Circus Road Screenplay Contest
Circus Road Screenplay Contest 2014 – Semi-Finalists
Circus Road is pleased to announce the Semi-Finalists for our First Annual Circus Road Screenplay Contest. In order to choose the Grand Prize and Honorable Mention winners, there are three rounds to the contest. In the first round, every screenplay is read by several judges. The screenplays with the highest ratings move into the second round. The screenplays listed below made it through this process and deserve recognition as Semi-Finalists, which represent the top 35% of entries that we received.
We appreciate everyone’s submission! Congratulations to everyone for their great work!
2014 Semi-Finalists
| 1917 | Ben Woestenburg |
| 10 Minute Paradise | Janyce Lapore |
| 13th Generation | Kathleen Mullin |
| 21 Questions | Alexandria Rose Rizik & Zachary Figures |
| 3 Full Moons | Marius Andro |
| 3 to 11 | Jeff Rosenberg |
| 3000 Dollar Dog | Larry Anderson |
| 31 Years | Lisa Mueller |
| 3D at the Palace | Kent Wilson |
| 49th Day, The | Craig Peters |
| 68 Firebird | Colleen Malfitano & Frank Malfitano |
| 99 Fake Street | Gordon Rayfield |
| A-L-L | Robert Holt |
| Abominable Ski Man | Allen D. Sevener |
| Across The Divide | Dennis O’Flyng |
| Actor, The | Jeff Siegel & Vincent Scordia |
| Adventures of Andrew and Amelie | Douglas Cornwell |
| Aficionado | Austin Penman |
| After | James Dilworth |
| Agrarian | Debra Higgins, Star Young-Dettro & Lori Bonfitto |
| Algebra 1 | Chuck Whitton |
| Alice Mitchell | Thom Vernon |
| Alices Best Interest | Robert E. Randall |
| All of Her Life | Jeff Shevlowitz |
| All the Gold in Nevada | Ronald L. Ecker |
| Alone in Amsterdam | Ralph Suarez |
| America’s Game | Terry Ledyard |
| Among Us | Robert Howling |
| Angel of Mercy | Josephine Agricola |
| Anne Bonny | Aimee Lamb |
| Another Mans Gun | Derek M. Walker |
| Another Time Circus | Heather Wilson |
| Antidote Man | Jamie Sutliff |
| Apache Echo | David McCartney |
| Archangel | Joe “Tuffy” Tofuri |
| Armada | Dimitri Neos |
| Ashes in the Wind | Tessa Bell |
| Assist | Linda Rumney |
| Azazel | Tim Ehly |
| Baby on Board | Steven Laflamme |
| Baby Pool, The | Michelle Muldoon |
| Baby Star | Sasha Higgins and Tim J. Lim |
| Babysitter Murders, The | Fredrick J. Healy |
| Backspace | Charles Huneke |
| Bad Lands, The | David McCracken |
| Ballad of Gille Dundour, The | Ross Dunsmore |
| Ballylickey Killings, The | Hilton Webber |
| Bank of Days | Paula Sewell |
| Beast | Max Gold |
| Belladonnah | Kelvin Gumbonzvanda |
| Belladova | William Miller |
| Belzec Made Undead | Steffan Postaer |
| Betrayal in Kansas City | Carol Farrand |
| Beyond the Horizon | George Ferris |
| Beyond the Stone Wall | Louis Ladehoff |
| Big Idea, The | David J Schroeder |
| Big O, The | Jeff Siegel & Mark Rowland |
| Big Sister | David Chester |
| Birth Control | Erica Warnock |
| Birthday Magic | George Spicer |
| Bitter Proxy | John Hörnschemeyer |
| Black Monk, The | Elizabeth Puccini |
| Bleeding Heart | Leah Benavides |
| Blood Wolf | Diana Cignoni & Sasha Higgins |
| Bloody Mary | Emily Felt |
| Bloody Mary | John C. Thursby & Dan Ast |
| Bogus Family Vacation | Sundae Jahant-Osborn |
| Boo Hoo Flanagan | Robert Gately |
| Bound | Tracey Keefer |
| Boy with the Dancing Eyes | Ron Iannone |
| Bre’gan’s Fist | Tom Emerick |
| Bridezilla | Joe LaMattina & Lisa LaMattina |
| Bullet | Steve Spiro |
| Burning Creek Incident, The | Blake E. Ray, Michael Ruther & S. Hollis Adler |
| Butterfly Children | Melanie Schiele |
| Caged | Alan J. Adler |
| California City CA | Jon Reno, Jon Cring & Tracy Cring |
| Canaan | Elizabeth Copeman |
| Chapters of Phoenician Walls, The | Rodgers Wilson |
| Charlatan | Dan A R Kelly |
| Chippies | Patrick J & Patrick K Gamble |
| Chopper Cowboys | Jeff Peters |
| Christmas Break, A | Keith Justin Strausbaugh |
| Chubby Chasers | Michael Dugan |
| Circus Doesnt Stop Here Anymore | Scherrie Payne |
| Clash of Iron, A | Richard Reed |
| Colonia Dignidad | Donato Marcello Radice |
| Come Dream With Me | Sandra Bolton |
| Coming Alive | Brent Kinetz |
| Coming Home | Ian Harvey |
| Conquest | Casey Cherndon |
| Consequences of a Feeble Mind | Marc Shuter & Curt Fletcher |
| Cottenhead | Oliver W. Tuthill Jr. |
| Crazy Nurse | Gwenis Alexis |
| Crossing the Line | Lawrence Seliski |
| Culture Shock | Jodi Levitan |
| D.T. | Ken Comer |
| Damaged Goods | Michael Baley |
| Deal Me In | Jacqueline M. Loring & Bunny Wingate |
| Death of a Superhero | Megan Griffiths |
| Deer Crossing | Ian Miller |
| Degenerate | Karen Frank |
| Delusions of Fellini | Mark Cassar |
| Devil in the Window | Marius Iliescu |
| Devil’s Valley Justice | Harold Brown |
| Devils Backbone, The | Kevin Quaid |
| Devils Larceny, The | Howard Fridkin |
| Dinosaur Bowl, The | Herb McCollom |
| Disturbed | Barry N. Cooper |
| Do Over, The | Marina Loos |
| Doc Zombie | Darryl Anka |
| Dog Park | Harold Taw |
| Don’t Mess with Mr Meow Meow | Robert Broderick |
| Drifters | April Rouveyrol |
| Duck Duck Dead | Jon Huntley |
| Earth Aliens | Michael J. Casey |
| East Side Girl The Musical | Paul Arria & Max Segal |
| EKE’BOLOS | Stephen C. Settle |
| Eleanor at Allenswood | Robin Gerber & Alexandra Ryan |
| Elephant Milk | Diane Sherry Case |
| Elijah | Maria Lennon |
| End Time Protocol, The | Adrienne Baranowski |
| Enumclaw | Zach Jansen |
| Eubie | Bonnie Seltzer |
| Evelyn and Eddie | Gary Wallach |
| Extraordinary Life of Jacob Giant, The | Gregory Giovinco |
| Fall, The | Shawn McLaughlin & Michael Mityok |
| Family Converted | Sean Riordan |
| Fetch | Chris Burnside |
| Final Exit | Jason Siner & Eddie Lavett |
| Find Jimmy Horne | Jery B Rowan |
| Finding Distance | Josi Levitan & Daniel Levitan |
| Finding Templar Treasure | Suzy Vaughan |
| Fire in the Mind, A | Ken White |
| Firebird | Kathryn Machi |
| Floaters | Molly Wofford |
| Follow the Southern Cross | J Jay Ross |
| For Hayden’s Sake | Maggie Franks |
| For Want of a Horsehoe Nail | Josephine Boyette |
| Foreign Markets | Ritchie Priddy |
| Four Days in May | Beth Shaughnessy |
| Four to Glory | Bradley Weigel |
| FourPlay | John F. Harris |
| Fourth Night, The | Mike Briock |
| Furious Storm and the Curse of Egypt | Connor Gunnlaugsson |
| Galahads Sandals | Linda Langdon-Floyd |
| Game Invaders | Natasha Le Petit & Martin Threlfall |
| Gemini Skin | María Del Pilar Blanco H. |
| Genius | Tim Davis |
| Gestapo vs The Granny, The | Shequeta L. Smith |
| Getting Back | Belinda King |
| Ghost Story of Christmas, A | Eddie Yaroch |
| Gigging Frogs and Hanging Men | Ken Ross |
| Godmother | Karen Willoughby |
| Godspeed | Jeffrey David |
| Good Kind of Pity, The | Dominic Marullo |
| Good Mourning | Jessica Staszak |
| Gospel According to Clarence Thomas, The | Ashis Gupta |
| Grace | Jeffrey Allen Russel & Lynda Lemberg |
| Gray and Lover The Hearth Tales Incident | JZ Murdock |
| Gray Yankee | Doug McBeth |
| Green Means Go | Bryan Buss |
| Guardian Ship | Adam Rogulski |
| Gunny | Chadwin Taylor |
| Gurgitator, The | David Klein |
| Happy Trails | Ray Karp |
| Haunted Caves, The | Michael Patrick Stevens |
| Hawk Moon | Cal Athan |
| Headshots | Timothy Yost |
| Heckler, The | Mike Hanson |
| Heidegger in Ruins | Jeffrey van Davis |
| Hell Toupee A Story of Revenge | Kevin Barney |
| Help Wanted | Manish Chhokar |
| Heroman | Timucin Leflef |
| Herr Max | Michelle Bornstein |
| Holding on to Letting Go | Juliet Bradford & Alicia Lipinski |
| Hollow, The | Miles Doleac |
| Holly Jolly Christmas | Ken Webb |
| Holy Rollers | Kat Fullerton |
| Horseman of Zabul, The | William Blackmon |
| House on Dixon Street, The | Eric Eppinger |
| Huts | Betty Ellington-Smith |
| I Can’t Say | Tom Huang |
| I Dreamt You Kissed Me | Harold Jewell |
| I’m No Longer Here | Fernando Frias |
| I’m With the Band | Dana Whitney |
| Ice Pick Rules | Steven Lane Smith |
| Impresario, The | John P Murphy |
| In Jade Moonlight | Craig Stewart |
| In the Hands of the Stoners | Aaron Mare |
| Infernal | Corey Azevedo |
| Infest | Jess & Cindy Parra |
| Insight War of the Angels | Joseph Murkijanian |
| Intravenal | Mark Wagstaff |
| Invented August | Genie Frisbee & Melissa Farnsworth |
| It Happened on the Orient Express | Jean McIntosh |
| Jack Pine Triumph | Shanna Taylor |
| Jacob’s Ocean | Jan Evans |
| Jacobs Attic | Ryan Widner |
| Jane of Battery Park | Jaye Viner |
| Johhny Dane | Tod Shacklett |
| Joppa Flat, The | Rachel S. Thomas-Medwid |
| Journey with the Magi | Guillermo Gomez |
| Julius V | Steve Guettermann |
| Junah’s Gift | Anthony Feijoo Amado & Angel Perez Castellanos |
| Just East of Eden | Randy D Owens |
| Just the Right Amount of Wrong | Larry Hulse |
| Kaleidoscope | Darryl Wimberley |
| Kerry Dunbar | Evan Laughlin |
| KHDZ | David R. Beshears |
| Killbook | Pearse Lehane |
| Killing Rusty | John Volmers |
| Kingsley | Linda Saether |
| Kisscam | Coletta Preacely-Garcia |
| Lady Blade | Catherine Thrush |
| Lady Smoke | John Celona |
| LandLocked | Steven Becker |
| Last 9 Days of Gretchen Kuhntz, The | Russ Lindway |
| Last Indian War, The | Michael Graf |
| Late Bloomers | Terence J. Gabriel |
| Leadfoot | Steve Kopera |
| Leaves | Morley Nelson |
| Letters | John Long & Jeremy N. Cox |
| Letters from Thurgood | Robert F Redmond Jr |
| Life More Perfect | Steve Brechtel |
| Life of Dreams, The | Peter Devonald and Kevin Scrantz |
| Life Without Frosted Glass, A | Jeremy Saul Taylor |
| Lions Share | Eugene James |
| Local Secrets | James Taylor |
| Lorena’s Misadventures | Corina Maritescu |
| Lost Tsar, The | James Rosenfield |
| Love The Final Dart | Sohit Keswani |
| Love Transcending | Annie Ricciuti |
| Lucys Cort | Justina Walford |
| Man at the Top | Larry Shulruff |
| Mansion on the Hill | Kim Sheeter |
| Marco & the Dream Detective | Hugh Schulze |
| Matriculation | Mark J. Rose |
| Matter of Predjudice, A | Sandra Lince |
| Megalania | Ray Karp |
| Miami Feist | Debra Zarne |
| Middling | Sheri McMahon |
| Midsummer | Maria Berova |
| Militia Caper, The | Jeff Peters |
| Milk Route, The | Michael Begg |
| Mind of the Assassin | Carolina Saccone |
| Miss Hollywood | John Kestner |
| Miss Lyon & Mr. Twain | Bartholomew Hobson |
| Momsong | Yvonne Meyer |
| Money Talks | Bronwyn Isaac |
| Morality, Game, The | Ed Vela |
| Moving, The | Lori Queirolo |
| Murder Me | David H Luz |
| Murder Me Twice | Serita Stevens |
| Mutiny in the Dugout | Rod Kent & Rebecca Foster |
| My Choice | William Conlon |
| My Pet Zombie | Stephen Daniels |
| Myth | Jean Blasiar |
| Need, The | Scott Frazelle |
| Never Attack Just Defend | Mark Macauley |
| Nice Guy, A | Paul Vincent |
| Night Falls on Olympus | Christopher O’Rourke |
| Night for Souls, A | Michael J. Corcoran |
| Not Yet | Bob Mahaffey |
| Numbered Oat | Ruchika Mandhyan |
| Obscurity | Paolo Taddei |
| Occupy | Jim Sea |
| Of Wolves and Men | Robert Dan O´Neill |
| Offsides | Rebekah E. Reaves |
| Oh Crappy Day | Jon Lance Bacon |
| Old Castles Secret, The | Timothy Savage |
| Om Factor, The | Jean Buschmann |
| Once When You Were Mine | Richard Dane Scott |
| One Fck of a Day | Anthony Tarsitano |
| One Foot in the Grave | Ryan Tungate |
| Orbs | Justin Hawkins |
| Out of Love | Jean Van Tuyle Blasiar |
| Oxbury Heights | Ian de Vries |
| Pahana | Stewart Lindh & Daniel Romero |
| Painkiller | Arturo Olivares |
| Paint It Black | Maureen J. Grenier |
| Panic | David Benjamin Sporn & Paul Coleman |
| Passing Light | Kim Lee Winslow |
| Paul Revere | Margaret Sweeney Ballou |
| Phantom Pains | Alvin Easter |
| Picasso’s War | Robert E. Burns |
| Place of Ravens | Terence Brody |
| Point Random | Edward Ybarra |
| Probable Cause | Shane McCabe |
| Project P.A.R.I.S. | Dennis Douda & Justine Hoa Nguyen |
| pure | Maggie Rowe & Andersen Gabrych |
| Purgatory | Craig Charter |
| Pussycat Rampage | Timothy Friend |
| Railroad Girl | Lynn Mills & Briana London |
| Ray and Molly After the Apocalypse | Mark Simborg |
| Real McCoy, The | Justin Taite |
| Rebirth | Gary Eads |
| Red Stitches | Steven Miller |
| Redemption 37 | Edward Mann |
| Reel Friends | Sandra Hodge-Hampton |
| Retirement Plan | B. Daniel Martinez |
| Reverend Ezra Tombstone | Michael Pallotta |
| Rock God | Robert J. Jaffe & Stephen Freedman |
| Rockinitis | Jack Kolkmeyer |
| Rockwell | David Berenbaum & T.M. Hayes |
| Rotten | Kristin Bogart |
| Rube | Dan O’Brien |
| Run! | Anne Katherine |
| Running in Prose | Katrina Jolid |
| Rust | Michael E. Bierman |
| Ruth and Rose | Brian Nicol |
| Sadistic Beginnings | Holly Barrett |
| Sailbad the Sinner | Jeff Thomas |
| Sam and Jerry | Michael Simon |
| Sanctuary | Darryl Wimberley |
| Sarah on the Run | Doug Mayfield |
| Savannah Rose | Valerie Dalena |
| Sawdust in the Sky | Robert H Burke |
| Scapegoat | Chris Julian |
| Screwjob | Patrick Steele |
| Season of Mists | Kevin Brodie |
| Second Beast, The | Deirdre Patterson |
| Secret War, The | Joseph Stringfield & Nolan Stringfield |
| Self Storage | Carlos Gutierrez |
| Sentences | Stewart Lindh |
| Serial Brothers | Justin Kagan |
| Seven Knights | Sabrina Morris |
| Sexual Revolution, The | Martin K Zitter |
| Shadow Falls | Anders Holmes |
| Shadowman | Mike Miller |
| Shadowplay | Judy Marston |
| Signs of Being | Tracey Bradley |
| Sins of a Super Hero | Dennis Douda |
| Sins of the Hunter | Sally-Anne Ward |
| Sister Dance, The | Victoria Augustine |
| Slaying Dragons | Jennifer Lefever |
| Snakemen, The | Jeffrey Ryback |
| Snowdrop | Riccardo Giullari |
| Soccer Balls | Jason Doeren |
| Soccer Momster, The | Jeffrey Rubin |
| Spillville | Craig Heller |
| Spy | Kyle Francis |
| Stages | Ron Podell |
| Stalag Dixie | Lynn Morris |
| State | Jacob Burstein-Stern & Kyle Laursen |
| Stay Trill | Drew Morris |
| Stealing Sam | Antony J. Bowman |
| Straight Shooter | Kathleen Kreiser |
| Stride | Rick Whelan |
| Summer Camp | Diane Hanks |
| Summer of Lisa | Lisa Franek |
| Summer of Love | M Perlick |
| Sweet Science | Matt Rhoden |
| Switch | Adam Graveley |
| Sympathy for the Devil | John Cruz Alarid |
| Tags | Robert Christian Frostholm |
| Tales Out of School | Michael Ruther, Blake Ray Hollis & Adler |
| Tango With Solitude | Maria HInterkoerner |
| Tater Tot & Patton | Andrew Kightlinger |
| Tears for My City | Dean Dimitrieski |
| Tears of Eternity | John Michael Pearson |
| Templar Honor Among Thieves | Rene Hinojosa |
| Terminal Call | A.J. Meyers and Richard Winslow |
| That Damnable Bull | Harold Schmidt & Tony Cirone |
| Thief | Jonathan Smith |
| Thousand Times Goodnight, A | Sandra Corkins-Schmidt |
| Three Sheets to The Wind | Nick Arvay |
| Thrown | Jessi Seguin |
| Tied Down | Erica Ashbrook |
| Time and Space | Steven Prowse |
| Time Surfers | Michael J Leider |
| Tori & Lisa “Pilot” | Octaveus Kelly |
| Tree Canyon Reduex | Michael Dobkin |
| Trim | Carl B. Clark |
| Triton | Marc C. DeLamater |
| Truth About Mercy, The | Desiree R Poteet |
| Tunkashila | Robert Horvath |
| Uglies, The | Fred Wiehe |
| Under the World | Brooke Heatley-Palmer |
| Unhooking | Scott A. Aiman |
| Unseen, The | Shiva Ramanathan |
| Uploading | Zoran Lisinac |
| Utopia Virus, The | Chris Fiore |
| Utopian Experiment, The | Phil Jackson |
| Valentines | Tim Pitoniak |
| Victor | James Huang |
| Vilification of Ruth Dunn, The | Taylor Albertson |
| Viral | Joe McClean |
| Voice, The | Bettina Gracias |
| Wahneta | Allan McCall |
| Wake Up Priscilla! | Emanuela Del Monaco |
| Wake-up Call | Tomer Almagor |
| Waking the Fallen Son | Danielle Dooley |
| Walking in Memphis | David W. Ford |
| Warsaw | Kimberly Kaplan |
| We Lived | Amanda Stoddard |
| West Dakota | Mark Rose |
| Wham Bam Merci Maam | David Minaskanian |
| Wheelchair | Jeffrey H. Johns |
| White Powder | Ash Kohan & David Castro |
| Wild Sky | Andrea Ashton |
| Wilder Family, The | Chris Binning |
| Windows | Michelle Simon |
| Witches’ Road, The | Arthur Vincie |
| Woman of the Year | Ted Gurich |
| Wonder, The | George M. Johnson |
| Wonderer | Michal Lali Kagan |
| World Turned Upside Down, A | Randy Hatch |
| Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow | Doris B Gill |
| Zombie Games | Claire Thorne & Emily Thorne |
| Zugzwang | Robert Dorian |