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A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby  DJ Robbins
An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
An alien son asks his alien father why his people probe people with humorous and thought-provoking results.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Zombieby  Doug J Robbins
A woman is tormented by a zombie that suddenly appears at her Kitchen door.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Perfect Neighborhoodby  Melissa Catena
After suburban mom, Gretchen, disappears, her neighbor, Anna, gathers a group of women to launch a neighborhood watch. As Anna gets to know them better, she discovers Gretchen's disappearance may be tied to the secretive spiritual circle Gretchen and the other women belong to. Anna befriends them so she can uncover the truth, but as she gets pulled in deeper, she begins to question her own safety.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Friendsgivingby  Doug J Robbins
Stacy invited herself to Brian and Mark's Friendsgiving, twenty-four hours before Thanksgiving. Brian's turkey goes missing and he must go on a scavenger hunt to retrieve it.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A weird clown hands Steve a balloon at a campus Halloween carnival, and he and his friends find themselves stalked by the creepy clown.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby  Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Let The Lights Go Outby  Bobbie Burgess-Tatum
A family's secret is about to be unlocked and it just may end the world.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A devoted mother leads a precarious double life within the illicit massage industry, battling a predatory debt to ensure the survival of the family she hasn't seen in years.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Horse in a Saloonby  Nickolas Snider
It's about a horse named Buck, who was once human and after he was turned by an evil warlock. He decides to go into a saloon to prove he's more than just a horse as such.

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Let's Keep Workingby  John Porter
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Old Man in the Skull Maskby  DJ Robbins
An old masked killer stalks someone on Halloween.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.

Genre: Fantasy
13 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
Beauty Pageant Redemptionby  Barbara Blomquist
Personal redemption is the ultimate prize in a beauty pageant held in a women's prison.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hospitalityby  John Porter
A bad guest makes a good host feel great about himself.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby  Elliot Stanton
A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Why Not?by  Steven Blows
A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sisters of St. Andrewby  Vince Grittani
On the eighteenth hole of a golf course, a wily rabbi, a competitive priest, and two mischievous nuns collide in a battle of faith, guilt, and golf when one sister tries to secretly fulfill her late father's outrageous dying wishspreading his ashes in the sand trap.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Hellavisionby  Jason Allen
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and watch a horror movie on television. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Mostly 1 actor, limited dialogue, inspired by 70's horror. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
She Confused The Tableby  Kline Fishborn
During a date Angie confuses the table in a restaurant and sits down with another man. But the man does not admit that he is not the one with whom she is on a date because he liked from the beginning.

Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dateby  Doug J Robbins
A ventriloquist goes on a blind speed date and fails miserably with the first date, but eventually meets his match in a lady puppeteer.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Valentine Promiseby  Philip Marraccini
Love That Triumphs Over Tragedy. Rena Patel, from India, navigates the pressures of a medical career and the complexities of unspoken love. After a devastating cycling accident leaves his close friend Jenna paralyzed, Rena is torn between his professional duty and his growing personal feelings for Jenna who faces physical loss and heartbreak, Rena must to control his emotional boundaries with his hopes for her recovery.

Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wellness Checkby  Dwayne Bricker
When Maya receives a late-night text from her mother warning, "Don't let him in," a calm police officer knocks seconds later, claiming he's there for a wellness check. Trapped alone in her apartment, Maya must decide whether the man outside her door is a real cop, a predator using authority as camouflage, or something far worse before politeness, fear, and one thin door become the only things keeping him out.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Survivors Will Be Prosecutedby  Barry Staff
Wanting a solemn vigil at his dying mother's bedside, a man needs to deal with a pesky insect threatening to make the situation laughable.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Kissby  Mary Goldman
Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Carlos Alex Ceni
What was initially supposed to be a simple journey for two strangers to each other is terrifyingly disrupted by the arrival of a third person.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A couple in bed after making love, perfect! Except when the man and woman verbally communicate, fireworks.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby  Elliot Stanton
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
Playtime Episode 2 Tea Timeby  Doug J Robbins
Zoe is close to her magic Teddy Bear, and their relationship has parallels; their fights, in particular, mimic Mom and Dad's.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby  Susie Schecter
Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead unchanged. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby  Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Flute Named Desireby  Steven D. Gullion
A famous flautist must choose whether to undergo a dangerous operation that will make it possible for him to have a family, but end his career.

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