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The Fingerby  Brian Jackson
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After a severed finger appears on a grimy coffee table, three mismatched roommates spiral into suspicion that ends in a fatal misfireonly for an interrogation to reveal the cruelest joke of all.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Kicking Tiresby  Tony Jerris
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When a pragmatic dreamer meets an angelic stranger, he realizes that even the most skeptical hearts sometimes need to kick the tires on love.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Quiet Timeby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
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An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Lonely Onesby  Sarah Kennedy
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A young man controlled by common technology encounters an old man in a coffee shop who upends the assumption that old people are the lonely ones. One location, micro budget. Written by award-winning, produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Herbert the Clownby  Doug J Robbins
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A killer stalks a couple during a romantic Halloween weekend getaway

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mike The Robot and The Red Wizardby  Alexandru Albacan
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A humanoid robot travels in time, lands in a thirteenth-century English village, and saves the villagers from an evil wizard.

Genre: Animation
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
EXFILby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
House for Saleby  John Porter
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A mystery/dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a beautiful young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby  Abdelouahab Hammoudi
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"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Antwon Taylor
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When a couple encounters an unassuming stranger in an elevator, their lives are drastically changed forever.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
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A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Burnby  Ange Fassinou
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A story about an African American woman who survives a fire incident and fears to find love again. A romantic drama story which shows the power of love.

Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Prisoners' Songby  John Porter
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A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it

Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killergartenby  Chris Fell
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Being devoted assassins and parents makes up for a healthy work-life-death balance.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby  Tawnie Powell
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97%that's what Hana Murphy became part of when it happened. Now, dismissed by her University, she struggles to break free from the statistic and find herself. Spiraling into self-destruction and with her relationships unraveling, Hana is forced to confront the question: What happens to the drunk girl?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Human Experienceby  Judah Ray
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A grieving father struggles to guide his reluctant son through a funeral as they confront their fears, grapple with their complicated family dynamics, and discover the power of love and imagination in the face of loss.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When You Go to Townby  Susan Jordan
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A chance encounter at a thrift store leads a divorced woman to ask, "Could I have gone the distance?"

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gagging For Itby  Barry Staff
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A budding mute and blind standup needs to get through an audition to prove the act will work.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
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A guitarist becomes an anomaly in a bleak and inhospitable future world where music is conjured and customized in the mind. Single location from an award-winning screenwriter.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby  Jack Halliday
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A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stapleby  John Alexander Fraser
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Table. Darkness. Click!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Beautiful Suicideby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Obsession is a cute word in Mimi's eyes, until Ja'mere applies what the word really means.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith: Brought To The Lightby  Ange Fassinou
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90% of story happens in a house with three principle characters. Inspired from true events. A mother who has lost her faith, rediscovers her purpose when she must help a troubled father with a dark secret.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shopping Cartby  Steven Burton
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A woman searches to find a stranger man for the return of his fold-able shopping cart, along with the futile search for her long-lost son.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Teapartylandiaby  Gary A. Edwards
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TeaPartyLandia - is a short dramedy about a family looking at a residential compound in an isolated area of North Idaho who fantasize about living free of governmental tyranny but flee when confronted with the reality of experiencing this "utopia."

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Owlby  Brandon Rhiness
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After a hit-and-run on a dark country road, a panicked woman is haunted by a relentless owl that seems to have witnessed her crimeonly to realize the bird is merely a herald for the vengeful spirit she left in the ditch.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Desert Muleby  Jack Lindauer
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A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Out Of The Rainby  Adrian Milnes
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A man takes pity on a woman and her baby sheltering from the rain, but lives to regret it.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feeding Frenzyby  Philip Marraccini
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After murdering his wife Sally, Richard is forced to kill again in attempt to collect on her life insurance policy. As the investigation closes in on Richard, see if he escapes with the money thus committing the perfect crime. (A murder mystery with a comic twist)

Genre: Other
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Preyby  John Porter
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Two promiscuous businessmen plan to pick up a beautiful young woman--who plans to pick them up.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Maggieby  RJ Daniels
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A lovelorn young man has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who encourages him to take a risk that may transcend time itself.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spookyby  Tony Jerris
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Terror ensues, when a guy hooks up with an online date who is already dead... Or is she?

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
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Guy painfully caught between the "love of his life" sending him a final goodbye via live video and his commitment to meet with his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's committed to a serious relationship and their first evening of love, and is waiting for him at her flat.Their scene of love-making ends shockingly with "rebound girlfriend" raging at him for using her. The result is a twist, a deadly tragedy twist.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seeing Redby  Warren Lane
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In this dark comedy a wannabe serial killer who faints at the sight of blood gets advice from his three equally pathetic buds during their weekly zoom session.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Underneathby  James Peacock
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Trapped in a looping midnight inside a dead apartment, a woman follows warnings from her own voicemail to confront the thing under her bedher childhood self reborn as a monsterbefore time resets and claims her forever.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
The Cowardly Lyonsby  Patrice Sarath
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The squabbling Lyon family comes together to protect their matriarch when she's haunted by a disapproving spirit.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
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On New Year's Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Different Thanksgivingby  Anthony Cawood
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On Thanksgiving night, a driver offers a ride to a blind stranger, but the holiday's spirit of hospitality unravels into an uncomfortable confrontation with buried prejudices and truths.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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