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The World According To Bull - Gone Fishingby Perk Perkins

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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

There'll Always be an Englandby John David Vollmer

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There'll always be an England is set in the future and involves a rhododendron Member of Parliament, two idiots in a moon base, a husband and wife, one an MP and the other a lord, a sentient marijuana plant and the evil Garth de Bastard and his wife Sue, and the Queen, who is a flaming gay in drag who is a new kind of queen.

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

Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.

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

W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby Elliot Stanton

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The prize for winning is the realisation of what losing is all about. Two elderly care home residents play Scrabble, but the value of their words doesn't just score points on the board.

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

Fez Rescueby Ed Tasca

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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

Change of a Dressby Elliot Stanton

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When two ladies fortuitously meet in a clothes shop fitting room, their taste in clothes is not the only thing they have in common. The discovery that they share something very personal becomes the catalyst for what may become a firm friendship.

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

The Third Degreeby Barry Staff

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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

Dreamcatcherby Doug J Robbins

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A father buys his nightmare-plagued son a dream catcher to stop his bad dreams.

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

A Last Danceby Elliot Stanton

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While playing in a poker tournament in Las Vegas, a card shark is stunned by a minnow's sharp teeth, but whose bite will ultimately kill the other?

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

Train of Thoughtby Elliot Stanton

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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

Anne's Forever Christmas Treeby Andrew Bowen, APR

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Struck by a soft blue bolt of lightning that gives her mysterious powers, a fir tree that becomes a beloved Christmas tree teams up with the family's Irish Setter to work wonders in the house that leave the baffled family members joyously scratching their heads in gratitude. And when Christmas is over, the magic really happens!

Genre: Family
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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 Woodcutterby Raymond Reboulet

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A young man believes and an old man remembers the reasons behind the ways of old which the village has forgotten. A child in danger awakens the town and renews its purpose.

Genre: Family
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Rage Betty Page Rageby Lawrence Riggins

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True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.

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

Directive 541by Eric John Seidel

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A grieving intelligence agent orders his AI assistant to arrange his assassination without telling him when it will happen. Waiting in a neighborhood park, he spirals into paranoid dark comedy, mistaking strangers, hot dogs, and harmless accidents for the incoming hituntil an unexpected encounter makes him question whether he truly wants the order carried out.

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

Heavy Walkerby Rocco Simonelli

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A sleep deprived woman is plagued by the nightly pacing of an upstairs neighbor, causing her to brood on increasingly violent fantasies. When she charges upstairs to finish things once and for all, what she finds in that upstairs apartment is as unexpected as her final response, which makes it clear that, in the city, one must adapt to survive.

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

Schooled at the Poolby Tina Field Howe

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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

Clown Sightimgby Doug J Robbins

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A good Samaritan gets in a fight with a killer clown on Halloween night.

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

Ties of Bloodby Valentina Reiken

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After a murder takes place in their home, a young woman joins her mother in a desperate cover-up, determined to protect the family whose bond was forged through surviving a war.

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

Backstampby Craig Venezia

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Decades after his one shot at stardom slips away, a musician spends his days sorting mail and his nights playing for passing commuters in Grand Central, having found that the dream he lost gave him what matters most.

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

Sakoby Tigran Vardanyan

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On a stormy night in a remote mountain gorge, a lone shepherd is hunted by ancient spirits who lure the living with music, memory, and madnessforcing him to confront whether the horrors chasing him are supernatural... or already inside him.

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

The Language of Silenceby KS Punithakumar

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A lonely mute man falls in love with a woman he has only known through messages. When he finally reveals his silence, tragedy strikes before they can meet, teaching him that true love is heard through the heart, not through words.

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

The Catchby Melvin Taylor

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Man goes fishing and finds himself fighting for his life.

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

Unwelcomeby Bill Freas

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An ex-con is hired to pack and move the belongings of his sister and her family after they abandon their house, following the sudden death of her teenage daughter, but the man encounters paranormal activity there that urges him to uncover a dark secret about the girl's death.

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

Loveeby Kishore kumar

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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

Antiques Sh**showby John Boal

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A tart-tongued substitute host for the genteel Antiques Roadshow dishes caustic comments on the innocent guests which triggers not only a boost in the ratings, but also a goofy lad to make a sign dubbing the proceedings as the Antiques Shitshow. Yet when the host's Aunt comes by with the world's oldest vibrator, she dangles it as a hostage heirloom to make the host change her wicked ways by apologizing to her deceased mum.

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

Descent into Hellby Abdelouahab Hammoudi

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"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.

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

Head Traumaby Elise Marenson

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Two guys get in big trouble when they find the human head of a Russian mobster buried in the sand.

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

Two Gen-Zby Robert Franklin Godwin

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Two disenchanted Gen-Z use the GEEKERS Dating app to meet-up and have a night long conversation walking the neighborhoods of Manhattan.

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

Revengeby Melissa Diane Hudson

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Consumed by jealousy and insecurity, a suspicious wife obsessively stalks her husband and the younger woman she believes he is having an affair with, culminating in a bold confrontation and a horrifying Christmas Eve revenge plot that ultimately backfires with irreversible consequences.

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

Beware of Pumpkin Faceby Doug J Robbins

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Henry murders his abusive father on Halloween night. He hugs his little brother, Clayton. Henry is 10, and Clayton is eight. The boys hug, and Henry is institutionalized. Twenty years later, Clayton stalks Marnie, Henry's psychiatrist, and becomes the terrifying killer known as Pumpkin Face.

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

A Rare Gem (Vertical)by Paul Henry Landry

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A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.

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

The Haunted Pizzaby Doug J Robbins

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Ginger orders a pizza, and all Hell breaks loose. She winds up getting possessed.

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

The Usualby Sarah Kennedy

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A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors the memory of his dead mother by carrying on her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient.

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

Good Griefby Duane Kellogg

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As pressure mounts to deliver a breakthrough script, a screenwriter working remotely with his wife (who's also his writing partner) begins to unravel, caught between ambition, loyalty, and a deepening divide caused by technology (ai) that threatens both his career and the partnership he's built his life around.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Space Orphansby Vahid Imani

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A rogue pilot crash lands on a new world and becomes the first human to encounter alien intelligence igniting a battle between military survival tactics, ethical restraint, and his unresolved past with the ship's chief medical officer.

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

Dragomir and the Ieleby camelia dinu

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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

Playtimeby Doug J Robbins

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A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.

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

His Last Mistakeby Melissa Diane Hudson

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Slurring through the dark on a desolate stretch of highway, a heavily intoxicated young man pulls his car onto the shoulder to relieve himself, unknowingly desecrating a roadside memorialonly to awaken a malevolent, vengeful spirit that slips into his idling car to violently torment him to death, stealing both his flesh and soul.

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