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Touchby Janet Prescott
Unaware she's half alien, a young woman experiences everything about anyone with one touch, which puts her life in danger and at risk for extermination by those who fear her kind.
Genre: Sci-Fi
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime Sceneby Matthew J Cresta
At a brutal crime scene an inexperienced patrol sergeant, working along side a seasoned homicide detective, receives a master class in murder investigation while also discovering a shocking connection with the killer!
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby Craig Ford
After a brief moment of forbidden tenderness reignites his buried humanity, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must choose between suppressing his desire to surviveor risking death by claiming love in a place built to destroy it.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Should Have Stayed Homeby Michael Angelella
I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME is a drama/comedy about a desperate film director who stands at the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean and threatens to destroy all the footage of his just-completed film unless his producer gives him complete creative control of it. Semi Finalist 2024 Golden Script Competition; Semi Finalist 2024 Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Contest.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
On Time Delayby Melvin Taylor
Overly rude airline passenger can't board flight only to find a strange carrier for a flight he will never forget.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
To Die Laughingby Robert M. Tartell
A woman's video cosplay fantasies go hard on her male co-stars.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Return to Nam, Behind Memoriesby Muresan Marta
Decades after the Vietnam War, a former idealist named Lee returns to the country where he lost his innocenceuncovering ghosts of the past, confronting guilt and trauma, and searching for reconciliation in a journey that bridges generations.
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Los-T (In) Angelesby Noureddine HIFAD
A desperate aspiring writer and a struggling actress fake their way into a Hollywood party, where one stolen opportunity could either launch their dreamsor expose them completely.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tammy In Hellby Apostolos Kouroumalis
Cheerleader saves small town USA after being bitten by Cerberus after a hazing goes awry and Hell on Earth is let loose.
Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby Ian Patrick Williams
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: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Rewardby Wayne E. Johnson
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Locked Roomby KS Punithakumar
Waking up disoriented in a windowless, concrete room with only a speaker on the wall, a confused man must piece together his missing memories of the previous night while an unseen voice interrogates him.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.
Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Three Men and a Peruvianby Richard Wells
When a Cork man decides he'd rather be Peruvian than remembered as 'the dead dog fella,' his drinking buddies force him to explain the bizarre childhood story he's been trying to outrun ever since.
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sick to Deathby Elliot Stanton
A sleepless hospital patient driven to distraction by heat, noise, and a relentlessly demanding neighbour begins to question his sanityonly to discover that the silent old man beside him has secretly found the peace and comfort he desperately craves.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Conundrumby Irina Kompa
Two strangers damaged by life meet by chance in a dive bar, unaware that before the night is over, one may save the other from making an irreversible mistake.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Happy Endingsby Ronald V. Micci
A pair of financially strapped old-timers on a farm in the Midwest, Eleanor and Bertrand Cornweevil, receive a surprise visit from a man trying to entice them into selling the oil drilling rights to their land. But it's really their souls he's after.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jack's Mom Autism Warrior Princessby Lawrence Riggins
The humorous true story of a supermodel who leaves celebrity life to raise her autistic son. Trading designer gowns for parenthood-on-steroids, this Autimom uses love, determination, and comedy to treat her boy's disorder while defending him from attacks by close-minded individuals. True beauty triumphs as her remarkable son overcomes his disability to thrive as a young man. Short, TV Series, Family Comedy, Female Lead. 27 Awards.
Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When I'm Lying In My Bedby Jared Kelly
Six year old Aaron is very fearful of what lurks underneath his bed - and he has good reason to be scared. Told in ryhyming voice over by Aaron, this creepy one-pager will have your skin crawling and your toes curling. "Sometimes when I'm in my bed, I hear the noise I really dread..."
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Familyby Jean-Luc Julien
A young Arab refugee fights to save the life of his unborn child when his German girlfriend's parents force her to get an abortion. A modern-day "Romeo & Juliet" in a controversial, sociopolitical love story with thriller elements.
Award-winning director and cast attached. Shooting in November 2026.
Feature screenplay is a finalist in the Launch Pad Feature Screenplay Competition and Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Raven Pointby Jason Allen
Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB listing for "Jason K. Allen" for writer's credits.)
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Virgin Brideby Perk Perkins
After a drunken, groom-to-be receives a graphic photo of his fiance with another man, he mails the scandalous pic with all the wedding invites, but discovers the picture was a prank from his best man, leading to a blood-soaked chain reaction.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Araneumby Bill Cornelius
A psychoanalyst works to uncover the mystery of why an entire family is trapped in a comatose state. His investigation leads him into a nightmare world ruled by a mysterious Victorian woman in a porcelain mask.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Magic of Misfitsby Bill Freas
After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Point of Irish Coffeeby Rochelle Potkar
As his distracted MISTRESS plots revenge on three women who made fun of her over her husband's abandonment, a DOG follows all her hateful emotions that metamorphose him into a worst beast a hateful homo sapien (a man).
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Substitutionby Dwayne Craig Bricker
During detention, a substitute confiscates phones and forces "consent" clicksuntil the students realize he's not a teacher, he's a replacement.
Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Next Voiceby Charles Hall
Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Smitty's Quality Carsby Perk Perkins
After hiring a hitman to eliminate his wife, a stingy used-car salesman tries to negotiate the price of the murder like a trade-in, only to realize too late that all sales are final when he's framed for the crime using his own sales tactics against him.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennisby Doug J Robbins
A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
But Wait ... There's More!by John Boal
On this segment of "But Wait ... There's More!" at a local TV station, the mid-40s Host, Tiffany Long, and her two Reporters, as usual, critique weird, wacky and often wasteful single-use plastic products that viewers may or may not need. But in the closing segment, Tiffany and her Reporters break the 4th wall; show how these plastic products are killing our oceans and sea life and defiantly quit their popular program on air.
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Aliveby John Klawitter
Dr.Voit's invention, the Life Spike, can do almost anything - drive a jet plane or bake a perfect dinner - but he'd do almost anything to have a human body.
Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sakoby Tigran Vardanyan
On a stormy night in a remote mountain gorge, a lone shepherd is hunted by ancient spirits who lure the living with music, memory, and madnessforcing him to confront whether the horrors chasing him are supernatural... or already inside him.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Okay, Honeyby Frank Vespe
All his life, he hoped he'd hear two endearing words, but when he finally did, it was too late.
Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thulirby KS Punithakumar
Following a single flower's journey from a morning market to a temple altar, a cremation ground, and a flowing river, the interconnectedness of life, devotion, and human mortality unfolds.
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Resurrection Fernby Paul Weidknecht
A divorced couple hike into the mountains of western North Carolina, retracing the route their daughter took seven years prior when she disappeared.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby Susie Schecter
Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.
Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ancient Secretsby Wayne E. Johnson
While waiting in line to renew his driver's license, a man gets an update on Stonehenge from the 6000-year-old± Druid in line ahead of him.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby Slobodan D. Pesic
In a surreal bureaucratic universe, a lonely man enters Agence Paradis, a state-run institution promising to fulfill any human desire. As he lists his wishes from sneakers to love his dreams spiral into absurdity, revealing the tragic comedy of modern aspiration and divine automation.
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Survive The Nightby Richard Hohenrath
During a late night "Graveyard Shift" on Christmas Eve, a convenience store employee fights to survive a one-on-one encounter with a bloodthirsty creature of the night.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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