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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A former comedian and out-of-work chef gets invited to cook for some old friends, and he soon realizes you can't stop the heart's utmost desire in a weekend filled with love, drama, and betrayal.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
The Town of No Tomorrows
The story involes the detruction of a small mid western town.
The Master's Game
Mercenaries in a contest to win $25,000,000 in gold to those who survive the game
Book of Spells
Peter White has inherited a book of magic spells and very special mystical ring from his uncle.
A Dying Business
The story of a father and son who manage a funeral Business that is literally is dying.
Escape World
In a world without crime, war and sports.
FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERS
When strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home.
THE GEPETTO PROTOCOL
To stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention.
GALERIJ
As an art authenticator collects twelve 17th century Dutch Brohm family portraits, she learns the dangers of reuniting the portraits—the Galerij—when an art expert warns her the collection will revive the Brohm family and unleash them into present day society, where they'll resume control over and castrate European trade.
