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Yoo-foesby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lunch with Lelandby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (3 actors, 1 main location. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Award-winning writer and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Inhospitable Takeoverby  Michael Hutchinson
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2025
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Bloodiedby  Adam Dyer
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2024
Newlyweds Melanie & Carl Colvey move in to their dream house in their favorite neighborhood. After discovering the house to be the scene of a grizzly murder, they must decide whether to leave immediately, or live with a horrible truth.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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No Nailsby  John Ravitz
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharist Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between the sacred and the need to stop a killer before he kills again.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Perspectivesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
Two lovers plot a violent act of revenge to escape their abuser, but their shared trauma complicates their path to freedom.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Deadly Swampby  Chris Chatzikirlis
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2025
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
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Superstition's Goldby  Michael Gaun
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
A romantic history of hidden Treasure in Superstition Mountain with its famous Lost Dutchman Gold Mine.

Genre: Western
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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ERA IIby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A naive scientist who has discovered a way to bring people back from the past, interviews infamous dictator Hitler but his German translator has different plans.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Coming Aliveby  John Klawitter
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2025
As a result of a possible accident, a computer entity takes over his human inventor's consciousness with unexpected results.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Back On The Couchby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2025
Tables are turned, and seating arrangements are swapped when a patient sneakily becomes the psychiatrist.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Smells Like Steinbeckby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A young man with a passion for pleasant aromas is lured into the underground world of book sniffing. (Could be short or TV pilot. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lonely Onesby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
A young man controlled by common technology encounters an old man in a coffee shop who upends the assumption that old people are the lonely ones. One location, micro budget. Written by award-winning, produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Sentinelby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 14 Oct 2025
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Forest Whispersby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A Granddaughter aids their Grandfather in listening to the hearts of trees in the hope of finding the final message from his passed wife, her Grandmother.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Dead Man's Pondby  Adam Slamang
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2025
When a university student investigates the years-old disappearance of a classmate linked to a haunted pond, eerie signs of a ghostly presence give way to a far more terrifying truth—an ancient, cosmic force that distorts time, flesh, and reality itself.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Killer Cupidby  Janet Prescott
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2025
A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Freebornby  Shane Harbinson
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2024
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
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The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2025
A guitarist becomes an anomaly in a bleak and inhospitable future world where music is conjured and customized in the mind. Single location from an award-winning screenwriter.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
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
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Cimpleby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024
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
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Growing with Albertby  John Witcher
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2025
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
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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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The Usualby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors his dead mother by continuing her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Finally Coming Homeby  Dennis Bruce Shipman
Date Posted: 08 May 2024
A clairvoyant female visits a Confederate Civil War Cemetery to help a dead earth-bound soldier cross over into the light. The story takes place in the present. The soldier has been walking the grounds of the graveyard waiting 162 years for his sweetheart to come fetch him. Initially, he's hesitant to step into the light. But once he experiences its soothing warmth and majestic wonder, he's all in.

Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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We Won't Actby  Hiabu Hassebu
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
On a stage actors refuse not to act behind the curtain. Unexpectedly, an unexperienced man from the audience saves the day.

Genre: Fantasy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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His Fatherby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2025
A man scarred by his abusive past must confront his estranged father's secret love and a devastating family truth, leading him to choose forgiveness and a fragile new beginning.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Devious Desiresby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2024
An unhappy married man wants out of his boring marriage and craves excitement in his life, so he begins online dating and meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman who only desires to rob and kill him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Spunk!by  Harker Jones
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2025
Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced…literally

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Old Schoolby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2024
An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Bus Stopby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2024
A distracted mother experiences every parent’s worst nightmare when a heated cell phone conversation incites a chilling abduction. Single location, micro-budget. Award-winning, produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Alien Dreamby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2024
A teenage girl has a dream about instantly becoming a teenage boy caused by an accidental Alien invasion.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby  Robert Drusetta
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2025
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
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2 Plates @ The Endby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2024
At a Thai restaurant, two mourners—one a scarred woman, the other a man who can only communicate through writing—gather for a funeral unlike any other, reflecting on the life of an artist whose unfulfilled potential and tragic choices led them all to a brutal conclusion about life’s unrelenting cruelty.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Musk’s DOGE team’s preps the opening of the prison—adding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnel—Trump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricity—the one with the electric chair. What happens next is… well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2025
On New Year’s Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.

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