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Smoke & Shadowsby Rochelle Potkar

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In Devda, a Rajasthani Indian village with a history of female infanticide, 40-year-old unmarried JAGAN finds uncanny love in his late marriage to his new, young, poor and purchased (molki) bride, rising against a prejudiced society that looks down on such women.

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

Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker

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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

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

Desert Muleby Jack Lindauer

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A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Substitutionby Dwayne Craig Bricker

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During detention, a substitute confiscates phones and forces "consent" clicksuntil the students realize he's not a teacher, he's a replacement.

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

All the News That's Fitby Ian Patrick Williams

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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

Fez Rescueby Ed Tasca

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A handsome young man discovers that the woman he's having an affair with is the niece of a mafia boss. In his panic, wishing to break up with her, he has to find a way for her to break up with him and not vice versa, or he could wind up with involuntary "knee surgery." He chooses a spiritual method.

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

The Salt Shakerby Michael J Volpe

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A dinner among longtime Washington, DC friends escalates into conflict as Woke vs MAGA political differences surface, turning a simple request for a salt shaker into a breaking point. When a sudden health crisis follows, the friends are forced to confront the real life cost of division and what it will take to reconcile.

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

White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby Susie Schecter

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Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.

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

Symbols of a Lifeby Rochelle Potkar

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Three people come to terms with the aftermath of a plane crash: an embittered MOTHER who wasn't happy with her son and his family and wanted to leave them; a competent ATC OFFICER who undergoes gruelling interrogations; and a FISHERMAN in whose waters the plane fell.

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

Cadillac Jackby Robert Godwin

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One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Quandaryby Brandi Self

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A thirty-year-old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it's another drunken one-night stand until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don't know how they got there either.

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

Fishing in Heavenby Art D'Alessandro

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When 8 year-old Alex's Grandpa, her best friend and fishing buddy, dies suddenly, she has a hard time dealing with the loss and life itself. But in a dream she finds herself fishing with him again in a beautiful, almost magical place, only to waken with a whole new way of seeing things.

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

Amish Countryby Bill Freas

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After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.

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

Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemptionby Jack Halliday

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An innkeeper's resourcefulness saves herself, and her family, from destruction, through her audacious act of faith in this Bible based script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Young Poet's Dilemmaby Mohammed Elmzaghi

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As graduation approaches, an idealistic NYU math graduate student wrestles with whether to pursue financial security in Seattle or an uncertain life writing poetry in New York, finding hope in an unexpected connection with a young aspiring physician that may be more imagined than real.

Genre: Romance
39 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

Underneathby James Peacock

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Trapped in a looping midnight inside a dead apartment, a woman follows warnings from her own voicemail to confront the thing under her bedher childhood self reborn as a monsterbefore time resets and claims her forever.

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

Winter Walk inby Camelia Dinu

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When a lonely woman finds a fresh footprint in the snow, the past she buried threatens to return; what is she willing to sacrifice for her peace?

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

You're Mineby DJ Robbins

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An OnlyFans model encounters an obsessed fan who is currently stalking her.

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

On the Edgeby John M Grace

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A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.

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

Mad Womenby Anthony Truscello

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Three marketing students pull off a risky guerrilla museum stunt to go viral, only to learn that the biggest danger isn't the law, it's the algorithm.

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

Writing Wrongsby Richard Sloggett

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Who does a person have to shoot to get their script shot?

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

Los-T (In) Angelesby Noureddine HIFAD

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A desperate aspiring writer and a struggling actress fake their way into a Hollywood party, where one stolen opportunity could either launch their dreamsor expose them completely.

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

Beyond Avalonby Edward Ybarra

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Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.

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

Crossingby Donald Lewis

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A businessman helps an elderly woman cross the street, opening his troubled heart to her and changing his life.

Genre: Drama
11 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

Finding Footprintsby Erik Daniel Shein

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When a hearing-impaired girl discovers a teenage Bigfoot destined to guard a magical forest, they must forge an unlikely friendship to protect a world that doesn't believe in either of them.

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

Plumber's Mateby Elliot Stanton

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A barrister's hypocrisy is set to provoke a miscarriage of justice. A loose tongue from a man of law encourages an eyewitness to a robbery to bend the truth to fit his own morals.

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

Sunday Morningby Nichole C Moncada

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A small town sheriff grapples with her need for vengeance and her sense of justice when her husband's mistress is found dead in her back yard.

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

Sharkkinby Tommy Garcia

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A young woman fantasizes about the shark that attacked her when she meets a man with an unusual identity crisis, and the two find only they can heal one another's trauma.

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

Thulirby KS Punithakumar

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Following a single flower's journey from a morning market to a temple altar, a cremation ground, and a flowing river, the interconnectedness of life, devotion, and human mortality unfolds.

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

The Third Knockby Dewayne

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After his young daughter's death, a guilt-ridden father begins hearing three knocks at his door every night at 2:12 AM. When the voice outside belongs to the child he left to die, he realizes something supernatural has learned her voiceand it won't stop knocking until he lets it inside.

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

Returningby Susie Schecter

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After the tragic accidental death of her four-year-old child, a grieving mother is given an unexpected miracle when her daughter mysteriously returns from the dead, but struggles to understand and cope with the supernatural gift.

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

No More Virginsby Lloyd Muchenje

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Three Africa women,one battling addiction,another serving herself for marriage,and bride to -be striving to protect her own female purity,leading to heartbreaking and moments of profound reckoning. PURITY HAS A PRICE,INNOCENCE IS NO PROTECTION.

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

Probeby Doug J Robbins

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An alien son asks his alien father why his people probe people with humorous and thought-provoking results.

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

4th of Julyby Katoya S Lowe

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In the dark era of circus slavery, an albino woman forms a bond with a captive elephant to launch a devastating revenge against the cruel owners who murdered her twin brother, executing a bloody reckoning on the 4th of July.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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

Why Cows Are Contentedby John Porter

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A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented, even though they end up as hamburger and baseball gloves.

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

The Professionals (Ali Guli Mane)by Rochelle Potkar

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A man who works professionally as a false witness in court cases hired by police, goons, or lawyers, agrees to help a grieving mother, who has just lost her son in a train accident, by being a false witness for a percentage of her compensation. But she too is no straight line.

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