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The Putt Putt Preacherby  Jason K. Allen
The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course. (Mockumentary. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Classic Western Love Storyby  John Porter
A western comedy in which two young men compete for the favor of a lovely young woman.

Genre: Western
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pain & Sympathyby  Dale Easterling
A dysfunctional married couple seeks therapy, where the psychiatrist hypnotizes them into feeling each other's pleasure and pain - literally.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 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
The Group Chatby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
After an unremovable number joins their group chat, five friends receive photos from inside their homesand a countdown demanding they confess what happened at the lake.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
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
Mistletoeby  Harker Jones
When a woman joins her fianc for a wake, the family's dangerous secrets start bubbling to the surface.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Tale of Two Sistersby  Robert Evans
Twin sisters both adopted at birth by different families meet for the first time in their early 70's, one inherits a British title and the other becomes president, both are a bit nutty.

Genre: Comedy
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a man's dog destroys his Cuban shirt and his closet mysteriously comes alive with bickering clothes, he unknowingly selects a blue tank top for a beach day, igniting a full-scale rebellion among his jealous wardrobe.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pilotby  Jay Loish
Four friends become enmeshed in a heist, kidnapping, and escape plot, saving each other from death. The protagonist[s], and the antagonists[s] are introduced with each character's role clarified while enhancing three sexier feminine characters and the Federal Agent [foil] in an intense office situation before the heist, kidnapping and chase unfold later that day. The audience has invested in a veiled story line.

Genre: Other
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Imagine That!by  Tina Czarnota
Grace under pressure can be a royal disaster.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby  Mike Bevins
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
The Vortican Orderby  S.C. Smith
Five years after a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure, high school senior Ethan Thomas is drawn back into a supernatural nightmare when the shadowy entity reappears, threatening to unravel the fragile peace his family has found.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
The Break Inby  Jane Tumminello
Two teenage guys set out to break into a house, but just as they're about to go inside, they come upon something horrific they never expected.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Green Dangerby  John Witcher
A science experiment goes wrong and creates one of the most sinister villains of a lifetime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Revelation/Armageddonby  Darryl N. Layne
When a newly elected president is revealed to be the prophesied Beast, his step brother must confront demonic forces, global chaos,and a world torn between faith and fear, racing against time to stop the rise of evil and restore good before all is lost to satin.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Freebornby  Shane Harbinson
When a young girl with extraordinary mental abilities catches the attention of a totalitarian regime seeking to exploit her gifts, her working-class cyborg father must survive an interrogation in a desperate attempt to buy time for his daughter's escape and protect the essence of their humanity. 'Coverfly top 1% genre'

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kid nappingby  Kerens
What could happen when Peter, 25, lost his fiance and son during a miscarriage meets Julian, nepo baby, father businessman, mother surgeon, who never knows the joy of parenthood, because his parents have time for him?

Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Pumpkinby  Doug J Robbins
The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fear the Unknown Graveby  Kline Fishborn
Ten-year-old Brian is terrified of his own mother, who becomes possessed by a demon after visiting an old unmarked grave near their home.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a sinkhole opens up inside a married couple's Florida home, a horrifying secret is uncovered as they fight to hang on until they are rescued. What Angie finds within the walls gives the black, hellish hole a whole new, sinister meaning. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tethered Soulsby  Andrew Chisholm
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
Taking Care of Businessby  William Walkerley
Ray meets up with his old pal Mark, who turns out to be looking for someone to take the blame for murdering his benefactress.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Anonymous Heroby  Jose Luis Azcarreta
"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
A cell phone with his hand is stuck to a man's ear. After frantic attempts to loosen it fail, a mysterious 'Voice' comes on the line to help find a solution.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Political Science 101by  Donald Lewis
Struggling through stages of political grief, a working man finds that all is not lost -- there's always more to lose.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  Anthony Cawood
Two agents travel back in time to alter history, but their mission misfires, unleashing unintended consequences they can't undo.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Christmasby  Ange Fassinou
Three couples have decided to spend Christmas holidays with their children in a house in the woods; but the vacation becomes bloody.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rumor Has Itby  Paul Weidknecht
A phone stolen at work leads a woman to understanding her capabilities and, even, her future.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Head Traumaby  Elise Marenson
Two guys get in big trouble when they find the human head of a Russian mobster buried in the sand.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
11-44 Frankby  Sean Mick
A dedicated Highway Patrolman investigating a fatal accident at a lonely desert rest stop must confront his own tragic past to bring closure to the grieving sister of one of the victims. Tag line: "At the end of the road, their journey begins..."

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Beautiful Suicideby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Obsession is a cute word in Mimi's eyes, until Ja'mere applies what the word really means.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
When The World's Fair comes to town, a gymnast in a side show act must keep her wits about her to escape from H.H. Holmes or else perish in his murder castle alone and afraid.

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