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Shopping Cartby Steven Burton
A woman searches to find a stranger man for the return of his fold-able shopping cart, along with the futile search for her long-lost son.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Best of Timesby Jim Norman
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
Genre: Fantasy
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Madam Lucindaby Jason K. Allen
A man visits a psychic seeking knowledge about his love life and his favorite fishing hole. Unfortunately, he is Madam Lucinda's first ever customer and things don't go quite as planned. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 characters.)
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Borrowedby Frazer Lee
Valentine's Day takes a romantic-comedic turn when a homeless man meets the love of his life amidst the discarded flowers, cards, and chocolates in a city park.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reborn by Evilby Grag Raymond
A girl who was burned 300 years ago by her own parents, accused of black magic, returns from hell and receives a new life and supernatural powers to do evil.
Genre: Horror
pages
Genre: Horror
pages
Pol Pot & the Khmer Rougeby Robert Michael Benn
Pol Pot is tutored by Mao. He forms the Khmer rouge & Overruns Cambodia. He kills 2 million countrymen by pickaxe & starvation. The US invades during the Viet Nam war, then the North Vietnamese take over the country. Pol Pot retires to the countryside & dies a natural death.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby Robert Michael Benn
DB parachutes out of a jet and is never discovered or caught. This is the real story.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby Ian Patrick Williams
In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Back from the Deadby Vic Jones
A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Different Thanksgivingby Anthony Cawood
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
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
New Orleans & Vicksburg (in 2 parts)by Robert Michael Benn
Admiral Faragut takes New Orleans and General Ulysses S. Grant takes Vicksburg. Famous leaders and ordinary soldiers discuss the war. Blockbuster war scenes. Lee surrenders to Grant. It's over.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Edison Dollby Anthony Cawood
Two estranged twin sisters reunite after their mother's death, their shared childhood memoriesand a cherished antique dollunlocking decades of guilt, rivalry, and a chance for reconciliation.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Johnny Reb Comes Homeby Robert Michael Benn
At the end of the civil war, Robert Prewitt returns to Texas to find his slaves freed, his wife in poverty & many lynchings. He rises cattle & takes them to Wichita, becomes a US senator, meets President Grant, & discovers oil with Texaco. He retires & hosts his birthday with his children & grandchildren & wife Lillian.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Let's Keep Workingby John Porter
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Flames of the Campfireby Simon Parker
When a crumbling marriage reaches its breaking point during a final family camping trip, two estranged parents must put their differences aside to rescue their kidnapped children. As they fight to bring their boysand other missing kidshome, they rediscover the strength of love, sacrifice, and the family they thought they'd lost.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A 90s Christmasby Gladman
Two tech-obsessed siblings expecting a glamorous Christmas getaway are grounded when their grandparents confiscate their phones and force a nostalgic 1990s holiday celebrationleading them to rediscover the true magic of family, unplugged.
Genre: Family
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby Judah Ray
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
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby Dominic Uwem Lawrence
When a group of friends ventures into the heart of darkness, they unleash a malevolent force that hunts them down, forcing one survivor to confront the evil head-on in a desperate bid to escape the Undertaker's gruesome realm.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby DJ Robbins
An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beside meby Bernard Antoine Mersier
When Ethan shares an innocent drink with his unsuspecting friend Conner about the corruption in their drug business, he hints around the reason why he really invited Conner over for drinks, with a deadly ultimatum.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
I Heart Jodyby Doug J Robbins
A serial killer gets distracted by his favorite sitcom when about to enter a potential victim's home.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brown Bottle Fluby Brandi Self
A frustrated writer struggles to work while being belittled by a belligerent drunk woman who wants to relive the past.
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Betty and Booby Patrice Sarath
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Child Starby Simon
When James discovers that his parents secretly uploaded every moment of his childhood to YouTube, amassing a fortune without his knowledge, he embarks on a journey to reclaim his money.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby Iris Mangual
After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Copby Ange Fassinou
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby Drew Larimore
An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stuckby Steven Burton
A cell phone with his hand is stuck to a man's ear. After frantic attempts to loosen it fail, a mysterious 'Voice' comes on the line to help find a solution.
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Easter Humanby DJ Robbins
Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Quarantineby Kudzai Zigarwi
Trapped in a sealed room with no memory and a deadly virus spreading fast, three strangers must confront their fear, unravel the truth behind their confinement, and survive a sinister experiment disguised as quarantine.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ashes Still Warmby Gladman
In a remote forest cabin, a reclusive war veteran's rigid solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a calm, mysterious visitor a man who seems to know too much about his past, and who forces him to confront the one act of silence he's never been able to forgive himself for.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Topby Barry Staff
Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Zaryaby Jason K. Allen
Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Lingersby Gladman
Plagued by whispers and vanishing objects in her childhood apartment, a guarded woman begins to unraveluntil a haunting discovery beneath her old bed forces her to confront the one presence she's feared most: herself.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Small Talkby Larry Shannon
20 year old college student Clark Cleland opens a door he should not have opened, and the devil comes in through that door and thrashes him.
Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Visionby Elliot Stanton
A burgeoning romance on a London tube train halted by a red light begins and ends before the light turns green. Mild flirtation develops into insults when a happy coincidence hastily reveals deep-felt attitudes and acrimony.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby Robert F Godwin III
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
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemptionby Jack Halliday
An innkeeper's resourcefulness saves herself, and her family, from destruction, through her audacious act of faith in this Bible based script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicelessby Janice Foster
A woman, who can dream herself into crimes, becomes involved in the murder of a schizophrenic assassin.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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