Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Finalists
Shore Scripts has anounced the Top 15 Finalists for their Fall Short Film Fund Competition. The winner and Top 5 Finalists will be announced on December 16th.
Aidan Greene
Stutterbug
A stutterer’s desperate attempt to conceal his disability leads him to insult orphans, ruin his shot with his crush and hate-crime her stuttering brother. All while ordering a coffee.
Aleisha D. Hull
My Friend, Body
June Glover cries during sex. A reconnection with an old, estranged friend – which also happens to be a literal extension of her body that only she can see – forces them to face some ugly truths at the root of it.
Alyssa Lerner
First Death
An abruptly deceased soul struggles to move on from their first lifetime.
Ben Crisp & Alex Obraz
Bomba!
Three refugee children in suburban Australia mistake a telephone junction box for an unexploded bomb and bravely set out to defuse it to save their family.
BRICK
Deli Meat
Two inept criminals bury their first body in the woods but they only bring one spade… Hard work’s a killer.
Danielle Lee
Peace for Justice
A grieving son applies to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in pursuit of justice for his mom’s murderer.
Guillaume Doucet
Operation Anderson
In March 1989 in Bristol, an exceptionally large police raid was carried out. The dangerous criminals arrested that day were between 15 and 19 years old, and they had a bad habit of painting on walls. Based on real events.
Kiah Clingman
Her Pretty Vagina
Plagued by the physical and emotional tolls of endometriosis and HPV, Kaleigh’s relentless quest for empathy drives her to desperate measures.
Michael Goyert
Lulubelle
Cattle farmer Michael lovingly tends to his herd until the arrival of a seemingly omnipresent stranger throws his life into a spiral of existential chaos.
Nancy Aljouni
Bukra
After a childhood spent playing soccer with a makeshift cloth ball, a soda bottle cap becomes a young Syrian refugee’s ticket to win her first real soccer ball.
Nathan Bouie
INTERGALACTIC INGÉNUE
On the night he’s supposed to integrate with his Hivemind alien girlfriend, James, a man with deep commitment issues, discovers his ex is also dating the same Hivemind.
Nicky Rudolph Calloway
I Am A Gentleman
In a society that rationalizes violence against women, high schooler Max faces the harsh reality and consequences of his new, hormonal compulsions when he has his first crush on a girl after taking the school’s mandatory sexuality test.
Sam Elizabeth Kamerman
I’m Just a Girl
An exploration of beauty standards, desirability, aging, and grief through one woman’s experiences at three different stages of her life, all taking place in front of the mirror in her bathroom.
Victor Ridaura
This Is Not The End
When a low-income, immigrant couple spends their life savings on a procedure to upload the cancer-stricken wife’s consciousness into the AfterLife servers, things don’t turn out how they planned.
Wilandrea Blair
Lolo’s Lyft
Natalie, a struggling young African-American actress/Lyft driver, agrees to take a customer’s dog to a relative’s house. The ride takes a very different turn when Lolo turns out to be a cantankerous old man. Natalie makes
an unexpected connection across age, race and cultures that changes her life forever.
Updated: 12/04/2024
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Six young people may not escape the heinous crime they committed 10 years ago as children.
THE REDEEMER
A God-Fearing Navy SEAL Platoon Chief is forced to confront his murderous past while on a treacherous rescue mission in the Middle East.
MAGNANIMOUS
A young couple, circa 1960, spill their guts with the possibility of re-igniting their marriage that has fallen into complete utter despair.
ENTER THE SCREENWRITER
Poking fun of a long time Hollywood cliche stipulating that sleeping with a particular industry professional will catapult an aspiring actress to stardom.
TILL DEATH DO US PART
After killing one of their own for squealing to the Feds, three mafia wise-guys pursue their last victim with vigor while enduring each others character flaws that aid leading them to their own demise.
THE DISSIDENTS
An LAPD officer recognizes common ground in a very personal way with a poignant and uncompromising gang- banger.
VICTOR DANBERRY, THE NEWBIE SCREENWRITER
A newbie screenwriter grows as a writer after being apprehended in the Gulf of Aden by Somali Pirates who agree to spare his life if he can execute a simple agreed upon screenwriting request.
HAPPILY EVER AFTER
After shooting her husband during a brutal physical assault, a condition brought on by PTSD from his three tours fighting in the Middle East, a tormented woman struggles towards an uncertain future while also contemplating aborting their unborn child.
THE ESTRANGED
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer and learning that his DNA is a spot on match from a horrible crime committed fifty years earlier, a seventy five year old loner abruptly leaves his rural home town outside of Chicago for the west coast to live out his remaining days with the intent of eluding the FBI.
CHASING TAIL, A CHRISTMAS TALE
A CIA agent and soon to be first-time father is forced to team with the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency's 9 year old grandson to find a computer hacker that goes by the code name: The Hacking Santa.
