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Shore Scripts Names Film Fund Semifinalists
Shore Scripts has announced the semifinalists - representing the top 3% of all submissions - for their Fall, 2023 Short Film Fund. Finalists will be announced December 1st.
Afsaneh Gray: The Unveiling
Allison Orr Block: Handle With Care
Anjini Taneja Azhar: Who Are You, Nanu?
Ariel Mahler & Matisse Haddad: t4t
Barry Smyth & Martin Nee: What makes Leni run?
Benedict Cohen: Moderator
Bo Nawacharee: Cocoon
Brian Rawlins: A Eulogy for The Beloved Carl Jenkins
Briar March: I See You
Byron Wylder: Static
Camila Noriega: El Lenguaje de Las Flores
Chelsea Muscat: Story of My Mother
Cheryl Isaacson: We are Seeds
Coale Coleman: Patient L51 (The Budgie)
Danica Jensen: Get You Better
Debby Huvaere: The Boy Without Words
Duran Jones: Milo and the Silent King
Eli Berg & Alejandro Berron: LoveBox
Elise Felber: You Are Going To Die Today
Emilee Reynolds: Paperboy
Faisal Qureshi: Custody
Faye Tamasa: Kumarn
Felicia Manning & Alex Troxler: Scantron
Gianfranco Fernández-Ruiz & Pablo Cervera-Gutierrez: When Big People Lie
Hester Bloom: They Burn Witches. Don’t They?
Iris Johnson: Pairing
Isabel Palma: Drapes
Jared Brewer: Forgotten Bodies
Jason Ferrell: Napoleon’s Mom
Jeffrey Wicker: BLIND SPOT
Jeremiah Towolawi: The Truth About Space
Jerome Watson & John Carter: Out By Sundown
Jesus Pena: Nea
Joanne Bellew: UN VIOLON
Juan Urgell: A Place so Savage
Kent Donguines: Four Four
KYUNG-JA LEE: Little Tokyo Story
Lauren James: Thirteen Mountains
Matt Campanella: Fish Out of Water
Michael Basha: My Idiot Sister (POC)
Michelle Zende & Mélia Lisette: Se Necesita Un Pueblo
Mike Sorce & Matthew Kic: Confession
Nathalie Ahmadzadeh & Debora Bottino: Haram My Love
Rich Wolgemuth: Leaves Falling Moon
Samantha Briggs: The Big Chop
Sarah Baskin: i want to go to moscow
Sarah Marsh: Dress at a Funeral
Taylor Karin: Nip
Tiffany Lin: Hunger
Tosh H Cameron: Blue Skin
Updated: 11/24/2023
Additional Contest Info: Shore Scripts Short Film Fund
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Rita Fuentes, a fiery, attractive Latina social worker introduces Martin Wilkins, a law-and-order judge, to the violent, politically charged world of power, money, illegals, and life for the drug mules--like Demetria Plascentia, and his foolish new son-in-law, Antonio Borja--he condemns daily in his courtroom.
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.
TIME OUT
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Lab Rats
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She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
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.
Psycho-Hearts
A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
