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A Car Salesman Builds His Dream Houseby  Alan Barkley
Jim is a car salesman who is building a house to woo back a wayward spouse. Can Jim close the deal? (No house construction filming needed). *2024 Semi-finalist - Grande Stories Screenplay Competition*.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ringby  Daniel Yanev
A man has seemingly lost everything, including his will to live.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Teddy Bearby  Anthony Cawood
When a mysterious new neighbor moves in under the cover of darkness, a suburban community's paranoia escalatesculminating in a tragic misunderstanding that blurs the line between protection and prejudice.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a man's dog destroys his Cuban shirt and his closet mysteriously comes alive with bickering clothes, he unknowingly selects a blue tank top for a beach day, igniting a full-scale rebellion among his jealous wardrobe.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cyrus Myers: Psychic Vampireby  Doug J Robbins
After killing his father, Cyrus Myers haunts the girl who reject him through her dreams while institutionalized.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Job for Tenderfootsby  Jason K. Allen
Four notorious hit men show up at the same place, brought together by a mysterious cowboy who gives them an unusual mission. (Drama/Comedy/Crime. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Isle of Plasticaby  Drina Connors Kay
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
Hierarchyby  Charles Hall
An off-campus meeting between a senior professor and an enigmatic student turns hostile when a chilling assertion is made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
To save her Maui Blue Tours business from a litigious ex-husband, a precision pilot stages a fake mid-air "cartel money drop" that spirals into absurdity when her cat parachutes into a remote valley and is declared a living goddess by a secluded mountain tribe.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The House that Whispersby  Anthony Cawood
Two boys explore an abandoned house rumored to answer questions with eerie whispers, but a cruel prank turns deadly when the house reveals it has secretsand a sinister voiceof its own

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition). *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Romance
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mother's Gavelby  Jesus Gonzalez
A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gift Challengeby  Leandrew Baillum
A global social-networking game becomes a worldwide phenomenon, offering players million, dollar prizes and televised luxury gift draws, only to evolve into a powerful cultural movement uniting communities in a stand against gun violence.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby  Craig Ford
After a stolen moment of tenderness, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must either shut down and survive or risk death by holding onto love inside a system designed to erase him.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Saturday in the Parkby  Elliot Stanton
Dark Secrets Will Not Remain Hidden Forever. An "old" woman befriends a young man in a park. He is unaware of who she is or the secret she holds, but the woman knows precisely what she must do to draw him into her life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby  Jason K. Allen
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Twas the Night Before The Night Before Christmasby  Elliot Stanton
When a wife asks her husband why he no longer likes Christmas, he explains it's due to its commercialism. However, the real reason is revealed by a simple longing glance at a beloved family photo.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The accidental death of his girlfriend comes back to haunt Michael.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Con Cario With Love!by  Luis Ortiz
When a Puerto Rican caregiver accepts a high-paying private job, she becomes entangled in a psychologically manipulative system run by a man posing as disabledpowered by surveillance and an AI caretaker that isn't real.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby  Slobodan D. Pesic
A timid man visits a futuristic government agency where every human desire can be fulfilled. What begins as a simple request for a pair of sneakers spirals into an absurd chain of wishes exposing the fragile machinery of modern happiness and the divine comedy of human ambition.

Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
From the Flamesby  Alistair Bryson
A widowed artist moves into a new house in an effort to bury the memories of a Bohemian lifestyle and a toxic marriage, but is forced to revisit his past in bizarre circumstances when he uncovers an ancient fire-pit from which deceased figures appear to him through the flames.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Classmatesby  Emy Dust
When three estranged friends reunite for their 20-year class reunion, a harmless prank to steal the town's iconic statue spirals into a deadly game of deception, betrayal, and hidden agendas, forcing them to confront their darkest secrets as the night unravels their lives.

Genre: Action/Adventure
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When luminous stairways rise worldwide, a grieving scientist descends into one to rescue the lost and discovers the only way to save humanity is to embrace imperfection.

Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Aliveby  John Klawitter
Dr.Voit's invention, the Life Spike, can do almost anything - drive a jet plane or bake a perfect dinner - but he'd do almost anything to have a human body.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Octoberby  Ilyas Adiris
In a luxury apartment suite, turned into a diplomatic chamber in 1976. A vulnerable African Minister, confronts America's most ruthless diplomat. Turning a routine meeting, into a moral standoff. That could reshape East Africa. Inspired by true events.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas at the Orpheumby  Todd Bronson
On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.

Genre: Drama
33 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
Keep Scrollingby  Jerrod D. Brito
When a college kid surfs the web at the time of night when creepy people post creepy things, he unwittingly falls victim to the latest creepypasta legend.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Beach Dayby  Derek L. Polen
A beach-loathing dad is pushed out of his comfort zone when he agrees to take his family to the beach.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Underneathby  James Peacock
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
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
What appears to be a bank job, pulled by a mysterious couple, turns out to force a reckless politician into a life-changing and character-revealing decision.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Unwelcomeby  Bill Freas
An ex-con is hired to pack and move the belongings of his sister and her family after they abandon their house, following the sudden death of her teenage daughter, but the man encounters paranormal activity there that urges him to uncover a dark secret about the girl's death.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Beholdby  Steven Burton
A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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