Shore Scripts Fiction Podcast Contest |
2020
Two winning scripts will be produced into pilot podcast episodes, each with a budget of $5000. The writer(s) will retain full rights over their story and have the final say on any potential deals which may arise.
The two winning writers or writing teams will also each receive a $1000 CASH PRIZE.
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Representation Status
Winners
Winner
Podcast
· Horror
· 22 Pages
Estranged sisters, a blogger and a neuroscientist, reunite when the neuroscientist invents a mysterious device that provides a glimpse into a nightmare dimension.
Garden Grove, CA
Andrew Martin Robinson is a Filipino-American screenwriter, specializing in character driven horror. He recently won the Shore Scripts Podcast contest with DREAM SEQUENCE. Previously, he optioned his script, DEVIL’S GARDEN, to Millman Productions. His supernatural thriller, CUT ITS HEAD OFF, made the finals of both Script Pipeline and the PAGE Award...
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Winner
Podcast
· Thriller
· 33 Pages
When a Christian podcaster runs across evidence suggesting a small-town internet ghost story might be true, she falls down a well of secrecy, that challenges her faith and shatters her world view.
Los Angeles, CA
Ian has worked in the Television Post-Production industry since 2006 and has spent his years editing, producing and podcasting independently in his own time. Writing stories and scripts has been a passion of his as well since elementary school.
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Finalists
Finalist
Podcast
· Sci-fi
· 12 Pages
A young woman searches for her missing sister, but there is something otherworldly and sinister going on to impede her progress.
Hertfordshire, Bishops Stortford, GB
No bio available.
Finalist
Podcast
· Comedy
· 17 Pages
Rivals MAEVE BURGESS and GWEN SUH (think Meryl Streep v Miley Cyrus, but with Bette Davis and Joan Crawford energy) compete in the most crucial race humanity has ever run: the Oscar race for Best Actress.
Glendale, CA
Danielle Evenson & Heather Huntington are two halves of a passport you definitely didn’t forget in your hotel room safe. As the child of a narcissist and mother of two neurodiverse kids (H) and a would-be beauty queen who grew up driving the bull semen route (D), obviously they write comedy. Specifically, they write edgy and sometimes nerdy feminist...
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Finalist
Podcast
· Drama
· 14 Pages
When a disgraced investigative reporter arrives in Marigold, Alabama, she quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a bloody feud that has gripped the town since before the Civil War.
No bio available.
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Finalist
Podcast
· Fantasy
· 21 Pages
When a spiteful local disappears under mysterious circumstances, it’s up to a jaded vampire detective and his over-eager new partner to find her.
Vancouver, BC, CA
Lucy Gibb-Smith writes surreal dark comedies for Film, TV and Audio. She enjoys good movie soundtracks and well-executed puns. Her passion for education has led her to take script writing courses at UCLA, Vancouver Film School and WriterJump. Lucy writes in a variety of mediums and believes in the power of deadlines.
Future Utopia
Private
Finalist
Podcast
· Musical
· 23 Pages
Through a freak accident, recent exes Daisy and Hans get transported into the distant future where all of our world's current problems have been solved in bizarre, satirical ways. A comedic musical based on the beloved Second City Stage show.
Paul Bianchi
No bio available.
MIND'S I - Podcast
Private
Finalist
Podcast
· Thriller
· 37 Pages
A happily married man and CPA living in the suburbs wakes up in a mental health facility after a nervous 'breakdown', and there a doctor forces him confront the events that led him to believe his life was nothing but a lie and he was once a dangerous killer.
Los Angeles, California
Grew up in India & the Midwest attending mission schools & living in the Himalayas. Have written everything from copy for trailers to dialogue for video games. My spec TV pilot NEWTON won the 2020 Table Read My Screenplay Historical/Biopic division, while another LOOKING GLASS won the Shore Script contest. Also a Nicholl & Austin semifinalist. Cu...
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Finalist
Podcast
· Sci-fi
· 25 Pages
'Mindbender' is a near-future thriller about a plucky young woman named Abigail and the homicidal computer chip implanted in her brain.
Brooklyn, NY
After moving from Nowheresville, West Virginia, to NYC to become a writer, Evan found immediate success 15 years later. Since then, he created a TV pilot for Pop TV and original content for Comedy Central, Funny or Die, MTV, Fuse TV, and People Magazine. He's a longtime writer/performer at UCB.
Finalist
Podcast
· Thriller
· 45 Pages
In the coastal town of Crescent Point, a community journalist and radio host, who has a secret and personal reason for pursuing the truth behind the infamous twenty-year-old GoatMan Killer Case, reaches out to the recently released and possibly-deranged child-murderer himself. Think "Dateline" meets "The X-Files".
Los Angeles, California
Leon is a queer man who was raised in the proudly weird, central coast hippie-town and former Murder Capital of the World, Santa Cruz, California. He writes crime thriller, supernatural horror, and science fiction teleplays, features, podcasts, and shorts that place gay and transgender characters in key roles and explore LGBT+ issues. Leon has an ...
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Finalist
Podcast
· Drama
· 18 Pages
A young woman find herself called up to join a mysterious and controversial program, through which she will come to discover more about herself and those around her than ever before.
Lizzy Pollott
No bio available.
Finalist
Podcast
· Sci-fi
· 45 Pages
A radio host obsessed with conspiracy theories after the murder of his son receives a tip from a mysterious caller claiming to be from the future. In exchange for information about his son’s killers he must track down an escaped Artificial Intelligence threatening the future of the human race.
New York, New York
When not writing his latest scripts about killer AIs and zombie samurai, Kevin is creating unscripted television as an Executive Producer. He got his start as an editor, then sought new challenges as a series producer before a stint as Vice President of Television at The Weinstein Company. During that time he’s worked on shows about geek culture, mo...
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Two Truths and a Lie
Private
Finalist
Podcast
· Comedy
· 18 Pages
In order to discover the truth behind her famous classmate's mysterious death in the elevator of a luxury Manhattan apartment building, an ambitious 17-year-old podcaster must solve a series of puzzles left behind for her -- by the dead girl herself.
No bio available.
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Finalist
Podcast
· Drama
· 39 Pages
Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia after a family fight turns deadly, two sisters, on the run, struggle to find their place in the world until they stumble upon a seemingly perfect farming family with secrets of their own.
Los Angeles, California
Kristen Tepper is a writer & filmmaker whose work focuses what she knows best - unfiltered, working class characters. Often in dark worlds with comedic & socio-political undertones. She got her start writing Nancy Drew fanfic in 6th grade.
During the week she stays busy by developing marketing & social campaigns + pitch decks for company such as...
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