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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
Bad Grannyby Ange Fassinou
A female army veteran takes back gun to avenge her grandson.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby John Alexander Fraser
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shark Watchby Ron Micci
A Mafia wiseguy is sent to make a drug buy on the Jersey Shore, where a gypsy fortune teller acts as the middleman, but he is double-crossed by another hood posing as a fed.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Christmasby Ange Fassinou
Three couples have decided to spend Christmas holidays with their children in a house in the woods; but the vacation becomes bloody.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There Are No Aliensby Victor Titimas
An alien-obsessed student learns the truth about these beings.
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dunkirk Spiritby Elliot Stanton
Two strangers meet on the deck of a cross-channel ferry. One makes the other a business proposal, and with a little financial incentive, they agree on a deal. However, the chance meeting is not as random as it initially seemed for one of the pair.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mismatchby Bernhard Riedhammer
A quirky and neurotic art student, confined to her apartment, must overcome her condition to be with the love of her life.
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cupid'sby DJ Robbins
Cupid pressures his customers to try his Ambrosia, guaranteed to make the consumer fall in love, but the customers resist the dessert.
Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby Deogratias Nyakiki
Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Last Rendezvousby Paul Byrne
A paralyzed teenager from the hood meets his rich girlfriend one last time to see if their love has survived his drug dealing days.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Doorby Carlos Alex Ceni
While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby LaKesa Cox
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
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby Jack Halliday
A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wholeby Susan Adair Harris
An unhappily married bi-racial couple falls into an inter-dimension where their fates are shuffled between love and murder.
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Finally Coming Homeby Dennis Bruce Shipman
A clairvoyant female visits a Confederate Civil War Cemetery to help a dead earth-bound soldier cross over into the light. The story takes place in the present. The soldier has been walking the grounds of the graveyard waiting 162 years for his sweetheart to come fetch him. Initially, he's hesitant to step into the light. But once he experiences its soothing warmth and majestic wonder, he's all in.
Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Staticby Simon Parker
When a terrified young woman calls an electrician to fix her possessed TV, he uncovers a sound that doesn't want to be silencedand a horror that won't let go.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Violinby Victor Jones
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby Elliot Stanton
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other's company significantly more than seemed possible.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby David Ezell
A former child star struggles with the belief that the people he loves most in the world have been replaced by impostors.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby Christopher Harmon
A prison-hardened grief counselor is confronted with a group therapy session where all the patients suffer because of the violent actions of one man...John Wick. She organizes a protest, in order to provoke him to move away - but it does not work out as planned.
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Raunchy Children's Story (Don't Curl My Toes)by Larry E Coleman
In an attempt to give his thirteen-year-old son dating advice he doesn't want, a stoner dad recounts how he met the kid's mother with way more detail than necessary.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In Lineby Steven Burton
A small diverse group waits in an urban bus depot line to experience role reversals when the bus arrives.
Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby Lily Sanders
A helicopter parent is finally forced to listen.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome to Arbor Parkby Donald Copenhaver
When a real estate developer destroys an ancient tree to build luxury housing, nature takes its revengeroot by root, limb by limb.
Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Vanishingby Simon Parker
When two desperate parents pin their hopes of a cure for their only child on a six year old boy, there's nothing that will stop them, expect of course that little boys own parents.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Animal Loveby Steven Blows
A zoologist bets that he can impress his date with unique and enticing stories of love in the animal kingdom.
Genre: Animation
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prisoners' Songby John Porter
A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it
Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
For Whom The Chimes Tollby Elliot Stanton
Unable to sleep, a lonely, embittered old man spends the early hours of the morning drinking brandy and reminiscing on his life. The actions of which, ultimately, call time on his earthly existence.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hierarchyby Charles Hall
An off-campus meeting between a senior professor and an enigmatic student turns hostile when a chilling assertion is made.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blade of Betrayalby Christine LARA
After the tragic death of his mother, Ken Deluisart moves to Japan, immersing himself in its culture and martial arts. When he returns to France for his father's funeral, he's plunged into a treacherous web of family deceit. Targeted for his inheritance, Ken must confront his cousin's betrayal and unearth the truth behind his father's death before it's too late.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Beholdby Steven Burton
A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 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
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
The Villageby Adolpho Phillips
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
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Torch Of Horror; The Muse In The Moonlightby James Massaro
The devil within is in the house of mirrors....
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Family Diamondby Simon Parker
When John's elderly father is left on his doorstep due to unpaid private care, a desperate friend introduces him to a scientist with a serum that grows diamonds inside the human stomach.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 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
Sunday Bestby STEVEN BLOWS
A resident of a retirement home who dresses in costumes to bring joy into the daily life of all residents must come to terms with the degrading health of his sidekick and best friend.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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