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Not for Saleby  Davide Staffiero
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During a business dinner at a luxury hotel, a man who will turn out to be an android dealer negotiates with a wealthy hotelier determined to replace his entire staff.

Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby  Mike Bevins
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A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Detective and the Priestby  Jan Clinton Chilson
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The Lead Detective of a police department, at the directions of the Chief, is assigned a priest, in assist in successfully solving crimes.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Desert Muleby  Jack Lindauer
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A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
For Gold's Sakeby  Tina Field Howe
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An estranged daughter confronts her dying father to learn where he hid a fortune in gold doubloons.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Complaint to the Powerfulby  Hiabu Hassebu
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After being prey to Eagles for years, the Hens complain to the Powerful to redo their fate of living and to possess flying wings so they can protect themselves from the sky strikers.

Genre: Animation
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby  Robert Drusetta
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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
A Violent Natureby  Federica Lonardoni
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After his father's death, Jack finds himself into the woods forced to face the ghosts of his past and his relationship with his dad in order to understand his real nature and embrace his authentic self.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Doppelgangerby  John M Grace
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A chance subway encounter with the twin of a woman from his past turns a brief commute into an emotional reckoning.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of 1984by  Vladimir Vassilenko
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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
Why Not?by  Steven Blows
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A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Berlin (A True Story)by  Ron Brawer
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On her deathbed, a Holocaust survivor recounts her family's harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, and reveals a dark family secret -- encountering shocked disbelief.

Genre: Family
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Timeby  Deanne Gittens
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A young woman struggles to understand why she keeps waking up in the middle of the night to a ringing cell phone and mysterious voices just outside her window.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All This and Heaven, Tooby  John Porter
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A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Let Us Preyby  James D. Tuverson III
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Three very different men confront themselves and each other during a grueling group-therapy session. One man, however, will discover his greatest struggle is within. If he loses the battle between his morals and urges, he may become the Devil himself. This short was a FINALIST at the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sakoby  Tigran Vardanyan
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On a stormy night in a remote mountain gorge, a lone shepherd is hunted by ancient spirits who lure the living with music, memory, and madnessforcing him to confront whether the horrors chasing him are supernatural... or already inside him.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Night on Walden Pondby  Thomas Mercer
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Henry David Thoreau has a brief romance with Mary Russel while he is living his experience of solitude at Walden Pond. Most of the dialog is Thoreau's actual words.

Genre: Romance
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Putt Putt Preacherby  Jason K. Allen
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The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course. (Mockumentary. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. First Place: Tennessee Screenwriters Association Comedy Screenplay contest.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Valentine Promiseby  Philip Marraccini
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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
Artificial Lightby  Cephra Stuart
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An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Broadcastby  Noureddine Hifad
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In a remote Antarctic research station, a lone radio host continues daily broadcasts after a global communications blackout until strange voices begin hijacking her signal, hinting that something nonhuman has already arrived.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunter Withinby  Lamar D. Vine
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When a 12-year-old boy in 1977 rural Ohio discovers his mother's secret affair, he must confront the shattering of his family and his own innocence or embrace the hunter awakening inside him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shopping Cartby  Steven Burton
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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
In Lineby  Steven Burton
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A small diverse group waits in an urban bus depot line to experience role reversals when the bus arrives.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perfectly Stillby  Dewayne
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When meticulous serial killer Adrian Vale abducts a woman and prepares his perfectly staged basement ritual, he expects another controlled and predictable victim. Instead, Dr. Maya Sloanea criminal psychologist who studies predatorsbegins dismantling his carefully constructed world piece by piece. As their chilling confrontation turns into a battle of intellect and control, Adrian slowly realizes the woman he captured may have anticipated this encounter all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Purgatorioby  Hakan Ünal
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After waking in a desolate purgatory with no memory of his death, a former SS officer must confront the victims of his past or remain imprisoned in an afterlife built from his own crimes.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime Sceneby  Matthew J Cresta
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At a brutal crime scene an inexperienced patrol sergeant, working along side a seasoned homicide detective, receives a master class in murder investigation while also discovering a shocking connection with the killer!

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Parkin' 'ellby  Elliot Stanton
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A rainy afternoon and a full hospital car park push a family into escalating conflict, culminating in the discovery that their struggle was entirely avoidable.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangling Caratby  Deanne Gittens
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A young woman tries to navigate life and love and avoid being sucked back into a toxic relationship, but there are certain temptations she finds irresistible.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Macyby  Larry E. Coleman
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A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Devil's Bargainby  Cassandra Wells
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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
The Night Before Christmasby  Jared Kelly
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It's Christmas Eve. The house is silent, everyone asleep. Except for 7-year-old Jake. Too excited to sleep, Jake needs to know if Santa has visited yet. Jake creeps downstairs into the lounge, over to the fireplace where his parents left some snacks for Santa. The snacks are untouched. No presents yet. Then Jake hears a noise from the fireplace, a faint scraping from inside the chimney... Yes! Could this be Santa bringing his presents?

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The State of Thetaby  J. Huska
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A passenger boards a plane for an overland short-hop. Alone, he splashes down... twenty years later.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stairwaysby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When luminous stairways rise worldwide, a grieving scientist descends into one to rescue the lost and discovers the only way to save humanity is to embrace imperfection.

Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby  Jayda
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A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Do Unto Othersby  Joe Leone
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An elderly woman and a middle-aged business banker form a bond based on mutual respect and the "golden rule." One good deed leads to another in this feel-good drama about living the golden rule. A chance encounter of two kindred spirits leads to enlightenment and realization of purpose as they lean upon one another for strength and support in their hour of need.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Age Of Tyrannyby  Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
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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
Kindred Spiritsby  Iris Mangual
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A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Have a Hella Christmasby  Lawrence Riggins
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Lucifer crashes the announcer's booth at a Christmas Parade insisting that HIS float from the Netherworld partake in the festivities -- and win a trophy, or else...! Irreverent, wacky, obscene. Three performers.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
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When terrorized by his wife's vengeful spirit, a man must face the consequences of his actions.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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