Summer 2017 Screenwriting Competition: Major international screenwriting contest…
**Semi-Finals date: October 20th.**
Hollywood might have had a downer this Summer, but you guys have made our Summer 2017 Screenwriting Contest HOT!
This batch of 51 scripts, books, and pilots made a great impression on our judges and we are so excited to get into these entries and decide on our Semi-Finalists for next week!
Thanks to all of you who entered – find out if you’re one of the lucky Quarter-Finalists below…
The screenwriting quality was higher than we’ve seen in a long, long time at this stage of judging. So this was our toughest field in recent years for selecting Quarter-Finalists, and a number of promising writers have been very unlucky to miss 
out – so don’t get disheartened if you’re one of them. If you’d like to know why your script performed as it did this time, and how to take it forward, commission a Script Report from us to get an analyst’s eye on what’s working in it and what’s holding it back.
We provide hundreds of studio-quality Script Reports for writers and producers every year, to show them how the industry would currently rate and handle their script, and how to take them to the next level… Oh, and you’ll get the chance to enter our Winter 2017 Competition early, too. Check out our website’s new-look Mentoring section for all the ways that we can take you and your writing to the top!
| Quarter-Finalists | ||
| IF YOU WALK AWAY, Scott A. Aiman | BLOOD RUNS DEEP, Nick Amatuzio | TWO BUCKS FOR BUFFALO BILL, Nick Arvay |
| FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY, Tony Basso and Ron Basso | ARABESQUE, Sasha Belousova and A. R. Baker |
JEFFREY’S NATION, Carla Bester |
| THE DAWN OF EVE, James Bingham | LAKE, Ian Bonser | INSURRECTION, Simon Bowler |
| A BOY NAMED JUNE, Steven Bryson | THE 405, Patrick Byrne | SEEMINGLY HARMONIOUS, Dengxian Cao |
| DIAMOND BAR, Andrew Crane and Jay Pickett | SARIN AND THE MOON PRINCESS, David Cupples | BLACK JACK, Stephen Charles Curran |
| CIRCUS BOY, Stephen Charles Curran | THE MUSIC BOX, Stephen Charles Curran | INDUSTRY OF LOVE, Koen de Jongh |
| COLONIALS, Ian Fletcher | THE HEALER, Ken Floyd | SEA FEVER, Richard Guimond |
| WHISPERING WINDS (Novel), Richard Guimond | WHISPERING WINDS (screenplay), Richard Guimond and Linda Cordeiro | UNDERDEVELOPMENT, Matthew Heinze |
| BLACK DIAMOND, Karen Marie Howland | NAPOLEON, Kevin Karp | TOUCH THE FIRE, Kevin Karp |
| CHARMER, David Kurtz | SPOONFED, Scott LaFortune | OWNER OF A LONELY HEART, Rico Lara-Marin |
| KOPLEVA, Theo Leipert | MY SPACE LOVE, Christophe Lourenço | FACSIMILE, Gary Makin |
| THE FEDERAL HOTEL, Karl Mather | SIMPLEST TERMS, Desiree Moshayedi |
STRANGE CREATURES, Michael Neyland |
| THis OLD MAN, Nicholas Oktaras | THE MAIDSERVANT’S CAP, Jeff D. Opdyke |
SHINE YOUR EYES, Clint Pearson |
| SISTER TERRY, Mark Perlick | MOCK ORANGE, Joseph Ramsay | LAND THAT WE LOVE, Julian Renner |
| MATRICULATION, Mark J. Rose | WEST DAKOTA, Mark J. Rose | THE MICROCOSMIC CARTOON SHOW, Prema Rose, Hugh A. Rose and Suryananda Rose |
| FINAL STATUS, Timothy Jay Smith | ME AND JEZEBEL, Lucinda Spurling | IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS, Scott Marshall Taylor and Patrick Wiegers |
| ESCAPE TO PLANET B346, Thomas Thorpe | QUEEN OF HEARTS, Ethan Westgate | LEGACY OF THE GODS, Tim Wong |