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Close Enoughby  Steven Burton
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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
Blue Octoberby  Ilyas Adiris
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In a luxury apartment suite, turned into a diplomatic chamber in 1976. A vulnerable African Minister, confronts America's most ruthless diplomat. Turning a routine meeting, into a moral standoff. That could reshape East Africa. Inspired by true events.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby  John Alexander Fraser
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A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Save the Last Danceby  John J McWilliams
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The last two soldiers to be killed in World War 1 are thrown together just before they meet their tragic fate.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Fine Dayby  Dempsey Samways
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A relaxing day-off for stoner Danny quickly goes sideways when a mysterious agency of 'Enforcement Officers' begin fining him for increasingly nonsensical offences.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby  Tawnie Powell
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97%that's what Hana Murphy became part of when it happened. Now, dismissed by her University, she struggles to break free from the statistic and find herself. Spiraling into self-destruction and with her relationships unraveling, Hana is forced to confront the question: What happens to the drunk girl?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Father's Loveby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Love enters your life when you're at your lowest point, and that's exactly what Tiffany and Bernard need to deal with the pain their father's inflicted on them. 

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
This Dedicated Physicianby  Michael Volpe
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After overcoming a painful miscarriage and divorce from her unfaithful lawyer wife, Neonatal Doctor Lee Lopez fights an uphill battle to stop her inner-city hospital from being closed by a greedy Board of Directors headed by her ex-wife's lover.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Policeman No Leaves Tracesby  Jason Kirman
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A policeman at night kidnaps and kills people who sell drugs and dissolves their bodies in an abandoned warehouse so as not to leave traces of his crime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby  Dominic Uwem Lawrence
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When a group of friends ventures into the heart of darkness, they unleash a malevolent force that hunts them down, forcing one survivor to confront the evil head-on in a desperate bid to escape the Undertaker's gruesome realm.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheby  Lamar D. Vine
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After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
The Free Boxby  Charles Webb
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The most valuable thing at an estate sale could be free.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubic's Kubeby  Bernard Mersier
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Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pledge to Murderby  Elliot Stanton
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The fog shrouding a horrific murder is about to get thicker. The evil spectre of Jack the Ripper returns to Victorian London after the gruesome murder of a prominent politician's murder.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Woodcutterby  Raymond Reboulet
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A young man believes and an old man remembers the reasons behind the ways of old which the village has forgotten. A child in danger awakens the town and renews its purpose.

Genre: Family
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Can You Hear Me Now?by  Bob Messinger
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Estranged from friends and family, Jake is forced to confront the voices he's been hearing and eerie phone calls he's been getting since childhood.

Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seven Minutesby  Robert Drusetta
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A trilogy of stories exploring the seven minutes after death where the brain doesn't realize the body is dead.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Borrowedby  Frazer Lee
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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
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 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
Change the F*cking Nameby  Christopher Harmon
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A fearless Indigenous teen, intent on restoring the dignity of his people, goes on a mystical vision quest...only to find the legendary Jim Thorpe as his guide and mentor. Jim reinforces the young man's determination to end the racial slur that is the name of a Washington sports team and he champions a movement - that eventually succeeded.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killerby  DJ Robbins
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Jeff kills under a lifelong desire to try his hand at being a serial killer and his brother, Mike tags along to write about the experience and turn it into a screenplay.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome to Arbor Parkby  Donald Copenhaver
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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
A Car Salesman Builds His Dream Houseby  Alan Barkley
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Jim is a car salesman who is building a house to woo back a wayward spouse. Can Jim close the deal? (No house construction filming needed). *2024 Semi-finalist - Grande Stories Screenplay Competition*.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  Anthony Cawood
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Two agents travel back in time to alter history, but their mission misfires, unleashing unintended consequences they can't undo.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Sex Shoesby  Ron Brawer
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When an aging Casanova hooks up with a young Louboutins-loving lawyer, past follies surface -- with Fellini-esque consequences.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lonely Onesby  Sarah Kennedy
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A young man controlled by common technology encounters an old man in a coffee shop who upends the assumption that old people are the lonely ones. One location, micro budget. Written by award-winning, produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Anne's Forever Christmas Treeby  Andrew Bowen, APR
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Struck by a soft blue bolt of lightning that gives her mysterious powers, a fir tree that becomes a beloved Christmas tree teams up with the family's Irish Setter to work wonders in the house that leave the baffled family members joyously scratching their heads in gratitude. And when Christmas is over, the magic really happens!

Genre: Family
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Pumpkinsby  Jason K. Allen
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Halloween comes only once a year, but not everyone is happy about this. In fact, several pumpkins are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. (Horror/comedy)

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
If I Left Earlyby  Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey
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Living with his ambitious breadwinning girlfriend, a young job-hunting loser feels left behind in life and relationship. Motivated, he works to get things back on track, but all of that is halted when a call comes in and the unpredictable happens.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cowardly Lyonsby  Patrice Sarath
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The squabbling Lyon family comes together to protect their matriarch when she's haunted by a disapproving spirit.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Across The Milesby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
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When a chance encounter sparks an instant connection, two young souls make a vow to wait for each other, navigating a lifetime of longing, loss and circumstance until fate unites them in a heartwarming twist of destiny.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hayseeds & Hipstersby  Jason K. Allen
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While eating lunch on a park bench, hayseeds Ned and Boomer spot a real-life hipster. Fascinated, they observe him and make fun of him, but they soon learn that things aren't always what they seem. (1 location, 3 characters)

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Should Have Stayed Homeby  Michael Angelella
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A desperate film director threatens to destroy all the footage of his just-completed film unless his producer gives him creative control of it. Semi Finalist 2024 Golden Script Competition; Semi Finalist 2024 Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Contest.

Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
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An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Paradeby  William Douglas
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Can a 10-year-old boy steal an unhappy elephant, find him a good home, fall in love and get his first kiss, all in one week?

Genre: Other
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas from the Crapperby  Wendy Appelbaum
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When IBS threatens to derail a Christmas-obsessed man's quest to host his annual public access Holiday Show, he must fight against the "natural forces" to ensure that the show goes on.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Backflipby  Jessica Taylor
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When The World's Fair comes to town, a gymnast in a side show act must keep her wits about her to escape from H.H. Holmes or else perish in his murder castle alone and afraid.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Happy Lifeby  Brandi Self
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A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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