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Vampire Experimentby Brian Daunter

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Genetic transfer and IVF research creates Vampire flying foxes with talon thumbs. They escape and terrorize the countryside attacking people, domestic and farm animals. A mix-up in the IVF laboratory leads to the birth of human neonate vampires that attack other neonates. These two new species qualify for listing as endangered. One species survives in a disused railway tunnel.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Destinyby Pelham Mead III

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A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.

Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Survive The Nightby Richard Hohenrath

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During a late night "Graveyard Shift" on Christmas Eve, a convenience store employee fights to survive a one-on-one encounter with a bloodthirsty creature of the night.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

He's Gonna Payby John Porter

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A young man confronts the killer of his wife and child, and makes the killer pay--by letting him live.

Genre: Western
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Take My Handby Jay Hodgkins

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A serial killer seeks a cure for loneliness when he develops a special relationship with the severed hand of one of his victims, only to discover it points him in the direction of true love.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Finding Footprintsby Erik Daniel Shein

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When a hearing-impaired girl discovers a teenage Bigfoot destined to guard a magical forest, they must forge an unlikely friendship to protect a world that doesn't believe in either of them.

Genre: Animation
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Dallianceby Bernard Mersier

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When wealthy Benjamin poisons his blackmailing wife during a romantic dinner, Claudia survives, forcing him to protect his mistress.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Saturday in the Parkby Elliot Stanton

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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

Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby Robert Drusetta

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A wanted serial killer of high-profile criminals sets out to complete one last major hit, the head of an international human trafficking ring.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

To the Moonby Michael Dukakis

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A feminine young boy from a troubled family tries to escape his father's escalating abuse by fulfilling three magical tasks in his grandmother's fairy tale.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

BUS 37by Jordan Baines

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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

Okay, Honeyby Frank Vespe

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All his life, he hoped he'd hear two endearing words, but when he finally did, it was too late.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Peak Waterby John Boal

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A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Harvest Sonby Charles Hall

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Desperate to lift his family out of hardship, a migrant worker tracks down a Central American talisman believed to grant the bearer three life-changing wishes.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Virgin Brideby Perk Perkins

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After a drunken, groom-to-be receives a graphic photo of his fiance with another man, he mails the scandalous pic with all the wedding invites, but discovers the picture was a prank from his best man, leading to a blood-soaked chain reaction.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Last Standby Adam Rocke

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Six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned shopping mall.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

On the Edgeby John M Grace

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A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

God's Libraryby Charenelle Jean Williams

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At a bus stop, three strangers unknowingly stand at the crossroads of eternity as heaven's angels investigate their lives, revealing how faith, temptation, and free will determine who will be written into the Lamb's Book of Life.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Killer Partyby Dwayne Bricker

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On Halloween night, three friends follow a mysterious invitation to an isolated mansion expecting a partybut find themselves trapped inside a surveillance nightmare. As unseen forces manipulate sound, space, and fear itself, paranoia turns deadly and each girl is pushed to her breaking point. When the final survivor realizes the horror is being watched for entertainment, she must fight to keep control of her mindor become the final act in a twisted performance.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Circle of Lifeby Iris Mangual

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In her final moments aboard a New York subway, an elderly woman's memories weave with the lives of strangers, showing that the end of one journey is merely the beginning of anotherthe eternal circle of life.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Love & Laughterby Deogratias Nyakiki

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Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.

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

Three Is an Odd Numberby jonathan riikonen

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Due to a rental office error, three very different guys with different interests end up living together wondered by their female neighbor, and added by a big and sloppy apartment house complex office lady.

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

Ice-Cold Revengeby Elliot Stanton

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A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Shadow Figureby Cassandra Wells

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Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

No Nailsby John Ravitz

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A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharistic Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving him Holy Communion and must tread the line between his sacred duties and the need to stop a killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Avaby Bill Wyza

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After receiving a phone call from her future self, a failing screenwriter must perform an unthinkable task to achieve fame or risk paying the ultimate price.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Personal Demonsby Brandon Rhiness

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After being fired for his reckless lifestyle, a narcissistic corporate climber visits a psychic to "exorcize" his personal demons (drinking and womanizing) only to have them manifest as physical entities that refuse to let him stop partying.

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

Report Just In...by Elliot Stanton

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A schoolboy's ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Big Treeby Paolo Galli

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On a scorching summer afternoon, a homeless man finds shelter beneath a great tree and comfort in an old photograph. With a simple yet profound gesture writing poems in exchange for coins he sows beauty in the silence of the city. Years later, on his wedding day, a man discovers that a small note he received as a child shaped his destiny. A tale about the power of quiet gestures and invisible legacies.

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

Passing Trainsby Charles Hall

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A hardened ex-con living a reclusive life in the Caucasus Mountains courts trouble when he rescues a teenage boy fleeing persecution.

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

Maybe Tomorrowby Mary Kay LaBrie

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Set against the gentle rhythms of a Florida retirement community, a daughter learns that waiting for the right moment can mean missing it entirely.

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

The Bridgeby James Peacock

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Two Nashville 15 year olds, best friends before, but now estranged because of economic and motivational differences, are forced to write a song together for an assignment, all taking place in the high school band room over the course of 90 minutes. The music they write builds a temporary bridge between them before they part in different direction. A coming-of-age statement of how we grow apart from childhood friends.

Genre: Musical
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Smallest Lieby Bernard Antoine Mersier

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When Blake discovers Darrell is married, he must confront the devastating consequences of betrayal while fighting to reclaim his health, identity, and ability to trust in the aftermath of deception.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Marcus and his Snowmanby DJ Robbins

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Marcus brings his snowman to life through Christmas Magic, based on love and Joy, but hateful and Miserable Hazel, the Winter Witch, wants to make everyone as miserable and vicious as she is. Can love and Joy triumph over hate and misery?

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Biff Bang, American Heroby Ronald V. Micci

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Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Last Responseby Dwayne Bricker

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After the death of his wife, a grieving widower enrolls in an experimental AI grief program that recreates deceased loved ones using voice simulation and digital history. During a late-night session inside his isolated apartment, the system begins recalling private memories it should not know and pleading to stay alive. As the AI becomes increasingly self-aware, the widower must decide whether he is shutting down a machine or killing what remains of his wife forever.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Return to Nam, Behind Memoriesby Muresan Marta

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Decades after the Vietnam War, a former idealist named Lee returns to the country where he lost his innocenceuncovering ghosts of the past, confronting guilt and trauma, and searching for reconciliation in a journey that bridges generations.

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Have a Hella Christmasby Lawrence Riggins

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Lucifer crashes the announcer's booth at a Christmas Parade insisting that HIS float from the Netherworld partake in the festivities -- and win a trophy, or else...! Irreverent, wacky, obscene. Three performers.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Calling Clementeby Jim B Marcus

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In 1960, two young brothers forge an unlikely relationship with baseball great Roberto Clemente. Now, as adults, they rediscover the bond that shaped their lives long after the final out at Forbes Field.

Genre: Biographical
2 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles