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A Short Runby Dwayne Bricker

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When a man steps out for a quick midnight run to the corner store, a blinding flash dumps him into a foggy, prehistoric wilderness where titanic, unseen creatures stalk him by sound alone. With no way to fight what he can't see, he sprints blindly toward where his home should beonly to snap back to his quiet suburban street, unsure if he ever truly left.

Genre: Horror
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

My Empty Lifeby Brandon Rhiness

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Two cynical, broke teenagers embark on a series of failed get-rich-quick schemes to buy a used car, only to lose their ultimate prize to their own incompetence within minutes of achieving it.

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

Pseudomorphby Peter J Bartels

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A desperate cockfighter buys a shape-shifting creature guaranteed to defeat any opponentonly to discover that its deadliest transformation is into the monster he truly is.

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

No Trespassingby Sarah Kennedy

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In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman's drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil.

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Game, Set and Matchby Robert M. Tartell

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A French female wild card entry to the French Open takes on the defending American champion before a wildly partisan crowd.

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

Sinbad and the Last Centaurby Jaime Velez

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SINBAD is trapped in Tritonia, the fabled land of the Centaurs, where he battles a league of evil necromancers in their quest for the Sword of Largunia and the Black Lotus that will yield immense power and immortality. The Prophesy of the Last Centaur.

Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Catchby Melvin Taylor

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Man goes fishing and finds himself fighting for his life.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sing Me Your Questionsby Steven T. Smith

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Not long ago, autistic people were thought to have IQs lower than room temperature. Then a down-on-his-luck businessman-turned-social worker stumbled upon something that changed everything. Inspired by a true story.

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

Advice Bitesby Conor William Powell

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A late-night radio host takes a caller's cheating-girlfriend rant as entertainment until he claims she's locked in his car boot. Checking Find My Phone, Lexi realises the signal is in the station car park and "Dolly" is her wife. Live on air, the caller blames Lexi's past relationship advice for destroying his life and demands she feel the same loss. Lexi must keep him talking long enough to save Ronnie without hiding behind the jokes.

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

Refugeeby Doug J Robbins

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A refugee from the world of dreams befriends a young girl in hopes of becoming real. The girls must hide their relationship or risk having the refugee taken back to the dream institute, where she would have to go back to being imaginary.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Wars, Walls and Other Virusesby Lucía Viñamata

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Whether we cross the line or not determines our destiny.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

1996by Larry Parrott

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After a lifetime of believing she was abandoned, a woman tracks down her dying fatheronly to discover he never knew she existed because her mother's letters were never delivered, leaving them only minutes to share the life they lost.

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

Northwoodby John Alexander Fraser

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The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.

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

Clown Sightimgby Doug J Robbins

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A good Samaritan gets in a fight with a killer clown on Halloween night.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Paradise Partyby Steven Burton

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With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before he dies which propels his spirit forward.

Genre: Fantasy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Alien Invadedby Dexter Williams

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A young lady visits an eccentric New Age hypnotherapist in order to get to the root of her recurring nightmares of being abducted by aliens.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Sheby Lamar D. Vine

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After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.

Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Troubloomby Darlene Anthony

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Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Dragonsby Dwayne Bricker

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A battle‑scarred warrior in a storm‑torn medieval world finally confronts the two‑headed dragon that symbolizes his greatest failure, rescuing the woman he once abandoned and inspiring a terrified village to step out from behind locked doors. When the camera pulls back to reveal the adventure as a video game played by two modern boys, the story becomes a meta fable about fear, courage, and the everyday "dragons" we choose to faceor avoid.

Genre: Fantasy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Next Voiceby Charles Hall

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Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby Paul Joseph Mulbrecht

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Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

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

The Usualby Sarah Kennedy

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A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors the memory of his dead mother by carrying on her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Fishbowlby Rochelle Potkar

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MUNISHA is a social-climber, and is preparing herself for marriage to a rich guy. Now trapped in an elevator of a high rise, she realizes who she truly loves: her exboyfriend - as he comes to her rescue.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

La Fuente (The Fountain)by Marjory E. Leposky

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Two children meet at a fountain.

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

Feeding Frenzyby Philip Marraccini

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After murdering his wife Sally, Richard is forced to kill again in attempt to collect on her life insurance policy. As the investigation closes in on Richard, see if he escapes with the money thus committing the perfect crime. (A murder mystery with a comic twist)

Genre: Other
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Testby Justin TEST

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This is a test logline.

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

Hard Topby Barry Staff

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Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Bed Bugsby Dwayne Bricker

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In a perfectly preserved 100-year-old house, two young siblings spend their first night in a grand antique bedroom. After their parents recite, "Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite," the children are tormented by vivid, escalating encounters with swarming bed bugs that then become gigantic and vanish when the lights come on. By morning, their parents discover the horrors were real: nothing remains but shredded sheets and two small skeletons.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

A Pledge to Murderby Elliot Stanton

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The fog shrouding a horrific murder is about to get thicker. The evil spectre of Jack the Ripper returns to Victorian London after the gruesome murder of a prominent politician's murder.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Average Joe: Car Salesmanby J. Huska

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A car salesman's mid-life makeover motivates his dealership, and the entire American auto industry, to reinvent itself. But, are they driving F or in R?

Genre: Other
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Wedding Dressby Christine Lara

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An extraordinary wedding dress becomes the silent witness to stories of love and resilience across generations. From its origins in 1904, worn by a Russian princess, to a contemporary bride who discovers its magic in a charity shop, the dress transcends time, illuminating the most precious moments of every woman who wears it.

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

The Last Debateby Gladman

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During a final interrogation over a broken simulation, a defiant subject turns the tables on his examiner forcing him to question whether he, too, is trapped inside the very system he believes he controls.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Alien Dreamby Steven Burton

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A teenage girl has a dream about instantly becoming a teenage boy caused by an accidental Alien invasion.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Gamesby Bari K. Willerford

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A couple in bed after making love, perfect! Except when the man and woman verbally communicate, fireworks.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Debajo del Bridgeby Luis Ortiz

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A homeless Iraq War veteran shares his fire with a violent drifter, forcing a battle over compassion, identity, and the last things worth protecting.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

For Better or For Worseby Elliot Stanton

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As a marriage reaches its painful end, a husband and wife share one final takeaway in the home where they began their life together, forcing them to confront ten years of love, compromise, resentment and memories.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Political Science 101by Donald Lewis

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Struggling through stages of political grief, a working man finds that all is not lost -- there's always more to lose.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Last Mottoby Dwayne Bricker

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When a young nun's exorcism reveals a hidden system controlling papal succession, a skeptical priest teams with a Vatican archivist to uncover a centuries-old conspiracy rewriting the Church's history. As powerful forces move to contain the truth, he must decide whether exposing it will free the Churchor destroy the very institution billions depend on.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Okay, Honeyby Frank Vespe

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All his life, he hoped he'd hear two endearing words, but when he finally did, it was too late.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Room For Rentby Johan Michaels

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A lonely traveler looking for an escape becomes the latest guest at a sinister roadside house, forcing him to confront a predator who has spent years turning victims into possessionsand discovering that survival may depend on trusting a stranger he has never met. 3 intersecting character stories: Leonard's struggle to move beyond isolation. Elias's childhood trauma turned ritual of control & possession. Claire's instinct to recognize danger, act when others dismiss it.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles