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Shore Scripts
Shore Scripts TV Pilot Mentorship Program
2018
Active Since 2016
An 8-week, game-changing program. Engaging, high-impact sessions with Industry Leaders that will fast-track your TV writing career!
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About

We have 11 of the most successful filmmakers in the TV industry to judge the top entries in our TV pilot competition. These are writers, directors and producers who have been involved in some of the best shows in recent memory: The Sopranos, The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Sherlock, House, Wallander, Stargate, Hannibal, to name a few. As well as that, our roster of 79 TV production companies and agents will read the best TV pilot scripts that we send through to them. If your story stands out, we’ll get it to the people who can make a difference.

Benefits

-Winning TV Pilot scripts will be read by our 12 EMMY & GOLDEN GLOBE winning Judges.

-Over $7k in Cash & Prizes is up for grabs in our TV Pilot contest.

-2018’s best TV Pilot scripts will be read by our roster of 43 production companies, agents and managers.

-You will be able to view your script score. This will be released once we announce our Quarter-Finalists.

-We have helped 40+ writers gain representation, option, sell, and even have their screenplays produced.


PRIZES

1st

• $2000 Cash

• Your script read by our Judges & Industry Roster

• Introduction and Meetings with Hollywood Agents and Managers

• Script development with Shore Scripts

• 1 year Free Subscription to WriterDuet Pro

• 1 year Free Subscription to IMDB Pro

• Free enrollment into Good In A Room’s ‘How To Network in Hollywood’ course

• Free InkTip script listing and InkTip Magazine listing

• Free 6-month membership to The International Screenwriters’ Association.

• Final Draft 10


2nd

• $500 Cash

• Your script read by our Judges & Industry Roster

• Script development with Shore Scripts

• Free InkTip script listing and InkTip Magazine listing

• Free 6-month membership to The International Screenwriters’ Association.

• Final Draft 10


3rd

• $250 Cash

• Your script read by our Judges & Industry Roster

• Free InkTip script listing and InkTip Magazine listing

• Free 6-month membership to The International Screenwriters’ Association.

• Final Draft 10


4th

• $250 Cash

• Your script read by our Judges & Industry Roster

• Free InkTip script listing and InkTip Magazine listing

• Free 6-month membership to The International Screenwriters’ Association.

• Final Draft 10


5th

• Your script read by our Judges & Industry Roster

• Free InkTip script listing and InkTip Magazine listing

• Free 6-month membership to The International Screenwriters’ Association.

• Final Draft 10

Writer Success

Shore Scripts helped me make the most of my Top 10 placement, contacting me to gather more info about me and my project before sending my pilot to targeted executives from their industry roster.
Andrea Lawson
2021 Finalist
I genuinely love your competition. It's a great space for writers looking to legitimize their skillset. And, it keeps up with the artist and helps roll them forward!
LELE PARK
2019 Finalist
The thing I like most about Shore, why my experience with Shore has been so great, is that they really do get your script out there to people who can actually do something with it, people who can help you.
Lauriel Marger
2016 Winner
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2024 Winners on Coverfly

Top 1%
SOUTHBANK
TV Script  · Comedy  · 29 Pages
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 m...
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by Chris Watt 3 Accolades
Chris Watt
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, GB
A member of BAFTA Scotland, Watt is best known for writing the horror film STALKER starring Sophie Skelton, which had its world premiere at Frightfest in London, before a theatrical run in the U.S. & on DVD & Digital. His short film BRUISE was produced & premiered at The Galway Film Fleadh & his latest feature THE MIRE is awaiting release. Watt i...
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Counterfeit
TV Script  · Drama  · 48 Pages
When a respected art conservator is asked to identify a mysterious painting, she risks exposing her criminal past as a master art forger.
by Emily Renée 3 Accolades
Emily Renée
London, GB
Emily Renée is an award-winning actor and writer from London, who was recently selected from over 600 entries for the Edinburgh TV Festival x All3Media Writers Collective 2025. Her TV pilot Counterfeit won Grand Prize at the 2024 Shore Scripts Competition and was a finalist for the 2025 ScreenCraft Competition. Her short film Honesty (which she co-w...
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