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Shore Scripts Names Spring Short Film Fund Semifinalists
Shore Scripts has announced 110 semifinalists for their Spring, 2026 $15,000 production grant, as well as 45 semifinalists for their $4,000 finishing fund grant.
Spring, 2026 Shore Scripts Short Film Fund Semifinalists
Updated: 06/09/2026
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund
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Post Your Script Here!WEIGHT of the WORLD
As seniors vanish and messages appear in mirrors, a skeptical detective is drawn into a parallel world where the forgotten are reborn—and learns she might just be the last warning before humanity is rewritten.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
A Duluth private investigator, needing to pay off his bookie, agrees to payment on completion of a prominent politician’s wife’s case; now he has only three days to find an Ohio plumber that the client only met on the internet over a dozen years ago.
Dellwood
A successful but unhappy novelist reluctantly returns to his childhood town to attend a friend's funeral and reminisces about his experiences playing basketball on a city court to escape his abusive home.
Whirlabout
A New York actor returns to his decaying hometown to care for his father, only to uncover dark family secrets, confront a lifetime of abuse, and face a harrowing moral reckoning that could either destroy—or finally heal—his fractured family.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
Virgin, Warrior, Priest, Hero
Over three decades, Lucy passes through innocence, violent delusion, and ultimately grace - fractured versions of a soul struggling to survive in a world that continually misreads her.
Wounds of Love and Conspiracy
After an accident cripples the woman he loves, a guilt-ridden man takes on America's scars as his own, risking everything to prevent the Kennedy assassination and earn the love she freely gives.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
Afraid of her anger, a teenage girl in a violent future connects with the spirit of her murdered grandmother; together, they fight to keep a vast web of hate and violence from collapsing civilization.
Henry, Henry
After murdering a charismatic priest he caught abusing a child, Henry fractured into two warring personalities; they only unite to use insights of their illness to infiltrate and bring down a dangerous child-trafficking network.
The Ephod
Based on a true story, after a disturbing Bible study shatters her lifelong Catholic beliefs, Faith Alvarez is driven by a supernatural encounter to uncover the mystery of the ancient Ephod.
