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A Sister's Promiseby  Andrea Lynn Anthony
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A resilient woman navigates the challenges of supporting her non-verbal, autistic brother while pursuing her own dreams. Along the way, she discovers the power of familial love and resilience, transforming their struggles into a legacy of hope and inspiration.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
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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
Leaving Nowhereby  Jason K. Allen
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Excited by life's possibilities, a young baseball named Johnny is batted into the woods and never found. He awakens in a strange land called Nowhere, where all lost and forgotten items end up. But he vows to escape and prove that he and his forgotten friends have plenty of life left in them.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Vacationby  Tinashe Mudzinge
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A group of friends faces their worst nightmares in the hands of an old lady and her beast master on what was supposed to be a great vacation.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Faceby  Doug J Robbins
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A killer stalks his family after being let off on a technicality.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Park Benchby  Marc Prey
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While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
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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
Maui Blueby  Frank J Dellipoala
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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
Monster in the Toiletby  Tim Humphries
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When three partygoers discover their friend has been dragged into a possessed toilet, they're flushed into a grotesque alternate dimension ruled by a foul-mouthed turd demon and must fight their way back before the monster takes them all down the drain.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Rendezvousby  Paul Byrne
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A paralyzed teenager from the hood meets his rich girlfriend one last time to see if their love has survived his drug dealing days.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
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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
The Human Experienceby  Judah Ray
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A grieving father struggles to guide his reluctant son through a funeral as they confront their fears, grapple with their complicated family dynamics, and discover the power of love and imagination in the face of loss.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not for Saleby  Davide Staffiero
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During a business dinner at a luxury hotel, a man who will turn out to be an android dealer negotiates with a wealthy hotelier determined to replace his entire staff.

Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cupid'sby  DJ Robbins
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Cupid pressures his customers to try his Ambrosia, guaranteed to make the consumer fall in love, but the customers resist the dessert.

Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mythical Swordby  Grag Raymond
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The legend tells about a mythical sword that gives supernatural power to its owner. Archeologist Adam Prisson and his assistant Leonora have been searching for it for several years, but not only he, but also people who want to use it for evil purposes.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
CHBby  Jesus Gonzalez
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After losing her job as a software programmer, a middle-aged woman reinvents herself as a Customs Broker in Miami, navigating the challenges of a new career while facing financial pressures.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gondolierby  Anthony Cawood
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A power engineer must fight for his life after a zombie horde chases him into the pylons high above the ground.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Facing Northby  Mark Konik
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Facing North is a contemplative road drama about estranged siblings Hayley and Ben, forced together on a journey to a funeral they'd rather avoid. As old wounds resurface and truths unravel, a flat tire and shared vulnerability steer them toward healing. Amidst tension and bittersweet humor, they rediscover connection.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Raven Pointby  Jason K. Allen
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Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Goneby  Mary Goldman & Tim House
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A volatile alcoholic father gets his just desserts after abusing his teenage son for the last time.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Marilyn Comes To Niagara Fallsby  Alan Barkley
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A WWII war bride, about to leave her GI husband has a life-changing encounter with Marilyn Monroe filming on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Xanadu Shoresby  Jay Loish
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Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping. Needing help, our hero leaves clues unaware of a capricious agent and his comely accomplice are following his friends by land, air, and sea. The unscrupulous authorities are seeking the loot, confronting the criminals, culminating explosively with the sun rising on XANADU SHORES. It's about desire and duty to friends. A lively yarn encapsulated by adventure.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Timeoutby  Dewayne
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When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d

Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kindred Spiritsby  Iris Mangual
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A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Golden Scepterby  Bobby Banuelos
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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
Something Wrong with Chuckby  Doug J Robbins
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Chuck falls into a grave and gets back at his classmates after being possessed by the spirit inhabiting the grave he fell into.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
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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
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
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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
The Patent Applicationby  Stephen Delos Treacy
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This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northern Exposureby  Larry Shannon
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The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

Genre: Biographical
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
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A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Taste of Beliefby  Danny King
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When a psychology professor challenges his students with a parable about restaurants, a fiery clash between science and conspiracy forces them to confront a deeper truth: you can't judge an idea until you've tasted it yourself.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Doc's Barby  Kenneth M. Kielty
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Doc's Bar is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy Two young men who were childhood friends make plans to meet up in a midtown NYC bar. One friend is Jewish, in his third-year residency, and broke. His friend is an antisemitic Wall Street broker who is rich. The young doctor sets his buddy up with a Russian doctor who is studying for her medical license. Both need money and the stockbroker the solution!

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Policeman No Leaves Tracesby  Jason Kirman
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A policeman at night kidnaps and kills people who sell drugs and dissolves their bodies in an abandoned warehouse so as not to leave traces of his crime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadhorse Lickby  Charles Hall
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A young boy sets out to rid his hometown of a wild animal that has been killing the townspeople's pets, only to wind up becoming its next target.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Jumperby  Patrick McNamara
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A scrappy rock'n'roller about to report for bail, discovers he can't afford his clothing store purchases and tries to steal them, until his change room cubicle is flooded with blood and he must leave without being noticed.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Voidby  John McCarney
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A seemingly routine curbside pickup turns into a quiet collision of two liveslinked by what they don't say. A two-page micro-short about mental health and unseen scars.

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

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Spiral Stairsby  Alex M. Garnett
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A retired seamstress struggles to remain of value to the young college students she lives among in a studio apartment building with a macabre past.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby  Paul Joseph Mulbrecht
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Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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