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Shores Scripts Announces Finalists
Shore Scripts has announced their feature screenplay and 1-hour and 1/2-hour TV pilots finalists. Finalists will be announced November 25th. Winners will be announced on December 10th.
FEATURE FINALISTS
(35 screenplays have progressed)
Aaron Michael Bailey, The Heroine Of Wrangel Island
Andy Jones, The Anklebiter
Becky Fink, Stuck On Christmas
Brendan Beachman & Justin Boyes, The Lookout
Carolyn Kras, Cutthroat
Catherine Bonny, Marked
Celeste Chaney, Cradle Song
Charlotte Cameron, Disabused
Dominic Leyton, Wild Wind
Dru Johnston, The Garbageman
Eris Qian, Pulling Seedlings
Gary Blackwood, The Department Of Easy Virtue
Gisella Faggi, Artemisia, An Allegory Of Painting
Hamish Sturgeon, The Night Anonymous
James Mulcahy, Brain Storm
Jason Jenkins, Facade
Kate Hackett, Purify My Heart
Keith Domingue, Blood To Bone
Laurie Whitaker, The Wind Chimes An American Musical
Lee Kehoe, Heartless
Lisa Lueddecke, Ephemeral
Luca Violante, Ties That Bind
Nicole Ballivian, Sleeping On Stones
R.H. Norman & Micheline Pitt, Grummy
Rebecca Gant, The Big O
Richard Adrian, Murderhorn
Sam Wright, Have You Heard About Harvey?
Sean Slater, Long Live John Africa!
Shannon Sipher, Trip
Sidney Kreitzer, Lenny Rising
Steve Blame, Major Hacker’s War
Suhashini Krishnan, Generationals
Sylvia-Anne Parker, 600 Steps
Taylor Hopkins, Scam
Tony Prescott, Little Maude
TV PILOT 1 HOUR FINALISTS
(10 screenplays have progressed)
Andrea Lawson, The Repatriots
Andy Lyberopoulos, Harley
Daniel Grove, Transhuman
Dave Paterson, Fearing Delilah
Frances Flannery, Awake
Jeff Osborne, The Isthmus
Jonhenri Alston, Ferguson
Lauren Smith, Sugar’s Paradise
Sarah Grodsky, The Blessed
Tyler Ellzey, Forward Family
TV PILOT 1/2 HOUR FINALISTS
(10 screenplays have progressed)
Annie Mackinnon, Young Grandma
Ben Berkman, Deliverance 2
Claudia Paterson, Calm, Ordinary
Keniesha Nesbitt, Dying My Hair Red
Laurie Magers, Youth Ministry
Melanie Zoey Weinstein, Fake Rabbi
Nick Madson, Down & Out
Nick Williams & Marty Abbe-Schneider, Paul Rudd’s In Trouble
Rishan Dhamija & Edwin Joseph, Alien Of Extraordinary Ability
Ryan Manns & Jocelyn Manns, New Chapter
Updated: 11/25/2021
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Feature Screenplay Contest
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Ephod
Based on a true story, after a disturbing Bible study shatters her lifelong Catholic beliefs, Faith Alvarez is driven by a supernatural encounter to uncover the mystery of the ancient Ephod.
A Risk of Exposure
In 1953, Russian ballet teacher plots to smuggle secret photos of Stalin's crimes while part of a cultural exchange to the U.
Between the Salt and the Sky
A small Portuguese fishing village in 1942 is on the edge of a war that seems far away.
Bre'gan's Fist
When Milo, a cook, meets Bastian, a powerful sorcerer, magic happens.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
A DAY AT THE RODEO
A wealthy, widowed New York socialite, and a know-it-all preacher enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” the widow’s wayward daughter who has fallen for a young bull rider.
A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the President
To feel worthy of Madeline, the love of his life, George takes on the scars of the nation and goes mad.
The Loss of Heaven
In 1961, a guilt-ridden Catholic schoolboy convinced he has damned himself and his family by breaking "Divine Law" must confront fear, superstition, and a violent bully after a tragic church fire forces him to become the hero he never believed he could be.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
A teenage girl in a violent future inhabits the gentle spirit of her murdered grandmother and discovers that acts of violence are connected through an invisible emotional web; together they learn to prevent tragedies amid the threat of violent global collapse.
Translation
Two strangers meet at a bar and discover they share more in common than either expected, navigating identity, attraction, and the courage to be truly seen by another person.
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