Shortlisted Projects – Team-up Call for writers, directors and producers – November 2023

We recently ran a team-up call to facilitate connections between writers and eligible producers and directors who would like to apply to the upcoming Uncertain Kingdom Short Film Fund 2023.

We received 85 screenplays from writers and forwarded 56 of them to the participating producers and directors, dividing the projects into two lists:

  • 21 shortlisted projects: a list of scripts that our readers flagged as worthy of the producer’s consideration.
  • 35 runner-up projects: a list of scripts that still require some development but received an overall score of at least 6 (on a scale from 1 to 10).

Here is the list of the projects in alphabetical order:

SHORTLISTED PROJECTS

Title, Submitted by

  • A lake of stars, Nick Green
  • And on The Sixth Day, Esther Ufomadu
  • Birds Can Also Sink, Aleksander Varadian
  • Black Ice, Roger Burton
  • Blessed, Jo Spencely
  • For All The Saints, Alexander Osman
  • Gay Gordons, Antóin Beag Ó Colla
  • Guardian, Phillip Ossai
  • Here and Now, Anika Murray
  • Look, James Hickey
  • Meatballs, Maatin Patel
  • Mother-Daughter Dance, Mwansa Phiri
  • Our Foundation, Annabel Grace
  • Red Deer, Joe Borg
  • Rite of Passage, Virginia Gilbert
  • Secret Lives of a Traitor, Eliot Gelberg-Wilson
  • Tag, Oneikeh Campbell
  • The Balloon, Scott Younger
  • The Monster, Sean Daniels
  • To Be Frank, Anna Westall
  • Whole Rabbits, Andrew Butler

RUNNER-UP PROJECTS

Title, Submitted by

  • 15, Jessica Riches
  • Beware the Woodley Gimp, Freddie Machin
  • Brainbox, Zanna Cardash
  • Cadaver, James Naz
  • Cuts Both Ways, Dalton Scott
  • Digging, Catherine OShea
  • Dogged, Andrew Viner
  • Eden, Emily Niblo
  • Elizabeth Daniels, Natallia Bulynia
  • False 9, Will Kenning
  • Fun-Guy, Emily James
  • Gently Down The Stream, James Peaty
  • Guest Room, Drew Vida Marke
  • Hellish, David Malcolm
  • Home Guard, Alan McSheehy
  • I Want to Tell the World, Sam Hanson
  • Illegal, Fabricio Rodrigues
  • Karloff’s Rock, J. E. Dufton
  • Lost and Found, Kim Taylor
  • Mount Ascension, Warren Bouchier
  • My Lady Garden, Sally Llewellyn
  • Purple Gate, Wayne Middleton
  • Real life, Luke Ibbetson
  • Remembrance, Chris Leonard
  • Ripple, Milly James
  • Saviour, Liam McCann
  • Scott Free, Harry John
  • Smoke That Thunders, Dominic Conneely Hughes
  • Supper Club, John Armstrong
  • The Automation Nation, James Tolcher
  • The Guide, Josh Craig
  • The Search, Shwan Ziad
  • Two Sugars, Mwansa Phiri
  • Waterbirth, Imoje Aikhoje
  • Wrapped in Celluloid, Oli Greck

RESULTS (WORK IN PROGRESS)

At the time of writing this blog post, this initiative has generated 26 meetings (21 for writers on the “shortlisted projects” list and 3 for writers on the “runner-up projects” list).

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