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Distancedby  Barry Staff
Wanting to transmit her hallucinatory virus worldwide (contagion bringing universal accord solving global issues), a brainiac needs to persuade two skeptical colleagues to join her endeavour.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Vanishingby  Simon Parker
When two desperate parents pin their hopes of a cure for their only child on a six year old boy, there's nothing that will stop them, expect of course that little boys own parents.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bump in the Nightby  Anthony Cawood
When a desperate young thief breaks into the wrong house, he discovers the elderly homeowners are far more dangerousand sinisterthan he could have ever imagined.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Brothers and the Next Emperorby  Robert Michael Benn
In antiquity, the brothers meet the next emperor in 220 AD in a hilarious Comedy. They meet on Palatine Hill, in the Senate chamber and on Crucifixion row in the Forum. It's one-liners and a laugh a minute!

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
When public condemnation of a well-known author results in online outrage, cancellations ripple through association.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The End Was Funby  Alexaner Meriakri
A hibernating hypochondriac wakes in a post-apocalypse frenzy, where absurd adventures teach him courage and camaraderie.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gluttonous Zombieby  Grag Raymond
In two girls are hunted by a ravenous zombie at night time after Mia and Abby use a resurrection spell for fun.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Pageant Redemptionby  Barbara Blomquist
Personal redemption is the ultimate prize in a beauty pageant held in a women's prison.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Freshbloomby  Anthony Cawood
In a park filled with life, two strangers marked by an ominous badge share a fleeting connection, navigating the unfair balance of their final day.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A brilliant scientist has a theory: an exact amount of energy focused on the exact right space, at the exact right time, can open a portal between multiverses. Will testing this theory cost more than he's willing to sacrifice? A 15-minute short shot in one room with three cast members.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a lonely old man visits his beloved wife's grave for the first time, he encounters a charming little girl who lifts him out of his doldrums and fills him with hope. (Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trotsky leads the 1917 revolution with Lenin, is denounced & deported by Stalin in 1925. He lands in Mexico & begins an affair with Frida Kahlo. Finally, Ramon Mercader, in 1940, Stalin's agent, pounds an ice pickaxe into his skull.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
3 Minutes To Goby  Steven Blows
A young boy seeks to brighten his Grandad's mood before an operation.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Down to the Wireby  Dexter Williams
A defiant cop gets involved in a race against time to stop two escaped convicts who have taken hostages on a bus rigged to explode.

Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Mouseby  Sergey Dobrine
During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love enters your life when you're at your lowest point, and that's exactly what Tiffany and Bernard need to deal with the pain their father's inflicted on them. 

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
By the Seaby  Tina Field Howe
Clever Brandi, English heir to a fortune, frames her husband in the murder of her mother, the family matriarch.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
While backpacking alone in the wilderness, a young man encounters a mysterious girl who has a unique relationship with the forest. (One location, two characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Doomsday for Dentonby  Anthony Cawood
A wannabe street fighter tries to boost his rep by going up against a legendary brawler from the past.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
La Fuente (The Fountain)by  Marjory E. Leposky
Two children meet at a fountain.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brushstrokesby  Kieran Baroody
Urbane woman artist envisions a fantasy party of casual strangers and interweaves their lives with hers in her paintings.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Heart Rateby  Alan Barkley
A male and a female cop enter an abandoned building looking for a cop killer. Soon they are hunting each other. Winner, Vail film festival.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Running for Breathby  Steven Blows
When a man's breath escapes him, he must chase it through the manic streets of London to get it back before his time runs out.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Weekendby  Simon Parker
Spending the weekend creating a suicide vest for his young daughter, a disillusioned father has a terrible plan for her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Smallest Lieby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
When Blake discovers Darrell is married, he must confront the devastating consequences of betrayal while fighting to reclaim his health, identity, and ability to trust in the aftermath of deception.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The reborn prodigy of a dark dictator embraces their malevolent Bloodline in a Godless world of magic, beast, and tyranny. None have been worthy to lay claim to the Crimson Throne, until now.

Genre: Fantasy
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Painted Vengeanceby  Simon Parker
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Free Tomatoesby  JT
Sometimes free has a price.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When three unsavory people wake up in an abandoned hotel, they realize the world has ended for everyone except them.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Light Traffickingby  Gary A. Edwards
Red Light Traffic - Of three participants in group therapy for juvenile victims of human trafficking, which will be successfully rehabilitated and which will face further tragedy? This is a dark short graphic play about juvenile human trafficking designed to instruct young girls and boys about how to spot and prevent exploitation of children by sexual predators.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Real Name Unknownby  Robert Michael Benn
Hooked on Fentanyl, Emily enters the adult film industry but is saved by Synanon in Santa Monica where she becomes a drug counselor.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Pumpkin Jackby  Doug J Robbins
A mythic serial killer possesses Dave after ingesting cursed pumpkin seeds.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby  Chris Burns
Charles Noble, a callous man, reluctantly allows an employee to tend to his ailing wife. However, a scheme unfolds that leads to a fatal encounter at a supermarket, altering their lives forever.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
A western romance based on O. Henry's short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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