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Revelation/Armageddonby  Darryl N. Layne
When a newly elected president is revealed to be the prophesied Beast, his step brother must confront demonic forces, global chaos,and a world torn between faith and fear, racing against time to stop the rise of evil and restore good before all is lost to satin.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Train of Thoughtby  Elliot Stanton
Overthinking can seriously damage your health. An annoying stranger leaves his fellow train passenger with a very bitter taste in his mouth.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Visions in the Haunted Ledgerby  Vanessa M. Chattman
A burned-out accountant discovers a haunted ledger that tracks deaths before they happen, and each entry is tied to a cursed candle.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Guns, Guts, & Gucciby  DC Copeland
A top secret government agency assists a "mature" man in getting a job based on his merits despite his age. With commentary by Rod Serling.

Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Same Nameby  Steven Burton
Their same name brings a straight black actor and a gay white actor/writer together to collaborate on a film project that creates more greatness for both.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Freezeby  Jon Platt
Far in the future, a teenage schoolgirl has the cryogenically frozen head of a scientist of our time thawed...to help her with her history homework.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Brittle Tromboneby  Mary Goldman
A young girl strikes a bargain to take trombone lessons from an elderly man during the time of Covid-19.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cellby  Bill Wyza
An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Junkie's Flawby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 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
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
The Putt Putt Preacherby  Jason K. Allen
The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course. (Mockumentary. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. First Place: Tennessee Screenwriters Association Comedy Screenplay contest.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Exit Stage Leftby  Elliot Stanton
Even off-stage, the show must go on. An experienced old actor rues missed opportunities and reveals a hidden illness to a young, caring colleague who attempts to open his eyes to the bigger and brighter picture.

Genre: Drama
16 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
Con Cario With Love!by  Luis Ortiz
When a Puerto Rican caregiver accepts a high-paying private job, she becomes entangled in a psychologically manipulative system run by a man posing as disabledpowered by surveillance and an AI caretaker that isn't real.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Patent Applicationby  Stephen Delos Treacy
This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
By the Seaby  Tina Field Howe
Clever Brandi, English heir to a fortune, frames her husband in the murder of her mother, the family matriarch.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicemailby  Dewayne
After losing his daughter, a withdrawn father survives by repeatedly calling her phone just to hear her voicemails. When an unheard message reveals her quiet faith and plea for him to keep living, he must confront his grief and his distance from God. The Voicemail I Can't Delete is an intimate, faith-based drama about loss, surrender, and the courage to step back into life without letting love disappear.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shiftby  Gladman
A manipulative therapist accused of murdering his patient uses his final interrogation to expose evidence of a deeper conspiracyforcing his unseen interrogators to confront the possibility that he may be the key witness, not the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Lightby  Gladman
In a ruined room filled with memories of his lost daughter, a grieving man struggles to keep a single lantern flame aliveuntil one final, impossible spark forces him to confront the moment he chooses hope over despair.

Genre: Drama
1 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
On a deserted strip of highway, a young slacker with no ambitions in life meets a beautiful hitchhiker with everything to prove, and she may have just found what she needs for her recipe for success.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Rainbowby  Vijay Kumar Dammalapati
A neglected boy finds solace in his nanny's love and decades later returns as a doctor to heal the woman who raised him, and himself.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby  DJ Robbins
Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Harvest Sonby  Charles Hall
Desperate to lift his family out of hardship, a migrant worker tracks down a Central American talisman believed to grant the bearer three life-changing wishes.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lace Table Clothby  Frank Vespe
A family heirloom resurrects some unexpected visitors.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Night Stayby  DJ Robbins
A weary businessman checks into a hotel with a history of violence, and said hotel is supposed to be extremely haunted.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a nervous stranger ducks into a rundown dive bar to hide from his past, a cold and relentless hitwoman walks in behind him. As the tension breaks into violence, the bartender and a foul-mouthed parrot become the only survivors in a night that goes completely off the rails.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Once Blue Now Dead Redby  Darryl N. Layne
Mankind has always wondered what happened to our sister planet Mars or as it once was called "Seti". Dak, Band, and Mika environmental scientists is facing a severe environmental crisis. They work tirelessly to save Seti with help from AI android "Guardian". With time running out for Seti, they build a spaceship to migrate to a blue planet we now call Earth. Their desperate attempt lead to a desperate surprising end leading into part two "Spores ".

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty in the Ringby  Jessica Taylor
An injured MMA fighter on the brink of losing everything crosses paths with a broken ballet dancer recovering from a violent assault. Together they discover strength, redemption, and love as she trains to fight in the ring and he learns how to fight for her heart.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Candy Corn and Peppermintby  Doug J Robbins
A killer's MO while dressed as Santa Claus is to pass out a pouch full of candy corn and peppermint.

Genre: Horror
1 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
Schooled at the Poolby  Tina Field Howe
A loser gets even with his 'ex-girlfriend' by exposing her creepy suitor to her many imperfections.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pseudomorphby  Peter J Bartels
A desperate cockfighter buys a shape-shifting creature guaranteed to defeat any opponentonly to discover that its deadliest transformation is into the monster he truly is.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
The Third Degreeby  Barry Staff
Wanting a meaningful relationship for once, a strung-out womaniser goes to a quiet beach to try with Nature herself, but needs to prove his sincerity to make any headway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
A man pursues a little girl through the woods with a hatchet - but before you judge him, you don't know what's wearing her face.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brown Bottle Fluby  Brandi Self
A frustrated writer struggles to work while being belittled by a belligerent drunk woman who wants to relive the past.

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