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Ozmosisby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2024
A young professional’s life is changed for eternity when he unwittingly makes the choice between trading one heinous addiction for another on a different level.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chucklesby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cult of Dionysusby  Yaroslav Tryniv
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2023
An insidious enemy is ready to call the gods to his side in order to gain the throne, but Macarius has to accept the challenge and fight with him.

Genre: Action/Adventure
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Abel's Promiseby  Anthony Crossen
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023
When a cop learns of his wife's affair with someone close to the family, his only choice to protect his family is outside the law.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
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
Welcome to '79by  D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
Girls. Gigs. Growing up. Redondo Beach; 1979. Teenage Dion is a dreamer and a drummer; together with his three best friends, he’s ready to spend the summer surfing, playing gigs and meeting girls. Slowly, each of these things changes or falls apart or just disappears. He wishes for them back. He wishes himself away. And finally, he embraces and clings to the unknown, because it’s the only thing he has left.

Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Daggersby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Urchinby  Diana Kemp
Date Posted: 29 Dec 2023
A lonely veteran discovers the meaning of Christmas after encountering a mysterious little boy.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Irresistible Rageby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2024
A policeman receives threats against his family who leads the investigation against the son of a local political who is involved in drug trafficking, and the end of work the policeman finds his whole family dead at home.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Most Unusual Visitorby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A woman receives a visit from a man who is the spitting image of her dead husband.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All in a Day's Workby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
A husband will do anything to make his wife and daughter happy while keeping them in the dark about the nature of his day job.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Perspectivesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
Two lovers plot a violent act of revenge to escape their abuser, but their shared trauma complicates their path to freedom.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Tripby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
ONE LOCATION: About to turn thirty, George wants to try something wild and different. So convincing his friends to try acid with him for the first time they hire Cameron, an old school hippie, but the acid trip he's got planned is one no one is going to return from.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Numbersby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A plucky bunch of nerds get more than they bargained for when they uncover an ancient evil and must fight for their lives as midnight approaches on Halloween.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Summer of Loveby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
In 1970 San Francisco Hippies cavort, bombs drop on Hanoi, and a church is formed to beat draft. Be-ins, Trips Festival, Black Panthers, and SFPD appear. Protagonist holds church services and appears before the Draft Board for 4D Ministerial Deferment. He gets the deferment church and the San Francisco Art Colony burn to the ground.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Lenaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
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
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangerous Vocationby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
Three friends during outdoor activities witness the murder of a person by two unknown men, but the girls manage to escape. Two men who not long ago escaped from the police for murdering a married couple do not want to leave the girls alive as witnesses who saw them and start hunting them.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Straight Talk with Sadie & Santaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
On Christmas Eve, a little girl wakes to find Santa rummaging through her fridge. After scolding him about his diet, she proceeds to grill him about reindeer, elves, bad gifts and other curiosities, and soon develops a new understanding about Christmas. Santa, meanwhile, gets a dose of reality himself – and perhaps a new friend.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Giftby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025
In 1977, a young man receives a camera that takes disturbing pictures. (1 location, 1 actor. Produced writer, see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Going Homeby  Rhuben
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2024
After a 4 year sentence in jail, VINGO, an ex-convict, hopes to reunite with his family. Only hope and faith leads him through his journey, as he travels by bus through the towns to his home town, wife and kids.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hit and Runby  Marc Prey
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2025
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cliff Effectby  Esra Cengel
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
An arrogant man persistently kicks a woman off a cliff, underestimating her pure love, and Karma eventually caught up with him in a tragic-comic way.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
One Kind Actby  Marian Mangoubi
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2023
As Christmas approaches, Hope, an unemployed, well-educated widowed mother on the brink of homelessness learns the value of small acts of kindness.

Genre: Family
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Blood, White, And Blueby  Antoine Mizel
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2025
Set in a future where the families of murder victims are legally sanctioned to face those convicted in a 3-minute death match, an apprehensive, yet determined couple, faces off with their daughter's killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Beholdby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2024
A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Davids and Goliathsby  Spartak Proda
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2024
Imagine for one second that tomorrow you wake up 50% heavier. Earth has changed its gravity, and you and I are facing the fate of the dinosaurs. Governments are aware and have created a survival plan for the species with the "Davids and Goliaths" project. An assassin uncovers everything. Secret biogenetic experiments. The Goliaths and the Davids, are at war. The introduction of heavy metals into Earth’s core is bringing forth a new order.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When I Fallby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
James returns to his family home in a wheelchair with his fiancée, determined to undergo a risky operation that could help him walk again

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Report Just In...by  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
A schoolboy’s ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024
Darryl and his right hand man Ryan's lavish lifestyle from drug dealing comes apart when Darryl’s girlfriend Sharice unveils something sinister neither one of them saw coming.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pair of Silk Stockingsby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A silent fantasy based on Kate Chopin’s short story (published in 1897, now in the public domain) about a mother who takes care of her children and herself, too.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Mouseby  Sergey Dobrine
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025
During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Best of Timesby  Jim Norman
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2024
Four Vietnam veterans in a retirement home play their own version of Blackjack until a strange, new, entertainment employee changes the rules of the game and one veteran’s life.

Genre: Fantasy
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Heartwarming Horrorby  Jennifer Milne
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
A couple on a first date realize the premise of a heartwarming romance could just as easily be a horrifying horror movie, and get a little of both when they go back to her place.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 06 May 2025
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
How The Pimp Saved Christmasby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A pimp and his three prostitutes sub in for Santa Claus when the big man has a cold one Christmas Eve.

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dianeby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2024
When three thugs and a space alien cross paths, a warehouse turns into a battle scene.. and a learned lesson.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Something for the Weeekendby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gatorsby  Linda Kampley
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
An emotionally troubled woman becomes fascinated by 'gators.

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