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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
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
The Cursed Dollby  Doug J Robbins
A creepy doll comes to life and is obsessed with turning Katie and Matt into its child slaves.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Three Men and a Peruvianby  Richard Wells
When a Cork man decides he'd rather be Peruvian than remembered as 'the dead dog fella,' his drinking buddies force him to explain the bizarre childhood story he's been trying to outrun ever since.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Naughty Weekendby  Terry Hague
A Naughty Weekend seen through the eyes of a MALE and a FEMALE suitcase. (No actors are seen)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby  Elliot Stanton
An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by  Ron Brawer
In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Erection Night - 2028by  John Boal
On a girls' night out at the St. Christopher Tavern in Columbus, OH, three women dish on men and the polarization that's fracturing our society as we head into the 2028 Presidential Election. Mollie McGuire, a 40s divorcee, devises a strategy to end the divisiveness by placing an ad on an AI dating app called "The Hack" where she entices a US Senator to break from the herd for two months of epic bliss.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rententionby  Lou Haack
An overlooked angel, thrilled to finally be recruited for a promotion, aces a management interview before discovering the job he's been specifically requested for is Director of Employee Retentionin Hell.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Greatest Story Never Toldby  Matthew J Cresta
After the crucifixion of Jesus, the apostles question their future and even the truth. Due to their lack of faith the disciples hatch a crazy plan to steal Jesus body and stage his resurrection. When things go wrong and the plan fails the team is forced to face their new reality.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Group Chatby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
After an unremovable number joins their group chat, five friends receive photos from inside their homesand a countdown demanding they confess what happened at the lake.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chickentownby  Kevin Pacey
Tragic accident or premeditated murder, a teenager falls to his death and a corrupt police officer protects the accused.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ten and Twoby  Danny King
After realizing his teenage daughter has become something monstrous, a grieving father lets her drive into the path of an oncoming truck, only to discover the creature survives, leaving him to confront the thing he can no longer bear to call his daughter.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Mottoby  Dwayne Bricker
When a young nun's exorcism reveals a hidden system controlling papal succession, a skeptical priest teams with a Vatican archivist to uncover a centuries-old conspiracy rewriting the Church's history. As powerful forces move to contain the truth, he must decide whether exposing it will free the Churchor destroy the very institution billions depend on.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Narcissistby  DJ Robbins
A Couple of childhood tragedies have turned a man into a narcissist until a health scare leads to a near-death experience where he has a heart-to-heart with his dead mother.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby  Robert Drusetta
A trilogy of stories exploring the seven minutes after death where the brain doesn't realize the body is dead.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 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
W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby  Elliot Stanton
The prize for winning is the realisation of what losing is all about. Two elderly care home residents play Scrabble, but the value of their words doesn't just score points on the board.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
For Whom The Chimes Tollby  Elliot Stanton
Unable to sleep, a lonely, embittered old man spends the early hours of the morning drinking brandy and reminiscing on his life. The actions of which, ultimately, call time on his earthly existence.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It's Now or Neverby  Elliot Stanton
In a world where Elvis lives, a suburban man's golden ticket to see The King goes missing down the back of the bath sparking a hilarious battle between nostalgia, plumbing, and domestic survival.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Awfully Wedded Wifeby  Elliot Stanton
Love is... a suspicious mind, making the threat of castration a genuine possibility.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Real Page Turnerby  Phyllis C. Corley
A Hispanic horror novelist hunkers down in her manager's secluded getaway cottage to finish her manuscript and experiences some of the same perils as the story's heroine with a charming local.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Fashionedby  Jose Villanueva
A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda seduces an unsuspecting bartender, luring him into a conversation where each revealed secret tightens the noose around their necks and turns flirtation into a ticking countdown to bloody murder.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 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
Clayton Moore 2by  Doug J Robbins
This takes off where the original ends. Jeff is dead, and Clayton is now after Nick.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby  Deanne Gittens
A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.

Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cheerleader saves small town USA after being bitten by Cerberus after a hazing goes awry and Hell on Earth is let loose.

Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby  Robert Godwin
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
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a newly wed couple are invited to two separate bachelor and bachelorette parties, things go awry sparking a perfect union in this drama/comedy.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After slaving away years of his life in a fighting pit, a Xolo dog rescues a puppy and escapes into the Mexican slums to seek redemption for the murders he was forced to commit. (2025 Slamdance Mentorship Winner)

Genre: Animation
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Look! It's Joe Pesci!by  Larry E Coleman
A Joe Pesci fan gets taught a powerful lesson when she tries to impress him by doing his lines from the movie "Goodfellas."

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Take A Pictureby  Bill Cornelius
Lauren discovers her great aunt's antique camera that freezes her in a cold and expressionless past... forever.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A cellphone is stuck to a man's ear followed by a rescue from a mysterious phone caller.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Real Spaghettiby  Richard Bruce Stirling
After being released from a South American prison, Spaghetti - the world's most famous poet - unexpectedly shows up at the door of kindergarten-teacher Mary, who has been trying to free him all these years.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Problem With Moon Menby  Robert M. Tartell
A female astronaut's chance encounter with a space alien gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Love Triangle."

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Coinby  Paolo Galli
A five-year-old boy, torn between desire and guilt after secretly spending a coin on a lollipop, finds himself face to face with a beggar and makes a choice that redefines the value of things.

Genre: Drama
3 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
 
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