The following screenplays are the 30 Feature Screenplay Semi-Finalists, 20 Feature Screenplay Quarter-Finalists, and 15 Short Screenplay Semi-Finalists for the 2022 FilmQuest Best Unproduced Screenplay Competition. We are honored to recognize these talented writers and screenplays. If you would like to find out more about the screenplays, please feel free to reach out and we will put you in contact with the writers.
Feature Screenplay Semi-Finalists (listed alphabetically)
A Whisper from the Waves by James Fox & Mikayla Iverson
Agua Dulce by Keith Hector Jardine
Amy and Angel by Julia Verdin & Deedee Benkovich
Another Will Come by Kevin J. Howard
Bitter Harvest by John Munn
Chicks Before Dicks by Sadie Katz & Nicole Larson
Committee Against Spirits Poltergeists and Revenants by Maxwell P. Leabo
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Joseph Horning
Disco! Rave! Attack! by Daniel Pappas
Drop Dead Dance Party by Melissa Pawneshing
Electrocution and Other Minor Inconveniences by Piper Gaul
Ella by Michael Dean
Emily in the Wind by Graham Galloway Chapa
First Girl by Kevin Sluder
Girl Scouts by Michael Seabolt & Gregory Schroeder
Insight by Eric Murphy
Juke by Zachary Eglinton
Look Twice by William Davis & Kyle Wilson
Madly by P. Patrick Hogan
Ms. Mary Madness by Craig Oullette
Night Moves by Taylor S. Doose
Preacher’s Daughter: Giant Slayer by Gregory Bonds
Reckoning Unforeseen by Ilea Alfaro
Snake by Marilynn Loveless
Soon by Anthony Catalano
Tar Pits by Donald Stroud
The Beginning of the End by Vincenti DiSanti & Nathan McLeod
The Occultation by Oliver Francis O’Connor
Treasure Trap by John Munn
With a Whimper by James Westbrook
Short Screenplay Semi-Finalists (listed alphabetically)
E.Nygma: A Batman Story by Rob Ayling
Good Grief by Josh Nadler
Is He Safe? by Robert James Salisbury
Light Sleeper by Jeff Bassetti
Meat Wagon by Jeff Speed
People in a Box by M.R. Fitzgerald
Phantom by Korea Black & Gianna Rose
Pruning by Christopher H. Eldridge
Rabbit by Alyssa Stevens
Randy Nooman’s Greatest Day by Aaron S. Barrocas
Tecata by Mario Theodosio Gallegos
The Memory Barn by Rose Anne-Marie Nordberg
The Ossan by Venita Ozols-Graham & Brigitte Graham
Three Baths by Rafael De Leon Jr.
Zero by Justin Nosler
Feature Screenplay Quarter-Finalists (listed alphabetically)
2nd Date by Jaik Andino
All My Friends Are Going Death by Alessandro Pulisci
Bystanders by Jamie Alvey
Cornstalkers by Michael Bayouth
Daughters of the Moon (First Phase) by Patrick Mediate & Aaron McLane
Forge (pka Haze) by Bill Millsap
Handhaven by Kristen Wade
Log by Alison Parker
Lou and The Rougarou by Laurie Powers Going & Mike Rechtien
Non-Official Cover by Jodi & Hudson Shelton
Overtime by Alison Hanna
Parasomniac by Devi Bhaduri
Rift/Walker by Sven Ohlendorf
Static by Joe Boi
Stink Fist by Steven Prowse
T-Rexorcist: The Musical by Dana Hammer
The Invisible Time by Jennifer Trudrung
Time and Space by Steven Prowse
Time, Space & The Poet Part 2 by John Turner
To Bits and Pieces by Erika Rachel Stone
Wizards of the Underworld by Samuel T. Weston
