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DALLAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SCREENWRITING COMPETITION 2023
SEMIFINALISTS ANNOUNCEMENT
Congratulations to everyone who has made semifinalists! Everyone's script was scored and read by professionals working at talent and literary agencies. A big thanks to everyone who has submitted, and keep on writing!
FEATURE SEMIFINALISTS
Allured III | C.J. Stussi |
App World | Pam Bassuk & Lindsay Jean Michelle |
Bitter Harvest | John Munn |
Code and Creation | Christopher Haviland |
Crabs in a Mother F*cking Bucket | Kari Mote |
Death's First Kiss | Ken Jones |
Expecting | Jonathan Dillon |
For Billie | James Froeschle |
Hot Toddy | Scott Cox |
Internal Security | Stefan Alexander |
K3+ | Erasmo Acosta |
Labyrinth of Destiny | Ernestina Juarez |
Maeta's Story | Charles DeRykus |
Natalia Rising | Donna Bonilla
Wheeler |
Nocturne | Lindsay Wyath |
Scent of Marigold | Lily Malm, Laila Matuk
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Still Breathing | Jeff Athey |
Take My Life | Larry Collins |
The Banner | Ernestina Juarez |
The Fault Line | Larry Collins |
The Fountain | Link York |
The Tejano | Derek Block |
The Titanomachy | Michael Holcombe-Scali |
The Tree | Christopher Haviland |
The Unseen | Shiva Ramanathan |
The Wickedest Woman in New York | Camille Gladney |
There's So Much More to Fishing Than Catching Fish | Roger Corea |
This is a Road Movie, I Think | Craig Hanna |
Van 59 | Brian Trotter |
When Two Ends Meet | Tom Tanno |
TV PILOT SEMIFINALISTS
A Family | Cid Weinberg |
Bog Water | Jonathan Weisbrod |
Broken | Dathan Paterno |
Call of the Void | Ben Monaco |
Chosen Family | Dina Faye Gilmore |
Club Drama | Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo |
EOP!!! — ENGLISH
ONLY POLICY | HyoJeong Choi and Yaeseul Park |
Fix | Jeff Bower |
Gin-verse: "A Ginless Bar" | Francesco Capussela |
Into the Ether | Steve Brown |
Morlock | Anthony Povah |
Murder-in-Marsh | Elisabeth Hayward |
Operation Condor | Jody Hadlock |
Pilotus: A Tale of Anathema | Bob Singleton |
Praise | Megan Hayes |
Route Tree | Jackson Hukari |
The Mustang Gang | P.J. Matta |
The Prince of the Black Hand | Danny Range |
The Row | Gregory Caruso |
This Takes Balls | Josh Whicker |
Yanks | Jennifer Bradford, Kathy Benjamin & Katharyn Stober |
SCRIPT TO SCREEN SEMIFINALISTS
'97 | Sarah Ward |
A Homecoming | Ari Mostow |
After the Beep | Samuel Jacobs |
Behind the Curtain | Tadiwa Barwa |
Bipolar | William Rhodes |
Chuy | Hawken Vance |
Death Follows | Jayden A Mendez |
Dis Appointment | Deni Sher |
Drinkwater | Shaun O'Loughlin |
Father Trinity | Phoenix Black |
Gloves | Michael Clifton |
Hit me | Fabio Gonzalez-Calabrese |
How Do You Recognize Crazy? | Katharine Rex |
Inflamed | Link York |
Johnny Jump Up | Shiva Ramanathan |
Nightfall | Matt Curtsinger |
Nova Hora | Francesco Capussela |
Smoke and Mirrors | Matt Curtsinger |
Sneakerhead | Jamie Campbell |
Snowed In | Matthew Domenico |
Someone is Going to Die for No Reason | Steven Demmler |
Sweet Sorrow Pie | Lexa Hayes |
The Future Report | Elisabeth Hayward |
The Little Shop | Csaba Mera |
The New Moon in the Old Moon's Arms | David Sanders |
The O.P. | Steven Hill |
The Paranormal Prankster: Casefile 001 - Bigfoot | Sean Whitley |
The REVVER | Mike Hanson |
The Ride | Alysha Haran |
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