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Divorce Storyby Vanessa Wang
After discovering that her husband has been sexually abusing her minor daughter, a troubled mother struggles to figure out what to do next.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Phoenix Dreamsby Patricia Bruce
A gritty drama unfolds when betrayal and murder upend a beautiful, deranged woman.
Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sketchyby Sebastian Ackland
A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inhospitable Takeoverby Michael Hutchinson
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Villageby Adolpho Phillips
Raising a boy as a single mom in the affordable housing complex has a range of challenges. That's why it takes a village to help, even though all the villagers may need help.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Salvationby Anthony Toni
The World is on the verge of Nuclear War. This is the story of two men who will fight to the death for their way of life to endure.
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby Drew Larimore
A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossroadsby Anthony Cawood
A teenage girl makes a deal with the Devil to beat her friend at Pokemon Go, only to capture him in a Poke Ball and unleash chaos.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Over Darkby Alicia Renee Norman
After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wit's Endby Barry Staff
Wanting a comeback fronting a telethon, a comedian needs to thwart a revolutionary taking him hostage there, intent on exposing comedy as just another form of exploitation.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Oh Boi!by Sara Mancini
Marta is a 14 years old weirdo with no friends but with a particular obsession: porn. She watches a lot of porn videos but has never had sex and doesn't know what pleasure is: she never even masturbated! Determined to understand what sex is, she decides to emulate her peers living a day like them and get close to an older guy who has no problem having sex with anyone.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On the Edgeby John M Grace
A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Growing with Albertby John Witcher
After being adopted by his Uncle Albert, Mickey comes of age in a small Midwestern town.
Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lucky Strikeby Chris Fell
The most fortunate event will take down your relationship in an instant.
Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby David Ezell
A former child star struggles with the belief that the people he loves most in the world have been replaced by impostors.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Magical Day at the Dumpby Frank Vespe
Two sisters' inaugural trip to the Town Dump gets interrupted when a visitor appears out of nowhere and offers help, but his help is foreshadowed by an eerie feeling that something's not right.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Table for 3by Michael Joseph
A brother and sister, entrenched in crime with their abusive uncle, make a routine stop at a diner. But when tempers flare, their ordinary night takes an unexpected turn
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Betty and Booby Patrice Sarath
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Funeral Crasherby Melissa Diane Hudson
At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Bad Nightby Jose Villanueva
Under pressure from their volatile boss, two enforcers burglarize an aging gambler's secluded house and prepare to pounce when he arrives but never suspect the house hides a nightmarish horror ready to devour them first.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Memory Survivalby Steven Burton
Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennis 2.0by Peter Donald Skagen
In his garage, a retired robotics engineer builds a conscious robot he calls Dennis, then has to fight to save both their lives when a lovely enforcer from an 'agency' arrives to erase them.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby John Alexander Fraser
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Whispers from an Atheistby Bernard Antoine Mersier
A philosophical loner takes viewers through his home while delivering provocative monologues about religion, relationships, and hypocrisy, ending in a shocking act of self-destruction that transforms water into wine with his own blood.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Candy Corn and Peppermintby Doug J Robbins
A killer's MO while dressed as Santa Claus is to pass out a pouch full of candy corn and peppermint.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Night Killerby Ange Fassinou
A woman and her son have to survive a dangerous man who comes to kill them.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby Dominic Uwem Lawrence
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
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby Tina Gandhi
Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thirteen Coilsby John Porter
A young outlaw prepares for his execution.
Genre: Western
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Rare Gem (Vertical)by Paul Henry Landry
A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Injured Partyby Elliot Stanton
An injured footballer's anguish is intensified by his manager's curious disassociation with him. While out of the team, footballer Jordan Jeffries can't understand why he is being ghosted, and he wants to know the reason for it. It is a scenario that seasoned professional Ade Akinwande is all too happy to expand on.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadows Among Usby Christine Lara
A gathering among friends turns into a nightmare when strange events begin to unfold in an isolated house deep in the forest. Trapped and confronted with their own secrets, they realize that one of them is not who they claim to be.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
S'moresby Jason K. Allen
Young Eric and Molly are having the time of their lives roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Their parents, not so much... (Horror/Comedy. One location, two actors.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Broadcastby Noureddine Hifad
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
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Watchersby Dewayne C Bricker
When a rescue chopper can't reach her, Ranger Elena records her final night in a forest where strange lights stalk the trees. As unseen figures circle, whispering her own words back at her, she discovers the forest itself is copying life to survive the cold. With dawn hours away, Elena must choose between burning the cabin or becoming one of them.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby Jim Kowalski
Can a man with a crippling social anxiety win the woman he loves over his alter ego crutch and her cheating boyfriend?
Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rumor Has Itby Paul Weidknecht
A phone stolen at work leads a woman to understanding her capabilities and, even, her future.
Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Out On A Limbby Jeffrey Stackhouse
An amputee Vet has volunteered for a program that promises her hope. But the new tech has opened up more than just hope, and the creatures that can now see her have already eaten her phantom limbs and hunger for more.
Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sanctuary Rowby Lamar D. Vine
In the gritty underbelly of 1983 Las Vegas, a rebellious teen battles addiction, underground rock scenes, and haunting family secrets in a desperate quest for identity, forcing him to break free from destructive cycles and forge a path of raw self-redemption.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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