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Generation Killerby John Edward Bias
Time is of the essence as an assassin goes on a chronological murder spree searching for a time travel equation.
Genre: Sci-Fi
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Happy Lifeby Brandi Self
A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sinbad and the Last Centaurby Jaime Velez
SINBAD is trapped in Tritonia, the fabled land of the Centaurs, where he battles a league of evil necromancers in their quest for the Sword of Largunia and the Black Lotus that will yield immense power and immortality. The Prophesy of the Last Centaur.
Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Reflectionsby Dewayne C Bricker
When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.
Genre: Horror
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rage Betty Page Rageby Lawrence Riggins
True-Story. Years after retiring as the world's most famous pin-up queen, zealot Bettie Page loses her battle with schizophrenia, turns sociopath, and forces non-believers to convert at knife-point. The Dark Angel hallucination of her younger self entices Bettie to exploit her dominatrix skills to hold her roommate and granddaughter hostage while preparing their ritualistic murder. Her victims survive only because two-dozen knife wounds failed to strike arteries. Bettie Page is sentenced to ten years.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Where Toe Beginby Clifford Shepherd
When a neurotic man wakes up to find his big toe missingwith no pain or explanationhe spirals into a surreal, comedic nightmare where his body vanishes piece by piece, and no one around him seems to notice or care. A darkly absurd satire on identity, sanity, and the disappearing sense of self.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Laundry Room Conspiratorsby Jim Stewart
A comical crime drama that takes place in an apartment as three tenants conspire to free a battered wife by having her abusive husband fall victim to an accidental death at the hands of his twin, cop brother.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
S'moresby Jason Allen
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
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Day Careby Brandi Self
A cantankerous toddler learns about love, death, and loss when he visits day care for the first time.
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ho-Ho-Ho-nly an Hour To Goby Elliot Stanton
A department store Santa and his helper aren't the jolly individuals you'd expect them to be, particularly when the effects of Santa's alcoholic consumption threaten to become audibly evident to the line of waiting, excited children outside the grotto.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blazing Couplesby Phyllis Campbell Corley
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clayton Mooreby Doug J Robbins
Two friends enjoy a camping trip until it's interrupted by the killer Clayton Moore.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Good Tasteby Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can't help reminiscing with her own mother about the man who seduced her, married her, and left her many years ago.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ice-Cold Revengeby Elliot Stanton
A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Maggieby RJ Daniels
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
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Artificial Lightby Cephra Stuart
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
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Veronicaby Aranit Alia
VERONICA- A cold, methodical London hitman disguises himself as a high class escort to assassinate an crime boss, but his brutal efficiency hides a secret :the fortune he earns in blood is quietly donated to orphans under the name "Veronica. "
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Creepby Dj Robbins
A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trip the Light Fantasticby Bari K. Willerford
A lonely man goes to a dance party. He notices a lonely woman across the room. Their eyes meet. Boom!
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby Michael J Volpe
After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby NG
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
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Mouseby Sergey Dobrine
During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.
Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Bare Bonesby Nan Schmid
While renovating her bathroom, a woman finds bones under the floorboards, then an animal communicator comes to visit and gets imprisoned for murder.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Destinyby Pelham Mead III
A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.
Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Resurrection Fernby Paul Weidknecht
A divorced couple hike into the mountains of western North Carolina, retracing the route their daughter took seven years prior when she disappeared.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sunday Morningby Nichole C Moncada
A small town sheriff grapples with her need for vengeance and her sense of justice when her husband's mistress is found dead in her back yard.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
41 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
41 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Man Upstairsby John M Grace
When a young boy worries he's about to lose his mother, he prays to "the man upstairs," unaware that his pleas are being heard by an ordinary neighbor living just one floor above.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Parkin' 'ellby Elliot Stanton
A rainy afternoon and a full hospital car park push a family into escalating conflict, culminating in the discovery that their struggle was entirely avoidable.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 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
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Secret Boxby Charles Hall
A mechanic finds an unlikely confidant in his annoying Gen Z neighbor as he tries to come to terms with the sudden death of his girlfriend and her young son.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Gen-Zby Robert Franklin Godwin
Two disenchanted Gen-Z use the GEEKERS Dating app to meet-up and have a night long conversation walking the neighborhoods of Manhattan.
Genre: Romance
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The State of Thetaby J. Huska
A passenger boards a plane for an overland short-hop. Alone, he splashes down... twenty years later.
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From God and Manby Zach Jansen
Assigned to a desolate outpost, a young soldier must choose between his moral compass and his superior's twisted sense of divine duty when it comes the execution of questionable orders.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Adriftby Dewayne C Bricker
After a yacht capsizes during a sudden storm, a lone survivor records her final hours aboard a half-sunken vessel, sending video logs to anyone who might find them. As night falls, she notices distant lights beneath the wavesmoving in patterns too deliberate to be natural. With her oxygen fading and rescue signals unanswered, she realizes she isn't alone on the oceanand that what's watching her is waiting for her to drown.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cadillac Jackby Robert Godwin
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
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Confessionby Adam Rocke
Asking for forgiveness is never easy, and some sins simply cannot be forgiven.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Refugeeby Doug J Robbins
A refugee from the world of dreams befriends a young girl in hopes of becoming real.
The girls must hide their relationship or risk having the refugee taken back to the dream institute, where she would have to go back to being imaginary.
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vacuumby Barry Staff
Wanting sex again after an op leaves erectile dysfunction, a man needs a specialist nurse coming to his aid.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
