THE golden list of 2025

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2025 FEATURE SCREENPLAY QUARTER-FINALISTS

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Liam Bradley

A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

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David Thome

TALKING PICTURES

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Mary McDermott

MAKE ME A MOVIE!

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Mary Elizabeth Davis

AGAINST THE WALL

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Tim Young

CRAZY HONEY

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Alex Halpern

THE TRACK

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Tara Price

COMMUNITY SHED

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Yvonne Racz

1956

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Jan Pearson

HOME

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Steven Hart

OVERWHELMING DARKNESS​

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James Sperl

CAPTIVE

Lawrence Wells
FAIR YOUTH

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Giampietro Manzalini

PARISINA - PUNISHMENT WITHOUT FORGIVENESS

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Richard Michael Turner

THE SECRET MINISTRY OF GRASS

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David Simons

ON THE RUN

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Bob Hiltermann

GRATEFUL DEAF

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Jolan Bastien

INWARD

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Lowell Williams

INEXTRICABLY BOUND

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Abel Orosz

I DON'T THINK I WANT TO EXIST ANYMORE

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Haynie Walker

IT MAY CONCERN

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Colin O'Brien

SANTAMAN: REGIFTED

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Athena Mandis

SAY SORRY

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Neil Pollner

WITHOUT A HITCH​

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Collette Letendre

FOREVER MINE

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Ben Parsons

THE GENTLELADY FROM OHIO

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Samantha Schell

THE COUNTERPART

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J.D. Maybaum

THE ABSENCE OF MATTER

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Jermar Smith

PRESS

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Stephanie Scott

THE ANSWER GIRL

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Sehar Iqbal

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

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Renn Tan

UNBOUND

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Patterson McKinney, Catherine Miller
A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO DIE

Robert Hambach

MAN CRUSH

Scott Gilman

YOO HOO, JOHNNY APPLESEED

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Alan David Pritchard

THE PEBBLE CHAMPION

Ryan Ross

CHASING THE OCEAN PORTAL

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Rachel Morgan

THE NAUTILUS CONSPIRACY

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Adrián Duston-Muñoz

SKUNKWORKS

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Dustin Richardson

THE TWO MUSKETEERS

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Roger Elliott

TWO BASTARDS AND A BOY

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Robert Michael Neumann

RENEWAL​

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Noah Radant

MAKHEART MANOR

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Julia Hettmann

DOOMSDAY DUMMIES

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Megan Young Rigoni

DAYS LIKE THESE

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Elizabeth Savage Sullivan

NO RUNNING

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Pouya Pirhosseinloo

THE GIRL WITH ASH[EN] SKIN

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Will Kisor

JAMES MONROE: AMERICAN MESSIAH

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Cameron Snyder

FERTILE

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Hugo Dabas

APPREHENSION

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Jarad Kopciak, Danny Abbott

IRON

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Nathaniel Anglin

GHOSTING

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Muli Glasberg

THE EARTHLIEN

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Tim Greene

ARTIFAKT

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Christopher Robert Smith

RIPTIDE

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John Cerrito

SIN CHILD

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Faisal Qureshi

THE LADDER

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Joan Macbeth

BABY, LET'S TALK

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Odessa Gaines

OF RUIN AND ROT

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David Elio Jara

EXIT POINT

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Jill Underhill

INSOMNIA CAFE

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John Young

THE HAWALA CONNECTION

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Michael Tobin

HEBREW SCHOOL DROP OUT

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Robert Brody

GALAXIES

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Kent Donguines, Andreas Vatiliotou

ERROR 404

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Katherine Garner

PAPER THIN

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Stephen Neely

THA BRETHREN

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Sara Relli

MILE END

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David Shannon

LITTLE COWBOYS​

 

Mark Aaron Donnell

BRICKBAT

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Peter Armitage

THE ACTING TSAR

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Dominic Graham

THE DEGENERATE

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Jeanne Schieffer

THE CANDLE MAKER

 

Mark Zaslove

WIND

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Lucy Megan Wilkins

ENDCLIFFE

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Michael Klug

ONE LAST BUILD IN CENTRALIA

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Nan Schmid

THE LANGUAGE OF WOLVES

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Matthew Taub
DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT

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Emilio Medina

THE CITY OF ASHES

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Elodie Lossy

INNER WAR

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Amanda Lemberg

THE LIGHT'S END

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Ryan Skinner

MOON SHOCK

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Duncan Novak

THE CAT BURGLAR

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Christine Chen

EN ROUTE

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Brian Karre

TOM AND THE SAGITTARIUS

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David Strong

SMOOTH OPERATOR

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Michael Amir Bina

BAHAR, BORN AT NIGHT

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Marshall Kiernan

LADY LAVA

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Adeline Jackson

CROSS BELL

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Alex Murawski

ANEMOIA

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Yevhenii Kvasha

SAFE HAVEN

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John Broadhead

A DESERT GOD

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Stephanie Gaston

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Lisa Mac

THE VICTORIAN CHOCOLATIER

 Laura Harbin
3AM CLUB

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Jonathan Glendening

REFUGE

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Gabe Berry

HEART FULLA HEAD​​

Steven Meier

RED LUCE

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Zephyr Quintain

AT CLOSE OF DAY

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Zephyr Quintain

UNITED WE STAND

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Charlie Prince

LOVE ON THE HIP·PO·CAMPUS

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Steven Traviss Smith

SING ME YOUR QUESTIONS

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Anna Geldermann

WHAT ART CAN DO

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Grace Hansen

ADVERSE POSSESSION

Jason Baldwin

TOURNIQUET

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Robert Byrd

DARK TRIAD

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Roy Tan

TEARS OF THE TIGER

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David Poric

TOAST, GOATS'N GUNS

Roberto Roy Nylund
HOTSPOT

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Austin Zartman

SPROUT
 

Sam Norman

RAGEQUIT

 

Kyle Thomas

LAST LEG​

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Sara Wonderstern

THE CHILDREN WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN

Michael Frederick

THE PAPER MAN

Jon Meredith

THE RIVER

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Genet Hughes

EQUALITY

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Ryan Mekenian

THE MAN IN THE FLYING LAWN CHAIR

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Kevin R. Frech

SINS OF THE FATHER

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Angelita Mendoza, Victor Capiz

THE BLUE DRUM

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Abdul Karim Mansour

THE BATTLE OF KARBALA

Oliver Silver
PATER

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Naser Shahrivar

THE PERSIAN LOVER - CREED AND GREED

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Robin Leiman

FROM THE TOWER

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Jasmeet Singh

LUCKY MEN
 

Sarah Lawrence

PEACE SO SWEET