2020 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Semifinalists
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The Atlanta Film Festival is proud to announce the Semifinalists in the 2020 Screenplay Competition. Chosen from just shy of 1,300 submissions, these screenplays represent the top 10% of all entries, moving forward in our feature film, television pilot, and short film categories.
These gifted screenwriters are competing for once in a lifetime mentorship opportunities to help hone their screenplays and plan the next steps in their careers.
Congratulations to these amazing authors, and wish them well as our programming team narrows this list down to finalists and then this year’s winners!
Feature Screenplay Semifinalists
Akashi-あかし — Mayumi Yoshida
Ana — Jacob Cullen
Anya's Eye — Carlton Proctor
Art Appreciation — Jennifer Titus & Mark Provencher
Back to Me — Ora Yashar
Battle Cries — Karen Walker
The Beautiful Dark — Erik Gernand
BIN — Asad Farooqui
Borderline — Joe Bonito
Breast is Best — Erika Robel
A Brown Coat — Rochelle Potkar
Burning in Water — Caleb Samples
The Company We Keep — Suhashini Krishnan
Conscious Recoupling — Josh Jacobs
The Dark Cookie — James Thomas Gilbert
The Duchess of Criminality — Timothy Cheyefsky
Foxed — James Stewart
Fracture — Eliot Routh
The Gateway Drug — Ana Worrel & Amy Frances Wright
The Ghosts of Le Griffon — Nicole Ramberg
Goat Island — Nathan Cabaniss
Got Your Back — Katy Dore
The Heeler — Darcy Lueking Bahensky
Henrietta — Harry Aspinwall
I.R.L. In Real Life — Justin Shelton
In Too Deep: The Brian Futz Story (A Long Lost 80's Movie) — Zack R. Smith & Andrew Miller
Incarnations — Albert M. Chan
Know Your Body — Ariella Carmell
The Lease of Nature — Anderson Boyd
Mayfair — Patrick John Ford
Mine — Blaire Baron & Scott Fifer
Mint — Drew Guajardo
Monster(s) — Aidan Largey
Mother-Daughter — Tricia Lee
My Brother's Keeper — Joshua Schorr
My Father's Murders — Michael Salomon
Northridge — Patrick Pfupajena
Not Half Anything — David Gray
Old Dad — Jim Harkins
Old Dogs and Still Waters — Avi Glick
On the Black — Kristen Mack Klebenow
The Oughthousers — Ari Krause
Over Here — Glen Craney
Pandemonium — Michael Douglas
Pastor Dash — Pearse Lehane
Pick Up Sidney — Natalie Higdon
The Pinch — James Raynor
Project Fog — Adva Reichman
The Rat and the Bluebird — T.E. Strong
Retreat — Jono Mitchell, Alexander Baxter, & Madison Hatfield
The Rites of Salem — Michael McCoy
A Seeping Wound — Darryl Wimberley
Shepherd One — Cameron Young
The Shtick-up — Val Bodurtha
Skepticon — Cameron Young
Skin Deep — Cierra Lockett
The Sons of May — Donna McNeely Burke
Spindle City — Daniel Earney
Surgeon Hong — Paul Gross
They Went On — Anthony Gilmore & Drew McCoy
A Town Called Nowhere — Peter Mahaffey
The Waiting Room — Alex May
Walks the Buffalo — Larry M. Baer
Where Teardrops Fall — Jesse Mays Robinson
Zero Legacy — Izzy and Vic Vic Vaughan
Pilot Screenplay Semifinalists
Apache — Cameron Barsanti
As American as Fortune Cookies — Hua Shang
Barrio - El Niño — Charlie Gandez
Bea Rose — Natalia Temesgen
Birdsong — Jennifer Dunn
The Breaching — Wendy Young
Carpetbaggers — Matt Thomas
Chloe Bowe — Craig Reynolds
Conundrum Integrated — Micah Paisner
Division 34 — Eyas Shanaah
Double Dads — Jessica Burnett
Eterna — Scott Simonsen
Faith Breaker — Sam Alper
Futurelink — Jason Gilmore
In the Gutter — Christine Burright McGuigan
Jersey Rican — Ashlei Hardenburg
Kindly Metal Mother — Kurtis Theorin
La Madrina — Adam Santa MarÃa
Laughing to Keep from Crying — Jane Barr
The Line — Jeff Bower
Lost in the Flood — Sean Collins-Smith
On the Verge — Yair Karlberger
The Paisley Witch Trial — Julia Campanelli
Pangea — T. C. Smith
Pony Up — Caroline Mungo
Pound Foolish — Susan Feingold
Pure — Erika Hakmiller
re.Form(ed) — Johnny Gilligan
Red Flag — Suzanne Slack-Smith
The Sensualist — Suzanne Griffin
Stayers — Teddy Gilmore & Mat Dann
That Sister Thang — Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen & Dale Winton
The Unvarnished Tales of the Green Fairy — Jacob Cullen
A Version — Asad Farooqui
Westphall — Keith St. Lawrence
Short Screenplay Semifinalists
All You Want to Know — Laurel Kulow
Business of Ferrets — Will Berry
Chemo — Marcus Julius
The Chocolate Kandinsky — Suzanne Griffin
Conscience — Brandon Kelley
The Cricket — Gabe Berry
Deadsitting — Gabriel Meyers
Definitely Not a Monster — Brea Angelo
Divinity — Nelson Downend
Downballot — John Goshorn
Dreamcatcher — Shaun Radecki
Dunked — John Bickerstaff
Evelyn in 7 — Kasia Kowalczyk
Everyday — Ryan Dellaquila
Fantasy Chat — Mindy Fay Parks
Genie — Paul Frank
Greg the Puddle — Shaun Radecki
Haint — Gabriela McNicoll
Hawk Bells — Kristian Mercado
I-106 — Luis Bou
Kid Midnight — Mychal Sargent
Laika — Kate Balsley
Man of Style — Deirdre Brenner
Pigskin — Susan Polk
Possum — Lyndal Simpson
Quarry — Nell Ovitt
Say Yes — Gabe Berry
Squished — Shaun Radecki
Until the Last One Falls — Gabe Berry
Youth in a Casket — Hannah Aslesen