Shore Scripts Names Short Film Fund Finalists
Fifteen finalists have been announced for the Fall, 2022 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund.
TOP 15 FINALISTS
(in alphabetical order)
Alexandra Qin, Thirstygirl
When her estranged alcoholic sister lands in the hospital after a relapse, Charlie reluctantly agrees to drive her from New York to rehab in Kentucky. But she must deal with a secret addiction of her own along the way.
Alison Week & Zoe Eisenberg, Wanle
A second-generation cockfighter in rural Hawaii must choose between her birds and her lover in this look at legacy, love, and the ties that bind us.
Ariel Mahler & Matisse Haddad, T4T
When a closeted trans girl meets a crossdresser online, he takes her to a lingerie shop where an intriguing stranger helps her embrace her true self.
Darryl Daughtry, There Are Voices In Our Skin
Dave and Gilly seemingly meet up for the first time and quickly learn that they’ve known each other for lifetimes.
Eli Newman, Concrete
In an alternate version of 1970s America, all citizens are subject to government-issued neurological implants they believe prevent their untimely deaths. When Arkady, the lone caretaker of his ailing mother, has his implant forcibly removed by an unknown assailant he scrambles to find answers amidst a collapsing reality.
Erica Alexandria Silverman, Passing Through
A young woman connects with her hedonistic father in the most unlikely of places – a hospice facility in trashy paradise, South Florida.
Isabella Vizetta, Fish
A rigid scientist desperately attempts to convert a fish into his wife.
Jake Keating, Mid-Century Modern
The portrait of an idyllic, post-war American family is shattered when a hideous truth is revealed.
Jake Redmond, Carrots
Bolstered by George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, a school teacher takes it upon herself to forcefully help a struggling student.
Jess C. Wheatley, The Call Out
A roadside assistance mechanic late for a date finds more than she bargained for when monsters ambush her on her last call out.
Jessica Redish, Cat
A woman signs up for a dating coaching service in search of her soulmate and ends up marrying a cat.
Kyle Casey Chu & Roisin Isner, After What Happened at the Library
In the wake of a terrifying encounter, an overwhelmed drag queen struggles under the weight of public attention.
Laura Spini, He Woke Up To Deflating News
A sedentary pensioner must find the inner fire to fight his local council before he is turned into a coffee shop.
Megan Brooks, Heavy Handed
A wife does something unthinkable to save her farm and keeps it a secret from her husband.
Michael Lawrence, Lonely Paradise
While love is the only sunshine in this young immigrant couple, it starts to waiver when they are caught in the web of a global crisis and strict US immigration laws.
Updated: 12/01/2022
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund
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Post Your Script Here!When Ani Met Jo Met Cris
A recurring meet-cute over the course of a decade, but make it super gay! A fateful road trip sets pragmatic Ani and passionate Jo on the path of Reluctant Travel Companions to Enthusiastic Lovers - until they trip down the life-altering detours of Jo’s pregnancy and Cris, her dashing midwife.
North Amerikay
After a harrowing loss, a young Irish Catholic woman and her family adjust to life in 1915 Chicago.
The Dumb Ox Bellows
A 13th-century friar struggles to revitalize Christian theology using logic and reason, but intellectual opposition from peers, malicious slander by envious brethren, and “slavery of the pen” under two Popes drive him to mental collapse and loss of faith in his life’s work -- until God intervenes miraculously to affirm its merit.
CHARON'S DIVIDE
Two childhood friends battle over land and the love of the same woman in 1880s Montana.
SACRIFICED
In 1995, an apostate Detective investigates a Mephistophelian antique dealer linked to religious murders and unveils some horrific family truths.
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 hide.
BRAVE HEARTS
In 1840, an unconventional widow risks her life when she joins forces with a charismatic journalist, brutalized tenant farmers and a traumatized exile she rescues in Montreal, to stop the most powerful men in Scotland from violently evicting Gaelic Highlanders, unaware of her own family's complicity in the ethnic cleansing.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
Lured by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, an investigator and four other heirs are sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
All My Trials, Lord
In a drunken stupor a handsome young singer kills a taxi driver while visiting Spalding County, Georgia.
Playmate
In spite of her husband’s attempts to help her, a young female writer suddenly finds herself falling into a severe depression when snippets of painful suppressed childhood memories come out in her writing at the same time as the visit of her religious fanatic mother whose own haunting memories plague her causing both women to lose themselves in the process.