2025 Screenplay Contest Quarterfinalists Announced
HollyShorts is proud to announce the 2025 HollyShorts Screenplay Contest Quarter Finalists.
This year, we received an extraordinary range of submissions across animation, comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi, and more. Thank you to every writer who shared their vision. Congratulations to all Quarter Finalists on this outstanding achievement.
HollyShorts Screenplay Contest Quarter Finalists
Animation
A6 – Akevo Jenkins
Above Average Heroes – Carlos Greaves
The Nose Whistler – Ben Hirschhorn
InQuest – Freddie Sawkins
Comedy
Square Grouper – Jonathan Levy, Dan Erickson
Bad to the Bone – Tim Young
Self-possessed women make me nervous – Nizami Murtuzayev
Problem Teachers – Nick Roth
Be Bold! – Ruby Mainieri
Operátion Verité – Alexios Nikolas Touloupis
Work: The Novela The Unauthorized Musical No One Asked For – Joelle Velez
Kissing of an Elysian Pomegranate – Zicheng Li
Skating With You – April Rock
Olivia Colman Says My Farts Don’t Stink – Lisa Marie Tedesco
Please Kill Me – Siham Yahya
Charles Somebody – Scott Corbett, Mark Cohen
A Wedding Affair – Jack Warner
The Evil That Men Do – Steve Hanisch
Cafe d'Automatique – Dave C. Hanson
THE DIRTY DOUBLE – Frankie Campisano, Sam Hayden
Spidey-Whities – Joshua Ortiz
Secretary of Arts – Julie Sharbutt
FENCED – Johanna Warren
Old Glory – Peter Besson
Just Breathe – Zaza
Sweetheart – Tiffany Shinn
Drama
Therapy – Sarah Polhaus
elle/elle – Ariel Mahler
Tidepooling – Cecilia Luoyi
BABKA (feature screenplay) – Serena Dykman
unequal parts – Michael Buonocore
Hear My Song - Feature Film Script – Rachel Walsh-Williams
To You...To Us – Camila Noriega
Welcome to America – Weiyang Liu
108 – Andrea Cabanas
Boyish – Cha Quallis
A Colorful Evening – Michael Mike Canon
Oh, Diane – Megan Hensley
Dope Friend – Matt Ferrucci
Truth or Die – James Tuverson
Let Us Prey – James Tuverson
The Dreamcatcher – Noah Robert Radant
Mijo – Johnny Baca
Beyond the Blue Light – Simone Brazzini
Happy Cry – Jen Grubbs
The Uterus (Usurped) – Stephanie Kalogriopoulos
Blink – Antuan Russ
Last Act – Bessie Amato
Artificial Light – Janine Cephra Stuart
A Pirate's Life For Me – Jessy Leigh
The Snack Shack – Haili Fransham, Roderick Fransham
Rush – Jiayun Zhang
Fetch – Patrick Curran
Quell – Katherine Fairfax Wright
KALI – Sai Karan Talwar
The Point After – Kris Kaiser
Hangmen – Kyle C. Mumford
SHEIGETZ – Joseph Schweitzer
Limbo – Melissa Puente
Our Team – Joshua Holtzman
Tortoiseshell – Sarah Polhaus
Waves in the Sky – Genevieve Skehan
'Sing Me Your Questions' – Steven T. Smith, Dan Reed
The Sweetest Silence – Ryan Crepack
Bully of the Brain – Ryan Crepack
Meeting Your Maker – Gregory JM Kasunich
Paradise Lanes – Chiara Motley
Misfits – Luke Allein
Still Us – Kunjue Li
Clark – Ryan Cunningham
Cluster – Kevin Dembinsky
Teacher's Pet – Mark Wakely
Baby Rattler – Scott Corbett
Kirby in Limbo – Jamie Campbell
WORTHY OF LIFE – Allison Norlian, Judith Rubin
Lily – Jesse Foy
Savings Bonds – Chris San Nicolas
Manibestation – Karen McDermott
BLACK AND GOLD – Kevin J. Howard
Embellecimiento – Jeremy Bradford
Eternal Mother – Emily Qiu, Ligia Schiozer
Ten Minutes of Eternity – Peter Besson
Maya – Xin Liu
Number One – Diorella Mirasol
Harris knight official – Aneel Ahmad
The Beach of Stones – William Armstrong
#1735 – Joshua Weeks
Orange Vests & Cigarettes – Kyle Ensrude
Plan D – Porcha Evans
Faith
JUDE – Timothy Parr, M. Sieve
Family
The Naughty List – Brandon Osterman
Fantasy
Tap Five Times for Elena – Victoria Villarreal
Homeless – Leonardo Ramirez
The Hole Troll – Loring Weisenberger
Diwata – Shea Formanes
The Fox, the Wolf, and the Moon – Peta Huang
Bootneck & Para – Jeffrey Golden
Historical
Flame of The Iceni: The Price of Peace (PILOT Episode) – Laura J Harris
Horror
The Emergence of Carlyle – Anne-Marie Maidan
Puppeteers – Matt Moeller
Mrs Stanley – Tamar Levine
The Unraveling – Samantha Mallory
The Second Circle – Jamie Alvey
Parking – Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
Alma's Will – Kelly Karam
BOTTOM FEEDER – Ari Groobman
Duppy Conqueror – Kanja Chen
The Greenhouse At Dark – John Ludwick
White Light / White Heat – Warren Myers
Murmur – Felipe Marinheiro
The Devil's Brew – Mark Renshaw
Hysteria – MK McGehee
Baby Tooth – Tania Luna
The Hatred – Lela Cermin
Sci-Fi
The Human Code – Asha Bagal Kelly
Vucheck – Angelita Mendoza
Eve – Kirsten Spalding
MEM0IR – Jacob Chattman, Jordan Butcher
"Live and Let Hide" – Steven Smith
The Surrogate – Adesua Okosun
My Pleiadian Wife – Agnieszka Baczkowska-Maśluszczak
Psilocybots – Scott Corbett
Proprietary Power Nappers – Aiden Choi
Thriller
Our Last Trip – Blake Van Curen
Breathe – Mitch Yapko
Peach Fuzz – Hannah Sperling
The Florist – Anne Gold
In With the Storm – Cara Marshall
THE REVVER – Mike Hanson, Kelly Susan Moothart
BENEATH – Alan Mah Baxter
IN 5 MINUTES – Imole Ladipo
The Scream of the Butterfly – Anjini Taneja Azhar, Ariya Akhavan
Miscellaneous
The Inheritance of Purpose – Alex Mehta
A Handyman, a Landlord, and a Struggling Artist – Sunny Mohajer
Order for Owen – Cameron Haruta
Swallows – Nathan Pearson
No More Good Girls – Shahine Ezell
Mudslide – Frederik Ehrhardt
Moonglow – Sky Cole
Last Call. – Mike Gallagher
L'Avocat – Rachel Walsh-Williams
Little Family Secret – Samuel Robert Van Fossen
Be Nice. Smile – Tasia Brown
Again (Znovu) – Katarzyna Müller
LOLLIE - script – Agnès Shinozaki, David Barbeschi
Michael AKA Michael Myers – Charles Dillon Ward
The Heavy – Alison Whitney
Lonely Street – Michelle Lindsay-Baharie
Load Shedding – Tendayi Nyeke
Routine Procedure – Jessica Mosher
Western
Ballad Of The Black Guitar – Omar Juarez
Reuben – Nella Dudova