Announcing the 2025 HollyShorts Screenplay Contest Semifinalists

HollyShorts is excited to announce the next round of semi-finalists in the 2025 HollyShorts Screenplay Contest

Square Grouper by Jonathan Levy
Puppeteers by Matt Moeller
Our Last Trip by Blake Van Curen
BABKA (feature screenplay) by Serena Dykman
Bad to the Bone by Tim Young
A6 by Akevo Jenkins
Welcome to America by Weiyang Liu
A Colorful Evening by Michael Mike Canon
Oh, Diane by Megan Hensley
Dope Friend by Matt Ferrucci
Let Us Prey by James Tuverson
A Handyman, a Landlord, and a Struggling Artist by Sunny Mohajer
Mijo by Johnny Baca
The Human Code by Asha Bagal Kelly
Happy Cry by Jen Grubbs
The Uterus (Usurped) by Stephanie Kalogriopoulos
Mudslide by Frederik Ehrhardt
Moonglow by Sky Cole
Ballad Of The Black Guitar by Omar Juarez
A Pirate's Life For Me by Jessy Leigh
Last Call. by Mike Gallagher
The Snack Shack by Haili Fransham
Above Average Heroes by Carlos Greaves
Little Family Secret by Samuel Robert Van Fossen
Problem Teachers by Nick Roth
Tap Five Times for Elena by Victoria Villarreal
Quell by Katherine Fairfax Wright
The Point After by Kris Kaiser
The Florist by Anne Gold
Hangmen by Kyle C. Mumford
The Unraveling by Samantha Mallory
In With the Storm by Cara Marshall
MEM0IR by Jacob Chattman
Work: The Novela The Unauthorized Musical No One Asked For by Joelle Velez
The Nose Whistler by Ben Hirschhorn
Limbo by Melissa Puente
"Live and Let Hide" by Steven Smith
The Surrogate by Adesua Okosun
BENEATH by Alan Mah Baxter
The Sweetest Silence by Ryan Crepack
Meeting Your Maker by Gregory JM Kasunich
Again (Znovu) by Katarzyna Müller
Reuben by Nella Dudova
Paradise Lanes by Chiara Motley
The Hole Troll by Loring Weisenberger
The Naughty List by Brandon Osterman
Still Us by Kunjue Li
Clark by Ryan Cunningham
Murmur by Felipe Marinheiro
LOLLIE - script by Agnès Shinozaki
A Wedding Affair by Jack Warner
The Heavy by Alison Whitney
Manibestation by Karen McDermott
Diwata by Shea Formanes
Bootneck & Para by Jeffrey Golden
Just Breathe by Zaza /
#1735 by Joshua Weeks
Orange Vests & Cigarettes by Kyle Ensrude
The Doorway by Bragi Schut Jr

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