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Take A Pictureby  Bill Cornelius
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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
1996by  Larry Parrott
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After a lifetime of believing she was abandoned, a woman tracks down her dying fatheronly to discover he never knew she existed because her mother's letters were never delivered, leaving them only minutes to share the life they lost.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rebirth Morgueby  Wilson Espinal
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After a young boy vanishes under impossible circumstances, a trio of paranormal operatives employed by a covert morgue uncover a deadly spirit and wage war against the supernatural forces preying on the living.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Meby  John Armond
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A burned-out young man sent to a retreat to "reset his mind" begins to unravel when fellow patients vanish, forcing him into a chilling confrontation with his own darker self.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Survivors Will Be Prosecutedby  Barry Staff
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Wanting a solemn vigil at his dying mother's bedside, a man needs to deal with a pesky insect threatening to make the situation laughable.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Monster in the Toiletby  Tim Humphries
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When three partygoers discover their friend has been dragged into a possessed toilet, they're flushed into a grotesque alternate dimension ruled by a foul-mouthed turd demon and must fight their way back before the monster takes them all down the drain.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby  Michael J Volpe
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After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Subject Strictly Off-Limitsby  Elliot Stanton
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An argument about the TV show Strictly Come Dancing threatens a couple's marriage until they agree never to discuss the show again. However, the ceasefire only lasts until the discussion of what takeaway to order begins.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Implantby  Dewayne C Bricker
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A programmer's digital world turns sentient and steals his consciousnessforcing him to battle his own creation before the simulation takes his place.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accuser's Pantsby  Danny King
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Accused of another's faults, a man stays silent, knowing that false blame is loud, temporary, and that real character, and the guilty, always reveal themselves.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Real Spaghettiby  Richard Bruce Stirling
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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
Fishbowlby  Rochelle Potkar
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MUNISHA is a social-climber, and is preparing herself for marriage to a rich guy. Now trapped in an elevator of a high rise, she realizes who she truly loves: her exboyfriend - as he comes to her rescue.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Tenantby  Carl
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A young couple moves into a cheap suburban rental and discovers the former tenant is still inside the wallsalong with a stolen child's identityforcing them into a terrifying "lease" of rules, confessions, and sacrifice as they race to outsmart the house's contract before it claims one of them as the next permanent occupant.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby  Ivana Hruba
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P. Casso, an unremarkable young man in charge of phone inquiries at an art gallery, spends his working hours in a pleasant daze doodling aimlessly at his desk until a random drawing leads to a change in circumstances from which there seems to be no escape.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Bless The Weatherby  Charles Lane
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At a wealthy Pennsylvania family's 45th anniversary celebration, simmering tensions over land, legacy, and racial hatred erupt into a night of violence, destruction, and irreversible loss.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Great Pancake Recordby  Jeffrey Massie
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[Based on a short story by Owen Johnson] At a private boarding school in the year 1905, John Smeed sets out to make a name for himself.

Genre: Comedy
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Visionby  Elliot Stanton
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A burgeoning romance on a London tube train halted by a red light begins and ends before the light turns green. Mild flirtation develops into insults when a happy coincidence hastily reveals deep-felt attitudes and acrimony.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Waiting for Schrödingerby  Kevin Hanna
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The most famous 'cat in a box' has a paranoid existential crisis while waiting for its owner to return.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby  Craig Ford
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After a stolen moment of tenderness, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must either shut down and survive or risk death by holding onto love inside a system designed to erase him.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Marxby  Barry Staff
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Re-materialising today in mutual haunt Soho, London, Groucho Marx and Karl Marx find both want capitalism finally laughed into oblivion, but as they conflict over methods to use, they try to locate the one place where Karl was listened to before.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mercyby  Michael Morra
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A ten-year-old cancer patient must fight for her life when she's hospitalized with pneumonia and is stalked by a supernatural entity that's intent on killing her.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mariliseby  Ronald V. Micci
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Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Loved Stillby  Denis Bushlatov
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While racing to reach her mother's deathbed, a woman is haunted by the rotting ghosts of her past, only to discover that her husband's refusal to let go has trapped her in a waking, eternal nightmare.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Things I Should Have Saidby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
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Cecil is a odd ball kid from a small town and a Pizza man, he is thrust into a world where he has to play out a Cyrano De Bergerac and emerge triumphant among bullies and bad bosses and dire need for romance.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Magic of Misfitsby  Bill Freas
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After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Rewardby  Wayne E. Johnson
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A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vulturesby  Keshia Thomas
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A brilliant but unraveling scientist secretly tests a radical cure for Alzheimer's on her own family but as eerie, vulture-like entities begin to appear, feeding on memories like prey, she realizes the real threat might not be the disease... but what she's unleashed trying to cure it.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sing Me Your Questionsby  Steven T. Smith
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Not long ago, autistic people were thought to have IQs lower than room temperature. Then a down-on-his-luck businessman-turned-social worker stumbled upon something that changed everything. Inspired by a true story.

Genre: Other
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Inside the Frameby  Francis F DiClemente
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Three people in a city diner at night discover they are figures trapped in the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

Genre: Fantasy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Flossy Forwardby  Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
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If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Naughty Weekendby  Terry Hague
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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
Boomerangby  John Alexander Fraser
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A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Perfect Neighborhoodby  Melissa Catena
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After suburban mom, Gretchen, disappears, her neighbor, Anna, gathers a group of women to launch a neighborhood watch. As Anna gets to know them better, she discovers Gretchen's disappearance may be tied to the secretive spiritual circle Gretchen and the other women belong to. Anna befriends them so she can uncover the truth, but as she gets pulled in deeper, she begins to question her own safety.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ethan Watkinsby  Peter
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Ethan Watkins has fallen for Patty Hobbs, but two things stand in the way to true love: 1. Terry Hobbs, Patty's abusive husband. 2. plus the overriding fact that Ethan is dead, but little things like this won't stand in Ethan's way.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
NightBiteby  Barry Staff
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A terminally ill teen wants to find a way out of his predicament but needs to countenance a superhuman release. [A single-location, one-actor scenario (with two non-speaking supports), shootable in a day, about a pointedly existential dilemma.]

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wellness Checkby  Dwayne Bricker
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When Maya receives a late-night text from her mother warning, "Don't let him in," a calm police officer knocks seconds later, claiming he's there for a wellness check. Trapped alone in her apartment, Maya must decide whether the man outside her door is a real cop, a predator using authority as camouflage, or something far worse before politeness, fear, and one thin door become the only things keeping him out.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Courtsey Callby  Dwayne Bricker
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During a stormy all-nighter, freelance designer Jen Parker calls her ISP about a sudden outage and reaches Alex, a warm, competent tech support rep "here to help." As he walks her through routine fixes, Alex begins describing objects and details inside her apartment he should never see, growing more intimate and invasive. When the company denies he exists, Jen realizes this isn't customer serviceit's something that's already inside the call.

Genre: Horror
17 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
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
 
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