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Car Troubleby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2025
A mechanic's professional curiosity turns into a fight for survival when a man pushing a broken-down car insists it needs more gas.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Is In Front Of Youby  Adrian Milnes
Date Posted: 21 May 2024
Two gangsters have a decision to make when they are ordered to guard a wounded boss who has a bounty on his head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sprialby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2024
When a doctor sees his own daughter targeted by his billionaire boss, he's forced to question his life choices.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Ordinary Dayby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2025
A young couple navigates a day filled with the man's anxiety and the woman's experiences of sexual harassment, painting a sobering picture of the psychological challenges and gender-based aggressions that constitute a "very ordinary day" for many.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Christmasby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2024
Three couples have decided to spend Christmas holidays with their children in a house in the woods; but the vacation becomes bloody.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
You Deadass?by  Ricky Lamar Jackson
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2024
A family is in for a surprise when their loverboy family member brings a different type of meat to the cookout.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Royally Never Afterby  Lexie Sullivan
Date Posted: 22 May 2025
When a studious Chicago teen loses her only parent, she’s unexpectedly invited to a prestigious royal academy in England—only to discover secrets about her true identity, a brewing conspiracy within the school’s walls, and a destiny that might just change her life forever.

Genre: Fantasy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Oh Boi!by  Sara Mancini
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024
Marta is a 14 years old weirdo with no friends but with a particular obsession: porn. She watches a lot of porn videos but has never had sex and doesn’t know what pleasure is: she never even masturbated! Determined to understand what sex is, she decides to emulate her peers living a day like them and get close to an older guy who has no problem having sex with anyone.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mending Heartsby  Inky Egwuenu
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2025
After disowning his daughter for siding with her mother after their divorce, a father faces a health crisis that brings her back into his life, igniting a journey of revelations, healing, and ultimate redemption.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Traditionby  Kris Shuman
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2025
A guilty man’s diner confession risks exposing a legacy of violence and resurrecting the killer they thought was buried for good.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Stop Driving Yourself Crazyby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2025
Clive, a thoughtless and paranoid driving instructor's wild theory about his wife's infidelity is all but confirmed when out on a driving lesson - her car is seen somewhere it shouldn't be. However, the only thing that is confirmed is his poor learner’s theory that Clive is an idiot.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Morning Walk With the Killerby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
Emma meets a man during a morning run, eventually she learns about his terrible crimes against his ex-women who are found dead.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trilogy of Terrorby  Bill Wyza
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2025
Trilogy of Terror is a trio of micro-short horror stories. DRIFTER – An overconfident lawyer on the verge of his biggest case makes a wrong choice on a secluded country highway. WISHBOOK - A desperate man finds a magical book and learns to be careful what you wish for. FEAR - A suburban serial killer gets an unexpected surprise.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Moonlight and Rosesby  Jack Halliday
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
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
Dead Copby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faith: Brought To The Lightby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
90% of story happens in a house with three principle characters. Inspired from true events. A mother who has lost her faith, rediscovers her purpose when she must help a troubled father with a dark secret.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Beatles '74by  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2025
In a parallel 1974 where The Beatles have reunited, two sisters clash over music, memory, and marriage in a single afternoon that may reshape their futures, just as the Fab Four call it quits for good.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Labby  Nancy Kimmel
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2025
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
Pool Boyby  Joseph Anthony Francis
Date Posted: 09 May 2024
When an unemployed deaf man takes a job as a pool boy, he finds himself caught in a game of manipulation and seduction.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
By the Seaby  Tina Field Howe
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2025
Clever Brandi, English heir to a fortune, frames her husband in the murder of her mother, the family matriarch.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Quiet Timeby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2025
When a neuroscientist’s sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother’s nightmares—one that’s now crossing from dream to waking world.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Xanadu Shoresby  Jay Loish
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2025
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
Spunk!by  Harker Jones
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2025
Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Faceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2024
A woman sacrifices everything for the perfect face, only to become a target of uncontrollable desire. Forced into hiding, she is pursued by a detective whose accidental glimpse of her face turns him into her next victim.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby  Robert F Godwin III
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2025
One omelet, two bodies, and a stray eyeball. Cadillac Jack didn’t come for blood, but in this diner, breakfast is just the opening act.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2025
An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hollywood or Bustby  Iris Mangual
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2025
After the death of her husband, a sharp-tongued, seventy-year-old widow ditches her overbearing kids and drives cross-country to Hollywood in a convertible-determined to finally become a star, armed with nothing but sass, stubbornness, and a suitcase full of dreams.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fly Squattingby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A mother grieving for the loss of her daughter takes her anger out on a pesky fly that won’t leave her alone.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
For Whom The Chimes Tollby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2025
Unable to sleep, a lonely, embittered old man spends the early hours of the morning drinking brandy and reminiscing on his life. The actions of which, ultimately, call time on his earthly existence.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
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
Vulturesby  Keshia Thomas
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2025
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
Let's Keep Workingby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alone with Himselfby  Anastasiia Borisova
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2024
What if an ordinary little kid is left alone without any support? Do you know what a little person experiences when he has to cope with difficulties alone? Perhaps each of us has experienced this, but do you remember how scary it was?

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cliff Effectby  Esra Cengel
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
An arrogant man persistently kicks a woman off a cliff, underestimating her pure love, and Karma eventually caught up with him in a tragic-comic way.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It's a...by  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
Two expectant mothers share their precious last moments together as they prepare for the end of the world.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Remember, Remember the 5th of Decemberby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 07 Dec 2024
A young boy's Christmas nightmares take on a life of their own.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Artificial Lightby  Cephra Stuart
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2025
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Gift from Grandmaby  Shane R. Nolan
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2024
A young woman receives a gift from her late grandmother that bears damning consequences for opening.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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