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The Lion in the Carpetby  Pelham Mead III
Billy Alton is an 8-year-old boy in 1950 who is stricken with polio. He is put in leg braces and kept at home. Billy begins to see imaginary animals appear in his bathroom, a Lion, a Beaver, an Eagle, and a Wolf who take Billy on journeys to teach him to prepare for the future.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Revverby  Michael Hanson
At wit's end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a distressed artist takes drastic measures to finish her masterwork for the event of a lifetime before deadline.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Girls Are Differentby  Rocco Simonelli
BLACK GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT is a darkly comic take on interracial relationships in Manhattan as a white Jewish male upper-eastsider falls in love with a black "princess."

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby  Ayisha Henry
When a homebody decides to enjoy a fun night out, she must defeat an evil, biological nemesis who does everything to ruin her plans.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
After narrowly escaping execution at the hands of ISIS, a teenage boy struggles to move on with life in a war-torn environment of terror and continued mortal danger.

Genre: Drama
10 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
Purgatorioby  Hakan Ünal
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
Colette is a bold, 30-year-old Black woman whose sharp, unfiltered wit masks a deep vulnerability. Operating as the audience's confidante, she breaks the fourth wall to deliver a brutal, hilarious, and ultimately self-reflective monologue on the disappointments of modern dating.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spices with Vicesby  Debbie Castanha
A privileged pair of Ray Bans becomes lost in a drawer of bickering spices, and must hatch an escape plan before she's replaced.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Rainy Night Killerby  Doug J Robbins
The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Knockby  Dewayne
After his young daughter's death, a guilt-ridden father begins hearing three knocks at his door every night at 2:12 AM. When the voice outside belongs to the child he left to die, he realizes something supernatural has learned her voiceand it won't stop knocking until he lets it inside.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doc's Bar is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy Two young men who were childhood friends make plans to meet up in a midtown NYC bar. One friend is Jewish, in his third-year residency, and broke. His friend is an antisemitic Wall Street broker who is rich. The young doctor sets his buddy up with a Russian doctor who is studying for her medical license. Both need money and the stockbroker the solution!

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.

Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Missionby  S. Lane Porter
A robotics engineer makes a bold decision to create a disabled android only to find out she wants nothing to do with his mission. -Originally written for the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge AKA EDFC, it was changed out for another story. One free update to match your available locations because it's open to interpretation/update due to rules set by the film challenge.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Locked Inby  Carl
When a home invasion goes wrong, three masked intruders find themselves trapped inside the house of a retired mortician who has turned his home into a living tomb. As the night spirals into a sadistic game of survival, they realize the real horror isn't escaping the house it's being chosen to leave.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Carnageby  Doug J Robbins
The Christmas Killer, Henry Clay, stalks Allyson on Christmas Eve, leaving carnage in his wake.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beat Bobby Flayby  Adam Rocke
Iconic chef Bobby Flay must endure a brutal interrogation to keep his many culinary secrets safe.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A "dirty laundry specialist" can be a great asset at a lawsuit settlement conference.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rescue In Earth's Orbitby  Michael J Volpe
A lone astronaut survives an overdue rescue mission and an impossible spacewalkthen returns to Earth with a truth that cannot be spoken.

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby  Elliot Stanton
Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a hit-and-run on a dark country road, a panicked woman is haunted by a relentless owl that seems to have witnessed her crimeonly to realize the bird is merely a herald for the vengeful spirit she left in the ditch.

Genre: Horror
10 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
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
Invisible Terrorby  Victor Titimas
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
From the Flamesby  Alistair Bryson
A widowed artist moves into a new house in an effort to bury the memories of a Bohemian lifestyle and a toxic marriage, but is forced to revisit his past in bizarre circumstances when he uncovers an ancient fire-pit from which deceased figures appear to him through the flames.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cubicle Jockeysby  Brandi Self
An anxious employee organizes a strike after a series of stress-related deaths take out his co-workers, and his boss pees on his shoe.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
My Empty Lifeby  Brandon Rhiness
Two cynical, broke teenagers embark on a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes to buy a used car, only to lose their ultimate prize to their own incompetence within minutes of achieving it.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
A married man bored with monogamy talks his wife into having a tryst with two swingers that ends in disaster.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dutchess Greenby  Joseph Brown
The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Royally Never Afterby  Lexie Sullivan
When a studious Chicago teen loses her only parent, she's unexpectedly invited to a prestigious royal academy in Englandonly to discover secrets about her true identity, a brewing conspiracy within the school's walls, and a destiny that might just change her life forever.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Between Detroit and Toledoby  Sonny James Traylor
At a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she's on the run with half a million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Behind the 8 Ballby  John Porter
A young man must either make a billiard shot or lose his beautiful young wife to an evil old man.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Return of Hopeby  Ershov Konstantin
Three characters "don't see, don't hear, don't speak" receive a mysterious box that could change their lives.

Genre: Fantasy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Creepy Clown For Hireby  DJ Robbins
Pamela is upset that her son is skipping his tutoring sessions, so she hires a creepy clown to scare her son into seeing his tutor.

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