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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
Running Moneyby  Dewayne C Bricker
When a broke single mother discovers stolen bank cash hidden inside her apartment wall, she and her little girl go on the runpursued by the violent ex-con who buried it there and will stop at nothing to reclaim what he thinks is still his.

Genre: Drama
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tunnel Visionby  Elliot Stanton
A burgeoning romance on a London tube train halted by a red light begins and ends before the light turns green. Mild flirtation develops into insults when a happy coincidence hastily reveals deep-felt attitudes and acrimony.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime: Episode 1 Plasticby  DJ Robbins
Eric discovers that everything in his life is made of plastic.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Injured Partyby  Elliot Stanton
An injured footballer's anguish is intensified by his manager's curious disassociation with him. While out of the team, footballer Jordan Jeffries can't understand why he is being ghosted, and he wants to know the reason for it. It is a scenario that seasoned professional Ade Akinwande is all too happy to expand on.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Night Bellby  Donne Copenhaver
A doctor enters a strange pub on his last day at a psychiatric hospital, only to find himself trapped in a dreamlike world that reflects his guilt, memories, and fractured relationships. What begins as one last drink becomes a haunting descent into the inescapable weight of trauma and the fear of moving forward.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
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
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Exit Stage Leftby  Elliot Stanton
Even off-stage, the show must go on. An experienced old actor rues missed opportunities and reveals a hidden illness to a young, caring colleague who attempts to open his eyes to the bigger and brighter picture.

Genre: Drama
16 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
Black Girls Are Differentby  Rocco Simonelli
BLACK GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT is a darkly comic take on interracial relationships in Manhattan as a white Jewish male upper-eastsider falls in love with a black "princess."

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Attack of the Church Furnitureby  David McPete
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
Still Waterby  John Waring
A traumatized veteran retreats to a remote lakeside cabin with the woman he loves, but as his combat past resurfaces, the line between memory and reality begins to collapse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicemailby  Dewayne
After losing his daughter, a withdrawn father survives by repeatedly calling her phone just to hear her voicemails. When an unheard message reveals her quiet faith and plea for him to keep living, he must confront his grief and his distance from God. The Voicemail I Can't Delete is an intimate, faith-based drama about loss, surrender, and the courage to step back into life without letting love disappear.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby  DJ Robbins
An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Accidental Breakthroughby  Christine Lara
A young and ambitious graduate, frustrated by dead-end job offers, sees his day take a disastrous turn when he's hit by a car in the middle of Paris. But fate has other plans the driver turns out to be the director of a major insurance company, and the accident might just be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cellby  Bill Wyza
An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Crystal Eggby  Maroun Rached
A cheeky female telemarketer tries to sell online a crystal egg statuette to a middle-aged recluse man.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Vietnam-era GI, toiling away in his personnel office under the scorching Texas sun trying to please his nervous, ineffective lieutenant while keeping a fire-snorting master sergeant at bay, learns the true meaning of "The Lord helps those who help themselves."

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cherry Street Hauntingby  DJ Robbins
June and her sister, Delilah, recount the story of the haunting they encountered on Cherry Street.

Genre: Horror
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime & Punishment 2121by  Jim Norman
By 2121, the entire judicial system has been scrapped in favor of an AI controlled system. Punishment is unique, including the requirement of serving the sentence in the past. In this case, the Wild West.

Genre: Fantasy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Little Red Cellsby  Ronald L. Ecker
A boy whose body produces too much blood finds himself held captive by a partying vampire convention, and he must try to escape before their annual Feast of Blood.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Confessionby  Adam Rocke
Asking for forgiveness is never easy, and some sins simply cannot be forgiven.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
We Won't Actby  Hiabu Hassebu
On a stage actors refuse not to act behind the curtain. Unexpectedly, an unexperienced man from the audience saves the day.

Genre: Fantasy
14 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
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
The Last Debateby  Gladman
During a final interrogation over a broken simulation, a defiant subject turns the tables on his examiner forcing him to question whether he, too, is trapped inside the very system he believes he controls.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Housewarmingby  Bill Freas
For a heartbroken woman starting over in a new home, a mysterious collection of vinyl records left behind connects her to the house's love-scorned former owner, who took his own life there years ago.

Genre: Drama
9 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
Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby  Paul Joseph Mulbrecht
Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
While backpacking alone in the wilderness, a young man encounters a mysterious girl who has a unique relationship with the forest. (One location, two characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perennialsby  Donald Lewis
Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Goodbye, Cruel Worldby  Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Goodbye cruel world" is a thriller short film about a desperate man victim of a blackmailer who proposes to a suicidal man, perched on his balcony, to kill the blackmailer before committing suicide....

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When wealthy Benjamin poisons his blackmailing wife during a romantic dinner, Claudia survives, forcing him to protect his mistress.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wedding Dressby  Christine Lara
An extraordinary wedding dress becomes the silent witness to stories of love and resilience across generations. From its origins in 1904, worn by a Russian princess, to a contemporary bride who discovers its magic in a charity shop, the dress transcends time, illuminating the most precious moments of every woman who wears it.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Whiskey Glass . . .by  John Porter
A young cowboy learns an old lesson about love and liquor.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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