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Bleed and Cryby  DJ Robbins
A filmmaker performs a one-man play on a childhood trauma he suffered while showing a home movie from the year and date the childhood trauma occurred.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
He's Gonna Payby  John Porter
A young man confronts the killer of his wife and child, and makes the killer pay--by letting him live.

Genre: Western
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Next Rest Stop, 2.5 Million Light Yearsby  Daniel J. Broderick
A futuristic update of the family road trip, where the Boffs head to the happiest place in the universe in their minivan-sized space ship, only to be marooned on Earth. Forced to wait five years for a tow, they must adjust to life in New Mexico.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  John F Daly
5 people get on an elevator in the present day and get brought back in time to 1943, where they become stranded.

Genre: Fantasy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Cupidby  Janet Prescott
A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Four young friends go out on Halloween night in search of a special treat only to discover a twisted trick.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hogwash and Tommyrotby  STEVEN BLOWS
When household rubbish begins to fall from the sky and into their garden, an environmentally conscientious homeowner must deal with the consequences of this mysterious phenomenon.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Seventh Seal Experimentby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
A drink, a game, a bet, and Death, entirely in rhyme.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Nightingale in Burkaby  Abhilash Mohan
Subaida, a spirited 10-year-old Afghan girl, dreams of music in a world that's trying to silence her. This poignant drama set in Kabul follows Subaida's journey as she discovers her passion for the rubab, a traditional Afghan musical instrument, against the backdrop of a society teetering on the edge of radical change.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
A determined mother uncovers disturbing secrets about her daughter's new husband, igniting a dangerous game of deception and betrayal that threatens to destroy their family and reveals that evil never truly dies.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lunch with Lelandby  Jason K. Allen
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (3 actors, 1 main location. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Award-winning writer and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elderly Influencerby  Eric Faulkner
As they both coupe with the tragic loss of loved ones, a social media crazed grandmother is forced to adopt her introverted Gothic, Emo, granddaughter in a high stakes game of virtual versus real life experiences.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Judge Retiresby  Jonathan Fear
Nearing retirement, a disgruntled high court judge plans an unconventional farewell while presiding over his final case, providing the court usher doesn't steal his biscuits first.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Taste of Beliefby  Danny King
When a psychology professor challenges his students with a parable about restaurants, a fiery clash between science and conspiracy forces them to confront a deeper truth: you can't judge an idea until you've tasted it yourself.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hit and Runby  Marc Prey
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hospitalityby  John Porter
A bad guest makes a good host feel great about himself.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Halloween Massacre 2by  Doug J Robbins
One year after the Halloween Massacre, Cyrus returns to torment Danny once again.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Home Aloneby  Alan Barkley
When a car salesman builds a new house to lure his wayward spouse back home, many of his colleagues doubt if it's enough.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Let's Keep Workingby  John Porter
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
Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby  Edward Chapman
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Heart Rateby  Alan Barkley
A male and a female cop enter an abandoned building looking for a cop killer. Soon they are hunting each other. Winner, Vail film festival.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome to Arbor Parkby  Donald Copenhaver
When a real estate developer destroys an ancient tree to build luxury housing, nature takes its revengeroot by root, limb by limb.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Delivery Manby  Susan Adair Harris
An inept aging delivery man tries to charm his equally mature customer, but first they must cope with the local serial killer.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Borrowedby  Frazer Lee
Valentine's Day takes a romantic-comedic turn when a homeless man meets the love of his life amidst the discarded flowers, cards, and chocolates in a city park.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Funeral Crasherby  Melissa Diane Hudson
At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby  Elliot Stanton
The prize for winning is the realisation of what losing is all about. Two elderly care home residents play Scrabble, but the value of their words doesn't just score points on the board.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Spirit Upwellingby  Linda Boroff
Cynical young college girl accompanies her new boyfriend, an aspiring law student, to his decaying San Joaquin Valley home town for his alcoholic mother's birthday dinner and is pulled into family conflicts and secrets dating back a hundred years. Despite her skepticism, she finds love and acceptance within the dilapidated house. Adapted from a prizewinning, anthologized short story. https://www.piltdownreview.com/2018/10/home-like-a-shadow.html Eric Hoffer Competitioni finalist among 2000+ entries and anthologized in Best New

Genre: Family
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
The Mediterraneanby  Kenneth M. Kielty
The Mediterranean is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy. Set in NYC, a middle level mafia guy stops into an Italian restaurant in the late evening for a drink. The bar is empty except for a bar tender and a beautiful young woman. He falls for her immediately. Her life story is intriguing, but is she real?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Personal Demonsby  Brandon Rhiness
After being fired for his reckless lifestyle, a narcissistic corporate climber visits a psychic to "exorcize" his personal demons (drinking and womanizing) only to have them manifest as physical entities that refuse to let him stop partying.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadline to Deathby  Elliot Stanton
Life imitates art, imitates life, fatally blurring the lines between reality and make-believe. A crime writer struggles to complete a manuscript until he visits the venue of the story's finale. There, he meets an elderly but mysterious female fan who he later finds out knows him much better than he could imagine.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
31 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Halloween Massacreby  Doug J Robbins
When Danny is followed home by a strange man in a mask, he thinks it's a harmless Halloween prank, but he soon finds out that the man has sinister intentions.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
One man's passionate monologue on law and religion unfolds, revealing the thin line between conviction and chaoswill his petition bring change, or simply the solitude he's chosen?

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime Episode 2 Tea Timeby  Doug J Robbins
Zoe is close to her magic Teddy Bear, and their relationship has parallels; their fights, in particular, mimic Mom and Dad's.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Guy painfully caught between the "love of his life" sending him a final goodbye via live video and his commitment to meet with his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's committed to a serious relationship and their first evening of love, and is waiting for him at her flat.Their scene of love-making ends shockingly with "rebound girlfriend" raging at him for using her. The result is a twist, a deadly tragedy twist.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Second Chanceby  John Porter
A young man spends a passionate night with a young woman, then struggles to persuade her to give him a second chance.

Genre: Romance
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
He Came From The Lakeby  DJ Robbins
A couple, Jeff and Darla, go on a weekend camping trip and encounters the urban legend/ ghost/ zombie murderer known as Travis Kramer.

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