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How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby John Porter

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An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

God's Away On Businessby Benjamin Guerra

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When a Catholic priest dies and doesn't see God, all hell breaks loose.

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

The Third Knockby Dewayne

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After his young daughter's death, a guilt-ridden father begins hearing three knocks at his door every night at 2:12 AM. When the voice outside belongs to the child he left to die, he realizes something supernatural has learned her voiceand it won't stop knocking until he lets it inside.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Blue Horsesby Paolo Galli

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Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

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

Rage Betty Page Rageby Lawrence Riggins

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True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Hard Hatsby Tina Field Howe

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A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Let Us Preyby James D. Tuverson III

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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

When You Go to Townby Susan Jordan

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A chance encounter at a thrift store leads a divorced woman to ask, "Could I have gone the distance?"

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

Xanadu Shoresby Jay Loish

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Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping. Needing help, our hero leaves clues unaware of a capricious agent and his comely accomplice are following his friends by land, air, and sea. The unscrupulous authorities are seeking the loot, confronting the criminals, culminating explosively with the sun rising on XANADU SHORES. It's about desire and duty to friends. A lively yarn encapsulated by adventure.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Fishing in Heavenby Art D'Alessandro

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When 8 year-old Alex's Grandpa, her best friend and fishing buddy, dies suddenly, she has a hard time dealing with the loss and life itself. But in a dream she finds herself fishing with him again in a beautiful, almost magical place, only to waken with a whole new way of seeing things.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Horse in a Saloonby Nickolas Snider

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It's about a horse named Buck, who was once human and after he was turned by an evil warlock. He decides to go into a saloon to prove he's more than just a horse as such.

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Prisoners' Songby John Porter

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A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it

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

The Last Gameby John Klawitter

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Pregnant, Sandy has to give away her baby before she is executed tomorrow.

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

Lost Happinessby Marc-Olivier louveau

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Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

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

The Lace Table Clothby Frank Vespe

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A family heirloom resurrects some unexpected visitors.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

All This and Heaven, Tooby John Porter

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A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.

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

How Do You Get to Margie's House?by John Porter

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With a lot of love but a very bad sense of direction, a young man tries to get to his lady's house by 5 p.m.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

A Devil's Bargainby Cassandra Wells

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When Soho, a 17th century Caddo (Native American), becomes painfully aware of what fate awaits her people with the arrival of Spanish conquistadors into what will become Texas, she enters into an unholy alliance with an Old World witch who has been "imported" from Europe to exact a fitting vengeance upon the merciless interlopers.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Trip the Light Fantasticby Bari K. Willerford

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A lonely man goes to a dance party. He notices a lonely woman across the room. Their eyes meet. Boom!

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Can You Hear Me Now?by Bob Messinger

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Estranged from friends and family, Jake is forced to confront the voices he's been hearing and eerie phone calls he's been getting since childhood.

Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Flossy Forwardby Apostolos P. Kouroumalis

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If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Clownby DJ Robbins

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A weird clown hands Steve a balloon at a campus Halloween carnival, and he and his friends find themselves stalked by the creepy clown.

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

The Lost Pianistby Frank J Dellipoala

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A haunted pianist must survive a night of terror when genetically enhanced predatorstriggered by the frequencies of his musicescape into a locked-down concert hall, forcing him to confront the childhood monsters he can no longer outrun.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Truth or Dieby James D. Tuverson III

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Two teenagers find themselves on a steep cliff overlooking the mountainside. They play a game, Truth or Lie, to determine the circumstances that brought both to the precipice. As the truth is revealed, the games changes from Truth or Lie... to Truth or Die. This short was a QUARTERFINALIST in the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

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

Cat Mouse Catby Mark Konik

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When a bored office worker Whitfield secretly hires a contract killer to hunt him down, he finally feels alive. That is until he discovers the assassin thinks the contract includes actually killing him, and a second hitwoman arrives to eliminate them both.

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

Madame Presidentby Mich

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Susie Q. pounds on 'Heaven's Door' demanding to talk to 'The Man' about her becoming the First Woman President of the U.S. Secretly, she wants his blessing.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Unbelongerby Brandi Self

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After becoming stranded in the desert, an outcast soldier is attacked by a stranger who looks just like him.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Rebirth Morgueby Wilson Espinal

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After a young boy vanishes under impossible circumstances, a trio of paranormal operatives employed by a covert morgue uncover a deadly spirit and wage war against the supernatural forces preying on the living.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

A Man's Manby Art D'Alessandro

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Jake,15, readies for his first date, and good ol' dad is right in his corner, with tips on just how to handle a woman, but after Jake rides his scooter over to Sasha's house we find out more about their relationship, and how Jake's Pop got it all wrong.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Weird Realtyby Elise Marenson

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When a female realtor calls on a guy to sell his house, he doesn't recognize her and has no clue that her biting remarks come from him standing her up in high school.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Watchersby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a rescue chopper can't reach her, Ranger Elena records her final night in a forest where strange lights stalk the trees. As unseen figures circle, whispering her own words back at her, she discovers the forest itself is copying life to survive the cold. With dawn hours away, Elena must choose between burning the cabin or becoming one of them.

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

Cross Wiresby Gregory Stallworth

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Cross Wires is a suspenseful story of corporate executive who receives voice messages on his office phone of an international drug trafficking operation within the corporation where he is employed. Faced with a decision of staying silent to what he knows or becoming a Corporate Whistleblower and not only risk his career, however his life.

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Shiftby Gladman

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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

Tetheredby James B Barker

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When a struggling screenwriter's horror script is greenlit for production, her screenplay begins rewriting itself, trapping her inside the story she created. As a sinister digital entity known as Unbound forces fiction to become reality, she must outwrite the nightmare before the ending demands the ultimate sacrifice.

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

Do Unto Othersby Joe Leone

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An elderly woman and a middle-aged business banker form a bond based on mutual respect and the "golden rule." One good deed leads to another in this feel-good drama about living the golden rule. A chance encounter of two kindred spirits leads to enlightenment and realization of purpose as they lean upon one another for strength and support in their hour of need.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Lathroby Aliki Sakallerou-Kokkinou

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A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The Beachby William Walkerley

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In the near future, euthanasia is legal, and the elderly who continue to clog up the healthcare system are offered a cash incentive to end their lives; one senior takes the cash, has a sudden change of heart, but finds out that that is not an option.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

The World According To Bull - Gone Fishingby Perk Perkins

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When a cynical twenty-five-year-old woman drags her politically incorrect, 89-year-old grandfather on a fishing trip, the old man strikes up an unlikely, heartwarming friendship with a lonely ten-year-old boy who has never fished before.

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

The Old Man in the Skull Maskby DJ Robbins

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An old masked killer stalks someone on Halloween.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Proof of Serviceby Lantie Foster

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Two neighbors in corporate housing share a home service robot. When one woman misses a payment, the building's "care" protocols activate, and the apartment begins asserting ownership over everything, including her.

Genre: Sci-Fi
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles