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When I Fallby  Simon Parker
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James returns to his family home in a wheelchair with his fiance, determined to undergo a risky operation that could help him walk again

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Queen: Birth Of A Queen Warriorby  Ange Fassinou
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In a land of witches and beasts, a young woman, kidnapped for an Amazon Army, battles to get back to her tribe and lead her warrior sisters to the truth.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Crime & Punishment 2121by  Jim Norman
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By 2121, the entire judicial system has been scrapped in favor of an AI controlled system. Punishment is unique, including the requirement of serving the sentence in the past. In this case, the Wild West.

Genre: Fantasy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Borrowedby  Frazer Lee
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Valentine's Day takes a romantic-comedic turn when a homeless man meets the love of his life amidst the discarded flowers, cards, and chocolates in a city park.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
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A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Watchersby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When a rescue chopper can't reach her, Ranger Elena records her final night in a forest where strange lights stalk the trees. As unseen figures circle, whispering her own words back at her, she discovers the forest itself is copying life to survive the cold. With dawn hours away, Elena must choose between burning the cabin or becoming one of them.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The 101st Airborne on D-dayby  Robert Michael Benn
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The 101st Airborne jumps on D-day over Cherbourg. Protagonists 'Screaming Eagle' Robert and Waffen SS Hans meet. A $20 million blockbuster battle scene occurs. At their 50th reunion, Robert & Hans toasts each other & their good fortune.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Tourists in a Foreign Filmby  Kimberly Ann Laux
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Two tourists, Honey and Sweetheart, are on their way to Hollywood to bask in the glow of Tinsel Town when they take a wrong turn at the corner of Despair and Desperation. Will they decipher the motifs in a strange black and white world with subtitles before it's too late?

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Recycleby  Jackie Bateman
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A young woman working for a company that recycles human souls finds peace within an eco-burial ground over the loss of her cantankerous mother.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Never Grows Oldby  Don Mezei
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A guru like figure MAIN enters (stage left) while a group of young people celebrate the day. He provides a contrast to their joie de vivre, tells them his story and listens to their narrative. LNGO is a search for deeper meaning, a feel good musical about spiritual themes, told through song. Hear some of the music at https://barbarji.wixsite.com/lovenevergrowsold

Genre: Musical
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Report Just In...by  Elliot Stanton
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A schoolboy's ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doc's Barby  Kenneth M. Kielty
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Doc's Bar is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy Two young men who were childhood friends make plans to meet up in a midtown NYC bar. One friend is Jewish, in his third-year residency, and broke. His friend is an antisemitic Wall Street broker who is rich. The young doctor sets his buddy up with a Russian doctor who is studying for her medical license. Both need money and the stockbroker the solution!

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Take Backsby  William Walkerley
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In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Callby  William Walkerley
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The accidental death of his girlfriend comes back to haunt Michael.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
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An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  Anthony Cawood
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Two agents travel back in time to alter history, but their mission misfires, unleashing unintended consequences they can't undo.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screwby  Thomas Newman
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In a quiet park, a demon posing as a project manager lures a small-town pastor into what seems like a friendly chat, but as words twist into visions and truths unravel, the line between temptation and entrapment blurs until it's unclear whose soul is truly at risk.

Genre: Horror
40 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cute Robberby  Grag Raymond
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Nick works as a security guard in a jewelry store during his break he is relaxing in a local cafe when a pretty girl approaches him to get to know him but it was a deception she joins a crime group to commit a robbery.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby  Iris Mangual
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After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Faster By Nightby  Paul Byrne
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Surviving rape and torture in a Russian filtration camp, a Ukrainian female commando pursues her American dream of being a concert violinist, until she crosses paths with the sadistic general who wants to finish their dirty little war.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Portrait of a Girlby  Niagara Ross
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A group of teenagers, exploring an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, find an old portrait of a mysterious girl. But the more they learn about her past, the more nightmarish visions and dangerous phenomena begin to haunt them.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Sweater Tomby  DJ Robbins
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Zany Christmas Sweater Tom wears his Christmas Sweater every day, to the annoyance of those around him.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Drowby  Adam Thomas Lumb
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A pregnant couple in labour, trapped in an ambulance sinking into a remote island bog in the Orkney Islands during a storm, must fight alongside their paramedic to protect their unborn child from a creature disturbed from a Neolithic ruin and drawn to her giving birth.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cimpleby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Darryl and his right hand man Ryan's lavish lifestyle from drug dealing comes apart when Darryl's girlfriend Sharice unveils something sinister neither one of them saw coming.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby  Robert Michael Benn
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DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Killerby  DJ Robbins
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Jeff kills under a lifelong desire to try his hand at being a serial killer and his brother, Mike tags along to write about the experience and turn it into a screenplay.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Rats & the Fall of Saigonby  Robert Michael Benn
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In 1975, 3 draftee grunts man the tunnels looking for Viet Cong. They find them but the ARVN (from Hanoi) & the Cong take Saigon. Robert, Ghit & general Ky ascend from the US embassy roof to freedom & a future in California.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Classic Western Love Storyby  John Porter
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A western comedy in which two young men compete for the favor of a lovely young woman.

Genre: Western
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cringeby  Warren Lane
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When an exhausted serial killer on a cross-country spree stops at a secluded motel he is told by his supernatural boss, the entity known as fate, that he must experience "true love" before being granted the rest that he so desires.

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
No More Virginsby  Lloyd Muchenje
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Three Africa women,one battling addiction,another serving herself for marriage,and bride to -be striving to protect her own female purity,leading to heartbreaking and moments of profound reckoning. PURITY HAS A PRICE,INNOCENCE IS NO PROTECTION.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mythical Swordby  Grag Raymond
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The legend tells about a mythical sword that gives supernatural power to its owner. Archeologist Adam Prisson and his assistant Leonora have been searching for it for several years, but not only he, but also people who want to use it for evil purposes.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If Only I Didn't Have to Look at Your Faceby  Jason K. Allen
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A shallow young man decides to break up with his beautiful, kindhearted girlfriend because of her occasional unattractive facial expression. (1 location, 3 actors.)

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Have A Little Faithby  Lloyd Muchenje
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Having struggled to conceive for years,a praying woman finally gets pregnant only to lose her unborn child and uterus during a premature delivery. Years later, she miraculously conceives through an ectopic pregnancy and goes to give birth to a healthy baby without medical complications.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Where Toe Beginby  Clifford Shepherd
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When a neurotic man wakes up to find his big toe missingwith no pain or explanationhe spirals into a surreal, comedic nightmare where his body vanishes piece by piece, and no one around him seems to notice or care. A darkly absurd satire on identity, sanity, and the disappearing sense of self.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Summer of Loveby  Robert Michael Benn
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In 1970 San Francisco Hippies cavort, bombs drop on Hanoi, and a church is formed to beat draft. Be-ins, Trips Festival, Black Panthers, and SFPD appear. Protagonist holds church services and appears before the Draft Board for 4D Ministerial Deferment. He gets the deferment church and the San Francisco Art Colony burn to the ground.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Dutchess Greenby  Joseph Brown
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The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Marilyn Comes To Niagara Fallsby  Alan Barkley
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A WWII war bride, about to leave her GI husband has a life-changing encounter with Marilyn Monroe filming on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
His Fatherby  Simon Parker
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A man scarred by his abusive past must confront his estranged father's secret love and a devastating family truth, leading him to choose forgiveness and a fragile new beginning.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cellby  Bill Wyza
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An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double Takeby  Marjory E. Leposky
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A stalker is following unaware couple.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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