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Shore Scripts Names TV Pilot Competition Winners

Shore Scripts has named Counterfeit, by Emily Renee, as the Grand Prize Winner of the 1-Hour Category in their TV Pilot Competition. Grand Prize Winner of the 1/2-Hour Category was Chris Watt's Southbank.

TV PILOT 1 HOUR

Grand Prize Winner
COUNTERFEIT by EMILY RENEE

When a respected art conservator is asked to identify a mysterious painting, she risks exposing her criminal past as a master art forger.

2nd Place Winner
COSA NOSTRA
by ARDEN EARNEST

In 1903 New Orleans, the bond between three Sicilian-American sisters will be tested when one of them joins the city’s mafia underworld.

FINALISTS
(alphabetical order)

Alex Blumberg
Back Fires
A crew of California prison inmates move to an isolated mountain camp to fight wildfires in exchange for their freedom – only to face hostile opposition from furious locals and within their own ranks.

Ali Wilkie
DRUNK PROPHETS
About wayward tarot card readers fighting crime in Brighton, UK – unaware that their boss is a criminal. Episode one: When a rookie tarot reader sees a death in the cards and is wrongly arrested for murder, she sets out to catch the real killer – and ends up saving his life. Cam Smith
Black Death Harlem, 1923.
After defeating the Germans abroad, a Black war hero searching for identity, must contend with the new enemies at home — Jim Crow and the Irish Mob. (Inspired by true events)

Frances Flannery
Lionheart
Haunted by her father’s suicide, a physicist travels back through time in an attempt to unravel the Cold War mystery that led to his death.

J.D. Elliby
The Kingmaker
A young African-American baseball scout puts his life on the line when he fights to sign an undiscovered pitching phenom who’s trapped in the drug game.

Kyle Vorbach
The Beginning of the End
After a whistleblower leaks dangerous and unbelievable claims that Earth is five years from obliteration, his small hometown must decide what to do with the time they have left, while the world slowly descends into chaos.

Marine Mondelot
Code Breaker
A genius but maladjusted hacker infiltrates a cutting edge AI programme run by the British Intelligence Services to foil a terrorist plot and protect his wife.

Siôn Eirug
HIRAETH
On Earth’s Evacuation Day, a mother and son are cruelly ripped apart from their family and left behind in a now terrifying lawless world. Their only hope of ever being reunited balances on a perilous journey to the last departing Ark, forcing them to re-connect with their past, and the planet they’re about to abandon forever.

TV PILOT 1/2 HOUR

Grand Prize Winner
SOUTHBANK
by CHRIS WATT

When an ex-girlfriend dies, thirty-something Ethan Evans finds he has been made her social media legacy contact and is asked by her grieving family to sort through and delete her remaining online presence, only to find, as he moves through her digital archives, that there was much he didn't understand about the woman he had always considered a six month fling.

2nd Place Winner
BUMP
by BEN S. HYLAND & KATE MCCOID

A bereaved husband and his late wife’s estranged sister embark on a tumultuous surrogacy journey, grappling with their mutual animosity and shared sorrow, as they attempt to honour the deceased's last wish for a family.

FINALISTS
(alphabetical order)

Clement Vallos
Disabled Love
Lilou (a 20-year-old woman with Down syndrome) wants to be independent and date “normal” guys. Unfortunately, her parents send her to a residence for people with mental disabilities. Bored and hopeless, she meets Billie (a 50-year-old autistic woman), who will become her coach in sexuality, independence, and feminism. Together, they will try to find their place in a society that has never really given them one.

Disha Manocha
Route 87
Neil runs a hole-in-the-wall Indian restaurant in a small town near the US-Canada border. Nursing loneliness and a recent loss, his life is turned upside town when he takes on Vik, a charming but dubious new employee. New friendships –and old secrets– are all on the table.

Katie Wells
Wonder Inc.
After a messy breakup and a minor breakdown, a woman finds herself in a place no twenty-nine year old wants to be: starting over.

Lena Reibstein
No Worries If Not!
Dawn’s ex-girlfriend Leah mysteriously disappears 24 hours after leaving Dawn’s emotionally vulnerable text on read. After Dawn receives an ominous message about Leah’s location, she starts to believe there’s more to the story than just her getting ghosted—at least she hopes so. “Fleabag” meets “Search Party”.

Madison Ramirez
JEFA
A half hour, single-cam dark comedy following recent college graduate and professional pushover, Naomi Garcia, whose barely starting life must come to a halt, as the news of her grandmother’s terminal illness forces her to return to her small hometown in California to live with her God-worshipping and Bud Light obsessed grandmother.

Miguel Rivera
ChuBBBs, Inc., "Enter the Cub"
After his sister is arrested for dealing crystal meth, C.J., a gay bear-chub baker in North Hollywood, California, joins forces with his fellow gay, bear-chub friends, Marty and Dana, and his cantankerous Republican uncle Reggie to help raise his rambunctious nephew, Rocco.

Morgan English & Topher Harless
Talk
A jaded comedienne makes an unconventional comeback to television after a publicized suicide attempt.

Sammy Sultan & Alan Niku
Ten Percent Off
As the best mohel in Los Angeles, thirty-year-old Shraga Fallas is a generational talent when it comes to circumcising Jewish boys. But when he elects to pursue a career change, he finds old habits and hefty paychecks keep him in the dick-cutting business.

Updated: 10/07/2024

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