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Home Like a Shadowby Linda Boroff

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Cynical college girl accompanies her new boyfriend, an aspiring law student, to his decayed San Joaquin Valley home town for his alcoholic mother's birthday dinner and is pulled into family conflicts and secrets dating back a hundred years. To her surprise she finds belonging and acceptance amidst the drinking, gambling, and a violent 2 a.m. free-for-all. Adapted from prizewinning short story: https://adelaidebooks.org/linda-boroff-home-like-a-shadow.

Genre: Family
30 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

Kuyiliby KS Punithakumar

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When a compassionate village librarian inspires children through the timeless wisdom of books, her quiet acts of kindness plant the seeds of hope that transform an entire community for generations.

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

Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart

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An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

No Witnessesby Juli Henry

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In a near future where hospice patients' final moments are recorded and sold to their families, a veteran nurse risks her career by granting a dying woman one last request: the right to die in private.

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

United We Fallby Elliot Stanton

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The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for - a fact that his friend positively revels in.

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

Baby Farts A Lotby Doug J Robbins

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A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner. Update

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

Life Is a Rollercoaster...Sometimesby Elliot Stanton

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With its ups and downs, they say life is a roller-coaster, except when you're trapped and unable to get off one. When an engaged couple becomes unwitting prisoners at the apex of a broken-down roller-coaster ride, the metaphor is never more (or less) apt.

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

The Price of Eggsby Susan Kelejian

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In a lavish Houston home, a couple's carefully constructed world is shaken as they grapple with the aftermath of their son's murder, forcing them to confront their own complicity and the conservative values that may have contributed to his tragic end in a divided America.

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

The Hunter Withinby Lamar D. Vine

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When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.

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

Storytellerby DJ Robbins

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A storyteller pays for his hotel room with three supernatural storiestwo supernatural horror stories about love, lust, and violence, and one supernatural love story.

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

Maria x Mariaby Ruby Hernandez

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When a submissive housewife discovers her body has regenerative properties, she uses it to build the family she always wanted.

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

The Lost Pianistby Frank J Dellipoala

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A haunted pianist must survive a night of terror when genetically enhanced predatorstriggered by the frequencies of his musicescape into a locked-down concert hall, forcing him to confront the childhood monsters he can no longer outrun.

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

Between The Treesby Shariq Ali khan

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Bullied at school and burdened by low expectations at home, 13-year-old Basheer believes a mysterious pink guava has unlocked his hidden intelligence after his grades suddenly improve. When the tree bearing the fruit is cut down, his newfound confidence collapses, sending him on an emotional quest to find another. Through his search, Basheer slowly confronts the power of belief, self-worth, and the fragile hopes that shape a child's journey to growing up.

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

Dennisby Doug J Robbins

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A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.

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

The Girl in the Mistby Victor Jones

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A girl finds herself in an alien land. She has to survive from her basic instincts until she meets a fisherman who shares a secret with her of his visits to a misty beach where strange friends abound.

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

The Cellby Bill Wyza

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An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

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

Truth or Dieby James D. Tuverson III

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Two teenagers find themselves on a steep cliff overlooking the mountainside. They play a game, Truth or Lie, to determine the circumstances that brought both to the precipice. As the truth is revealed, the games changes from Truth or Lie... to Truth or Die. This short was a QUARTERFINALIST in the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

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

Proof of Serviceby Lantie Foster

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Two neighbors in corporate housing share a home service robot. When one woman misses a payment, the building's "care" protocols activate, and the apartment begins asserting ownership over everything, including her.

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

Steven Seagal: Psychic Warriorby Adam Rocke

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The aging and highly controversial action star pitches his psychic assassination services to the CIA.

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

Reflectionsby Dewayne C Bricker

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When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.

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

Hearts & Algorithmsby Dewayne C Bricker

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When an obsessive AI engineer builds two comic digital souls inspired by history's greatest comedians, their mischief forces him out of isolationand into an unexpected romance with the neighbor who's been trying to reach his heart all along.

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

Out of Boundsby Adam Rocke

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The Women's National Petunia Golf Tour has mediocre players, terrible prize money and a serial killer.

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

Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG

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Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

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

The Withdrawalby Dwayne Bricker

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A broke, homeless man walks into a Manhattan bank with a robbery note and nothing to lose, but when the teller he targets turns out to be a heartbroken woman secretly longing to escape her own life, their tense standoff becomes an intimate negotiation. In one charged conversation across the counter, they recognize how desperately they need each other and decide to risk everything, quietly stealing enough cash to flee together to the Virgin Islands.

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

The Horned Toadby Loren Davis

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When five advanced AI language models gather to dissect a western screenplay, their debate is upended by the silent presence of a horned toad lizard on the windowsill, forcing them to confront the limits of consciousness, meaning, and their own existence as the world outside quietly decays.

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

The Accidental Breakthroughby Christine Lara

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A young and ambitious graduate, frustrated by dead-end job offers, sees his day take a disastrous turn when he's hit by a car in the middle of Paris. But fate has other plans the driver turns out to be the director of a major insurance company, and the accident might just be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Genre: Comedy
4 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

Boxing Dayby Doug J Robbins

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A crazed killer, Mrs. Claus, hunts down a mother and son on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas.

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

Sheby Lamar D. Vine

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After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

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

All the News That's Fitby Ian Patrick Williams

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In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

No Loose Endsby Adam Rocke

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Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when there's a price on your head.

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

Vampireby Doug J Robbins

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A man sees an ultra-realistic vampire in a display window, and the diner owner next door swears the thing is alive. But that can't be true, can it?

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

The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby Ivana Hruba

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P. Casso, an unremarkable young man in charge of phone inquiries at an art gallery, spends his working hours in a pleasant daze doodling aimlessly at his desk until a random drawing leads to a change in circumstances from which there seems to be no escape.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Spices with Vicesby Debbie Castanha

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A privileged pair of Ray Bans becomes lost in a drawer of bickering spices, and must hatch an escape plan before she's replaced.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Rubic's Kubeby Bernard Mersier

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Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.

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

The Labby Nancy Kimmel

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Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

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

It's My Lifeby John Porter

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A family drama in which a young Indian-American woman struggles to decide whether to continue living with her parents or to move into an apartment with her American boyfriend.

Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Kissby Mary Goldman

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Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

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

Diary of a Madmanby Eugene Hattingh

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When a man wakes up in a hotel with total amnesia, his only clue to his past is a disturbing journal, driving him to extreme measures to keep it from being exposed.

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