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Truth or Dieby  James D. Tuverson III
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Two teenagers find themselves on a steep cliff overlooking the mountainside. They play a game, Truth or Lie, to determine the circumstances that brought both to the precipice. As the truth is revealed, the games changes from Truth or Lie... to Truth or Die. This short was a QUARTERFINALIST in the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Familyby  Jean-Luc Julien
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A young undocumented immigrant fights to save the life of his unborn child when his teenage girlfriend's parents force her to get an abortion.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Fashionedby  Jose Villanueva
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A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda seduces an unsuspecting bartender, luring him into a conversation where each revealed secret tightens the noose around their necks and turns flirtation into a ticking countdown to bloody murder.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Three Lines of Zailaby  Andrew Bowen APR
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In this legendary tale of love and courage, the matriarch of a farm family of German Shepherds amazes her brood with the astonishing story of how one line of wolves that descended from the mythical Wolf Goddess Zaila remained wolves, and the other line evolved into dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history forever. The Three Lines of Zaila is also a 56-page illustrated paperback adapted from the script.

Genre: Animation
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Dream Come Trueby  Frank Charles Scott
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A thrilling suspenseful story filled with deception and betrayal as Michael gets entangled in a web of deceit while gaslighting his wife and daughter to run off with her money to skip the light fantastic with his Mistress.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tammy In Hellby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
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Cheerleader saves small town USA after being bitten by Cerberus after a hazing goes awry and Hell on Earth is let loose.

Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Niagara 1952by  Alan Barkley
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An unhappy WW2 war bride, about to leave her 'GI Joe' husband, has a life-changing encounter with Marillyn Monroe who is filming "Niagara" on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by  Ron Brawer
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In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
East Main Killerby  Doug J Robbins
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A serial rapist/ serial killer known as the East Main Killer kidnaps a waitress and the teenage daughter of Officer Chase Lincoln, which does not end well for the East Main Killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Revengeby  Melissa Diane Hudson
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Consumed by jealousy and insecurity, a suspicious wife obsessively stalks her husband and the younger woman she believes he is having an affair with, culminating in a bold confrontation and a horrifying Christmas Eve revenge plot that ultimately backfires with irreversible consequences.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 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
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
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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
Rubic's Kubeby  Bernard Mersier
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Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cat Mouse Catby  Mark Konik
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When a bored office worker Whitfield secretly hires a contract killer to hunt him down, he finally feels alive. That is until he discovers the assassin thinks the contract includes actually killing him, and a second hitwoman arrives to eliminate them both.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Con Cario With Love!by  Luis Ortiz
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When a Puerto Rican caregiver accepts a high-paying private job, she becomes entangled in a psychologically manipulative system run by a man posing as disabledpowered by surveillance and an AI caretaker that isn't real.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
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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
Blessings of the Yellow Ringby  Danny King
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When a well-meaning priest shares the inspirational story behind his treasured yellow ring, an outrageous revelation transforms a moving testimony into a deliciously awkward comedy of misplaced faith.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Standby  Adam Rocke
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Six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned shopping mall.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Sacrficeby  DJ Robbins
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Colin loses his son and wishes he could switch places with his deceased son after a car accident, and death may grant Colin's wish.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby  Jason K. Allen
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Bill only wants to catch a few fish for dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Autumn Falls: The Beginningby  Jacob Enix
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A masked killer wearing a grotesque pumpkin mask emerges in the quite town of Autumn Falls, forcing a group of friends to confront a terrifying reality: the legend of Jack is real, and they are his first victims.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In Creeps the Boogeymanby  Doug J Robbins
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A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All the News That's Fitby  Ian Patrick Williams
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In the near future, a rising young newscaster hired by a corporate-controlled TV station finds to her horror that anyone can be replaced...literally.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
What If God Was One Of Us?by  Adam Rocke
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God assumes the guise of a homeless man to check in on humanity.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beat Bobby Flayby  Adam Rocke
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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
Average Joe: Car Salesmanby  J. Huska
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A car salesman's mid-life makeover motivates his dealership, and the entire American auto industry, to reinvent itself. But, are they driving F or in R?

Genre: Other
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Brother Just Shot Me!by  Don Nyambe
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A mother's dark past returns to haunt her when the son she abandoned years ago is shot by his brother.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ouroborosby  Benjamin Fields
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When an LA Fire dispatcher receives a mysterious call from the remote cabin where her lover vanished, she races back to find answers. But what she discovers is that some mysteries cannot be resolved and some cycles cannot be broken.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The World According To Bull - Gone Fishingby  Perk Perkins
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When a cynical twenty-five-year-old woman drags her politically incorrect, 89-year-old grandfather on a fishing trip, the old man strikes up an unlikely, heartwarming friendship with a lonely ten-year-old boy who has never fished before.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Attack of the Church Furnitureby  David McPete
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A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.

Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Tapeby  Bari K. Willerford
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A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Spiderby  Richard Wells
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An insurance risk assessor sent to inspect an ageing Irish boarding house finds himself drawn into an ancient cycle that slowly strips away memory, identity and hope of escape.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brotherley Hateby  Elliot Stanton
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Timing Is Everything... Or Nothing. The responsible brother sees his younger, carefree sibling as a threat to him taking over the family business until fate steps in and changes the future for everyone.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daisy + Adrianby  Bill Cornelius
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After surviving a near fatal car crash, two friends find that neither is what they appear to be and a mysterious corporation hopes to keep it a secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clayton Mooreby  Doug J Robbins
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Two friends enjoy a camping trip until it's interrupted by the killer Clayton Moore.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northern Exposureby  Larry Shannon
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The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

Genre: Biographical
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Sundays with Ethelby  Jason K. Allen
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An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mistletoeby  Harker Jones
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When a woman joins her fianc for a wake, the family's dangerous secrets start bubbling to the surface.

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