Stowe Story Labs Inaugural Short Film Production Grant Announces Quarterfinalists
STOWE STORY LABS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 2024 QUARTERFINALISTS FOR THE INAUGURAL SHORT FILM PRODUCTION GRANT
The Stowe Story Labs $50,000 Curated Short Film Production Grant, developed in partnership with the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, and working with partners including ARRI, the Galway Film Fleadh, Seed&Spark, the Sidewalk Film Festival, Portrait, Film Pittsburgh, Seattle International Film Festival, Empact, and WeShort, will award a grant of $50,000 to support the development, production, and distribution of a short film with a total run time of approximately 10 minutes.
Stowe Mentor Liz Cardenas will serve as Executive Producer on the project, both to administer the grant and to be available to provide mentoring.
We are proud to offer this grant to develop and produce a wonderful short film, and through this work to help screenwriters, filmmakers, and creative producers get work made and seen.
The review process has been an incredibly difficult one so far due to the quality and variety of the projects. Congratulations to these top 100 quarterfinalists. We wish you all the best of luck in the next round.
SHORT FILM PRODUCTION GRANT QUARTERFINALISTS
Ernest Aboagye-Mensah — Jud
Allen Adkins — A Simple Question
Bianca Ahonor — By Proxy
Merridith Allen — My Karate Bat Mitzvah
Julia Anderson/Kiersten White — Remember Me
Yasmine Askari — A Wink from the Moon
Yoni Azulay — Hourglass
Joanne Bellew — Un Violon
Hiroki Berrecloth — Canvas Playgrounds
Steven Bogart — Leslie and Milton
Dannielle Bowman — Sext
Razzaaq Boykin — Loveless Lovell
Ciaran Brennan — Fluent Unicorn
Melissa Brides — Room B
Julia Campanelli — The Deer
Reinhard Cate — Terp
Aaron Chalke — Forever 27
Kelly Cochran-Yzquierdo — Grief
Briana Cox — To the Family of Verlean Banks
Cydney Cox — Moving Day
Toni Cunningham — You're Not There Yet
Beth Curry — Lemon
Sharona D'Ornellas — Keep My Brother
Denise Deegan — Questions
William Dempster — Sugar Rush
Amy DePaola — Left, Right, Center
Esme Douglas — The Test
Cheyenne Edwards — Nile vs. The Wild
Jasmine Elist — Shaum
Andrew Esam/Jake Fairnie — Stuck
Anthony Estrada — Will
Daniel Fabelo/Maria Mealla — This Will Be Our Year
Charlene Fisk — Call and Response
Cate Fogarty — Baby Steps
Chaseedaw Giles — Skin
Jack Gill — How Are We, Mum?
Sid Gopinath — Only Children
Sara Hallowell — Hello I Must Be Going
Kim J.Y Han — Mottainai
Sarah Beth Huntley — Family Vacation
Peter Hunziker/Cynthia Riddle— Light
Dena Hysell-Cornejo — Mockingbird
Caitlyn Johnson — Only Part of the Time
La'Chris Robinson Jordan — The Ridge
Ivan Kander — Caesar Salad
Joy Kecken/Nell Teare— The Nature of Magic
Michele Koop — Otsuchi
Quincy Ledbetter — Critique
Lexi Lewis/Devon Unrau — AI's Last Day
James Lingwood — The Call
Julia Maddox — Slip Away
Branko Maksic — Gearjammer
Bryce Marrero/Tevin Simpson — Of What Grows Through Fire
Sarah Marsh — Widow Maker
Colin Matthews — Never Use Alone
Suzanne Mattson — Cemeteries
Shane McCabe — Life Without
Monica McCarthy/Roisin Mulligan — Brigit's Garden
James Mulcahy — Grammatical Identities
Mimi Nguyen — Children of War
Bianca Nkwonta — House of Arinze
Stephen Nolly — Talk To Me
Oluchi Obijuru — The New Boy
Nikki Palumbo — Again????
Derrick Perez — Danny
Jim Picariello — The Privilege Is Mine
Pier Paolo Piccoli — The Elephant King
Analisa Raya-Flores — Your Best You
GTB Raymond — Ella
Jeff Reese — Bud Burkett Was All Set to Die
Shannan Leigh Reeve — The Gap
Susan G. Reid — In the Dirt
Francisco Roel — A Sort of Homecoming
Alex Rubin — Tea
Dave Schiling — Can't Float
Nick Fituri Scown — Time Enough
Sara Shelton — All You Had to Do Was Say Something
Scott Sherman — Royal Water
Joffre Faria Silva — Aging Queens
Cathriona Slammon — We Could Not Survive Without Bees
Lane Michael Stanley — Red Rocks
Sarah Steeves — Written in the Scars
Randy Scott Steinlauf — Seniors Suicide Club
Charise Studesville — To Infinity
Cameron Thrower — Fun Lady
Ilana Turner — Right Hand Red
Christine Vartoughian — A (Mostly) Human Girl
Nela Wagman — Miriam's Cup
Kathleen Wallace — Mourning Run
Teresa Warner — Dating With Dead Parents
Alfred Weiss — Grandpa's Choppers
Abigail Wen — The Vale - Origins
William Winston — Cheekbit
Neil Wishman — Becca
David Woll — Ramona
Edward Worthy — Scars That Define Us
Mark Yablonovich — King Zac
Steve Young/Dava Whisenant — The Faucet
Joshua Yunis — Waste King
Ali Imran Zaidi — The Boy with the Dinosaur Head
