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Her Faceby Marc Prey
Set in an alternative reality in which no one is permitted to show their face (masks are required from birth), one teenage boy begins to question the way things are after meeting a rebellious teenage girl.
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
King Sizeby Paul Weidknecht
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
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Goodbye, Cruel Worldby Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Goodbye cruel world" is a thriller short film about a desperate man victim of a blackmailer who proposes to a suicidal man, perched on his balcony, to kill the blackmailer before committing suicide....
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screamersby Chris Lewis
A world without fresh water or fruitful soil can lead to demarcation and brute force reality. Over population and stark sad realities.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby John Porter
A dark comedy about a man who receives a letter from an old girlfriend who reminds him of a promise he made years and years ago.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth or Dieby James D. Tuverson III
Two teenagers find themselves on a steep cliff overlooking the mountainside. They play a game, Truth or Lie, to determine the circumstances that brought both to the precipice. As the truth is revealed, the games changes from Truth or Lie... to Truth or Die. This short was a QUARTERFINALIST in the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Point of Irish Coffeeby Rochelle Potkar
As his distracted MISTRESS plots revenge on three women who made fun of her over her husband's abandonment, a DOG follows all her hateful emotions that metamorphose him into a worst beast a hateful homo sapien (a man).
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Flashes of Youby Lamar D. Vine
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
Genre: Romance
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby John Boal
A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
They All Want the King Deadby NG
Feature Length Version Available. Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Daisy + Adrianby Bill Cornelius
After surviving a near fatal car crash, two friends find that neither is what they appear to be and a mysterious corporation hopes to keep it a secret.
Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Can We Partner This Deal?by John Porter
With buzzwords on cellphones, a young businessman and a young businesswoman try to plan their future.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Slice of Romanceby Jack Sherry
In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby Steven Burton
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
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Years and a Windowby Danny King
A devoted highschool teacher who stages a desperate escape plan, with the help of one of his own students to rescue his Indian girlfriend from her arranged marriage, only to learn, after risking everything, that she has already chosen someone else.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
High Concept Harryby Ronald V. Micci
Hollywood talent agent Harry Fleck's development exec girlfriend is in the habit of sending purple passionate love letters to him stuck in with the contracts she sends, letters that should they fall into the hands of Harry's tough-as-nails wife, would spell disaster. He is able to intercept one such letter to keep his wife from seeing it.
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Creepy Clown For Hireby DJ Robbins
Pamela is upset that her son is skipping his tutoring sessions, so she hires a creepy clown to scare her son into seeing his tutor.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No More Virginsby Lloyd Muchenje
Three Africa women,one battling addiction,another serving herself for marriage,and bride to -be striving to protect her own female purity,leading to heartbreaking and moments of profound reckoning. PURITY HAS A PRICE,INNOCENCE IS NO PROTECTION.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheltered Collapseby Stephanie Neroes
Haunted by loss and consumed by anxiety, a reclusive woman clings to her routines in a post-pandemic world that has left her behind, until the measures meant to keep her safe lead to tragedy.
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Call Me Sirby Brandi Self
Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Legacyby Jeffrey Stackhouse
A young black priest takes a life-changing opportunity at a convent dating back to the birth of New Orleans and discovers secrets that shake his sanity as much as his faith. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubadour's Last Noteby Michael J Volpe
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
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Freezeby Jon Platt
Far in the future, a teenage schoolgirl has the cryogenically frozen head of a scientist of our time thawed...to help her with her history homework.
Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Legacyby Michael G Holmes
An image-obsessed actor is bitten by a snake while staging a publicity-friendly hiking trip, then spends what may be his final minutes rehearsing the perfect deathbed message instead of confronting the life he actually lived.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Unwelcomeby Bill Freas
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
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Three Is an Odd Numberby jonathan riikonen
Due to a rental office error, three very different guys with different interests end up living together wondered by their female neighbor, and added by a big and sloppy apartment house complex office lady.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lucky Strikeby Chris Fell
The most fortunate event will take down your relationship in an instant.
Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Momby Jason Allen
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 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: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Orangesby Sari Akhavan
A nice cosy family dinner at home, while the neighborhood outside is being bombed.
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tangled Rootsby Deogratias Nyakiki
In a quaint town, Mia, a botanist grappling with her family's hidden history, partners with Ethan, a free-spirited artist, to restore a neglected community garden. As they navigate their growing bond and unearth long-buried secrets, Mia's quest for identity forces her to confront her fears and embrace vulnerability. Their distinct personalitiesher analytical precision clashing with his creative chaosforge a connection that leads to both personal growth and the revitalization of their community, all against a backdrop of both h
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sammiby Adam Rocke
A "dirty laundry specialist" can be a great asset at a lawsuit settlement conference.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pseudomorphby Peter J Bartels
A desperate cockfighter buys a shape-shifting creature guaranteed to defeat any opponentonly to discover that its deadliest transformation is into the monster he truly is.
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Labor of Loveby John Porter
A young woman teases her fianc until she discovers he's willing to do almost anything to make her happy.
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
God's Away On Businessby Benjamin Guerra
When a Catholic priest dies and doesn't see God, all hell breaks loose.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Terrible Tillyby Frank J Dellipoala
When three friends trespass on a legendary abandoned lighthouse, "Terrible Tilly," they uncover a cargo of genetically modified "Asian Murder Hornets" intended to cripple the nation's food supply. With a tsunami closing in and the swarm released, they must survive the night to sound the alarm.
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Eternal Optimistby John Porter
A dark comedy in which a young man breaks a lamp, plugs up the toilet, gets jilted, gets fired, and so on. But, hey, tomorrow's another day, right?
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Won't Takeby Hiabu Hassebu
Saba battles against herself, not to miss her childhood friend, who died of menengites.
Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
She Curses Like a Sailorby Micheline Birger
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not - in public - a philosophical comedy - of sorts. Are we too brash as a society? Too crass? Maybe - maybe not. You decide! Is America off the hook ? (Copyright Wash. DC) A play/ teleplay.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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