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The Prophetessby  Amrita Baines
Driven by nightmares and an obsession with the supernatural, a paranormal researcher seeks out a cryptic Prophetess but the deeper he digs into her tragic lineage, the more reality fractures, until he's no longer sure if he's documenting madness... or becoming its next chapter.

Genre: Horror
21 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
Black Egoby  Ali noun
A former investigator, shattered by the death of his family, hunts their killer - to discover that the chasing has been himself all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime: Episode 1 Plasticby  DJ Robbins
Eric discovers that everything in his life is made of plastic.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby  Andrea Zastrow
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father's Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Victim of a murder, a postman is brought back to life by a cursed Indian Talisman who gives him the power to fight criminals.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It's My Lifeby  John Porter
A family drama in which a young Indian-American woman struggles to decide whether to continue living with her parents or to move into an apartment with her American boyfriend.

Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After committing a heinous crime, a violent man is cursed to relive the horrific moment through the eyes of the victim. Part 'Source Code', part "Identity"... all WTF Twilight Zone.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Developingby  Steven Burton
After a man develops several old 35mm. rolls of film, he discovers links to the past, present, and future.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mythical Swordby  Grag Raymond
The legend tells about a mythical sword that gives supernatural power to its owner. Archeologist Adam Prisson and his assistant Leonora have been searching for it for several years, but not only he, but also people who want to use it for evil purposes.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Willpowerby  John Porter
A young black woman and a middle-aged white man love each other, but their friends tell them they must separate--and they can if they only fight with their willpower.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mindy & Martin's Meleeby  Harker Jones
A bridesmaid and a best man derail a wedding when their simmering resentments and passions boil over, igniting a powder keg of accusations, declarations and revelations.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Lightby  Gladman
In a ruined room filled with memories of his lost daughter, a grieving man struggles to keep a single lantern flame aliveuntil one final, impossible spark forces him to confront the moment he chooses hope over despair.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A woman travels back in time to reshape her childhood, but her relentless drive to win leads to chilling and irreversible consequences.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Writing Wrongsby  Richard Sloggett
Who does a person have to shoot to get their script shot?

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby  John Porter
A dark comedy about a man who receives a letter from an old girlfriend who reminds him of a promise he made years and years ago.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Finding a Desert Duchessby  Richard Campbell
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
Haunted by the horrors of his past, a Vietnam veteran's grip on reality unravels as he's stalked by the vengeful spirit of a fallen enemy, forcing him to confront the trauma that has followed him homebefore it consumes him entirely.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There Are No Aliensby  Victor Titimas
An alien-obsessed student learns the truth about these beings.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Still Waterby  John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Matesby  Anthony Cawood
A new inmate learns her prison cell is haunted by a brutal male spirit, forcing her into a deadly struggle for survival against the unseen.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cupid'sby  DJ Robbins
Cupid pressures his customers to try his Ambrosia, guaranteed to make the consumer fall in love, but the customers resist the dessert.

Genre: Artistic
6 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
Valentine Promiseby  Philip Marraccini
Love That Triumphs Over Tragedy. Rena Patel, from India, navigates the pressures of a medical career and the complexities of unspoken love. After a devastating cycling accident leaves his close friend Jenna paralyzed, Rena is torn between his professional duty and his growing personal feelings for Jenna who faces physical loss and heartbreak, Rena must to control his emotional boundaries with his hopes for her recovery.

Genre: Drama
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Delivery Manby  Susan Adair Harris
An inept aging delivery man tries to charm his equally mature customer, but first they must cope with the local serial killer.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Float Swim Dreamby  Jason K. Allen
A sad and lonely goldfish dreams of escaping his fish bowl so that he can fight zombies, halt global warming and meet Justin Bieber. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Usualby  Sarah Kennedy
A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors his dead mother by continuing her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An emotionally troubled woman becomes fascinated by 'gators.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Heart Rateby  Alan Barkley
A male and a female cop enter an abandoned building looking for a cop killer. Soon they are hunting each other. Winner, Vail film festival.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby  Tawnie Powell
97%that's what Hana Murphy became part of when it happened. Now, dismissed by her University, she struggles to break free from the statistic and find herself. Spiraling into self-destruction and with her relationships unraveling, Hana is forced to confront the question: What happens to the drunk girl?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
When the grandson of a ruthless assassin leader is killed in a U.S. raid, he invokes an ancient blood feud, targeting the President's family while evading a worldwide manhunt.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Tethered Soulsby  Andrew Chisholm
Trapped in a decaying home with his dying wife, a man's mind begins to fracture under the weight of grief and isolation, as a mysterious voice urges him toward suicide and he begins to question whether her fate is bound to his own.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvationonly to uncover a harrowing world of abuse, resistance, and a reckoning long overdue.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Davids and Goliathsby  Spartak Proda
Imagine for one second that tomorrow you wake up 50% heavier. Earth has changed its gravity, and you and I are facing the fate of the dinosaurs. Governments are aware and have created a survival plan for the species with the "Davids and Goliaths" project. An assassin uncovers everything. Secret biogenetic experiments. The Goliaths and the Davids, are at war. The introduction of heavy metals into Earth's core is bringing forth a new order.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Catchby  Melvin Taylor
Man goes fishing and finds himself fighting for his life.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby  Christopher Harmon
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
Omar and Jimmyby  Phil Naiman
A dominant house cat tries to prevent the family's new rescue puppy from being returned to the shelter and its dire consequences.

Genre: Animation
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
 
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