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Blade of Betrayalby  Christine LARA
After the tragic death of his mother, Ken Deluisart moves to Japan, immersing himself in its culture and martial arts. When he returns to France for his father's funeral, he's plunged into a treacherous web of family deceit. Targeted for his inheritance, Ken must confront his cousin's betrayal and unearth the truth behind his father's death before it's too late.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
You Can Never Go Backby  Lamar D. Vine
A lonely divorced introvert rekindles a forbidden affair with his unhappily married first love after 25 years apart, embarking on steamy weekend getaways filled with nostalgia and desire, but as their passionate escapes unravel into betrayal, deceit, and profound heartbreak, he must confront the painful illusion of second chances to ultimately forge a path of solitary freedom, nomadic travel, and self-reinvention abroad as a writer.

Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
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
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
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: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Justifiable Beatingby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Love will make you believe your enemy truly loves you. That's the bitter truth Monica has to swallow dealing with her husband Craig.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accuser's Pantsby  Danny King
Accused of another's faults, a man stays silent, knowing that false blame is loud, temporary, and that real character, and the guilty, always reveal themselves.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A cell phone with his hand is stuck to a man's ear. After frantic attempts to loosen it fail, a mysterious 'Voice' comes on the line to help find a solution.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A grieving girl endeavors to fly on a paper aeroplane.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jack's Mom Autism Warrior Princessby  Lawrence Riggins
The humorous true story of a supermodel who leaves celebrity life to raise her autistic son. Trading designer gowns for parenthood-on-steroids, this Autimom uses love, determination, and comedy to treat her boy's disorder while defending him from attacks by close-minded individuals. True beauty triumphs as her remarkable son overcomes his disability to thrive as a young man. Short, TV Series, Family Comedy, Female Lead. 27 Awards.

Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Vortican Orderby  S.C. Smith
Five years after a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure, high school senior Ethan Thomas is drawn back into a supernatural nightmare when the shadowy entity reappears, threatening to unravel the fragile peace his family has found.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life to being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to face an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Change of a Dressby  Elliot Stanton
When two ladies fortuitously meet in a clothes shop fitting room, their taste in clothes is not the only thing they have in common. The discovery that they share something very personal becomes the catalyst for what may become a firm friendship.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A reporter meets with the controlling perfectionist mayor of a small town and learns the secret as to how the mayor keeps his citizens in line.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Break Inby  Jane Tumminello
Two teenage guys set out to break into a house, but just as they're about to go inside, they come upon something horrific they never expected.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Cows Are Contentedby  John Porter
A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented, even though they end up as hamburger and baseball gloves.

Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A young professional's life is changed for eternity when he unwittingly makes the choice between trading one heinous addiction for another on a different level.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
My Empty Lifeby  Brandon Rhiness
Two cynical, broke teenagers embark on a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes to buy a used car, only to lose their ultimate prize to their own incompetence within minutes of achieving it.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Return of Hopeby  Ershov Konstantin
Three characters "don't see, don't hear, don't speak" receive a mysterious box that could change their lives.

Genre: Fantasy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Heartwarming Horrorby  Jennifer Milne
A couple on a first date realize the premise of a heartwarming romance could just as easily be a horrifying horror movie, and get a little of both when they go back to her place.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Only If You Dareby  Philip C. Sedgwick
When a journalist and a consultant for brothels meet to discuss upcoming sex worker legislation, the world around them challenges their sensibilities and desires.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Deputyby  Alan Barkley
His deputy shot, a lone frontier sheriff must use his wits and local know-how to subdue a dangerous thug. Single location.

Genre: Western
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby  Jack Halliday
A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Guy painfully caught between former "love of his life" who is sending him a final goodbye via live video and his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's promised to engage in a serious relationship and is waiting for him at her flat. (Both women are played by the same actress.)

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Monk in Holywoodby  Hiabu Hassebu
A Monk Immigrates to USA to cast down the Hollywood demons.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dark Snowby  Ron Micci
A sexually repressed woman in her 30s overcomes her inhibitions when she meets a man at an office Christmas party, then races north to her maiden aunt's cabin in the woods to share the joyous news, only to encounter bitterness and jealousy and a poignant parting of the ways.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Unaware she's half alien, a young woman experiences everything about anyone with one touch, which puts her life in danger and at risk for extermination by those who fear her kind.

Genre: Sci-Fi
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After losing her job as a software programmer, a middle-aged woman reinvents herself as a Customs Broker in Miami, navigating the challenges of a new career while facing financial pressures.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Tale of Two Sistersby  Robert Evans
Twin sisters both adopted at birth by different families meet for the first time in their early 70's, one inherits a British title and the other becomes president, both are a bit nutty.

Genre: Comedy
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Virgin Brideby  Perk Perkins
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
A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Running for Breathby  Steven Blows
When a man's breath escapes him, he must chase it through the manic streets of London to get it back before his time runs out.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Cupidby  Janet Prescott
A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Autumn Falls: The Beginningby  Jacob Enix
A masked killer wearing a grotesque pumpkin mask emerges in the quite town of Autumn Falls, forcing a group of friends to confront a terrifying reality: the legend of Jack is real, and they are his first victims.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Have A Little Faithby  Lloyd Muchenje
Having struggled to conceive for years,a praying woman finally gets pregnant only to lose her unborn child and uterus during a premature delivery. Years later, she miraculously conceives through an ectopic pregnancy and goes to give birth to a healthy baby without medical complications.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.

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