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Good Tasteby Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can't help reminiscing with her own mother about the man who seduced her, married her, and left her many years ago.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Topby Barry Staff
Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shadow Figureby Cassandra Wells
Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vulturesby Keshia Thomas
A brilliant but unraveling scientist secretly tests a radical cure for Alzheimer's on her own family but as eerie, vulture-like entities begin to appear, feeding on memories like prey, she realizes the real threat might not be the disease... but what she's unleashed trying to cure it.
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG
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
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Artificial Lightby Cephra Stuart
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Who Said Penis?by Adam Rocke
Thanksgiving dinner at a swanky Bel Air mansion comes with roast turkey and all the trimmings, plus an anatomy lesson from a 7-year-old.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Survivors Will Be Prosecutedby Barry Staff
Wanting a solemn vigil at his dying mother's bedside, a man needs to deal with a pesky insect threatening to make the situation laughable.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Midnightby DJ Robbins
At Midnight, June meets the terrifying, murderous entity known as the Midnight Woman.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.
Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dragomir and the Ieleby camelia dinu
While Dragomir stumbles upon the enchanting dance of the iele mysterious forest spirits from Romanian lore fascination quickly turns to terror. Trapped between irresistible beauty and deadly magic, he must fight to resist their spell or be claimed forever by the darkness.
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Desert Muleby Jack Lindauer
A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.
Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mother's Gavelby Jesus Gonzalez
A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trip the Light Fantasticby Bari K. Willerford
A lonely man goes to a dance party. He notices a lonely woman across the room. Their eyes meet. Boom!
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Visionby Elliot Stanton
A burgeoning romance on a London tube train halted by a red light begins and ends before the light turns green. Mild flirtation develops into insults when a happy coincidence hastily reveals deep-felt attitudes and acrimony.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cage For Twoby Darryl N. Layne
After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.
Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Roadsideby Brian Wallace
A couple's roadside rescue of a mysterious woman spirals into a nightmarish encounter with her vengeful, murderous boyfriend, revealing her own dark past.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby Nik Forster
A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Generation Killerby John Edward Bias
Time is of the essence as an assassin goes on a chronological murder spree searching for a time travel equation.
Genre: Sci-Fi
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Hatsby Tina Field Howe
A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Broadcastby Noureddine Hifad
In a remote Antarctic research station, a lone radio host continues daily broadcasts after a global communications blackout until strange voices begin hijacking her signal, hinting that something nonhuman has already arrived.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheby Lamar D. Vine
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
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thirteen Coilsby John Porter
A young outlaw prepares for his execution.
Genre: Western
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cueball & Rickyby Mary
Two hit men, arguing over how to dispose of their latest victim's body, must change their plans when faced with an unlikely surprise.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Game of Thrones: In East L.A.by Adam Rocke
On a crazy So Cal road trip, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen take a wrong turn and wind up in East L.A. where they run afoul of a notorious Mexican street gang. Violence is coming!
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Cuddly Toyby CARLOS ALEX CENI
The life of a handicapped guy takes a dramatic turn when he looks out the window and spots a cuddly toy next to a wheelie bin.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inhospitable Takeoverby Michael Hutchinson
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Fine Haunted Tuneby Vanessa M. Chattman
A violinist obsessed with perfection replaces her fingers with those of deceased prodigies, playing music that drives listeners mad.
Genre: Horror
42 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
42 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Attack of the Church Furnitureby David McPete
A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.
Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Between Detroit and Toledoby Sonny James Traylor
At a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she's on the run with half a million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Reenactorby Victor Bravo
A Civil War researcher walking the Shiloh National Military Park encounters a wounded Confederate soldier in the throes of a battle fought one hundred and sixty years ago.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Back from the Deadby Vic Jones
A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Owlby Brandon Rhiness
After a hit-and-run on a dark country road, a panicked woman is haunted by a relentless owl that seems to have witnessed her crimeonly to realize the bird is merely a herald for the vengeful spirit she left in the ditch.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pawnsby Adam Rocke
The CIA uses a game of chess to recruit a child prodigy.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chameleonby Kevin Pacey
Life on the line, a teenage girl locks horns with an eccentric pensioner and learns to trust again.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fez Rescueby Ed Tasca
A handsome young man discovers that the woman he's having an affair with is the niece of a mafia boss. In his panic, wishing to break up with her, he has to find a way for her to break up with him and not vice versa, or he could wind up with involuntary "knee surgery." He chooses a spiritual method.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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