Flossie McKnight |
| looking for santa claus | Matthew Jacquerie |
| floppy united nations – great | Natalie Williams |
| Flora fungi | Nicole Egner |
| flutter | Terry Mitchell |
| food fight | Spencer Lenzi, Drew McInturf |
| forward | Christian Smit |
| Frances fish | Alnwick tour |
| Raven Gallopin: How he became king! | Sylvia Melanson |
| Gertie and Die | Paul Rowe |
| ghost hamster | Beverly Newfield |
| ginger line | Matt Worden |
| glow | Colin Edwards |
| The anachronistic toy maker of dwarfs | Maximos Sverka |
| good breeding | Josh Wilcox |
| Goose and chicken | Jim Woods |
| Ground | Martin Terici |
| Enterprising – Bears and Bigfoot | Christine Brown |
| halloween park | Stamoli Point |
| higher power | Nicholas Ericson |
| Macro’s journey | Danny Van |
| Home | Gabriel Brosius |
| hope | Alan Slack |
| Humanized | Kelly Johnson |
| hunger | Kevin Shabell |
| I secretly live with a cat named Harris | Buddy Kane, Louis Michael |
| sorry i missed you | Ethan Rogers |
| ice base envy | Dominic is with you |
| in or out | Nikki Denovan |
| indians | Diana Advani |
| Fantasy Commercial Hotel | Michael Barritt |
| innate | Jerrica Carl Lee, T. Jackson |
| interstellar noodles | Tobias Aguero |
| Must be Hugh | Jeff Reese |
| journey to the west | Jeff Barton |
| loving heart | Scott McCary |
| Kilgore and the Adventures of Barbarian Academy | Yusuf Nash |
| kun apsara | Peter Hinsander |
| little green door | Brian Menz, Linda Whitmore |
| lost and found | Ina Icasas |
| Louis | Steve Rooney |
| love and spell | Robin Bankston |
| lucid dream | Alyssa Cardafano |
| Demon Lupita | Charles Root |
| main freak | Anna Vecellio |
| Maple Valley Manor | Melissa Sahajian |
| Marbles | Danielle Elise Olson |
| Marty and Lou | Kelsey Romo |
| Meet Madhu | B Maddox |
| MiGou | Laura Antonelli |
| Minemus: The Brownie Story | Chris Allport |
| Mimiru (bubble) | Alan George |
| mole | Alex Wilson |
| Monster Agents: Bigfoot and Frogmen | Brendan Prosecco |
| monster on mars | Jiang Malin |
| monster in the dark | Sandra Bowles |
| Mr. Jenkins – High School Janitor | Charlie Brace |
| muck | Christopher Chou Slomyak |
| my monster buddy | Nick Gershon |
| Myrrh | Jacqueline Valle |
| myth | Katherine Boots, Misha Marcus |
| life night decorations | Stephanie Summers |
| Live vegetable night | Greg Harvey |
| Nova and Spaceman | Brent Federer |
| new garden | Patricia Tubb |
| Descendants | Hannah Silverman |
| Ollie | Kelsey Ross |
| There is another story | Joey Pattison |
| painting | Zachary Churchard |
| pair | Liz Anderson |
| Hardy Party 2024 | Mason King |
| penny | Mann Arms |
| Petunia | Esther Pearl |
| Pigsford Hollow-Gift | Jacqueline Valle |
| Pigskin | Susan Polk |
| pink lava | Sharon Powers |
| power couple | Ali Donnelly |
| prehistoric high school | Brian Van Dyke |
| exhibit | Lisa Roots |
| Professor Wexler, world explorer: To the ends of the earth! | Patrick Pidgeon |
| pudding | Elizabeth Nunes |
| Thumbtacks and rope | Jeff Ullman |
| price | Natalie Branham |
| explore! | Joey Capuana |
| demagogue | Caitlin Finn |
| cultural relics | Tristan Bellavala |
| ruby riff | sophia potter |
| Sankowa | Xavier Burkin |
| Santa Claus: Back to Life | Colin O’Brien |
| savannah and jack | Ken Rogan |
| Talk about cheese! | Radhika Mohan |
| school for villains | Saleh Karaman |
| two stars | Sam Solorzano |
| iris seeds | Kayla Parker |
| shrewd | Paul Fulton |
| brothers and sisters of seasons | Octavia Krahar |
| Siren’s Call | Robin Bankston |
| Slug Day | Natori Mao |
| Xiao Yu’er, private detective | Danny Siegel |
| smell my feet | Mr. Joel Buxton Horhag |
| Snack finder | Luca Beroyo |
| Diamond Princess Sora | starling sky |
| soul sucker | Zachary Ward |
| Rain Spirit | John Tapper |
| star duck | jack lynch |
| Star Nest | Tyler Coford |
| Homelessness, homosexuality and holidays | Ashley Ball |
| Strings | Matthew Millard, Sierra Millard |
| stuck | Carol Bass |
| sultana | Melissa Sweezy |
| supernova | Connie Zhang |
| Temok in the sky | Juan Gutierrez |
| Milton Road Terrace | Logan Dunn |
| That dirty B! | Laura Canty-Samuel |
| Cuties | Kevin Ace |
| western adventure | barb mead |
| anniversary dance | Matthew Godsey |
| Anti-Klaus | Adam Hubbell |
| best superhero | Gabriel Perez |
| book of truth | Ashley Tropea |
| garden chair | Drew Ross |
| The Oddity of Laurel Creek | Ava Sin |
| haircut | Cody Sticks |
| Heart of Sri Katava | Cairo Smith |
| illuminati boy | Toby Teague |
| tabble jones’ fantasy adventure | Ian Birkin |
| almighty legend | Jonathan Sparks |
| Watchmen Legend – Bear’s Story | Dan Baker |
| lightning herder | Bodhran Mullan |
| little warrior princess | Sean Wilde, Wu Weida |
| creepy person | Gabriel Perez |
| Mandrake in Meriwether Forest | Brad Starr |
| The Amazing Adventures of Archie Bishop and Dodge Callahan | Ryan Schwenning |
| monster wrangler | lucas ridge |
| The Mythical Life of Ellie Aquino | shina santa maria |
| naughty list | Brandon Osterman, Thomas Bell |
| Nethermede | Evan Allgood |
| Golden Statue Odyssey | Victorio Cojan |
| pale chess piece | Adam Love |
| scholarship | Molly Ferrick |
| silent giant | Nando Garza |
| simple twins | Tiffany Alzati, Ruby Montoya |
| lick my spy | Danny Stark, Tim Clegg |
| Z word | Christine Lin |
| Thunder Foot | Carlton Welch |
| ticket to life | Geoffrey Hughes |
| time will tell everything | Jonathan Winehouse, Terry Newman |
| top elf | Arun Narayanan |
| Trapped in plain sight (also known as “the puzzle”) | Tammy Klembis, George Klembis |
| trick | Jeff Ullman |
| undead overtime | Elizabeth Miller |
| Vanessa Singer | Chris Binning, Kyle Aman |
| night watchman | James Carpenter |
| zoo | alexandria ferries |
| Voyager | Katerina Kurganska Gorbanov |
| wake up white | Jason Gregory |
| Wando, slimness and inner light | Matt Jacobs, Grant Harris |
| wanted | Duane Piedmont |
| werewolf sword | And Malik |
| white beard | Abhi Jayakumar and Kathy Randall |
| Wild geese chasing | Audrey Hackett |
| with a little luck | Laura Becker |
| among the willows | Melvin Johnson |
| working dog | Alice Jolie |
| Yellowstone! | Morgan Herman |
| Your grandmother is a witch! | Mark Fowler |
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