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Lila Monroeby  Lucy Versallies
A missing persons case takes a sinister turn when a detective realizes the victim's family has been lying about the timelinemasking a disturbing secret that keeps the girl closer than anyone suspects.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
After narrowly escaping execution at the hands of ISIS, a teenage boy struggles to move on with life in a war-torn environment of terror and continued mortal danger.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thanks for the Rideby  David E Ballard
An attractive young woman gets a ride from her boss after the office Christmas party and things don't go exactly as planned for either of them.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A battle‑scarred warrior in a storm‑torn medieval world finally confronts the two‑headed dragon that symbolizes his greatest failure, rescuing the woman he once abandoned and inspiring a terrified village to step out from behind locked doors. When the camera pulls back to reveal the adventure as a video game played by two modern boys, the story becomes a meta fable about fear, courage, and the everyday "dragons" we choose to faceor avoid.

Genre: Fantasy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A young couple's Central Park Airbnb vacation turns into a real nightmare on their first trip to The Big Apple.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Orangesby  Sari Akhavan
A nice cosy family dinner at home, while the neighborhood outside is being bombed.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Call Buttonby  Vikki Harris
After a car accident, a man is sent to a hospital where pressing the call button could be detrimental to his health.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Debajo del Bridgeby  Luis Ortiz
A homeless Iraq War veteran shares his fire with a violent drifter, forcing a battle over compassion, identity, and the last things worth protecting.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not For Everyoneby  Philip C. Sedgwick
Up against a production deadline, two casting directors seeking the next "it" actress, encounter a waitress who perplexes their sensibilities when she rejects their casting offer of fame and fortune. While wooing the waitress, a life-threating emergency at a nearby table is thwarted by an immigrant worker in the establishment.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  James Peacock
Two Nashville 15 year olds, best friends before, but now estranged because of economic and motivational differences, are forced to write a song together for an assignment, all taking place in the high school band room over the course of 90 minutes. The music they write builds a temporary bridge between them before they part in different direction. A coming-of-age statement of how we grow apart from childhood friends.

Genre: Musical
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eugenia Clarkby  DJ Robbins
Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

Genre: Family
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Purgatorioby  Hakan Ünal
After waking in a desolate purgatory with no memory of his death, a former SS officer must confront the victims of his past or remain imprisoned in an afterlife built from his own crimes.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Can We Partner This Deal?by  John Porter
With buzzwords on cellphones, a young businessman and a young businesswoman try to plan their future.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
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
Wolf Riderby  Pelham Mead III
This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.

Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Subject Strictly Off-Limitsby  Elliot Stanton
An argument about the TV show Strictly Come Dancing threatens a couple's marriage until they agree never to discuss the show again. However, the ceasefire only lasts until the discussion of what takeaway to order begins.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Night on Walden Pondby  Thomas Mercer
Henry David Thoreau has a brief romance with Mary Russel while he is living his experience of solitude at Walden Pond. Most of the dialog is Thoreau's actual words.

Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Only If You Dareby  Philip C. Sedgwick
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
Cherry Street Hauntingby  DJ Robbins
June and her sister, Delilah, recount the story of the haunting they encountered on Cherry Street.

Genre: Horror
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clella (Pathways Of The Heart)by  Diane Yates
In the Ozark Mountains, a selfless woman of indomitable spirit shoulders the weight of the Great Depression, raising six children and tending the farm while her husband turns to drinking, gambling, and womanizing. When he abandons her, a mysterious guitar player arrives on the scene, and she must choose between loyalty to her past and a possible new future. (Based on a true story.)

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Call Me Sirby  Brandi Self
Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On The Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
Talk about self sabotage -- these 2 gals are the best! When searching for love and relationships, they lack caring and empathy. It takes a humorous, over-the-hill, overweight Mom who outsmarts her attractive, millennial daughters to successfully find romance.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Flingby  Jill Martin
Late December 1915 onboard the troop ship SS Pretorian, a young lad meets a battle-weary soldier returning from the Western Front who teaches him about heritage.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in creating a space fuel must confront their hidden origins and humanity's fate when mysterious extraterrestrial visitors arrive, offering a choice between saving Earth or joining a cosmic mission that will change everything.

Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The World According To Bull - Gone Fishingby  Perk Perkins
When a cynical twenty-five-year-old woman drags her politically incorrect, 89-year-old grandfather on a fishing trip, the old man strikes up an unlikely, heartwarming friendship with a lonely ten-year-old boy who has never fished before.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Timeoutby  Dewayne
When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d

Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Handby  Jay Hodgkins
A serial killer seeks a cure for loneliness when he develops a special relationship with the severed hand of one of his victims, only to discover it points him in the direction of true love.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Loose Endsby  Adam Rocke
Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when there's a price on your head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Synchronicityby  Stephanie Neroes
When a musician aching for connection meets a soft-spoken neighbor with a spiritual heart, their mirrored lives begin to alignproving that sometimes, the universe writes the love story for you.

Genre: Romance
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Problem With Moon Menby  Robert M. Tartell
A female astronaut's chance encounter with a space alien gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Love Triangle."

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hospitalityby  John Porter
A bad guest makes a good host feel great about himself.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Terrible Tillyby  Frank J Dellipoala
When three friends trespass on a legendary abandoned lighthouse, "Terrible Tilly," they uncover a cargo of genetically modified "Asian Murder Hornets" intended to cripple the nation's food supply. With a tsunami closing in and the swarm released, they must survive the night to sound the alarm.

Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spitball Newsby  John Boal
At a new TV program called "Spitball News," Sophie Straight, a bad-ass 20s News Anchor, shreds her two male reporters with shade on their fragile egos. As the show ends, the GM bursts onto the set to fire Sophie for losing advertisers. Yet Sophie convinces her GM to save the show while he shares about the abusive males in his family and how men must learn to be caring humans first and males second.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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