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Selling Oranges on a Median with Charles Bukowskiby  Ryan Armstrong
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A meeting of two men in an unlikely place as they try to overcome the challenge of understanding and communicating with the other.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ripplesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A woman travels back in time to reshape her childhood, but her relentless drive to win leads to chilling and irreversible consequences.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Etiquette of a Necrophiliacby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2025
After uncovering his wife's infidelity, a man descends into a dark spiral, finding solace and control only in the macabre act of necrophilia, leading him down a path of irreversible perversion and escalating violence.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
WTF?by  Sherrie Presson
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2024
When an aging maintenance worker goes on a killing rampage in an apartment complex, an unsuspecting man looking for an apartment takes the fall. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Best Manby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Is there a spinster rule when neither your fiancé nor his newly found brother is the Best Man?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The N King and Queenby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2024
The things people complain about are the same things they support, and that’s bothering the soul of a deceased melanated Queen.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Christmasby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
Every child deserves to see Santa at least once... even if it means the end of the human race.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If I Left Earlyby  Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
Living with his ambitious breadwinning girlfriend, a young job-hunting loser feels left behind in life and relationship. Motivated, he works to get things back on track, but all of that is halted when a call comes in and the unpredictable happens.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Punchmateby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A down on his luck man who lets people punch him for money navigates the murky waters of romance after a strange request comes from a client who was once his High School crush.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Navvies Lamentby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
A man reflects on the meaning of his identity, within a bar that has shape shifted it's patrons

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Diane From Kernvilleby  S.E. King
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2023
A small-town elderly woman finds confidence in using her voice on the internet by leaving product reviews and commenting on her neighborhood Facebook page in an attempt to give herself a sense of power in an ever-changing world that's forgotten her.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Teddy Bearby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2025
When a mysterious new neighbor moves in under the cover of darkness, a suburban community's paranoia escalates—culminating in a tragic misunderstanding that blurs the line between protection and prejudice.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Feed Geeseby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
A young man jogs and feeds geese as a diversion while he decides to come out as gay to his girlfriend.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Nailsby  John Ravitz
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharist Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between the sacred and the need to stop a killer before he kills again.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shark Watchby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
A Mafia wiseguy is sent to make a drug buy on the Jersey Shore, where a gypsy fortune teller acts as the middleman, but he is double-crossed by another hood posing as a fed.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
You Deadass?by  Ricky Lamar Jackson
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2024
A family is in for a surprise when their loverboy family member brings a different type of meat to the cookout.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  John F Daly
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2024
5 people get on an elevator in the present day and get brought back in time to 1943, where they become stranded.

Genre: Fantasy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith: Brought To The Lightby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
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
The Tripby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
ONE LOCATION: About to turn thirty, George wants to try something wild and different. So convincing his friends to try acid with him for the first time they hire Cameron, an old school hippie, but the acid trip he's got planned is one no one is going to return from.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangerous Cargoby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Two girls throw out the driver and his car at gunpoint, not suspecting the valuable cargo in the car, more than ten kilograms of drugs which was supposed to be delivered to New York to a local drug dealer. After a drug dealer in New York learns about the disappearance of his goods he personally wants to find and kill the girls.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fear the Unknown Graveby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2024
Ten-year-old Brian is terrified of his own mother, who becomes possessed by a demon after visiting an old unmarked grave near their home.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dianeby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2024
When three thugs and a space alien cross paths, a warehouse turns into a battle scene.. and a learned lesson.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ringby  Daniel Yanev
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2024
A man has seemingly lost everything, including his will to live.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When COVID Cameby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
After COVID arrives, in silence, a woman living alone copes by isolating, masking, and eventually being vaccinated after which she is only then able to welcome others into her home. Music accompanies her actions and the only line of dialogue occurs at the films end when she welcomes her grandson and his girlfriend into her home. *Dallas Shorts 2023 Semi Finalist*

Genre: Artistic
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Vortican Orderby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2024
Five years after a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure, high school senior Ethan Thomas is drawn back into a supernatural nightmare when the shadowy entity reappears, threatening to unravel the fragile peace his family has found.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Five Yearsby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2024
After discovering he's to become a father, Mark steals a quarter of a million then gifts it to his girlfriend, but she refuses to accept it.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Grand Offerby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2024
Ashcroft’s plan to bribe his loyal groundskeeper Tom into murdering his wife backfires, leading to a deadly twist where both men end up dead.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Straight Talk with Sadie & Santaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
On Christmas Eve, a little girl wakes to find Santa rummaging through her fridge. After scolding him about his diet, she proceeds to grill him about reindeer, elves, bad gifts and other curiosities, and soon develops a new understanding about Christmas. Santa, meanwhile, gets a dose of reality himself – and perhaps a new friend.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sake Bombby  Will B. Blunt
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2024
Nipponophile Andy invites his girlfriend’s genteel parents to his favorite Japanese restaurant to ask the father for permission to marry his daughter; however, when a pubic hair is discovered in his girlfriend’s sake, he must prove to her father he is a man of honor — by finding the pubic hair’s owner and demanding he apologize for his lewd indiscretion, a task that quickly resembles a John Wick/James Bond movie.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wake Up Callby  David-Matthew Barnes
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
When three unsavory people wake up in an abandoned hotel, they realize the world has ended for everyone except them.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sundays with Ethelby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Devil's Servantby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2025
A murderer kills his improv group after blacking out and pursues members of his neighborhood.

Genre: Horror
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bad Grannyby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A female army veteran takes back gun to avenge her grandson.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Three Lines of Zailaby  Andrew Bowen
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2024
After they rescue and adopt a lost female wolf pup, the matriarch of a farm family of German Shepherds tells her brood the mystical story of how one line of ancient wolves remained wolves and another became dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history.

Genre: Animation
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuses—hiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
L.I.L.I.T.H.by  Tigran Vardanyan
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2025
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 unfold—challenging her perception of duty, connection, and the fine line between care and entanglement.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Just In Timeby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Determined to succeed as a web designer, their having collided on entering her new place of employment. a delightful young woman downplays an interested salesman’s efforts to engage. *Semi Finalist: 2024 New York International Women Festival; Dublin Movie Awards; Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Competition-Shorts; Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards In Spanish: Justo a Tiempo.*

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Will Wait For Youby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A legendary lawman separates from the attractive fugitive he's fallen for and attempts to cover up her connection to a mysterious heist.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Goodnight Sweet Miaby  Marina Loos
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2025
Paul, desperate to get his girlfriend back at all cost, realizes his fantasy of her is stronger than his reality.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Devious Desiresby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2024
An unhappy married man wants out of his boring marriage and craves excitement in his life, so he begins online dating and meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman who only desires to rob and kill him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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