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Amish Countryby  Bill Freas
After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
A reporter meets with the controlling perfectionist mayor of a small town and learns the secret as to how the mayor keeps his citizens in line.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
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
They All Want The King Deadby  NG
Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 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
Cross Wires is a suspenseful story of corporate executive who receives voice messages on his office phone of an international drug trafficking operation within the corporation where he is employed. Faced with a decision of staying silent to what he knows or becoming a Corporate Whistleblower and not only risk his career, however his life.

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The First & Only Kissby  Michael Avishai
After a long-anticipated date fizzles, a shy college student finds unexpected connection on a crowded dance floor, proving that sometimes chemistry matters more than compatibility.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 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
Spiderpocalypseby  Eugene Hattingh
After generations of recon and endless casualties, trillions of spiders across the globe launch a ruthless, simultaneous strike to eradicate the human race once and for all.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
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
They All Want the King Deadby  NG
Feature Length Version Available. Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
What It's All Aboutby  John Worsley
When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
When Sam, a burned-out waitress, becomes convinced by her sick grannie that they are really British royals, Sam channels Princess Diana which inspires her to a higher purpose at Sloppy's Bar-B-Q.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous online abuse invades the real world and a vulnerable woman suffers a deadly attack.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Split Second Decisionby  Michael G Holmes
A flood of increasingly distracted thoughts races through a shallow good Samaritan's mind as he prepares to intervene in a grocery-store armed robberyor so he thinks.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Powers and Principalitiesby  James K. Cole
Two angels are sent on assignment to earth to enlist a high school teacher, who has just lost his wife and is angry at God, to help fight the powers of darkness in his school.

Genre: Sci-Fi
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Running Moneyby  Dewayne C Bricker
When a broke single mother discovers stolen bank cash hidden inside her apartment wall, she and her little girl go on the runpursued by the violent ex-con who buried it there and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he thinks is still his.

Genre: Drama
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Change of 'Artby  Elliot Stanton
Some surprising praise from her daughter's teacher melts the heart of a stern mother whose child is never far from trouble.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Horse in a Saloonby  Nickolas Snider
It's about a horse named Buck. He was human before being turned by an evil warlock. He wants to prove himself by ordering a drink in a saloon to prove he is more than just a horse.

Genre: Western
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A bullied boy's resilience is fueled by his grandfather's musical legacy. A true story.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sick Bloodby  Stan Usherenko
When two brothers revisit the imprisoned father who tortured them as kids, they're pulled into a deadly new game one designed to prove that his sickness runs in their blood.  SICK BLOOD is a visceral, emotionally charged horror-thriller about generational trauma, the inheritance of evil, and the terrifying question what if the monster you fear most is part of you? 

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby  Ronald V. Micci
Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby  David Ezell
A former child star spirals as he becomes convinced that the people he loves most have been replaced by impostors.

Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby  Gregory George Sarno
Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Voice Before Silenceby  Manal khalil
During a live audio stream, a tech-savvy podcaster receives a frantic call from a hostage who begs her to decode his background soundsonly to discover the signal is coming from right beneath her feet.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
The Locked Roomby  KS Punithakumar
Waking up disoriented in a windowless, concrete room with only a speaker on the wall, a confused man must piece together his missing memories of the previous night while an unseen voice interrogates him.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Late Waitby  Elliot Stanton
If listening is so important, then it's hardly surprising that turning a deaf ear to good advice creates an even greater problem.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.

Genre: Fantasy
13 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
The Tell-Tale Heartby  Eric Olson
A nervous caretaker murders an elderly man to rid himself of the man's hideous "vulture eye," only to be driven toward confession by the relentless sound of a beating heart that no one else can hear.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Interviewby  Michael G Holmes
On the morning of an important interview, a bitter corporate lifer kills time with imagined self-sabotage, petty distractions, and fantasies of escape.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
New Flameby  Chelita Hagan
A meek and magnetic women is dating in a small town but she keeps attracting emotionally unavailable men but they are secretly attached.

Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Reckoning Beckonsby  Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly schemeand poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
On New Year's Eve in an industrial Siberian city, two couples celebrate 1984 in a cramped dormitory; a year later an Orwellian surveillance state and the draft shatter their bonds and remake their lives.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Stop Driving Yourself Crazyby  Elliot Stanton
Clive, a thoughtless and paranoid driving instructor's wild theory about his wife's infidelity is all but confirmed when out on a driving lesson - her car is seen somewhere it shouldn't be. However, the only thing that is confirmed is his poor learner's theory that Clive is an idiot.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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