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Playtimeby Doug J Robbins
A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Boxby William Walkerley
Tien shows up a Darius' apartment with a small mysterious black box that will change their lives before the night is over.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Incarnationsby Bob Messinger
A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Timeoutby Dewayne
When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Man Possessedby Donald Copenhaver
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
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
God's Away On Businessby Benjamin Guerra
When a Catholic priest dies and doesn't see God, all hell breaks loose.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
CareMoreby Michael Avishai
A drugstore employee exploits a customer loyalty program to stalk a woman, exposing how corporate systems designed to "care" can enable predatory behavior to hide in plain sight.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Willpowerby John Porter
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
Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brittle Tromboneby Mary Goldman
A young girl strikes a bargain to take trombone lessons from an elderly man during the time of Covid-19.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Catchby Melvin Taylor
Man goes fishing and finds himself fighting for his life.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Resurrection Fernby Paul Weidknecht
A divorced couple hike into the mountains of western North Carolina, retracing the route their daughter took seven years prior when she disappeared.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Affirmative Actionby Michael Celender
After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.
Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tears of Aphroditeby Peter J Bartels
As her career fades and youth slips away, a world-famous supermodel agrees to become the subject of an eccentric sculptor's ultimate masterpieceonly to discover that every ounce of beauty transferred to the artwork is being stolen from her own body.
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Purgatorioby Hakan Ünal
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Reenactorby Victor Bravo
A Civil War researcher walking the Shiloh National Military Park encounters a wounded Confederate soldier in the throes of a battle fought one hundred and sixty years ago.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stayby Sean Nash
Unable to cope with the prospect of his two sons watching him succumb to cancer as his wife did, a young surfer paddles out alone at night to suicide. As he sinks beneath the waves his connection with his late beloved becomes more focused, allowing him to re-evaluate not only the gifts inherent in her passing, but the importance of his boys sharing similar gifts from himself.
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spitball Newsby John Boal
At a new TV program called "Spitball News," Sophie Straight, a bad-ass 20s News Anchor, shreds her two male reporters with shade on their fragile egos. As the show ends, the GM bursts onto the set to fire Sophie for losing advertisers. Yet Sophie convinces her GM to save the show while he shares about the abusive males in his family and how men must learn to be caring humans first and males second.
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby Robert Drusetta
A trilogy of stories exploring the seven minutes after death where the brain doesn't realize the body is dead.
Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fairytale Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III
Tom Wolf is thrown into the Bedlam Mental hospital in the early 1800s in London, England for being drunk. He tells the doctors that is is a wolf and they laugh at him. He then tells stories of three pigs whom he sold houses to and a young girl named Red Riding Hood and finally a Russian named Peter. The doctors punish Tom each time.
Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Familyby Jean-Luc Julien
A young undocumented immigrant fights to save the life of his unborn child when his teenage girlfriend's parents force her to get an abortion.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Screens of the Damnedby Anton Ballard
The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.
Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Belowby Dewayne C Bricker
A marine biologist battles to survive when her dive partner mutates after a deep-sea octopus biterevealing an alien species preparing to rise from the oceans and reclaim Earth.
Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brotherley Hateby Elliot Stanton
Timing Is Everything... Or Nothing. The responsible brother sees his younger, carefree sibling as a threat to him taking over the family business until fate steps in and changes the future for everyone.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cut Baitby Michael Dean Meyers
Stinging from betrayal, a fiery young woman pursues gruesome punishment for a cocky young man and his wimpy buddy after she discovers he's shared an intimate photo of her on his group chat. Hell hath no fury, and friendship hath no boundary.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangling Caratby Deanne Gittens
A young woman tries to navigate life and love and avoid being sucked back into a toxic relationship, but there are certain temptations she finds irresistible.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Good Conversationby John Porter
A young psychiatrist struggles to have a good conversation with her boyfriend--and finds it with a patient.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby Jack Halliday
A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Burning Manby Jack Halliday
A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rebirth Morgueby Wilson Espinal
After a young boy vanishes under impossible circumstances, a trio of paranormal operatives employed by a covert morgue uncover a deadly spirit and wage war against the supernatural forces preying on the living.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ingwe - the leopard who didn't want spotsby Cilla Lowen
When a leopard cub is confused for a spotted hyena, he decides his spots must go... until he discovers they're the key to his own special superpower.
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faster By Nightby Paul Byrne
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Good Tasteby Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can't help reminiscing with her own mother about the man who seduced her, married her, and left her many years ago.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby John Porter
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby Elliot Stanton
Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby John Alexander Fraser
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fisherman's Bluesby Elliot Stanton
Angling for answers, a fisherman is shocked by his friend's life-changing decision. And what is under the tarpaulin in the back of his car?
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Rewardby Wayne E. Johnson
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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