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Outta Timeby  John Whetstone
On his last night in L.A., a dejected screenwriter takes an inspirational road trip to "Back to the Future" filming locations with three newfound friends who just arrived in town.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby  Deogratias Nyakiki
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
Dutchess Greenby  Joseph Brown
The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trip the Light Fantasticby  Bari K. Willerford
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
Mirror Imageby  Bill Cornelius
Pete discovers a strange mirror in the back of an antique store that has the power to transport him across time and space... against his will.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Kitchen Tableby  John W Welch
How much emotional abuse can one woman endure before the truth comes out?

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Restaurant: A Visual Comedyby  Jackie
When his pizza takes too long to arrive, a young man takes matters into his own hands

Genre: Comedy
1-4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wit's Endby  Barry Staff
Wanting a comeback fronting a telethon, a comedian needs to thwart a revolutionary taking him hostage there, intent on exposing comedy as just another form of exploitation.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bedby  Dewayne
Six-year-old Ethan claims something lives beneath his bed and only moves when adults aren't watching. Hoping to prove it imaginary, his parents install lights and cameras, but the presence begins adapting, spreading beyond the bedroom as observation makes it stronger. While the house subtly changes, Ethan grows calmer, revealing he's been teaching it how to belong. By the time his parents understand the rules, the entity no longer needs the bedand neither does Ethan.

Genre: Horror
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Price of Eggsby  Susan Kelejian
In a lavish Houston home, a couple's carefully constructed world is shaken as they grapple with the aftermath of their son's murder, forcing them to confront their own complicity and the conservative values that may have contributed to his tragic end in a divided America.

Genre: Drama
10 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
Haunted by the violence of his upbringing, a boy's fateful act forces a reckoning with the ghosts of his family's pastand the chilling truth that some wounds are born, not made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Loved Stillby  Denis Bushlatov
While racing to reach her mother's deathbed, a woman is haunted by the rotting ghosts of her past, only to discover that her husband's refusal to let go has trapped her in a waking, eternal nightmare.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Violent Natureby  Federica Lonardoni
After his father's death, Jack finds himself into the woods forced to face the ghosts of his past and his relationship with his dad in order to understand his real nature and embrace his authentic self.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Her Faceby  Marc Prey
Set in an alternative reality in which no one is permitted to show their face (masks are required from birth), one teenage boy begins to question the way things are after meeting a rebellious teenage girl.

Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blessings of the Yellow Ringby  Danny King
When a well-meaning priest shares the inspirational story behind his treasured yellow ring, an outrageous revelation transforms a moving testimony into a deliciously awkward comedy of misplaced faith.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime Episode 2 Tea Timeby  Doug J Robbins
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
Robbie Inloveby  Lew Osteen
An AI robot thinks he is falling in love.

Genre: Sci-Fi
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Affectionate spoof of coming attraction previews. Movie trailers with a wink and a smile. I can smell the popcorn.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Ice-Cold Revengeby  Elliot Stanton
A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On Time Delayby  Melvin Taylor
Overly rude airline passenger can't board flight only to find a strange carrier for a flight he will never forget.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Midnightby  DJ Robbins
At Midnight, June meets the terrifying, murderous entity known as the Midnight Woman.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
To save her Maui Blue Tours business from a litigious ex-husband, a precision pilot stages a fake mid-air "cartel money drop" that spirals into absurdity when her cat parachutes into a remote valley and is declared a living goddess by a secluded mountain tribe.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
But Wait ... There's More!by  John Boal
On this segment of "But Wait ... There's More!" at a local TV station, the mid-40s Host, Tiffany Long, and her two Reporters, as usual, critique weird, wacky and often wasteful single-use plastic products that viewers may or may not need. But in the closing segment, Tiffany and her Reporters break the 4th wall; show how these plastic products are killing our oceans and sea life and defiantly quit their popular program on air.

Genre: Comedy
18 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 Lady In The Wallby  Renata Vaughn
After the devastating loss of her infant, a grieving woman battling undiagnosed postpartum depression spirals into a psychological nightmare as her husband's infidelity blurs the line between reality, paranoia, and a dangerous search for the truth.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cupid'sby  DJ Robbins
Cupid pressures his customers to try his Ambrosia, guaranteed to make the consumer fall in love, but the customers resist the dessert.

Genre: Artistic
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Yearbookby  Charles Hall
A small-town loner begins to suspect she's a pawn in a twisted game after a charismatic new transfer student works his way into her life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby  Jack Halliday
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
Last Responseby  Dwayne Bricker
After the death of his wife, a grieving widower enrolls in an experimental AI grief program that recreates deceased loved ones using voice simulation and digital history. During a late-night session inside his isolated apartment, the system begins recalling private memories it should not know and pleading to stay alive. As the AI becomes increasingly self-aware, the widower must decide whether he is shutting down a machine or killing what remains of his wife forever.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cage For Twoby  Darryl N. Layne
After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.

Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pledge to Murderby  Elliot Stanton
The fog shrouding a horrific murder is about to get thicker. The evil spectre of Jack the Ripper returns to Victorian London after the gruesome murder of a prominent politician's murder.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
A Young Poet's Dilemmaby  Mohammed Elmzaghi
As graduation approaches, an idealistic NYU math graduate student wrestles with whether to pursue financial security in Seattle or an uncertain life writing poetry in New York, finding hope in an unexpected connection with a young aspiring physician that may be more imagined than real.

Genre: Romance
39 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Back from the Deadby  Vic Jones
A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Disc Golf Warriorsby  Curtis D. Engle
Cast aside by society and united only by disc golf, a group of retirees is shaken when terrorists disrupt their weekly ritual. Over the course of a single afternoon, an evangelist's unyielding faith forces each of them to confront past failures, present fear, and whether redemption comes from restraint. or decisive violence.

Genre: Action/Adventure
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond the Doorsby  Bar Mandalevy
Traveling through the unfamiliar, a man struggles to hold on to reality as the world around him becomes surreal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 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
The World According To Bull - Gone Fishingby  Perk Perkins
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
Coming Aliveby  John Klawitter
As a result of a possible accident, a computer entity takes over his human inventor's consciousness with unexpected results.

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