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The Villageby Adolpho Phillips
Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Carverby Doug J Robbins
A legendary serial killer with an affinity for carving up faces like Jack o'Lanterns for Halloween visits the home of Jack and Meg.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Solitude in Well-beingby Daniel Gaina
When an old colleague forces a grieving, agoraphobic physicist out of his automated smart-home, he discovers too late that the outside world he feared has already ended.
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Horned Toadby Loren Davis
When five advanced AI language models gather to dissect a western screenplay, their debate is upended by the silent presence of a horned toad lizard on the windowsill, forcing them to confront the limits of consciousness, meaning, and their own existence as the world outside quietly decays.
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Portrait of a Girlby Niagara Ross
A group of teenagers, exploring an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, find an old portrait of a mysterious girl. But the more they learn about her past, the more nightmarish visions and dangerous phenomena begin to haunt them.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Petarby Gabrielle Wieczorek
A biographical drama of Petar Mrkalj, who reported on ethnic cleansing that occurred in Croatia or former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Croatia historically aligned with axis WWII where ethnic cleansing also occurred. His work helped to get war generals convicted of war crimes, which were subsequently overturned. He also helped many families reunite and receive closure about what happened to their loved ones. Petar died prematurely. His family believes his own government murdered him.
Genre: Biographical
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Loveeby Kishore kumar
Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.
Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sharkkinby Tommy Garcia
A young woman fantasizes about the shark that attacked her when she meets a man with an unusual identity crisis, and the two find only they can heal one another's trauma.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The First & Only Kissby Michael Avishai
After a long-anticipated date fizzles, a shy college student finds unexpected connection on a crowded dance floor, proving that sometimes chemistry matters more than compatibility.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Maria x Mariaby Ruby Hernandez
When a submissive housewife discovers her body has regenerative properties, she uses it to build the family she always wanted.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
2 Heart Shuffleby Bernard Mersier
Sitting on opposite sides of the bathroom door, Laura and Rodney confront their deepest insecurities and unspoken boundaries, ultimately deciding whether emotional vulnerability or possessive fear will dictate the future of their relationship.
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When I'm Lying In My Bedby Jared Kelly
Six year old Aaron is very fearful of what lurks underneath his bed - and he has good reason to be scared. Told in ryhyming voice over by Aaron, this creepy one-pager will have your skin crawling and your toes curling. "Sometimes when I'm in my bed, I hear the noise I really dread..."
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Vacuumby Barry Staff
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
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby M Kenya Branch
After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Flashes of Youby Lamar D. Vine
45-year-old Quan, trapped in a stagnant marriage, visits Bangkok to help her daughter Cindy start university. A vintage Polaroid purchase from enigmatic writer Jake unleashes suppressed memories of her teenage romance with Johnnie, leading to an intense affair filled with sensual encounters, emotional confessions, and self-discovery. As Quan navigates guilt, passion, and fleeting joy, the story weaves themes of longing, infidelity, and reinvention, culminating in her quiet empowerment and anticipation of future escapes.
Genre: Romance
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Where's Steve?by Richard Wells
When a neglected houseplant discovers his owner has died after a drug-fuelled party, he must rely on a forgetful goldfish and a cactus with an identity crisis to uncover what happened before they all die of neglect.
Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rewardby Wayne E. Johnson
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
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spellmarkedby Vanessa M. Chattman
A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Corneliaby Sarah Kennedy
A dying clown desperate to reclaim the magic of her youth passes something sinister to her young grandson after death.
Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Testby Justin TEST
This is a test logline.
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Timeoutby Dewayne
When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Cop Killerby D J Robbins
A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Keep On Saving the Worldby Jared Stonefield
A superhero is frustrated that he's had to take time off to recover, and his girlfriend suspects something else is going on - now they're about to have it out over date-night dinner.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bright Lights, Dark Shadowsby Barry Staff
Wanting to suss a stranger in town, a thirteen-year-out truant girl needs to realise he's planning a hit on a political party conference there.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The World According To Bull - Gone Fishingby Perk Perkins
When a cynical twenty-five-year-old woman drags her politically incorrect, 89-year-old grandfather on a fishing trip, the old man strikes up an unlikely, heartwarming friendship with a lonely ten-year-old boy who has never fished before.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thulirby KS Punithakumar
Following a single flower's journey from a morning market to a temple altar, a cremation ground, and a flowing river, the interconnectedness of life, devotion, and human mortality unfolds.
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Subject Strictly Off-Limitsby Elliot Stanton
An argument about the TV show Strictly Come Dancing threatens a couple's marriage until they agree never to discuss the show again. However, the ceasefire only lasts until the discussion of what takeaway to order begins.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Choicesby Sarah Kennedy
Autonomous technology developers grapple with a scenario that becomes terrifyingly personal.
Genre: Sci-Fi
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brotherley Hateby Elliot Stanton
Timing Is Everything... Or Nothing. The responsible brother sees his younger, carefree sibling as a threat to him taking over the family business until fate steps in and changes the future for everyone.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Parkin' 'ellby Elliot Stanton
A rainy afternoon and a full hospital car park push a family into escalating conflict, culminating in the discovery that their struggle was entirely avoidable.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby Steven Burton
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Passionby Susan Pattishall
Jean Smitty, an American teacher in socialist China, whose perspective is shaped by her prior reading of a Korean War era memoir by a priest expelled for teaching Christianity, invites her student Zhi Chang to share his essaya poignant, layered account of losing his beloved Meilin Hao to the Red Chinese Youth Party, and the brutal aftermath.
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Nailsby John Ravitz
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharistic Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving him Holy Communion and must tread the line between his sacred duties and the need to stop a killer.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Isle of Plasticaby Drina Connors Kay
A CEO of a plastics company is kidnapped and dumped on a platform in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where he must remain until he promises to clean up the mess.
Genre: Other
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
War Gamesby Wayne E. Johnson
A Vietnam-era GI, toiling away in his personnel office under the scorching Texas sun trying to please his nervous, ineffective lieutenant while keeping a fire-snorting master sergeant at bay, learns the true meaning of "The Lord helps those who help themselves."
Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by Bill Rutkoski
Jimmy, a struggling actor known only for a cheesy seafood commercial, gets dubbed "Clam Man" by a waitress he instantly falls for. That same day, his world snaps: the days of the week start shuffling and looping in a pattern only he can see. When he watches her murdered on a Saturday that won't stop repeating, he throws himself into each loop, fighting to stop the killer before Saturdayand shevanish forever.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
33 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
33 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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