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Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby  Paul Joseph Mulbrecht
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Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Our 13th Birthdayby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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On her thirteenth birthday, Machi unleashes her deliciously dark revenge on everyone who has wronged her.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crossroads Waiting Roomby  Michael J Volpe
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In a mysterious waiting room outside of time, two strangers confront alternate versions of themselves and must make life-defining choices on where they work, who they marry and whether they have children.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blazing Couplesby  Phyllis Campbell Corley
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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
The Last Lightby  Gladman
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In a ruined room filled with memories of his lost daughter, a grieving man struggles to keep a single lantern flame aliveuntil one final, impossible spark forces him to confront the moment he chooses hope over despair.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby  DJ Robbins
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An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Northern Exposureby  Larry Shannon
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The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

Genre: Biographical
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
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A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Nowhereby  Jason K. Allen
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Excited by life's possibilities, a young baseball named Johnny is batted into the woods and never found. He awakens in a strange land called Nowhere, where all lost and forgotten items end up. But he vows to escape and prove that he and his forgotten friends have plenty of life left in them.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Conversionby  Stephanie Neroes
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In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvationonly to uncover a harrowing world of abuse, resistance, and a reckoning long overdue.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Fateby  Christine LARA
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An ordinary man receives an enigmatic call from an unknown number, inviting him to solve a series of mysteries to save a stranger's life. But each clue dangerously draws him closer to his own dark past.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hollywood or Bustby  Iris Mangual
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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
Proof of Serviceby  Lantie Foster
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Two neighbors in corporate housing share a home service robot. When one woman misses a payment, the building's "care" protocols activate, and the apartment begins asserting ownership over everything, including her.

Genre: Sci-Fi
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Regretsby  Patricia Bruce
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This edgy screenplay puts a unique spin on a marriage gone bad. Sadly, not all marriages have a happy ending. After years of being a hen-pecked housewife by her unappreciative husband, this boring, mousey housewife suddenly turns aggressive with deadly results...

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perennialsby  Donald Lewis
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Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Improv Christmasby  Doug J Robbins
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Two lonely improv actors decide to spend Christmas together.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wholeby  Susan Adair Harris
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An unhappily married bi-racial couple falls into an inter-dimension where their fates are shuffled between love and murder.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Buddiesby  Delaina M. Waldron
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An insecure Rose finds an unexpected friendship with a short-winged Bumblebee and unites against their bullying foes.

Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Woman as a Wholeby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Down on her knuckles on a broken road, the energy of life explains why women should bond together as one and uplift each other. 

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Game of Thrones: In East L.A.by  Adam Rocke
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On a crazy So Cal road trip, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen take a wrong turn and wind up in East L.A. where they run afoul of a notorious Mexican street gang. Violence is coming!

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sunnyby  Matthew Thompson
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A devoted mother leads a precarious double life within the illicit massage industry, battling a predatory debt to ensure the survival of the family she hasn't seen in years.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Freebornby  Shane Harbinson
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When a young girl with extraordinary mental abilities catches the attention of a totalitarian regime seeking to exploit her gifts, her working-class cyborg father must survive an interrogation in a desperate attempt to buy time for his daughter's escape and protect the essence of their humanity. 'Coverfly top 1% genre'

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crime Sceneby  Matthew J Cresta
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At a brutal crime scene an inexperienced patrol sergeant, working along side a seasoned homicide detective, receives a master class in murder investigation while also discovering a shocking connection with the killer!

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Heartwarming Horrorby  Jennifer Milne
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A couple on a first date realize the premise of a heartwarming romance could just as easily be a horrifying horror movie, and get a little of both when they go back to her place.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Implantby  Dewayne C Bricker
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A programmer's digital world turns sentient and steals his consciousnessforcing him to battle his own creation before the simulation takes his place.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mindy & Martin's Meleeby  Harker Jones
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A bridesmaid and a best man derail a wedding when their simmering resentments and passions boil over, igniting a powder keg of accusations, declarations and revelations.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Attack of the Church Furnitureby  David McPete
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A youth group's overnight at a church becomes deadly when murderous church furniture comes to life.

Genre: Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Deepstareby  Gerard Docherty
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A short film exploring mental health from the main character's POV. Main character descends into a fantasy world. Explores his invented world. Kills someone at the end. Ends up in a police cell. Multiple scenes, multiple locations, all adaptable to whatever circumstances you find yourself in. Modest length, flexible set up, few locations, relatively easy to stage. 10-15 mins duration.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Imagine That!by  Tina Czarnota
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Grace under pressure can be a royal disaster.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Monk in Holywoodby  Hiabu Hassebu
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A Monk Immigrates to USA to cast down the Hollywood demons.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faithby  Neftali Rivera
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After a dream about a burnt down home near the Air BnB he is staying at compels him to investigate, an Atheist strives to find out what caused the fire and learns that his beliefs may be misguided.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Boisterousby  Subhashree Srinivasan
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Four drunk men argue over corpses they find in a pub, all mysteriously missing their shadows.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Table for 3by  Michael Joseph
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A brother and sister, entrenched in crime with their abusive uncle, make a routine stop at a diner. But when tempers flare, their ordinary night takes an unexpected turn

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Aisle Browsingby  Steven Blows
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A run-down man with an active imagination blames his wife for all the wrongs in his life so he searches the aisles of a hardware store in search for the perfect murderous tool.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dragomir and the Ieleby  camelia dinu
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While Dragomir stumbles upon the enchanting dance of the iele mysterious forest spirits from Romanian lore fascination quickly turns to terror. Trapped between irresistible beauty and deadly magic, he must fight to resist their spell or be claimed forever by the darkness.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Reckoning Beckonsby  Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
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A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly schemeand poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cute Robberby  Grag Raymond
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Nick works as a security guard in a jewelry store during his break he is relaxing in a local cafe when a pretty girl approaches him to get to know him but it was a deception she joins a crime group to commit a robbery.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Approvalby  Doug J Robbins
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A reporter meets with the controlling perfectionist mayor of a small town and learns the secret as to how the mayor keeps his citizens in line.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby  Michael J Volpe
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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
 
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