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Fall From Heavenby PAUL BYRNE
Tortured by a sadistic Russian general, a former female Ukrainian commando finds justice in her gripping testimony before a war crimes tribunal.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mirror Manby STEVEN BLOWS
A man made from mirrors struggles to make a true human connection and find someone who sees past their own reflection in him.
Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cute Robberby Grag Raymond
Nick works as a security guard in a jewelry store during his break he is relaxing in a local cafe when a pretty girl approaches him to get to know him but it was a deception she joins a crime group to commit a robbery.
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Accountabilityby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Deciding to bury the hatchet, Rosa invites her mother over for dinner so she can explain why her father wasn't in her life. The answers Rosa receives are nothing compared to the ones she gives Giselle, exposing the true reason why.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Find My Fiendsby Edward Chapman
When the party hostess isn't answering calls her friends assume she's been kidnapped and use a tracking app to locate her - with fatal consequences...
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Carverby Doug J Robbins
A legendary serial killer with an affinity for carving up faces like Jack o'Lanterns for Halloween visits the home of Jack and Meg.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Rare Gem (Vertical)by Paul Henry Landry
A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby Robert Ingraham
After Musk's DOGE team's preps the opening of the prisonadding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnelTrump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricitythe one with the electric chair.
What happens next is... well, electrifying.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Implantby Dewayne C Bricker
A writer's nightmares of alien implants fuel his horror noveluntil he learns the story is real and ending it will end him.
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Fine Dayby Dempsey Samways
A relaxing day-off for stoner Danny quickly goes sideways when a mysterious agency of 'Enforcement Officers' begin fining him for increasingly nonsensical offences.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Etiquette of a Necrophiliacby Bernard Antoine Mersier
After uncovering his wife's infidelity, a man descends into a dark spiral, finding solace and control only in the macabre act of necrophilia, leading him down a path of irreversible perversion and escalating violence.
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Night on Walden Pondby Thomas Mercer
Henry David Thoreau has a brief romance with Mary Russel while he is living his experience of solitude at Walden Pond. Most of the dialog is Thoreau's actual words.
Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker
When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Usualby Sarah Kennedy
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
Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Koscheiby Sidhartha
After a nightmare of fire and screams leads him to hidden gold and a darker truth, Koschei finds himself standing between a ruthless arms syndicate and a catastrophe that could change the nation forever.A silent wanderer haunted by flames from his past races against time to stop a clandestine RDX operation, unaware that the conspiracy is tied to the very tragedy that made him who he is.
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hayseeds & Hipstersby Jason K. Allen
While eating lunch on a park bench, hayseeds Ned and Boomer spot a real-life hipster. Fascinated, they observe him and make fun of him, but they soon learn that things aren't always what they seem. (1 location, 3 characters)
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Renewalby Darryl N. Layne
A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accidentby Daniel Genchev Yanev
Two guys get their karma back and have to face the consequences of drunk driving.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Free Tomatoesby JT
Sometimes free has a price.
Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Comeuppanceby Martin Train Bartlett
After committing a heinous crime, a violent man is cursed to relive the horrific moment through the eyes of the victim.
Part 'Source Code', part "Identity"... all WTF Twilight Zone.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Please Clean Me!by Steven Blows
A father struggles to work seven days a week in order to make his son's Christmas special.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plaidby Brandi Self
A man dressed in a horrible plaid outfit begins to bond with a flashy woman at a party after being ignored by the rest of the guests.
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
3 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
Saturday in the Parkby Elliot Stanton
Dark Secrets Will Not Remain Hidden Forever. An "old" woman befriends a young man in a park. He is unaware of who she is or the secret she holds, but the woman knows precisely what she must do to draw him into her life.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Memory Survivalby Steven Burton
Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Policeman No Leaves Tracesby Jason Kirman
A policeman at night kidnaps and kills people who sell drugs and dissolves their bodies in an abandoned warehouse so as not to leave traces of his crime.
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Catchby Melvin Taylor
Man goes fishing and finds himself fighting for his life.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Goodbye, Cruel Worldby Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Goodbye cruel world" is a thriller short film about a desperate man victim of a blackmailer who proposes to a suicidal man, perched on his balcony, to kill the blackmailer before committing suicide....
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spinning in Infinityby Joshua Corin
After a brutal battle leaves their starship crippled and life support failing, four crew members debate whether they are real or merely simulations and must decide whether to keep fighting for survival or sacrifice themselves to save the 'real' people their existence was designed to protect.
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Vengeance Appby Edward Chapman
Desperate for retribution against her bullies, a tormented teen obtains a sinister app allowing her to execute a revenge of her choosing upon them but soon discovers it comes with chilling consequences as her actions begin to consume her own life.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dedicatedby Lisa Marie Brennan
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Unwelcomeby Bill Freas
An ex-con is hired to pack and move the belongings of his sister and her family after they abandon their house, following the sudden death of her teenage daughter, but the man encounters paranormal activity there that urges him to uncover a dark secret about the girl's death.
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Topby Barry Staff
Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Watergate First Time Ever Revealedby R. E. Payne
Inteliligence officer Gus Payne, 30, hired 1970 with guarantee of quick rise to vice president of subsidiary owned by Uniroyal, Inc.learns immediately he must do whatever is necessary to take false expenses for cash to secretly donate to President Nixon for forthcoming reelection in 1972. This must be done being told promises from highest level of campaign are promising that saves the company.
Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lenaby Jason K. Allen
While backpacking alone in the wilderness, a young man encounters a mysterious girl who has a unique relationship with the forest. (One location, two characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby Nik Forster
A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Almost By Designby Roberta M Roy
When her web of reality moves a young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer to seek employment as a home decor designer in New York City, she lands among a multicultural group whose mismatched goals result in both poetic and situational comedy.
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In Loving Memoryby Anthony Cawood
After her unfaithful husband's death, a vengeful widow uses advanced funerary technology to trap his consciousnessforcing him to confront his sins for eternity.
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby Steven Burton
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Big Digby Jason K. Allen
Pete once heard that if you dig a hole far enough you will end up in China. So one day he takes a shovel and decides to find out for himself. Several months later he emerges in a strange land that is definitely not China. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Comedy. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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