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Calling Clementeby Jim B Marcus
In 1960, two young brothers forge an unlikely relationship with baseball great Roberto Clemente. Now, as adults, they rediscover the bond that shaped their lives long after the final out at Forbes Field.
Genre: Biographical
2 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
2 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby John Alexander Fraser
A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accuser's Pantsby Danny King
Accused of another's faults, a man stays silent, knowing that false blame is loud, temporary, and that real character, and the guilty, always reveal themselves.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mercyby Michael Morra
A ten-year-old cancer patient must fight for her life when she's hospitalized with pneumonia and is stalked by a supernatural entity that's intent on killing her.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangling Caratby Deanne Gittens
A young woman tries to navigate life and love and avoid being sucked back into a toxic relationship, but there are certain temptations she finds irresistible.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Necessary Evilby Adam Rocke
A child must commit an horrific crime to prevent a much greater atrocity from occurring.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pawnsby Adam Rocke
The CIA uses a game of chess to recruit a child prodigy.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Report Just In...by Elliot Stanton
A schoolboy's ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Waitingby Michael G Holmes
In a crowded hospital emergency room, an outspoken elderly man passes the time by joking with strangers and testing everyone's patience. When his own medical crisis goes unnoticed, the people he has irritated are forced to confront how little they understood about the man sitting beside them.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Advice Bitesby Conor William Powell
A late-night radio host takes a caller's cheating-girlfriend rant as entertainment until he claims she's locked in his car boot. Checking Find My Phone, Lexi realises the signal is in the station car park and "Dolly" is her wife. Live on air, the caller blames Lexi's past relationship advice for destroying his life and demands she feel the same loss. Lexi must keep him talking long enough to save Ronnie without hiding behind the jokes.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
New Flameby Chelita Hagan
A meek and magnetic women is dating in a small town but she keeps attracting emotionally unavailable men but they are secretly attached.
Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Locked Inby Carl
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
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Age Of Tyrannyby Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
When a newly wed couple are invited to two separate bachelor and bachelorette parties, things go awry sparking a perfect union in this drama/comedy.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby Susie Schecter
Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead unchanged. 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: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Norman: The Dog Who Didn't Mean Toby Paul Millward
A scruffy terrier's misadventures lead him from the pound to an unlikely home with a gentle giant, told with warmth, humour, and a dog's-eye view. (Multi-Award Winner)
Genre: Animation
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Legacyby Michael G Holmes
An image-obsessed actor is bitten by a snake while staging a publicity-friendly hiking trip, then spends what may be his final minutes rehearsing the perfect deathbed message instead of confronting the life he actually lived.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ancient Secretsby Wayne E. Johnson
While waiting in line to renew his driver's license, a man gets an update on Stonehenge from the 6000-year-old± Druid in line ahead of him.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Day 11by Adam Rocke
The six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned, partially destroyed shopping mall.
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Invadedby Dexter Williams
A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.
Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossing Armageddonby Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
You Can Never Go Backby Lamar D. Vine
A lonely divorced introvert rekindles a forbidden affair with his unhappily married first love after 25 years apart, embarking on steamy weekend getaways filled with nostalgia and desire, but as their passionate escapes unravel into betrayal, deceit, and profound heartbreak, he must confront the painful illusion of second chances to ultimately forge a path of solitary freedom, nomadic travel, and self-reinvention abroad as a writer.
Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Owlby Brandon Rhiness
After a hit-and-run on a dark country road, a panicked woman is haunted by a relentless owl that seems to have witnessed her crimeonly to realize the bird is merely a herald for the vengeful spirit she left in the ditch.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coletteby Melvin M. Moore
Colette is a bold, 30-year-old Black woman whose sharp, unfiltered wit masks a deep vulnerability. Operating as the audience's confidante, she breaks the fourth wall to deliver a brutal, hilarious, and ultimately self-reflective monologue on the disappointments of modern dating.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hearts & Algorithmsby Dewayne C Bricker
When an obsessive AI engineer builds two comic digital souls inspired by history's greatest comedians, their mischief forces him out of isolationand into an unexpected romance with the neighbor who's been trying to reach his heart all along.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Disc Golf Warriorsby Curtis D. Engle
Cast aside by society and united only by disc golf, a group of retirees is shaken when terrorists disrupt their weekly ritual. Over the course of a single afternoon, an evangelist's unyielding faith forces each of them to confront past failures, present fear, and whether redemption comes from restraint. or decisive violence.
Genre: Action/Adventure
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Kindred Spiritsby Iris Mangual
A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.
Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Smitty's Quality Carsby Perk Perkins
After hiring a hitman to eliminate his wife, a stingy used-car salesman tries to negotiate the price of the murder like a trade-in, only to realize too late that all sales are final when he's framed for the crime using his own sales tactics against him.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Comeuppanceby Martin Train Bartlett
After committing a heinous crime, a violent man is cursed to relive the horrific moment through the eyes of the victim.
It's Source Code meets Stephen King.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A volatile alcoholic father gets his just desserts after abusing his teenage son for the last time.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Eloiseby Michael Celender
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
Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Courtsey Callby Dwayne Bricker
During a stormy all-nighter, freelance designer Jen Parker calls her ISP about a sudden outage and reaches Alex, a warm, competent tech support rep "here to help." As he walks her through routine fixes, Alex begins describing objects and details inside her apartment he should never see, growing more intimate and invasive. When the company denies he exists, Jen realizes this isn't customer serviceit's something that's already inside the call.
Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby Jayda
A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.
Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby Aaron Langvand
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
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Between Detroit and Toledoby Sonny James Traylor
At a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she's on the run with half a million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Maria x Mariaby Ruby Hernandez
When a submissive housewife discovers her body has regenerative properties, she uses it to build the family she always wanted.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doppelgangerby John M Grace
A chance subway encounter with the twin of a woman from his past turns a brief commute into an emotional reckoning.
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not a Creature Was Stirringby Michael Hogan
Karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the overly-testosteroned boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Minutes Till Midnightby Dwayne Bricker
When a hard‑driving paramedic is thrown into a two‑minute time loop before a deadly gas explosion in a crumbling apartment building, she keeps dying and snapping back to the same moment in her ambulance. Each reset reveals a leaking basement line, a panicked tenant with a faulty light switch, and a trapped teen upstairs, forcing her to make one brutal, strategic sacrifice to break the loop and save the most lives.
Genre: Sci-Fi
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life On The Lineby Guy Bardach
A driver and his passengers share fleeting, ordinary moments on a city bus. A tragic attack will force us to ask why we only care about the victims we know.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Devil's Bargainby Cassandra Wells
When Soho, a 17th century Caddo (Native American), becomes painfully aware of what fate awaits her people with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors into what will become Texas, she enters into an unholy alliance with an Old World witch who has been "imported" from Europe to exact a fitting vengeance upon the merciless interlopers.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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