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Deciding to bury the hatchet, Rosa invites her mother over for dinner so she can explain why her father wasn't in her life. The answers Rosa receives are nothing compared to the ones she gives Giselle, exposing the true reason why.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Woodcutterby  Raymond Reboulet
A young man believes and an old man remembers the reasons behind the ways of old which the village has forgotten. A child in danger awakens the town and renews its purpose.

Genre: Family
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Night Before Christmasby  Jared Kelly
It's Christmas Eve. The house is silent, everyone asleep. Except for 7-year-old Jake. Too excited to sleep, Jake needs to know if Santa has visited yet. Jake creeps downstairs into the lounge, over to the fireplace where his parents left some snacks for Santa. The snacks are untouched. No presents yet. Then Jake hears a noise from the fireplace, a faint scraping from inside the chimney... Yes! Could this be Santa bringing his presents?

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An imaginative little girl won't speak, but she does have a plan, and in the course of a day shows her exhausted mum and neurotic friend what's important in the world: simple living, being themselves, and chocolate.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Gift from Grandmaby  Shane R. Nolan
A young woman receives a gift from her late grandmother that bears damning consequences for opening.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Running for Breathby  Steven Blows
When a man's breath escapes him, he must chase it through the manic streets of London to get it back before his time runs out.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A living doll babysits a baby and protects it during a burglary.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cute Robberby  Grag Raymond
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
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby  Jayda
A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Grubby Moneyby  Simon Parker
An aging patriarch, a corrupt priest, and two desperate brothers collide over a hidden fortune igniting a deadly struggle where faith, greed, and bloodlines decide who survives.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
L.I.L.I.T.H.by  Tigran Vardanyan
A determined medical intern, Lilith, is drawn into the turbulent lives of an eccentric opera singer, her troubled twin, and a reclusive artist, Albert. As she navigates their world of emotional outbursts and hidden pain, an unexpected bond with Albert begins to unfoldchallenging her perception of duty, connection, and the fine line between care and entanglement.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Golden Scepterby  Bobby Banuelos
With the help of his cynical talking cat, a young man must embark on an adventure to retrieve a valuable family heirloom before the evil force that possesses it destroys the world.

Genre: Animation
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Doorsby  Bar Mandalevy
Traveling through the unfamiliar, a man struggles to hold on to reality as the world around him becomes surreal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Manby  Simon Parker
With a dangerous cartel coming after them, two men need to kill a third to save their own skin, now hoping that a blind butcher will do the dirty work for them.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Phoenix Dreamsby  Patricia Bruce
A gritty drama unfolds when betrayal and murder upend a beautiful, deranged woman.

Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Candy, Girl Reporterby  Linda Gould
Candy, a young journalist, is interviewed on a talk show to promote a book she wrote about a campus rock band. She'd fallen in love with the lead guitarist, Preston, but suffered heartbreak when her flaky roommate, Josephine, lured him away. She has taken revenge by implicating Josephine in a campus bombing and exposing her and Preston as liars.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
When their school bus is hijacked, three students must put their trust in a big brother and his dirt bike.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shark Underneathby  Ange Fassinou
Limited location. Horror/thriller. A group of outlaws, who recently robbed and killed a lawyer and his wife, become the preys of a smart and dangerous shark living underneath the house they chose as hideout.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
For Whom The Chimes Tollby  Elliot Stanton
Unable to sleep, a lonely, embittered old man spends the early hours of the morning drinking brandy and reminiscing on his life. The actions of which, ultimately, call time on his earthly existence.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
When Sam, a burned-out waitress, becomes convinced by her sick grannie that they are really British royals, Sam channels Princess Diana which inspires her to a higher purpose at Sloppy's Bar-B-Q.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Happy Lifeby  Brandi Self
A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clock Of Timeby  Kline Fishborn
On his 18th birthday, Eddie receives a time clock from a strange woman that allows him to travel to the past and the future. At first he was skeptical about the gift, but once he used it he did not immediately understand the great price of time traveling and he loses his youthful years.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She is an Alienby  Niagara Ross
A clumsy office worker falls in love with a charming new colleague, but his world is turned upside down when he learns she is an alien from another planet with a secret mission.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
An Act of Kindnessby  Georgette B. Skolnick
A student learns a lesson the hard way in this short feel-good story.

Genre: Family
32 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Automaticby  Gladman
Trapped inside a futuristic reset pod with seconds left on the countdown, a haunted man must choose whether to erase his memories for peaceor keep the truth that's been trying to break him free.

Genre: Sci-Fi
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Sinisterby  Dexter Williams
A young lady gets hypnotized by a mysterious gypsy woman in order to overcome her tremendous fear of snakes.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous Heroby  Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Anonymous hero" is a 4-page short script with no dialogue in which a nobody is the laughing stock of his office mates despite saving humanity from an alien attack.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Justifiable Beatingby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Love will make you believe your enemy truly loves you. That's the bitter truth Monica has to swallow dealing with her husband Craig.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a rogue bear terrorizes the Alaskan Wilderness, a stranded doctor and his Yupik friend and their twin loyal huskies must survive the night where man and predator share the same hunger.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Adventures of Tom Wolfby  Pelham Mead III
In the mid 1800's a man named Tom Wolf is committed to Bedlam Hospital for the Mentally Insane in London, England. He claims he is a wolf. The Doctors doubt him and torture him to admit he is not a wolf. In the end the real wolf in Tom comes out to surprise the Doctors.

Genre: Fantasy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Into The Fogby  Rade Mileusnic
After years of estrangement from their son, an elderly couple's cross-country drive through a dense, unsettling fog forces them to confront fading memories and a shared tragedy they can no longer outrun.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A young trick-or-treater is angry after receiving a "fun size" candy bar. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby  Abdelouahab Hammoudi
"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
Rubic's Kubeby  Bernard Mersier
Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A man dressed in a horrible plaid outfit begins to bond with a flashy woman at a party after being ignored by the rest of the guests.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
3 Minutes To Goby  Steven Blows
A young boy seeks to brighten his Grandad's mood before an operation.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Down to the Wireby  Dexter Williams
A defiant cop gets involved in a race against time to stop two escaped convicts who have taken hostages on a bus rigged to explode.

Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
 
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