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Backflipby  Jessica Taylor
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2024
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
Deepstareby  Gerard Docherty
Date Posted: 22 May 2024
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
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2023
An old and regretful man waits inside an old train station for someone whom he yearns to meet. He encounters another man, eccentric and inquisitive. The old man begins to suspect that this station is no ordinary place and that the stranger has the answers to what he’s searching for.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sin Eaterby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
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
Fun with Wordsby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2024
Six tales told by a man sitting in the shadows explain how people use words in the wrong context.

Genre: Drama
26 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
Decompositionby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2024
Cameron is a cutter on the verge of homicide, accepting his girlfriend will continuously cheat on him.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Copby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Pair of Silk Stockingsby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A silent fantasy based on Kate Chopin’s short story (published in 1897, now in the public domain) about a mother who takes care of her children and herself, too.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lonely Onesby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
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
Noble Deceptionby  Chris Burns
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
Charles Noble, a callous man, reluctantly allows an employee to tend to his ailing wife. However, a scheme unfolds that leads to a fatal encounter at a supermarket, altering their lives forever.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Satan's Shrinkby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Satan needs a consult; it's just not as much fun anymore.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder Inkby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2024
After witnessing her tattooist father murdered, his orphaned daughter uses his dying gift to payback his killers in a uniquely creative way.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Do I Put Up with You?by  John Porter
Date Posted: 09 May 2025
A young woman wonders why she puts up with her extremely flawed boyfriend.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strings Attachedby  Dennis J Manning
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2025
When a washed-up musician returns to his sacred studio to write one last song, the guitars he abandoned come alive, forcing him to face the haunting truth about the silence he chose—and the music that never died.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Black Queen: Birth Of A Queen Warriorby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
In a land of witches and beasts, a young woman, kidnapped for an Amazon Army, battles to get back to her tribe and lead her warrior sisters to the truth.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fur Realby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024
In a quaint suburban house, secrets are buried beneath wagging tails and chewed-up slippers. “Fur Real” is a heartwarming comedy-drama that explores love, identity, and the lengths we’ll go to find companionship—even if it means donning a furry suit

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sketchyby  Sebastian Ackland
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2025
A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Rendezvousby  Paul Byrne
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2024
A paralyzed teenager from the hood meets his rich girlfriend one last time to see if their love has survived his drug dealing days.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Ladies of Lawrenceby  Suzanne Birrell
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2023
A young woman hosting a birthday party for her wealthy older husband is surprised to discover all the ex-wives and mistresses in attendance. A comedy of the absurd.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Yell'n'Tellby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
After witnessing a girl being bullied, a brave five-year-old uses his wise mother's practical but inventive advice to help solve his bullying dilemma. *2024 Best Unproduced Script Brightside Tavern Film Festival; Brightside Festival; Semi Finalist 2023 Dallas Shorts Note: Yell’n’Tell also in French and Spanish – Grita y Dilo*

Genre: Animation
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bathwaterby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 19 May 2025
Three friends enter a house, finding a golden crown in dirty bathwater, they all want it, but inside the bath a terrible creature lives.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Bleed and Cryby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2024
A filmmaker performs a one-man play on a childhood trauma he suffered while showing a home movie from the year and date the childhood trauma occurred.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tequila Slammerby  Ray Smith
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
When a betrayed husband wakes up from a tequila-fueled car crash with no memory of who he is, he must unravel his identity while evading vengeful gangsters, Russian mobsters, and a relentless hitman—or else become collateral damage in a twisted web of stolen cash and deadly secrets.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Best Manby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Is there a spinster rule when neither your fiancé nor his newly found brother is the Best Man?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Torch Of Horror; The Muse In The Moonlightby  James Massaro
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2025
The devil within is in the house of mirrors....

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Across The Milesby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2025
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
No More Virginsby  Lloyd Muchenje
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2025
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
Nasty Nightby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2025
A young woman, excited for her blind date, finds herself kidnapped by a deranged taxi driver.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Tripby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
ONE LOCATION: About to turn thirty, George wants to try something wild and different. So convincing his friends to try acid with him for the first time they hire Cameron, an old school hippie, but the acid trip he's got planned is one no one is going to return from.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lemon Aidby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Suburban parents learn the hard way that when life gives you lemons, you don't have to pay for them. When it doesn't, you have to buy them, the lemonade stand, a business permit, the credit card machine, and sell a ton of servings simply to break even.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Singularityby  Peter Donald Skagen
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2025
A tech-bro's wife who discovers he secretly chipped her brain giving her unusual abilities has to fight to survive when agents of the 'company' come to delete her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Welcome to '79by  D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
Girls. Gigs. Growing up. Redondo Beach; 1979. Teenage Dion is a dreamer and a drummer; together with his three best friends, he’s ready to spend the summer surfing, playing gigs and meeting girls. Slowly, each of these things changes or falls apart or just disappears. He wishes for them back. He wishes himself away. And finally, he embraces and clings to the unknown, because it’s the only thing he has left.

Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
On the Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2024
When two know-it-all female millennials search unsuccessfully for love, it's their Mother who comes out the winner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eugenia Clarkby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025
Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

Genre: Family
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Hunt Beginsby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2024
Melania the Olympic archery champion, while hiking in the mountains with her friends and sister, stumble upon two men who kill her girlfriends and kidnap her younger sister and disappear in an unknown direction. Although she is wounded, she starts hunting them to save her sister and do justice.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Irresistible Rageby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2024
A policeman receives threats against his family who leads the investigation against the son of a local political who is involved in drug trafficking, and the end of work the policeman finds his whole family dead at home.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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