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Fisherman's Bluesby  Elliot Stanton
Angling for answers, a fisherman is shocked by his friend's life-changing decision. And what is under the tarpaulin in the back of his car?

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Facing Northby  Mark Konik
Facing North is a contemplative road drama about estranged siblings Hayley and Ben, forced together on a journey to a funeral they'd rather avoid. As old wounds resurface and truths unravel, a flat tire and shared vulnerability steer them toward healing. Amidst tension and bittersweet humor, they rediscover connection.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A woman's infidelity takes her on an unexpected journey when her scorned husband hacks her car's navigation system.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not a Creature Was Stirringby  Michael Hogan
Karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the overly-testosteroned boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
When Sam, a burned-out waitress, becomes convinced by her sick grannie that they are really British royals, Sam channels Princess Diana which inspires her to a higher purpose at Sloppy's Bar-B-Q.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Just No Beyondby  Roberta M Roy
Environmentalist interior designer Alyssa May struggles with the looming question of plastic in her life, taking one small step despite recognizing there is no beyond.

Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spices with Vicesby  Debbie Castanha
A privileged pair of Ray Bans becomes lost in a drawer of bickering spices, and must hatch an escape plan before she's replaced.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth & Treasuresby  Melissa Diane Hudson
When a seven-year-old girl is denied a life-changing school trip for telling the truth about her mother's deception, she embarks on a whimsical adventure to reclaim her lost opportunity, learning about the value of truth and the power of forgiveness along the way.

Genre: Family
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall From Heavenby  PAUL BYRNE
Tortured by a sadistic Russian general, a former female Ukrainian commando finds justice in her gripping testimony before a war crimes tribunal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mercy Dashby  Anthony Cawood
A Soccer Mom undertakes a midnight mercy dash when she gets an unexpected call, but things aren't quite what they seem.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mona Lisaby  Keith Moody
A museum maintenance worker risks everything by confronting the malevolent spirit residing within Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, The Mona Lisa.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby  Tina Gandhi
Ten-year-old Catherine invokes her lineage of witchery and her penchant for chemistry to defy the death of her Nana, but her plans are thwarted, and she is suddenly transported to the ethers of afterlife.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Sweater Tomby  DJ Robbins
Zany Christmas Sweater Tom wears his Christmas Sweater every day, to the annoyance of those around him.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Halloween Short Film Festivalby  Jason K. Allen
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hearts & Algorithmsby  Dewayne C Bricker
When an obsessive AI engineer builds two comic digital souls inspired by history's greatest comedians, their mischief forces him out of isolationand into an unexpected romance with the neighbor who's been trying to reach his heart all along.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Automaticby  Gladman
Trapped inside a futuristic reset pod with seconds left on the countdown, a haunted man must choose whether to erase his memories for peaceor keep the truth that's been trying to break him free.

Genre: Sci-Fi
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killergartenby  Chris Fell
Being devoted assassins and parents makes up for a healthy work-life-death balance.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Freebornby  Shane Harbinson
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
The Usualby  Sarah Kennedy
A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors his dead mother by continuing her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Four elite Desert Storm pilots are assigned to a wasteland to find and destroy an Iraqi "Red Baron" that's halted the U.S. campaign, but instead find something worse.

Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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 Night Killerby  Ange Fassinou
A woman and her son have to survive a dangerous man who comes to kill them.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Lily Sanders
A helicopter parent is finally forced to listen.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perfectly Stillby  Dewayne
When meticulous serial killer Adrian Vale abducts a woman and prepares his perfectly staged basement ritual, he expects another controlled and predictable victim. Instead, Dr. Maya Sloanea criminal psychologist who studies predatorsbegins dismantling his carefully constructed world piece by piece. As their chilling confrontation turns into a battle of intellect and control, Adrian slowly realizes the woman he captured may have anticipated this encounter all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The City: A Tragedy in Three Actsby  Larry Shannon
The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

Genre: Drama
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
A poor little girl tries to find a way to do a huge favor to the woman who saved her life.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The barrier guards at the Large Hadron Collider stumble upon a mysterious discovery that forces them to pauseand question everything they thought they knew, if only for a moment.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
She Confused The Tableby  Kline Fishborn
During a date Angie confuses the table in a restaurant and sits down with another man. But the man does not admit that he is not the one with whom she is on a date because he liked from the beginning.

Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dorothy... after Ozby  robert ingraham
After Dorothy returns from colorful Oz, she moves to the San Fernando Valley, where everyone seems comparatively gray. That is, until she meets someone as colorful as the characters from Oz... Peter Pan. She falls in love with him... but there's a problem. He's wanted by the police for stealing kids.

Genre: Comedy
21 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
A grieving husband hires a sin eater to cleanse the soul of his dear departed wife, a recently executed witch.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.

Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Man's Pondby  Adam Slamang
When a university student investigates the years-old disappearance of a classmate linked to a haunted pond, eerie signs of a ghostly presence give way to a far more terrifying truthan ancient, cosmic force that distorts time, flesh, and reality itself.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Big Digby  Jason K. Allen
Pete once heard that if you dig a hole far enough you will end up in China. So one day he takes a shovel and decides to find out for himself. Several months later he emerges in a strange land that is definitely not China. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Comedy. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Big Treeby  Paolo Galli
On a scorching summer afternoon, a homeless man finds shelter beneath a great tree and comfort in an old photograph. With a simple yet profound gesture writing poems in exchange for coins he sows beauty in the silence of the city. Years later, on his wedding day, a man discovers that a small note he received as a child shaped his destiny. A tale about the power of quiet gestures and invisible legacies.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From the Flamesby  Alistair Bryson
A widowed artist moves into a new house in an effort to bury the memories of a Bohemian lifestyle and a toxic marriage, but is forced to revisit his past in bizarre circumstances when he uncovers an ancient fire-pit from which deceased figures appear to him through the flames.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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