2014 Quarter-Finalists

We are proud to announce our 2014 Quarter-Finalists, approximately our top 5 percent.

We received a record total of 4060 Features and 1602 Shorts.

Thanks again to all our entrants and congratulations to all!

2014 Feature Quarter-Finalists:

A Month of Sunday by Sharon Murray

A Rumble in Pinehurst by Bill Doncaster

A World Away by Sean Finn

After… by Gregory Cover

All God’s Children by Natalie Hanson

All The Way With LBJ by Randy Schubring

Alpha by Christina Pamies

An Exemplary Citizen by Josh Billig & Chris Martin

Annabel Lee by Mark Colety

Anti-grav by Jonathan Ammon

Arktos by Eric Day

Aurora by Amber Karlins

Bad Connection by Stephen Wells

Bad House by Doug Mallette

Ball Breaker by David R. Flores

Band of Angels by Katherine R. Craddock

Banner Hero by Lise Pyles

Better to Dance by Randy Hines

Big Bones by Soulla Tantouri Eriksen

Bill by Jeremiah Ra Richards

Birds of Jove by Simon Taylor

Black Ox by Joe Halstead

Blackland Salvage by Cullen Metcalf-Kelly

Blood and Dreams by Suzanne Griffin

Blood Letters by Eric Hueber

Bodhisattva by Annita Pieroni

Bon Ton Rouler by Beanie Barnes

Bonk’s Bar by Daniel Putkowski

Brandon Hill by Mike Powell

Breaking The Chain by David Braga

Butterfly Summer by Ryan Anglin

Cake by Colleen Cunha

Candidate by Rahul Victor Agarwal

Champions of Irya by Michael Douglas

Chicago Shuffle by Dennis Capps

Civilian by Marcus Sullivan

Coach by Ken Gire

Cold Front by Ken Kloser

Conquistador by Liam Goulding

Crashland by H.S. Tak

Crosswind by Melissa A. Calderone & Brandon Carter

Cut Loose To Kill by Jackie Biggerstaff

Cutting Numbers by Morgan von Ancken

Dead Letter by Joel Irwin & J.L. Munce

Deadlock by Robin Lindsey

Distance by Rose Judson

Do Not Disturb by Zev Blumenfeld

Don’t Marry Her, Fuck Me by Greg Colburn

Dr Finchley’s Worst Nightmare by Jerry Simcock

Dreaming on Paper by Missak Artinian

Early Plus Infinity by Clark Carroll

Egghead by Blain Watters

1887 by Christoph Brueck

88 Dark by Firas Janabi

End Of A Century by Neil Westley

End of the Road by Samuel Woodhouse

Engaging Eddie by Justin Robinson

Everyone’s a Critic by Carly Woodworth

Everything’s Jake by Scott Burton

Ezra’s Capybara by Kristen O. Bobst

Face to Face by Jason Pittock

False Flag by Mike McLaughlin & Eric Camiolo

Far From Grace by Richard Abercrombie

Farewell to the Chief by Michael Varhol

Fat Year by Marcy Jarreau & Jessica Stickles

Fool’s Paradise by Tom Midwood

Forged by Linda Ujifusa

From The Noise of Men by Larry V. Santana

Get Yamamoto by Mike Ross

Ghosts by Jemma Walton

Gloria by David Atkinson

God’s Acre by Dain Ingebretson

Gold by John DeCuir

Gossamer Folds by Bridget Flanery-Fownes

Grim Game by Dmitry Torgovitsky

Grimwood by Murat Izmirli

Grudge War by Jonathan Dick

Hambone by Kateland Brown

He Was a Teenage Sex Demon! by Scott Mooney

Helios by Mark J. Stasenko Jr.

Hell-bent by Nicolas Hinze

Help! I’m Trapped In A Rom-Com by Vance Tucker

History Of Magic by Jose Luis Gonzalez

Home More, Homeless by Peter Groynom

Honey Moon by Johnny Coffeen

In a Flash by Michael Peterson

In Plain Sight by Tom Moriarty

Jade Reinhart by Robert Lutz

Journey Home by Samisha Joshi LaMeyer

Kraksmashinov by Daniel May

Last Knight of Sudan by Ryan Riley

Leave by Ashley P Quach

Letter From The President by Tony Tambi

Limbo by Gregory Leonardo

Little Flea by Sabrina Siebert

Lone Wolf by Peter Rennie

Long Bad Gone by Jesse Jordan

Love Bunny by Jeff Dunphy

Love, Rockets, Robots! by Rudolf Kremers

Lowdown by Kieran Valla & Levi Smock

Mad Trapper Of Rat River by Todd J Hornberger

Magic Hour by Bo Yeon Kim

Memories of a Forgotten Love by Mohammad A. Nawaz

Metal Mouth by Chad Schultz

Modern Times by Joseph Panebianco & Tom Philp

Moment of Truth by Yoav Potash

Moratjjan by Nicolas Hinze

My Brother’s Demon by C.J. Wells

My Posse’s in the Zone by Jesaka Long

My Purr-fect Life by Helen Taylor

My Summer Colors by Marco Pinheiro

Naraka by Raul de Miguel

Night Falls on Olympus by Christopher Zegunis

No Surrender by Michael Farkas

One Small Step for Neil by Tracie Laymon

Othering by Elle-Ditta Sciarrone

Ozymandias by Sean Saffari

Passchendaele by Kate Hagen & Jack McDonald

Path of Light by Faisal Lutchmedial

Perfect Lives Project by David Casals-Roma

Phantom Pains by Alvin Easter

Portal: Exile by Derek Chng

Portia’s Penguin by Benita Cullingford

Pounders by Josh Barkey

Precipice by Larry V. Santana

Pretty Badass by Tess Sweet

Prototype by Mark Steven Collins

Quinn the Eskimo by Susan Brunig

Rehab Cabin by Kate Beacom

Renaissance Park by Thomas W. Gatus

Replay by Kerry McIntosh

Safe and Effective by Bob Cusack

Sam by Stuart Price

Saudade by Kory Olson

Self-Defense by Jasmin Tekiner

Seventh Grade Mafia by Anthony Rivers

Shepherd Moon by Jonathan Ammon

Shopping Bags by Roy Adams

Skiing With Shakespeare by Julian Mountfield

So Beautiful by Robert Lawrence Nelson

Sonata for an Angel by Nancy Santoriello

Soup Sandwich by Sabrina Siebert

Spirit of the West by Lisa Henry

Stephen the Black by Karl Bauer & Michael Choi

Stove By a Whale by Eric Nuss

Strikepoint by Philip Landa

Suspicion by Mark L Bruner

SWAParazzi by John Woodard

Table for Two? by Warren Paul Glover

Tailgate by Tom Coyne

Taking Gold by Derek Asaff & Aviv Rubinstien

Tears of the Iconoclast by Bryan Adams Hampton

Ted and Helen by Alyssa Katz & Diana Ardzrooni

Tenerife by Richard Willett

That Time of the Month by Joe Hauler

The Antiquity by Ronald L. Ecker and Evan M. Pinchuk

The Author and the Aeronaut by Kendell Klein

The Bearer of Bad News by David Minaskanian

The Bicycle Thieves by Justin Perry

The Book of Life by Peter Groth

The Boy Who Drew by Michael Marche

The Bubblegum Killer by Andrew S. Olson

The Commonwealth by Alexander Chance

The Creed by Charles Fisher

The Defender by John Stancari

The Doctor Is Out by Rory McQueen

The Dowager by Robert Austin Rossi

The Event by Josh Renfree

The Evolushun of 20/20 Vizion by Sarkis Gabriyelyan

The Fabulous Sylvester by David Belenky & Joshua Gamson

The Fall by Caroline Hopkins

The Fortress by Janet Ritz

The Gurgitator by David Klein

The Heirs by Colin Larkin

The Joy Division by Beate Piotrowski

The Keeper of the Cup by David Turner

The Left Hand by Julia Andersen

The Longest Birthday by Savion Einstein

The Meek by Ryan Riley

The Mortician’s Son by Quinn Sosna-Spear

The Rim Of The World by Bettina Moss

The Rock Bottom of Russell Whoa by Matt Byrnes

The Savage Detective by Samuel Blue GIbson

The Shot by Chris Roberts

The Sleeping House by Suzanne Griffin

The Stronghold by Sebastian Bendix

The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge by Mark Brown

The Ventriloquist by Michael Mortimer

3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst by HF Crum

Thresher by Stefan MacDonald-Labelle

Transcendental Signified by Gerhard Posch

Tween the Ropes by Elizabeth Oyebode

Under Fire by John Garofolo

Walker’s Lament by Leigh McCarthy

Welcome to Spero by Nick Padmore

Wet Bum by Lindsay MacKay

What’s Left Behind by Jennifer Martin

Where the Greener Pastures Are by Dana Pierre

Wise River by J. Curtis Moran

Yesterday 2.0 by Michael Shriro

Zen and the Supermarket Sample Lady by Scott Burton

Zero Carbon Zone by Peter Wilson

2014 Short Screenplay Quarter-Finalists:

Ady and Al by Harut Akopyan

AR- RuH (Souls) by Ridwan Hassim

Atlas by Terry Coffey

Becca by Janani Rajendran

Bernie and Rebecca by John F. Harris

Between Shifts by Jaime Saginor

Boris Lindowski Was Here by Ian Spiegel – Blum

Breakfast at Gerardo’s by Kim Nunley

Cruelty and Destitution by Patric Morgan

Denigration by Kelly Joy Dennison

Displacement by Sergio LoDolce

Five Days in Calcutta by Fred Perry

Fortissimo by Molly Gardner

Fred and Ginger by Timothy Casto

Goodnight, Gracie by Andy Nelson

Hank Was on TV Today by Mark S. Weller

Hearts and Minds by Jesse Gustafson

Hope and a Wish by Doug Nelson

In Extremis by Gregory Crosbie

In The Hills by Rachael Kelly

Inner Journey by Bill Sarre

It Looks Like 1992 by Trae Melton

Jellyfish by Caitlin Zvoleff

Johnny by Wendy Moulton Tate

Kame by Matt Dooley

Last Supper by Tsubasa Maruno

Lifted by Sharon Murray

Lock Pick by Jayson White

Lovebug by Maggie Green

Making Darkness by Andrew Griffin

Man Out of Time by Ed Stahr

Memorial Day by Pete MacDonald

Monopoly by Wenonah Wilms

Mulogo and His Quintuple of Trouble by Martin Reese

North Star by P.J. Palmer

Oracle by John Dowaliby & Mayo Whaley

Ox in The Culvert by Erik Bernard & Lyndon Tait

Picking Blueberries by Amanda Glassman

Prune Juice by Andy Nelson

PURL 1 by Jasmine Brammer

Q.T. by Alexis Porter

Red Run by Anders Vacklin

Reminiscence by W. Eric Bouwer

Replenished by Andrew Tucker

Rotten by Tyler Tice

Shelter by Barbara Linkevitch

Shopping Mad by David Braga

Slight of Hand by Robert Knight

Socks by Tony French

Space by Jillian Moylan

Stranded by Heather Wilson

Suds ‘N Stuff by Tom Orr

Symbiotica by Austin Alward

The Big Event by Marzia Pez

The Colour of Dirt by Barbara Truelove

The Crib by Samuel Laskey

The Hole by J.R. Wicker

The Illusion of Pain by Carroll Brown

The Last Recess by Robin D. Fox

The Legend of Slink E. Weesel by Michael Pallotta

The Line That Ties Me by Isa Benn & Matthew De filippis & Elisia Mirabelli

The One by Lyndsay Doyle

The Plastic Eating People by J.R. Wicker

The Promise by Matthew Redmond

The Second Daughter by Dennis Cravens

The Story of Sol by Craig Matthew Warren

The Tutor by Gilli Messer

The Twelve Plagues by Jeremy Lerman

The Vampire by Jason M. Vaughn

The Viagra Caper by Roderick S. Chapman

Trois by Mike Gallant

Tyranny of Evil Men by Lawrey Goodrick

Waabooz by Wenonah Wilms

Waking Billy by David Widdicombe

Winged by Jennifer Cui

Wolfie by Athenia Paris Mekarnia

Next Round Competition Results Announcement Schedule

• Semi-Finalists will be announced March 15th, 2014.

• Finalists will be announced April 1st, 2014

• The Winners will be announced April 10th, 2014.

• All analyses will be returned by March 1, 2014.

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