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The Missionby  S. Lane Porter
A robotics engineer makes a bold decision to create a disabled android only to find out she wants nothing to do with his mission. -Originally written for the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge AKA EDFC, it was changed out for another story. One free update to match your available locations because it's open to interpretation/update due to rules set by the film challenge.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There's Something Wrong with Mariah Janeby  Bill Freas
After two preteen sisters come upon an unsettling find in the attic of their new home, the younger girl grows ill as her family enters the most terrifying night of their lives.

Genre: Horror
13 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
At a bus stop, three strangers unknowingly stand at the crossroads of eternity as heaven's angels investigate their lives, revealing how faith, temptation, and free will determine who will be written into the Lamb's Book of Life.

Genre: Drama
21 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
My Empty Lifeby  Brandon Rhiness
Two cynical, broke teenagers embark on a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes to buy a used car, only to lose their ultimate prize to their own incompetence within minutes of achieving it.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadhorse Lickby  Charles Hall
A young boy sets out to rid his hometown of a wild animal that has been killing the townspeople's pets, only to wind up becoming its next target.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby  Ronald V. Micci
Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Fashionedby  Jose Villanueva
A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda seduces an unsuspecting bartender, luring him into a conversation where each revealed secret tightens the noose around their necks and turns flirtation into a ticking countdown to bloody murder.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Young Eric and Molly are having the time of their lives roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Their parents, not so much... (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A brilliant but unraveling scientist secretly tests a radical cure for Alzheimer's on her own family but as eerie, vulture-like entities begin to appear, feeding on memories like prey, she realizes the real threat might not be the disease... but what she's unleashed trying to cure it.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Guns, Guts, & Gucciby  DC Copeland
A top secret government agency assists a "mature" man in getting a job based on his merits despite his age. With commentary by Rod Serling.

Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hearts & Algorithmsby  Dewayne C Bricker
When an obsessive AI engineer builds two comic digital souls inspired by history's greatest comedians, their mischief forces him out of isolationand into an unexpected romance with the neighbor who's been trying to reach his heart all along.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Amish Countryby  Bill Freas
After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All for love, a grizzled thief puts his life on the line, but it's wrong place, wrong time, wrong woman.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Tell-Tale Heartby  Eric Olson
A nervous caretaker murders an elderly man to rid himself of the man's hideous "vulture eye," only to be driven toward confession by the relentless sound of a beating heart that no one else can hear.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sisters of St. Andrewby  Vince Grittani
On the eighteenth hole of a golf course, a wily rabbi, a competitive priest, and two mischievous nuns collide in a battle of faith, guilt, and golf when one sister tries to secretly fulfill her late father's outrageous dying wishspreading his ashes in the sand trap.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Awfully Wedded Wifeby  Elliot Stanton
Love is... a suspicious mind, making the threat of castration a genuine possibility.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Circle of Lifeby  Iris Mangual
In her final moments aboard a New York subway, an elderly woman's memories weave with the lives of strangers, showing that the end of one journey is merely the beginning of anotherthe eternal circle of life.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screamersby  Chris Lewis
A world without fresh water or fruitful soil can lead to demarcation and brute force reality. Over population and stark sad realities.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby  Craig Ford
After a brief moment of forbidden tenderness reignites his buried humanity, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must choose between suppressing his desire to surviveor risking death by claiming love in a place built to destroy it.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jacinta Lodgeby  Nik Forster
A bitter nurse. A bad mussel. And a band of elderly conspirators who just want peace and pudding. But when their poison plot backfires, it's every pensioner for themselves in this seafood-flavored farce

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Schooled at the Poolby  Tina Field Howe
A loser gets even with his 'ex-girlfriend' by exposing her creepy suitor to her many imperfections.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ollie & the Kid Commotion in the Oceanby  Rick Thrun
In a remote Mexican village, dead fish wash ashore as the sea grows savage. A bold girl and a mysterious shapeshifter must confront a sinister outsider whose electrifying experiments are awakening a deadly force beneath the waves.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Under pressure from their volatile boss, two enforcers burglarize an aging gambler's secluded house and prepare to pounce when he arrives but never suspect the house hides a nightmarish horror ready to devour them first.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sing Me Your Questionsby  Steven T. Smith
Not long ago, autistic people were thought to have IQs lower than room temperature. Then a down-on-his-luck businessman-turned-social worker stumbled upon something that changed everything. Inspired by a true story.

Genre: Other
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Andrea's Worldby  Christopher Andre
When a troubled teenage girl moves with her family to a mysterious treatment facility in Boulder, Colorado, disturbing insect-like changes begin surfacing inside her. At the same time, a watching doctor quietly pushes her mind toward something far more dangerous.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cell Jumperby  Patrick McNamara
A scrappy rock'n'roller about to report for bail, discovers he can't afford his clothing store purchases and tries to steal them, until his change room cubicle is flooded with blood and he must leave without being noticed.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
MUNISHA is a social-climber, and is preparing herself for marriage to a rich guy. Now trapped in an elevator of a high rise, she realizes who she truly loves: her exboyfriend - as he comes to her rescue.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
In Creeps the Boogeymanby  Doug J Robbins
A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A veteran 911 dispatcher, haunted by a past death on a notorious rural highway, takes a desperate midnight call from a young woman lost in a white‑out blizzard. With no units available and Route 7 officially closed, she breaks protocol, kills the recorder, and drives into the storm herself, risking her career and possible charges to find the girlforcing her to decide how far she'll go to truly "stay on the line."

Genre: Drama
16 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
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
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
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
A lovelorn young man has a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger who encourages him to take a risk that may transcend time itself.

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