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Poulticeby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2025
Desperate to save her unborn child, a remorseful woman seeks the help of a scorned Native American healer, agreeing to an unthinkable trade that will change their lives forever.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Accountabilityby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
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 Trump International Hotels of the Middle Eastby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2025
It’s 2040 and the crazy 7 characters trip to Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Teheran. It is a laugh a minute.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
If Only I Didn't Have to Look at Your Faceby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025
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
Sucker Punchby  Richard Cowley
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2024
In this satirical short, an irreverent and unlettered savant challenges the hidebound academic establishment to accept his ground-breaking ideas.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ken, Continuedby  D. Greene
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2024
If he can’t be a doctor, how about a cop? Ken, Continued.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Should Have Stayed Homeby  Michael Angelella
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2024
A desperate film director threatens to destroy all the footage of his just-completed film unless his producer gives him creative control of it. Semi Finalist 2024 Golden Script Competition; Semi Finalist 2024 Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Contest.

Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2025
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2025
When his wife's vengeful spirit makes his life a living hell, a murderer must find the courage to do the right thing: Pay for his deeds!

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Soldier's Bravadoby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025
In a bar in ancient Britannia a battle-worn deputy centurion’s dark memories clash with youthful bravado of untested soldiers.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How Do You Get to Margie's House?by  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
With a lot of love but a very bad sense of direction, a young man tries to get to his lady's house by 5 p.m.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Echoby  Amrita Baines
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what’s following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem natural—until they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening… and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Faceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2024
A woman sacrifices everything for the perfect face, only to become a target of uncontrollable desire. Forced into hiding, she is pursued by a detective whose accidental glimpse of her face turns him into her next victim.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Windowby  Mark Ndlovu
Date Posted: 03 May 2025
A reclusive man and an enigmatic artist living across the street engage in a silent but profound connection through drawings in their windows, sparking an unspoken bond that compels him to step beyond his comfort zone and into her world.

Genre: Romance
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shoplifterby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2024
Rural vigilantes misappropriate justice when they accost a man suspected of shoplifting at the local Walmart.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Andrea Drives to Heavenby  Edward Matthew Donnelly
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2024
Haunted by the memory of a fiery redhead who perished in a daring escape from the authorities, a troubled teen finds himself tormented as she continues to manifest in his dreams, leading him on a journey of self-discovery.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killerby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2024
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
New Amendmentby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
One man's passionate monologue on law and religion unfolds, revealing the thin line between conviction and chaos—will his petition bring change, or simply the solitude he's chosen?

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Son Of The Lightning: The Nikola Tesla Storyby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 14 Nov 2023
The extraordinary story of Nikola Tesla, the man with many inventions, passionate by electricity.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Marriage Made in Heavenby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
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
No More Virginsby  Lloyd Muchenje
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2025
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
Quandaryby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
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
Backflipby  Jessica Taylor
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2024
When The World’s Fair comes to town, a gymnast in a side show act must keep her wits about her to escape from H.H. Holmes or else perish in his murder castle alone and afraid.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When I Fallby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
James returns to his family home in a wheelchair with his fiancée, determined to undergo a risky operation that could help him walk again

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Funeral Crasherby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2024
At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Heartwarming Horrorby  Jennifer Milne
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
A couple on a first date realize the premise of a heartwarming romance could just as easily be a horrifying horror movie, and get a little of both when they go back to her place.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From Rat to Bossby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
“From Rat to Boss”—Before he became the infamous Mafia kingpin, "Lucky" Luciano made a secret betrayal to save himself—an act that, years later, threatens to destroy his empire and the myth of his loyalty."

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clusterby  Kevin Dembinsky
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2025
A story of two people meeting on their way to Switzerland before both going to a euthanasia facility.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Please Clean Me!by  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A father struggles to work seven days a week in order to make his son’s Christmas special.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Regretsby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
This edgy screenplay puts a unique spin on a marriage gone bad. Sadly, not all marriages have a happy ending. After years of being a hen-pecked housewife by her unappreciative husband, this boring, mousey housewife suddenly turns aggressive with deadly results...

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Poet Dancerby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
A female choreographer is inspired by a disabled musician which creates more greatness for both of them.

Genre: Artistic
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On the Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2024
When two know-it-all female millennials search unsuccessfully for love, it's their Mother who comes out the winner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dog Yearsby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
The barrier guards at the Large Hadron Collider stumble upon a mysterious discovery that forces them to pause—and question everything they thought they knew, if only for a moment.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadow Among Usby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
A gathering among friends turns into a nightmare when strange events begin to unfold in an isolated house deep in the forest. Trapped and confronted with their own secrets, they realize that one of them is not who they claim to be.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Just Telling It Like It Isby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2024
In a tight-knit community, the residents are fed up with their pastor’s brutal honesty during funeral eulogies. They want to ban him from preaching, as he's known for degrading the deceased with his, "tell it like it is" attitude.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder By Chairliftby  Ken Hauser
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
When a young woman is left on a chairlift overnight in a minus 60 windchill, a Deputy must shovel through the bullshit from four suspects to find the killer.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Mouseby  Sergey Dobrine
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025
During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mariliseby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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