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Strategic Ambiguity 101by  John Boal
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Forced to teach a new mandatory business class called "Strategic Ambiguity 101", Professor Mandella tells his students that future business leaders must abandon traditional communications of clarity; learn how to send mixed messages and subvert the truth to be successful. Yet as his savvy Gen Z students share their brutally honest feedback about this deceptive and all too pervasive tactic, they teach him a life lesson with Professor Mandella rediscovering his true self.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prophetessby  Amrita Baines
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Driven by nightmares and an obsession with the supernatural, a paranormal researcher seeks out a cryptic Prophetess but the deeper he digs into her tragic lineage, the more reality fractures, until he's no longer sure if he's documenting madness... or becoming its next chapter.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous Sourceby  Tim Bechen
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A relentless female journalist battles powerful adversaries in a male-dominated industry as she risks everything to get the story and ensure justice.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pawnsby  Adam Rocke
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The CIA uses a game of chess to recruit a child prodigy.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby  Iris Mangual
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After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dream Worldby  KS PUNITHAKUMAR
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A compassionate village school teacher dreams of a world without caste, hunger, hatred, or division. Inspired by that vision, he returns to reality determined to teach humanity to his students, believing that lasting change begins with the next generation.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Classic Western Love Storyby  John Porter
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A western comedy in which two young men compete for the favor of a lovely young woman.

Genre: Western
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
A Flute Named Desireby  Steven D. Gullion
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A famous flautist must choose whether to undergo a dangerous operation that will make it possible for him to have a family, but end his career.

Genre: Animation
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Miraclesby  Paul Sokal
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A young, naive parish priest, Father Moretti, is demoted to the Vatican's Miracle Investigation Office, a dank hole in the sub-basement, where he's told that miracles are just a marketing ploy, crushing his faith, until he can discover a true miracle.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Things I Should Have Saidby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
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Cecil is a odd ball kid from a small town and a Pizza man, he is thrust into a world where he has to play out a Cyrano De Bergerac and emerge triumphant among bullies and bad bosses and dire need for romance.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Western Approachesby  Barry Staff
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Wanting to get rat-arsed after an unavoidable job offer, an English 'cowboy' on a bicycle needs to outwit a zero-hours-contract barmaid foiling his plan.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Niagara 1952by  Alan Barkley
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An unhappy WW2 war bride, about to leave her 'GI Joe' husband, has a life-changing encounter with Marillyn Monroe who is filming "Niagara" on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Flashes of Youby  Lamar D. Vine
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45-year-old Quan, trapped in a stagnant marriage, visits Bangkok to help her daughter Cindy start university. A vintage Polaroid purchase from enigmatic writer Jake unleashes suppressed memories of her teenage romance with Johnnie, leading to an intense affair filled with sensual encounters, emotional confessions, and self-discovery. As Quan navigates guilt, passion, and fleeting joy, the story weaves themes of longing, infidelity, and reinvention, culminating in her quiet empowerment and anticipation of future escapes.

Genre: Romance
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Mouse's Lamentby  John Porter
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Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
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A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Daddyby  David W. Fields
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A man pursues a little girl through the woods with a hatchet - but before you judge him, you don't know what's wearing her face.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
BUS 37by  Jordan Baines
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When their school bus is hijacked, three students must put their trust in a big brother and his dirt bike.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Isle of Plasticaby  Drina Connors Kay
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A CEO of a plastics company is kidnapped and dumped on a platform in the middle of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch where he must remain until he promises to clean up the mess.  

Genre: Other
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
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An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
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A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby  John Alexander Fraser
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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: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Royally Never Afterby  Lexie Sullivan
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When a studious Chicago teen loses her only parent, she's unexpectedly invited to a prestigious royal academy in Englandonly 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
Beyond Avalonby  Edward Ybarra
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Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Man Upstairsby  John M Grace
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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
Where Toe Beginby  Clifford Shepherd
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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
Old Fashionedby  Jose Villanueva
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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
The Substitutionby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
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During detention, a substitute confiscates phones and forces "consent" clicksuntil the students realize he's not a teacher, he's a replacement.

Genre: Horror
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Locked Inby  Carl
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When a home invasion goes wrong, three masked intruders find themselves trapped inside the house of a retired mortician who has turned his home into a living tomb. As the night spirals into a sadistic game of survival, they realize the real horror isn't escaping the house it's being chosen to leave.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Teapartylandiaby  Gary A. Edwards
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TeaPartyLandia - is a short dramedy about a family looking at a residential compound in an isolated area of North Idaho who fantasize about living free of governmental tyranny but flee when confronted with the reality of experiencing this "utopia."

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Disc Golf Warriorsby  Curtis D. Engle
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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
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
The Callby  William Walkerley
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The accidental death of his girlfriend comes back to haunt Michael.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Unwelcomeby  Bill Freas
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An ex-con is hired to pack and move the belongings of his sister and her family after they abandon their house, following the sudden death of her teenage daughter, but the man encounters paranormal activity there that urges him to uncover a dark secret about the girl's death.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Candy Corn and Peppermintby  Doug J Robbins
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A killer's MO while dressed as Santa Claus is to pass out a pouch full of candy corn and peppermint.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Only the Windby  DJ Robbins
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Jack is spending his first Christmas without his father and is given the chance for one last Christmas with him.

Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tetheredby  James B Barker
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When a struggling screenwriter's horror script is greenlit for production, her screenplay begins rewriting itself, trapping her inside the story she created. As a sinister digital entity known as Unbound forces fiction to become reality, she must outwrite the nightmare before the ending demands the ultimate sacrifice.

Genre: Horror
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In Creeps the Boogeymanby  Doug J Robbins
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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
Returningby  Susie Schecter
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After the tragic accidental death of her four-year-old child, a grieving mother is given an unexpected miracle when her daughter mysteriously returns from the dead, but struggles to understand and cope with the supernatural gift.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
For Whom The Chimes Tollby  Elliot Stanton
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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
 
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