We are proud to announce our 2019 Semi-Finalists!
The Finalists will be announced on April 30th, 2019.
Note: The 2019 QuarterFinalists can be found here
Features
There are 92 semi-finalists out of a total of 2755 submissions.
| A Custom of the Sea | by | Amanda Prentiss |
| A Quiet Absence | by | Raymond Jeong |
| About Chase | by | Jo Hannah Afton |
| Aftereffect | by | Robyn Winslow |
| Ain’t No Place | by | J.L. Shenstone |
| Alejandra | by | Eric LaPlante & Susie Moon |
| All Dressed in Black | by | Kaelan Dickinson |
| Allison’s Island | by | James Ryan Meerdter |
| American Blue | by | Jen Bieser |
| An Honest Killer | by | Ben Parkhill |
| Arcadian | by | Scott Hardie |
| Aurora | by | Joseph Lee |
| Boy Most Wanted | by | Tuck Tucker |
| Burrow | by | Noah S. Martin & Ashley Hazel Burns |
| Butterfield’s Lullaby | by | Jason C. Bellitto |
| Carly: Red, White, & Blue | by | Erin Brown Thomas |
| Children of the Fire | by | Eric Hueber |
| Dandelion | by | Grant Laine |
| Deepa By Design | by | Laura Jaques |
| Defense | by | Taelor Clay |
| Digger | by | Dave Wade |
| Escape From Year Zero | by | Armand de Saint-Salvy |
| Family on Ice | by | Marc Ketchem |
| Fatal Affairs | by | John Paul Gonzales |
| Flight Behavior | by | Amelie Yeager |
| Fox Hollow | by | Ariel Sobel |
| FRANKIE | by | Isaiah Nielson |
| Get Life | by | Mandy Jacobs |
| Gloom | by | Bobby Marino |
| Harlem Fever | by | Dominick Santa Cattarina & Duane Cooper |
| Havenwood | by | Jai Brandon |
| Her Weight On Me | by | Rebecca Shuhan Lou & Sofia Drummond-Moore |
| Irresistible | by | Daniel Findlay |
| It’s Not What Happens | by | John Evan Harris |
| Jodie | by | John McKenzie |
| Karmarama | by | Russell Smith |
| Kringle | by | Dennis Grace |
| Like a Bloody Monkey | by | Maurizio Caduto |
| Morpho | by | Craig Winstead |
| Newcomer | by | Michael Leung |
| Obviously Not Okay | by | Allison Flom |
| Oh Very Young | by | Jacqueline Brogan |
| One-Eyed Charley | by | Zach Ragatz |
| Perimeters | by | Eugenie Carabatsos |
| Reset, Limited | by | Samuel Vartek |
| Retreat | by | Garry Lawrence |
| Sam and the Seven Deadly Sins | by | Alex Fletcher |
| Save My Hero | by | Paul C. Hubbard |
| Screenplay | by | Scooter Trevelyan |
| Shaka | by | Warren Duncan |
| Southside | by | Benny Jean-Baptiste |
| Strange Aeons | by | Henry Hinder & Matthew Burke |
| Sucker | by | Jerell Rosales |
| Survivalist | by | Carlos Anderson |
| Tangent | by | Nick Wildash & Matt Wildash |
| The Art and Beauty of Miserable Bastards | by | Marilyn Jacovsky |
| The Bad Driver | by | Russell Smith |
| The Conspirasphere | by | Justin Scott |
| The Delivery | by | Gil Seltzer |
| The Empty Quarter | by | Tom Groneberg |
| The Fetch | by | Bill Ellis |
| The Girl Who Collected Sound | by | Steven Benedict |
| The Good Man | by | Marshall Williams |
| The Gospel ACcording to Charlie | by | Kamal John Iskander |
| The Grinders Cease | by | D.I. Riordan |
| The Hammer | by | Jason Hunter |
| The Last Adventure of Shay Blaze | by | Howard Fridkin |
| The Leonids | by | Steven Keeley |
| The Life and Death of Jacob Walston: An Epilogue | by | Cerina Aragones |
| The Lisa Project | by | Jennifer Fletcher |
| The Litany | by | Evan Cooper |
| The Lonely Hero of Someplace Else | by | Michael Bruno |
| The Madonna | by | Glenn Jameson |
| The Mesopotamian | by | Esra Saydam |
| The Mothman | by | Jackson Murray |
| The Pig Farmer | by | Samuel Vartek |
| The Reithbards | by | Dick Goldberg |
| The Ugly Sisters | by | Danny King |
| The Undertaker’s Children | by | Natasha Le Petit |
| The Way We Speak | by | Ian Ebright |
| The Weaponier | by | Will Warren |
| The White Mouse | by | Molly Gardner |
| This is Not The End | by | Ruben Latre |
| This Is The Desert | by | Jeffrey Siniard |
| Trinn Begins | by | Dani Milton |
| True Conviction | by | James Gulian |
| Tulare Basin | by | Carole Ryavec |
| Turtles and Sharks | by | Kevi Pearson |
| Valor | by | Allyson Hall |
| Watchdog | by | Michael J. Prosser |
| Yes, Chef | by | Todd Wiseman Jr. |
Hour Pilots
There are 35 semi-finalists out of a total of 651 submissions.
| Black Hatters | by | Adam Toltzis | |
| Boycott | by | Jeff Mustard | |
| Chaste | by | Elaine Clayton | |
| Children of Ceres | by | Daniel McNaught | |
| Dow Zero | by | Chuck Ansbacher | |
| Fox Hunt | by | Nicole Delprado | |
| Independent | by | Samuel Jefferson | |
| John & Meryl | by | Jimmy Prosser | |
| Koba | by | Kevin Karp | |
| Life Happens | by | Joelle Cornett | |
| Napoleon | by | Kevin Karp | |
| Newsers | by | Jennifer Kim | |
| Outward | by | Brian Koffler | |
| Past Tense | by | James Spillman | |
| Promiseland | by | Stephen Wallenfels | |
| Pulp Syndicate | by | John Paretti & Jakob Free | |
| Realbots | by | Nicole Delprado & Joanna Beveridge | |
| Severed Souls | by | B. Isabella Bodnar | |
| So Low They Can’t Hear You | by | Allison Bellbern | |
| Sol Invictus | by | Amanda Prentiss | |
| Stand | by | Seth M. Harrington | |
| Strange, CA | by | Ben Warner | |
| Tenth Street | by | Benjamin Smith | |
| The Arizona Project | by | Elise H. Greven | |
| The Authenticator | by | Lawrence Rothfield | |
| The Big Break | by | Kim Shaw & Marsha Dearing | |
| The Conversion Con | by | Andrea Lawson | |
| The Curator | by | Sonya Terjanian | |
| The Deep End | by | Alex Harris & Mark Lyons | |
| The Graveyard Shift | by | Brandon Vaughn | |
| The Hellhounds | by | Z. R. Denis | |
| The Replacement | by | Nabil Chowdhary | |
| Tuff | by | Katarzyna Tomaszewska | |
| White Skies | by | Max Maeckler | |
| XX | by | Miriam Rahimi-Cholensky | |
Half-Hour Pilots
There are 34 semi-finalists out of a total of 538 submissions.
| !! Oh The Humanity !! | by | Tyler Danna | |
| (un)heroic | by | David Aaron Tripp & Brandon Zachary | |
| Artemis of Chicago | by | Venetia Ginakakis | |
| Arthur Doesn’t Suck | by | Sarah Isaacson | |
| Bad Jew | by | Adi Blotman | |
| Bottom of the Top | by | Clarissa Carson | |
| Brutal | by | Nick Citton | |
| Camp Creation | by | Jack Barnes | |
| Clay | by | Katie Blair | |
| Crash & Burn | by | Clare Higgins & Julie Fassnacht | |
| Farm to Table | by | Amanda M. Hoffman | |
| God’s Waiting Room | by | EJ Mayer | |
| Groupie | by | Daisygreen Stenhouse | |
| How To Be A Good Citizen | by | Allison Kilkenny | |
| Hyphenated Americans | by | Derrick Metellus | |
| Insanie | by | Zenas Cao | |
| Joyce to the World | by | Joe Kinosian & Kellen Blair | |
| Lacuna Matata | by | Grant Lease | |
| Learning Curve | by | Eleanor Kirk | |
| Lessons | by | Desi Lyon | |
| Mama, You the Man | by | Darrel Guilbeau | |
| My Roommate the Monster Hunter | by | Jude Justice | |
| Saved By Zero | by | Anthony Brinton | |
| Sex Class | by | Daniel Waters | |
| Spellbound | by | Andrew Greene & Nick Lopez | |
| That Sister Thang | by | Lindiwe Mueller-Westernjagen & Dale Winton | |
| The Greatest Intern In The Universe | by | Ari Miller | |
| The Last Abortion Clinic in Kansas | by | Tammy Caplan | |
| The One With… | by | Matthew Gottlieb & Noah Smith | |
| The Upside Downings | by | Sean Sullivan | |
| To Those Who Are Lost | by | Katie Waldron | |
| Twinning | by | Andrew Boateng | |
| Unplanned | by | Duncan Richards | |
| Where Have You Been, Scoopy Poop! | by | Patrick Henry Phelan | |
Shorts
There are 45 semi-finalists out of a total of 704 submissions.
| #Kissamate | by | Katharine Rogers |
| #lovemylife | by | Danielle Reid |
| A Dinner Affair | by | Olivia Johnson |
| A Road to Nowhere | by | David Earle |
| A Tune A Day | by | Rachel McAdam |
| A.I. Geddon | by | Leonid Leonov |
| Amends | by | Brian Delate |
| An Aberration | by | Joseph Wilkowski |
| Anaesthesia | by | John Harden |
| Barbie Girl | by | Kim Booker |
| Best of British | by | Nadine Wilson |
| Bridge Trolls | by | Jenna Yonker & Peter Zachwieja |
| Destiny’s Road | by | Kameishia Wooten |
| Flight Plan | by | Patricia Tabb |
| Forever Tonight | by | Swetha Regunathan |
| Friends Like These | by | Mark Emery |
| Home | by | Nir Shelter |
| I Am Other | by | Tiffany Silver Tucker |
| Kodiak | by | Tyler Rabinowitz |
| Last Christmas | by | Owen Gower |
| Leo’s Dream | by | Alan King |
| Little Girl Lost | by | Julian Awoonor Renner |
| Lunch Lady | by | Colleen Asbury |
| Morning Glory | by | William Winston |
| Night Terror | by | Adam Maddox |
| Only Dead Know the Dead | by | Sivakrishna Vakamullu |
| Painful Beautiful Sex | by | Jeff Aron Lable |
| Pigeons Mate For Life | by | Shelby Cecchini |
| Pre-Game | by | Gilli Messer |
| Ranch Daddy | by | Chase Bortz |
| Screamwater | by | Desireé Winns |
| Shifting | by | Jonah Z Helms |
| Son of God | by | Iva Prolic |
| Spic | by | Johnny Sanchez |
| Sucky Number 14 | by | Ji Strangeway |
| Sunshine | by | Amber Scott |
| Tampa | by | Jane Lowe |
| The Assumption | by | M.C. Selfridge |
| The Biffy | by | Heather Debling |
| The Call Of Duty | by | Faye Upton |
| The House | by | MJ Palo |
| The Ritualist | by | Jake Lemmen |
| The Whole Story | by | Jasmien Vandermeeren |
| Thumbs Up | by | Nick Grimwood |
| Wolves | by | Peter Donovan |
The 2019 QuarterFinalists can be found here
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