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Coilby  Steven Pony Hill
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A brilliant scientist has a theory: an exact amount of energy focused on the exact right space, at the exact right time, can open a portal between multiverses. Will testing this theory cost more than he's willing to sacrifice? A 15-minute short shot in one room with three cast members.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dallianceby  Bernard Mersier
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When wealthy Benjamin poisons his blackmailing wife during a romantic dinner, Claudia survives, forcing him to protect his mistress.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Openingby  Jon McDonald
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At an erotic art opening, the patrons react, amusingly, to the sexy art. The Ice Queen gallery owner, Laura, ignored by her flirting husband, is approached by one of her young and sexy artists. He offers her the gift of exotic perfume, making clear he is seeking more. She evades him, but the perfume and the art open her up to new possibilities.

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Reenactorby  Victor Bravo
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A Civil War researcher walking the Shiloh National Military Park encounters a wounded Confederate soldier in the throes of a battle fought one hundred and sixty years ago.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
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An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirabelby  Gregory Gibson
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Her psyche tainted as a child, a young woman plays out her singular form of vengeance with the help of a unique weapon.

Genre: Horror
13 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
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
Model Citizenby  Shelly Paino
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Under pressure to find male models, a talent scout recruits a cat-calling construction worker, giving him a taste of what it's like to be objectified.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby  John Boal
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A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Baby Farts A Lotby  Doug J Robbins
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A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner. Update

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Other Sideby  Marguerite Carmene Vil
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After a late-night shift, Vee spots her friend Alex entering a mysterious glowing door in a dim alley. Unable to resist her curiosity, Vee steps through and is transported into a surreal digital realm where the dark web manifests in real life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love to Goby  Bernhard Riedhammer
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A lonely retiree mourning his late wife tries to find new connections and turns to a dating website called "Love to Go".

Genre: Romance
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Putt Putt Preacherby  Jason K. Allen
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The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course. (Mockumentary. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
God's Libraryby  Charenelle Jean Williams
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Three strangers at a bus stop unknowingly become the focus of a celestial mission, where angels battle time and temptation to save their souls before it's too late.

Genre: Other
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Giggedby  Joseph B. Atkins
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A bullying ex-con taunts his elderly uncle as they wrap up a night of frog gigging, even boasting about having sex with the uncle's young granddaughter. A fugitive arrives on the scene, tries to steal their truck, and inadvertently enables the old manwith his granddaughter's help--to get the revenge he'd planned.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Marriage Made in Heavenby  Daniel J. Broderick
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Til death do us part. But what about after that? Do you reunite in heaven? What if you remarried after your first spouse's death? Do you have to reside for an eternity with your pain-in-the butt mother or ungrateful kids?

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Isle of Plasticaby  Drina Connors Kay
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A CEO of a plastics company is kidnapped and dumped on a platform in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where he must remain until he promises to clean up the mess. 

Genre: Other
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Farther's Debtby  Fahad Joyfield
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When a former hitman's daughter is kidnapped, he must confront his past and make an impossible choice: protect the girl he loves or make amends for his sins by giving her back to her rightful family.

Genre: Action/Adventure
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
The Eavesdropperby  Charles Webb
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On a late-night train ride, a comic book loving kid overhears a sinister plot.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Katy Chase IIby  Robert Michael Benn
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In 1861, the most beautiful hostess in Lincoln's Washington dances with millionaire Willaim Sprague who falls for her. They marry & he is elected to Congress. But he descends into alcoholism & loses his fortune. Katy divorces him and endures poverty. In 1899, she sells apples to Theodore Roosevelt on the White house steps.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Something for the Weeekendby  Anthony Cawood
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A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Enemy of the Christby  Charles Okika
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An army of privileged angels jettison their empyrean phalanx in pursuit of pride and self love but at a costly price.

Genre: Other
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Dreamby  Steven Burton
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A teenage girl has a dream about instantly becoming a teenage boy caused by an accidental Alien invasion.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Elvis Hasn't Left the Buildingby  Elliot Stanton
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The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock' n' Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals the man himself, resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit - Elvis Presley.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Haunting of the Highwayby  Kudzai Zigarwi
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On a deserted highway, a guilt-ridden man picks up a mysterious hitchhiker only to discover she's connected to the very tragedy he tried to forget, and this drive may be his only chance at redemption... or reckoning.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Viewsby  Alan Barkley
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A female realtor shows a female client around a view home. But when the two women discover their paths have unhappily crossed before the business meeting descends into physical comic conflict. Single Location

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Schoolby  Bernhard Riedhammer
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An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Flat Pebble's Philosophyby  Marc-Olivier louveau
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In 1830, in a Vietnamese village, Master TRY, a rich, bitter and lonely old man, decides to retire, but the unexpected arrival of his orphaned niece, SONG, upsets his routine. As he struggles to maintain his habits, the young girl transforms his home and his life with her sweetness and her cooking. Confronted with his own past mistakes, Master TRY rediscovers the true value of family and love.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Zaryaby  Jason K. Allen
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Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Firewoodby  Gary A. Edwards
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FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Presentsby  Simon Parker
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A father determined to give his kids a perfect Christmas struggles to maintain his composure as every gift they open triggers a memory of the violent crime it took to acquire it, just as the police arrive at his front door.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fly Squattingby  Steven Blows
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A mother grieving for the loss of her daughter takes her anger out on a pesky fly that won't leave her alone.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Scoutby  Michael Morra
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A guilt-stricken teen responsible for the accidental drowning of her younger sister finds that her life takes an even darker turn when her sister returns from the grave to carry out an otherworldly deadly agenda. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN meets ET.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Quandaryby  Brandi Self
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A thirty-year-old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it's another drunken one-night stand until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don't know how they got there either.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ragnar's Vikingsby  Robert Michael Benn
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Ragnar conquers Britain. Kiev and Sweden. Lagertha is his beautiful wife. His son lands at Vinland and discovers America.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
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Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

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