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Cliff Effectby  Esra Cengel
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
The End Was Funby  Alexaner Meriakri
A hibernating hypochondriac wakes in a post-apocalypse frenzy, where absurd adventures teach him courage and camaraderie.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
Two freakish outcasts -- a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis -- are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Sharkkinby  Tommy Garcia
A young woman fantasizes about the shark that attacked her when she meets a man with an unusual identity crisis, and the two find only they can heal one another's trauma.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Justifiable Beatingby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Love will make you believe your enemy truly loves you. That's the bitter truth Monica has to swallow dealing with her husband Craig.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
During her lunch break, an uptight business woman who's having a bad day decides to go for a frolic in a field. Unfortunately, she has never frolicked before and can't quite get the hang of it. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cracked Shellsby  Mark Konik
Two lonely hearts meet via online dating. One dressed as a chicken, the other infatuated with someone else. Can Lance and Kristen find love with each other?

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby  Mark Wakely
A young student's affair with his teacher makes him an outcast at his middle school.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Passing Trainsby  Charles Hall
A hardened ex-con living a reclusive life in the Caucasus Mountains courts trouble when he rescues a teenage boy fleeing persecution.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Descent into Hellby  Abdelouahab Hammoudi
"You exist, I don't," someone tells a drug addict craving a fix in a garden at night.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Madam Lucindaby  Jason K. Allen
A man visits a psychic seeking knowledge about his love life and his favorite fishing hole. Unfortunately, he is Madam Lucinda's first ever customer and things don't go quite as planned. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 characters.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Punchby  Elizabeth Appell
An urchin from the streets and huge fan has a dream that if the champion boxer fights tonight, he will kill his opponent. The champ has had the same dream. The boy fails to convince the Champ not to fight. The fight goes on and a lethal left hook fulfills the dream.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cautionary Tale of a Young Doodlerby  Ivana Hruba
P. Casso, an unremarkable young man in charge of phone inquiries at an art gallery, spends his working hours in a pleasant daze doodling aimlessly at his desk until a random drawing leads to a change in circumstances from which there seems to be no escape.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Kissby  Mary Goldman
Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bargain Storeby  Brandi Self
A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Mayhemby  STEVEN BLOWS
Battle begins when a man on a date with his new boyfriend to a paintball centre bumps into his handsome Ex in a healthy relationship with the woman he left him for.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the "perfect" everything daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Compelled to leave Kazakhstan due to political reasons, an idealistic migrant must overcome the challenges of integration and the distractions of an unexpected love while seeking justice and a new home.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Faster By Nightby  Paul Byrne
Surviving rape and torture in a Russian filtration camp, a Ukrainian female commando pursues her American dream of being a concert violinist, until she crosses paths with the sadistic general who wants to finish their dirty little war.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Ordinary Dayby  Chris Fell
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
Attack of the Church Furnitureby  David McPete
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
A naive scientist who has discovered a way to bring people back from the past, interviews infamous dictator Hitler but his German translator has different plans.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 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
A Moment In Timeby  PAUL BYRNE
A bounty on their heads, a middle eastern woman in D.C. must trust a psychotic D.E.A. agent to save her family from an arms dealer's vendetta despite his claims of loving her in a past life... and he can prove it.

Genre: Action/Adventure
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Ones to Ownby  Iris Mangual
Trapped in a gilded cage of wealth and control, a young wife suffering in silence finds an unlikely ally in his chauffeur and becomes her greatest weapon as she transforms from victim to avengerusing her abuser's greed to destroy him.

Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cage For Twoby  Darryl N. Layne
After a desperate ex-con's botched robbery, he and his assumed lover are abducted by aliens who demand they become specie's in their galactic zoo-only to discover that his mate isn't who he expected, and a lifetime with her is now his fate.

Genre: Sci-Fi
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When an exhausted serial killer on a cross-country spree stops at a secluded motel he is told by his supernatural boss, the entity known as fate, that he must experience "true love" before being granted the rest that he so desires.

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Most Unusual Visitorby  DJ Robbins
A woman receives a visit from a man who is the spitting image of her dead husband.

Genre: Fantasy
3 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
The Last Lightby  Gladman
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 Easter Humanby  DJ Robbins
Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
A legend surrounding mean children being taken on Halloween claims the one that got away years earlier.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Raven Pointby  Jason K. Allen
Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tequila Slammerby  Ray Smith
When a betrayed husband wakes up from a tequila-fueled car crash with no memory of who he is, he must unravel his identity while evading vengeful gangsters, Russian mobsters, and a relentless hitmanor else become collateral damage in a twisted web of stolen cash and deadly secrets.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Close Enoughby  Steven Burton
The boundaries of the long-term platonic friendship between Larry, a straight man, and Gary, a gay man, are challenged as they deal with other life issues.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Haunted by the violence of his upbringing, a boy's fateful act forces a reckoning with the ghosts of his family's pastand the chilling truth that some wounds are born, not made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby  Andrea Zastrow
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father's Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
 
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