| 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!The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
The Christmas Sermon
When a former 90’s R&B boy band member and current nightclub owner learns his mother’s dying wish was for him to become the pastor of her church, he must confront his lost faith, his loveless marriage, and the Church Board’s opposition to give a Christmas sermon that could change his life for the better.
CLOUD CITY
LoglineAfter discovering the richest citizens of Earth are abandoning the planet for a secret floating city above Venus, a young astronaut-in-training must find a way to save the Earth with the help of an adventurous young woman
GIRL OF MY DREAMS
When a lonely scientist who believes dreams are a link to a parallel world meets the literal woman of his dreams, he must find a way to bring her into the waking world before they are both discovered by the dream world’s evil ruler.
A Bullet For God's Bounty
In a small Arizona town in the 1880s, a righteous French bounty hunter agrees to track down a violent fugitive, only to discover he has been hunting the wrong man.
Pretty Baby: The Tragic Death Of Marion Parker
Based on a shocking 1927 crime, a grieving woman exposes the decades-old truth about her twin sister's murder to prevent the killer's lawyer from publishing his own skewed account of the tragedy.
Greenman
A rising rock star strikes out for Iceland in search of inspiration, only to discover a centuries-old horror that threatens to use her gifts to take over the world.
Tar Pits
Forced to take sides in a centuries-old intergalactic war, a veteran soldier and her scientist ex-wife bond with giant alien warriors in a final battle that will decide the fate of humanity.
Morbidly
A young physical therapist slowly loses his grip on reality as he succumbs to the seductiveness of his only patient, a morbidly obese woman with a grisly secret.
