Someone in Nashville is killing Woo Girls, and Haley, a jaded songwriter and local, must protect her brother's fiancée and friends when they come to town for a bachelorette party.
Someone in Nashville, Tennessee, the Bachelorette Party Capital of the World, is killing “Woo Girls.” Reasons, unknown, but young women visiting for a good time are being brutally slaughtered. Across the river, local songwriter Haley, single, broke, and estranged from most of her family, promises her adoring brother, Harris, that she’ll keep his visiting fiancée Melissa and her bridesmaids safe and show them a good time. They spend the first night Haley’s way, rubbing shoulders with the locals, cool musicians, a potential love, and a potential threat. The next day, Haley takes the girls Downtown, and learns how to cut loose, make friends, and stick together as they all face wild adventures and more than one killer.
WOO GIRLS is a thrilling, funny and timely film about women cutting loose and having each other’s backs. The term “Woo Girls” refers to the sound women make when they get rowdy and go “Woo!” It’s fun or derogatory, depending who you talk to. It is also a comment on how our culture villainizes women for being loud, silly and independent. WOO GIRLS flips the slasher form on its head, and in a riotous series of events delivers a joyful, scary and emotional journey through dive bars, rivers and honky tonks, with appearances by a familiar face or two and a killer playlist.
Julie Sharbutt is a writer, director and actor who uses Genre and Comedy to tell character-driven contemporary stories. Her most recent work includes writing, directing and producing the award winning horror short film SCAM, which screened across the world at Fantaspoa, Woodstock, Final Girls Berlin, Cannes Film Festival American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase and more, and writing the short film BOTTLECAP optioned and produced by Director Barbara Brown. She co-wrote the short film CUPIDS which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for a 2022 NAACP Image Award. Her short horror film 3 DAYS is on ALTER with over a million views, and her debut comedy feature film MOVED is on Apple. Other recent works include feature screenplays EXCELLENT FANCY (2023 Writers Lab Finalist, 2022 WScripted Cannes Screenplay List), CROW FLIES (2023 Austin Film Festival SemiFinalist), and original pilots SPORTS BRA, SALVAGED, SECRETARY OF ARTS, PLAYERS and others. Julie is a 2018 Warner Bros Discovery OneFifty New Storytellers alumni, where she developed her feature comedy screenplay COOL NEW TOWN as an episodic series. Prior to directing, Julie was a TV, film and theater actor in New York. She also performed improv at UCB and The PIT, and her humor writing can be seen in The New Yorker and McSweeneys. MFA in Acting from NYU, BA from Vanderbilt, member of Film Fatales, Women in Film, and Alliance of Women Directors. Current mentor in Vanderbilt University’s Vandy In Hollywood summer program, and longtime West Coast Board Member of the NYU Grad Acting Alumni Association. She loves hiking, volunteering, and ghost stories.
Almanack Screenwriters Colony 2025 - Fellow
Cassian Elwes Independent Screenwriting Fellowship 2026 (Shortlist)
FilmQuest Film Festival 2025 - Best Screenplay Finalist
Cordillera International Film Festival 2025 - Best Screenplay Finalist
