Listed below are the Second Rounders of the 10th Annual Launch Pad Pilot Competition. Congratulations to the writers who have made it this far and thanks to all for submitting!
Stay tuned for the Top 100 announcement on June 23rd here and on Twitter. And if you’d like to receive a notification when this contest re-opens for entries, you can subscribe for updates via Coverfly here.
Here are the Second Rounders:
| “Woof” | Trent Johnson |
| 26th and Cal | Ben Berkman |
| 7 Years Bad Sex | Neela Doležalová |
| 715 | Aaron Smith |
| 731 | Brady Nelson |
| A Blind Eye | Allison Kitaguchi |
| A.C.K. | Rebecca Workman |
| Accountabilitty | Donny Sheldon |
| Airgap | David Blanton |
| Amends – Pilot “It’s All Gooooood…” | Rudi O’Meara |
| American Diablo | Juan Castaneda |
| An Drochshaol | Patrick Duffy |
| Anabasis | Evan Graham |
| Apocalypse Later | J.W. Hendricks, Madison Crews |
| Arranged | Samip Raval |
| Auld Reekie | Patrick Mahon |
| B.E.E.S.T. | Caitlin McNerney |
| Bakemono | Tate Hamilton |
| Be Nice | Dominique Generaux |
| Beavertown | Peri Lapidus |
| Beneath the Okanagan | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Better Judgement | Mark Marino |
| BIDDY | Karen Hood, Belinda Benko Dickey |
| Big Big | Robb Juarez, Djuanna Stewart |
| BILL THE CLIENT | Nick May |
| Billie and Mark Almost Get Killed | Sean Reidy |
| Black Market | Chris Lee |
| Black-Eyed Susan | Isabella Garcia |
| BLOOD AND SOIL | Clarence Moore |
| Blood Fruit | Mauricio Serpa |
| Blue Sky Red | Nelson Downend |
| BORDERLORE: Llorona | J. Angel Sierra |
| BREE INCARNATE | Laurie K. Miller |
| BUTCH | Rae Binstock |
| Call Me Uncle | Alex Reinach |
| Camp Creep | Sarah Ward |
| Captain Kid | Mark Williams |
| Captains of Treachery | Christopher Beaton, Justin Talley |
| Charleston Jews | Corey Popowski |
| Chasing Sunset | James L. Head |
| Citizen Millovich | Kyle Hrabe |
| CLONE | Derek Lee McPhatter |
| Clown | Oliver Silver |
| Colette | Steve Coy, Marie Bertonneau |
| Coventon Court | Stevie Nelson |
| Crips | Brian Koukol |
| Cult Town | Katie Crone |
| Dead Language | Tommy Tang, Emma Van Slyck |
| Dearly Departed | Rob Campoy |
| DEMENTED | Zach Speed |
| Desire | Katherine Cronyn |
| Detox | Walker Hare, Natalia Cuevas |
| Devil’s Gulch | Steven Happel |
| Devotees of Venus | Katherine Wright |
| DICK DOCS | Marc Blitstein, Brian Rousso |
| Down By The Riverside | Jalen Young |
| Downpour | Eric Han |
| DRIFT | Eva Konstantopoulos |
| DRINKER | Kiera Bratton Lewis |
| Drones | Danny Solomon |
| Emily Quiver | Aaron Smith |
| Esperanza – One Hour Pilot | David Christopher Loya |
| Face The Strange | Rickey Cook, Jesse Barksdale |
| Faithless | Tamar Halpern |
| FEVER | Kiefer Lloyd |
| ƒ/8 | Bobby Rodriguez, Daniel Kellmer |
| Gassed! | Ben Paynter |
| Genesis Incorporated | Aaron Edwards |
| Gofers | Jackson Knapp |
| Golden Blood | Michael Esparza |
| Gone | Christine Conradt |
| Head First | Jade Edwards |
| Helium-3 | Aaron Sprecher |
| High School Never Ends | Danny Hogan |
| Highway Zero | Peter Van Horne, Steve Bynoe |
| Hole-in-the-Wall | Cody Rea |
| Homer Ranch | Katie McClung |
| HONJO | Angelo Rocha, John Lubarsky |
| HORIZON’S STORM | Rob Ingalls |
| I, Caligula | Kate Gallagher |
| In the Light of a New Sun | Will Saunders |
| Inconceivable | Lesley Fera |
| Indigo Falls | Carl Capotorto |
| Influence | Melissa Ragsly |
| Inheritance | Varun Raman, Tom Hancock |
| Iris | Carrie Fishbane |
| It’s All Been Done | Laura Becker |
| J.C. | Pavel Wine |
| JACK HAMMER: MALE STEWARDESS – PILOT (tv not airplane) | N. Fituri Scown |
| Jackpot | Brianna Naderpour |
| Jenkins and Watts: Paranormal Attorneys At Law | Michael Brennan |
| Joe Hollywood | Mark Loughlin |
| KALEIDOSCOPE | Darryl Wimberley |
| Kandlestick Men | Frank Monteleone |
| Karate is Fucking Useless | Adrian McNair |
| Keeping Up With the CIA | Michael Apgar |
| King of the Moon | Tyler Landis |
| La Familia | Nick Pagano |
| Laurel Hollow | Melanie Flaherty |
| LAURELS | Sara Kiener |
| LAWYER IN HELL | Albert Wang |
| Light My Fire | Jeana Harris |
| Living Assisted | Mike Nielsen |
| Living in the Past | Michael Wolf |
| Lobby Card Pilot: Some Fabulous Rhapsody | Tom Morgan |
| LONE WOLVES | Luci Olivia |
| Lost Hope Hotel | Alex Rubin |
| Lucidity | Chris Muir, Neale Kimmel |
| Luminex | Nina Mohan |
| Mademoiselle Maupin | Brandon Gale |
| MALCOLM’S AXE | Robert Anthony Agard |
| Man-Made | Ryan Cunningham |
| Margins | Adam Makarenko |
| Marion | Sydney Hoffner |
| Marlowe (Pilot) | Simon Bowler Khan |
| Mary, Mary – “Genesis” (Pilot for A Limited Series) | Amira Richler |
| Mashallah | Anna Khan |
| Master-Mime | Samuel Ashurov, Raza Rizvi |
| Meaderville | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Men Are From Venus | C. Pendergast |
| Mexicans Are White People Too | Unnamed |
| Mid-East Blues – First Impressions | FAREED ABDELHAK |
| Midnight at the Caravelle | Rudi O’Meara |
| Mission Trip | Katie Falcongrove, Joey DeMers |
| Morlock | Anthony Povah |
| Mr. Hugger’s House | Dorian Frankel |
| My Roommate’s A Ghost | Adam Myers |
| Nashaa | Jas Kandola |
| Nathan in Limbo | Mark Millner, Sutton Dewey |
| Neurodivergents vs The World | Rikki Bleiweiss |
| New Beginnings | Dylan Stringer |
| New Hires | John Costello |
| NIMRODS | Caleb Dillon |
| Non-Compete | Samantha Shane |
| Normies | Julianna Meagher |
| Northport Nannies | Brittany Worthington |
| Now That You’re Dead | Tania Koster |
| Oil 2.0 | Martin Laiks |
| On the Sidelines | Mark Greene |
| Orchid Heist | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| OSS: Office of Strategic Services | Jonathan Jones |
| Otherworld, NJ | Matthew McLachlan |
| Outside the Garden | Benjamin Lewis |
| Pandora | Jeff Bower |
| Pavel’s Big Time Bakery | David Fried |
| Peoples Temple | Jacques Manjarrez |
| Phantasmagoria | Tom Truax |
| Pine Mountain | Clea Montville-Wood |
| PizzaDome | Jordan Doll |
| Playwrong | Dan Martin |
| Poder-Rosas | Hayley Muñoz |
| Poe & Co. Detective Agency | Mindy Strouse |
| Porter | Coli Sylla |
| Powerful | andrew newhouse |
| Preach | Jonathan Pledger |
| Prey For Us | Zoe Kerr |
| Princes of Maryland | Richard Scott |
| PROBLEM CHILD | Alicia Louzoun-Heisler |
| Queen Mary | Kate Imy |
| Queens of the Sky | James Windeler, Elizabeth Goode |
| re.Form(ed) | Johnny Gilligan |
| Red Hill Mining Co. | Schyler Martin |
| REM | Nelson Downend |
| RETREATERS | Leigh Medeiros |
| River Rats | Bryce Berkowitz |
| Round Table | Mia Farmer |
| SAINT CITY | Daniel Lafrentz |
| SAP | Alex Carl |
| Say Something | Emily Holleman |
| SECOND BANANA | Sandy Shenkman |
| SEDALIA | Lisa Jay |
| SEED | Nti Aning |
| Shadowlands | Jeremy Craig |
| Sick & Tired | Nelson Downend |
| Silent Women | Christine Garver |
| Sincerely, Ida | Sofia Dillenberger |
| SIREN | Michael Burnet |
| SKYLINE | Ovi Stein |
| Sonic Castle Studios | Trevor Brown |
| Sorry I’m Crying | Sarah Gindy |
| SOUL SEARCHING | Vee Saieh |
| Soul Star | Daniel Albino |
| Sunnier Climes | Mia Volta |
| SYCAMORE PARK | Mark Simborg |
| Tamber Dawn | Benjamin Lewis |
| Ten Percent Off | Sammy Sultan, Alan Niku |
| Terms of Entanglement | David Schroeder |
| Territorio | Nico Grelli |
| The 38 | Darby Kennerly |
| The Analyst – Bible and Pilot | Steven Prowse |
| THE BALLS | BRADLEY JACOBS |
| The Benjamins | Kuros Charney |
| The Best Price | Sonny Priest |
| The Bull | Jeanette Campbell, Romaine Johnson |
| The Clarkson County Orchestra | Sheer Aviram |
| The Coven | Bridget Visser |
| The Cryptids | Sophie de Bruijn |
| The Diva’s Last Act | Eric McKeever |
| The Envy of Ledd | Gary Irons |
| The Explorer’s Club | Garrett Rowe, Joe Varkle |
| The Family | Adam Gozdanker |
| The Girl with the Devil Eyes | Toby Marks |
| The Golden Age of Television | Tobiah Black |
| The Great Filter | Vito Ferraro |
| The Hive | Nicholas Holterman |
| The Holdout | Seth Birkan |
| THE HOUSE OF TANG | Lisa Iannini |
| The Immune | Philip Malaczewski |
| THE LAVENDER PANTHERS | Heather Farlinger |
| The Maharaja – “Five Rivers” | Amar Rehal |
| The Man | Peter Stead |
| The Met | Barry Leach |
| The Montgomery | Christian Ruhen |
| THE MOUNTAIN | Phil Berger |
| The New Romantics | Hayley Tibbenham |
| The Protégée | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The Road to Sorrowful | Andrea Lawson |
| The Satisfaction | Greg Sidman |
| The Trib | Dan Glaun |
| The Untitled Bear Suit Project | Alex Seligsohn |
| The V Word | Lachlan Kiss |
| The White Mouse: Witch | Heather Farlinger |
| The Willow Tree Grows Green in Springtime | Min Lee |
| Theatre People | Leah Galloway |
| Thermal Maximum | Ellen Riverside |
| Thicker Than Blood | Salvador Medina |
| Time Janitors | Ryan Manns, Jocelyn Manns |
| Toxic Bloom | Ezra Lerner |
| Trashy | Chelsea Marshall |
| Trench Town | Ricardo Thompson |
| Trip | Zach Quayle |
| True Good Men | Nazli Sevinc |
| UNCELEBRATED: AN LGBTQ ANTHOLOGY SERIES | Heather Farlinger |
| Under the Tucson Sun | Ali Pickard, Myles Clifford Hawthorne |
| Untitled Fanta Pilot | Nick Cammilleri |
| Up Down Under | Herschel Kissinger |
| Vampires of New York | April Creavin |
| Vera | Shannon Brady |
| Virtual Reality | Dave Grove |
| Vitals | Nelson Downend |
| We Stayed | Akram Shibly |
| What the Actual | Shona Tuckman |
| Whine Town | Rochan Liu |
| Whistleblower | Emily Daly |
| Who Killed William Desmond Taylor? | Nate Washburn |
| Within Arms Reach | Corinne Chooey, Robert Dodrill |
| YAKIMA | Aaron Craven |
| Yao Guai: Dragons and Demons | Brent McKnight |
| Yellow Hearts SUGAR LAND TV pilot | tammy lynne stoner |
| Yellow Monsters | Francesca Lin |
| YoungBloods | Stacey Russell |
