2024 Winners

Emerging Screenwriters Suspense Screenplay Competition

Quarter-Finalists

(Alphabetical Order by Title)

4 Corners by Ken Pisani
A Blind Eye by Allison Kitaguchi
A Few Red Flags by Derek Garrison
A Ghost on Cokesbury Road by Michael Wilbert
Alien Revelation by James Schlicker
Alixandre by Brit Merrick
All the Way Down by Mark Netter
Amends by Carlan Morari
An Axe to Grind by Erika Stone
An Orphan’s Playlist by Stephen Elwain Barber
And Here I Go by Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn
Another River by Kimba Henderson
Apart by Hunter Davis
August Moon by Quentin Batten
Avian by Jesse Laurie and Martin Wilson
B.O.R.N. by George Brighton
Bad Seeds by Sean Nash
Batteries Must Be Included by Jason Goldberg
Bear Hollow by Justin Nosler
Beastings by Derek Masterson
Beautiful Dreamer by Quin Buchanan
Best Friends Forever by Rob Shapiro
Billy by Joshua Rose
Black Girl Magic by Sasha Kai
Blood Moon Over Wolf Hollow by Jeffrey Hirschfield
Bloodhound by Danny Katz
Bloodhounds by Anthony Musella
Bloody Mary by Kylie Boersma
Bloody Noses by Matilda Corley Schulman
Blowback by Cory Byers
Born Again by Joe Becker
Call of the Void by Ben Monaco
Celeste by George Brighton
Church of the Dead by Veronica Turowski and Ron Turowski
City of Masks by William W. Holland
Cliff Monster by Francisco Castro
Cocaine Sky by Nikki Wheeler
Code Breaker by Marine Mondelot
Convergence by Paul Sheridan
Crash Site by AJ Thibault
Credit Card by Kevin Ndango
Cries of the Dead by John Radtke
Cry Wolf by Nelson Downend
Cutting Room Floor by Benjamin Gregory
D.O.T. by Scott Perry
Dancing the Red Shoes by Tina Love
Dark City by Simon Bowler Khan
Dark Moors by Jas Kandola
Davisville Evil by Kevin Lobo
DCeit by Bob Ingraham
Dead Man’s Hill by Pisarno D’Amico and Benjamin Sarno
Death in the Dark by K Wolf
Demanding an Answer From God by Kevin J. Howard
Dirty Weekend by CJ Ehrlich
Dog Days by Salvador Medina
Dollface by Ronson Duncan
Don’t Touch Me by Ervin Anderson
Dream Wedding by Brian Couch
Dreamgift by Stephen Meadows
Dreams of a Girl by Jeffrey Kraynak
Drinking in Church by Kieran Angelini
è MORTO! by Kari Mote and Michael Clifton
Eat Me by Jaime Kawamoto
Empath by Steven Michael
Empty Nest by Anwen Bull
Factor One by Valerie Brotski
Feed by Mike Doyle
Finnegan Lives Again by Gabrielle Nehring
Fire in the Hole by Sahil Raghavan
Fishtown Dicks by Nelson Downend and Lisa Davey
Folklore by Sebastian Magiera
Frankenberg by Alene Latimer
Full Circle by Karla S Bryant
Goldilocks by Michael Buhlman
Got Your Back by Katy Dore
Human Resources by Brett Caron
Hungry Eyes by Egidio Concas
Hunter by Alan Sanchez
Hunter by Pavel Christian
In Control by Darren Callahan
In Self Defense? by Michael Elliott
In The Moorland by Jon Addison
Infamous by Reynaldo Leal and Ivan Lizarde
Inheritor by Ryan Lilienfield
Inn Our Midst by Jon Brecto
Interval by Christopher Isenegger
It Won’t Let Me Sleep by Nathan Alan Bunker
Ithaka by Micah Johnson-Levy
It’s Always The Husband by Melanie Abrams Fierstein
Jackson Falls by Victor Neumark and Mads Summerfield
Jinn and Men by Asif Balouch
Julia’s Drive by Christopher Henry
Katrina Van Tassel and the Witches of Sleepy Hollow by Paige VanTassell
Killers by Jan Buttram
Klan and Kin by Luke Thistleton
Kokkuri-san by Rick Omi
Krampus by Sara Bresciani
Lactic Acid by Philip Sassi
Land of the Wicked Souls by Celia Xavier
Lark by Matilda Corley Schulman
Last Tree Standing by Steve Brody, PhD
Lesson 1 by Dan Southard
Locals by Miles Kahn
Lockout by David Polcyn and Erik Rodgers
Love & Bullets by Aaron Liebman
Lucidity by Bill Mesce
Lucifer Rising by Rod Usher
Lumber by Brett Stults and Tony Caselli
Mafia Prom Date by Michael J. Volpe
Manitou by Aaron Sturgeon and Michael Tobias
Megan Is a Good Girl by Paige Sciarrino
Melvin by Jeremiah Nemeth
Mhuka Dzechisimba by J.K. Zepeda
Millstone by Josh Wimble
Missing Clayton by Bev Irwin
Missing Pieces by Julia Skikavich
Moving the Line by Colin Edward Lawrence
Murder Most Virtual by Ted Chastain
Muse in the Mazeum by Clay Fusco and Pamela Chiacchiaro
Mystery Sisters by Dani Hanks
‘Nam by Ryan Thomas Hinrichs
Night Nurse by Paul Thompson
Nightfall by Lynn McPherson
No Ghosts Tonight by Adele Smaill
No Safe Dreams by Gerald Prueitt
Noxious Weeds by Em Koopman
Occult: Odyssey by Khalil Clark
Oeuvre by James Wolf
One Fell Swoop by Jannik Ohlendieck
Overwhelming Darkness by Steven A Hart
Parasomnia by Ryan Shovey
Pearl Fisher by Suzanne Birrell
Perception by Pauline McAlonan
Picture Man by Broderick Fox
Plaything by Martin O’Brien
Polar by Christopher Kearney
Portland, 1988 by Michael Weinreb
Portrait of Charlotte by Mike Guerrini
Portsmouth by Pablo Torroella
Precursor by Steve Brown
Predestined by Selton Shaw
Prescience by Shero Syndicate
Prisoner by Tony Conniff
Protocol by Lex Levin
Querencia by Tim Snoha
Quiet Kwame by Azure Osborne-Lee
Rabbit Skin by Francesca Nider
Rage by Aleksandra M. Rychlicka
Recipe for Hate by Brent Rouleau
Rejuvenation by Rudi O’Meara
Repossessed by Brett Block
Residue by David Hunter Fein
Riftmaker by Alison Weaverdyck
Riot Queens by Mehul Shah
Rock Bottom by Kevin Barney
Rounder Wheel by Sean Coons
Rural Mountains by Terry Podnar
Saint Catherine’s Boys by John Ravitz
Scion by Paul Sheridan
Self Storage by Robert Walcott
Sentinels by Marie D. Jones and Denise A. Agnew
Shades of Noire by Giordan Emilio Zemach
Shadow Resistance by BJ Cyprian
She Keeps Calling by Justin Lee
Shelf Life by C. E. Simon
She’s Not There by John Walker
Shetani by Joshua Katz
Shift by Russell Bradley Fenton
Silhouette by Lukas Hassel
Silver by Joseph Murillo
Simon Says… By J. Barrick Griffiths
Slumtown by Adrian Grieb
Snake Oil by Danny Katz
Southern Justice by Harris Freedman
Spring Heeled Jack by Anthony A. Labriola
Stems by Shauna Joy
Stormheart by Meshal Alsaleem
Summoned by Tammy Klembith
Swine Lake by Michael Rakoff
Takao by James Sutherland
Talking Pictures by David Thome and Mary Jo Weber
Tatt2wo by Deirdre Patterson
Territorial by Carroll Brown
Thaw by Aurelia Gold
The Academy by Brit Cowan
The Age of the Empath by Steve Brown
The Ashen Veil by Polina Komissarova
The Ayon Hive by Robin Fusco
The Beyond by Ken Brosky
The Block Captain by Coli Sylla
The Bloody Claws of Willow Creek by Matt Hausmann
The Butterfly’s Dream by Steven Bolia
The Chosen Ones by Paul Sheridan
The Cold Truth by Christopher Carlson
The Coyote by Michael Holliday
The Dayworkers! By Cchristopher Bush
The Deadhead by Justin Ballheim
The Door of No Return by Ej Tanner
The Facetakers by Neil Brimelow
The Farmhouse by Ted Campbell
The Grim Reaper by Juhani Nurmi and Päivi Remes
The Howling of Bedbur by Kimberly Seilhamer
The Invisible Woman by Derek Weissbein
The Iron Maiden by Ariane Hahusseau
The Last Halloween of Diablo by Wayne Middleton
The Legend of Yakatutch by Sean Ellis
The Lyon of Times Square by Christopher Loveland
The Manor by William Mullins
The Match by Justin Ballheim
The Motel Between by Andrea Shawcross
The Outlier by Francisco Castro
The Past by Kaisha Bicknell
The Red Key by Paul Sheridan
The Rending by Jose Villanueva
The Retreat by Annabelle Bell
The Rewind Connection by Rob Gruen
The Scorched Face by Pauline McAlonan
The Serial Son by TJ Johnson K Dixon Ludlow
The Sound of Anomaly by David Poric
The Taxidermist by Stephen Parkhurst and Oriana Schwindt
The Teenage Bodyguard by JZ Murdock
The Vanish Woods by Michael Carnevale
The Very True Existence of Susannah and Her Friends by C. E. Simon
The Weeding by Steve Lucas
Three Bedrooms in a Good Neighborhood by Jacques Powell
Threshold by Bruno Derlin
Trace by Matthew Davis and Hillary Stringer
Traditional by Cam Tran
Transfixion by Bill Burton
Trick Selfie by Chad Wellinger
True North by Hope Tarr
Twisted Justice by Joel McElvaney
Unblind by Mark Wachholz and Tyll Zybura
Under The Moon by Ari Silver
Underbelly by Sally Stubbs
Untitled Vampire Project by Sofia Simanovich
Upstate Girl by Julie Gervais
Venera by Charles Tucker
Viaticum by Brit Merrick
Voyeuse by Zanna Cardash
What’s Wrong With Tomorrow? by Harrison Jones
When No One Else Believed by Ron Tripodo
Whispers Against the Wind: Part 1 by Raymond Luedtke
White Bone by Richard Pierre
White Orchid by Alex Vaz
Why She Did It by L Andrew Cooper
Wild Camping by Suzy Miller
Winter Bird by Stephen Delos Treacy
Yao-Guai: Demons and Dragons by Brent McKnight
Zarathustra by Christopher DeWan