The Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition is excited to announce the 2022 Semifinalists. The overall quality of the scripts this season was outstanding, but this diverse group of writers rose to the top to move forward in the competition by making us laugh, cry, and sleep with the lights on.
Congratulations to all involved!
30 Minute Pilot Semifinalists:
- 35 Bleak St. by Taylor Steele
- Awful Exes by Victor C Dean
- Baby Gay by Keyanna Khatiblou
- Be Bold! by Ruby Mainieri
- Cop Raptor by Gustave Cadet + Jacob Chattman
- Crips by Brian Koukol
- Cupid Stunt by Jack Fossett
- House Of Chen by Tianwei Wang
- Jonesy, The Sitcom by Caledonia Hanson
- Long Island Girls – Red White & Blueballs by Ellen Ancui
- Otherworld, NJ by Matthew Mclachlan
- Road Work Ahead by Eric Wilson
- Rottenburgerfield by Myles Hewette
- The Broken Kingdom by Mark Renshaw
- The Gayest Town In North Dakota by Tyler Geditz
- Visit Sludgeberg! by Maureen Monahan
60 Minute Pilot Semifinalists:
- Carpenterland by Heidi-Marie Ferren
- Collapse by Ekaterina Rusalina + Merlin Camozzi
- Dead Club by Persia White
- Eat Me by Leslie Thomas
- Fashion School by Kasia Smetham
- Good Hart by Micah Barber + Tony Faia
- Ivory by Stephen Hoover
- Mayday by Haley White
- Murder Show by Rosalind Grush
- Only In North Haven by Olivia Reed
- Quiet The Echoes by Christian Nilsson
- Redhill by Eevin Hartsough
- Saint Mephistopheles Hospital by Lily Cheng
- Snake Hollow by T.A. Snyder
- Sorcerers Of Suburbia by Geoffrey Prather
- The Curious Misery Of Eve by Gabrielle Gorman
- The Jackrabbit by Mike Swift
- The Marked by Scott Hawthorne + Jim Goode
- The Saint by Kenya Collins
- The Upstairs Lounge by Gregory Vines
- Westward Sunrise by Rob Carieri
- Wilderness by Michael Greenwald
- World’s Apart by Thomas Gaunt
Comedy Feature Semifinalists:
- 93% Chance Of Happiness by Jeff Bower
- Bad Romance by Chad Wellinger
- Clean by Jason Laurits
- Crispy by Dawson Roebig
- Elektra by Roxy Mitchell
- Friend Zone by Omar Willis
- It’s Over by Emily Bernard
- Jingle King by Nick Matthews
- Poser by Michael Ronca
- Straight Up, Now Tell Me… by Nyle Cavazos Garcia
- Tesstosterone by Erin Elizabeth Keefer
- The Play by Josh Mann
Drama Feature Semifinalists:
- 600 Steps by Sylvia-Anne Parker
- Amy And Angel by Julia Verdin + Deedee Benkovich
- An Ideal Wife by Sarah Knight
- Bluebird Sky by Brian Weakland
- Bob Trevino Likes It by Tracie Laymon
- Brave Woman by Melissa Duge Spiers + Rodney Rondeaux
- Entanglement by Carlos Jamal Dorsey
- Father Time by Torthell Robinson
- For Helen by Emily Lerer
- From Mud by Dave Pilson + Neil Holland
- Girl Boxer by Lauren McCann
- Main Drag by Ryan Thorsen
- Major Hacker’s War by Steve Blame
- Make Believe by Brit Cowan
- One Shot by Harry Ricky Dieudonne
- Seraphim’s Miracle by JB Storey
- The Devil And Dick by Gregory Sean Slater
- The Longest Goodbye by Aaron Braxton
- The Odd Son by Nigel Tyrone Simms
- The Passage Of Sun by Aaron Braxton
- The Passion Of Pauli Murray by Sean Slater
- The Redneck & the Closer by Daret Dickens
- The Rommel Gambit by John Doble
- The Summer We Ran by Bill Taylor
Genre Feature Semifinalists:
- Bloodlines: The Mogadishu Diaries 1992-1993 by Eddie Clay Thompkins III
- CC-909 by Johnny Gilligan
- Eyelashes by Kelly Palmer
- Guardians Of The Crown by Gregg Guest
- Honey’s Unicorn by D. A. Jolivette
- On A Field Of Legends by Nick Julius
- Surfing Grandpa by George Petersen
- The New Road by Michael Raymond
- The Night Watchman by Thomas Gaunt
- Time Zero by Carlo & Erin Carere
Horror Feature Semifinalists:
- Broken Vessels by Andrew Adams
- Cuffing Season by Jon Bershad
- Fright by Byron Miller, Shelly Smith, Paul Morgan
- Hoel by David Mcguire
- Mars One by Andrew Henderson
- Noctua by Andrew M. Henderson
- Our Lady Of Justice by David Daniels
- Primordial by Andrew M. Henderson
- The Devil’s Butcher Shop by Matt O’Reilly
Short Semifinalists:
- September 13, 2004 by Derrick Benton
- /haaw/ by Joey Scoma
- Baby Fever by Hannah May Cumming + Alex Hartwig
- Call Me Nevada by Alexander Julian III
- Divine Comedy by Harrison Gale
- Ebony by Isaiah Dennis
- El Vals (The Waltz) by Alycya Magana
- Genre Flick by Thom Hilton
- Gloves by Michael Clifton
- Guns Down by Robert Sweeting + Rob Alicea
- Knead by Otito Gregobi
- La Sierra by Armando Gonzalez
- Motel Room Sixteen by Aron Cagan
- Our Sins by Anjini Taneja Azhar
- Pancake Skank by Sav Rodgers
- Pros & Cons by Olivia Pearson
- Smoke Signals by Tiffany Abreu
- The Baobab Tree by Danielle Browne
- The Last Good Day by Mahalia Latortue
- Time To Shine by Mark Renshaw
- Underwatch by Jaden Duenas
- Vinyl Taped Mary Jane by Angel Hilson
- Ya Ghalbi by Yasmeen Albrahim
Tennessee Writer Semifinalists:
- Border Saints by Linda Dillon Moya
- Dog Duty by Mark Casadei + Anna Casadei
- Family Is Familia by Sara K De La Haya
- Floridamen by Nate Eppler
- Funny How by Sarah Zanotti + Kd Amond
- Happily by Beecher Reuning
- How To Train A Man by Jeffery Chase
- Match by Frederick Jerome Taylor
- McNairy Medical by Lindsey Brandon
- Problem Cases by Briana Cox
- Queer And Southern God by Melisse Prusinski + Shawn-Caulin Young
- Render Unto Caesar by Troy Crawford
- Roadkill by Harrison Hamm
- The Adventures Of Sock Man And The Lost World by Melissa Sheridan
- Youngbloods by Stacey Russell