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DIFF Screenwriting Competition
QUARTERFINALISTS
Listed below are the quarterfinalists for the 2020 Dallas International Film Festival's Screenwriting Competition. Congratulations to all of our writers who have advanced in the competition and thank you for your submissions!
Our readers are experienced industry professionals from Hollywood's top agencies, and our judges panel consists of award-winning writers and producers.
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Semifinalists - May 1, 2020
Finalists - May 12, 2020
Winners - May 27, 2020
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Feature/One Hour Pilot
Time to Go | Lesley Manuel |
The Wrong Candidate | John Ravitz |
The Wardrobe | Peter Noel |
The Strangers | Scott Hawley |
The Spiritualization of Jeff Boyd | Uwe Scwarzwalder |
The Snow Queen | Jacob Leyva |
The Abolitionists | Leslie Lyshkov |
Still's Life | Duncan Putney |
Rust | Guy Pooles |
Revelations | Johnny Gilligan |
Red Spy Queen | Leslie Lyshkov |
Pollen and the Ring of Harmony | Francis Williams |
Out White Boy | Nancy Munger |
LAJJAWATI | Sumathy Ramakrishnan |
Joseph | Ian Davies |
Elephant & Castle | Samuel Garza Bernstein |
Dumbest Generation | Leslie Lyshkov |
Affair of the Poisons | Charles Leipart |
Short/Half Hour Pilot
Women on Play | Maria Rotger |
Vinegar to Honey | Jay Pennington |
The Secret World of Danny Lopez | Samuel Garza Bernstein |
The Forest Fenced Becomes Backyards | Ryan Moore |
The American | Dimitri Michalakis |
Sammy Superhero | Michael Gavino |
My Stepdad's Bird | Bella Thronton |
Knuckleheads | Steven Zaza |
Honey | Dane Barun |
Greetings from Sarajevo | Penny Jackson |
Dessert & Dash | Muse Seymour |
Breaking and Entering | Michael William Hogan |
Beadwindow | Paul Mooney |
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