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Marisby  Zelda Watkins
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A castaway desperate to leave an island falls under the enchantment of Maris, a sea siren with a tragic past.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Underground Cageby  Yura Shevchuk
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Two martial arts master brothers wake up in an unknown underground cage but do not remember how they got there but are offered freedom win two deadly duels with dangerous rivals.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Timeby  Jason K. Allen
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A family of four enjoys a quiet dinner around the table. But mom seems different tonight... (1 location, 4 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Taste of Beliefby  Danny King
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When a psychology professor challenges his students with a parable about restaurants, a fiery clash between science and conspiracy forces them to confront a deeper truth: you can't judge an idea until you've tasted it yourself.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
God's Libraryby  Charenelle Jean Williams
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At a bus stop, three strangers unknowingly stand at the crossroads of eternity as heaven's angels investigate their lives, revealing how faith, temptation, and free will determine who will be written into the Lamb's Book of Life.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Voidby  John McCarney
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A seemingly routine curbside pickup turns into a quiet collision of two liveslinked by what they don't say. A two-page micro-short about mental health and unseen scars.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lotby  Doug J Robbins
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A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner. Update

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Patent Applicationby  Stephen Delos Treacy
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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
Lemon Aidby  Daniel J. Broderick
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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
Incarnationsby  Bob Messinger
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A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Numbersby  Anthony Cawood
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A plucky bunch of nerds get more than they bargained for when they uncover an ancient evil and must fight for their lives as midnight approaches on Halloween.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
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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
A Beautiful Suicideby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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Obsession is a cute word in Mimi's eyes, until Ja'mere applies what the word really means.

Genre: Horror
8 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
The Easter Humanby  DJ Robbins
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Seymour Green is the Easter Human, the magical being that visits the bunnies in the parallel universe run by rabbits.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nuptualsby  Barry Staff
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Wanting to consummate her marriage to a much older man, a virginal bride pushing 40 needs to cope when things go disastrously wrong.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mindy & Martin's Meleeby  Harker Jones
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A bridesmaid and a best man derail a wedding when their simmering resentments and passions boil over, igniting a powder keg of accusations, declarations and revelations.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Soldier's Bravadoby  Jonathan Fear
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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
The Apartmentby  Brandi Self
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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
Small Talkby  Linda Kampley
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A young woman goes on a first date expecting romance but finds danger.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On the Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
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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
Flossy Forwardby  Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
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If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
You're Mineby  DJ Robbins
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An OnlyFans model encounters an obsessed fan who is currently stalking her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Big Treeby  Paolo Galli
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On a scorching summer afternoon, a homeless man finds shelter beneath a great tree and comfort in an old photograph. With a simple yet profound gesture writing poems in exchange for coins he sows beauty in the silence of the city. Years later, on his wedding day, a man discovers that a small note he received as a child shaped his destiny. A tale about the power of quiet gestures and invisible legacies.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Echoby  Amrita Baines
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A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what's following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem naturaluntil they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening... and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
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In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
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Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Picnicby  Jason K. Allen
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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
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
EXFILby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Junkie's Flawby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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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
Endless Loveby  Warren Lane
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With hopes of getting vengeance, an army major suckers his daughter's killer into participating in a military experiment involving an erratic timeline-teleportation-chamber, but there is no vengeance to be had only horror.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 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
I Have No Wordsby  Shelly Paino
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As a couple debates the fact that women use more words in a day than men, the husband hits his daily word limit and loses the ability to speak, sparking a feud with his wife.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blood, White, And Blueby  Antoine Mizel
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Set in a future where the families of murder victims are legally sanctioned to face those convicted in a 3-minute death match, an apprehensive, yet determined couple, faces off with their daughter's killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Eternityby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
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A brilliant physicist's groundbreaking experiment in spiritual time travel unravels the fabric of reality,forcing him to confront the ultimate paradox: can he exist if his past self never did?

Genre: Sci-Fi
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Occam's Beardby  David Ezell
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A former child star struggles with the belief that the people he loves most in the world have been replaced by impostors.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
11-44 Frankby  Sean Mick
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A dedicated Highway Patrolman investigating a fatal accident at a lonely desert rest stop must confront his own tragic past to bring closure to the grieving sister of one of the victims. Tag line: "At the end of the road, their journey begins..."

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Viewsby  Alan Barkley
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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
 
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