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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
Last Standby  Adam Rocke
Six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned shopping mall.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After receiving a phone call from her future self, a failing screenwriter must perform an unthinkable task to achieve fame or risk paying the ultimate price.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 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
After buying his dream car, a struggling wedding photographer is haunted by a mysterious radio that forces him to obey terrifying supernatural commands, uncovering a deadly curse where every photograph brings him closer to becoming its next victim.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
A determined mother uncovers disturbing secrets about her daughter's new husband, igniting a dangerous game of deception and betrayal that threatens to destroy their family and reveals that evil never truly dies.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Swampby  Chris Chatzikirlis
In the haunted swamps of Louisiana, a disgraced scientist's experiments unleash monstrous leeches, driving a mutated village into madness, murder, and a chilling new religion built on sacrifice.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Gas Man Comethby  Ian Patrick Williams
An out-of-work Appalachian man with a special-needs daughter struggles with accepting a financial offer that comes with grave environmental consequences.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby  Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
We Need a New Refrigeratorby  John Porter
An irritable middle-aged housewife is sick and tired of almost everything, and her sympathetic husband knows why.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby  Gregory George Sarno
Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Soldierby  David Lee Hooker
The story follows a secret military unit sworn to protect Christmas. When terrorists target a small-town Santa parade to kidnap children, this elite squad has to go undercover in full holiday gear to save the kids and stop the chaos before Christmas is canceled.

Genre: Action/Adventure
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Debajo del Bridgeby  Luis Ortiz
A homeless Iraq War veteran shares his fire with a violent drifter, forcing a battle over compassion, identity, and the last things worth protecting.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
American Comedianby  Gary Lynn Nowell
Jerry Sternfeld (50s) had a successful television show but critics hated the final episode with the four of the main characters going to prison. Years later, Sternfeld tells his co-star how the final episode should have ended as the alternate version of the show plays out on screen. The story is an obvious satire of the final episode of Seinfeld.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gone With The Gulf Streamby  Jack Sherry
A military chemical dump in Florida's Panhandle is more than just an environmental disaster. When a deadly bacterial outbreak kills marine life and divers in the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman must escape government cover-ups and corporate corruption after losing her boyfriend and father figure to the contaminated waters.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lila Monroeby  Lucy Versallies
A missing persons case takes a sinister turn when a detective realizes the victim's family has been lying about the timelinemasking a disturbing secret that keeps the girl closer than anyone suspects.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lion in the Carpetby  Pelham Mead III
Billy Alton is an 8-year-old boy in 1950 who is stricken with polio. He is put in leg braces and kept at home. Billy begins to see imaginary animals appear in his bathroom, a Lion, a Beaver, an Eagle, and a Wolf who take Billy on journeys to teach him to prepare for the future.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Timeoutby  Dewayne
When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d

Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby  LaKesa Cox
A woman in her 40s has a pregnancy scare only to find out through a meeting with Mother Nature that she's about to start menopause.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A couple, preparing to attend his mother's memorial, are bickering and anxious as the viewer or reader slowly understands the subtext they have lost a child.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby  John Porter
A dark comedy about a man who receives a letter from an old girlfriend who reminds him of a promise he made years and years ago.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Great Pancake Recordby  Jeffrey Massie
[Based on a short story by Owen Johnson] At a private boarding school in the year 1905, John Smeed sets out to make a name for himself.

Genre: Comedy
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Whisteling Manby  Dwayne Bricker
After the death of his wife, a grieving father and his young daughter hear a familiar whistle coming from the woods outside their isolated farmhouse during a violent storm. When the dead woman's voice begins pleading to be let inside, the father discovers a supernatural entity that mimics lost loved ones to prey upon grieving families.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Witnessesby  Juli Henry
In a near future where hospice patients' final moments are recorded and sold to their families, a veteran nurse risks her career by granting a dying woman one last request: the right to die in private.

Genre: Sci-Fi
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Adversityby  Elliot Stanton
The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A legendary serial killer with an affinity for carving up faces like Jack o'Lanterns for Halloween visits the home of Jack and Meg.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a compassionate village librarian inspires children through the timeless wisdom of books, her quiet acts of kindness plant the seeds of hope that transform an entire community for generations.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Return to Nam, Behind Memoriesby  Muresan Marta
Decades after the Vietnam War, a former idealist named Lee returns to the country where he lost his innocenceuncovering ghosts of the past, confronting guilt and trauma, and searching for reconciliation in a journey that bridges generations.

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby  Jim Kowalski
Can a man with a crippling social anxiety win the woman he loves over his alter ego crutch and her cheating boyfriend?

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Smoke & Shadowsby  Rochelle Potkar
In Devda, a Rajasthani Indian village with a history of female infanticide, 40-year-old unmarried JAGAN finds uncanny love in his late marriage to his new, young, poor and purchased (molki) bride, rising against a prejudiced society that looks down on such women.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Pumpkinby  Doug J Robbins
The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Paradeby  William Douglas
Can a 10-year-old boy steal an unhappy elephant, find him a good home, fall in love and get his first kiss, all in one week?

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Dating While Blackby  M Kenya Branch
After a White woman sees that her blind date is Black, she sneaks off, but when he tracks down a thief who snatches her iPhone, she has to find a way to make things right.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Xanadu Shoresby  Jay Loish
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
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
Vampire Experimentby  Brian Daunter
Genetic transfer and IVF research creates Vampire flying foxes with talon thumbs. They escape and terrorize the countryside attacking people, domestic and farm animals. A mix-up in the IVF laboratory leads to the birth of human neonate vampires that attack other neonates. These two new species qualify for listing as endangered. One species survives in a disused railway tunnel.

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