2024 SHORT FILM FUND FALL SEASON WINNERS

WE ARE HONORED TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS & TOP 5 FINALISTS FOR OUR FALL SEASON SHORT FILM FUND!

Thank you to all of the writers and filmmakers who shared your work with us. Selecting the Winners, Finalists, and Semi-Finalists from so many high-quality, well-written, bold, and unique stories was extremely challenging. We look forward to watching many of these projects come to life.

This season, our Finalists represented the Top <1% and our Semi-Finalists represented the Top 3% of all submissions.

We now look forward to helping our Grand Prize Winner into production and beyond, and assisting our Finishing Funds Winner with putting the final touches on their film. For full details of what happens next, check out our post-contest timeline.

Watch some of the films that have previously come through the Short Film Fund by checking out our Produced Films page. And, learn more about the films currently in pre-production, production, and post by reading about the History of the Short Film Fund.

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I AM A GENTLEMAN

In a society that rationalizes violence against women, high schooler Max faces the harsh reality and consequences of his new, hormonal compulsions when he has his first crush on a girl after taking the school’s mandatory sexuality test.

HER PRETTY VAGINA

Plagued by the physical and emotional tolls of endometriosis and HPV, Kaleigh’s relentless quest for empathy drives her to desperate measures.

And congratulations to our Top 5 Finalists!

STUTTERBUG by Aidan Green
PEACE FOR JUSTICE by Danielle Lee
OPERATION ANDERSON by Guillaume Doucet
THIS IS NOT THE END by Victor Ridaura
LOLO’S LYFT by Wilandrea Blair

This season, our Top 5 Finalists will receive feedback from one of our esteemed judges and will be considered for a guaranteed meeting with Gunpowder & Sky (for US-based writers) or FilmNation (for European-based writers).

OUR 2024 FALL SEASON TOP 15 FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name)

	Aidan Greene	Stutterbug	A stutterer’s desperate attempt to conceal his disability leads him to insult orphans, ruin his shot with his crush and hate-crime her stuttering brother. All while ordering a coffee.
	Aleisha D. Hull	My Friend, Body	June Glover cries during sex. A reconnection with an old, estranged friend – which also happens to be a literal extension of her body that only she can see – forces them to face some ugly truths at the root of it.
	Alex Aljouni	Bukra	After a childhood spent playing soccer with a makeshift cloth ball, a soda bottle cap becomes a young Syrian refugee’s ticket to win her first real soccer ball.
	Alyssa Lerner	First Death	An abruptly deceased soul struggles to move on from their first lifetime.
	Ben Crisp & Alex Obraz	Bomba!	Three refugee children in suburban Australia mistake a telephone junction box for an unexploded bomb and bravely set out to defuse it to save their family.
	BRICK	Deli Meat	Two inept criminals bury their first body in the woods but they only bring one spade… Hard work’s a killer.
	Danielle Lee	Peace for Justice	A grieving son applies to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in pursuit of justice for his mom’s murderer.
	Guillaume Doucet	Operation Anderson	In March 1989 in Bristol, an exceptionally large police raid was carried out. The dangerous criminals arrested that day were between 15 and 19 years old, and they had a bad habit of painting on walls. Based on real events.
	Kiah Clingman	Her Pretty Vagina	Plagued by the physical and emotional tolls of endometriosis and HPV, Kaleigh’s relentless quest for empathy drives her to desperate measures.
	Michael Goyert	Lulubelle	Cattle farmer Michael lovingly tends to his herd until the arrival of a seemingly omnipresent stranger throws his life into a spiral of existential chaos.
	Nathan Bouie	INTERGALACTIC INGÉNUE	On the night he’s supposed to integrate with his Hivemind alien girlfriend, James, a man with deep commitment issues, discovers his ex is also dating the same Hivemind.
	Nicky Rudolph Calloway	I Am A Gentleman	In a society that rationalizes violence against women, high schooler Max faces the harsh reality and consequences of his new, hormonal compulsions when he has his first crush on a girl after taking the school’s mandatory sexuality test.
	Sam Elizabeth Kamerman	I’m Just a Girl	An exploration of beauty standards, desirability, aging, and grief through one woman’s experiences at three different stages of her life, all taking place in front of the mirror in her bathroom.
	Victor Ridaura	This Is Not The End	When a low-income, immigrant couple spends their life savings on a procedure to upload the cancer-stricken wife’s consciousness into the AfterLife servers, things don’t turn out how they planned.
	Wilandrea Blair	Lolo’s Lyft	Natalie, a struggling young African-American actress/Lyft driver, agrees to take a customer’s dog to a relative’s house. The ride takes a very different turn when Lolo turns out to be a cantankerous old man. Natalie makes an unexpected connection across age, race and cultures that changes her life forever.

OUR 2024 FALL SEASON SEMI-FINALISTS

(in alphabetical order by writer’s first name, 81 screenplays and finishing funds submissions have progressed)