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Attack of the Church Furnitureby David McPete
A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.
Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Watchersby Dewayne C Bricker
When a rescue chopper can't reach her, Ranger Elena records her final night in a forest where strange lights stalk the trees. As unseen figures circle, whispering her own words back at her, she discovers the forest itself is copying life to survive the cold. With dawn hours away, Elena must choose between burning the cabin or becoming one of them.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crunch Timeby Ron Brawer
Mere hours before the annual Board meeting, the company's 82-year-old CEO and its 81-year-old CFO discover a $13 billion shortfall. Time to thrust aside their mutual antagonism - and aluminum walkers - and leap into action.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 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
Small Talkby Larry Shannon
20 year old college student Clark Cleland opens a door he should not have opened, and the devil comes in through that door and thrashes him.
Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Death Sentenceby Brian Jackson
In a stark cell, a guilt-ridden man haunted by visions of his mother, bride, and daughter must utter the command that becomes humanity's death sentence.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bright Lights, Dark Shadowsby Barry Staff
Wanting to suss a stranger in town, a thirteen-year-out truant girl needs to realise he's planning a hit on a political party conference there.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby John Porter
A dark comedy about a man who receives a letter from an old girlfriend who reminds him of a promise he made years and years ago.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby Andrea Zastrow
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father's Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
All This and Heaven, Tooby John Porter
A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby John W Welch
What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Switchby Charles Hall
Tragedy strikes a group of young friends when the high school misfit introduces them to a risky new game called Switch.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It's Now or Neverby Elliot Stanton
In a world where Elvis lives, a suburban man's golden ticket to see The King goes missing down the back of the bath sparking a hilarious battle between nostalgia, plumbing, and domestic survival.
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadows Among Usby Christine Lara
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
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Old Fashionedby Jose Villanueva
A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda seduces an unsuspecting bartender, luring him into a conversation where each revealed secret tightens the noose around their necks and turns flirtation into a ticking countdown to bloody murder.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trio in Bby Bari K. Willerford
Three couples (20's, 40's & 60's) in the their bedrooms getting dressed or undressed discussing their lives. Witness them in the privacy of their bedrooms.
Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby Tina Gandhi
Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheltered Collapseby Stephanie Neroes
Haunted by loss and consumed by anxiety, a reclusive woman clings to her routines in a post-pandemic world that has left her behind, until the measures meant to keep her safe lead to tragedy.
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not a Creature Was Stirringby Michael Hogan
Karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the overly-testosteroned boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 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
Genre: Other
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Two Orangesby Sari Akhavan
A nice cosy family dinner at home, while the neighborhood outside is being bombed.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby Gregory George Sarno
Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Behind the 8 Ballby John Porter
A young man must either make a billiard shot or lose his beautiful young wife to an evil old man.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Let's Keep Workingby John Porter
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
How The Pimp Saved Christmasby Doug J Robbins
A pimp and his three prostitutes sub in for Santa Claus when the big man has a cold one Christmas Eve.
Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doc's Barby Kenneth M. Kielty
Doc's Bar is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy
Two young men who were childhood friends make plans to meet up in a midtown NYC bar. One friend is Jewish, in his third-year residency, and broke. His friend is an antisemitic Wall Street broker who is rich. The young doctor sets his buddy up with a Russian doctor who is studying for her medical license. Both need money and the stockbroker the solution!
Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beacon Streetby Doug J Robbins
Charlie finds himself on Beacon Street. He cannot remember how he got there, but all that inhabits Beacon Street are his dead Uncle Leon, a little girl named Angela, and a mysterious man.
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubic's Kubeby Bernard Mersier
Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tank Topsby Dennis Manning
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
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Pageant Redemptionby Barbara Blomquist
Personal redemption is the ultimate prize in a beauty pageant held in a women's prison.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby John Porter
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lotby Doug J Robbins
A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner.
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Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Going To The Topby Matthew Belopavlovich
During the Gay Rights Movement in 1980s California, James and Thomas take a popular theme park to court after experiencing discrimination for dancing together and later, start a LGBT advocacy magazine.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Marais Noirby Chris Chatzikirlis
When a toxic stench rises from the swamps of Belle Rive, a remote Louisiana village descends into hallucination, madness, and violenceforcing the last remaining survivor to confront a nightmare that may not be hers alone, but the land's.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby Kevin Silva
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Doorsby Barry Staff
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
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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