2024 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists
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The Atlanta Film Society is pleased to present the 2024 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Quarterfinalists. Chosen from 1,555 total submissions, the following 199 feature film screenplays, 107 pilots, and 82 shorts represent the top twenty percent of all entries. Their authors are competing for invaluable mentorship opportunities to help hone their craft and plan the next steps in their careers in addition to cash prizes. Please join us in congratulating these impressive authors, and wish them well as the programming team continues to narrow this list down to the Semifinalists, Finalists, and eventually to 5 Winning Scripts!
Feature Screenplay Quarterfinalists
#ViralQuest - Jennifer Sumbu Longe, Rhea Mary Oommen
10 Days In A Madhouse - Nicola Pittam
603 - Emily Prescott
A Dead Name I Love - Eric MacKinnon Johnson
A Flower in the Concrete - Khiray Richards
A Love Dream - Allison Betts
A Shooting Star - Jack Coady
Adventures in Serial Killing - Jack Warner
Afterwards - Lauren Grant
Alien America - Gorby Mufan Shih
All I Am - Rick Kline
All In! - MICHAEL GREENE
An Occurrence at Burger Bueno - Ty Herrell
And Justice For All - Carlos Perez
Andy Warhol Must Die! - Graham Lee
Askari - Christiaan Smit
Aubrei from La Veta - Sam Ellison
Backwaters - Jeffrey Craine
Becca Goes Back - Julie Kraut
Belonging - Liz Fields
Beneath the Creek - Christopher Massey
Bike Lane Ends - Noah Glenn
Black Sheep - Mimi Lee
Bloom - James Lamp II
Braddock - Gregory Caruso
But Some of Us Are Brave - Jainaba Seckan
But We Slept Soundly - Jake Kolton, Audrey Findlay
Celestials - Jennifer Sumbu Longe, Rhea Mary Oommen
Chosen - Cosmo Wallace
Christmas With K'Landre - Shahine Ezell
Classmates - Matthew Schlissel
Clearwater - Heather McDonald
Cling - AARON WARNER
Contained - Jennifer Wilton
Cool Uncle - J. Brian
Cradle - Harriet Bramwell
Crayola Zen - Mike Green
CRIME WAVE - Tammy Klembith, George Klembith
Dadwatch - Eric Stern, Joshua Mann
Dark Horizon - Annique Arredondo
DEADBEAT - Lauren BrownDegeneration - Richard Williams
Diary of a Failed Minister's Daughter - Susie Mendoza
DICK - Omeed Boghraty
Divorce, Marry, Kill - Alex Watson
Double Crossed - F. F. Mormanni
Down At The Val - Neil Goodchild
Dreams of My Mother - Marcus Smith
Dry by Midnight - Dustin Cook, Gregory Caruso
Dust Devil - Mark Bankins
DUTOPIA_ - Richard Marks
East Jesus - Duane Graves
Emotional Intelligence - Nicholas Roth
Fade In, Fade Out - Rob Levinson
Falling Up - Stephanie Drapeau
Feedback - Jeffrey Dinghua Lei
Fifteen Divide - Ramona Taylor, Josh Katz
Final Dress - Greg Beam, Kim McKean
Final Resting Place - Linda Fisher
Football Story - Richard Curtis
Fright Masks - Stephen Polakiewicz
G.O.D. OS - David Christopher Loya
Glass House - Amy Mednick
Globulous - Flax Glor
Golden Hour - James Buzzo
Good F*ck Charm - Isabelle Davis
GRAVEL - DT Houston
GRIEF CAMP - Sabrina Saleha
HEARTRACE - Will Bermender
HOMESTALKER - Olivia Jampol
Hot Naked Mess - Jonathan Dillon, Sascha Alexander
House Hunt - Greg Fortier
Huelensmond (Huelen's Moon) - J.K. Zepeda
If You're Lucky They'll Believe Every Word - Cameron Linly Robinson
Jeff Bezos 007 - Justin Reager, Shane Spiegel
Kitty - Brandon David Deyette, Emmy Morgan
L.O.B.E. - David Hunter Fein
Leila - Faryarsadat Hosseini
Liberty - Chris Lawing
Limelight - Terence Nigel Fisher
Little Mouse - Goldie Jones
Lo & Em - Claire Audrey Aguayo
Lost in a Book - Greg Bosworth
Madness - Chris Poore
Make It Happen. - Adrian Sterling
Mammoth - Robert Buscemi
Manongs - Mariel Madrid, Keone Madrid
Mason - Kevin Waite
Merde' - Kimberly Samon
Mud Simple - Austin Alward
Muddy Shoes Patrik Krivanek - Laurie Weltz
My Elvis - John Burdeaux
My Idiot Sister - Michael Basha
My Lovely Neighbors - Jake Buczewski
My Real Imaginary Friends - Kyle Rizor
Neat Freak - Christopher Glass
Nine Dead Cats - David Huante
None Of This Is Okay - Jonathan Castoro
Oberlin - J.P. Johnston
Obsession - Jason White
Oh Sickie! - julien wagner
Oh, Great Cosmic Master! - Kyle Spleiss
Oh, You Poor Thing - John Nugent
One Night in Purgatory - Robert Husted
Only Apparently Real - Michael Richter
Ouroboros - Red Davis
Over the Hill - Laura Kemp
Powdered Sugar - Tyler Gibbons
Problematic - Jerry J Sampson
Quran Camp - Samah Meghjee
Reformation - Stephen Morgan-MacKay, Stefan Alexander
REMEDIATION - Conner Marie Allen
Revival - Abby Selden
Riddle - Shiva Ramanathan
Road Closure - John Cerrito
Robin With The Red Nails - Lance Marshall
Rockpaw - Nora Delyra
Roe Island - Hanna Hedqvist
Rule Of Law - Eric Johnson
Scale - Chris Cameron
Scent of Marigold - Lily Malm, Laila Matuk
Searching for Marceau - Dan Abramovici
Secret Sun - Christian Maxwell, James Clark
Sel De Mer "Sea Salt" - Jacqueline Cloake
Senseless Confidential - Martin Bannon Beaudet
Serotinous - Terra Mackintosh
Sexy Little Murder - Alise Morales, Bailey Belzora
She Becomes Pedro Infante - J.K. Zepeda
SHE'S ALL RIGHT - Shon Keane, Melanie Williams Oram
Shelby - Brian Ruberry
Short Time - Anthony Zonfrelli
Shot Clock - King Lu
Sixty Days Is Forever - Jeff Fletcher
Sleeping with Strangers - Genie Leslie
Sludge - Jen Butler
Son of a Preacher Man - P.J. Palmer
Son of Africa - George Tarr
Sonoran - Jack Aupperle
Spy Bros - Jared Pettit, Jason Felix
Stand Up - Eric Meltzer
Starchildren - Michael Anthony De Toffoli
Stranded - Jen Boxall
Stripper Moms - Tricia Horvath
Superunknown - Sean Hennessy, Mike Hennessy
Surrogate - Jon Sanhueza
Survivor Duty - Kyle Curry
Swimming in T-Shirts - Matt Foss
TARO: Legend of Japan - Blue Spruell
The Blur - Dean Farell Bruggeman
The Chötgör - Max Rissman
The Fallen - Gabrielle Nehring
The Family Tree - Molly Clark
The Flip and the Dead - Greg Harvey
THE FOREVER HOTEL - Justin Ballheim
The Forever Moment - Greyson Wyatt
The Golem of Cotopaxi - Arnon Shorr
The Hare - Bryson Edmondson
The Hazard Room - Mike Cymanski
The Knowledge of Good & Evil - Luke Edward
The Last Blockbuster - Justin Miller, Jeremiah Castleman
The Life of Cockroaches - Gillian Croft
THE MORON - Kevin J. Howard
The Most Marvelous Man In The World - Khris Burton, Colin Scott
The Sheep - Ed Wiles
The Show Must Go On - Bret Miller
The Skin Rippers - Daniel William Pero
The Slashelorette - Anthony Zonfrelli
The Struggle is Reel - Jennifer Tomlin
The Summons - Mike Robinson
The Taking of North Pole 1-2-3 - Robert Husted
The Timeline - David Mokriski
The Untold Story of the Titanic - Willie Mae Kent
The Verge of Seas - Albert M. Chan
THE WARDROBE - Peter Noel
THE WITCHES' CRADLE - Tammy Klembith
The Woman at the Lake - Chris Inekhomon
Them Monsters - Simon Cheyne
They came for us from outer space - Gabriel Verdugo
Thirstygirl - Alexandra Qin
This is Pablo - Sammie Rose
Three Sheets to the Wind - Sean Pedersen
TILLY'S PROMISE - James Dillon
Token - Tristan Griffin
Toni and the Wolf - Elizabeth Corbett
TOWNIE - Suemedha Sood
Twisted Justice - Joel McElvaney
Us, Unlikely - Tricia Lee
Vengeance Airlines - Charlie Matthes, Hunt Holman
Victor - Aaron Huckleberry
Watermelon, Watermelon, Watermelon - Calvin Claudio
Wedding Day - Jason Stefaniak
West Texas Holiday - Matt Foss
Where the Wildflowers Grow - Robyn Bankston
Whuchu Boy - Edward Varnie
Willa - Elizabeth Myer
Wisteria - Adam Lapallo
Xena & Jonny - Robert Latham Brown, Ryan Schube
Yankee Bwoy - Ricardo Sean Thompson
Zitkála-Šá - Robert Jackson
Pilot Screenplay Quarterfinalists
A Black Girl's Guide…- Aadrise Johnson
A Lost Lady - Pilot: "A Spark" - Holly Michelle Swenson
A Sorcerer’s Apprentice - Autumn Cavender, Scott Ryan
After School Special - Matthew Hoch, Navaris Darson
Akata - Stephanie Obadare, Caroline Gordon-Elliott
ALMOST SIX - Suzan Mikiel
America Rise, America Fall - Giovanni Taveras
AVERAGE MAN - Jessie Gill
Awakening - Brian J Leitten
BAD B "The Glamour Profession" - Jan Arnold
BAD SOVIET - Nik Sysuev
Base Reality - Gregory Clark
Bear Frat - Pilot - Will Moro
Beneath Broadway - Gerardo Maravilla
Black Caesar - Amanda Prentiss
Brainspotting - Chelsea Spirito
BSMT - Annette Evans
Cain - Tricia Horvath
Camp Psychopathways - Danny Galvin, Brad Pike
Cancelled? - Thomas Ferguson
Colonial Times - Taylor Tobin
CRIMSON TIES - Jackie Quinones
CROW - Matilda Corley Schulman
Dance for Eternity - Gage Feraud
Do I Belong Here? - Teri Rusike
Dreamwalker - Jeremy Hsing
Exposed - Natalie G. Bergman
Flipped - Justin Alicastro
Fundies TV Pilot - Jessica Furniss
Gallatin - Ryan Skinner
Gigantica - Duane Smith, Stefane Barbeau
Good Bones - Brooke Becker
Grace and the Aliens - Jennica Johnson
Guardians Of The Pacific - Derek Quick, Negane Meno
Happy World - Nick Eagles, Brandon Shell
Humanely Human - Ryan Dellaquila
Hunches - Robert Husted
I Love Losalind - Rosalind Grush
I'm Not Dead, I'm Dreaming - Peter Petralia
Immaculate - Jessica McLaughlin
Jesus One-Stop - Frederik Ehrhardt
Liberté - Keya Hall
Lift - Allison Orr Block
Like You Stole It - Stacey Russell
Little Girl Grown - Kate Harpootlian
Love, Mary Todd - Bixby Elliot
MADS - Jan Pearson
McAllen - Michael Chludzinski
Midway - Sarah Ward
Morlock - Anthony Povah
Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington - Justin Appleton
Nepantla - Josue Hernandez
Novel Romance - Phoebe Zimmerer, Lauren Ferebee
Pandora - Jeff Bower
PETROL GIRLS - Jade Maitre
Praise - Megan Hayes
Protocol One - Geoffrey Colo
Rat City - Ally Gilfeather
Reuben - Nella Dudova
Run Red - Felicity R Landa
Scene Queen - Annique Arredondo
SIMORGH - Farzin Farzam
Skin Contact - Molly Rydzel
Snack Shack - Kate Kowalski
SPACE COWBOYS - Chris Keppel
Street Knowledge - Greg Sawicki, Brian Miller
Swishy - Christina Wren
The Age of the Empath - Steve Brown
The Backrooms - Jon Addison
The Bane of Monsters - Maya Churi
THE BLACK SWAN FILES - Tricia Cerrone
The Book of Raquel - Olga Holtz
The Control Problem - Sam J Alper
The Countess: The Death of Dante Edmonds - Diana Densmore
The Detail - Jonah Einstein
The Fugitive Game - Martha Swetzoff
The Ginger Seeds of Loxahatchee - Nik Prietus
The Girl with the Devil Eyes - Toby Marks
The Great Balgair - Faith Dismuke
The Informer - Coli Sylla
The Inspector Reboots - Mark Renshaw
The Last Cabin Left on Old Sycamore Lane - Michael Rakoff
The Local - Mark Naccarato
The Nightshift - Shiv B
the pod - Saraphina Redalieu
The Pressure Point - Nik Prietus
THE PROTECTOR - Kevin J. Howard
The Sands - Hannah Looney, Jason Cortez
The Sessions: Pilot episode - Alexander Julian
The Skipper - Telsyn Doucette
The subtle art - Gaia Kim Bartolini, Nick Habal
The Talking Animals - Andrew Gitomer
THE THREE OF US - Janna Jilnina
THE TWO OF US - Alison Balnar
The Way You Look Tonight - John Cerrito
The Wrestling Show - JULIE HARRISON-HARNEY
TIN KICKERS - Ned Farr
Trying - Maggie Stiggers
Valley Dicks - Sam Allemang
WAR DOG - Edward Dawson
Welcome to Dalwood - Joshua Young
WENCH Pilot Script - Aaveen Marandi, Tommy Miller
When I Dance… - Kyle Landgraf
Wolf's Head - Samuel Anderson
Y'allywood - Christian Noël
Youtopia - Danny Galvin, Brad Pike
Short Screenplay Quarterfinalists
A Friend of Your Mom’s - Joe Miles
A Man in the Dark - Sean Hennessy
A Tempo - Lorelai Jo-hsuan Lin
A toothbrush story - Rodrigo Figueiredo
Albert's Mile - Michael Mau
Algorithm and Blues - Jamie Benson
All The Time - Mars Hogan
Ambient Light - H.Cherdon Bedford
And I'll Dream of Sheep - Isabella Vargas
April and Mr. Stockman - Montgomery Burt
Art's Domain - Shaun Radecki
Assimilated - Christopher Guerrero
Bearbatfrankenstein - Shaun Radecki
Become the Wounded - Gabe Berry, Amir Zargara
Bite Marks - Rachel Debolski
Bittersweet - Alec Gutherz
Bomb Ass Boss(es) - Shanice Williamson
Byrdie's Call - Connor Austin Jones
Chosen - Michelle Farley
Chrome Plated - Sarah Ward
Cicada - Yoo-Jin Oh
Colored - Sam Henderson, Ryan Romine
Curtain Call - Taylor Rankin
ELLIOTT - Shaun Radecki
Encore - Garrett Detrixhe
Feed the Brute - Corsica Wilson
First Sunrise - Healin Kweon
Freeborn - Shane Harbinson
Gasablanca - Cody Sousa, D.J. O'Connor
Ghomeeda - Aya Mheidly
Good Evening, Marshall (Good Evening, Geraldine) - Jessica Mosher
Grace - Andrew Smith
Handle With Care - Allison Orr Block
Homogeneous - Nicky Rudolph Calloway
Hook and Swing - Dana Hawthorne
I DO MY BEST NOT TO REMEMBER THAT TIME MY BASEBALL CARD TRIED TO DESTROY MY LIFE - Shaun Radecki
In With the Storm - Cara Marshall
Iron Fist - Kagure Kabue
Joaquin - Adán Almaraz
Junie Junie - Anna Krieske
Lady of the Light - Sara K. Murphy
Lead Sandwich - andre salloom
Life and Death are spelled the same - Neil Knox
LINKED HEARTS - Kathleen Hof
Little Tokyo Story - Kyung-Ja Lee
Love Is Strange - David Tiritilli
Masking - Joel McElvaney
Mattress-cide - Michael Johnston
Mouse - Michael Clifton
MY BLONDE - Zardosht Afshari
Nova Hora - Francesco Capussela
Oh Happy Day! - Ivan Rome
Oh, Fuck Me - Steven Tralongo
One Day Lasts Three Autumns - Delfina Braverman
One Minute to Midnight - Joshua James, Kobe Sipp
Out - Jazmine Gibbs
Overtime - Pak Hin Phileas Cheung
Pal - Michael Mau
Paper Monsters - Michael Clifton
Perkins is Perfect - Maura May
Pumpkin Goulash - Yvette Farmer
Rules of the Game - Ian Griffin
Sin Eater - Corey Simpson
Slip - Lara Hill
Soap! - Sami Al Sharikh
SUGAR - Derek Nicoletto
Superman Doesn't Steal - Tamika Lamison
The 25th Annual Tucker High Talent Show - Evan Deis
The Beholder - Ryan Lee Gregory
The Late Shift - Hallie Reese Kostrencich
The Ruby Blade - William Davies Golec
The Rusty Nail - John Acquaviva
The Untamed - Olga Holtz
These Fish Will Stop At Nothing - G Prevost
Thirteen Mountains - Lauren James
Three Rivers - Don DiPetta
Togs - William Winston
Wah Lau - Tanya Jade
WE ARE THE DEAD GIRLS - Kylie Boersma
What You Deserve - Juan Calix
WHY IT'S NEVER A GOOD IDEA TO BURN A CITY AND BLAME A COW - Shaun Radecki
Witness to Breath - Doug Conant
Woman in the Wood - B Maddox