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Anonymous Sourceby Tim Bechen

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A relentless female journalist battles powerful adversaries in a male-dominated industry as she risks everything to get the story and ensure justice.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Restaurant: A Visual Comedyby Jackie

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When his pizza takes too long to arrive, a young man takes matters into his own hands

Genre: Comedy
1-4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Gone With The Gulf Streamby Jack Sherry

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A military chemical dump in Florida's Panhandle is more than just an environmental disaster. When a deadly bacterial outbreak kills marine life and divers in the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman must escape government cover-ups and corporate corruption after losing her boyfriend and father figure to the contaminated waters.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Furry Family Reunion [Extended Family Edition]by Amy

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When a loyal Furry breaks Fandom protocol, he finds it impossible to rise in the ranks at FurCon, especially with his extended family in tow. More information here: https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/furry-family-reunion-extended-family-edition

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Shoppingby Jackie Tung

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A college student shopping attempts to choose the perfect water bottle and soon falls into a paralysis of choice. Although he ultimately chooses one, it's tantamount to making no decision at all.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Beauty Beholdby Steven Burton

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A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Legacyby Jeffrey Stackhouse

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A young black priest takes a life-changing opportunity at a convent dating back to the birth of New Orleans and discovers secrets that shake his sanity as much as his faith. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Kuyiliby KS Punithakumar

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When a compassionate village librarian inspires children through the timeless wisdom of books, her quiet acts of kindness plant the seeds of hope that transform an entire community for generations.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Ransomby Dwayne Bricker

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Two dimwitted small-time crooks think they've found the perfect low-risk score when a charming vet tech sells them inside information to kidnap a Beverly Hills millionaire's "beloved" dog for ransom. Instead of a pampered prize, they snatch Slugan obese, flatulent pug no one claims, let alone will pay for. As their botched negotiation spirals, the pair slowly realize they're not the predators, but the marks in a con far smarter than they are.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Kindred Spiritsby Iris Mangual

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A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Walkersby Stephen Motta

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Buried tensions surface as three old friends confront the challenges of aging and loss during their daily walk in a dying mall.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Suitcaseby Walerian Domanski

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The fate of the suitcase stolen by a policeman during a search of a criminal's house. It was hidden, found, changed hands a few times, and ultimately ended up in the possession of a policeman again. Marginal actors: the policeman's girlfriend, her dog, and the neighbor.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

October 31stby Doug J Robbins

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A legendary serial killer named Ben Snyder, the Green Hollow Killer, has returned to kill again on Halloween night.

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

The Taste of Beliefby Danny King

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When a psychology professor challenges his students with a parable about restaurants, a fiery clash between science and conspiracy forces them to confront a deeper truth: you can't judge an idea until you've tasted it yourself.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Cage For Twoby Darryl N. Layne

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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

Not For Everyoneby Philip C. Sedgwick

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Up against a production deadline, two casting directors seeking the next "it" actress, encounter a waitress who perplexes their sensibilities when she rejects their casting offer of fame and fortune. While wooing the waitress, a life-threating emergency at a nearby table is thwarted by an immigrant worker in the establishment.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

In Lineby Steven Burton

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A small diverse group waits in an urban bus depot line to experience role reversals when the bus arrives.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Power Outageby Dwayne Bricker

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During a citywide blackout, cautious tenant Maria Soto calls her building's superintendent using a number taped inside her cabinet. A man claiming to be Mr. Alvarez calmly guides her through dark halls, describing what he shouldn't see and a building layout that doesn't match hers. When a neighbor reveals the super died last month, Maria realizes the outage has opened a line to something that still believes it runs the building.

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

Powers and Principalitiesby James K. Cole

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Two angels are sent on assignment to earth to enlist a high school teacher, who has just lost his wife and is angry at God, to help fight the powers of darkness in his school.

Genre: Sci-Fi
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Tale of Two Sistersby Robert Evans

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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

Aunt Lillian's Lipby John W Welch

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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

Elvis Hasn't Left the Buildingby Elliot Stanton

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The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock' n' Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals the man himself, resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit - Elvis Presley.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Flowers for Lilyby Candy Fox

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Three grieving beings - a man, a woman, and a dog - find a glimmer of hope for a path forward, in the unlikeliest of places - a cemetery.

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

Still Waterby John Waring

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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

The Father of Thingsby Chris Fell

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In this award-winning war drama, two enemy soldiers try to brutally kill each other on the battlefield. However, when both become incapacitated, they cooperate to survive. Their dialogue between camaraderie and cynicism highlights the absurd "logic" of war and propaganda, while offering a glimmer of hope to reconcile differences. Just a glimmer.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Legacyby Michael G Holmes

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An image-obsessed actor is bitten by a snake while staging a publicity-friendly hiking trip, then spends what may be his final minutes rehearsing the perfect deathbed message instead of confronting the life he actually lived.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Rebirth Morgueby Wilson Espinal

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After a young boy vanishes under impossible circumstances, a trio of paranormal operatives employed by a covert morgue uncover a deadly spirit and wage war against the supernatural forces preying on the living.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Noble Deceptionby Chris Burns

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After a ruthless businessman discovers a dying cashier inside a locked supermarket, he becomes convinced the killer is still inside and fights desperately to escape. But the terrifying ordeal is no random nightmare: his fed-up wife and the employee whose life he ruined have carefully constructed a deadly deception, exploiting his arrogance, temper and instinct for violence to turn him from the hunted into the man the police believe is the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

07.07.77by Serge Mirov

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After a first, accidental night together in the summer of 1977, a still slightly drunk, naked young man slips out of his sleeping girlfriend's room to find a toilet, only to get lost in a labyrinthine Soviet communal apartment where every encounter threatens to expose him.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Not Yetby Claudia Hoag McGarry

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A couple, preparing to attend his mother's memorial, are bickering and anxious as the viewer or reader slowly understands the subtext they have lost a child.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Plumber's Mateby Elliot Stanton

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A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Beatles '74by Elliot Stanton

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In a parallel 1974 where The Beatles have reunited, two sisters clash over music, memory, and marriage in a single afternoon that may reshape their futures, just as the Fab Four call it quits for good.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG

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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

My Brother Just Shot Me!by Don Nyambe

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A mother's dark past returns to haunt her when the son she abandoned years ago is shot by his brother.

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

Halloween Massacre 2by Doug J Robbins

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One year after the Halloween Massacre, Cyrus returns to torment Danny once again.

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

The City: A Tragedy in Three Actsby Larry Shannon

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The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

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

The Fairytale Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III

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Tom Wolf is thrown into the Bedlam Mental hospital in the early 1800s in London, England for being drunk. He tells the doctors that is is a wolf and they laugh at him. He then tells stories of three pigs whom he sold houses to and a young girl named Red Riding Hood and finally a Russian named Peter. The doctors punish Tom each time.

Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Doppelgangerby John M Grace

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A chance subway encounter with the twin of a woman from his past turns a brief commute into an emotional reckoning.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Yearbookby Charles Hall

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A small-town loner begins to suspect she's a pawn in a twisted game after a charismatic new transfer student works his way into her life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Last Debateby Gladman

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During a final interrogation over a broken simulation, a defiant subject turns the tables on his examiner forcing him to question whether he, too, is trapped inside the very system he believes he controls.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles