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Second Windby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes “one crease at a time.” Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
If I Left Earlyby  Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
Living with his ambitious breadwinning girlfriend, a young job-hunting loser feels left behind in life and relationship. Motivated, he works to get things back on track, but all of that is halted when a call comes in and the unpredictable happens.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stairwaysby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2025
When luminous stairways rise worldwide, a grieving scientist descends into one to rescue the lost and discovers the only way to save humanity is to embrace imperfection.

Genre: Sci-Fi
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rise of Tony Rainesby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
An escaped convict confronts a guy he plans on murdering and stealing his Halloween costume.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2025
Guy painfully caught between the "love of his life" sending him a final goodbye via live video and his commitment to meet with his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's committed to a serious relationship and their first evening of love, and is waiting for him at her flat.Their scene of love-making ends shockingly with "rebound girlfriend" raging at him for using her. The result is a twist, a deadly tragedy twist.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tequila Slammerby  Ray Smith
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
When a betrayed husband wakes up from a tequila-fueled car crash with no memory of who he is, he must unravel his identity while evading vengeful gangsters, Russian mobsters, and a relentless hitman—or else become collateral damage in a twisted web of stolen cash and deadly secrets.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
For Whom The Chimes Tollby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2025
Unable to sleep, a lonely, embittered old man spends the early hours of the morning drinking brandy and reminiscing on his life. The actions of which, ultimately, call time on his earthly existence.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Let Us Preyby  James D. Tuverson III
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2025
Three very different men confront themselves and each other during a grueling group-therapy session. One man, however, will discover his greatest struggle is within. If he loses the battle between his morals and urges, he may become the Devil himself. This short was a FINALIST at the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mismatchby  Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
A quirky and neurotic art student, confined to her apartment, must overcome her condition to be with the love of her life.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wasabiby  John McCarney
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2025
A night out for an affluent millennial couple unravels after a clash over whether to help a homeless man.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby  Jack Halliday
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Paradeby  William Douglas
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2025
Can a 10-year-old boy steal an unhappy elephant, find him a good home, fall in love and get his first kiss, all in one week?

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Echoby  Amrita Baines
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what’s following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem natural—until they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening… and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Conceptionby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025
The very start of the Armageddon is captured on film for posterity by an extremely proud father, god help us all.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lucky Strikeby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
The most fortunate event will take down your relationship in an instant.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2025
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Just Digby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2025
When Weston becomes obsessed with digging in his rundown house's garden, much to the dismay of his wife Nicky and their elderly neighbours, he unearths an alien spaceship buried beneath.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cowardly Lyonsby  Patrice Sarath
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2024
The squabbling Lyon family comes together to protect their matriarch when she's haunted by a disapproving spirit.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Escortsby  Kami sadraei
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Struggling to pay for his mother’s hospice care, a down on his luck actor gets dragged into the violent criminal underworld of Los Angeles by getting a job driving 2 escorts.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Matesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 10 Dec 2024
A new inmate learns her prison cell is haunted by a brutal male spirit, forcing her into a deadly struggle for survival against the unseen.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cracked Shellsby  Mark Konik
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
Two lonely hearts meet via online dating. One dressed as a chicken, the other infatuated with someone else. Can Lance and Kristen find love with each other?

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Betty and Booby  Patrice Sarath
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2024
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime Episode 2 Tea Timeby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2025
Zoe is close to her magic Teddy Bear, and their relationship has parallels; their fights, in particular, mimic Mom and Dad's.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby  Andrea Zastrow
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2025
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father’s Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Manby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
With a dangerous cartel coming after them, two men need to kill a third to save their own skin, now hoping that a blind butcher will do the dirty work for them.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fear the Unknown Graveby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2024
Ten-year-old Brian is terrified of his own mother, who becomes possessed by a demon after visiting an old unmarked grave near their home.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2025
A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffled—Mondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won’t let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.

Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shockingby  Glenn Pollard
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2025
John owns a business repairing electrical appliances. What his assistant, Will, does not know is that the store is going bankrupt. What John does not know is that Will has a way of saving it. But which option is the best?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossroadsby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
A teenage girl makes a deal with the Devil to beat her friend at Pokemon Go, only to capture him in a Poke Ball and unleash chaos.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 01 May 2025
Can a man with a crippling social anxiety win the woman he loves over his alter ego crutch and her cheating boyfriend?

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby  Deogratias Nyakiki
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2025
Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pool Boyby  Joseph Anthony Francis
Date Posted: 09 May 2024
When an unemployed deaf man takes a job as a pool boy, he finds himself caught in a game of manipulation and seduction.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2025
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby  Christopher Harmon
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
A prison-hardened grief counselor is confronted with a group therapy session where all the patients suffer because of the violent actions of one man…John Wick. She organizes a protest, in order to provoke him to move away – but it does not work out as planned.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
My Weekendby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Spending the weekend creating a suicide vest for his young daughter, a disillusioned father has a terrible plan for her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bogey 3by  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Four elite Desert Storm pilots are assigned to a wasteland to find and destroy an Iraqi “Red Baron” that’s halted the U.S. campaign, but instead find something worse.

Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
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
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuses—hiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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