Alongside our industry partners and sponsors, we are thrilled to announce the Top 40 Semi-Finalists for the 2020 Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition.
Listed below are the semi-finalists of the 2020 Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition, selected from a whopping 765 submissions! After four rounds of reading, we have narrowed it down to the top 5% of entries to bring you the Top 40 voices in horror.
A HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SEMI-FINALISTS, OUR QUARTER-FINALISTS, AND TO ALL THOSE WHO ENTERED THIS YEAR.
Stay tuned for the upcoming announcement of our top 3 grand prize winners here and on our Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages on Friday, March 13th. And don’t forget to join the Screenwriters Network Discord server — it’s a great place to swap scripts with other screenwriters and chat with your fellow competitors!
Click here to congratulate the SF’s on Twitter!
Reminder, the Top 3 scripts will be read by agents, managers and producers at the following companies: Grey Matter Productions, Paradigm Talent Agency, Good Fear Content, and Affirmative Entertainment.
You can listen to a very special Podcast Episode about how we approached the quarter-finalist selection process here.
If you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries in 2020, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Best wishes,
Alison Parker, Contest Director
Contact details: alison@killershortscontest.com
Now, without further ado, let us introduce you to the 2020 Killer Shorts Semi-Finalists!
| Project | Writer/s |
|---|---|
| AN APPLE A DAY | Allen Roughton |
| BABY DOLL | John Burr |
| BAEL | Brandon Weavil |
| BLANK | Avishai Weinberger & Tova Weinberger |
| BONESEED | Joshua David Matthews & Brett Brooks |
| BORDER CONTROL | Michael Rogers |
| BREEDER | Alex Payne |
| BY MOONLIGHT | Brandon Laraby |
| COLD CALL | David Bryant |
| CONSUMED | Brian K |
| DEAD BODY CAM | Brian Lisi |
| DEAD BY DAWN | Johnny Gao |
| DRONE | John Arvai |
| ETERNI-TREE | Doug Mallette |
| FACELIFT | Virat Pal |
| FALL | Danny Newell |
| FIELD TEST | Chris Hicks |
| FINAL FINAL GIRLS | Ben DeLoose & Matthew Chilelli |
| FINGERS | Lachlan Marks |
| FOG OF WAR | Steven Lundgren |
| FREEZER | Chris Wiltz |
| GANGLERS | Mark Renshaw |
| INTRUDER | Maria Wilson |
| MI CARIÑO | Christian Jacob Ramon |
| MY DJINN | Rubel Rafael Ahmed |
| NOISE COMPLAINT | Matt McCarthy & Katherine Cox |
| SASKIA | Connor Savage |
| SECOND SKIN | Gary Davies |
| SLAUGHTER HEARSE | Evan Baughfman |
| SMILEY IKE | Trevor Lawrence |
| THE BUTTER STREET HITCHHIKER | Chris Hicks |
| THE KEY | Jorge Lucas |
| THE LEGEND OF THE RABBIT MAN | Darren Joe |
| THE NO-NO MAN | CJ Whitehead |
| THE RICKETY MAN | Jeremiah Lewis |
| UNFINISHED BUSINESS | Kimberley Elizabeth |
| WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS | Sarah Emery & Carl Firth |
| WIGILIA | Richard Karpala |
| YOU'RE IT | John Licata |
| ZOMBIES ON A BUS | Janet L. Loftis |
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