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The Perfect Neighborhoodby  Melissa Catena
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
The Door in the Clearing of the Woodsby  Ryan Armstrong
A much needed vacation causes a couple to retreat to a cabin where they find a mysterious new door nearby that brings deadly consequences.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A working man confesses to his best friend that his frustrating years of depending on the lottery to bring him fortune are over.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Mess With Babyby  Larry E Coleman
A hitman tracks down the runaway degenerate who got his family member pregnant and can't pull the trigger when he finds out who it is.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nuptualsby  Barry Staff
Wanting to consummate her marriage to a much older man, a virginal bride pushing 40 needs to cope when things go disastrously wrong.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Three Is an Odd Numberby  jonathan riikonen
Due to a rental office error, three very different guys with different interests end up living together wondered by their female neighbor, and added by a big and sloppy apartment house complex office lady.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Blind Dateby  Doug J Robbins
A ventriloquist goes on a blind speed date and fails miserably with the first date, but eventually meets his match in a lady puppeteer.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Political Science 101by  Donald Lewis
Struggling through stages of political grief, a working man finds that all is not lost -- there's always more to lose.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Light Before Morningby  Nyki King
A terminally ill 10-year-old boy named Kobe chooses to spend his final days inspiring acts of kindness, transforming his fractured family and community while leaving behind a legacy far greater than the time he has left.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A man sees an ultra-realistic vampire in a display window, and the diner owner next door swears the thing is alive. But that can't be true, can it?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
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Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Junkie's Flawby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby  Elliot Stanton
A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Doorsby  Barry Staff
Three 'remainers' congregate in a deserted pub and there contemplate whether the news that a meteorite will shortly destroy Earth is a hoax, but also to undertake their final acts in case it's true.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Carbon Datingby  Barry Staff
Wanting a girlfriend via dating sites while working a lonely late-night shift, a man needs a reappraisal when discovering a beautiful young vagrant hiding there.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What If God Was One Of Us?by  Adam Rocke
God assumes the guise of a homeless man to check in on humanity.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tragedy strikes a group of young friends when the high school misfit introduces them to a risky new game called Switch.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Life-changing Injuriesby  Barry Staff
A commuter just wants to complete his train journey home, but needs to handle the horrendous events standing in his way. [A single-location, one-actor scenario, shootable in a day, about a pointedly existential situation.]

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Virgin Brideby  Perk Perkins
After a drunken, groom-to-be receives a graphic photo of his fiance with another man, he mails the scandalous pic with all the wedding invites, but discovers the picture was a prank from his best man, leading to a blood-soaked chain reaction.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chocolate, Moose, and Titsby  Larry E. Coleman
A man who wants to come clean with a secret he's been hiding from his girlfriend, gets advice from three versions of himself from alternative universes.

Genre: Animation
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After buying his dream car, a struggling wedding photographer is haunted by a mysterious radio that forces him to obey terrifying supernatural commands, uncovering a deadly curse where every photograph brings him closer to becoming its next victim.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Invadedby  Dexter Williams
A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 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
White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby  Susie Schecter
Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Orangesby  Sari Akhavan
A nice cosy family dinner at home, while the neighborhood outside is being bombed.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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 Last Voicemailby  Dwayne Bricker
On the morning her estranged father is scheduled to be taken off life support, a young woman hides in her apartment, ignoring the hospital's callsuntil voicemails from his number begin arriving, time‑stamped today and eerily describing her present moment. As they build toward one final live call, she must choose between staying safely angry or risking a last, painful conversation.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Andrea and Jackby  Christopher Andre
Inside a reconstructed town built from her fractured memories, Andrea confronts her dead brother Jack and discovers that the truth of his death and the mysterious force attached to him may be far more dangerous than the guilt that brought her there.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Sex Shoesby  Ron Brawer
When an aging Casanova hooks up with a young Louboutins-loving lawyer, past follies surface -- with Fellini-esque consequences.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Freezeby  Jon Platt
Far in the future, a teenage schoolgirl has the cryogenically frozen head of a scientist of our time thawed...to help her with her history homework.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clella (Pathways Of The Heart)by  Diane Yates
In the Ozark Mountains, a selfless woman of indomitable spirit shoulders the weight of the Great Depression, raising six children and tending the farm while her husband turns to drinking, gambling, and womanizing. When he abandons her, a mysterious guitar player arrives on the scene, and she must choose between loyalty to her past and a possible new future. (Based on a true story.)

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Close Enoughby  Steven Burton
The boundaries of the long-term platonic friendship between Larry, a straight man, and Gary, a gay man, are challenged as they deal with other life issues.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a shadowy leader stands on the edge of powerworshiped by the masses, haunted by their own liesthey must decide: leap into legend or let the herd's blind devotion become their executioner.

Genre: Drama
5 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
Strategic Ambiguity 101by  John Boal
Forced to teach a new mandatory business class called "Strategic Ambiguity 101", Professor Mandella tells his students that future business leaders must abandon traditional communications of clarity; learn how to send mixed messages and subvert the truth to be successful. Yet as his savvy Gen Z students share their brutally honest feedback about this deceptive and all too pervasive tactic, they teach him a life lesson with Professor Mandella rediscovering his true self.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hierarchyby  Charles Hall
An off-campus meeting between a senior professor and an enigmatic student turns hostile when a chilling assertion is made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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