Screenplay
Surface Tension - pilot
Written by Shane Walsh-Smith
AFIN 2020 Nominee
- 2020
- 35pp
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Australia - English
- Comedy
- Post-apocalyptic
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Synopsis
When the world ends in a nuclear explosion, a family of pampered and petty one-percenters bicker and blunder their way through the apocalypse, confined in their luxury underground bunker.
What makes this one special
- 4 awards at other festivalsGeorgia Shorts Film Festival · Hollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition · Monochrome Film Festival and 1 more
- Programmed at 20 other festivals
Also selected at
4 awards, 12 finalist placings, 4 official selections across 20 other festivals
- WinnerGeorgia Shorts Film Festival
- WinnerHollywood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition
- WinnerMonochrome Film Festival
- WinnerPortland Comedy Film Festival Summer 2020
- FinalistAustin Comedy Short Film Festival
- FinalistBig Apple Film Festival Fall 2020
- FinalistFilmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards
- FinalistFilmmatic TV Pilot Awards
- FinalistHouston Comedy Film Festival Spring 2020
- FinalistInroads Fellowship (3rd)
- FinalistISA Virtual Pitch Challenge
- FinalistLos Angeles International Screenplay Awards (2019 Holiday Season Competition)
- FinalistNew York International Screenplay Awards
- FinalistNYC International Screenplay Awards
- FinalistScreenplay Festival
- FinalistScriptation Showcase 2020
- SelectionCoverfly Pitch Week 2021
- SelectionAtlanta Comedy Film Festival
- SelectionEtowah Film Festival
- SelectionImaginarium Convention Screenplay Awards
Recorded by the filmmaker on their entry.
Writer's Biography
Shane Walsh-Smith Writer
Shane Walsh-Smith's scripts won or placed as finalists in more than thirty contests in 2020. He's a lifelong writer, a furious scripturient for whom fiction is the prism through which he understands the world and himself. Shane has written professionally in many forms, and might be the only person in the world to get a comic published in a refereed academic journal.