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After a hit-and-run on a dark country road, a panicked woman is haunted by a relentless owl that seems to have witnessed her crimeonly to realize the bird is merely a herald for the vengeful spirit she left in the ditch.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
A western romance based on O. Henry's short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abby's Cursed Paintingsby  Melissa Diane Hudson
In the wake of her parents' violent murder, an eight-year-old girl communicates only through her macabre, otherworldly art- a cryptic language that captivates an unsuspecting audience while hiding secrets that could either save her or doom them all.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
When a sinkhole opens up inside a married couple's Florida home, a horrifying secret is uncovered as they fight to hang on until they are rescued. What Angie finds within the walls gives the black, hellish hole a whole new, sinister meaning. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There's Something Wrong with Mariah Janeby  Bill Freas
After two preteen sisters come upon an unsettling find in the attic of their new home, the younger girl grows ill as her family enters the most terrifying night of their lives.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Trespassingby  Sarah Kennedy
In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman's drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Kid From Tomorrowby  Charles Webb
Why would a 10-year-old girl stalk a nice guy like Harold and try to ruin his life?

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
About a Bearby  S.C. Smith
An aging TV writer desperate for a comeback pitches a last-ditch movie about a vengeful bear to a Hollywood producer, only to watch his hopes unravel as the industry leaves him behind.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Happy Lifeby  Brandi Self
A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Judge, Jury & Executionerby  Elliot Stanton
When a butcher's wife puts him on a virtually meat-free diet, it provokes a disgruntled female customer to redress the balance. But does she have an ulterior motive? Mrs Jury revels in telling her local butcher, Mr Judge, of her marital issues, and to her surprise, he reciprocates with tales of his own. A dinner invitation results in a disturbing discovery by the butcher.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
The Crosses We Bearby  Shane Nolan
Stefon and Cin are aspiring "influencers," traveling the US in an effort to create content. Within their fake relationship, they partner to build wealth and fame in any way they can. One stop along the highway serves a dish of karma neither expected.

Genre: Drama
11 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
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
Mother's Gavelby  Jesus Gonzalez
A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Arroz Y Habichuelas (Rice & Beans)by  Iris Mangual
Two families that could put the Hatfields and McCoys to shame. A Dominican family and Puerto Rican family are forced to share a wedding weekend; old grudges and new chaos threaten to ruin the nuptials unless love and a little salsa can bridge the Caribbean divide.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hearse from Beyondby  Jason K. Allen
On Halloween night, young trick-or-treater Daniel Taylor catches a glimpse of the town's sinister old undertaker -- and turns out to be the last person to see him alive. (In the vein of the original Twilight Zone series. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A young girl, convinced her housekeeper is a witch, delves into a world where dreams and reality merge into dark magical revelations.

Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a night she can't remember, a middle-aged influencer wakes to find her phone replaying fragments of the past reflections of herself that don't match what she remembers forcing her to confront the digital double that's been living her life.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wars, Walls and Other Virusesby  Lucía Viñamata
Whether we cross the line or not determines our destiny.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
One Last Drinkby  Madison Smith
Chris becomes overwhelmed with problems in life. His addiction to alcohol finally catches up to him. He decides to join Rehab to face his demons and get his life back.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
A Devil's Bargainby  Cassandra Wells
When Soho, a 17th century Caddo (Native American), becomes painfully aware of what fate awaits her people with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors into what will become Texas, she enters into an unholy alliance with an Old World witch who has been "imported" from Europe to exact a fitting vengeance upon the merciless interlopers.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bleed and Cryby  DJ Robbins
A filmmaker performs a one-man play on a childhood trauma he suffered while showing a home movie from the year and date the childhood trauma occurred.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When public condemnation of a well-known author results in online outrage, cancellations ripple through association.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a teacher reads Edgar Allen Poe to her sixth graders on Halloween, she must find out why one student's interest in the poem borders on obsession.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl Who Rode a Wolfby  Pelham Mead III
Based on folklore and true stories of the Pawnee Indians in the mid 1880s . She who rode a wolf is a Pawnee folktale of a young girl who was associated with the North Star.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Whiskey Glass . . .by  John Porter
A young cowboy learns an old lesson about love and liquor.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Landminesby  Gordon Virtue
A young volunteer at a VA hospital gives perspective to a disabled veteran's life. Mack (38), a bilateral (BK) amputee meets Candy (16), a bubbly hospital volunteer with Down syndrome. The two foster a unique relationship during the holiday season. It's a heart-warming tale with O. Henry-like twists and a surprise ending.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
A legend surrounding mean children being taken on Halloween claims the one that got away years earlier.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby  Edward Chapman
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Preyby  John Porter
Two promiscuous businessmen plan to pick up a beautiful young woman--who plans to pick them up.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Regretsby  Patricia Bruce
This edgy screenplay puts a unique spin on a marriage gone bad. Sadly, not all marriages have a happy ending. After years of being a hen-pecked housewife by her unappreciative husband, this boring, mousey housewife suddenly turns aggressive with deadly results...

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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