| 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
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A former model-turned-entrepreneur once had the world at her fingertips, now she has to grasp a world of torment; her cheating psychiatrist husband blurs the line between Psychotherapist and Psycho, when he resorts to mind games and unscrupulous schemes, intent on framing her of adultery and escaping his vows free & clear.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other despicable souls) after their third offense.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Xanadu Shores III Rescuing Atlas
The Xanadu Team, their credibility restored after rescuing Natalia and the painting, are recruited to recover the plans to save the world from a rogue aerospace engineer.
Xanadu Shores (20pgs) - "The Pilot" - 9.16.25
Logline: Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Xanadu Shores: 10 Minute PoC for The TV Pilot
Four friends unknowingly become entrapped after their employer's gold heist escalates to kidnapping.
Alien Olympics
A brilliant alien teenager, gifted with a high IQ and extraordinary speed, has always excelled academically on her home planet.
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 baffling neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her college senior class project.
