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His Last Mistakeby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2025
A drunken man's late-night pit stop becomes a waking nightmare when he desecrates a roadside memorial and unleashes a vengeful spirit determined to make him pay, one terrifying drop at a time.
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
His Fatherby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2025
A man scarred by his abusive past must confront his estranged father's secret love and a devastating family truth, leading him to choose forgiveness and a fragile new beginning.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Reenactorby Victor Bravo
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2025
A Civil War researcher walking the Shiloh National Military Park encounters a wounded Confederate soldier in the throes of a battle fought one hundred and sixty years ago.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Conversionby Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
A defiant teen is sent to a secretive 1960s conversion therapy camp, where she fights to keep her identity intact as a hidden ally works to bring the truth to light.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Synchronicityby Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
A soulful musician and a new neighbor, each yearning for love, find their lives intertwined by fate.
Genre: Romance
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
A young boy, Wilson Kirkpatrick, is arrested for the murder of his abusive father, revealing a haunting cycle of intergenerational trauma and violence within their family.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Coilby Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
A brilliant scientist has a theory: an exact amount of energy focused on the exact right space, at the exact right time, can open a portal between multiverses. Will testing this theory cost more than he’s willing to sacrifice? A 15-minute short shot in one room with three cast members.
Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Standoffby Adrian Milnes
Date Posted: 21 May 2024
A Cop and a Debt Collector are both after a Gambler, but the Cop has an ulterior motive.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2024
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Find My Fiendsby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2024
When the party hostess isn’t answering calls her friends assume she’s been kidnapped and use a tracking app to locate her - with fatal consequences…
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Winds of Kandaharby PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2025
Racing the clock on 9/11, a two-fisted female private eye goes head-to-head with a terrorist sleeper cell and risks everything to save the Pentagon on that fateful day.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mary Go Roundby David-Matthew Barnes
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2024
At a remote wedding, two people meet a seductive stranger unaware that he's really a messenger of death.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Pumpkinsby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
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
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mariliseby Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
Close-knit lesbian sisters in the Hamptons find themselves in dire financial straits, seek the help of an older, well-heeled lesbian who becomes romantically involved with one of them, engendering jealousy and friction, and whose overzealousness leads to her death in a tragic accident.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Classmatesby Emy Dust
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2024
When three estranged friends reunite for their 20-year class reunion, a harmless prank to steal the town's iconic statue spirals into a deadly game of deception, betrayal, and hidden agendas, forcing them to confront their darkest secrets as the night unravels their lives.
Genre: Action/Adventure
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Sex Shoesby Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
LOGLINE
When an edgy aging Casanova hooks up with a young sophisticated lawyer who favors Louboutins, past mistakes are dredged up with tragic consequences... and the possibility of acceptance.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Model Citizenby Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
Under pressure to find male models, a talent scout recruits a cat-calling construction worker, giving him a taste of what it’s like to be objectified.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Nailsby John Ravitz
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharist Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between the sacred and the need to stop a killer before he kills again.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Superstition's Goldby Michael Gaun
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
A romantic history of hidden Treasure in Superstition Mountain with its famous Lost Dutchman Gold Mine.
Genre: Western
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Touchby Esra Cengel
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
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
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Preyby John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
Two promiscuous businessmen plan to pick up a beautiful young woman--who plans to pick them up.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
DB Cooperby Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 01 May 2025
DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Picnicby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Four hipsters pack their lunch and excitedly head into the woods for their first ever wilderness picnic. Unfortunately, it all goes very, very wrong. (Dark comedy/horror/satire. 1 location, 4 actors.)
Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Soldier's Bravadoby Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025
In a bar in ancient Britannia a battle-worn deputy centurion’s dark memories clash with youthful bravado of untested soldiers.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brush Stroke Loveby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2024
Needing to find a girlfriend, Ian goes out to find one but instead falls in love with a magical painted portrait of a girl from the 1800’s.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Burnby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
A story about an African American woman who survives a fire incident and fears to find love again. A romantic drama story which shows the power of love.
Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Oh Boi!by Sara Mancini
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024
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
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Classic Western Love Storyby John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A western comedy in which two young men compete for the favor of a lovely young woman.
Genre: Western
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
State of the Universeby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2024
A chronic sleepwalker awakens in his pajamas deep in the woods. While trying to find his way home, he stumbles upon a secret "State of the Universe" picnic attended by Jesus, Satan, Mother Nature, the U.S. President, Santa Claus and an odd creature from Pluto. (1 location. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
SATNAVby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Twisted mindby Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
"Twisted Minds Unite" revolves around a specialized team formed within the FBI to apprehend a new type of serial killer who is not only intelligent and organized but also has significant influence within society. The team consists of individuals with unique skills, each with a personal history of trauma, which drives their pursuit of justice.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Kid nappingby Kerens
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2024
What could happen when Peter, 25, lost his fiancée and son during a miscarriage meets Julian, nepo baby, father businessman, mother surgeon, who never knows the joy of parenthood, because his parents have time for him?
Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bad Grannyby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A female army veteran takes back gun to avenge her grandson.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Vietnamby Kevin Frasure
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
Haunted by the horrors of his past, a Vietnam veteran’s grip on reality unravels as he’s stalked by the vengeful spirit of a fallen enemy, forcing him to confront the trauma that has followed him home—before it consumes him entirely.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Where the Heart Isby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
The spirit of Christmas must overcome those with hatred in their hearts.
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Stop Driving Yourself Crazyby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
Clive, a thoughtless and paranoid driving instructor's wild theory of his wife's infidelity, is all but confirmed when out on a driving lesson - her car is seen somewhere it shouldn't be. However, the only thing that is confirmed is his poor learner’s theory that Clive is an idiot.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hip-Hop villainous (Flo-Rebel)by Gwendolen
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Gwendolen Hayes is a multi-talented creative force in the entertainment industry. Starting her career as a music artist, producer, and engineer, Gwen quickly made a name for herself with her innovative sound and production techniques. Her work caught the attention of industry insiders, leading her to transition into writing music for movies and TV shows.
With a natural talent for storytelling, Gwen Hayes found success as a scriptwriter for film and television. Her unique background.
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Imaginary Friendby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2023
A friendly ghost that likes to take on the role of ‘imaginary friend’ enters into random homes looking for lonely children to befriend, but inside this latest house he finds a beaten up housewife in desperate need of friendship.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
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
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beautiful Madnessby Michael Joseph
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2024
A man wakes up to find his date gone and his reality slipping away.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
