Manchester Film Festival and ScriptUp are proud to announce the Quarter Finalists for the 2024 Screenplay Competition. Please see the full list below.
This list will be whittled down to the semi finalists and finalists in the coming weeks. A huge congratulations to everyone on this list. We had a record breaking number of submissions this year to to make the Quater Final stage is a huge acheivment.
Short Screenplay Quarter Finalists
Shackles by Aishwarya Mohan
Soap! by Sami Al Sharikh
Skunk by Toby McShane
Hear My Song by Rachel Williams
Fightin’ Words by Laura Kemp
Aubade by Konstantinos Doxiadis
Mattress-cide by Michael Johnston
An Inconsequential Choice by Ricardo Bravo
Grief by Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo
Corius by Jason Balas
Baba in Graceland by Melis Aker
The Old English Gentleman by Patrick Murray
Victory To The Mimers by James Green, Steve Furst
Cycle by Paul Webster
Winter by Lee Daniel
Home Truths by Richard Sloggett
I Wouldn’t Touch That by Meik V. Fischer
The Colour Room by Jeda Cira Cacioli
REMOTE by Meik V. Fischer
Bloodstone by Amy Renzema
SWEET MARIE by Will Payne
Hombre by Chris Martinez
Heist by Sam Chiy
The Listener by Gideon Imagor
TV Pilot Screenplay Quarter Finalists
Game On by David Harry Rowlands
Emilie by Hope Hickli
The Legend of Manuel Biggs by Steve Harris
Vivienne Varlette by Demi Aspey
The Harvesting by Martyn (M.E.) Ellington and Steven Stiefel
Scene Queen by Annique Arredondo
Thirstonfield Halt by Martyn Ellington and Steven Ellington
Tokyo Twist by Rachel Williams
PETROL GIRLS by Jade Maitre
Fatal Errors by Ben Moran
Nashaa (translated: “Intoxicate”) by Jas Kandola
Sleeper by Neil Crittenden
Morlock CAnthony Povah
Professionally Morbid by Wendy Bustamante
Anything by Gareth Meadows
Feature Film Screenplay Quarter Finalists
ELEPHANT PATH by ROBERT WOOLDRIDGE
Rage Gallery by Christopher Lang
Buffalo Soldiers by EJ Tanner
A Band of Wolves by Reynaldo Leal
Josh & Hana by David Zhang
Walking in Iowa by Alex Murawski
miri & gav by Matilda Corley Schulman
SOUTH WIND COME by Ernestina Juarez
Reformation by Stephen Morgan-MacKay and Stefan Alexander
Human Resources by BRETT CARON
My So Desi Life by Sanngeeta Macko
How Do I Live? by Jeffrey Kum
ANYWHERE by Adam Seidel
Sunkist by Kate Rodrom
DIGNITY by Dean Poynor
Bloody by Mary Aeon Solo
The Pickleball Killer by Jim Carroll
House of Saturn by Kate Ryan Brewer
Cat Cat Mouse Ginger by Britt Daniels
Other Galaxies by David Humphreys
Lost in the Shadows by Brian Rees
Sandstorm by Terry Luke Podnar
A Labour of Love by Olga Holtz
THE WALL by Wendy Storer
TWENTY7 by Calum James
Abyssinia Steel by Tej Rae, Yonas Gorfe
Wild Parakeets by Divya Subbiah
The Romantics by Elisabeth Felson
The Animated Christmas Special by Michael Nicolosi, David Hyde, J. Nicolosi
School of Murder by Luke Davies
The Light by Keelan Gallagher
Hidden Labour by Daniel Roy Lowe
Trackers by Noah Rubio