It’s a big day for several entrants into the HollyShorts Screenplay Contest today, as a group of talented screenwriters have been delivered some incredible news: that their script has been selected as to be part of the quarterfinals in the contest!
The quarterfinalists, in no particular order, are:
Cult Slayer – John Maui OCallaghan
Filotimo – Jessica Pappas
(Sometimes) I Wish You Were Dead – JoAnna Izon
8 and 1/2 minutes – Mere Walton
8:46PM. Harriet Arrives. – Aimiende Negbenebor Sela
A Chinatown Story – Nicolee Tsin
A Time and A Place For All of Us – Dylan James Amick
A Violent Road – Giovanni Taveras
Adam – Bremer Davis
Afternoons with Joe – Ryan Luevano
Ajiona – Leon Lozano
Alphabet City – Pilot Episode – Kristen McNaule
America Rise, America Fall – Giovanni Taveras
America’s Most Haunted Spooky Ghost-Hunting Adventures In The Paranormal – Christopher Mancuso
An Old Friend – Dan Martin
Apart of Me – Riley Madincea
Appointment For – Kanya Iwana
Axe Girl Goes Kill (TV Series) – Matthew John Lawrence
Backwater – Klara Chmelarova
Balikbayan – Carlo Chavez
Be Careful – Melissa Skirboll
Be My Boy – Ethan Homen
Bed Time – A J Roberts
Befriend The Bear – Ellie Anthony
Bela Sefer – Kiki D & Liya K
Better Half – Mona Shahab
Big Nose – Sophia Conger
Blood Is Thicker – Melissa Skirboll
Blueprint – Hannah Noel Swayze
Boneseed – Joshua David Matthews & Brett Brooks
Bonker’s Burgers – Diana Frankhauser
Breathe – Mark Labella
Broken Mirror – Aaron Cini
Call Me Dad – Cole Rosenberg-Pach & Lindsay Eady
Cálmate, mija – Victor Ridaura
Carrots – Jake Redmond
Catering Karl & The Parties of Pure Evil – Warren Lane
Chaos Becomes Us – Rachel Rios
Cherry Park – Joseph Hooten
Choose Your Family – Sacha Kenton
Choose Your Parents – Kayla Sun
Chrome Plated – Sarah Ward
Cinderella Tango – Victoria Murad
Copy Cat – Vanessa Branch
Cortex – David Bolt
Courier Seven – Nick Williams
Crimson – Star Victoria
Deliverance – Olga Holtz
Dine With Me – Monica Keaton
Dogwood – Nonie Shiverick
Dominum Nostrum Satanas – Leonard McGill
Donut Girl – Sandi Johnson
Dry Peaches – Kasia Kaczmarek
Elegy For My Tongue – Omi Gupta
En Memoria [In Memory] – Roberto Fatal & Ali Meyers-Ohki
Enough – Anthea Jones
Excellent Fancy – Julie Sharbutt
Ferguson – Jon Alston
Find My Friends – Jackie Mahoney
Fish Fetish – Ray DeFeis
Flaco’s – Ken Arquelio Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz
For Sale – Annelise Muir Tompkins
Forgiven – J. Writer Ward
Forsyth County – James Sasser
Fried Chicken or Mayonnaise? – Bogui Adjorlolo
Fungi – Mark Renshaw
Gettin’ Serious – Bill Morton
Gloomy Sunday – Kevin Machate
Gloves – Michael Clifton
Go Crazy – Kae Bahar
Go, Lovely Rose – Stephanie Nicole Mathews
Good City – Natalia Chown
Good Guy – Brian Gene White
Goodnight, Sergeant – Graeme MacQueen
Gusto! – Jacob Watson
Happy Boy – Frank J. Avella & Jorge Ramirez
Heartstrings – J.D. Zelman & Matthew Dushkes
Hench Man – Brian Newell
Here’s My Card – Oscar Ballyvolane
Hero – Olivia Mackenzie-Smith
Héroe – Daniel Contreras
Hippy Dippy – Anthony Rainone
Hold Your Breath – Nidhi Kalra
Holy Schmidt – Jeff Hindenach
Houdini of the Mind – Sophia Jennings
Hound – Sarah Polhaus
How Did I Get Here – Kate Hamilton
How Ya Like Me Now – Craig T. Williams
I Wouldn’t Touch That – Meik V. Fischer
I, Food – Eduardo Hanson de Moura
Identification – Larry Collins
In Cold Pursuit – Elizabeth V Newman
In the Garden of Tulips – Ava Lalezarzadeh
Inside the Frame – Francis DiClemente
Invite Only – Jon Kohan
Jersey Baptism – Joe Albino
Jonesy, the Sitcom – Caledonia Hanson
Jules and Jill – Guil Parreiras
Just Like Sarah – Jessica Rowlands
Karma – Ray Keller & Richard Schmidt
Keith Sweats – Lexx Truss
Killer Crush – Rakefet Abergel
Kipepeo – Jessica Rowlands
KSOL – Rogelio Salinas de la Torre
Last Ship East – Eris Qian
Legacy – Amanda Mergulhão Ferrari
Lifeline – Seymour Zeynalli
Lights Over Salem – James Woolard
Loading… – Jerome Rashad Shuler Jr
Lost and Found – Paul Rowe
Lump – Daniel Arora
Lunch Time – Andrew Kaberline
Making Waves – Drew Larimore
Mars Rovers – Marley Medina & Jordan Medina
Memory House – Renee Meland
Miami Famous – Julio Gabay
Midnight Bait and Ammo – Alfred Thomas Catalfo
Mimeo – Meg Lin
Mina Finds Her Edge! – Robin Rose Singer
Misha’s Visit – Kelvin Wong
Model Minority – Tapan Sharma
Moon Palace – Motel Nirav Bhakta
Morrigan’s Tree – Nicki Bosch
Mr. Fluffy’s Pet Shop – Jenna Tracy
Murder By Gaslight – William Jeffery
My Ancestors’ Song – Melissa Mars
My Way Afton – Quast Saler
Night Dogs – Linhan Zhang
Nora – Molly Kirschenbaum & Payson Whitwell
Nothing Can Hurt Me – Adva Reichman
On the Last Day – Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid
One Eye On The Milkshake – Monique Hayes
Orbital – Michael Shaun Sandy
Oso – Mateo Marquez
Out of Luck – Vickery Eckhoff
Over and Out – Callie LeClaire
Pap Sbeer – Marta Reeder
Paper Son of Angel Island – Howard Hong
Peanut Butter Shot – Paige Compton
Peasants – Kristina Grosspietsch
Perfect Love – Kelly McCready
Piece By Piece – Courtney Kim
Pinsetter – Rebecca Marquardt
Pix – Peter Andrews
Players – Pearson Jenks
Pleasure Palace – Frida Perez
Pretty Flamingo – Brittany Rostron
Prevail – Briana Chatters
Queer and Southern God – Shawn-Caulin Young & Melisse Prusinski
Quinn Gir -l Tandy Versyp
r.e.g.g.i.N – A. D. Smith
Real Good at Being – Alone Carly Kimmel
Rebirth – Andy Volk
Rebound Guys – Tammy Klembith & George Klembith
Reckless Prophets Pilot – Hal LaCroix
Redman Blackman – Lexx Truss & Christopher Nataanii Cegielski
Redneck Army – Whitni Resides & Mark Brown
Republic of California – Becca Blackmore
Rise of the Prophecy – Antoine Bonner
Rituals – Sabrina Rama
Roar – Ashley Maria
Rob & Lucy – Adam Breseman
Romance Package for Two – Carlen May-Mann
Room Temperature – Roni Niu
Salvage – Lauren Ferebee
Samhain – Dominic Graham
Scene 81 – Josh Zammit & Felicity Pickering
Second Jansens – Ricardo Varona
Seeds Of Change – John McCarney
Self Storage – Noel David Taylor
Session – Meik V. Fischer
Shadow – Noel Estrada
Shadow Boxer – Scott Walker
Shaolin – Shabbat Brian Cohen
Shells – Aisling Corristine
Side Quest – Michael Tannenbaum & Louie Aronowitz
Siren – Josh Foulkes
Sister Mary Murphy: Vampire Slayer – Vanessa Ionta Wright
Slayfest – Mark Renshaw
Smoke – Sarah Kennedy
Smoke Signals – Zach Thorpe
Something Wicked This Way Comes – Diane Schirtzer
Spark – Chelsea Gonzalez & Bernardo Cubría
Stool – Gavin Carlton
Stranded – Kevin Machate
Street Soldiers – Marc Castaldo
Super Dumb – Mary Risk
Tax Balla$ – Brenna Kelly
TBD – Jena Kaplaniak
The Apparition – Paul Rose Jr.
The Art Painting – John Broadhead
The Book of Revelation – Lauren Rantala
The Boy – Nathan Smith
The Catch – Joe Hurst
The Celestial – Pamela Tom
The Crew – Jay Frasco
The Curb – Justin Moodie
The Door in the Mirror – Geoff Murillo
The Fields – Ryan McDonald
The First Law (pilot) – Irene Grineva
The Fool on the Hill – Hayden Rouse
The Golem – Sierra Nutkevitch
The Hobbyist – Missy Pawneshing & Benjamin Sagaser
The Last Goodbye – AJ Eversley
The Last Savior – Jalleh Ariana Doty & Spencer Guerrero
The Loneliness – Mark Harrison
The Long Game Pilot Something Wicked This Way Comes – Diane Namm
The Lost Camp – Connor Etter
The Modern Christian Spinster’s Guide to Love in the 21st Century – Vickery Eckhoff
The Moth – Hiu Tung Kwong
The Nendoroid – Jonathan Gamer
The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms – David Sanders
The Note – Dale Janda
The Ossan – Venita Ozols-Graham
The Other Family – Juan Pablo Daranas Molina
The Privateers – Whitney Hamilton
The Red Shoes – Arielle Beth Klein
The Revver – Mike Hanson & Kelly Moothart
The Scarlet Saloon – Elise Bowes
The Sound of Fireworks – Nicole Vanden Broeck
The Stain – Vanessa Wright & Adam Marcus
The Story of This Life – Zhijia Jiang
The Sub – Aaron Braxton
The Super Man – Christopher Romano
The Talk – Gabriela Lima
The Train’s Late – Isaac Kerns
The Turning – Point Alex Murphy
The Wild Harts – Kim Hornsby
The Worth of Things – Jane Ballentyne
There’s a Frog on Mars (It’s True!) – Shaun Radecki
Thin Walls – Robert Armanyous
Third Shift TV Pilot – John Gearries & Adam Baker
This Is Not A Gun – Tom Basis & Brandon McArdle
Tiffany’s Funeral – Amanda Alvich
Time to Shine – Mark Renshaw
Tracer – Julia Campanelli
Trophy Boy – Kevin Hanna
Tucson – Dante Russo
Two Days in Fayetteville –Celia Finkelstein
Two Questions and a Wish – Suhashini Krishnan
Uncle Sam and Sons – Kevin Talley
Unsettled Short Film – Mario Garza
Vague! – Lady Aria Grey
Vibrations – Nicholas Valentin Andros
Welcome To The Stage… – Kyle Casey Chu & Roisin Isner
Welcome To Thystle – Mike Carreon
Wet Fish – Toby McShane
What Do We Call This – Anna Mikami
Wishful Thinking – Kim Hornsby
X – Ezra Li
Yasodhara – Gabriel Constans
Zephyr – Amy Allen
Congratulations to everyone who made the quarterfinals! It’s incredibly impressive to make it thus far, and good luck on making it further into the contest!
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