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The Last Ten Minutesby  Dwayne Bricker
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In the last ten minutes of his life, 67-year-old Elias lies alone in a hospital room as reality, memory, and hallucination blur. Hospital sounds become echoes of an ordinary life: a missed bus in the rain, a daughter's slipping hand, a wife he disappointed. Younger versions of himself and his late wife appear, confronting a lifetime of regret as Elias makes one final, quiet choice.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Junkie's Flawby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Brother Just Shot Me!by  Don Nyambe
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A mother's dark past returns to haunt her when the son she abandoned years ago is shot by his brother.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spunk!by  Harker Jones
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Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shadow Figureby  Cassandra Wells
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Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated. 

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Door in the Clearing of the Woodsby  Ryan Armstrong
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A much needed vacation causes a couple to retreat to a cabin where they find a mysterious new door nearby that brings deadly consequences.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trash Dayby  Rodney A Myers
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Love Stinks, especially when you find it on Trash Day.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 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
Deadhorse Lickby  Charles Hall
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A young boy sets out to rid his hometown of a wild animal that has been killing the townspeople's pets, only to wind up becoming its next target.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The State of Thetaby  J. Huska
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A passenger boards a plane for an overland short-hop. Alone, he splashes down... twenty years later.

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Valentine Promiseby  Philip Marraccini
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Love That Triumphs Over Tragedy. Rena Patel, from India, navigates the pressures of a medical career and the complexities of unspoken love. After a devastating cycling accident leaves his close friend Jenna paralyzed, Rena is torn between his professional duty and his growing personal feelings for Jenna who faces physical loss and heartbreak, Rena must to control his emotional boundaries with his hopes for her recovery.

Genre: Drama
37 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
Pseudomorphby  Peter J Bartels
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A desperate cockfighter buys a shape-shifting creature guaranteed to defeat any opponentonly to discover that its deadliest transformation is into the monster he truly is.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Okay, Honeyby  Frank Vespe
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All his life, he hoped he'd hear two endearing words, but when he finally did, it was too late.

Genre: Drama
21 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
Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
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A legend surrounding mean children being taken on Halloween claims the one that got away years earlier.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Vacuumby  Barry Staff
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Wanting sex again after an op leaves erectile dysfunction, a man needs a specialist nurse coming to his aid.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Nightmare Clownsby  Doug J Robbins
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Nightmares of an evil clown haunt a woman, and he might just be real.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vampire Experimentby  Brian Daunter
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Genetic transfer and IVF research creates Vampire flying foxes with talon thumbs. They escape and terrorize the countryside attacking people, domestic and farm animals. A mix-up in the IVF laboratory leads to the birth of human neonate vampires that attack other neonates. These two new species qualify for listing as endangered. One species survives in a disused railway tunnel.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoesby  Helen Watson
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In this social satire short after inflammatory comments are posted online, the public are forced to join in with the outrage or risk being cancelled by association.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby  Michael J Volpe
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After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
La Fuente (The Fountain)by  Marjory E. Leposky
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Two children meet at a fountain.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby  Elliot Stanton
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A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Solitude in Well-beingby  Daniel Gaina
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When an old colleague forces a grieving, agoraphobic physicist out of his automated smart-home, he discovers too late that the outside world he feared has already ended.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Man Possessedby  Donald Copenhaver
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After being passed over for promotion, a bitter office worker's online rage transforms into something physical, consuming him and everyone around him.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Locked Inby  Carl
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When a home invasion goes wrong, three masked intruders find themselves trapped inside the house of a retired mortician who has turned his home into a living tomb. As the night spirals into a sadistic game of survival, they realize the real horror isn't escaping the house it's being chosen to leave.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ouroborosby  Benjamin Fields
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When an LA Fire dispatcher receives a mysterious call from the remote cabin where her lover vanished, she races back to find answers. But what she discovers is that some mysteries cannot be resolved and some cycles cannot be broken.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Naughty Weekendby  Terry Hague
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A Naughty Weekend seen through the eyes of a MALE and a FEMALE suitcase. (No actors are seen)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Adversityby  Elliot Stanton
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The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Badlandsby  Pamela Schott
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When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life to being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to face an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Verdict, Pendingby  Elliot Stanton
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Desperate to prove his innocence, a career criminal berates his inept barrister for a hopeless defence, unaware that his lawyer's apparent incompetence is part of a far more sinister plan.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sick Bloodby  Stan Usherenko
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When two brothers revisit the imprisoned father who tortured them as kids, they're pulled into a deadly new game one designed to prove that his sickness runs in their blood.  SICK BLOOD is a visceral, emotionally charged horror-thriller about generational trauma, the inheritance of evil, and the terrifying question what if the monster you fear most is part of you? 

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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 Halloween Short Film Festivalby  Jason Allen
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On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
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After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa's Conundrumby  Robert Herold
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When a troubled boy demands that his Christmas wish be never eating vegetables again, Santa Claus must navigate an intimidating mother and a bureaucratic liverwurst-addicted elf to deliver a magical solution with unexpected consequences in this hilarious and touching homage to classic Rankin/Bass holiday specials.

Genre: Animation
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Only If You Dareby  Philip C. Sedgwick
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When a journalist and a consultant for brothels meet to discuss upcoming sex worker legislation, the world around them challenges their sensibilities and desires.

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