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Bathwaterby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 19 May 2025
Three friends enter a house, finding a golden crown in dirty bathwater, they all want it, but inside the bath a terrible creature lives.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Detective Sam and Friends Adventuresby  Gail Morin
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2024
A Pup Detective goes on fun and exciting adventures along with his friends to teach good moral, tackle bullying, and other subjects. Each episode is fun mystery and included the children to help solve very fun and all kids are included as well . The first adventure is on bullying with a whole season not limited to haunted adventures. Could be real live action or cartoon.

Genre: Animation
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Happy Endingsby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2023
Two old-timers in the Midwest are in arrears on their mortgage payments, and the bank is leaning on them. Then, miraculously, Mr. Lodestone (an emissary of Satan) appears at their door with an offer too good to be true.

Genre: Family
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Heelsby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
The copilot of SouthJet 242 bound for Atlanta is forced to land a crippled plane, but not before she deals with a passenger manifest of the undead. A 2 location, 30 minute short with a strong FEMALE lead.

Genre: Horror
31 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Just In Timeby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Determined to succeed as a web designer, their having collided on entering her new place of employment. a delightful young woman downplays an interested salesman’s efforts to engage. *Semi Finalist: 2024 New York International Women Festival; Dublin Movie Awards; Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Competition-Shorts; Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards In Spanish: Justo a Tiempo.*

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Quandaryby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A thirty-year-old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it’s another drunken one-night stand until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don’t know how they got there either.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Schrödinger's Momby  Phil Abrams
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024
A man with autism must face the new reality of being parentless, and yet his neurodiverse perspective helps his caretaker discover there’s more than one way to look at life.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Detective With Unique Talentby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
Christina, an excellent police detective, has a unique talent to feel a murderer in a person and this helps to quickly reveal and catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
11-44 Frankby  Sean Mick
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2024
A dedicated Highway Patrolman investigating a fatal accident at a lonely desert rest stop must confront his own tragic past to bring closure to the grieving sister of one of the victims. Tag line: "At the end of the road, their journey begins..."

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cutby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A dark comedy (unless you’re Bill, the protagonist, who would call it a horror film) that provides a warning to any man who even thinks about doing wrong to his woman.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vengeance Appby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
Desperate for retribution against her bullies, a tormented teen obtains a sinister app allowing her to execute a revenge of her choosing upon them — but soon discovers it comes with chilling consequences as her actions begin to consume her own life.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Any Face Will Doby  Tim Bechen
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2024
A man soon regrets his wife's New Year's Resolution.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jane Doll, Spy Extraordinaireby  D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
Barbie isn't the only doll in town. Hopelessly talented Jane Doll (a Plastic) and ravishingly awkward Plain Jane (a Real)…the stakes couldn’t be higher. The danger couldn’t be scarier. The skirts couldn’t be shorter (or longer). They’re bringing sexy (and smart) back to D.C. sleuthing – one crime at a time.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
Marie and Tyler display a loving couple, and it's true, on one side of the relationship.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Won't Takeby  Hiabu Hassebu
Date Posted: 29 May 2025
Saba battles against herself, not to miss her childhood friend, who died of menengites.

Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Plaidby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A man dressed in a horrible plaid outfit begins to bond with a flashy woman at a party after being ignored by the rest of the guests.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Faceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2024
A woman sacrifices everything for the perfect face, only to become a target of uncontrollable desire. Forced into hiding, she is pursued by a detective whose accidental glimpse of her face turns him into her next victim.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby  Dominic Uwem Lawrence
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2024
When a group of friends ventures into the heart of darkness, they unleash a malevolent force that hunts them down, forcing one survivor to confront the evil head-on in a desperate bid to escape the Undertaker's gruesome realm.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2024
Twin sisters Mistyi and Cristi love each other to death and won't let anything come between them. But one sister stands stronger on the motto than the other.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Arnoldby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Standing in front of a mirror, a young boy tries to understand why his reflection is a dog.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Schoolby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2024
An obsolete radio escapes into a world of drugs to find solace from a fast moving society he cannot keep up with.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Three Lines of Zailaby  Andrew Bowen
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2024
After they rescue and adopt a lost female wolf pup, the matriarch of a farm family of German Shepherds tells her brood the mystical story of how one line of ancient wolves remained wolves and another became dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history.

Genre: Animation
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Night Skyby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
In a not too distant future, a Mother, daughter, and Grandfather try to survive life on another planet after fleeing a planet Earth that has become uninhabitable.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wasabiby  John McCarney
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2025
A night out for an affluent millennial couple unravels after a clash over whether to help a homeless man.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
More Than Clothby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
The experiences of a university student’s first day devoutly wearing the hijab proves to be more challenging and diverse than she first expected when friends and strangers begin to see her differently.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rhino vs. Gorillaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
When Ronald takes a seat on a park bench, he simply wishes to enjoy his lunch in peace. But when his banana rings like a phone, he answers it and receives a message that turns his life upside down. (Surreal comic fantasy. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
He's Gonna Payby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
A young man confronts the killer of his wife and child, and makes the killer pay--by letting him live.

Genre: Western
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Selling Oranges on a Median with Charles Bukowskiby  Ryan Armstrong
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A meeting of two men in an unlikely place as they try to overcome the challenge of understanding and communicating with the other.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl Who Rode a Wolfby  Pelham Mead III
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025
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
Spaceby  Simon James
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2025
Fresh from a recent breakup, that he caused, Simon embarks on a hilarious but frustrating quest to find the perfect parking spot at the mall, all while juggling his idiot best friend and precocious daughter.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mother Earth's Recycled Raptureby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2024
The weight of the world is strenuous on Mother Earth as she does her best to keep humanity from total destruction. 

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Momby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2024
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Little Red Cellsby  Ronald L. Ecker
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025
A boy whose body produces too much blood finds himself held captive by a partying vampire convention, and he must try to escape before their annual Feast of Blood.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Bloodiedby  Adam Dyer
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2024
Newlyweds Melanie & Carl Colvey move in to their dream house in their favorite neighborhood. After discovering the house to be the scene of a grizzly murder, they must decide whether to leave immediately, or live with a horrible truth.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Float Swim Dreamby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2024
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
Improv Christmasby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2024
Two lonely improv actors decide to spend Christmas together.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Adversityby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Nowhereby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Excited by life's possibilities, a young baseball named Johnny is batted into the woods and never found. He awakens in a strange land called Nowhere, where all lost and forgotten items end up. But he vows to escape and prove that he and his forgotten friends have plenty of life left in them.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunt Beginsby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2024
Melania the Olympic archery champion, while hiking in the mountains with her friends and sister, stumble upon two men who kill her girlfriends and kidnap her younger sister and disappear in an unknown direction. Although she is wounded, she starts hunting them to save her sister and do justice.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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