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Jury Serviceby  Simon Parker
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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
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
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A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Doomsday for Dentonby  Anthony Cawood
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A wannabe street fighter tries to boost his rep by going up against a legendary brawler from the past.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clown of Sienna Fallsby  Doug J Robbins
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A crazed clown stalks the people of Sienna Falls.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Journey Through Two Cultsby  Robert Michael Benn
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Robert goes to Synanon to get detoxed and is referred to Scientology. He meets Deitrich in LA and Hubbard at his San Francisco branch where he reads his poetry and meets Richard Brautigan, Alan Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Borrowing money from Jane Fondo does no good and Dietrich goes broke. He goes off the wagon. Robert dumps Synanon and Scientology to write his novel.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Faceby  Simon Parker
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A woman sacrifices everything for the perfect face, only to become a target of uncontrollable desire. Forced into hiding, she is pursued by a detective whose accidental glimpse of her face turns him into her next victim.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stay Warmby  Steven Burton
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A man with his young son, offer comfort to a homeless man which also provides a break from their grief for the recent death of Mary, a beloved wife and mother.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith: Brought To The Lightby  Ange Fassinou
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90% of story happens in a house with three principle characters. Inspired from true events. A mother who has lost her faith, rediscovers her purpose when she must help a troubled father with a dark secret.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Next Seatby  Steven Burton
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A man sits alone in an empty movie theater waiting for a film to begin, and then a woman stranger sits in the seat next to him. They have a dramatic confrontation while the screening is delayed.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Green Dangerby  John Witcher
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A science experiment goes wrong and creates one of the most sinister villains of a lifetime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Funeral Crasherby  Melissa Diane Hudson
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At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fisherman's Bluesby  Elliot Stanton
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Angling for answers, a fisherman is shocked by his friend's life-changing decision. And what is under the tarpaulin in the back of his car?

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Burnby  Ange Fassinou
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A story about an African American woman who survives a fire incident and fears to find love again. A romantic drama story which shows the power of love.

Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Guns, Guts, & Gucciby  DC Copeland
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A top secret government agency assists a "mature" man in getting a job based on his merits despite his age. With commentary by Rod Serling.

Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby  Abdelouahab Hammoudi
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"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In Loving Memoryby  Anthony Cawood
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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
Distancedby  Barry Staff
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Wanting to transmit her hallucinatory virus worldwide (contagion bringing universal accord solving global issues), a brainiac needs to persuade two skeptical colleagues to join her endeavour.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby  Jason K. Allen
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A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Artifactby  Steve Kennison
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Set in the mid-19th century, HENRY STANTON is a struggling museum manager. DAVID KENNISON is an alleged centenarian Revolutionary War veteran. They collaborate and make David the museum's living exhibit. The story explores David's unbelievable experiences, history, survival, and the challenge of proving one's identity and legacy.

Genre: Biographical
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sprialby  Simon Parker
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When a doctor sees his own daughter targeted by his billionaire boss, he's forced to question his life choices.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Balloon Releaseby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Mourning the loss of their friend, a group goes live expressing their emotions towards the people who killed him, having no idea something more sinister is at hand.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby  LaKesa Cox
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A woman in her 40s has a pregnancy scare only to find out through a meeting with Mother Nature that she's about to start menopause.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby  John Boal
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A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
1 Step Forward, 12 Steps Backby  Glenn Pollard
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When a selection of misfits loses their therapy group leader, it's time for the lunatics to start running the asylum.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
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A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Conceptionby  Anthony Cawood
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The very start of the Armageddon is captured on film for posterity by an extremely proud father, god help us all.

Genre: Horror
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 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
The Kitchen Tableby  John W Welch
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How much emotional abuse can one woman endure before the truth comes out?

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cringeby  Warren Lane
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When an exhausted serial killer on a cross-country spree stops at a secluded motel he is told by his supernatural boss, the entity known as fate, that he must experience "true love" before being granted the rest that he so desires.

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Octoberby  Ilyas Adiris
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In a luxury apartment suite, turned into a diplomatic chamber in 1976. A vulnerable African Minister, confronts America's most ruthless diplomat. Turning a routine meeting, into a moral standoff. That could reshape East Africa. Inspired by true events.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Inside the Frameby  Francis F DiClemente
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Three people in a city diner at night discover they are figures trapped in the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

Genre: Fantasy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
United We Fallby  Elliot Stanton
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The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for - a fact that his friend positively revels in.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double Takeby  Marjory E. Leposky
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A stalker is following unaware couple.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pool Boyby  Joseph Anthony Francis
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When an unemployed deaf man takes a job as a pool boy, he finds himself caught in a game of manipulation and seduction.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby  Jim Kowalski
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Can a man with a crippling social anxiety win the woman he loves over his alter ego crutch and her cheating boyfriend?

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Eloiseby  Michael Celender
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After a one-night-stand with an exotic girl in the middle of a future pandemic, a young man wakes to find no trace of her, no contact details on his phone, and can barely remember her name.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Teapartylandiaby  Gary A. Edwards
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TeaPartyLandia - is a short dramedy about a family looking at a residential compound in an isolated area of North Idaho who fantasize about living free of governmental tyranny but flee when confronted with the reality of experiencing this "utopia."

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
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Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

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