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 represent the top 0.37% of applicants and are divided into four submission categories (Feature, Horror/Thriller, Pilot and Short).
FEATURES
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