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Wars, Walls and Other Virusesby Lucía Viñamata
Whether we cross the line or not determines our destiny.
Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
1 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
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The New Schoolteacherby George Baumann
A tall, dark-coated stranger strides into an isolated 1860s Bavarian village dogs retreat and geese scatter at the sound of his boot heels. He goes by Uffentussen, a misnomer derived from 'Affen Tassen' German for 'monkey cups.' Frau Trout, the self-appointed sentinel on the hill, slams her shutters at the sight of him. He's here to replace the beloved Herr Weisenkopf.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Western Approachesby Barry Staff
Wanting to get rat-arsed after an unavoidable job offer, an English 'cowboy' on a bicycle needs to outwit a zero-hours-contract barmaid foiling his plan.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
CareMoreby Michael Avishai
A drugstore employee exploits a customer loyalty program to stalk a woman, exposing how corporate systems designed to "care" can enable predatory behavior to hide in plain sight.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Mother's Gavelby Jesus Gonzalez
A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Going To The Topby Matthew Belopavlovich
During the Gay Rights Movement in 1980s California, James and Thomas take a popular theme park to court after experiencing discrimination for dancing together and later, start a LGBT advocacy magazine.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Paradise Partyby Steven Burton
With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.
Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abortionby Doug J Robbins
Kathy heads into the clinic for an abortion and meets a woman named Mary and her adorable two-year-old son, Dylan, and rethinks whether or not she actually wants an abortion.
Genre: Artistic
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strings Attachedby Dennis Manning
When a washed-up musician returns to his sacred studio to write one last song, the guitars he abandoned come alive, forcing him to face the haunting truth about the silence he choseand the music that never died.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennisby Doug J Robbins
A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Momby Jason Allen
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Fine Haunted Tuneby Vanessa M. Chattman
A violinist obsessed with perfection replaces her fingers with those of deceased prodigies, playing music that drives listeners mad.
Genre: Horror
42 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
42 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Friendsgivingby Doug J Robbins
Stacy invited herself to Brian and Mark's Friendsgiving, twenty-four hours before Thanksgiving. Brian's turkey goes missing and he must go on a scavenger hunt to retrieve it.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rocky The Rockefeller Christmas Treeby Jennie Nicassio
A scrawny evergreen dreams of becoming Rockefeller Center's Christmas tree, but when a jealous rival threatens the fairy who inspired him, he must risk the beauty he worked so hard to achieve to save her and discover what truly makes a tree worth choosing.
Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Goodbye, Cruel Worldby Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Goodbye cruel world" is a thriller short film about a desperate man victim of a blackmailer who proposes to a suicidal man, perched on his balcony, to kill the blackmailer before committing suicide....
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
EXFILby Dewayne C Bricker
When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 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
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
Deadline to Deathby Elliot Stanton
Life imitates art, imitates life, fatally blurring the lines between reality and make-believe. A crime writer struggles to complete a manuscript until he visits the venue of the story's finale. There, he meets an elderly but mysterious female fan who he later finds out knows him much better than he could imagine.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
31 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
31 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Real Spaghettiby Richard Bruce Stirling
After being released from a South American prison, Spaghetti - the world's most famous poet - unexpectedly shows up at the door of kindergarten-teacher Mary, who has been trying to free him all these years.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chillby Bari K. Willerford
Five people isolated at the Arctic Circle. Three scientists, a meteorologist and a chopper pilot all have to contend with a monster outside the compound wanting to get in, another monster already inside.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Koscheiby Sidhartha
After a nightmare of fire and screams leads him to hidden gold and a darker truth, Koschei finds himself standing between a ruthless arms syndicate and a catastrophe that could change the nation forever.A silent wanderer haunted by flames from his past races against time to stop a clandestine RDX operation, unaware that the conspiracy is tied to the very tragedy that made him who he is.
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Burning Manby Jack Halliday
A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Road Killby Bobbie Burgess-Tatum
On a deserted strip of highway, a young slacker with no ambitions in life meets a beautiful hitchhiker with everything to prove, and she may have just found what she needs for her recipe for success.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Andrea's Worldby Christopher Andre
When a troubled teenage girl moves with her family to a mysterious treatment facility in Boulder, Colorado, disturbing insect-like changes begin surfacing inside her. At the same time, a watching doctor quietly pushes her mind toward something far more dangerous.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous Sourceby Tim Bechen
A relentless female journalist battles powerful adversaries in a male-dominated industry as she risks everything to get the story and ensure justice.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Hatsby Tina Field Howe
A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
United We Fallby Elliot Stanton
The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides get relegated in the final game of the season. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for - a fact that his friend positively revels in.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Missingby Darryl N. Layne
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
Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pixie Detectiveby Larry A. Jaggard
A little tomboy pixie detective discovers that her black cat possesses some unusual qualities after she accidentally uncovers an illicit operation taking place at the abandoned shipyard adjacent to her home.
Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous Heroby Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Anonymous hero" is a 4-page short script with no dialogue in which a nobody is the laughing stock of his office mates despite saving humanity from an alien attack.
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tapeby Bari K. Willerford
A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Want Her Husbandby Melissa Diane Hudson
For two agonizing years, a cunning wife plays the fool as her treacherous sister relentlessly schemes to steal her wealthy, conventionally unattractive husband. When she finally traps the adulterous pair with nowhere left to run, her icy execution of vengeance leaves no room for mercy or regret.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Father of Thingsby Chris Fell
In this award-winning war drama, two enemy soldiers try to brutally kill each other on the battlefield. However, when both become incapacitated, they cooperate to survive. Their dialogue between camaraderie and cynicism highlights the absurd "logic" of war and propaganda, while offering a glimmer of hope to reconcile differences. Just a glimmer.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Locked Roomby KS Punithakumar
Waking up disoriented in a windowless, concrete room with only a speaker on the wall, a confused man must piece together his missing memories of the previous night while an unseen voice interrogates him.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Side Vide Mirrorby Glenn Forbes
While searching the woods for a missing girl, a volunteer stumbles upon a suspicious vehicle and the kidnapped girl. When her abductor returns, he's forced into a cat & mouse game of survival, with shattering consequences.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fairytale Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III
Tom Wolf is thrown into the Bedlam Mental hospital in the early 1800s in London, England for being drunk. He tells the doctors that is is a wolf and they laugh at him. He then tells stories of three pigs whom he sold houses to and a young girl named Red Riding Hood and finally a Russian named Peter. The doctors punish Tom each time.
Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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