2024 Screenplay Competition Finalists

Slamdance is honored to recognized the following writers as the official quarter finalists of the 2024 Slamdance Screenplay Competition.

We received nearly 4,000 scripts this season, with writers from across the globe submitting their stories. These screenplays are divided into four submission categories (Feature, Horror/Thriller, Pilot and Short).

FINALISTS

FEATURES

Arden Earnest
COUNTERPOINT

Crystal Muma Rivers
The Match

Kristen McNaule
Revolutionary Medicine

HORROR/THRILLER

Jorge Lucas
Yokai

Pauline McAlonan
Perception

Zach Rubin
Brains

PILOT

Eric John Meyer
Welcome to Sunset

Olivia Webb
Waters of Hedeby

Zoe Kerr
Howl

SHORTS

Charlene Fisk
Call and Response

Jeremy Brull
Self Love

Oleg Condrea
Echoes of Ringing Bells

MENTORSHIP AWARD

James Tison
I Don’t Want To Fight Anymore

Maaman Rezaee
Ashes

Sasha Kai
Black Girl Magic

Shiva Ramanathan
Demons

SEMI FINALISTS

FEATURES

Arden Earnest
COUNTERPOINT

Cory David Bortnicker
Enoch

Crystal Muma Rivers
The Match

Derek Adam Thomas
Fragments

Juan Manuel Armijos
The Helper

Kristen McNaule
Revolutionary Medicine

Michael Gordon
Harmony

Weiyang Liu
Undocumented Minors

HORROR/THRILLER

Connor Bradica Crowell, Thomas Allen Crowell
TIKI FOR TWO

Elle Robinson
Hurricane Maya

Jorge Lucas
Yokai

Pauline McAlonan
Perception

Philip Alexander Mills
The Waste Land

Ryan Berry
Erasure

Tanya Klein, James Cirile
My Scare Lady

Zach Rubin
Brains

PILOT

Anne Aubert-Santelli, Dan Williams
Coco Chanel

Cathriona Slammon
EATER

Eric John Meyer
Welcome to Sunset

Izaak Garcia
Panacea

Karim Diané
The Wheelchair Virgin

Olivia Webb
Waters of Hedeby

Phoebe Lai
Mommy & Me

Zoe Kerr
Howl

SHORTS

Charlene Fisk
Call and Response

David James Schultz
Love Games

Frances Rubio
The Malignant Case of the Migrant’s Daughter

Jeremy Brull
Self Love

Micah Williams Kelly
Byte Me

Oleg Condrea
Echoes of Ringing Bells

Peier Shen
Stay a Little Longer

Tom Holowach
Old Blue Eyes Strikes Gold in Green Hawaii

QUARTER FINALISTS

FEATURES

Abi Perpall
CRAB

Abi Perpall
CRAB

Alex Alcheh
King of the Bin

Arden Earnest
COUNTERPOINT

Casimir Nozkowski
Talk To Me Like A Person

Chheangkea
Little Phnom Penh

Cory David Bortnicker
Enoch

Cory Stonebrook
THERE’S A GHOST IN INDIANA

Crystal Muma Rivers
The Match

Derek Adam Thomas
Fragments

Emily Schleiger
LOUDMOUSE

Joseph Hughes, Latifa Hughes,  Frederick Douglass

Juan Manuel Armijos
The Helper

Kristen McNaule
Revolutionary Medicine

Lacy McClory
Tethered

Lisa Schurga
Susan is Dead

Lucy Owens
Blue Ones

Maaman Rezaee
Ashes

Matthew Lai
Peeking

Max Olson
The Eyes of The Father

Michael Gordon
Harmony 

Moon Molson
Hyper/Space

Richard Willett
The Flid Show

Ross Peacock
The Paleontologist

Sophia An Porter
HAHA

Stefanos Tai
Encore

Weiyang Liu
Undocumented Minors

HORROR/THRILLER

Adam Krause
It Feasts Upon a Midnight Clear

Brandon Shypkowski
Santa Fe

Connor Bradica Crowell, Thomas Allen Crowell
TIKI FOR TWO

Corey Householder
Patron Saint

Elle Robinson
Hurricane Maya

Giuseppe Cocca
No Place Like Home

James Banks, Steven Banks
In The Field of Blood

James Tison
I Don’t Want To Fight Anymore

Jorge Lucas
Yokai

Joshua Ryan Gallas, Ben Southward
All the Blood of Beasts

Keith Currivean Jr.
The Tale of Bunny, the Lamb

Mario Manas
KIKIMORA

Mashka Wolfe
Via Divinos

Max Vernon
The Residency

Noah Jorgensen, Nolan Watt
Welcome Home Eugene

Pauline McAlonan
Perception

Philip Alexander Mills
The Waste Land

Philip Blake
Clay

Ryan Berry
Erasure

Ryan Lilienfield
Inheritor

Sasha Kai
Black Girl Magic

Shawn Austin
What The Wind Blows In

Tanya Klein, James Cirile
My Scare Lady

Zach Rubin
Brains

Zoe Kerr
A Mother

PILOTS

Anne Aubert-Santelli & Dan Williams
Coco Chanel

Cathriona Slammon
EATER

Christine Gatlin
Good Neighbors

Christopher Jarvis
Inhuman

David Meister
HOUSE LEFT BEHIND

David Soll
Timber

Ellis Abigail Stump
TAART

Eric John Meyer
Welcome to Sunset

Izaak Garcia
Panacea

Jon Eudowe
Alone

Karim Diané
The Wheelchair Virgin

Kate Gleason
The Rails

Katherine Street
Villainesque

Marcos Santana
Time as a Place

Matthew Nicholson
Care Source

Max Mcgillivray
Bluebird

Miles Kahn
The Pigeon

Nicholas Grant
Mutant Zombie Fighting Pits: Cockroach’s Creed

Nick Rose
BASED AND REDPILLED SIGMA SAMURAI

Nik Sysuev
BAD SOVIET

Olivia Webb
Waters of Hedeby

Phoebe Lai
Mommy & Me

Tulica Singh
The Mushroom Society

Zoe Kerr
Howl

SHORTS

ALSO Sisters
No Man is an Island

Angela Healin Kweon
First Sunrise

Anna Hooper
Unfiltered

Brian Freitag
Branded

Charlene Fisk
Call and Response

Christianna Carmine
MOMMA

David James Schultz
Love Games

Frances Rubio
The Malignant Case of the Migrant’s Daughter

Giovana Chiconelli
Things We Put in Our Mouths

James James
Francis, the Filler, and the Fuse

Jennifer Morris, Robbie Sublett
The Bra

Jeremy Brull
Self Love

Lucy Gamades
A Wake

Micah Williams Kelly
Byte Me

Nicholas Burns
Betwixt the Stirrup and the Ground

Oleg Condrea
Echoes of Ringing Bells

Peier Shen
Stay a Little Longer

Rachel Dunkel, Ava Simone
Lady Outlaw

Rakesh Baruah
Sugar Baby

Riley Scott
Bullseye

Rose Hanish
Benchwarmer

Ruth Jiang
Noise

Saeid Ghasemi, Atefeh Salehi
Tresses

Sam Henderson
Colored

Serena Dykman
BABKA

Tom Holowach
Old Blue Eyes Strikes Gold in Green Hawaii

Zena Logan
The Ultimate Breakup