Semi-finalists: June-July 2026

The Short Script Semi-Finalists list can be found further down this page.

10 Dates in 30 Days by Tania Ross (USA)

20% by Jonathan Ruggiero (USA)

404 by James Boyd (USA)

A Cow’s Tale by Weliam Sejari (Netherlands)

A Heart to Heart by Arth Joshi (USA)

Adventure Of Goop by Nicholas Komarnitsky (USA)

Akaisha Daughter of God: The Last Messenger by Jerry S Jackson (USA)

Amidst Clouds, Unseen by Ruoshui Zhu and Yiyang Xu (China)

Archie by Jackson Berryman (USA)

Archives by Jamie Duffy (Ireland)

Art Defenders We Do Not Forget by Akiko Matsumoto (USA)

Babyfat by Bunny Rose (USA)

Babylon Blues by Leon Lane (USA)

Blood Orange by Vanita Roisín (USA)

Boy Creek by Boston James Piquette (USA)

Boy Scientist: The Prequel to Forever by Susan Mey Lee Lim (USA)

Bruny Wild Swimmers by Lorrell Linda (Australia)

Bystander by Qinyi Chen (USA)

Christelle by Leo Saint Thomas (France)

Come Back by Kaihang Ye (China)

Creatures of Light by Danny Ratcliff (USA)

Dead Drip by James Boyd (USA)

Defect by Kevin Carney (USA)

Delineations by Derek Andrade (USA)

Duck, Duck, Goose by Sam Conlon (UK)

Eternally Recurrent! by Brian W. Spellman (USA)

Free Speech by David Fleishman and Steve Koven (Canada)

Garry by Molly Allen (USA)

Ghost Syndicate Investigation – Unfinished Business by Eugene Shane Steward (USA)

Gilded Cage by Ken Gregory (USA)

Give Me Strength by Jerdarius Collier (USA)

God from the Machine by Alejandro Jose Rangel (USA)

Hasta La Raíz by Jakob Flores Figueroa (USA)

Hello Dad by Neha Lohia (USA)

Holding Onto Heaven Is Giving You Hell by Medina Baydoun (USA)

How It Really Happened by Essence Jackson (USA)

Hula’s Horse Cum by C.C. Dyer (USA)

Intersection of Lives by Daniel J Strehlau (USA)

Invisible Wounds by Torsten Lang (USA)

Jorge by Gisselle Chipana (USA)

Kafka’s Metamorphosis by Kyle McCabe (USA)

Kindness Camp by Anna Bradley (USA)

Lightkeeper by Andrea Tooley (USA)

Lilly by Bill Frost and Jeff Briggs (USA)

Little Red by Talia Fidler (USA)

Lunar by Austin Pemberton (USA)

Madoromi Stage 1 by Taichi Kunigami (Japan)

Mainstream by Newton Mayenge (USA)

Make A Joyful Noise by Alice Stone (USA)

Memories of a Year Passed by Bibiana Eichenberg Pinto (Brazil)

Metamorphosis: A Life Reclaimed by R. D. Smith (USA)

Milo by Dillon Sharp (USA)

Mythologic by Johnson Qiang (USA)

Night Mutilator & Friends by Ryan Policky (USA)

Not So Different by William Teichner (USA)

Omoi by Kana Sugito (Japan)

Ordinary Greatness by Michael J Gillette (USA)

Passage by David Park (USA)

Proof of Life by Tenley E. Raj (USA)

Read The Room by Destiny Miller (USA)

Reality is a Personal Painting by Phillip Jarrell (USA)

Rob and Bob Rob a Train by Tyler B Dennis and Dexter Z Hartsfield (USA)

Roméos by Raphaël Bédard (Canada)

Seeking the Light by David Kalergis and Abigail Salmon (USA)

Shadow of the Fighter by Yaroslav Savchak (USA)

She Wrote ‘My Girl’ but They Never Came Back by Pelly (USA)

Side Hustle by William Nelson (USA)

Smooth Finish by Amy Kersten (USA)

Sugar Magnolia by Aaron Weil (USA)

The Artist by Paul Distefano (USA)

The Shape of Her Smile by Dale Fabrigar and Crystal S. Avila (USA)

The Thirteenth Banner – China Behind the Walls by Pierre Alivon (France)

They’ll Love It by Beata Pozniak (USA)

Til’ Death Does His Part by Nathan RJ Fox (USA)

Trudy by Xaimary Torres Ortiz (USA)

Twist by Qianyu Wang (China)

Unstable Diffusion by Eli Cohan and Sophia Maggio (USA)

Version 1.0 by Kate Marwood (Australia)

Violet Light – Dahlia’s New Friend by Jesse Terrell (USA)

Visitation by Charles Kaufmann (USA)

Which Side Are You On? by Viktor Witkowski (USA)

You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too by Carson Liam Mrozinski (USA)

SHORT SCRIPTS

16mm Pirate by Justin Bily (USA)

Baby Manual by Arjun Dinakar (Canada)

Before the Fall by Pablo Catalan (Spain)

Celandine’s Diversion by Helen Fowler (UK)

Cut Bait by MIchael Meyers (USA)

Family Trees by Dylan Jonathan LeMay (USA)

Gators by Linda Kampley (USA)

Ghosts’ Stories by Edward Horodyski (USA)

I’m Not Me by Lee McPartlin (Ireland)

Mr. 3AM by A. Paul Hoffman (USA)

Nature Boy by Rick Obryan (USA)

Role Theory by Nima Najafi Kianfar (USA)

Sleep Walkabout by James Parente (USA)

Staring at Stars by Joey van Rumpt (Netherlands)

The Company You Keep by Winnie Khaw and Jeff Kirkland (USA)

The Only One I See by Clinton Morales (USA)

U.S. Grant by Levi Gordon (USA)

Wayward Journey by Don Carr (USA)

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