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Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
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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
Synchronicityby  Stephanie Neroes
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When a musician aching for connection meets a soft-spoken neighbor with a spiritual heart, their mirrored lives begin to alignproving that sometimes, the universe writes the love story for you.

Genre: Romance
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Moment In Timeby  PAUL BYRNE
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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
The Prisoners' Songby  John Porter
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A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it

Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Deepstareby  Gerard Docherty
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A short film exploring mental health from the main character's POV. Main character descends into a fantasy world. Explores his invented world. Kills someone at the end. Ends up in a police cell. Multiple scenes, multiple locations, all adaptable to whatever circumstances you find yourself in. Modest length, flexible set up, few locations, relatively easy to stage. 10-15 mins duration.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Pumpkinby  Doug J Robbins
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The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Days of Gloryby  Jason K. Allen
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A sidewalk shoeshine man touches the life of a hopeless customer. (1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
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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
Rubyby  Jason K. Allen
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When a lonely old man visits his beloved wife's grave for the first time, he encounters a charming little girl who lifts him out of his doldrums and fills him with hope. (Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby  Wendy Toliver
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A surgeon searching for the daughter she gave up for adoption believes she's finally bringing her home for Christmas--unaware the adoption agency receptionist is posing as her daughter.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Monster Mansionby  Jason K. Allen
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On the last day of the carnival, young Billy Slater enters a haunted house and never returns.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Fall and Rise of Luciferby  Delaina M. Waldron
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The story of Lucifer the first angel created by God; Lucifer's fall from the heavens and his reason for his rise to becoming the Devil.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Heads Upby  Elliot Stanton
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While waiting to be interviewed for the top job outside the outgoing headmaster's office, an arrogant traditionalist confidently belittles his rival for the jobonly to discover that the calm woman he's dismissed holds a far more powerful advantage than he ever imagined.

Genre: Comedy
12 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 Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
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Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mother's Gavelby  Jesus Gonzalez
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A grieving mother, consumed by revenge after her son's rape, teams up with her sister to enact a brutal plan that unravels in devastating ways.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Same Nameby  Steven Burton
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Their same name brings a straight black actor and a gay white actor/writer together to collaborate on a film project that creates more greatness for both.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Friendsgivingby  Doug J Robbins
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Stacy invited herself to Brian and Mark's Friendsgiving, twenty-four hours before Thanksgiving. Brian's turkey goes missing and he must go on a scavenger hunt to retrieve it.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spider Daddyby  Wayne E. Johnson
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An eleven-year-old boy, fixated on horror comics and monsters, finds that his recurring nightmares become reality with devastating results for his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and, ultimately, for him.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
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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
Poulticeby  Anthony Cawood
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Desperate to save her unborn child, a remorseful woman seeks the help of a scorned Native American healer, agreeing to an unthinkable trade that will change their lives forever.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Drama
3 pages
No Trespassingby  Sarah Kennedy
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman's drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Let Us Preyby  James D. Tuverson III
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Three very different men confront themselves and each other during a grueling group-therapy session. One man, however, will discover his greatest struggle is within. If he loses the battle between his morals and urges, he may become the Devil himself. This short was a FINALIST at the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cuddly Toyby  CARLOS ALEX CENI
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The life of a handicapped guy takes a dramatic turn when he looks out the window and spots a cuddly toy next to a wheelie bin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Boomerangby  John Alexander Fraser
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A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gone With The Gulf Streamby  Jack Sherry
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A military chemical dump in Florida's Panhandle is more than just an environmental disaster. When a deadly bacterial outbreak kills marine life and divers in the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman must escape government cover-ups and corporate corruption after losing her boyfriend and father figure to the contaminated waters.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All that Glittersby  Vic Jones
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A broke dreamer hobbles through the streets in pursuit of gold, only to discover that the most opulent light enters from above.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kiss Me, Stay Closerby  Patricia Bruce
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A delinquent, young woman from the wrong side of the tracks ingeniously turns the table on her drug dealer. Semi-finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Creepby  Dj Robbins
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A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Oh Boi!by  Sara Mancini
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Marta is a 14 years old weirdo with no friends but with a particular obsession: porn. She watches a lot of porn videos but has never had sex and doesn't know what pleasure is: she never even masturbated! Determined to understand what sex is, she decides to emulate her peers living a day like them and get close to an older guy who has no problem having sex with anyone.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prophetessby  Amrita Baines
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Driven by nightmares and an obsession with the supernatural, a paranormal researcher seeks out a cryptic Prophetess but the deeper he digs into her tragic lineage, the more reality fractures, until he's no longer sure if he's documenting madness... or becoming its next chapter.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Rainbowby  Vijay Kumar Dammalapati
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A neglected boy finds solace in his nanny's love and decades later returns as a doctor to heal the woman who raised him, and himself.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hearse from Beyondby  Jason K. Allen
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On Halloween night, young trick-or-treater Daniel Taylor catches a glimpse of the town's sinister old undertaker -- and turns out to be the last person to see him alive. (In the vein of the original Twilight Zone series. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pendantby  Tina Gandhi
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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
Jack's Mom Autism Warrior Princessby  Lawrence Riggins
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The humorous true story of a supermodel who leaves celebrity life to raise her autistic son. Trading designer gowns for parenthood-on-steroids, this Autimom uses love, determination, and comedy to treat her boy's disorder while defending him from attacks by close-minded individuals. True beauty triumphs as her remarkable son overcomes his disability to thrive as a young man. Short, TV Series, Family Comedy, Female Lead. 27 Awards.

Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Giftby  Jason K. Allen
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In 1977, a young man receives a camera that takes disturbing pictures. (1 location, 1 actor. Produced writer, see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by  Ron Brawer
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In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Devious Desiresby  Melissa Diane Hudson
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An unhappy married man wants out of his boring marriage and craves excitement in his life, so he begins online dating and meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman who only desires to rob and kill him.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Devil's Servantby  Doug J Robbins
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A murderer kills his improv group after blacking out and pursues members of his neighborhood.

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