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Chocolate, Moose, and Titsby Larry E. Coleman
A man who wants to come clean with a secret he's been hiding from his girlfriend, gets advice from three versions of himself from alternative universes.
Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Swoliosisby Jim Kowalski
A gym attendant hosts an underground fitness competition to avoid losing his bankrupt gym and his crush.
Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fall In Loveby M SHAHZAIN USMAN SHAMSI
A business man fall in love with poor girl whose life is full of problems and always facing huddles in her life. One upon a time she saw a business man who is looking handsome and a business man who also see this poor girl who is looking a beauty of his heart and he started fall in love with this poor girl and one day he proposed her and she accepted her proposal.
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Trespassingby Sarah Kennedy
In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman's drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil. Award-winning produced screenwriter.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pledge to Murderby Elliot Stanton
The fog shrouding a horrific murder is about to get thicker. The evil spectre of Jack the Ripper returns to Victorian London after the gruesome murder of a prominent politician's murder.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daggersby Jason K. Allen
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
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker
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
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Afterlifeby DJ Robbins
A 26-year-old man regrets committing suicide and death shows him the ramifications of the effects his suicide had on his parents and girlfriend.
Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Serving Caesarby Pelham Mead III
Marcos Cassius Scaeva was perhaps one of the greatest Centurians to serve Proconsul Caesar in Britain, the Rine, and in Greece agains Pompey. In Greece Scaeva took 400 arrows to his shield, an arrow to his eye and his knee without saying. Caesar made him Primus Pilus.
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby Brandi Self
An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Vengeance Appby Edward Chapman
Desperate for retribution against her bullies, a tormented teen obtains a sinister app allowing her to execute a revenge of her choosing upon them but soon discovers it comes with chilling consequences as her actions begin to consume her own life.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby Abdelouahab Hammoudi
"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennisby Doug J Robbins
A living doll babysits a baby and protects it during a burglary.
Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have No Wordsby Shelly Paino
As a couple debates the fact that women use more words in a day than men, the husband hits his daily word limit and loses the ability to speak, sparking a feud with his wife.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Once Blue Now Dead Redby Darryl N. Layne
Mankind has always wondered what happened to our sister planet Mars or as it once was called "Seti". Dak, Band, and Mika environmental scientists is facing a severe environmental crisis. They work tirelessly to save Seti with help from AI android "Guardian". With time running out for Seti, they build a spaceship to migrate to a blue planet we now call Earth. Their desperate attempt lead to a desperate surprising end leading into part two "Spores ".
Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Degreeby Barry Staff
Wanting a meaningful relationship for once, a strung-out womaniser goes to a quiet beach to try with Nature herself, but needs to prove his sincerity to make any headway.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby Jack Halliday
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Missingby Darryl N. Layne
Two scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in creating a space fuel must confront their hidden origins and humanity's fate when mysterious extraterrestrial visitors arrive, offering a choice between saving Earth or joining a cosmic mission that will change everything.
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Apartmentby Brandi Self
A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can't connect.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Eagleby Mina Faiez
Hani is a young man who lives with his brother Joseph and his neighbor Khalid, but he finds out that his neighbor killed his father , and that his father, Khalid, and father of his girlfriend are members of an old gang whose girlfriend's father fears that he will expose himself, and that he will kill Khalid. But Hani succeeds in helping his brother and the police catch him.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Whispers from an Atheistby Bernard Antoine Mersier
A philosophical loner takes viewers through his home while delivering provocative monologues about religion, relationships, and hypocrisy, ending in a shocking act of self-destruction that transforms water into wine with his own blood.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northern Exposureby Larry Shannon
The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
Genre: Biographical
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Travelersby Tigran Vardanyan
A troubled man checks into a seaside restaurant, masking his despair behind a lavish order, while a young chef, burdened by his own dilemmas, unknowingly becomes the only witness to his final momentsforcing him to confront his own path before it's too late.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Customer Service Lifeby Derek L. Polen
A customer service rep shows the challenges they face when trying to make customers happy.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An Act of Kindnessby Georgette B. Skolnick
A student learns a lesson the hard way in this short feel-good story.
Genre: Family
32 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
32 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby John Porter
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own.
Genre: Musical
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Musical
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Terror Martby John Alexander Fraser
A young woman lost in the wrong part of town seeks help at a 7/11 Mart and must overcome evil to plot a way to safety.
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Nowhereby Jason K. Allen
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
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby Robert Godwin
One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Finally Coming Homeby Dennis Bruce Shipman
A clairvoyant female visits a Confederate Civil War Cemetery to help a dead earth-bound soldier cross over into the light. The story takes place in the present. The soldier has been walking the grounds of the graveyard waiting 162 years for his sweetheart to come fetch him. Initially, he's hesitant to step into the light. But once he experiences its soothing warmth and majestic wonder, he's all in.
Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Regretsby Patricia Bruce
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
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mario's Songby Paul Byrne
When his fisherman dad drowns at sea, a recruited soccer ace hooks up with a charismatic drug dealer to support his family, but eventually, must either roll over on his boss who is like a brother or do hard time in gladiator academy.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Labby Nancy Kimmel
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
Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby Jason K. Allen
Two freakish outcasts -- a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis -- are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Living in the Pastby Bernhard Riedhammer
A 30-year-old disillusioned loner must deal with his estranged and socially awkward father, after he suffers a stroke losing part of his memory. Both share a painful past he cannot forget, and his father cannot remember.
Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby Linda Gould
Miranda, a Homeland Security bureaucrat, is having a tryst with Pete, a handsome but crude major league ballplayer. One early morning encounter is interrupted by two policemen, who take Petie in for questioning about the apparent kidnapping of his teammate, Manny Chavez ... who is engaged to Miranda's sportswriter sister, Jessica. Manny was about to testify against several teammates in a steroids hearing.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Worst Dayby Julie Whalley
A troubled teen, haunted by a harsh argument with her recently divorced mother, speeds off into the night, only to crash into a tree. As she clings to consciousness, an empathetic off-duty firefighter keeps her awake with a story of his own tragedy until help arrives. But when she recovers and seeks him out to express her gratitude, she discovers a shocking truth about the identity of her mysterious savior.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sentinelby John Alexander Fraser
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby Edward Chapman
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Handby Jay Hodgkins
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
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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