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The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Treasureby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
A young native American woman must overcome her sensitivities to protect herself when a deranged killer attacks her friends for an underground culinary treasure in a remote forested area.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Same Woman as a Wholeby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2024
Down on her knuckles on a broken road, the energy of life explains why women should bond together as one and uplift each other. 

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Playtimeby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2025
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
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Daggersby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2025
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other’s company significantly more than seemed possible.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Strings Attachedby  Dennis Manning
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2025
When a washed-up musician returns to his sacred studio to write one last song, the guitars he abandoned come alive, forcing him to face the haunting truth about the silence he chose—and the music that never died.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Flames of the Campfireby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2025
When a crumbling marriage reaches its breaking point during a final family camping trip, two estranged parents must put their differences aside to rescue their kidnapped children. As they fight to bring their boys—and other missing kids—home, they rediscover the strength of love, sacrifice, and the family they thought they'd lost.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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United We Fallby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025
The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for – a fact that his friend positively revels in.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Attack of the Church Furnitureby  David McPete
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2025
A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.

Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Tales of the Macabreby  James Steele Haney
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025
On Halloween night, a late-night radio host shares the legend of the Crimson Witch with his listeners, unintentionally summoning her once again.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Jury Serviceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2025
When David is selected as a juror in the trial of a man accused of a murder he secretly committed, he must manipulate the jury to secure a guilty verdict.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Living in the Pastby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
A 30-year-old disillusioned loner must deal with his estranged and socially awkward father, after he suffers a stroke losing part of his memory. Both share a painful past he cannot forget, and his father cannot remember.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Into the smogby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
In a post-apocalyptic world shrouded in toxic green smog, two sisters must learn to survive and reclaim their freedom from a man who controls their fate through his precious vegetable garden.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Summer of Love IIby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2025
It's 1969 in San Francico's Summer of Love where 12 colorful characters do their thing to the rock beat of the Grateful Dead. They go to Be-ins, Trips festivals, protest the Vietnam war, and form the Apollonian church to get a ministerial deferment. But, alas, the 'Art Colony' mansion burns to the ground.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Spookyby  Tony Jerris
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2024
Terror ensues, when a guy hooks up with an online date who is already dead... Or is she?

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Can We Partner This Deal?by  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
With buzzwords on cellphones, a young businessman and a young businesswoman try to plan their future.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
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Yuletideby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2025
An impoverished, mall Santa is forced into reconciliation with his mother by his rough around the edges mama's boy older brother

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Spinning in Infinityby  Joshua Corin
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2025
After a brutal battle leaves their starship crippled and life support failing, four crew members debate whether they are real or merely simulations — and must decide whether to keep fighting for survival or sacrifice themselves to save the ‘real’ people their existence was designed to protect.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Santa Soldierby  David Lee Hooker
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2025
The story follows a secret military unit sworn to protect Christmas. When terrorists target a small-town Santa parade to kidnap children, this elite squad has to go undercover — in full holiday gear — to save the kids and stop the chaos before Christmas is canceled.

Genre: Action/Adventure
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Frolic #1by  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
During her lunch break, an uptight business woman who's having a bad day decides to go for a frolic in a field. Unfortunately, she has never frolicked before and can't quite get the hang of it. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
Date Posted: 03 May 2025
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Improv Christmasby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2024
Two lonely improv actors decide to spend Christmas together.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Big Digby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
Pete once heard that if you dig a hole far enough you will end up in China. So one day he takes a shovel and decides to find out for himself. Several months later he emerges in a strange land that is definitely not China. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Comedy. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Two freakish outcasts -- a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis -- are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Ride Shareby  Marc Prey
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025
A despondent ride-share driver picks up a female passenger who just may be his recently-deceased wife. Three characters. Most of the story takes place inside the car. Shocking twist in final moments.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Tequila Slammerby  Ray Smith
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
When a betrayed husband wakes up from a tequila-fueled car crash with no memory of who he is, he must unravel his identity while evading vengeful gangsters, Russian mobsters, and a relentless hitman—or else become collateral damage in a twisted web of stolen cash and deadly secrets.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Lemon Aidby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Suburban parents learn the hard way that when life gives you lemons, you don't have to pay for them. When it doesn't, you have to buy them, the lemonade stand, a business permit, the credit card machine, and sell a ton of servings simply to break even.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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I Won't Takeby  Hiabu Hassebu
Date Posted: 29 May 2025
Saba battles against herself, not to miss her childhood friend, who died of menengites.

Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Judge Smithersby  timur yildiz
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
A off kilter Judge goes back to his fraternity to help the organization with a pledge's death during hazing. What he finds out after returning to the college campus is there might be a serial killer on the loose.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Giggedby  Joseph B. Atkins
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2024
A bullying ex-con taunts his elderly uncle as they wrap up a night of frog gigging, even boasting about having sex with the uncle’s young granddaughter. A fugitive arrives on the scene, tries to steal their truck, and inadvertently enables the old man—with his granddaughter’s help--to get the revenge he’d planned.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Bleed and Cryby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2024
A filmmaker performs a one-man play on a childhood trauma he suffered while showing a home movie from the year and date the childhood trauma occurred.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Funeral Crasherby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2024
At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Halloween Short Film Festivalby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2025
Having always held her mother as an untouchable icon, a newlywed's joy turns to ashes when she walks in on her beloved mom entangled with her brand-new husband, forcing her to navigate a landscape of unthinkable betrayal where the lines of love and hate are dangerously blurred.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Elevatorby  Lily Sanders
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2025
A helicopter parent is finally forced to listen.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Real Heroesby  Tina Field Howe
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2025
Convinced they’re the good guys, brother and sister drug dealers dispose of the competition to ‘save’ their neighborhood.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Selling Oranges on a Median with Charles Bukowskiby  Ryan Armstrong
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A meeting of two men in an unlikely place as they try to overcome the challenge of understanding and communicating with the other.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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10 Wordsby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
A gossip-prone boy, suspended from school, takes his sister's challenge to speak only ten words a day, discovering that silence can transform his life for the better.

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