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Biff Bang, American Heroby Ronald V. Micci
Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby Jack Halliday
A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby Ivana Hruba
P. Casso, an unremarkable young man in charge of phone inquiries at an art gallery, spends his working hours in a pleasant daze doodling aimlessly at his desk until a random drawing leads to a change in circumstances from which there seems to be no escape.
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Patent Applicationby Stephen Delos Treacy
This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Returningby Susie Schecter
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
Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Candy, Girl Reporterby Linda Gould
Candy, a young journalist, is interviewed on a talk show to promote a book she wrote about a campus rock band. She'd fallen in love with the lead guitarist, Preston, but suffered heartbreak when her flaky roommate, Josephine, lured him away. She has taken revenge by implicating Josephine in a campus bombing and exposing her and Preston as liars.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Thanks, Lucindaby John Porter
A family romance in which two thirteen-year-olds try to work up the courage to invite each other to a high school dance.
Genre: Family
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Marxby Barry Staff
Re-materialising today in mutual haunt Soho, London, Groucho Marx and Karl Marx find both want capitalism finally laughed into oblivion, but as they conflict over methods to use, they try to locate the one place where Karl was listened to before.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby Elliot Stanton
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other's company significantly more than seemed possible.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby Paolo Galli
Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.
Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
She is an Alienby Niagara Ross
A clumsy office worker falls in love with a charming new colleague, but his world is turned upside down when he learns she is an alien from another planet with a secret mission.
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Strategic Ambiguity 101by John Boal
Forced to teach a new mandatory business class called "Strategic Ambiguity 101", Professor Mandella tells his students that future business leaders must abandon traditional communications of clarity; learn how to send mixed messages and subvert the truth to be successful. Yet as his savvy Gen Z students share their brutally honest feedback about this deceptive and all too pervasive tactic, they teach him a life lesson with Professor Mandella rediscovering his true self.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Mottoby Dwayne Bricker
When a young nun's exorcism reveals a hidden system controlling papal succession, a skeptical priest teams with a Vatican archivist to uncover a centuries-old conspiracy rewriting the Church's history. As powerful forces move to contain the truth, he must decide whether exposing it will free the Churchor destroy the very institution billions depend on.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lion in the Carpetby Pelham Mead III
Billy Alton is an 8-year-old boy in 1950 who is stricken with polio. He is put in leg braces and kept at home. Billy begins to see imaginary animals appear in his bathroom, a Lion, a Beaver, an Eagle, and a Wolf who take Billy on journeys to teach him to prepare for the future.
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
His Last Mistakeby Melissa Diane Hudson
After a night of heavy drinking, a young man stops on a highway to relieve himself and, unknowingly, urinates on a roadside memorial, awakening an enraged spirit that follows him back to his car to seek revenge.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheby Lamar D. Vine
After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Okay, Honeyby Frank Vespe
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
Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Man's Manby Art D'Alessandro
Jake,15, readies for his first date, and good ol' dad is right in his corner, with tips on just how to handle a woman, but after Jake rides his scooter over to Sasha's house we find out more about their relationship, and how Jake's Pop got it all wrong.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ethan Watkinsby Peter
Ethan Watkins has fallen for Patty Hobbs, but two things stand in the way to true love: 1. Terry Hobbs, Patty's abusive husband. 2. plus the overriding fact that Ethan is dead, but little things like this won't stand in Ethan's way.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubic's Kubeby Bernard Mersier
Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Approvalby Doug J Robbins
A reporter meets with the controlling perfectionist mayor of a small town and learns the secret as to how the mayor keeps his citizens in line.
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Monster in the Toiletby Tim Humphries
When three partygoers discover their friend has been dragged into a possessed toilet, they're flushed into a grotesque alternate dimension ruled by a foul-mouthed turd demon and must fight their way back before the monster takes them all down the drain.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It's Now or Neverby Elliot Stanton
In a world where Elvis lives, a suburban man's golden ticket to see The King goes missing down the back of the bath sparking a hilarious battle between nostalgia, plumbing, and domestic survival.
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tank Topsby Dennis Manning
When a man's dog destroys his Cuban shirt and his closet mysteriously comes alive with bickering clothes, he unknowingly selects a blue tank top for a beach day, igniting a full-scale rebellion among his jealous wardrobe.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 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
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset that can be achieved by whatever means, even with murder. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl in the Mistby Victor Jones
A girl finds herself in an alien land. She has to survive from her basic instincts until she meets a fisherman who shares a secret with her of his visits to a misty beach where strange friends abound.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Implantby Dewayne C Bricker
A writer's nightmares of alien implants fuel his horror noveluntil he learns the story is real and ending it will end him.
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Saturday in the Parkby Elliot Stanton
Dark Secrets Will Not Remain Hidden Forever. An "old" woman befriends a young man in a park. He is unaware of who she is or the secret she holds, but the woman knows precisely what she must do to draw him into her life.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Babbleby Kevin Pacey
Anonymous online abuse invades the real world and a vulnerable woman suffers a deadly attack.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby Abdelouahab Hammoudi
"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Distancedby Barry Staff
Wanting to transmit her hallucinatory virus worldwide (contagion bringing universal accord solving global issues), a brainiac needs to persuade two skeptical colleagues to join her endeavour.
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheltered Collapseby Stephanie Neroes
Haunted by loss and consumed by anxiety, a reclusive woman clings to her routines in a post-pandemic world that has left her behind, until the measures meant to keep her safe lead to tragedy.
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vampire Experimentby Brian Daunter
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
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Cupidby Janet Prescott
A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Raunchy Children's Story (Don't Curl My Toes)by Larry E Coleman
Before his first scooter date, a father tells his 13-year-old son how he met his mother at a bar and goes into way too much detail.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Testby Justin TEST
This is a test logline.
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Roadsideby Brian Wallace
A couple's roadside rescue of a mysterious woman spirals into a nightmarish encounter with her vengeful, murderous boyfriend, revealing her own dark past.
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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