The 2024 edition of the Short Film Fund was a big success regarding writing quality. All of our finalists (and honourable mentions) demonstrated outstanding storytelling skills, which we would have loved to support. Nevertheless, we had to sit down with our jurors and make a final decision on the winner would be…
Our wonderful finalists were:
Almost Heaven, written by Tanya Shamil
Frostlands, written by Anastasia Bruce-Jones
Monkey, written by Charlotte Alexander
Roller Coaster, written by Emanuel Nisan
Scars That Define Us, written by Edward Worthy
Vital, written by Amir Zargara & Gabe Berry
and the winner is…
WINNER
MONKEY, written by Charlotte Alexander
The night after a historic vote, a young Portuguese man awakens to find a stranger in his bedroom, plunging him into a harrowing nightmare where he must fight to prove his innocence and defend his freedom.
The project is awarded a cash grant of £5,000, a camera & lighting kit rental package by Hi-Ten, and post-production sound services by Daniel Bodsworth.
RUNNER -UP
SCARS THAT DEFINE US, written by Edward Worthy
With their water supply depleting, a southern black woman must overcome her own desires as she struggles to care for her elderly father’s open wound during the 2022 Jackson, Mississippi Water Crisis.
The project is awarded colour grading services by colourist Giulia Cavina at Goldcrest.
We wish all the finalists to find different ways of making their films happen because their wonderful scripts really deserve to make it to the screen.
If you plan to shoot in the UK, we suggest you look at the UK Tax Relief schemes, which could allow you to claim up to 34% of your production budget back in the form of a tax refund. We are running a webinar explaining the details of these schemes on a date that will be confirmed in September. You can find more information and sign up for the waiting list here.