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Frank Sinatra's Hatby John McWilliams
A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby Robert Godwin
One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball Cadillac Jack didn't come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby John Porter
A western romance based on O. Henry's short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.
Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Behind the 8 Ballby John Porter
A young man must either make a billiard shot or lose his beautiful young wife to an evil old man.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jack's Mom Autism Warrior Princessby Lawrence Riggins
The humorous true story of a supermodel who leaves celebrity life to raise her autistic son. Trading designer gowns for parenthood-on-steroids, this Autimom uses love, determination, and comedy to treat her boy's disorder while defending him from attacks by close-minded individuals. True beauty triumphs as her remarkable son overcomes his disability to thrive as a young man. Short, TV Series, Family Comedy, Female Lead. 27 Awards.
Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Waxedby Pamela Schott
A wounded veteran returning from Iran finds that the hardest battle isn't the one he left behind it's answering the door.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubloomby Darlene Anthony
Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mirabelby Gregory Gibson
Her psyche tainted as a child, a young woman plays out her singular form of vengeance with the help of a unique weapon.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Years and a Windowby Danny King
A devoted highschool teacher who stages a desperate escape plan, with the help of one of his own students to rescue his Indian girlfriend from her arranged marriage, only to learn, after risking everything, that she has already chosen someone else.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Night Bellby Donne Copenhaver
A doctor enters a strange pub on his last day at a psychiatric hospital, only to find himself trapped in a dreamlike world that reflects his guilt, memories, and fractured relationships. What begins as one last drink becomes a haunting descent into the inescapable weight of trauma and the fear of moving forward.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Groomerby Bob Messinger
Can one person bring down a professional child trafficker simply by getting into his head? This brutally honest, day-in-the-life story of a "groomer" challenges us to see the depths of his depravity and feel the pain of those he leaves behind.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 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
Christmas at the Orpheumby Todd Bronson
On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
33 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
Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby Jack Halliday
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 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
The Shiftby Gladman
A manipulative therapist accused of murdering his patient uses his final interrogation to expose evidence of a deeper conspiracyforcing his unseen interrogators to confront the possibility that he may be the key witness, not the killer.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clayton Mooreby Doug J Robbins
Two friends enjoy a camping trip until it's interrupted by the killer Clayton Moore.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby Craig Ford
After a stolen moment of tenderness, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must either shut down and survive or risk death by holding onto love inside a system designed to erase him.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Dream Come Trueby Frank Charles Scott
A thrilling suspenseful story filled with deception and betrayal as Michael gets entangled in a web of deceit while gaslighting his wife and daughter to run off with her money to skip the light fantastic with his Mistress.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spunk!by Harker Jones
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Swampby Chris Chatzikirlis
In the haunted swamps of Louisiana, a disgraced scientist's experiments unleash monstrous leeches, driving a mutated village into madness, murder, and a chilling new religion built on sacrifice.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Twas the Night Before The Night Before Christmasby Elliot Stanton
When a wife asks her husband why he no longer likes Christmas, he explains it's due to its commercialism. However, the real reason is revealed by a simple longing glance at a beloved family photo.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Between Detroit and Toledoby Sonny James Traylor
In a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she finds herself on the run with a half-million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 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: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sunny Side Upby Bob Hiltermann
A set-in-his-ways greeting card writer goes to his usual caf for his usual scrambled eggs, but his usual quick-witted waitress brings him sunny side up by mistake... and everything changes.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The 7th Soldierby Evgeny Kim
After escaping a secret soldier program, a man wired with a deadly implant and his loyal dog must fight their way through gangs and assassins in order to finally disappearand live free of pain.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ice-Cold Revengeby Elliot Stanton
A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Soonby Bari K. Willerford
Affectionate spoof of coming attraction previews. Movie trailers with a wink and a smile. I can smell the popcorn.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunter Withinby Lamar D. Vine
When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kill Pillby Stan Usherenko
A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Writerby Lamar D. Vine
In a cluttered Chiang Mai apartment, a reclusive expat writer battles creative stagnation and a looming deadline, only to find his sanity unraveling when an obsessive young neighbor invades his space with seductive interruptions, blurring the lines between reality, desire, and the dark toll of his unfinished manuscript.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Flat Pebble's Philosophyby Marc-Olivier louveau
In 1830, in a Vietnamese village, Master TRY, a rich, bitter and lonely old man, decides to retire, but the unexpected arrival of his orphaned niece, SONG, upsets his routine. As he struggles to maintain his habits, the young girl transforms his home and his life with her sweetness and her cooking. Confronted with his own past mistakes, Master TRY rediscovers the true value of family and love.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Whiskey Glass . . .by John Porter
A young cowboy learns an old lesson about love and liquor.
Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
To the Moonby Michael Dukakis
A feminine young boy from a troubled family tries to escape his father's escalating abuse by fulfilling three magical tasks in his grandmother's fairy tale.
Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Whisteling Manby Dwayne Bricker
After the death of his wife, a grieving father and his young daughter hear a familiar whistle coming from the woods outside their isolated farmhouse during a violent storm. When the dead woman's voice begins pleading to be let inside, the father discovers a supernatural entity that mimics lost loved ones to prey upon grieving families.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bob and Jackby Doug J Robbins
Bob and Jack need money, and Bob obtains it through humorous means.
Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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