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More Than Clothby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
The experiences of a university student’s first day devoutly wearing the hijab proves to be more challenging and diverse than she first expected when friends and strangers begin to see her differently.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Please Clean Me!by  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A father struggles to work seven days a week in order to make his son’s Christmas special.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Family Abuseby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
It takes for Carl to lose his family to realize his addictions are more important than them, but even after reclaiming his wife and daughter…is he able to stay on the straight and narrow?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Freshbloomby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2024
In a park filled with life, two strangers marked by an ominous badge share a fleeting connection, navigating the unfair balance of their final day.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Killerby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2024
Jeff kills under a lifelong desire to try his hand at being a serial killer and his brother, Mike tags along to write about the experience and turn it into a screenplay.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Marlene's Last Sederby  Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024
When a middle-aged widow decides to honor her late husband’s death -- a year ago on Passover -- by hosting her first seder, a Wisconsin late-winter blizzard, a drunken boyfriend, and an estranged mother-in-law almost turn the event into a disaster.

Genre: Family
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Elevatorby  Lily Sanders
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2025
A helicopter parent is finally forced to listen.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Echoes of Broken Promisesby  Andrea Zastrow
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2025
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father’s Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Accountabilityby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
Deciding to bury the hatchet, Rosa invites her mother over for dinner so she can explain why her father wasn’t in her life. The answers Rosa receives are nothing compared to the ones she gives Giselle, exposing the true reason why.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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The Swapby  Evgeny Kim
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2025
When a man agrees to lend his body for a day so his girlfriend can see her brother again, he discovers too late that the “brother” is an imposter and that his own compassion has cost him his life.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Peeperby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A Peeping Tom witnesses a woman's murder and it is up to him to decide on whether he will save the new occupant or just watch.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Patrice & Mr. Williamsby  Cherie Maxey
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2024
Patrice & Mr. Williams tells the story of Patrice a girl at high school and the hilarious exploits of her teacher Mr. Williams. Very funny and hilarious. If you are interested in this story, please let me know and i will send you a copy of the script Patrice & Mr. Williams.

Genre: Comedy
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Roadsideby  Brian Wallace
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2025
A couple's roadside rescue of a mysterious woman spirals into a nightmarish encounter with her vengeful, murderous boyfriend, revealing her own dark past.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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It Was Only Yesterdayby  Nathan M. Scrivens
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
A boy attempts to get his mother to smile again after her father's passing.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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SLICEby  Wendy Appelbaum
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2024
When a lonely and introverted young woman purchases a 3D printer, she is amazed at its ability to communicate how she is feeling through the prints until she realizes that she is not the one in control. ( Comps: Black Mirror meets Christine)

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Bright Lights, Dark Shadowsby  Barry Staff
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2025
Wanting to suss a stranger in town, a thirteen-year-out truant girl needs to realise he's planning a hit on a political party conference there.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Implantby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 22 Oct 2025
A programmer’s digital world turns sentient and steals his consciousness—forcing him to battle his own creation before the simulation takes his place.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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From the Flamesby  Alistair Bryson
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2025
A widowed artist moves into a new house in an effort to bury the memories of a Bohemian lifestyle and a toxic marriage, but is forced to revisit his past in bizarre circumstances when he uncovers an ancient fire-pit from which deceased figures appear to him through the flames.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Gloss Overby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2025
A patient grandmother takes her hobby of writing product reviews to new extremes by watching paint dry, but her family wants her to stop her compulsion and deal with her grief.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Zoomby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2024
A couple's illicit affair is forced to go virtual due to a pesky global pandemic, and if that wasn't bad enough someone else wants in on the action.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lottery Numbersby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2025
When a charismatic lottery winner exploits his psychic younger brother’s mysterious gift for predicting scores and numbers, the boy’s refusal to continue sets off a brutal standoff—forcing the family to confront the cost of greed, the limits of loyalty, and the unbearable price of knowing too much.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Stalingrad, Six Months in Hellby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2025
It's 1943 & the bloodiest battle in history occurs, Stalingrad. Blockbuster with $10 million special effects and cast budget.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Almost By Designby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
A young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer of schools must leave home when her web of reality forces her to risk seeking employment with upper class homeowners as an interior home decor designer in faraway New York City. **2024: Best Drama Screenplay New York Film Awards; Best Short Screen Play - Los Angeles Film Awards; Festigious Los Angeles Monthly Film Competition; Semi Finalist - Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest; Brooklyn International Short Awards; Berlin Shorts Award*

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Beauty Beholdby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2024
A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Reckoning Beckonsby  Lynwood Shiva Sawyer
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly scheme—and poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Circle of Trustby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
An ex-military man must battle himself in a circle of his own demons.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Santa Tyroneby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2025
A mall Santa targets three families on Christmas Eve and has murderous plans for each family.

Genre: Horror
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Antidoteby  Jon Hughes
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2024
A forlorn wife poisons her unfaithful husband only to discover he could inherit a fortune.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Cyrus Myers: Psychic Vampireby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
After killing his father, Cyrus Myers haunts the girl who reject him through her dreams while institutionalized.

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Marcus and his Snowmanby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025
Marcus brings his snowman to life through Christmas Magic, based on love and Joy, but hateful and Miserable Hazel, the Winter Witch, wants to make everyone as miserable and vicious as she is. Can love and Joy triumph over hate and misery?

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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About a Bearby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2024
An aging TV writer desperate for a comeback pitches a last-ditch movie about a vengeful bear to a Hollywood producer, only to watch his hopes unravel as the industry leaves him behind.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Putt Putt Preacherby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course. (Mockumentary. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Just In Timeby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Determined to succeed as a web designer, their having collided on entering her new place of employment. a delightful young woman downplays an interested salesman’s efforts to engage. *Semi Finalist: 2024 New York International Women Festival; Dublin Movie Awards; Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Competition-Shorts; Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards In Spanish: Justo a Tiempo.*

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Trouble with Bermudaby  PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Vacationing in Bermuda, an American woman is seduced by a dashing, dry-witted con artist who takes her on a run-for-your-life swindle of a narco-paramilitary general.

Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Smells Like Steinbeckby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
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
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Take A Step Backby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2024
A late night act of kindness has shocking consequences. Based on a real event.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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