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

Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund