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A Fine Dayby  Dempsey Samways
A relaxing day-off for stoner Danny quickly goes sideways when a mysterious agency of 'Enforcement Officers' begin fining him for increasingly nonsensical offences.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Save the Last Danceby  John J McWilliams
The last two soldiers to be killed in World War 1 are thrown together just before they meet their tragic fate.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan, The Christmas Strangerby  Ange Fassinou
Inspired from true events. The destiny of a little boy, victim of abuse, changes when he unexpectedly meets a good-hearted woman on the day before Christmas.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Hit and Runby  Marc Prey
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Egoby  Ali noun
A former investigator, shattered by the death of his family, hunts their killer - to discover that the chasing has been himself all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Mediterraneanby  Kenneth M. Kielty
The Mediterranean is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy. Set in NYC, a middle level mafia guy stops into an Italian restaurant in the late evening for a drink. The bar is empty except for a bar tender and a beautiful young woman. He falls for her immediately. Her life story is intriguing, but is she real?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prophetessby  Amrita Baines
Driven by nightmares and an obsession with the supernatural, a paranormal researcher seeks out a cryptic Prophetess but the deeper he digs into her tragic lineage, the more reality fractures, until he's no longer sure if he's documenting madness... or becoming its next chapter.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Your Face Is Killing Meby  Jason K. Allen
A shallow young man decides to break up with his beautiful, kindhearted girlfriend because of her occasional unattractive facial expression. (1 location, 3 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.

Genre: Comedy
22 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
Desert Muleby  Jack Lindauer
A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spices with Vicesby  Debbie Castanha
A privileged pair of Ray Bans becomes lost in a drawer of bickering spices, and must hatch an escape plan before she's replaced.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond Avalonby  Edward Ybarra
Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Frank Sinatra's Hatby  John McWilliams
A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Abel's Returnby  Doug J Robbins
An eleven-year-old boy kills his sister on Halloween night and returns 17 years later to chase his baby sister.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fireman From The Heartby  Timothy McVeigh
Since childhood, Amber dreams of becoming a firefighter and she has a chance to prove herself as a firefighter by rescuing a woman with two children who cannot get out of a burning house, but getting to the girl's house is not so easy and calling the fire department at night becomes impossible due to the lack of network.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Halloween Short Film Festivalby  Jason K. Allen
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby  John Porter
A dark comedy about a man who receives a letter from an old girlfriend who reminds him of a promise he made years and years ago.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby  Edward Chapman
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
A guitarist becomes an anomaly in a bleak and inhospitable future world where music is conjured and customized in the mind. Single location from an award-winning screenwriter.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Take Backsby  William Walkerley
In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bargain Storeby  Brandi Self
A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Swoliosisby  Jim Kowalski
A gym attendant hosts an underground fitness competition to avoid losing his bankrupt gym and his crush.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossroadsby  Anthony Cawood
A teenage girl makes a deal with the Devil to beat her friend at Pokemon Go, only to capture him in a Poke Ball and unleash chaos.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Dangerous Vocationby  Kline Fishborn
Three friends during outdoor activities witness the murder of a person by two unknown men, but the girls manage to escape. Two men who not long ago escaped from the police for murdering a married couple do not want to leave the girls alive as witnesses who saw them and start hunting them.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
When Sam, a burned-out waitress, becomes convinced by her sick grannie that they are really British royals, Sam channels Princess Diana which inspires her to a higher purpose at Sloppy's Bar-B-Q.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Can You Hear Me Now?by  Bob Messinger
Estranged from friends and family, Jake is forced to confront the voices he's been hearing and eerie phone calls he's been getting since childhood.

Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.

Genre: Horror
34 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
Murder By Chairliftby  Ken Hauser
When a young woman is left on a chairlift overnight in a minus 60 windchill, a Deputy must shovel through the bullshit from four suspects to find the killer.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Nightingale in Burkaby  Abhilash Mohan
Subaida, a spirited 10-year-old Afghan girl, dreams of music in a world that's trying to silence her. This poignant drama set in Kabul follows Subaida's journey as she discovers her passion for the rubab, a traditional Afghan musical instrument, against the backdrop of a society teetering on the edge of radical change.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abby's Cursed Paintingsby  Melissa Diane Hudson
In the wake of her parents' violent murder, an eight-year-old girl communicates only through her macabre, otherworldly art- a cryptic language that captivates an unsuspecting audience while hiding secrets that could either save her or doom them all.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Our 13th Birthdayby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
On her thirteenth birthday, Machi unleashes her deliciously dark revenge on everyone who has wronged her.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A wounded veteran returning from Iran finds that the hardest battle isn't the one he left behind it's answering the door.

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