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A Slice of Romanceby  Jack Sherry
In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pilgrim's Hopeby  Kelvin Njogu Ngugi
A young man of faith , bullied at school and abused at home, must choose between breaking under the weight of persecutionor and becoming a light to the very people who hate him.

Genre: Other
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Marxby  Barry Staff
Re-materialising today in mutual haunt Soho, London, Groucho Marx and Karl Marx find both want capitalism finally laughed into oblivion, but as they conflict over methods to use, they try to locate the one place where Karl was listened to before.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An alien son asks his alien father why his people probe people with humorous and thought-provoking results.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Robbie in Loveby  Lew Osteen
Virtual Reality AU Robot thinks he is in love.

Genre: Sci-Fi
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Two disenchanted Gen-Z use the GEEKERS Dating app to meet-up and have a night long conversation walking the neighborhoods of Manhattan.

Genre: Romance
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Harboring A Fugitiveby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
Senator Marcus has had a long career of staunch anti-abortion legislation, yet a simple conversation with an off-kilter doctor will change his views forever.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jack's Mom Autism Warrior Princessby  Lawrence Riggins
The humorous true story of a supermodel who leaves celebrity life to raise her autistic son. Trading designer gowns for parenthood-on-steroids, this Autimom uses love, determination, and comedy to treat her boy's disorder while defending him from attacks by close-minded individuals. True beauty triumphs as her remarkable son overcomes his disability to thrive as a young man. Short, TV Series, Family Comedy, Female Lead. 27 Awards.

Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby  David Ezell
A former child star spirals as he becomes convinced that the people he loves most have been replaced by impostors.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Things I Should Have Saidby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
Cecil is a odd ball kid from a small town and a Pizza man, he is thrust into a world where he has to play out a Cyrano De Bergerac and emerge triumphant among bullies and bad bosses and dire need for romance.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Degreeby  Barry Staff
Wanting a meaningful relationship for once, a strung-out womaniser goes to a quiet beach to try with Nature herself, but needs to prove his sincerity to make any headway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Salt Shakerby  Michael J Volpe
A dinner among longtime Washington, DC friends escalates into conflict as Woke vs MAGA political differences surface, turning a simple request for a salt shaker into a breaking point. When a sudden health crisis follows, the friends are forced to confront the real life cost of division and what it will take to reconcile.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bob and Jackby  Doug J Robbins
Bob and Jack need money, and Bob obtains it through humorous means.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A marine biologist battles to survive when her dive partner mutates after a deep-sea octopus biterevealing an alien species preparing to rise from the oceans and reclaim Earth.

Genre: Sci-Fi
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Pumpkinby  Doug J Robbins
The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Complaint to the Powerfulby  Hiabu Hassebu
After being prey to Eagles for years, the Hens complain to the Powerful to redo their fate of living and to possess flying wings so they can protect themselves from the sky strikers.

Genre: Animation
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Taste of Beliefby  Danny King
When a psychology professor challenges his students with a parable about restaurants, a fiery clash between science and conspiracy forces them to confront a deeper truth: you can't judge an idea until you've tasted it yourself.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby  Robert Drusetta
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
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Return of Hopeby  Ershov Konstantin
Three characters "don't see, don't hear, don't speak" receive a mysterious box that could change their lives.

Genre: Fantasy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Timeby  Deanne Gittens
A young woman struggles to understand why she keeps waking up in the middle of the night to a ringing cell phone and mysterious voices just outside her window.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bare Bonesby  Nan Schmid
While renovating her bathroom, a woman finds bones under the floorboards, then an animal communicator comes to visit and gets imprisoned for murder.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
The Locked Roomby  KS Punithakumar
Waking up disoriented in a windowless, concrete room with only a speaker on the wall, a confused man must piece together his missing memories of the previous night while an unseen voice interrogates him.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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 Comeback of Irish Bobby Gunnby  Ben Fiore
On the night of his unlikely comeback, a proud, aging boxer refuses a bribe to take a diveuntil his desperate manager claims his life is at stake, forcing the battered fighter to choose between one last shot at glory and a sacrifice that could cost him everything.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shopping Cartby  Steven Burton
A woman searches to find a stranger man for the return of his fold-able shopping cart, along with the futile search for her long-lost son.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby  Jason K. Allen
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
War Scarlettby  Niagara Ross
After returning from the war, Scarlett tries to start a new life, but the accidental killing of a drunken bully in a bar sets off a chain of events that forces her to become a soldier again-this time in her own country.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby  Tina Gandhi
Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby  Gregory George Sarno
Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
What It's All Aboutby  John Worsley
When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Cupidby  Janet Prescott
A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cuddly Toyby  CARLOS ALEX CENI
The life of a handicapped guy takes a dramatic turn when he looks out the window and spots a cuddly toy next to a wheelie bin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 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
They All Want the King Deadby  NG
Feature Length Version Available. Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She is an Alienby  Niagara Ross
A clumsy office worker falls in love with a charming new colleague, but his world is turned upside down when he learns she is an alien from another planet with a secret mission.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A young black priest takes a life-changing opportunity at a convent dating back to the birth of New Orleans and discovers secrets that shake his sanity as much as his faith. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

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