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Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists
Fifteen finalists have been announces for Short Scripts Fall Season Film Fund. Two Grand Prize Winners will announced on December 14th.
TOP 15 FINALISTS
(in alphabetical order)
Alex Lawther, For People In Trouble
Where do you put it? How do you get up in the morning? Get on the tube, go to work, sit at your desk…go on a date at a pub with someone when maybe instead we should be planning for total societal collapse?
Dorothy A. Atabong, Eye Of The Veil
After the sudden death of her pregnant partner, a closeted attorney must embrace her sexuality and humanity, as she seeks custody of their newborn.
Hannah Leopard, Horny
An insecure teenager, who is terrified of losing her virginity, discovers a horn is growing out of her forehead on the day she’s meant to do it.
Jacob Perlmutter, A Wall
A woman forms a romantic obsession with a wall. As she spirals into torment, she is driven to levels of psychological despair, battling with her rationale as to what the true reasons are behind her struggle.
Jessica Rowlands, Just Like Sarah
After her sister is murdered while walking home at night, young Mia spends the rest of her life trying to find her own way home.
Joseph Lee, Other Homes
In the winter of the Korean War, a North Korean family on the run escapes to the seaside, where they must quietly sneak across the water on a fisherman’s boat to reach freedom.
Lindiwe Mueller-Westernhagen, Desmond’S Not Here Anymore
The mother can’t remember, the daughter can’t forget.
Maju Cancella, Alice & The Secret Agent
hen Alice and her sick mother move into a new house, the girl meets a Secret Agent that only she can see. Now, Alice needs to deal with anticipatory grief and a very annoying imaginary friend.
Martyn Eaden, Changes
When a woman meets a mysterious man at a hotel, an intimate moment forces her to face a monster from his past.
McKenzie Chinn, A Real One
A bright teenager on Chicago’s south side discovers the power and beauty of true friendship when her illicit relationship with a teacher is discovered amid the final weeks of her senior year in high school.
Molly Virostek, Vanilla
An ex-bride-to-be attends her wedding cake tasting alone, where the flavor roulette forces her to process her ex-fiancés breakup line: you’re vanilla.
Nikki Palumbo, Coming Out (Again)
When Nikki’s 93-year-old Italian Nana asks her about a boyfriend during a family dinner, she decides to come out – again. Based on a painfully true story.
Roni Niu, Room Temperature
A plain white humanoid explores rooms with more vibrant colours to find where it belongs.
Solomon Amadiume, Where Penguins Lay
At his partner’s funeral, a grieving man is forced to confront unexpected feelings when his boyfriend’s ex shows up.
Taylor Foreman-Niko, El D. Ritch
Former demon of Hell and current private investigator, El D. Ritch, interviews a new client.
Updated: 12/01/2021
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund
ScriptLinks
Post Your Script Here!The Sword's Awakening
When King Arthur’s legendary sword Excalibur is stolen from a museum, it awakens a dragon and the descendent of a legendary knight who must join forces to find the powerful relic before its dark magic falls into the wrong hands.
FAUSTIAN
After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
Fingertips
A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
