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Happy Endingsby Ronald V. Micci

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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

Blue Horsesby Paolo Galli

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Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

No Nailsby John Ravitz

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A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharistic Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving him Holy Communion and must tread the line between his sacred duties and the need to stop a killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Out of Boundsby Adam Rocke

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The Women's National Petunia Golf Tour has mediocre players, terrible prize money and a serial killer.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Cage For Twoby Darryl N. Layne

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After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.

Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

For Gold's Sakeby Tina Field Howe

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An estranged daughter confronts her dying father to learn where he hid a fortune in gold doubloons.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Going To The Topby Matthew Belopavlovich

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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

Destinyby Pelham Mead III

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A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.

Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Villageby Adolpho Phillips

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Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Affirmative Actionby Michael Celender

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After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.

Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Rewardby Wayne E. Johnson

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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

Widow's Oilby Barbara Blomquist

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Widows, young and old, gather for a potluck and healing, aided by a mysterious bottle of olive oil.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Voicemailby Dewayne

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After losing his daughter, a withdrawn father survives by repeatedly calling her phone just to hear her voicemails. When an unheard message reveals her quiet faith and plea for him to keep living, he must confront his grief and his distance from God. The Voicemail I Can't Delete is an intimate, faith-based drama about loss, surrender, and the courage to step back into life without letting love disappear.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

My Angel Friendsby Pelham Mead III

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Tom Sizer is a college student who was driving on Meadowbrook Parkway when he had an accident with his car. When he is about to die the Archangel Michael decides to keep him alive. After Tom recovers, Michael tells him he is to be a human advisor to the angels in special situations and his adventures begin.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Third Degreeby Barry Staff

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Wanting a meaningful relationship for once, a strung-out womaniser goes to a quiet beach to try with Nature herself, but needs to prove his sincerity to make any headway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Memory Survivalby Steven Burton

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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

The Special Guestby DJ Robbins

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An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Beatles '74by Elliot Stanton

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In a parallel 1974 where The Beatles have reunited, two sisters clash over music, memory, and marriage in a single afternoon that may reshape their futures, just as the Fab Four call it quits for good.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Frank Sinatra's Hatby John McWilliams

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A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Dennisby Doug J Robbins

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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

The Same Insideby John Porter

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A young man and his fiance confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Laura's Listby Anthony Truscello

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A sexually repressed widow creates a secret bucket list of forbidden fantasies, only to begin checking them off with a man younger than her own children. (A vertical short consisting of eight 3-minute episodes)

Genre: Romance
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Good Griefby Duane Kellogg

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As pressure mounts to deliver a breakthrough script, a screenwriter working remotely with his wife (who's also his writing partner) begins to unravel, caught between ambition, loyalty, and a deepening divide caused by technology (ai) that threatens both his career and the partnership he's built his life around.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Creepy Clown For Hireby DJ Robbins

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Pamela is upset that her son is skipping his tutoring sessions, so she hires a creepy clown to scare her son into seeing his tutor.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG

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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

Screamersby Chris Lewis

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A world without fresh water or fruitful soil can lead to demarcation and brute force reality. Over population and stark sad realities.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Hunter Withinby Lamar D. Vine

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When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.

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

Gina's Veilby Kevin Silva

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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

Wolf Riderby Pelham Mead III

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This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.

Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Missionby S. Lane Porter

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A robotics engineer makes a bold decision to create a disabled android only to find out she wants nothing to do with his mission. -Originally written for the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge AKA EDFC, it was changed out for another story. One free update to match your available locations because it's open to interpretation/update due to rules set by the film challenge.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Candy, Girl Reporterby Linda Gould

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Candy, a young journalist, is interviewed on a talk show to promote a book she wrote about a campus rock band. She'd fallen in love with the lead guitarist, Preston, but suffered heartbreak when her flaky roommate, Josephine, lured him away. She has taken revenge by implicating Josephine in a campus bombing and exposing her and Preston as liars.

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

Thanks, Lucindaby John Porter

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A family romance in which two thirteen-year-olds try to work up the courage to invite each other to a high school dance.

Genre: Family
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Over Darkby Alicia Renee Norman

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After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Cubicle Jockeysby Brandi Self

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An anxious employee organizes a strike after a series of stress-related deaths take out his co-workers, and his boss pees on his shoe.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Double-Crossed Christmasby Wendy Toliver

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A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Customer Service Lifeby Derek L. Polen

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A customer service rep shows the challenges they face when trying to make customers happy.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Bloody Mouseby Sergey Dobrine

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During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Tank Topsby Dennis Manning

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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

Biff Bang, American Heroby Ronald V. Micci

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Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Ho-Ho-Ho-nly an Hour To Goby Elliot Stanton

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A department store Santa and his helper aren't the jolly individuals you'd expect them to be, particularly when the effects of Santa's alcoholic consumption threaten to become audibly evident to the line of waiting, excited children outside the grotto.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles