Alycya Magana | El Vals (The Waltz) | With their mother deported and young Danny now the man of the house, acquiring a Quinceañera dress for his older sister means everything – yet 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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In 1994, grieving brothers spend the weekend partying hard at an old friend's house, but an unexpected guest awakens past grudges and petty jealousies, unraveling their plans to start over.
Murder in Emergency!
Unaware of the clandestine figures manipulating her life, a dedicated nurse's fight to save her hospital from closure, escalates to war against it, on discovery patients are being murdered.
Doors of Miracles
A young woman’s faith is tested, she is filled with the Holy Spirit and transcended through the universe to the Heavens to be returned to Earth with the power to heal, a direct link to God, God speaks and The Holy Spirit intercedes her response.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
A Merry Stoned Christmas
A Christmas Movie A Stoner Mexican and a Stoner Arab, they rob a bank while getting stoned as they both get up to messed up things the Mexicans father falls in love with Arab Guy as the Arab hallucinates he ends up in a sticky situation with the Mexicans dad, the Mexican guy accidentally has sex with an old woman but is proud for being an internet Porn Star.
and The Devil called!
The Devil visits God`s chosen-one five times, and with the gift of a book to get her in [to parliament] `and you will be my bride` gives dates the world will end but she rejects him, so with his tri-step-headed charcoaled alien goons he examines her brain.
Violent Delights
A group of feisty, fed-up coworkers devise a plan to utilize their clientele privileges to potentially boost their lifestyle up a notch, by copying the MO of a group of infamous thieves.
Lover Haters Club
A bold group of teens band together to form a unique and quickly growing movement against relationship games, that captures the attention of the teen icon, Hayley Kiyoko.
Less Traveled
A well-known celebrity falls for a girl, unknowingly below his social status.
Curbside Service
A recently separated couple finds themselves stranded in the Arizona desert on their way to a family holiday function.