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Poulticeby  Anthony Cawood
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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
Animal Loveby  Steven Blows
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A zoologist bets that he can impress his date with unique and enticing stories of love in the animal kingdom.

Genre: Animation
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby  Ayisha Henry
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When a homebody decides to enjoy a fun night out, she must defeat an evil, biological nemesis who does everything to ruin her plans.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby  John Alexander Fraser
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A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Like Wearing Blueby  Alicia Renee Norman
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In a future where conformity is survival, a defiant girl dared to stand up and stand out--even if it cost her the ultimate price.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elderly Influencerby  Eric Faulkner
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As they both coupe with the tragic loss of loved ones, a social media crazed grandmother is forced to adopt her introverted Gothic, Emo, granddaughter in a high stakes game of virtual versus real life experiences.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Close Enoughby  Steven Burton
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The boundaries of the long-term platonic friendship between Larry, a straight man, and Gary, a gay man, are challenged as they deal with other life issues.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
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On New Year's Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Creepy Clown For Hireby  DJ Robbins
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Pamela is upset that her son is skipping his tutoring sessions, so she hires a creepy clown to scare her son into seeing his tutor.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby  Elliot Stanton
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Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Call Me Sirby  Brandi Self
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Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prisoners' Songby  John Porter
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A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it

Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Horse in a Saloonby  Nickolas Snider
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It's about a horse named Buck, who was once human and after he was turned by an evil warlock. He decides to go into a saloon to prove he's more than just a horse as such.

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby  Wendy Toliver
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A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Loved Stillby  Denis Bushlatov
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While racing to reach her mother's deathbed, a woman is haunted by the rotting ghosts of her past, only to discover that her husband's refusal to let go has trapped her in a waking, eternal nightmare.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby  DJ Robbins
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An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brittle Tromboneby  Mary Goldman
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A young girl strikes a bargain to take trombone lessons from an elderly man during the time of Covid-19.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
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A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hayseeds & Hipstersby  Jason K. Allen
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While eating lunch on a park bench, hayseeds Ned and Boomer spot a real-life hipster. Fascinated, they observe him and make fun of him, but they soon learn that things aren't always what they seem. (1 location, 3 characters)

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bump in the Nightby  Anthony Cawood
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When a desperate young thief breaks into the wrong house, he discovers the elderly homeowners are far more dangerousand sinisterthan he could have ever imagined.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All Inby  Jim Kowalski
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After losing their club, a clique of Miami male strippers tries to save their income and relationships by robbing a bank.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Won't Takeby  Hiabu Hassebu
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Saba battles against herself, not to miss her childhood friend, who died of menengites.

Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
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In a meta twist of fiction, a struggling novelist pens a novel about his own attempts to gain representation in the cutthroat world of literary agents, all while contending with eccentric neighbors and a disinterested industry, blurring the lines between his fictional narrative and reality in Utopian Tetragon.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tethered Soulsby  Andrew Chisholm
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Trapped in a decaying home with his dying wife, a man's mind begins to fracture under the weight of grief and isolation, as a mysterious voice urges him toward suicide and he begins to question whether her fate is bound to his own.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Weddings, But a Funeralby  Elliot Stanton
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Being in the right place but at the wrong time changes the fortune of a serial chancer. Tim Harcourt's bravado and white lies present the widow of a crime family with everything she needs to make him their latest client - a fact Tim is blissfully unaware of.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deliver Us Some Evilby  Jerrod D. Brito
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Three teens are stalked by a creepy, reclusive neighbor the night before Halloween.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Affirmative Actionby  Michael Celender
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After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.

Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Box of Antiquityby  Richard Campbell
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Richard visits an old man to evict him for back taxes. The old man invites Richard to place a historic relic inside his Black Box of Antiquity. Richard travels back in time to the exact moment that relic is being used by its historic owner. One trip back in time, the Pope arranges for Hitler and his wife to escape from Germany to Argentina.

Genre: Sci-Fi
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chucklesby  Doug J Robbins
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A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Small Talkby  Linda Kampley
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A young woman goes on a first date expecting romance but finds danger.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wholeby  Susan Adair Harris
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An unhappily married bi-racial couple falls into an inter-dimension where their fates are shuffled between love and murder.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Car Bombby  Ange Fassinou
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Story happens in a car. Trapped inside his car a man has a few minutes to pay a ransom to save his life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spellmarkedby  Vanessa M. Chattman
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A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
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A legend surrounding mean children being taken on Halloween claims the one that got away years earlier.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Harboring A Fugitiveby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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Senator Marcus has had a long career of staunch anti-abortion legislation, yet a simple conversation with an off-kilter doctor will change his views forever.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Daggersby  Jason K. Allen
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A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby  Dominic Uwem Lawrence
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When a group of friends ventures into the heart of darkness, they unleash a malevolent force that hunts them down, forcing one survivor to confront the evil head-on in a desperate bid to escape the Undertaker's gruesome realm.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Landminesby  Gordon Virtue
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A young volunteer at a VA hospital gives perspective to a disabled veteran's life. Mack (38), a bilateral (BK) amputee meets Candy (16), a bubbly hospital volunteer with Down syndrome. The two foster a unique relationship during the holiday season. It's a heart-warming tale with O. Henry-like twists and a surprise ending.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Beautiful Suicideby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Obsession is a cute word in Mimi's eyes, until Ja'mere applies what the word really means.

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