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American Comedianby  Gary Lynn Nowell
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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
The Doorby  Carlos Alex Ceni
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While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
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Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
CareMoreby  Michael Avishai
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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
Trio in Bby  Bari K. Willerford
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Three couples (20's, 40's & 60's) in the their bedrooms getting dressed or undressed discussing their lives. Witness them in the privacy of their bedrooms.

Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Diary of a Madmanby  Eugene Hattingh
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When a man wakes up in a hotel with total amnesia, his only clue to his past is a disturbing journal, driving him to extreme measures to keep it from being exposed.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby  Linda Gould
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Miranda, a Homeland Security bureaucrat, is having a tryst with Pete, a handsome but crude major league ballplayer. One early morning encounter is interrupted by two policemen, who take Petie in for questioning about the apparent kidnapping of his teammate, Manny Chavez ... who is engaged to Miranda's sportswriter sister, Jessica. Manny was about to testify against several teammates in a steroids hearing.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Night Stayby  DJ Robbins
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A weary businessman checks into a hotel with a history of violence, and said hotel is supposed to be extremely haunted.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Boxby  William Walkerley
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Tien shows up a Darius' apartment with a small mysterious black box that will change their lives before the night is over.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wolf Riderby  Pelham Mead III
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This is a series of stories based on the oral tradition of the Pawnee Native Americans in the 1840s. The main story is about a Pawnee girl who was a major character in a Pawnee story about the Morning Star.

Genre: Action/Adventure
44 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
Stuck in the Middle With Sueby  Elliot Stanton
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Travelling the road to retribution can be a breeze, even in heavy traffic. A married couple's plans to visit their friends are hampered by more than just lines of stationary vehicles.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Voicemailby  Dwayne Bricker
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On the morning her estranged father is scheduled to be taken off life support, a young woman hides in her apartment, ignoring the hospital's callsuntil voicemails from his number begin arriving, time‑stamped today and eerily describing her present moment. As they build toward one final live call, she must choose between staying safely angry or risking a last, painful conversation.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Another Time, Another Placeby  Bob Messinger
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Past and present collide in the world of a young White House staffer.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
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Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Windowby  Mark Ndlovu
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A reclusive man and an enigmatic artist living across the street engage in a silent but profound connection through drawings in their windows, sparking an unspoken bond that compels him to step beyond his comfort zone and into her world.

Genre: Romance
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beacon Streetby  Doug J Robbins
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Charlie finds himself on Beacon Street. He cannot remember how he got there, but all that inhabits Beacon Street are his dead Uncle Leon, a little girl named Angela, and a mysterious man.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
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What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spices with Vicesby  Debbie Castanha
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A privileged pair of Ray Bans becomes lost in a drawer of bickering spices, and must hatch an escape plan before she's replaced.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
First Dateby  Alan & Linda Barkley
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A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition). *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Romance
15 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
Christmas at the Orpheumby  Todd Bronson
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On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Koscheiby  Sidhartha
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After a nightmare of fire and screams leads him to hidden gold and a darker truth, Koschei finds himself standing between a ruthless arms syndicate and a catastrophe that could change the nation forever.A silent wanderer haunted by flames from his past races against time to stop a clandestine RDX operation, unaware that the conspiracy is tied to the very tragedy that made him who he is.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirror Imageby  Bill Cornelius
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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
It's My Lifeby  John Porter
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A family drama in which a young Indian-American woman struggles to decide whether to continue living with her parents or to move into an apartment with her American boyfriend.

Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Swampby  Chris Chatzikirlis
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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
Wish You Were Hereby  Steffany Sommers
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A pair of boardwalk souvenir sunglasses takes a leap of faith to find adventure off the rack.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
But Wait ... There's More!by  John Boal
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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 Lion in the Carpetby  Pelham Mead III
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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
Gravesideby  Dwayne Bricker
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On Halloween, five teens sneak into their town's oldest cemetery to film a vandalism stunt for a popular YouTube channel. Smashing an ornate family headstone breaks a hidden seal, warping the graveyard into a looping maze where vengeful spirits hunt them in ways that echo their crimes. Trapped, the last two survivors must repair the desecrated graveor join their friends inside the stone.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby  Wendy Toliver
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A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
One Wordby  Amar abdMual
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A mother turns her disabled daughter into a hero.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Comeuppanceby  Martin Train Bartlett
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After committing a heinous crime, a violent man is cursed to relive the horrific moment through the eyes of the victim. It's Source Code meets Stephen King.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cage For Twoby  Darryl N. Layne
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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
The Coinby  Paolo Galli
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A five-year-old boy, torn between desire and guilt after secretly spending a coin on a lollipop, finds himself face to face with a beggar and makes a choice that redefines the value of things.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tapeby  Bari K. Willerford
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A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Scarecrowby  Doug J Robbins
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Trick or treaters think a scarecrow is just a Halloween Decoration, until they find out that its machete really can cut 'em up.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Standby  Adam Rocke
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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
Mulligan'sby  John LaVine
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A man sacrifices everything to go back in time to correct a life altering mistake, but his new life presents another obstacle he must overcome.

Genre: Fantasy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brittle Tromboneby  Mary Goldman
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A young girl strikes a bargain to take trombone lessons from an elderly man during the time of Covid-19.

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