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Shore Scripts Names Spring, 2025 Short Film Fund Winners
Paper Tiger by Cameron Kwan has been awarded the Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Grand Prize for Spring, 2025.
GRAND PRIZE WINNER (AWARDED $15,000 CASH PRODUCTION GRANT)
PAPER DAUGHTER
WRITTEN BY CAMERON KWAN
A young Chinese woman grapples with the guilt of using the identity of a deceased girl to immigrate to the United States via Angel Island in 1926.
FINISHING FUNDS WINNER (AWARDED $4,000 CASH IN FINISHING FUNDS)
THE TRUTH ABOUT SPACE
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY JEREMIAH TOWOLAWI
A young man is released from prison and has to face up to the lie that his estranged daughter has been led to believe – that he was in space.
TOP 5 FINALISTS
BELUGA by Alexander Gustaveson
I WAS A TEENAGE LESBIAN WEREWOLF by Zoey James Towner
SHEIGETZ by Joseph Schweitzer
SQUIRREL by Laura Campbell
THREADS by Jordan John & Georgina Ambrey
Updated: 06/23/2025
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund
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Post Your Script Here!THE CHRISTMAS GUEST
A homeless man seeking refuge from a storm finds shelter in a church where a funeral mass is being said; in so doing, as stipulated in the will, as the only attendee he inherits the deceased’s fortune and uses it during Christmas season to change the lives of all around him… except his own.
Deborah Samson
The based-on-true-events story of the first American female combat soldier who disguised herself as a man during the American Revolution, was wounded twice and is the Official Heroine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
PIRANDELLO'S WIFE
Quiet, passive, obedient, a wonderful mother to her children and perfect wife to her Nobel Prize winning husband.
Curbside Service
A couple fakes one last holiday together until car trouble strands them in the desert.
Palo Alto Bang & Burn
When idealistic professor Will Reynolds joins a clandestine government program researching remote viewing, his faith in science and reality unravels as he discovers truths that feel ripped from science fiction.
Bubbling Under the Surface
After a Holocaust survivor narrowly survives an assassination attempt in her nursing home, a wave of coordinated attacks reveals a covert network intent on erasing the last living witnesses, forcing a police task force into a race to stop history from being wiped out.
and The Devil called!
The Devil visits God‘s chosen-one five times, gives dates the world will end, "and you will be my bride".
Doors of Miracles
A young businesswoman trembles as she thanks God, anticipating another disaster.
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 of the nation's greatest corporate crime to turn or hide - no 'out'.
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Under the suffocating pressure of a championship spotlight, a redlining linebacker must outplay a hijacked beta safety system that turns every 200lb impact into a lethal cardiac glitch.
