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Artificial Lightby  Cephra Stuart
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A short film exploring mental health from the main character's POV. Main character descends into a fantasy world. Explores his invented world. Kills someone at the end. Ends up in a police cell. Multiple scenes, multiple locations, all adaptable to whatever circumstances you find yourself in. Modest length, flexible set up, few locations, relatively easy to stage. 10-15 mins duration.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Tyroneby  Doug J Robbins
A mall Santa targets three families on Christmas Eve and has murderous plans for each family.

Genre: Horror
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Going To The Topby  Matthew Belopavlovich
During the Gay Rights Movement in 1980s California, James and Thomas take a popular theme park to court after experiencing discrimination for dancing together and later, start a LGBT advocacy magazine.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Amish Countryby  Bill Freas
After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby  Nik Forster
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
Loved Stillby  Denis Bushlatov
While racing to reach her mother's deathbed, a woman is haunted by the rotting ghosts of her past, only to discover that her husband's refusal to let go has trapped her in a waking, eternal nightmare.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Growing with Albertby  John Witcher
After being adopted by his Uncle Albert, Mickey comes of age in a small Midwestern town.

Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A-rrhythmiaby  Tigran Vardanyan
A reserved man visits a secluded seaside restaurant, masking his internal turmoil as he prepares for an evening with "guests" who may never arrive, culminating in a haunting act of finality that echoes his quiet despair.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
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
Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.

Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Patent Applicationby  Stephen Delos Treacy
This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby  Jayda
A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Elvis Hasn't Left the Buildingby  Elliot Stanton
The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock' n' Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals the man himself, resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit - Elvis Presley.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Darryl and his right hand man Ryan's lavish lifestyle from drug dealing comes apart when Darryl's girlfriend Sharice unveils something sinister neither one of them saw coming.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
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
A long Road Aheadby  Bernhard Riedhammer
A trailblazing transgender woman, stranded in the middle of nowhere, must hitch a ride with an opinionated retiree in order to stop her ex from leaving the country with their son.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chocolate, Moose, and Titsby  Larry E. Coleman
A man who wants to come clean with a secret he's been hiding from his girlfriend, gets advice from three versions of himself from alternative universes.

Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Over Darkby  Alicia Renee Norman
After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The impact of phones in the life of couples.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A pregnant couple in labour, trapped in an ambulance sinking into a remote island bog in the Orkney Islands during a storm, must fight alongside their paramedic to protect their unborn child from a creature disturbed from a Neolithic ruin and drawn to her giving birth.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth or Deathby  Edward Chapman
A murdered student returns to the scene of her death to play a final game of truth or dare with the party in her old college room and unleashes her killer to strike again.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheltered Collapseby  Stephanie Neroes
Haunted by loss and consumed by anxiety, a reclusive woman clings to her routines in a post-pandemic world that has left her behind, until the measures meant to keep her safe lead to tragedy.

Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sometimes it Stares Backby  Anthony Cawood
An obsessive codebreaker solving Cicada 3301 uncovers a forgotten Mayan god's secret, risking the release of an ancient evil.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder Inkby  Edward Chapman
After witnessing her tattooist father murdered, his orphaned daughter uses his dying gift to payback his killers in a uniquely creative way.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Save the Last Danceby  John J McWilliams
The last two soldiers to be killed in World War 1 are thrown together just before they meet their tragic fate.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A young black priest takes a life-changing opportunity at a convent dating back to the birth of New Orleans and discovers secrets that shake his sanity as much as his faith. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ringby  Daniel Yanev
A man has seemingly lost everything, including his will to live.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killing The Changelingby  DJ Robbins
A couple has the misfortune of having a dark elf switch its deformed offspring for the couple's healthy, human one.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two guys get their karma back and have to face the consequences of drunk driving.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Straight Talk with Sadie & Santaby  Jason K. Allen
On Christmas Eve, a little girl wakes to find Santa rummaging through her fridge. After scolding him about his diet, she proceeds to grill him about reindeer, elves, bad gifts and other curiosities, and soon develops a new understanding about Christmas. Santa, meanwhile, gets a dose of reality himself - and perhaps a new friend.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ride Shareby  Marc Prey
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
Why Cows Are Contentedby  John Porter
A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented, even though they end up as hamburger and baseball gloves.

Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bedby  Dewayne
Six-year-old Ethan claims something lives beneath his bed and only moves when adults aren't watching. Hoping to prove it imaginary, his parents install lights and cameras, but the presence begins adapting, spreading beyond the bedroom as observation makes it stronger. While the house subtly changes, Ethan grows calmer, revealing he's been teaching it how to belong. By the time his parents understand the rules, the entity no longer needs the bedand neither does Ethan.

Genre: Horror
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Personal Demonsby  Brandon Rhiness
After being fired for his reckless lifestyle, a narcissistic corporate climber visits a psychic to "exorcize" his personal demons (drinking and womanizing) only to have them manifest as physical entities that refuse to let him stop partying.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hellavisionby  Jason K. Allen
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and watch a horror movie on television. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Mostly 1 actor, limited dialogue, inspired by 70's horror. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

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