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Secret Santaby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
MARK is a holiday curmudgeon who has a brush with the 'Magic of Christmas' at his family's annual Holiday Party.

Genre: Other
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby  Christopher Harmon
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
A prison-hardened grief counselor is confronted with a group therapy session where all the patients suffer because of the violent actions of one man…John Wick. She organizes a protest, in order to provoke him to move away – but it does not work out as planned.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Teacherby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2024
Amidst Boston's chaotic streets, a disillusioned insurance adjuster descends into vigilante justice after a series of accidents, targeting reckless drivers, until a poignant encounter forces him to confront the impact of his actions and the true meaning of forgiveness.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
SEAL: Ghost Reconby  Gary J Rose
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2024
A cocky Navy SEAL accepts a dare to spend a night in a haunted house, only to confront terrors beyond his imagination, testing his courage and sanity to the breaking point.

Genre: Horror
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kick-Ass Picnicby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
Neal and Amy meet up for their first date, a relaxing picnic in the woods. But their tranquility is soon thwarted by spoiled food, a sudden skin rash, an angry tree, and lots of blood. (1 location, 3 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Best of Timesby  Jim Norman
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2024
Four Vietnam veterans in a retirement home play their own version of Blackjack until a strange, new, entertainment employee changes the rules of the game and one veteran’s life.

Genre: Fantasy
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daggersby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Experimentby  Carl
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
In 'The Experiment,' a modern reimagining of the classic Frankenstein tale, a Scientist will do anything to save his dying daughter, even if there are consequences.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Fateby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2024
An ordinary man receives an enigmatic call from an unknown number, inviting him to solve a series of mysteries to save a stranger's life. But each clue dangerously draws him closer to his own dark past.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Broadcastby  Noureddine Hifad
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2025
In a remote Antarctic research station, a lone radio host continues daily broadcasts after a global communications blackout — until strange voices begin hijacking her signal, hinting that something nonhuman has already arrived.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Is In Front Of Youby  Adrian Milnes
Date Posted: 21 May 2024
Two gangsters have a decision to make when they are ordered to guard a wounded boss who has a bounty on his head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tourists in a Foreign Filmby  Kimberly Ann Laux
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024
Two tourists, Honey and Sweetheart, are on their way to Hollywood to bask in the glow of Tinsel Town when they take a wrong turn at the corner of Despair and Desperation. Will they decipher the motifs in a strange black and white world with subtitles before it's too late?

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Finding a Desert Duchessby  Richard Campbell
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
John stumbles upon an old man lying in the desert, hiding from hoodlums that want to steal his treasure. John promises he will contact the dying old man's lady boss and help her get the treasure, before the hoodlums do. The old man’s boss just happens to be Anastasia, the Grand Duchess of Russia, living incognito since 1918.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Funeral Crasherby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2024
At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Different Thanksgivingby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2024
On Thanksgiving night, a driver offers a ride to a blind stranger, but the holiday's spirit of hospitality unravels into an uncomfortable confrontation with buried prejudices and truths.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Candy Corn and Peppermintby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2025
A killer's MO while dressed as Santa Claus is to pass out a pouch full of candy corn and peppermint.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Superstition's Goldby  Michael Gaun
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
A romantic history of hidden Treasure in Superstition Mountain with its famous Lost Dutchman Gold Mine.

Genre: Western
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shockingby  Glenn Pollard
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2025
John owns a business repairing electrical appliances. What his assistant, Will, does not know is that the store is going bankrupt. What John does not know is that Will has a way of saving it. But which option is the best?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killerby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2024
Jeff kills under a lifelong desire to try his hand at being a serial killer and his brother, Mike tags along to write about the experience and turn it into a screenplay.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Growing with Albertby  John Witcher
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2025
After being adopted by his Uncle Albert, Mickey comes of age in a small Midwestern town.

Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2025
A guitarist becomes an anomaly in a bleak and inhospitable future world where music is conjured and customized in the mind. Single location from an award-winning screenwriter.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 01 Sep 2025
It's 1940 and the Wehrmacht sits on one side of Dnieper River and the Red army on the other. A great battle ensues. 6 colorful characters comment including a Polish Jew seen to Buchenwald

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
2-Hour Delayby  Frank Vespe
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2024
A school bus driver's trip turns from mundane to miraculous when he picks up a new student during a snow-induced 2-Hour Delay.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall From Heavenby  PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Tortured by a sadistic Russian general, a former female Ukrainian commando finds justice in her gripping testimony before a war crimes tribunal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2025
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Faceby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A killer stalks his family after being let off on a technicality.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Musk’s DOGE team’s preps the opening of the prison—adding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnel—Trump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricity—the one with the electric chair. What happens next is… well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wicked Girlfriendby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2023
When a vivacious teenage girl is dumped on prom night by her notable, good-looking boyfriend, she plots how to strike back with the ultimate revenge, but gets a rude awakening when the tables turn.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mario's Songby  Paul Byrne
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2024
When his fisherman dad drowns at sea, a recruited soccer ace hooks up with a charismatic drug dealer to support his family, but eventually, must either roll over on his boss who is like a brother or do hard time in gladiator academy.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby  Mark Wakely
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A young student's affair with his teacher makes him an outcast at his middle school.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Witching Hourby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
Halloween night. Three friends attend head out in costume looking to get lucky. When one of them scores with a Sexy Vampire, the pleasure is too good to be true.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Mouse's Lamentby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Medium of Exchangeby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
When money begins to talk to a frugal cashier, he discovers with extraordinary consequences that he has the power to bend its controlling influence to his will.

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Nature Freaksby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2024
When Mother Nature becomes sick due to pollution, she summons a tornado and commands it to deliver five nature-loving helpers: a meerkat, cactus, rock, dragonfly, and a boy named Bucky. (Award-winning screenwriter; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Touchby  Esra Cengel
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
A poor little girl tries to find a way to do a huge favor to the woman who saved her life.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Running for Breathby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
When a man’s breath escapes him, he must chase it through the manic streets of London to get it back before his time runs out.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rogue Gambleby  Michael Hayles
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2024
A small time punter is hired to back a horse owned by an underworld bigwig, but on his way to the track a chance encounter derails everything.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marais Noirby  Chris Chatzikirlis
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2025
When a toxic stench rises from the swamps of Belle Rive, a remote Louisiana village descends into hallucination, madness, and violence—forcing the last remaining survivor to confront a nightmare that may not be hers alone, but the land’s.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he’s looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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