Slamdance is very excited to announce the quarter-finalists for the 2018 Slamdance Screenplay Competition. Congratulations to our Top 106! We received so many amazing screenplays this year, and each year the final decisions get tougher to make. To those who did not make the quarter-finals, we wish to assure you that Screenplay Competitions are not the final say on writing, cinema and certainly not on artistic achievement. Many screenplays we have not selected in the past have gone on to great success at other contests and have been produced.
The semi-finalists will be announced on September 24th.
Keep an eye out for upcoming announcements on our website and social media!
2018 QUARTER-FINALISTS - Top 106
(in alphabetical order)
Feature:
A Hunt For The Devil by Michael Machin
A Native Land by Caitlin McCarthy
A Texas Story by David Martin-Porras
The Anklebiter by Andy Jones
Baron of Havana by Alex Simon
Bullfrog by David O'Neill
Bury Me at Naper High by Michael Lackos
Calle De Los Negros by Daniel Holland
Cancuncito by Carlos Alejandro Marulanda
Cataumet by Matthew Percival
Coastline by Ned Farr
The Divide by Christopher San Diego
Doodle by Jonathan Medici
Drag by J Nava
Experience by Taj Jenkins Musco
Fast Fashion by David Mandell
Firelight by Matt Harry
Flightless by Kristine Stephenson
Forget-Me-Nots by John Dummer
Girls In Trouble by Brenna Perez
Glitter Pony by Kai Collins
Grit N' Glitter by Seth Donsky
I Am The Wolf by Joel Gregoire
In Burton's Shadow by Michael Selditch
Inang's Land by Arvin Bautista
The Innocent and the Vicious by Dominique Genest & Nick Kreiss
Labour The Dogs of London by Mike L. Goforth
The Last Party Girl by Thomas Vickers and Jacob Hatley
Mail THief by Charlie Tarabour
May December by Sebastian Davis
Men by Rebecca Dreyfus
Midnight at the Movies by Jennifer Gutierrez
Mirsada by Patrick Holden
Orwell’s War by Larry Bogad
Penthouse B by Casey Schroen
Please Let Everything Be All Right by Paul Chang
Polly Freed by Brooke Berman
Rare Medium by Greg Wayne
The Rescuer by Lina Roessler
The Reset Button by Jennifer Rapaport
Roll The Bones by Donn Kennedy
Sacagawea by Peggy Bruen
Saving America by Michael Lederer
Scout by Samuel Goodwin
Shared Vision by Manuel Brandozzi
Shells by Justin Horowitz
Shrimp by Nicole Jones
Stall Boy by Luke Toye
The Terrible Child by Rebecca Pecaut
Toxic by Bennet De Brabandere
Trigger Spell by Kyle Ferchen
Tussle by Aaron Yarber
Twenty-Five Dangerous Crimes by Ward McMasters
Versus by Ariel Schmiedhauser
Water Boy by Annique Arredondo
When The SIidewalk Ends by T Sahara Meer
Young Monsters by Christine Vartoughian
Horror
Bar Mitzvah '94 by Michael Reich & Michael Pinkey
Blood in The Water by Laura Gillis
Candle by Jonathan Redding
Causeway by Stanley Wong & Patrick Dorsey
Night Wind Howls by Connor Savage
The Retreat by Alyson Richards
So Lonely I Could Die by Andrew Todd & Johnny Hall
The Undertaker's Children by Natasha Le Petit
Video Nasties by Jake Yuzna
Wendigo by Mike Langer
TV Pilot
All Together Now by Jules Horowitz
Dark Horizons by Erin Carere, Carlo Carere
Darkened Room by Tamara Maloney
Durango by Robert Brickman
Fufu by William Horace
Hag by Dan Hass
Hater by John A. Griffin
Head by Annabel Seymour
Holy Ghosts by Mimi Jeffries
Hooked by Rachel Hroncich
Indians in America by Shane Sakhrani
The Nation by Jon Kauffman
Over The Rainbow by Jessica Sinyard
The Peak by Jessica Sinyard
Phantom by Dan Williams
Politics as Usual by Nora Jobling
Prince of Vice by Christopher Beaton and Justin Talley
R.P.M. by Jeffrey Jackson
The Red by John Whitcher
The Resurrectionist: Pilot by Josh Katz and Josh Thorud
Salute by Kadija Moulton
Sasquatch by Rebecca Bohanan
Satanic Panic by JB Herndon & Celina Paiz
Scarlet by Keaton McGruder
Simple Lies, Hard Truths by Myles Reid
V-A-N-N-A by Laura Pollak
The Weather Underground by Brian Burstein
Short
Ami by Matt O'Connor
Blight by Brittany Clemons
Heartland by Monica West
Icon by Joshua Branstetter
P.O.V. by Justin Ching
The Proposition by Neha Aziz
The Settlement by Nikolas Benn
Standoff by Thomas Patrick
Sundown County by Victor Ridaura
That's the Password in This Town by Marfisia Bel
To Sonny by Maggie Briggs
Violet by Rafael Gamboa