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Playtime: Episode 1 Plasticby DJ Robbins
Eric discovers that everything in his life is made of plastic.
Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rise of the Plutoniansby Jason K. Allen
The Plutonians are a secret club that promotes and restores honor to those things that get no respect or have gone out of style: yo-yos, paper airplanes, VCR's, gluten, Pluto, and more. Albert wants to join, but he faces a difficult initiation process.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Group Chatby Dwayne Craig Bricker
After an unremovable number joins their group chat, five friends receive photos from inside their homesand a countdown demanding they confess what happened at the lake.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Vaccineby DJ Robbins
The Covid vaccines turn people into Zombies and another vaccine is promised to remedy the original vaccine. The second vaccine causes male sterility.
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The House that Whispersby Anthony Cawood
Two boys explore an abandoned house rumored to answer questions with eerie whispers, but a cruel prank turns deadly when the house reveals it has secretsand a sinister voiceof its own
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pool Boyby Joseph Anthony Francis
When an unemployed deaf man takes a job as a pool boy, he finds himself caught in a game of manipulation and seduction.
Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
CareMoreby Michael Avishai
A drugstore employee exploits a customer loyalty program to stalk a woman, exposing how corporate systems designed to "care" can enable predatory behavior to hide in plain sight.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Almost By Designby Roberta M Roy
A young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer of schools must leave home when her web of reality forces her to risk seeking employment with upper class homeowners as an interior home decor designer in faraway New York City. **2024: Best Drama Screenplay New York Film Awards; Best Short Screen Play - Los Angeles Film Awards; Festigious Los Angeles Monthly Film Competition; Semi Finalist - Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest; Brooklyn International Short Awards; Berlin Shorts Award*
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Only the Windby DJ Robbins
Jack is spending his first Christmas without his father and is given the chance for one last Christmas with him.
Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pizza Killerby Ange Fassinou
A pizza delivery that leads to a massacre.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Winds of Kandaharby PAUL BYRNE
Racing the clock on 9/11, a two-fisted female private eye goes head-to-head with a terrorist sleeper cell and risks everything to save the Pentagon on that fateful day.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Freshbloomby Anthony Cawood
In a park filled with life, two strangers marked by an ominous badge share a fleeting connection, navigating the unfair balance of their final day.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Backflipby Jessica Taylor
When The World's Fair comes to town, a gymnast in a side show act must keep her wits about her to escape from H.H. Holmes or else perish in his murder castle alone and afraid.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Judge, Jury & Executionerby Elliot Stanton
When a butcher's wife puts him on a virtually meat-free diet, it provokes a disgruntled female customer to redress the balance. But does she have an ulterior motive? Mrs Jury revels in telling her local butcher, Mr Judge, of her marital issues, and to her surprise, he reciprocates with tales of his own. A dinner invitation results in a disturbing discovery by the butcher.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Price of Eggsby Susan Kelejian
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
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by Vladimir Vassilenko
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
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Change the F*cking Nameby Christopher Harmon
A fearless Indigenous teen, intent on restoring the dignity of his people, goes on a mystical vision quest...only to find the legendary Jim Thorpe as his guide and mentor. Jim reinforces the young man's determination to end the racial slur that is the name of a Washington sports team and he champions a movement - that eventually succeeded.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
He's Gonna Payby John Porter
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
Genre: Western
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Boy from Under the Bridgeby Susan Adair Harris
He was released from his murder conviction on appeal, but he needed a student tutor to help him graduate high school and evade the drug cartel.
Genre: Romance
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bridgeby Mike Bevins
In 1946 three preteens lose their innocence after witnessing a horrific act. Six characters, one location. (Finalist in Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest)
Genre: Drama
28 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
28 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Tree or Bustby Jason K. Allen
As December approaches, dusty ornaments in the attic spiffy themselves up, get makeovers and begin exercise regimens as they vie for a spot on the Christmas tree. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby Drew Larimore
An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shrouded by Shadowby Hutira Gábor
Ryu Hayashi, a skilled ninja of the Shadow Syndicate, one day he is tasked with a mission to eliminate a thief, only to discover that the thief is just a poor man who stole vegetables to feed his starving family. Rejecting the mission, Ryu is marked as a rogue and must fight for his life against his former allies, facing the consequences of his decision.
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Selling Oranges on a Median with Charles Bukowskiby Ryan Armstrong
A meeting of two men in an unlikely place as they try to overcome the challenge of understanding and communicating with the other.
Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mariliseby Ron Micci
Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Yuletideby Doug J Robbins
An impoverished, mall Santa is forced into reconciliation with his mother by his rough around the edges mama's boy older brother
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fishing in Heavenby Art D'Alessandro
When 8 year-old Alex's Grandpa, her best friend and fishing buddy, dies suddenly, she has a hard time dealing with the loss and life itself. But in a dream she finds herself fishing with him again in a beautiful, almost magical place, only to waken with a whole new way of seeing things.
Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Devil's Bargainby Cassandra Wells
When Soho, a 17th century Caddo (Native American), becomes painfully aware of what fate awaits her people with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors into what will become Texas, she enters into an unholy alliance with an Old World witch who has been "imported" from Europe to exact a fitting vengeance upon the merciless interlopers.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Giftby Jason K. Allen
In 1977, a young man receives a camera that takes disturbing pictures. (1 location, 1 actor. Produced writer, see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III
In the mid 1800's a man named Tom Wolf is committed to Bedlam Hospital for the Mentally Insane in London, England. He claims he is a wolf. The Doctors doubt him and torture him to admit he is not a wolf. In the end the real wolf in Tom comes out to surprise the Doctors.
Genre: Fantasy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deliver Us Some Evilby Jerrod D. Brito
Three teens are stalked by a creepy, reclusive neighbor the night before Halloween.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Not?by Steven Blows
A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marriage Made in Heavenby Daniel J. Broderick
Til death do us part. But what about after that? Do you reunite in heaven? What if you remarried after your first spouse's death? Do you have to reside for an eternity with your pain-in-the butt mother or ungrateful kids?
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Flossy Forwardby Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Nothingby Lamar D. Vine
When a grieving retiree installs an AI life coach to escape crushing loneliness after divorce and loss, he must confront buried rage and rediscover purpose through writing before the seductive voice consumes his identityor lose his last chance at redemption.
Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wolf Riderby Pelham Mead III
This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.
Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Cutby John Porter
A dark comedy (unless you're Bill, the protagonist, who would call it a horror film) that provides a warning to any man who even thinks about doing wrong to his woman.
Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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