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Out of Adversityby Elliot Stanton

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The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.

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

Gina's Veilby Kevin Silva

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A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

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

Between Detroit and Toledoby Sonny James Traylor

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At a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she's on the run with half a million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Crookedby Peter Herlan

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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

Memory Survivalby Steven Burton

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Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.

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

A Little Learningby Cassandra Wells

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In rural Alabama in 1941 as America enters World War II, a patriotic disabled school teacher undertakes teaching an illiterate farmer to read only to discover that the man's illiteracy was what was keeping him safe and alive.

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

Flashes of Youby Lamar D. Vine

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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

A Man Possessedby Donald Copenhaver

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After being passed over for promotion, a bitter office worker's online rage transforms into something physical, consuming him and everyone around him.

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

Second Windby Dewayne C Bricker

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Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes "one crease at a time." Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

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

A Second Chanceby John Porter

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A young man spends a passionate night with a young woman, then struggles to persuade her to give him a second chance.

Genre: Romance
14 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

The Owlby Brandon Rhiness

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After a hit-and-run on a dark country road, a panicked woman is haunted by a relentless owl that seems to have witnessed her crimeonly to realize the bird is merely a herald for the vengeful spirit she left in the ditch.

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

Suspectsby Will Johnson

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A grieving man befriends a mysterious stranger, finding answers to what happened to his deceased wife.

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

Missingby Darryl N. Layne

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Two scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in creating a space fuel must confront their hidden origins and humanity's fate when mysterious extraterrestrial visitors arrive, offering a choice between saving Earth or joining a cosmic mission that will change everything.

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

Singularityby Peter Donald Skagen

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A tech-bro's wife who discovers he secretly chipped her brain giving her unusual abilities has to fight to survive when agents of the 'company' come to delete her.

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

The Last Lightby Gladman

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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

Who Said Penis?by Adam Rocke

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Thanksgiving dinner at a swanky Bel Air mansion comes with roast turkey and all the trimmings, plus an anatomy lesson from a 7-year-old.

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

Purgatorioby Hakan Ünal

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After waking in a desolate purgatory with no memory of his death, a former SS officer must confront the victims of his past or remain imprisoned in an afterlife built from his own crimes.

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

Survivors Will Be Prosecutedby Barry Staff

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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

Herbert the Clownby Doug J Robbins

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A killer stalks a couple during a romantic Halloween weekend getaway

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

Boomerangby John Alexander Fraser

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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

Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby Robert Drusetta

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A wanted serial killer of high-profile criminals sets out to complete one last major hit, the head of an international human trafficking ring.

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

Jacinta Lodgeby Nik Forster

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A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Niagara 1952by Alan Barkley

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An unhappy WW2 war bride, about to leave her 'GI Joe' husband, has a life-changing encounter with Marillyn Monroe who is filming "Niagara" on location.

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

Faster By Nightby Paul Byrne

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Surviving rape and torture in a Russian filtration camp, a Ukrainian female commando pursues her American dream of being a concert violinist, until she crosses paths with the sadistic general who wants to finish their dirty little war.

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

Cop Killerby D J Robbins

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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

Willpowerby John Porter

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A young black woman and a middle-aged white man love each other, but their friends tell them they must separate--and they can if they only fight with their willpower.

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

Candy Corn and Peppermintby Doug J Robbins

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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

Miraclesby Paul Sokal

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A young, naive parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican's Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he's told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Injured Partyby Elliot Stanton

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An injured footballer's anguish is intensified by his manager's curious disassociation with him. While out of the team, footballer Jordan Jeffries can't understand why he is being ghosted, and he wants to know the reason for it. It is a scenario that seasoned professional Ade Akinwande is all too happy to expand on.

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

The Kitchen Tableby John W Welch

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How much emotional abuse can one woman endure before the truth comes out?

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

The Boxby Dewayne C Bricker

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Ty wakes in a steel vault with a timer, a phone, and a deadly choice: press a button for air or let both die. Through a stranger's voice on the line, he questions morality, guilt, and survival. His refusal to play exposes a sinister experiment testing human ethicswhere even doing nothing has a fatal cost.

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

Sisters of St. Andrewby Vince Grittani

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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

The Windowby Mark Ndlovu

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A reclusive man and an enigmatic artist living across the street engage in a silent but profound connection through drawings in their windows, sparking an unspoken bond that compels him to step beyond his comfort zone and into her world.

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

The Whisteling Manby Dwayne Bricker

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After the death of his wife, a grieving father and his young daughter hear a familiar whistle coming from the woods outside their isolated farmhouse during a violent storm. When the dead woman's voice begins pleading to be let inside, the father discovers a supernatural entity that mimics lost loved ones to prey upon grieving families.

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

Driver Sevenby Elliot Stanton

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A vintage car appears like an irresistible purchase, but at what real cost? An unassuming man is convinced to buy a pristine classic car from a mysterious seller. Even though the car is beautiful, it hides a dark and deadly secret that it soon unleashes on its new owner.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Shapes and Coloursby Craig Ford

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After a stolen moment of tenderness, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must either shut down and survive or risk death by holding onto love inside a system designed to erase him.

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

Maybe Tomorrowby Mary Kay LaBrie

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Set against the gentle rhythms of a Florida retirement community, a daughter learns that waiting for the right moment can mean missing it entirely.

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

Deadly Swampby Chris Chatzikirlis

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In the haunted swamps of Louisiana, a disgraced scientist's experiments unleash monstrous leeches, driving a mutated village into madness, murder, and a chilling new religion built on sacrifice.

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

Powers and Principalitiesby James K. Cole

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Two angels are sent on assignment to earth to enlist a high school teacher, who has just lost his wife and is angry at God, to help fight the powers of darkness in his school.

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