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Thrill in Manilaby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2025
In 1975, the fight of the century occurs in Manila with Ali's stream of consciousness descriptions.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Cellby  Bill Wyza
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2025
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
Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby  Tawnie Powell
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2025
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
Dildo Boyby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 28 Aug 2025
Desperate to go viral, a deluded wannabe content creator ropes his reluctant friend into filming a fake police arrest skit—only to spiral into public humiliation, dildo warfare, and the crushing reality of internet fame.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty in the Ringby  Jessica Taylor
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2025
An injured MMA fighter on the brink of losing everything crosses paths with a broken ballet dancer recovering from a violent assault. Together they discover strength, redemption, and love as she trains to fight in the ring — and he learns how to fight for her heart.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous Heroby  Jose Luis Azcarreta
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2025
"Anonymous hero" is a 4-page short script with no dialogue in which a nobody is the laughing stock of his office mates despite saving humanity from an alien attack.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Insideby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A young man and his fiancée confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mr. Bowling Ballby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025
When a young boy takes his father's advice to be bold with his comedy a bit too seriously, he ends up accidentally traumatizing his boss with a literal interpretation, turning a simple office skit into an unforgettable disaster

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Judge Retiresby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2024
Nearing retirement, a disgruntled high court judge plans an unconventional farewell while presiding over his final case, providing the court usher doesn't steal his biscuits first.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Chosenby  Paul Byrne
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2024
A troubled homicide cop must team up with his estranged father to stop a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces after three decades before he butchers his next victim - his Holiness the Pope.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2025
Guy painfully caught between the "love of his life" sending him a final goodbye via live video and his commitment to meet with his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's committed to a serious relationship and their first evening of love, and is waiting for him at her flat.Their scene of love-making ends shockingly with "rebound girlfriend" raging at him for using her. The result is a twist, a deadly tragedy twist.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Circle of Trustby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
An ex-military man must battle himself in a circle of his own demons.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beat of Your Own Drumby  Judah Ray
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
In a black-and-white world, Iris, a struggling singer, and David, an eccentric drummer, find solace in their own musical pursuits until their paths cross, igniting a harmonious connection that brings color to their lives.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Guns, Guts, & Gucciby  DC Copeland
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2025
A top secret government agency assists a “mature” man in getting a job based on his merits despite his age. With commentary by Rod Serling.

Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fingerby  Brian Jackson
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2025
After a severed finger appears on a grimy coffee table, three mismatched roommates spiral into suspicion that ends in a fatal misfire—only for an interrogation to reveal the cruelest joke of all.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ragnar's Vikingsby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2025
Ragnar conquers Britain. Kiev and Sweden. Lagertha is his beautiful wife. His son lands at Vinland and discovers America.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Best of Timesby  Jim Norman
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2024
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
Chicken Crossingby  Nathan M. Scrivens
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
A determined Chicken endures a series of humorous challenges in his quest to cross a road and reach a tempting apple.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Tethered Soulsby  Andrew Chisholm
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2025
Trapped in a decaying home with his dying wife, a man’s mind begins to fracture under the weight of grief and isolation, as a mysterious voice urges him toward suicide and he begins to question whether her fate is bound to his own.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Morning Walk With the Killerby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
Emma meets a man during a morning run, eventually she learns about his terrible crimes against his ex-women who are found dead.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025
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
Tide Flashby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2024
A man has writer’s block, a rip tide threatens his life, and then he discovers inspiration from a teen who shares a story.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spitball Newsby  John Boal
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2025
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
Betty and Booby  Patrice Sarath
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2024
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Soarby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A grieving girl endeavors to fly on a paper aeroplane.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Candleby  John Francis Daly
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2024
A sick girl on her death bed receives a candle that, when lit, brings forth new vitality, along with a being who holds secrets of the Universe.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Vulturesby  Keshia Thomas
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2025
A brilliant but unraveling scientist secretly tests a radical cure for Alzheimer’s on her own family — but as eerie, vulture-like entities begin to appear, feeding on memories like prey, she realizes the real threat might not be the disease… but what she’s unleashed trying to cure it.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Timeby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
A family of four enjoys a quiet dinner around the table. But mom seems different tonight... (1 location, 4 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blade of Betrayalby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
After the tragic death of his mother, Ken Deluisart moves to Japan, immersing himself in its culture and martial arts. When he returns to France for his father's funeral, he's plunged into a treacherous web of family deceit. Targeted for his inheritance, Ken must confront his cousin's betrayal and unearth the truth behind his father's death before it's too late.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A long Road Aheadby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 25 May 2024
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
Poet Dancerby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
A female choreographer is inspired by a disabled musician which creates more greatness for both of them.

Genre: Artistic
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Golden Scepterby  Bobby Banuelos
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
With the help of his cynical talking cat, a young man must embark on an adventure to retrieve a valuable family heirloom before the evil force that possesses it destroys the world.

Genre: Animation
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Singularityby  Peter Donald Skagen
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025
A tech-bro's wife who discovers he secretly chipped her brain giving her unusual abilities has to fight to survive when agents of the 'company' come to delete her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby  Mike Bevins
Date Posted: 16 May 2025
A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Family Beach Dayby  Derek L. Polen
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2024
A beach-loathing dad is pushed out of his comfort zone when he agrees to take his family to the beach.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All that Glittersby  Vic Jones
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A broke dreamer hobbles through the streets in pursuit of gold, only to discover that the most opulent light enters from above.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abel's Returnby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2025
An eleven-year-old boy kills his sister on Halloween night and returns 17 years later to chase his baby sister.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadows Among Usby  Christine Lara
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2025
A gathering among friends turns into a nightmare when strange events begin to unfold in an isolated house deep in the forest. Trapped and confronted with their own secrets, they realize that one of them is not who they claim to be.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cheers To Temptationby  Maria
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2024
When a husband's solemn promise to abstain from alcohol clashes with his wife's celebratory mood at a bar, he must navigate a hilarious game of temptation and wit as he tries to conceal his relapse, only to find that his clever wife is one step ahead in this uproarious battle of wills. Low Budget, 1 interior location. Tiny Cast.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wake Upby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
Guests at a funeral home are in for a Wake Up call, when their loving deceased BJ speaks at his own Wake.

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