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A Fine Dayby Dempsey Samways
A relaxing day-off for stoner Danny quickly goes sideways when a mysterious agency of 'Enforcement Officers' begin fining him for increasingly nonsensical offences.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby Iris Mangual
After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Padres e Hijosby John Porter
A young Latino learns to thank his father for having loved him enough to stay alive.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 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
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rewardby Wayne E. Johnson
A homeless man decides to put his life in order by learning accounting and getting a job, but when ordered to perform illegal operations by his employer, he becomes a whistle blower and learns that honesty and integrity sometimes come with a heavy price.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
For Gold's Sakeby Tina Field Howe
An estranged daughter confronts her dying father to learn where he hid a fortune in gold doubloons.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Have a Hella Christmasby Lawrence Riggins
Lucifer crashes the announcer's booth at a Christmas Parade insisting that HIS float from the Netherworld partake in the festivities -- and win a trophy, or else...! Irreverent, wacky, obscene. Three performers.
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Atticby Jack Polo
An alien Creature, hiding in a young family's attic, makes their lives a living hell until the son strikes back.
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Driver Sevenby Elliot Stanton
A vintage car appears like an irresistible purchase, but at what real cost? An unassuming man is convinced to buy a pristine classic car from a mysterious seller. Even though the car is beautiful, it hides a dark and deadly secret that it soon unleashes on its new owner.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby Jason K. Allen
Two freakish outcasts - a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis - are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Mouse's Lamentby John Porter
Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sakoby Tigran Vardanyan
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
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Not?by Steven Blows
A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby Mike Bevins
A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby M Kenya Branch
After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shoesby Carlos Alex Ceni
The life of a middle-aged man turns into a nightmare when, after moving into a small block of flats, finds himself involved in a series of quarrels with some of his neighbors, leading him to take an ingenious but risky move to turn things around.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Substitutionby Dwayne Craig Bricker
During detention, a substitute confiscates phones and forces "consent" clicksuntil the students realize he's not a teacher, he's a replacement.
Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Boundsby Adam Rocke
The Women's National Petunia Golf Tour has mediocre players, terrible prize money and a serial killer.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gamesby Bari K. Willerford
A couple in bed after making love, perfect! Except when the man and woman verbally communicate, fireworks.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Burning Manby Jack Halliday
A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mulligan'sby John LaVine
A man sacrifices everything to go back in time to correct a life altering mistake, but his new life presents another obstacle he must overcome.
Genre: Fantasy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby John Alexander Fraser
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: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tapeby Bari K. Willerford
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
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
