The following screenplays are the Top 40% Feature Screenplay Semi-Finalists, Top 50% Feature Screenplay Quarter-Finalists, Top 40% Short Screenplay Semi-Finalists, and Top 50% Short Screenplay Quarter-Finalists for the 2025 FilmQuest Best Un-produced Screenplay Competition. We are honored to recognize these talented writers and screenplays. While these screenplays are not Finalists or formal Official Selections, they are all worthy of further attention and praise. If you would like to find out more about the screenplays for potential production opportunities, please feel free to reach out and we will put you in contact with the writers.
Feature Screenplay Semi-Finalists (Top 40%) (listed alphabetically)
3 Months of Killing by Jon Ryan Sugimoto
Adventures in Serial Killing by Jack Warner
Affluenza by Lindsey Paulette
Apocalypse Death Party 2: The New Normal by Russ Emanuel, Emile Haris & Avishai Weinberger
Ballad of Black Guitar by Omar Alexander Juarez
Checking Out by JJ Brent
Deathless by Biagio Gulino & Tyler Kamens
Disco Demolition Night by Matthew Taub
Draconis by Daniel Mellitz
Fantasy Fading by Matthew Eli Judd
Feral Mountains by Terry Luke Podnar
Good Girls Get Fed by Kelly Lou Dennis
Guardrails by Eric R. Lotter
Haven by Craig Urquhart
Indigo by Adam Getz
Iniquitous by N’cee van Heerden
Jetsam by Lee D. Copeland
La Esposa by Matthew B.W. Sheehan
Lucid by Nicholas Michael Yunker
Never Let Her In by Saurin D. Lakhia
None Greater Than by Jeffrey Stackhouse
Pieces of You by Jack Warner
Santa Claus is Coming to Hell! by Ben Alpi & Michael Klug
Shadow People by Fernando Ortiz
Society of the Moon by Jack Warner
Spitting Image by Andrew Santoro & Kelsey Henry
The Answer Girl by Stephanie Scott
The Drive-In by Jesse Mattson & Sam Mattson
The Method by Jake Bradbury
The Monstrosity by Richard B. Pierre
The Old Man & The Dead by Robert Benjamin
The Pit by Duncan B. Putney & Greg Chopoorian
The Sixth Sun by Matthew Karram
The Virus that Feasts Upon the Liars by Russell Whaley
The Watch Killer of Bradford by Russell Whaley
Untethered by AJ Sykes
Feature Screenplay Quarter-Finalists (Top 50%) (listed alphabetically)
1967: A Cryptid Odyssey by Mike Weimer
Anedhonia by Gary Reimer
Bad Timing by Michael Charron
Cartoon Man by Miguel del Campo & Fatima Abdulaziz Alshamsi
Cold Dead Fingers by Jack Warner
Dead Getaway by Josephy Gietl & Carly Maher
DickSwtich by David Hartstone
Displaced Horizon by Thomas Hauser
Don’t Poop by Delaney Bishop
Everything in the Woods by Andrea Deanne Williams
Inner Demons: The Exorcism of Cardinal Torres by Claudio Martinez-Valle
Losing Light by Nick Pullia
No Olvidado by d.b. Roderick
Phantom Limb by Taylor Hunt
Rugs by Nicole Salmeri & Cait J. Lilly
Snake Oil by Sean Plemmons & Jeff Hassen
String Lights by VP Boyle
The a-GORE-ables by Thomas Jacobsen
The Dyer Curse by Shane Thompson & Michael Seabolt
The End of October by P.J. Starks
The Ghost of Dĩ An by Taylor Hunt
The Morrisfield Misfits and The Sword of Fate by Jack Warner
The Substitute Wife by Dennis Manning
The Tree with No Heart by Aaron Huckleberry
Where the River Ends by Tex Gresham
Short Screenplay Semi-Finalists (Top 40%) (listed alphabetically)
A New Leaf by Kieran Shea
Accidental Assassins by Evan Elise Owens
America the Beautiful by Javon Johnson
Final Draft by Michael Henry Moore
Henry Wants to be a Ghost by Jordan Doig
How Was Your Day? by Sapphire Sandalo
I Scream Sunday by Michael Aliotti
Key Party by Cavan Campbell
Last Supper by Maryellen DeVivo
One for the Box by Kevin Machate
Priceless by Kristen Semedo
Psycho Vision by Marc Roussel
Revolution Revolvr by Kade Linville
Run by Jack Warner
Short of Breath by Peter D. Fleming
The Quilt by Narmar Hanna
The Visionaries by Simon Jones & Kaylee Nicholas
Trial Separation by Kara Michelin
What Remains by Bryan Mittelstadt
Wiener Delivery by Troy DeWinne
Your Ride Has Arrived by Neftali M. Rivera
Short Screenplay Quarter-Finalists (Top 50%) (listed alphabetically)
American Values by Ryan Mekenian
Don’t Touch That Dial! by Andrew Stussie
God’s Future Soldiers by Jerry J. Sampson
Head(less) by Jenny Popovich
Lineage by Jordan G. Read
Midnight Madness by Avishai Weinberger
Moonshot by Michael Henry Moore
One Last Night by Justin Carter
Orbital Decay by Cavan Campbell
Pockets by Erik Walker Neill & Anthony DeVine
Sam by Daniel Talbott
Semi-Basement 57 by He-seung Son & Ri Yang
The Chrysalis Breaks Both Ways by Dana Wall
Thingamajis: A Musical Fairy Tale by A.S. Templeton
Thy Daughter of Bluebeard by Michael Aliotti
