Shore Scripts Short Film Fund - Production Grant

Shore Scripts Short Film Fund - Production Grant is sponsored by Sundance Collab. Offers an opportunity for emerging screenwriters and filmmakers to receive much-needed financial support to get their work produced and seen. A $15,000 cash production grant to one short script.

HISTORY & SUCCESSES OF SHORT FILM FUND HISTORY & SUCCESSES OF SHORT FILM FUND SEMI-FINALISTS – NOV 23RD WINNERS – DEC 16TH – VIEW THE SPRING 2026 WINNERS PRODUCTION GRANT - $15,000 CASH Get your short film produced. Many of the 28 films we have produced have gone on to play at hundreds of film festivals, including Sundance, Tribeca, Cannes, BFI London, Austin, Palm Springs, Encounters, and have won a BAFTA and other major awards.

FINISHING FUNDS - $4,000 CASH Already filmed your short film but looking for financial support to complete it? Our Finishing Funds offers a $4,000 cash grant to help finish your film. Our Short Film Fund provides an opportunity for emerging writers, directors and producers from around the world to receive much-needed financial support to get their work produced and seen.

We accept narrative short films (live-action & animation), including proof-of-concept shorts for TV series and features. Many of our alumni have gone on to gain representation, sell their screenplays, get staffed on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, & BBC shows, and develop their shorts into features and TV shows.

Twice Oscar-nominated producer Maria Gracia Turgeon will mentor our Grand Prize and Finishing Funds winners, whilst Tribeca short film programmer Kimberley Browning will work with both winners on their film festival strategy. We have been partnered with ARRI Rental since 2017. They support our Film Fund winners with FREE camera equipment for the duration of the shoot (some restrictions apply).

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They believed in our project from the beginning and were nothing but fully supportive. ” Ben Gutteridge | Film Fund Alumni Two-Time Oscar Nominated Mentor Producer Maria Gracia Turgeon will connect with both our Grand Prize & 2nd Place Winners for development, production, & career guidance.

Festival Strategy by Tribeca Programmer Programmer, filmmaker, & Academy member Kimberley Browning will design a film festival strategy package for our Grand Prize Winner. " Shore Scripts is an essential resource... we are consistently introduced to extremely talented screenwriters."

Cami was our Spring 2025 Short Film Fund Grand Prize Winner with her short script PAPER DAUGHTER. The stop-motion animated film is now Oscar-qualified after winning Best Animated Short Film at deadCenter in June 2026. It premiered at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and was also an official selection of the esteemed Annecy Int’l Animation Film Festival.

We are SO excited, and are so grateful for Shore Scripts’ support in making this film possible in the first place! Sam was a winner of our 2017 Short Film Fund with THE ORGY. Starring Amit Shah, the short went on to have a successful international festival run, and Sam developed the short into a TV series with Sony Pictures.

He went on to write for the TV shows CHLOE (BBC/Amazon), LOCKWOOD & CO (Netflix) and THE UNDERTOW (Netflix); has developed original TV projects with Netflix, BBC and Sky; and has written feature scripts for directors James Marsh, Scott Z. Burns and Alice Seabright. In 2026, Sam wrapped principal photography on his debut feature, CIRCLES, directed by Ariel Heller.

Alex was the Fall 2022 2nd Place Winner with THIRSTYGIRL, which went on to be an Official Selection at Sundance 2024 and won the inaugural Shorts to Features Honor at Gotham Week. The feature of the same name is now being produced by Asher Goldstein ( American Born Chinese, Just Mercy ), Carlos López Estrada ( Didi ), and Valerie Bush ( Didi ), and wrapped principal photography in June 2026.

Anthony was a 2020 Short Film Fund winner with TWOBEARS, which premiered at Palm Springs Int’l ShortsFest where it was nominated for Best Short Film. Anthony went on to write for the TV shows Deputy (Fox), Dark Winds (AMC), and Power Book IV: Force (Starz).

Claire Fowler won our inaugural Short Film Fund with SALAM which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, won a BAFTA Cymru award, and screened at over 100 international film festivals. She attended the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Labs with her feature screenplay TOAD, and made her TV episodic directing debut on the show Manifest (WB/Netflix). Nora won our 2018 Short Film Fund with BEST SELLER.

She went on to direct an episode of The Goldbergs (ABC), write ten episodes of Daisy Jones and the Six (Amazon). Her feature debut, COUPLES WEEKEND, starring Daveed Diggs and Josh Gad, premiered at Tribeca in 2025 and was released theatrically in 2026. Her retirement home comedy, ASSISTED LIVING, was bought by CBS Studios and developed with Gloria Sanchez Productions.

Guillaume was a Top 5 Finalist in our Fall Season 2024 Short Film Fund with his script, OPERATION ANDERSON.

The film wrapped principal photography in May 2026 and is produced by Oscar & BAFTA-winner Farah Nabulsi, who is one of our Short Film Fund Judges and was connected to the project through Shore Scripts “When I submitted my script to Shore Scripts Short Film Fund, I couldn’t have hoped for a better outcome for the film than to have Farah Nabulsi, one of the judges, coming on board as a producer.

She’s been a mentor as well as a game changer, and our artistic dialogue is invaluable. Thank you Shore Scripts for the part you played in this journey. ” Jeremiah’s short film THE TRUTH ABOUT SPACE was our Spring 2025 Finishing Funds Winner.

The film was selected for the HBO Short Film Award Showcase at the American Black Film Festival, and won Best UK Short at the Manchester Film Festival in 2026. Kimberley is a Short Film Programmer at the Tribeca Festival and the Program Advisor for Tribeca’s AT&T UNTOLD STORIES feature film grant program. Her recent production credits include UPROOTED (HBO MAX) and BEING MICHELLE.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Short Film and Animation branch. Farah is an Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning Palestinian-British filmmaker. Farah’s directorial debut THE PRESENT (2020), distributed on Canal+ and Netflix Worldwide, won over 50 Film Festival Jury & Audience Awards, a BAFTA Award, and an Oscar nomination.

Her feature directorial debut, THE TEACHER, premiered at TIFF 2023. Farah is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Corin Taylor is an Executive Producer at Blink Productions.

A graduate of the London Film School, Corin has produced internationally recognized commercials with Blink, which have gone on to win awards at the British Arrows, Cannes Lions and Ciclope. Corin is currently building a slate of long-form projects which includes a film with renowned director Ira Sachs, now in post-production. Amir Ovadia Steklov is a Berlin-based Israeli filmmaker.

He graduated from Sam-Spiegel Film School in 2013 and has worked as an independent film editor and animator since. He is also part of a growing movement of queer activists-filmmakers in Berlin. Amir is best known for his award-winning films DON’T BE A DICK and BI THE WAY, and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Libby Peterson is the Head of Development at Caviar, the production company whose critically acclaimed, award-winning films include SOUND OF METAL, WAR PONY and THE RIDER. Libby is responsible for sourcing, curating, and managing a diverse slate of film and television projects that usher in fresh stories from exciting filmmakers.

Emilio is a Mexican-American film director whose directorial debut short film, at 16, HONEYBEE won the Grand Jury Award for Texas High School Shorts at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival and the Golden Gate Award for the Youthworks category Academy-Award Qualifying San Francisco Int’l Film Festival. He co-founded the arthouse independent film production company, Goretti Pictures LLC. Oliver Shuster is a screenwriter based in London.

He has written and co-written feature and short screenplays including WHAT’S UP WITH FRED? , THE PLACE BEHIND HER EYES (winner NYU’s Purple List), AAMIR (BAFTA-nominated), and TRUTH SERUM, as well as the upcoming ‘WHAT THE F@T and THE REUNION. He co-founded AnfanTerrible Productions with Vika Evdokimenko.

Elena is an award-winning screenwriter known for co-writing A LOVE STORY which won the BAFTA for British Short Animation, the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award, and the Cilect Student Animation award. Her first feature, HITCHHIKERS, in development with Bridgeway Films, is due to shoot later this year. Jones is the filmmaking project of Michael Woodward and Max Barron.

Their film and advertising work has received numerous awards and nominations, including European Young Director of the Year at Cannes, a CICAE Art Cinema Award, Edinburgh’s Michael Powell Award, and a BIFA. Their satirical short film THREE MEETINGS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY COMMITTEE, was nominated for a BAFTA in 2022.

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