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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
Days of Gloryby  Jason K. Allen
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
Only the Windby  DJ Robbins
Jack is spending his first Christmas without his father and is given the chance for one last Christmas with him.

Genre: Family
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Faceby  Doug J Robbins
A killer stalks his family after being let off on a technicality.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Selling Oranges on a Median with Charles Bukowskiby  Ryan Armstrong
A meeting of two men in an unlikely place as they try to overcome the challenge of understanding and communicating with the other.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Group Chatby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
After an unremovable number joins their group chat, five friends receive photos from inside their homesand a countdown demanding they confess what happened at the lake.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
After Musk's DOGE team's preps the opening of the prisonadding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnelTrump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricitythe one with the electric chair. What happens next is... well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A living doll babysits a baby and protects it during a burglary.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Apartmentby  Brandi Self
A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can't connect.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Twisted mindby  Christine LARA
"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
A cop decides to avenge his wife killed by four young men.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Junkie's Flawby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
An arrogant heiress's hellish bargain with a demon gives her everything she wants... and takes it all away. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ice-Cold Revengeby  Elliot Stanton
A 'chance meeting' at a party fails to bring the closure a victim sought from her school bully and even manages to make things worse.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It's Not A Bear! It Has A Bigger Foot!by  Casey Newel
College students battle turmoil in filming their student film project and the urge to film a terrifying creature they encounter in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloodiedby  Adam Dyer
Newlyweds Melanie & Carl Colvey move in to their dream house in their favorite neighborhood. After discovering the house to be the scene of a grizzly murder, they must decide whether to leave immediately, or live with a horrible truth.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicelessby  Janice Foster
A woman, who can dream herself into crimes, becomes involved in the murder of a schizophrenic assassin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ghomeedaby  Aya Mheidly
In their quest for safety as undocumented refugees, Wissam, Hadi, and Jamil find refuge in an apartment. Wissam uses the game of hide and seek to protect Hadi's innocence while teaching vital evasion skills. But when ICE agents intrude, their bond is tested. Despite the turmoil, they hold onto hope, showing the strength of the human spirit

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvationonly to uncover a harrowing world of abuse, resistance, and a reckoning long overdue.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Smells Like Steinbeckby  Jason K. Allen
A young man with a passion for pleasant aromas is lured into the underground world of book sniffing. (Could be short or TV pilot. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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 homebefore it consumes him entirely.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Snowbound Secretsby  Christine LARA
A man on the run after a desperate bank robbery finds himself trapped in a small isolated motel during a snowstorm. But he quickly discovers that the other motel guests also have secrets to hide, and they are all willing to do whatever it takes to keep them concealed.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a rogue bear terrorizes the Alaskan Wilderness, a stranded doctor and his Yupik friend and their twin loyal huskies must survive the night where man and predator share the same hunger.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Viewsby  Alan Barkley
A female realtor shows a female client around a view home. But when the two women discover their paths have unhappily crossed before the business meeting descends into physical comic conflict. Single Location. *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Patent Applicationby  Stephen Delos Treacy
This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A night out for an affluent millennial couple unravels after a clash over whether to help a homeless man.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Princess Samby  Rebecca Ayers
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
Finally Coming Homeby  Dennis Bruce Shipman
A clairvoyant female visits a Confederate Civil War Cemetery to help a dead earth-bound soldier cross over into the light. The story takes place in the present. The soldier has been walking the grounds of the graveyard waiting 162 years for his sweetheart to come fetch him. Initially, he's hesitant to step into the light. But once he experiences its soothing warmth and majestic wonder, he's all in.

Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double-Crossed Christmasby  Wendy Toliver
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
From God and Manby  Zach Jansen
Assigned to a desolate outpost, a young soldier must choose between his moral compass and his superior's twisted sense of divine duty when it comes the execution of questionable orders.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ancient Secretsby  Wayne E. Johnson
While waiting in line to renew his driver's license, a man gets an update on Stonehenge from the 6000-year-old± Druid in line ahead of him.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What It's All Aboutby  John Worsley
When a young woman struggling with her grandfather's death finds herself mysteriously trapped in the apartment next door with two strangers, she must overcome her anger to work with them and get out.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby  Chris Burns
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
She is an Alienby  Niagara Ross
A clumsy office worker falls in love with a charming new colleague, but his world is turned upside down when he learns she is an alien from another planet with a secret mission.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A reporter meets with the controlling perfectionist mayor of a small town and learns the secret as to how the mayor keeps his citizens in line.

Genre: Fantasy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Personal Demonsby  Brandon Rhiness
After being fired for his reckless lifestyle, a narcissistic corporate climber visits a psychic to "exorcize" his personal demons (drinking and womanizing) only to have them manifest as physical entities that refuse to let him stop partying.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Halloween Massacre 2by  Doug J Robbins
One year after the Halloween Massacre, Cyrus returns to torment Danny once again.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jack's Mom Autism Warrior Princessby  Lawrence Riggins
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
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
After narrowly escaping execution at the hands of ISIS, a teenage boy struggles to move on with life in a war-torn environment of terror and continued mortal danger.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Four drunk men argue over corpses they find in a pub, all mysteriously missing their shadows.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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