The following is the list of finalists for this year’s semi-finals 2025 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Contest. These outstanding scripts were selected from nearly 2,500 submissions. Congratulations to the authors so far, and thanks to everyone who submitted!
Stay tuned for the announcement of the finalists on our blog and on our website on January 8th 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 semifinalists:
| (A little) young. (Once Upon a Time) Gifted. (Still) black. | amanti reed |
| a person who stands up | Nico Collins, Jonathan Mizrahi |
| adams collision | Lila Kellerman |
| Agnes | John Bickerstaff |
| all good things | Tessa Duke |
| Alma of the Pure Heart | Etta Gray |
| alfasta | Johnny Gilligan |
| ambelica | Amber Nelson, Risk Management |
| American Reckoning – “Every Knee Shall Bow” | Robert William McCormack |
| Anika Ronin | Andrew Chen |
| animal chaos | Stuart Skelton |
| Anne Wright | Richard Lee |
| pharmacist girl | Mashael al-Qahtani |
| BAD MAGIC – The Life and Wild Times of Nick Starr | Steve Valentine |
| bait | Christopher Holt |
| better days | Peter Socher |
| Montenegro disease | Cam Smith |
| bishop’s body | Monica Hand |
| bounty hunter bridesmaid | Josh Colwell |
| burning blue | Federico Sanner |
| american camp | Donna McNeely Burke |
| champion | Seth Yatanes |
| Searcy and colleagues | Ross Casolali |
| city fm | CJ long hammer |
| Clicks | Ross Schneiderman, Nick Kendrick |
| Caleb of Colette | Trinette faints |
| Colony 14 | Helena Zhen |
| Cookie + Isaac | Christian Kamel |
| forgery | emily renee |
| creature of habit | Rebecca Sharp |
| dark state | Jessica McLaughlan |
| died at osmont | Eliza Greenberg |
| dead woman walking | Samuel Hutcheson |
| dil baby | Mann Paskuski |
| development output | Maddie Smith, Aldernell |
| Esperanza | David Christopher Loya |
| Spelling errors | Janet Rose Nguyen |
| bid farewell | Javier Sandoval |
| ferris wheel | Norman Pocconi |
| family | Shirley Lewis |
| front | Jarrod Bakkens |
| Gentlemen prefer prostitutes | anne marie meydan |
| Goody | Julie Shabat |
| ground | Alec Bickers |
| Half dead | Hannah Foster |
| How are you feeling today? | Anna Vecellio |
| human | Jacintha Brown |
| I would kill for this | Matthew Hawke, Jason Noyce |
| Improvisation – (Pilot) “The Big Streamer” | Dwayne Colbert |
| island time | Emily Cope |
| King Killer | Joe Tremba |
| King of Class B | David Aguilar Rodriguez, Jamie Holt Aguilar-Rodriguez |
| late bloomer | Kyle Kenan |
| Scimitar | Naomi Frometta |
| Malki’s Galaxy | my time |
| mask | Thorson Garner |
| Miss Charming | Ruby Mainieri |
| modern warrior | Samdi |
| spree murder | Tanner Hayes, Shirley Rene |
| on green | Brian Nowlin |
| Go online | Matt Himes |
| off track | Martin Fleming |
| passing practice | Dumas |
| perry does europe | Trinette faints |
| port royal | Jay Falstad |
| precursor | Steve Brown |
| angry baby | Gilani Sumida-Moisef |
| rat squad | Joe Testa |
| Refrigerator Madness | Dana Karabon |
| refugee | Ed Wells |
| Return to Mecca | her potiyawala |
| Revelation | Johnny Gilligan |
| Rubicon | Matthew Casado |
| Blasphemy | Stephen Chervinsky |
| saw bone | high frequency cram |
| seamless | Ryan Friedman |
| see you in dream | Akira Yoneda |
| shelter | Brad Waskovich |
| Sheriff Tony Diaz | Ken Allman |
| sick | Melanie Zoe Weinstein |
| smoker | Martin Rowland |
| spread | Michael Ronca, Danica Jackson |
| pull out | Steven Chen |
| stunts | Bu Zaganas |
| sumner falls | Michael Parsons |
| gushing | Jiang Lusi |
| don’t tell anyone | Christopher O. Lukens |
| accidental terrorist | Gary Mahmoud, Amadeo Fusca, Josh Apter |
| reason | Angela Trevino |
| commuter rail | Janaba Sekan |
| Duke of Essex | Mike O’Neill |
| dying light | Eric Sternholm Frith |
| dynasty | CJ Waltz |
| explorers | Garrett Rowe, Joe Wacker |
| firefighter | Daniel Stevens |
| fly trap | Andrew Grace |
| Great cooling | Sarah Dolin |
| The great and glorious Kingdom of Uckburg | Jorge Moratar |
| green | Braden Lubell |
| EA Poe’s hilarious orgy | See Fleetcraft |
| Houdinis | Ron Monz |
| supporter | JD Eliby |
| Machete | Giovanni Maldonado Chinaa, Miles Clifford Hawthorne |
| middle Ages | Fraser Thomas White |
| Nemesis Archives | Comica Hartford |
| pardon | Brian Thompson |
| Plaza Hotel | Gail Travers |
| the price of youth | Phyllis Strong |
| red scare | Michael Ace |
| snake path | Samuel Wendell |
| The fall of kingship | Ran Li |
| zookeeper’s daughter | Lisa Hickey |
| Tom and Rich | Marty Smith |
| Tips for improving | Madison Pena |
| Not available for hire | Tia Devlin |
| Unpredictable | Lisa Hickey |
| vaudeville | Kevin Engelkin |
| traveler | Christopher Wernig |
| Zoe Starr’s biggest fan | Sarah Farnham |
| death zone | Sarah Isaacson |
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