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The Pilotby  Jay Loish
Four friends become enmeshed in a heist, kidnapping, and escape plot, saving each other from death. The protagonist[s], and the antagonists[s] are introduced with each character's role clarified while enhancing three sexier feminine characters and the Federal Agent [foil] in an intense office situation before the heist, kidnapping and chase unfold later that day. The audience has invested in a veiled story line.

Genre: Other
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A married man bored with monogamy talks his wife into having a tryst with two swingers that ends in disaster.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossroads Waiting Roomby  Michael J Volpe
In a mysterious waiting room outside of time, two strangers confront alternate versions of themselves and must make life-defining choices on where they work, who they marry and whether they have children.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Between Detroit and Toledoby  Sonny James Traylor
In a greasy spoon somewhere between Detroit and Toledo, a heartbroken woman slips into a parallel world where she finds herself on the run with a half-million dollars' worth of stolen drugs and a loaded .38 special.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shadow Figureby  Cassandra Wells
Slamdance Screenwriting Contest Shorts Semifinalist. When a physical medium arrives to investigate a reputed haunted house for a local contractor, a demonic presence makes itself known in ways the client never anticipated. 

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gift Challengeby  Leandrew Baillum
A global social-networking game becomes a worldwide phenomenon, offering players million, dollar prizes and televised luxury gift draws, only to evolve into a powerful cultural movement uniting communities in a stand against gun violence.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A drugstore employee exploits a customer loyalty program to stalk a woman, exposing how corporate systems designed to "care" can enable predatory behavior to hide in plain sight.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Portrait of a Girlby  Niagara Ross
A group of teenagers, exploring an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, find an old portrait of a mysterious girl. But the more they learn about her past, the more nightmarish visions and dangerous phenomena begin to haunt them.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Game of Thrones: In East L.A.by  Adam Rocke
On a crazy So Cal road trip, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen take a wrong turn and wind up in East L.A. where they run afoul of a notorious Mexican street gang. Violence is coming!

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Coming Aliveby  John Klawitter
Dr.Voit's invention, the Life Spike, can do almost anything - drive a jet plane or bake a perfect dinner - but he'd do almost anything to have a human body.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shoppingby  Jackie Tung
A college student shopping attempts to choose the perfect water bottle and soon falls into a paralysis of choice. Although he ultimately chooses one, it's tantamount to making no decision at all.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a desperate heir forces a brilliant biotech scientist to use an experimental coma-curing drug on his wealthy father, the treatment works for only moments before triggering a fatal heart attack, igniting a deadly battle over a hidden fortune and forcing the scientist to confront the consequences of her own invention.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Punchby  Elizabeth Appell
An urchin from the streets and huge fan has a dream that if the champion boxer fights tonight, he will kill his opponent. The champ has had the same dream. The boy fails to convince the Champ not to fight. The fight goes on and a lethal left hook fulfills the dream.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A man sees an ultra-realistic vampire in a display window, and the diner owner next door swears the thing is alive. But that can't be true, can it?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby  David Ezell
A former child star spirals when he becomes convinced that the person he loves most havs been replaced by impostors.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Kindred Spiritsby  Iris Mangual
A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ty wakes in a steel vault with a timer, a phone, and a deadly choice: press a button for air or let both die. Through a stranger's voice on the line, he questions morality, guilt, and survival. His refusal to play exposes a sinister experiment testing human ethicswhere even doing nothing has a fatal cost.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nil By Earby  Elliot Stanton
A bitter son assumes his dying, hard-of-hearing mother can't hear him plotting over her inheritance, only to discover that she's mastered the ultimate weapon: selective hearing.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Language of Silenceby  KS Punithakumar
A lonely mute man falls in love with a woman he has only known through messages. When he finally reveals his silence, tragedy strikes before they can meet, teaching him that true love is heard through the heart, not through words.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
If I Were a Womanby  Jack A Bennett
When a woman relives a simple trip to the liquor store, the outcome turns from bad to worse.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ancient Secretsby  Wayne E. Johnson
While waiting in line to renew his driver's license, a man gets an update on Stonehenge from the 6000-year-old± Druid in line ahead of him.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Distractionsby  Bob Messinger
Similar backgrounds, different visions. David's and Hannah's lives are about to be upended as he gets in her cab on a Friday evening.

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangling Caratby  Deanne Gittens
A young woman tries to navigate life and love and avoid being sucked back into a toxic relationship, but there are certain temptations she finds irresistible.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Minutes Till Midnightby  Dwayne Bricker
When a hard‑driving paramedic is thrown into a two‑minute time loop before a deadly gas explosion in a crumbling apartment building, she keeps dying and snapping back to the same moment in her ambulance. Each reset reveals a leaking basement line, a panicked tenant with a faulty light switch, and a trapped teen upstairs, forcing her to make one brutal, strategic sacrifice to break the loop and save the most lives.

Genre: Sci-Fi
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
High Concept Harryby  Ronald V. Micci
Hollywood talent agent Harry Fleck's development exec girlfriend is in the habit of sending purple passionate love letters to him stuck in with the contracts she sends, letters that should they fall into the hands of Harry's tough-as-nails wife, would spell disaster. He is able to intercept one such letter to keep his wife from seeing it.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life to being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to face an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chameleonby  Kevin Pacey
Life on the line, a teenage girl locks horns with an eccentric pensioner and learns to trust again.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Blue Moon Over Corriganvilleby  Mark Laing
A group of rockabillies, convinced by an aging barfly to take him to an old movie ranch to reunite with his childhood love, find themselves on a magical journey.

Genre: Fantasy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brotherley Hateby  Elliot Stanton
Timing Is Everything... Or Nothing. The responsible brother sees his younger, carefree sibling as a threat to him taking over the family business until fate steps in and changes the future for everyone.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby  D J Robbins
A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.

Genre: Horror
12 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
Three Is an Odd Numberby  jonathan riikonen
Due to a rental office error, three very different guys with different interests end up living together wondered by their female neighbor, and added by a big and sloppy apartment house complex office lady.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Point of Irish Coffeeby  Rochelle Potkar
As his distracted MISTRESS plots revenge on three women who made fun of her over her husband's abandonment, a DOG follows all her hateful emotions that metamorphose him into a worst beast a hateful homo sapien (a man).

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cursed Bathroomby  DJ Robbins
A rude customer encounters the murderous ghost of the cursed bathroom.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Gameby  John Klawitter
Pregnant, Sandy has to give away her baby before she is executed tomorrow.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Transferenceby  Frazer Lee
Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost Happinessby  Marc-Olivier louveau
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
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
 
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