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| Alycya Magana | El Vals (The Waltz) | With their mother deported and young Danny now the man of the house, acquiring a Quincea̱era dress for his older sister means everything Рyet how will he do it with no money and CPS closing in? |
| Courtney Randle | A Mind of Its Own | A black woman experiences microaggressions at her workplace due to her loud talking natural hair. |
| Hamish Parkinson & Brynley Stent | Sibbys | Two agoraphobic siblings drift apart and have to make a choice to stay together when they are locked out of their family home. |
| Heida Reed | Paso Doble | A washed-up Latin ballroom teacher takes his life frustrations out on a student’s parent. |
| Joseph Oxford | Jon In Wonderland | Joe is in a rut and is desperate for a good idea. When inspiration strikes, his obsession takes him down a rabbit hole that will test his sanity. |
| Kali Bailey | The WASP | “The WASP” is a short film about Hazel Ying Lee, the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the U.S. Military. Hazel is a mischievous, driven, and brave woman who wants to serve her country in any way she can. |
| Karina Hurtado | From Maintenance With Love | As if having to work through a pandemic wasn’t enough like living in the Twilight Zone, the skeletal maintenance crew of a deserted office building starts noticing strange, possibly supernatural occurrences, taking place during their shifts. As the unprecedented political events of 2020 intensify so do the surreal incidents taking place in the building. |
| Leaf Lieber | Snakesbite | In a post-apocalyptic world, a lonely lieutenant forms a bond with a weary traveler, in doing so, unlocking an internalized trauma that has persisted in the wake of extinction. |
| Michael Godere | Ginzo | A disgraced ex-cop takes his family on the lam as he battles a corrupt police department and local mafia, while his son and best friend fall in love with hip hop and battle racism over one hot summer in 1980s New England |
| Onyx Shelton | Hand of Glory | A young thief goes to ridiculous lengths to charm a dead man’s hand into a legendary and powerful object. |
| Raúl Eduardo Galindo Peña & Andrea Porras | Heatwave | A strong heat wave hits “Candela”, a peaceful and forgotten town in northern Mexico. Day by day, the suffocating heat pushes our three protagonists and the entire town towards an eruption of violence. |
| Shezah Salam | Bona Vacantia | Driven to paranoia by her job cataloging the empty homes of those who die alone, council worker Nadia Basheer finds an unusual way to cope in the home of a dead sound recordist. |
| Tarique Qayumi | Over The Next Hill | On a perilous journey as a refugee, eleven-year-old Zabi struggles to prove his manhood to his mother. |
| Yvonne Zhang | Carrion | 8-year-old Mengmeng accidentally digs up a rotting carcass, and that night, something long-buried is unearthed in her mother. |
| Zack Hosseini | A Cotton Moon | A pastor’s estranged son begins intercepting strange TV broadcasts from a mysterious deity, known only as The Shepherd, that inspire a novel and radical religious awakening of his own. |
Shore Script Names Short Film Fund Finalists
Shore Scripts has named the 15 finalists for the Spring Season of their Short Film Fund competition:
SHORT FILM FUND FINALISTS
Updated: 06/02/2021
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!Xanadu Shores - First 14 pages
Four friends become enmeshed in a gold heist turned kidnapping chased by a capricious Federal agent and his comely accomplice by land, air and sea, culminating explosively on Xanadu Shores.
THE BEAUTY OF THE RODEO
A former rodeo queen returns home after thirty years, but her attempt to fit back in is further complicated by the arrival of the daughter she secretly placed for adoption.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DECORATIONS
When a disgruntled spirit brings all the neighborhood decorations to life on Halloween, a timid fifth grader must devise a plan to capture it by midnight in order to save her family and friends from becoming decorations themselves forever.
LAST SHOPPER STANDING
A bitterly divorcing couple competes in a deadly game of survival on Christmas Eve when a disgruntled big-box store manager locks them inside with five other players and stages a twisted competition as punishment for their consumer misdeeds.
THE LAST PLACE
A woman delves into the forest of her own mind to solve an impossible mystery when her family disappears during a stop at a highway rest area.
THE SCRIPT, A CELTIC TALE
A mysterious young, Irish girl, who refuses to name herself, insists a Los Angeles literary agent read her work—both their lives depend on it! Despite Aiden’s repeated attempts to destroy the script, it returns, together with a host of Celtic demons and a sign, in Gaelic, “The Past Does Not Die.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
