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Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daisy + Adrianby  Bill Cornelius
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
No Loose Endsby  Adam Rocke
Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when there's a price on your head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wolf Riderby  Pelham Mead III
This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.

Genre: Action/Adventure
44 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby  Jayda
A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Window Washerby  Robert M. Tartell
When a young couple quarrel in a cafe, the window washer decides to get in on the action.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Split Second Decisionby  Michael G Holmes
A flood of increasingly distracted thoughts races through a shallow good Samaritan's mind as he prepares to intervene in a grocery-store armed robberyor so he thinks.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby  Deanne Gittens
A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.

Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Stay Warmby  Steven Burton
A man with his young son, offer comfort to a homeless man which also provides a break from their grief for the recent death of Mary, a beloved wife and mother.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A weird clown hands Steve a balloon at a campus Halloween carnival, and he and his friends find themselves stalked by the creepy clown.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feeding Frenzyby  Philip Marraccini
After murdering his wife Sally, Richard is forced to kill again in attempt to collect on her life insurance policy. As the investigation closes in on Richard, see if he escapes with the money thus committing the perfect crime. (A murder mystery with a comic twist)

Genre: Other
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned, partially destroyed shopping mall.

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 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
Crossing Armageddonby  Peyton Burkhart
An angelic warrior attempts to rally a small ragtag troop of soldiers to battle a demon horde to settle an ancient score. Help arrives in a most unusual way, in form of a most unusual savior.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Back from the Deadby  Vic Jones
A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.

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

Genre: Biographical
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby  Marc-Olivier louveau
Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A teenage model considered the most beautiful girl in the world is abducted by a meticulous curator who believes he is saving her from a society that consumes beauty. Trapped inside a private gallery built from her public image and stolen private moments, she turns the psychological game against him, dismantling his need for control and reclaiming her identityonly to discover that escaping captivity doesn't mean escaping the image the world refuses to let go.

Genre: Drama
14 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
Hard Choicesby  Sarah Kennedy
Autonomous technology developers grapple with a scenario that becomes terrifyingly personal.

Genre: Sci-Fi
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Killshot Kidby  Charles William Lane
When three-time loser, Fred Crumb, discovers a love for Jai Alai, he thinks he's on the road to redemption. But two rogue Interpol agents on the trail of a notorious Basque terrorist get in his way.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 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
The Shiftby  Gladman
A manipulative therapist accused of murdering his patient uses his final interrogation to expose evidence of a deeper conspiracyforcing his unseen interrogators to confront the possibility that he may be the key witness, not the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
A tormented artist prepares for his gallery debut by creating the ultimate pieceone that demands a part of himself.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If I Leave it Greenby  Rodney A Myers
Facing the cold reality of a corporate-driven future, an aging land owner must decide between a lucrative urban legacy and preserving the natural sanctuary that holds his most cherished memories.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Interviewby  Michael G Holmes
On the morning of an important interview, a bitter corporate lifer kills time with imagined self-sabotage, petty distractions, and fantasies of escape.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Home Truthsby  Richard Sloggett
A drunk man on his way home from work, stops to help a homeless person. Or is it the other way round?

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Going To The Topby  Matthew Belopavlovich
During the Gay Rights Movement in 1980s California, James and Thomas take a popular theme park to court after experiencing discrimination for dancing together and later, start a LGBT advocacy magazine.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Blessed Belt Buckleby  Frank Vespe
A Vietnamese belt buckle maker comes to terms with the effects of Agent Orange on his disabled son, fifty years after he fought in the jungles of Vietnam and how he struggles with the biggest decision of his life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something in the Waterby  Brandon Rhiness
When a group of hungover friends wakes up to a city-wide emergency alert warning of contaminated water, they must survive a descent into animalistic madness as the thirst for water turns into a hunger for flesh.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A lovelorn young man has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who encourages him to take a risk that may transcend time itself.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in creating a space fuel must confront their hidden origins and humanity's fate when mysterious extraterrestrial visitors arrive, offering a choice between saving Earth or joining a cosmic mission that will change everything.

Genre: Sci-Fi
36 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trombone or Modern Romanceby  Linda Kampley
Two college students meet in a cafe, don't really know how to talk to one another, and yet fall in love.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Where's Steve?by  Richard Wells
When a neglected houseplant discovers his owner has died after a drug-fuelled party, he must rely on a forgetful goldfish and a cactus with an identity crisis to uncover what happened before they all die of neglect.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Tenantby  Carl
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 Flingby  Jill Martin
Late December 1915 onboard the troop ship SS Pretorian, a young lad meets a battle-weary soldier returning from the Western Front who teaches him about heritage.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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