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February 16th, 2015

2015 Top Ten Percent: Shorts   
We set a new record of 1730 short film screenplay submissions! 

Approximately, ten percent of those scripts have been selected to advance in the competition.
 
   
2015 Top Ten Percent: Shorts

A Bullet for BrodybyFrank DeStefano & Miles Trahan
A Challenge to the DarkbyAnna Imhof
A Fragile StormbyDawn Fields & Carly Street
A Life in LimbobyGill White
A Moment In ParadisebyJay Connor
A Trip Down Mary Ann LanebyDespina Karintis
A Way OutbyKai Conceicao
Alexander the GreatbyClaire Olivia Bell
Alienation AlliterationbyKaren Lothan
All For WhatbyAlex Phillips
AllegorybyCharlie Bambridge
An Ordinary WednesdaySaturdaybyNick McMurdy
An Outback InvitationbyTerry Comer
Ark City JazzbyBoaz David Dror
At Your DisposalbyDiana Lee Woody
AtchafalayabyHunter Burke & Nick Lavin
Avid SnifferbyLauri Lippmaa
Baby GirlbySamuel Douglas Miller
Balloon GuybyPaul Williams
BeaconsbyEd Cripps
Bee HivebyLogan Wilkin
BelongingbyJessica Spinelli
Between the RockbyRichard D. Kinsella
Big SisterbyPaige Brien
BingobyDaniel Pike
Bitter RealitybyGareth Morinan
BleedersbyDana Cowden & Harris Palmer
BoomerangbyApril McKay
Boomerang the GreatbyAna Djordjevic
BreathebyTheo James Krekis
BrowsingbyKevin Noonan
Bucharest By BusbyJonathan Poland
CakewalkbyAndrew MacDonald
ChangebySara Nguyen
Chasing WonderlandbyBrian Hewitt
Chemistry 101byMike Reft
Cobblestone WaltzbyKlemen Novak
Come of AgebyGerard Dempsey
Coming HomebyJoanna Marie Fox
ConfiancebyTony French
CorporatebyKris Pathirana
Crazy DatebyColin Maiorano
CricketbyJim Berg
CricketbyJim Berg
Cross RoadsbyPaul Fox
Daddy's GirlbyNapoleon Ryan
Dark Knight of the Supper ClubbyBill Scheggia
Deal With It: A Tale of a Loving FatherbyNicholas Hewitt & Nick Marro
DivebyChristian Howard & Krystal M. Harris
Do Not DisturbbyEllen Hall
Don't Look UpbyBen Matthews
Double DealingbyTracey Robinson
DragonslayerbyTim Viola
DroppingsbyChris Thompson
Duel IdentitybyBarbara Truelove
8:49byDavid Burton
ElixirbyColin Scott
EndorheicbyJeremy Yonzon
Everybody Has a ThingbyAllan George
ExtrasbyAndrew Dalziel
Family ProgrammingbyGregg Paul Bachman
Family TripbyEric Wall
FatherbyCorina Maritescu
FeatherbyChijim J. Onyemenam
FeralbyJaine N. Eira
FirebyBrian MacEvilly
First DaybyAnabelle Vo
Flash RobbyDerek Stewart
Flying HighbyXavier Burgin
Follow the MoneybyAnita J. Louis
Friday Nights with BeelzebubbyJasmine Brammer
Generation ShipbyGerrit Thompson
Girl At The WindowbyEd Wiles
GloamingbyBen Lange
Goodbye FusionbyAnne-Sophie Marie
GorgeousroomkissingvillebySam Mossler
HairlinebyEdmund Miller
Hands FreebyGerard Dempsey
Hanged TonguesbyÉlyssa Marcoux-Bissoondath
Happy BirthdaybyJan Pavlacky
Head Trip LattebyYordi Capó
HindsightbyGrant McNair
History of SightbyDarcy Miller
Hit the DogbyGabriel Loza
Home Fires BurningbyAnders Vacklin
Hotel CaliforniabyBrhee McClure
How I Met Your DaddybySivuyile Chitywa
How to Catch a Time TravelerbyGraham Parke
How Winter KillsbyJack E. Norton
I Am MacbethbyCotton Ciaverelli
I Want to Beat Up Clark PetersbyJoseph Picozzi
I'm Too Small To Bear The LoadbyAlana Waksman
If You Go TherebyStacy Alynn
Immaculate DeceptionbyHaldon Richardson
Incident on I-95byFred Perry
Inside The Musician's StudiobyKris Pathirana
Interview With A MarauderbyParker Cooley
It Has To Be YoubyConrad Rothbaum
Joy RidebyNiav Conty
KeepbyLauren Lang
Khalid WaseembySalim Penn
Kill Them With KindnessbyBarry Brennessel
Killer ClassbyRon Gephart
La Femme FlambeaubyYvonne LaBarge
Labor DaybyKallie Tenney
Last RitesbyJohanna Wright
Learning to DrivebyMatthew Weaver
Les The PunterbyJulian Williams
Life CyclebyShelia Watson
Little MatebyKeagan Teare
LondonGirl24: The Story of a Twitter CrushbyKipp Mathews
Loose EndsbyDavid Viau
Lotty On The RoadbyFredrica Bailey
Maybe in MoscowbyAlexander Black
Men Mashing MachinebyCelso Eduardo Leite Vecchi
Men of PaperbyBrian MacEvilly
Miss MoscowbyMichele Atkins
Miss WorldbyGeorgia Fu
Moment MobbyGeoffrey Uloth
Mr. TwitchbyGabriel Loza
N***AbyRoberto Covarrubias
NextbyDeclan Donohoe
Once Upon A Zombie InvasionbySarah Loeppke
One Day HomebyRebecca Louise Miller
One Pin SparebyAshley Pollard
Order 101byKaren Hope
PhoenixbySarah Counsell & Simon James Green
Play With MebyCeline Spierer
Polite ConversationbyAndrew Crook
PretzelinabyE.M. Davis
Prisoner and BirdbyJillian Moylan
RarebyApril Phillips
RatbyShaun James
ReaperbyPatrick Mahon
RebootbyDave Lacey
RegisteredbyElizabeth Rogers
Remember BrightonbyMichael Gibney
Remember MebyJane Wu
ReplantingbyMary Krell-Oishi
Rock, Paper, SisterbyDan Tomasulo
Rough DraftbyEric Wall
Scenes from a Kissing BoothbyMatthew Weaver
Sent ForbyJeremy Colvin
Seven DaysbyBruce Rose
SilencedbySandra Held
SilkbyDanielle Barcena
Six Months of Wonder WomanbySusan Fleming
Sleeping BeautybyEmily Mayo
Sol AmorbyFrancis Theodore Sallo
Sophie's PromisebyTerry Coffey
Sounds Like LovebyLaura Juliet Ford
StatuesquebyShane Murphy
Stay Off My Mind, Stay In My ArmsbyCezar Valentin Constantin
Strangers in the NightbyKara Cutruzzula
StrongholdbyCornelius Murphy
SuckersbyMalaya Rivera Drew
Sweet ToothbyWill Bentley
SweetiebySara Feinberg
TetherbyEve Symington
The AtlasbyIan Michael Kintzle
The Balloon ManbyScott Keiner
The BarberbyBrian Hewitt
The BugbyRyan Kessler
The Chocolate KandinskibySuzanne Griffin
The CleanerbyManos Ioannou
The Closing ActbyP. L. Hartz
The CockbyMatty Groves
The Dank KnightbyAkshay Jain
The Diary of a Chosen OnebyBrittany Drawdy
The DisappearedbyTom Canning
The Doll MakerbyMatias Caruso
The Evil EyebyRoberto Marini
The Fifteenth of JunebySean Williams
The Fourth WallbyJoseph P. Arant
The GazebobyRichard Willett
The GiftbyClark Kokich
The GoldfishbyDavid Yap
The Kung-Fu Rock ChickbyCaryn McCann
The LandingbyBarry Jay Stich
The Last Adventure of the Secret SixbyBen Pahl Robinson
The Last Days of the Dolores ProjectbyLudwig Thelin
The Last SneezebyAndrew Pittman
The LetterbyAlvin Easter
The Lie DetectorbyPaul Williams
The LinebyRyan Cope
The Man with Hairy TeethbyBryce Wolfgang Joiner
The Millionaire's WifebyJeremiah Lewis
The More Things ChangebyAshley Rachel
The Only FruitcakebyApril McKay
The OutsidebyAshley Zazzarino
The Perfect RedbyChristopher McGinnis, Jacquelyn Knapp, & Rebecca Mansfield
The ProjectionistbyGuy Pooles
The Railroad LadybyTimo von Gunten
The RunnerbyEdgar Cancel
The Still PointbySharon Elwell
The Strange and Crude Yet Punctilious Fate of Epoch CrabbyDennis T. Nixon
The Undisputed Champion of the WorldbyJohn Morrison
The Value EnginebyEd Stahr
The Vanishing ActbyValerie Friera
The Vomit DraftbyGerard Dempsey
The Waking HoursbyAdam Futch
The Way of Evil MenbyKhadijah Holgate
Tomorrow Never ComesbyClint Horvath
Too YoungbyDayle Vander Sande
2084byMatthew Wygodny
2014byLuke Tolen
Una Plus LionelbyAngelique Moseley
Under Cover of DarknessbyNathaniel E. Mason
UnsupervisedbyDylan Evans
VampirbyAnya Beyersdorf
Vendgeance MachinebyJohn Shelley
WakebyDarren Robert Tibbits
Warring SighsbyClaire Nicol
WatermelonsbyLorie Delap
When The Ghost LeftbyAlyssa Yerga-Woolwine
Where's GuybyVarun Raman & Tom Hancock
Without a ScratchbyKevin K. Jones
WolfmotherbyEmily Bloom
Women Are They Worth ItbyChad Smith
Your Children Are Not YoursbyMitja Sirola
Zen and Gummy BearsbyMax Liedtka
ZoobyAnnemarie Lawless


Competition Results Announcement Schedule 

  • Quarter-Finalists will be announced March 1st, 2015.
  • Semi-Finalists will be announced March 15th, 2015.
  • Shorts Finalists will be announced April 4th, 2015.
  • Feature Finalists will be announced April 6th, 2015.
  • Joplin Award will be announced April 7th, 2015.
  • Cordelia Award will be announced April 8th, 2015.
  • The Shorts Screenplay Winner will be announced April 9th, 2015.
  • The Feature Screenplay Winner will be announced April 10th, 2015.

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