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Black Girls Are Differentby  Rocco Simonelli
BLACK GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT is a darkly comic take on interracial relationships in Manhattan as a white Jewish male upper-eastsider falls in love with a black "princess."

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
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
Stay Warmby  Steven Burton
A man with his young son, offer comfort to a homeless man which also provides a break from their grief for the recent death of Mary, a beloved wife and mother.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A story of two people meeting on their way to Switzerland before both going to a euthanasia facility.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Halloween Massacre 2by  Doug J Robbins
One year after the Halloween Massacre, Cyrus returns to torment Danny once again.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A seemingly routine curbside pickup turns into a quiet collision of two liveslinked by what they don't say. A two-page micro-short about mental health and unseen scars.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby  Lawrence Riggins
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
Leaving Berlin (A True Story)by  Ron Brawer
On her deathbed, a Holocaust survivor recounts her family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and reveals a dark family secret -- encountering shocked disbelief.

Genre: Family
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Survive The Nightby  Richard Hohenrath
During a late night "Graveyard Shift" on Christmas Eve, a convenience store employee fights to survive a one-on-one encounter with a bloodthirsty creature of the night.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Marcus and his Snowmanby  DJ Robbins
Marcus brings his snowman to life through Christmas Magic, based on love and Joy, but hateful and Miserable Hazel, the Winter Witch, wants to make everyone as miserable and vicious as she is. Can love and Joy triumph over hate and misery?

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Park Benchby  Marc Prey
While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby  Robert Drusetta
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
A lovelorn young man has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who encourages him to take a risk that may transcend time itself.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 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
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Genre: Animation
3 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
Andrea's Worldby  Christopher Andre
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
Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby  Tawnie Powell
97%that's what Hana Murphy became part of when it happened. Now, dismissed by her University, she struggles to break free from the statistic and find herself. Spiraling into self-destruction and with her relationships unraveling, Hana is forced to confront the question: What happens to the drunk girl?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shadow Figureby  Cassandra Wells
Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated. 

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Laura's Listby  Anthony Truscello
A sexually repressed widow creates a secret bucket list of forbidden fantasies, only to begin checking them off with a man younger than her own children. (A vertical short consisting of eight 3-minute episodes)

Genre: Romance
25 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
Awfully Wedded Wifeby  Elliot Stanton
Love is... a suspicious mind, making the threat of castration a genuine possibility.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Inside the Frameby  Francis F DiClemente
Three people in a city diner at night discover they are figures trapped in the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

Genre: Fantasy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Invadedby  Dexter Williams
A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Freezeby  Jon Platt
Far in the future, a teenage schoolgirl has the cryogenically frozen head of a scientist of our time thawed...to help her with her history homework.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby  Robert Godwin
One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Teapartylandiaby  Gary A. Edwards
TeaPartyLandia - is a short dramedy about a family looking at a residential compound in an isolated area of North Idaho who fantasize about living free of governmental tyranny but flee when confronted with the reality of experiencing this "utopia."

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
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: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby  Gregory George Sarno
Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Coinby  Paolo Galli
A five-year-old boy, torn between desire and guilt after secretly spending a coin on a lollipop, finds himself face to face with a beggar and makes a choice that redefines the value of things.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eugenia Clarkby  DJ Robbins
Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

Genre: Family
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
A western romance based on O. Henry's short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 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
The Greatest Story Never Toldby  Matthew J Cresta
After the crucifixion of Jesus, the apostles question their future and even the truth. Due to their lack of faith the disciples hatch a crazy plan to steal Jesus body and stage his resurrection. When things go wrong and the plan fails the team is forced to face their new reality.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A writer's reality unravels into a disturbing virtual labyrinth, forcing him to confront the fabricated nature of his existence before he's permanently consumed by the digital abyss.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It's Now or Neverby  Elliot Stanton
In a world where Elvis lives, a suburban man's golden ticket to see The King goes missing down the back of the bath sparking a hilarious battle between nostalgia, plumbing, and domestic survival.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Where Toe Beginby  Clifford Shepherd
When a neurotic man wakes up to find his big toe missingwith no pain or explanationhe spirals into a surreal, comedic nightmare where his body vanishes piece by piece, and no one around him seems to notice or care. A darkly absurd satire on identity, sanity, and the disappearing sense of self.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Human Experienceby  Judah Ray
A grieving father struggles to guide his reluctant son through a funeral as they confront their fears, grapple with their complicated family dynamics, and discover the power of love and imagination in the face of loss.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition). *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

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