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Ho-Ho-Ho-nly an Hour To Goby Elliot Stanton

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A department store Santa and his helper aren't the jolly individuals you'd expect them to be, particularly when the effects of Santa's alcoholic consumption threaten to become audibly evident to the line of waiting, excited children outside the grotto.

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

One Wordby Amar abdMual

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A mother turns her disabled daughter into a hero.

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

The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby Jason K. Allen

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Bill only wants to catch a few fish for dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

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

The Price of Eggsby Susan Kelejian

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In a lavish Houston home, a couple's carefully constructed world is shaken as they grapple with the aftermath of their son's murder, forcing them to confront their own complicity and the conservative values that may have contributed to his tragic end in a divided America.

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

The Artifactby Steve Kennison

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Set in the mid-19th century, HENRY STANTON is a struggling museum manager. DAVID KENNISON is an alleged centenarian Revolutionary War veteran. They collaborate and make David the museum's living exhibit. The story explores David's unbelievable experiences, history, survival, and the challenge of proving one's identity and legacy.

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

Perennialsby Donald Lewis

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Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

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

Macyby Larry E. Coleman

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A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

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

Lathroby Aliki Sakallerou-Kokkinou

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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 Next Voiceby Charles Hall

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Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.

Genre: Horror
13 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

Sins of the 88th Floorby Melissa Hudson

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Desperate to impress at her prestigious new job, a determined young associate remains oblivious to the crooked law firm's sinister initiation ritualuntil their hidden agenda to frame her for corporate theft backfires catastrophically, unleashing total destruction upon the corrupt partners from within.

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

Necessary Evilby Adam Rocke

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A child must commit an horrific crime to prevent a much greater atrocity from occurring.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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

What It's All Aboutby John Worsley

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When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.

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

Red Pumpkinby Doug J Robbins

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The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.

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

Outta Timeby John Whetstone

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On his last night in L.A., a dejected screenwriter takes an inspirational road trip to "Back to the Future" filming locations with three newfound friends who just arrived in town.

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

Exit Stage Leftby Elliot Stanton

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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

Ancient Secretsby Wayne E. Johnson

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While waiting in line to renew his driver's license, a man gets an update on Stonehenge from the 6000-year-old± Druid in line ahead of him.

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

One Wordby Amar abdMual

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A mother turns her disabled daughter into a hero.

Genre: Drama
11 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

Lenaby Jason Allen

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While backpacking alone in the wilderness, a young man encounters a mysterious girl who has a unique relationship with the forest. (One location, two characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
7 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

Halloween Massacreby Doug J Robbins

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When Danny is followed home by a strange man in a mask, he thinks it's a harmless Halloween prank, but he soon finds out that the man has sinister intentions.

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

Stuckby Steven Burton

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A cellphone is stuck to a man's ear followed by a rescue from a mysterious phone caller.

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

Scarecrowby Doug J Robbins

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Trick or treaters think a scarecrow is just a Halloween Decoration, until they find out that its machete really can cut 'em up.

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

Where's Steve?by Richard Wells

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When a neglected houseplant discovers his owner has died after a drug-fuelled party, he must rely on a forgetful goldfish and a cactus with an identity crisis to uncover what happened before they all die of neglect.

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

Confessions of a Lottery Loserby Elliot Stanton

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A lifelong loser organises the ultimate revenge when a phone-line mix-up convinces his former classmates he's a millionaire, revealing just how quickly old acquaintances can become gold diggers.

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

MEGAby Tina Field Howe

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A working man confesses to his best friend that his frustrating years of depending on the lottery to bring him fortune are over.

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

It's Your Lucky Dayby Elliot Stanton

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Vic Prince thinks he has struck lucky when he turns a £25 diamond ring into £1,500, but his gambling habit quickly turns his windfall into a catalogue of disasters, landing him in court, out of work and doing community service for the very woman he cheated.

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

Troubloomby Darlene Anthony

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Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.

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

Butt Crack Innby Kenneth M. Kielty

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Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.

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

Ubiquitous Indignitiesby J Treacy Cole

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A TV-loving, pink, bumpy creature suffers ubiquitous indignities because she is not smooth and blue.

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

K!ll!n T!m£by F!N

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A Scottish schizophrenic armed with a ticking time bomb is forced to rob his own bank in a race against the clock!

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

The Revverby Michael Hanson

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At wit's end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a distressed artist takes drastic measures to finish her masterwork for the event of a lifetime before deadline.

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

Santa's Conundrumby Robert Herold

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When a troubled boy demands that his Christmas wish be never eating vegetables again, Santa Claus must navigate an intimidating mother and a bureaucratic liverwurst-addicted elf to deliver a magical solution with unexpected consequences in this hilarious and touching homage to classic Rankin/Bass holiday specials.

Genre: Animation
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Andrea's Worldby Christopher Andre

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When a troubled teenage girl moves with her family to a mysterious treatment facility in Boulder, Colorado, disturbing insect-like changes begin surfacing inside her. At the same time, a watching doctor quietly pushes her mind toward something far more dangerous.

Genre: Horror
10 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

Parliamentary Privilegeby Elliot Stanton

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In an off-air conversation, a loose-tongued government minister's bravado towards a television interviewer who was once a friend seals his political death warrant.

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

Trip the Light Fantasticby Bari K. Willerford

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A lonely man goes to a dance party. He notices a lonely woman across the room. Their eyes meet. Boom!

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

The Strange Case of the Thing on Henry's Faceby Glenn Forbes

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A chronically unlucky small-town loner, convinced the sausage-shaped birthmark on his face is a divine sign destined to bring him greatness, finally decides to have it removed. But he discovers that the birthmark, and the woman who loves him because of it, may be the best thing that ever happened to him.

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