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The Father of Thingsby Chris Fell

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In this award-winning war drama, two enemy soldiers try to brutally kill each other on the battlefield. However, when both become incapacitated, they cooperate to survive. Their dialogue between camaraderie and cynicism highlights the absurd "logic" of war and propaganda, while offering a glimmer of hope to reconcile differences. Just a glimmer.

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

A Horse in a Saloonby Nickolas Snider

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It's about a horse named Buck, who was once human and after he was turned by an evil warlock. He decides to go into a saloon to prove he's more than just a horse as such.

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Flingby Jill Martin

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Late December 1915 onboard the troop ship SS Pretorian, a young lad meets a battle-weary soldier returning from the Western Front who teaches him about heritage.

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

Dorothy... after Ozby robert ingraham

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After Dorothy returns from colorful Oz, she moves to the San Fernando Valley, where everyone seems comparatively gray. That is, until she meets someone as colorful as the characters from Oz... Peter Pan. She falls in love with him... but there's a problem. He's wanted by the police for stealing kids.

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

Best of Timesby Jim Norman

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Four Vietnam veterans in a retirement home play their own version of Blackjack until a strange, new, entertainment employee changes the rules of the game and one veteran's life.

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

The Free Boxby Charles Webb

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The most valuable thing at an estate sale could be free.

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

The Toilet Whispererby John Alexander Fraser

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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages

Awfully Wedded Wifeby Elliot Stanton

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Love is... a suspicious mind, making the threat of castration a genuine possibility.

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

Artificial Lightby Cephra Stuart

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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

The Trouble with Bermudaby PAUL BYRNE

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Vacationing in Bermuda, an American woman is seduced by a dashing, dry-witted con artist who takes her on a run-for-your-life swindle of a narco-paramilitary general.

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

The Seventh Seal Experimentby Jeffrey Stackhouse

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A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

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

Do Unto Othersby Joe Leone

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An elderly woman and a middle-aged business banker form a bond based on mutual respect and the "golden rule." One good deed leads to another in this feel-good drama about living the golden rule. A chance encounter of two kindred spirits leads to enlightenment and realization of purpose as they lean upon one another for strength and support in their hour of need.

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

Kiss Me, Stay Closerby Patricia Bruce

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A delinquent, young woman from the wrong side of the tracks ingeniously turns the table on her drug dealer. Semi-finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Cellby Bill Wyza

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An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

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

The Labby Nancy Kimmel

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Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

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

A Whiskey Glass . . .by John Porter

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A young cowboy learns an old lesson about love and liquor.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Take My Truck, Please!by Mary Barrett

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When his wife demands Joe not to come home until he sells his gas guzzling truck, he is directed by the used car salesmen to the bad side of town where he meets up with other guys waiting for their trucks to be stolen.

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

No Regretsby Patricia Bruce

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This edgy screenplay puts a unique spin on a marriage gone bad. Sadly, not all marriages have a happy ending. After years of being a hen-pecked housewife by her unappreciative husband, this boring, mousey housewife suddenly turns aggressive with deadly results...

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

Table for 3by Michael Joseph

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A brother and sister, entrenched in crime with their abusive uncle, make a routine stop at a diner. But when tempers flare, their ordinary night takes an unexpected turn

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

Making Wavesby Drew Larimore

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A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Deputyby Alan Barkley

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His deputy shot, a lone frontier sheriff must use his wits and local know-how to subdue a dangerous thug. Single location.

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

Dead Copby Ange Fassinou

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A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.

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

Fall In Loveby M SHAHZAIN USMAN SHAMSI

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A business man fall in love with poor girl whose life is full of problems and always facing huddles in her life. One upon a time she saw a business man who is looking handsome and a business man who also see this poor girl who is looking a beauty of his heart and he started fall in love with this poor girl and one day he proposed her and she accepted her proposal.

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

Frolic #1by Jason K. Allen

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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

Cross Wiresby Gregory Stallworth

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Cross Wires is a suspenseful story of corporate executive who receives voice messages on his office phone of an international drug trafficking operation within the corporation where he is employed. Faced with a decision of staying silent to what he knows or becoming a Corporate Whistleblower and not only risk his career, however his life.

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

Alone with Himselfby Anastasiia Borisova

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What if an ordinary little kid is left alone without any support? Do you know what a little person experiences when he has to cope with difficulties alone? Perhaps each of us has experienced this, but do you remember how scary it was?

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

Terrible Tillyby Frank J Dellipoala

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When three friends trespass on a legendary abandoned lighthouse, "Terrible Tilly," they uncover a cargo of genetically modified "Asian Murder Hornets" intended to cripple the nation's food supply. With a tsunami closing in and the swarm released, they must survive the night to sound the alarm.

Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Swoliosisby Jim Kowalski

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A gym attendant hosts an underground fitness competition to avoid losing his bankrupt gym and his crush.

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

Baby Farts A Lotby Doug J Robbins

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A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner. Update

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

First Dateby Alan Barkley

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A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. They must first navigate the choppy waters of compatibility to see if there is a connection". Exterior location. Two characters. *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

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

Stop Driving Yourself Crazyby Elliot Stanton

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Clive, a thoughtless and paranoid driving instructor's wild theory about his wife's infidelity is all but confirmed when out on a driving lesson - her car is seen somewhere it shouldn't be. However, the only thing that is confirmed is his poor learner's theory that Clive is an idiot.

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

Smoking loveby Dimitris Sokolakis

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A group of teenagers in the 90s are sitting in a park while smoking and discussing about their not so promising future. One of them has different worries. The love of his life is about to leave and he hasn't managed yet to reveal his love towards her. Her coming to the park is his last chance to make a move, will he grab it?

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

Deadly Swampby Chris Chatzikirlis

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In the haunted swamps of Louisiana, a disgraced scientist's experiments unleash monstrous leeches, driving a mutated village into madness, murder, and a chilling new religion built on sacrifice.

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

Conversionby Stephanie Neroes

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In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvationonly to uncover a harrowing world of abuse, resistance, and a reckoning long overdue.

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

The Groomerby Bob Messinger

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Can one person bring down a professional child trafficker simply by getting into his head? This brutally honest, day-in-the-life story of a "groomer" challenges us to see the depths of his depravity and feel the pain of those he leaves behind.

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

Bleed and Cryby DJ Robbins

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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

Under the Bridgeby Mike Bevins

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In 1946 three preteens lose their innocence after witnessing a horrific act. Six characters, one location. (Finalist in Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest)

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

Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby Robert Drusetta

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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

Serving Caesarby Pelham Mead III

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Marcos Cassius Scaeva was perhaps one of the greatest Centurians to serve Proconsul Caesar in Britain, the Rine, and in Greece agains Pompey. In Greece Scaeva took 400 arrows to his shield, an arrow to his eye and his knee without saying. Caesar made him Primus Pilus.

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Late Doorsby Barry Staff

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Three 'remainers' congregate in a deserted pub and there contemplate whether the news that a meteorite will shortly destroy Earth is a hoax, but also to undertake their final acts in case it's true.

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