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Automaticby  Gladman
Trapped inside a futuristic reset pod with seconds left on the countdown, a haunted man must choose whether to erase his memories for peaceor keep the truth that's been trying to break him free.

Genre: Sci-Fi
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Night Before Christmasby  Jared Kelly
It's Christmas Eve. The house is silent, everyone asleep. Except for 7-year-old Jake. Too excited to sleep, Jake needs to know if Santa has visited yet. Jake creeps downstairs into the lounge, over to the fireplace where his parents left some snacks for Santa. The snacks are untouched. No presents yet. Then Jake hears a noise from the fireplace, a faint scraping from inside the chimney... Yes! Could this be Santa bringing his presents?

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dunkirk Spiritby  Elliot Stanton
Two strangers meet on the deck of a cross-channel ferry. One makes the other a business proposal, and with a little financial incentive, they agree on a deal. However, the chance meeting is not as random as it initially seemed for one of the pair.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
The Passionby  Susan Pattishall
Jean Smitty, an American teacher in socialist China, whose perspective is shaped by her prior reading of a Korean War era memoir by a priest expelled for teaching Christianity, invites her student Zhi Chang to share his essaya poignant, layered account of losing his beloved Meilin Hao to the Red Chinese Youth Party, and the brutal aftermath.

Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Voicemailby  Dwayne Bricker
On the morning her estranged father is scheduled to be taken off life support, a young woman hides in her apartment, ignoring the hospital's callsuntil voicemails from his number begin arriving, time‑stamped today and eerily describing her present moment. As they build toward one final live call, she must choose between staying safely angry or risking a last, painful conversation.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
If I Were a Womanby  Jack A Bennett
When a woman relives a simple trip to the liquor store, the outcome turns from bad to worse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Violinby  Victor Jones
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Lamentby  Sarah Kennedy
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
Laura Leeby  Ron Micci
On her summer teaching break, a divorced woman in an antiques store becomes romantically involved with a divorced man who owns a summer home on a nearby lake. Though she kids him about her name's resemblance to Lorelei, over time it becomes evident that she is troubled by her son's suicide, and the intensity of this sadness lures them both on the rocks.

Genre: Romance
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby  Robert Drusetta
A wanted serial killer of high-profile criminals sets out to complete one last major hit, the head of an international human trafficking ring.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fez Rescueby  Ed Tasca
A handsome young man discovers that the woman he's having an affair with is the niece of a mafia boss. In his panic, wishing to break up with her, he has to find a way for her to break up with him and not vice versa, or he could wind up with involuntary "knee surgery." He chooses a spiritual method.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Steven Seagal: Psychic Warriorby  Adam Rocke
The aging and highly controversial action star pitches his psychic assassination services to the CIA.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Only the Windby  DJ Robbins
Jack is spending his first Christmas without his father and is given the chance for one last Christmas with him.

Genre: Family
4 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
Hard Choicesby  Sarah Kennedy
Autonomous technology developers grapple with a scenario that becomes terrifyingly personal.

Genre: Sci-Fi
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Little Learningby  Cassandra Wells
In rural Alabama in 1941 as America enters World War II, a patriotic disabled school teacher undertakes teaching an illiterate farmer to read only to discover that the man's illiteracy was what was keeping him safe and alive.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Unwelcomeby  Bill Freas
An ex-con is hired to pack and move the belongings of his sister and her family after they abandon their house, following the sudden death of her teenage daughter, but the man encounters paranormal activity there that urges him to uncover a dark secret about the girl's death.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Report Just In...by  Elliot Stanton
A schoolboy's ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
New Flamesby  Chelita Hagan
A meek young woman sets out to start a new after being thrown out.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Old Man in the Skull Maskby  DJ Robbins
An old masked killer stalks someone on Halloween.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Good Tasteby  Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can't help reminiscing with her own mother about the man who seduced her, married her, and left her many years ago.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Can You Hear Me Now?by  Bob Messinger
Estranged from friends and family, Jake is forced to confront the voices he's been hearing and eerie phone calls he's been getting since childhood.

Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trombone or Modern Romanceby  Linda Kampley
Two college students meet in a cafe, don't really know how to talk to one another, and yet fall in love.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Silver Starby  Leonard Varasano
Haunted by the death of a young child during his watch, a police officer contemplates vengeance against the suspect he holds responsible.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
La Fuente (The Fountain)by  Marjory E. Leposky
Two children meet at a fountain.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pathfinderby  Peter J Bartels
When the sole survivor of a groundbreaking light-speed experiment begins unraveling the mystery of his missing crew, he discovers that he is both the mission's greatest successand its most carefully guarded secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Between The Treesby  Shariq Ali khan
Bullied at school and burdened by low expectations at home, 13-year-old Basheer believes a mysterious pink guava has unlocked his hidden intelligence after his grades suddenly improve. When the tree bearing the fruit is cut down, his newfound confidence collapses, sending him on an emotional quest to find another. Through his search, Basheer slowly confronts the power of belief, self-worth, and the fragile hopes that shape a child's journey to growing up.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a dream about a burnt down home near the Air BnB he is staying at compels him to investigate, an Atheist strives to find out what caused the fire and learns that his beliefs may be misguided.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Clown Sightimgby  Doug J Robbins
A good Samaritan gets in a fight with a killer clown on Halloween night.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Man Possessedby  Donald Copenhaver
After being passed over for promotion, a bitter office worker's online rage transforms into something physical, consuming him and everyone around him.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned, partially destroyed shopping mall.

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
 
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