Shore Scripts Announces OutHere Contest Winners
Bury Your Gays has been named the Grand Prize Winner of the Shore Scripts OutHere Screenwriting Competition, designed to champion LGBTQIA+ characters and stories, particularly those that celebrate joy, community, and family.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
(AWARDED $1,500 CASH GRANT)
BURY YOUR GAYS
written by CHARLOTTE COOPER
BURY YOUR GAYS is a dark comedy that follows the story of Grace, a jobbing actor who cannot understand why she keeps being killed off. That is until she meets a mysterious agent who explains the trope; Bury your Gays. Join Grace as she navigates her actor’s mortality through different film and TV genres and desperately tries to fulfill the agent’s one task… DO NOT DIE.
TOP 5 FINALISTS
(in alphabetical order)
Cameron Haruta
And/Or
Feature Screenplay
An initial clash between Kiyo, a failed writer turned bookseller, and Noelle, an up-and-coming author, gives way to a romantic spark. On the same night, Kiyo is lured by their sister into a blind date with her affable coworker, Jamie. As the relationships progress, Kiyo finds they’ll have to choose, not between two people, but whether to pursue their happiness, even if it’s the less conventional thing to do.
Charlotte Cooper
Bury Your Gays
PoC Short
BURY YOUR GAYS is a dark comedy that follows the story of Grace, a jobbing actor who cannot understand why she keeps being killed off. That is until she meets a mysterious agent who explains the trope; Bury your Gays. Join Grace as she navigates her actor’s mortality through different film and TV genres and desperately tries to fulfill the agent’s one task… DO NOT DIE.
Eissa Saeed
In His Name
Feature Screenplay
Feroz’s life takes an unexpected turn when he marries his boyfriend, Javier, and must return to Pakistan to change his name. On arriving home, he finds that he has to navigate family secrets and face the remnants of his past life before he can start a new one with Javier.
Justin Anthony Long
The Jewel Box
Television (½-hour)
A musical multi-cam sitcom with singing and dancing and drag queens, oh my! A longtime gay couple and their eclectic friends comically struggle to find self-acceptance, romance, success, and happiness while running a drag club in Palm Springs.
Lynsey Cullen
Good Vibrations
Television (½-hour)
Annie (50s) has dragged her wife Jess (50s) and children Alfie (13) and Poppy (5) back to her hometown, the boring (fictional) midlands town of Dulbury, to fulfill her dream of opening the town’s first adult toy shop Good Vibrations, setting the stage for a comedy series about family, community, and new beginnings.
Updated: 06/21/2024
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts OutHere Contest
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