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Imagine That!by  Tina Czarnota
Grace under pressure can be a royal disaster.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No More Virginsby  Lloyd Muchenje
Three Africa women,one battling addiction,another serving herself for marriage,and bride to -be striving to protect her own female purity,leading to heartbreaking and moments of profound reckoning. PURITY HAS A PRICE,INNOCENCE IS NO PROTECTION.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossroads Waiting Roomby  Michael J Volpe
In a mysterious waiting room outside of time, two strangers confront alternate versions of themselves and must make life-defining choices on where they work, who they marry and whether they have children.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what's following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem naturaluntil they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening... and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bump in the Nightby  Anthony Cawood
When a desperate young thief breaks into the wrong house, he discovers the elderly homeowners are far more dangerousand sinisterthan he could have ever imagined.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On the Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
When two know-it-all female millennials search unsuccessfully for love, it's their Mother who comes out the winner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Angel Friendsby  Pelham Mead III
Tom Sizer is a college student who was driving on Meadowbrook Parkway when he had an accident with his car. When he is about to die the Archangel Michael decides to keep him alive. After Tom recovers, Michael tells him he is to be a human advisor to the angels in special situations and his adventures begin.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Etiquette of a Necrophiliacby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
After uncovering his wife's infidelity, a man descends into a dark spiral, finding solace and control only in the macabre act of necrophilia, leading him down a path of irreversible perversion and escalating violence.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accidental Breakthroughby  Christine Lara
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
Black Queen: Birth Of A Queen Warriorby  Ange Fassinou
In a land of witches and beasts, a young woman, kidnapped for an Amazon Army, battles to get back to her tribe and lead her warrior sisters to the truth.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
I Heart Jodyby  Doug J Robbins
A serial killer gets distracted by his favorite sitcom when about to enter a potential victim's home.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Smells Like Steinbeckby  Jason K. Allen
A young man with a passion for pleasant aromas is lured into the underground world of book sniffing. (Could be short or TV pilot. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It's 1940 and the Wehrmacht sits on one side of Dnieper River and the Red army on the other. A great battle ensues. 6 colorful characters comment including a Polish Jew seen to Buchenwald

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lotby  Doug J Robbins
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
King Pyrrhus of Epirusby  Robert Michael Benn
In antiquity, Alexander's general invades Rome, Sicily and Sparta. He marries beautiful Antigone. He dies in Argos from a 10-pound tile hitting his head. Plutarch sums it up for us.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby  Ivana Hruba
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
A long Road Aheadby  Bernhard Riedhammer
A trailblazing transgender woman, stranded in the middle of nowhere, must hitch a ride with an opinionated retiree in order to stop her ex from leaving the country with their son.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Poor Santaby  Hiabu Hassebu
A family struggles to celebrate Christmas amidst the killer Virus Covid-19.

Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wanting sex again after an op leaves erectile dysfunction, a man needs a specialist nurse coming to his aid.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Jefferson in Parisby  Robert Michael Benn
Jefferson is in Paris during the French Revolution with his unhappy slave Mary Hemmings. Bonaparte captures much Europe and the Middle East. Jefferson deals with Directory and many guillotined royalties. He must return to Washington.

Genre: Biographical
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Invasion of Panamaby  Robert Michael Benn
In 1989, Noreiga seizes control of Panama. Protagonist (101st Airborne) Robert & President Bush take it back, install democratic Engara, and sip lemonade afterwards in Kentucky.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Oh No, You Pull Itby  Daniel J. Broderick
Two siblings, whose mother is on life support, debate who should pull the plug. And yes, this is a comedy.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Berlin (A True Story)by  Ron Brawer
On her deathbed, a Holocaust survivor recounts her family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and reveals a dark family secret -- encountering shocked disbelief.

Genre: Family
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
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
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kicking Tiresby  Tony Jerris
When a pragmatic dreamer meets an angelic stranger, he realizes that even the most skeptical hearts sometimes need to kick the tires on love.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 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
A programmer's digital world turns sentient and steals his consciousnessforcing him to battle his own creation before the simulation takes his place.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A young trick-or-treater is angry after receiving a "fun size" candy bar. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Katy Chase IIby  Robert Michael Benn
In 1861, the most beautiful hostess in Lincoln's Washington dances with millionaire Willaim Sprague who falls for her. They marry & he is elected to Congress. But he descends into alcoholism & loses his fortune. Katy divorces him and endures poverty. In 1899, she sells apples to Theodore Roosevelt on the White house steps.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fall From Heavenby  PAUL BYRNE
Tortured by a sadistic Russian general, a former female Ukrainian commando finds justice in her gripping testimony before a war crimes tribunal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fly Squattingby  Steven Blows
A mother grieving for the loss of her daughter takes her anger out on a pesky fly that won't leave her alone.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
More Than Clothby  Steven Blows
The experiences of a university student's first day devoutly wearing the hijab proves to be more challenging and diverse than she first expected when friends and strangers begin to see her differently.

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