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A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A distraught wife believes her successful husband is having an illicit affair with a much younger woman and comes up with a deadly scheme on Christmas Eve for revenge.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Orphan Floodby  Anthony Piazza
During a flood, a young girl must retrieve her brother's rare medicine, with the help of a self-isolated helmsman.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Ordinary Dayby  Chris Fell
A young couple navigates a day filled with the man's anxiety and the woman's experiences of sexual harassment, painting a sobering picture of the psychological challenges and gender-based aggressions that constitute a "very ordinary day" for many.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
From Rat to Bossby  Jed Power
"From Rat to Boss"Before he became the infamous Mafia kingpin, "Lucky" Luciano made a secret betrayal to save himselfan act that, years later, threatens to destroy his empire and the myth of his loyalty."

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
Two freakish outcasts -- a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis -- are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When You Go to Townby  Susan Jordan
A chance encounter at a thrift store leads a divorced woman to ask, "Could I have gone the distance?"

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
And There's Nothing You Can Do About Itby  Deanne Gittens
A grifter with chameleon-like qualities raises suspicion of her real intentions for a few gossipy church members but it might be too late to catch her at her game before she's moved on again, and morphing into someone else.

Genre: Drama
36 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Trifling Heiferby  Melissa Diane Hudson
When a dangerous woman sets her sights on her best friend's NFL star husband, she'll stop at nothing to steal him, even if it means destroying his career and marriage in the process.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Artifactby  Steve Kennison
Set in the mid-19th century, HENRY STANTON is a struggling museum manager. DAVID KENNISON is an alleged centenarian Revolutionary War veteran. They collaborate and make David the museum's living exhibit. The story explores David's unbelievable experiences, history, survival, and the challenge of proving one's identity and legacy.

Genre: Biographical
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screens of the Damnedby  Anton Ballard
The Screens Of The Damned follows Angelica, a mortuary attendant and aspiring screenwriter working the night shift. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of a mysterious John Doea deceased film producerwho critiques her work and begins a strange, possibly supernatural collaboration with her. As the script progresses, John Doe's involvement appears to influence real-world outcomes, culminating in Angelica's screenplay being greenlit, though his presence remains ambiguous.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Day Careby  Brandi Self
A cantankerous toddler learns about love, death, and loss when he visits day care for the first time.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Resurrection Fernby  Paul Weidknecht
A divorced couple hike into the mountains of western North Carolina, retracing the route their daughter took seven years prior when she disappeared.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Deadliest Jobby  Jed Power
A female courier delivering mob cash at a deserted train station is confronted by a stranger who demands half, but as motives unravel, the exchange becomes a deadly game of deception and survival.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Furry Family Reunion [Extended Family Edition]by  Amy
When a loyal Furry breaks Fandom protocol, he finds it impossible to rise in the ranks at FurCon, especially with his extended family in tow. More information here: https://www.scriptrevolution.com/scripts/furry-family-reunion-extended-family-edition

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
FrightWrittenby  Erik shein
Claire Monroe, a struggling writer, inherits her reclusive aunt's eerie cottage and an unfinished manuscript that holds a deadly secret. As she writes, an ancient evil is unleashed, and Claire must finish the story to trap the malevolent force within its pagesor risk succumbing to the same gruesome fate as her aunt.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Insideby  John Porter
A young man and his fiance confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
But Wait ... There's More!by  John Boal
On this segment of "But Wait ... There's More!" at a local TV station, the mid-40s Host, Tiffany Long, and her two Reporters, as usual, critique weird, wacky and often wasteful single-use plastic products that viewers may or may not need. But in the closing segment, Tiffany and her Reporters break the 4th wall; show how these plastic products are killing our oceans and sea life and defiantly quit their popular program on air.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A dark comedy (unless you're Bill, the protagonist, who would call it a horror film) that provides a warning to any man who even thinks about doing wrong to his woman.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Betty and Booby  Patrice Sarath
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
In a meta twist of fiction, a struggling novelist pens a novel about his own attempts to gain representation in the cutthroat world of literary agents, all while contending with eccentric neighbors and a disinterested industry, blurring the lines between his fictional narrative and reality in Utopian Tetragon.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Traditionby  Kris Shuman
A guilty man's diner confession risks exposing a legacy of violence and resurrecting the killer they thought was buried for good.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Won't Takeby  Hiabu Hassebu
Saba battles against herself, not to miss her childhood friend, who died of menengites.

Genre: Family
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Prefer Not To Sayby  Maroun Rached
Three people are challenged about how to tackle gender on their company's website.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Woodcutterby  Raymond Reboulet
A young man believes and an old man remembers the reasons behind the ways of old which the village has forgotten. A child in danger awakens the town and renews its purpose.

Genre: Family
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Affirmative Actionby  Michael Celender
After alienating his family and the love of his life, a celebrity-look-a-like YouTube prankster fakes his ethnicity and experience to climb South Africa's corporate ladder. But the job he lands comes with surprises nobody planned for. A proof of concept-style short.

Genre: Comedy
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth or Deathby  Edward Chapman
A murdered student returns to the scene of her death to play a final game of truth or dare with the party in her old college room and unleashes her killer to strike again.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
They All Want The King Deadby  NG
Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
When their school bus is hijacked, three students must put their trust in a big brother and his dirt bike.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Small Talkby  Larry Shannon
20 year old college student Clark Cleland opens a door he should not have opened, and the devil comes in through that door and thrashes him.

Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Mouseby  Sergey Dobrine
During the family vacation in the mountains an IT specialist got into financial trouble and started delivering pizza to be able to return home. Bigfoot was on the list.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Grass is Always Greenerby  Daniel J. Broderick
Jack is unhappy. Who else in L.A. rides the bus, has no girlfriend, no money, and no status? Sam, the bus driver, assures him things will change. When they do, suddenly and mysteriously, is Jack finally happy? Not exactly. Something is still missing.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Float Swim Dreamby  Jason K. Allen
A sad and lonely goldfish dreams of escaping his fish bowl so that he can fight zombies, halt global warming and meet Justin Bieber. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Last Rendezvousby  Paul Byrne
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
To save her Maui Blue Tours business from a litigious ex-husband, a precision pilot stages a fake mid-air "cartel money drop" that spirals into absurdity when her cat parachutes into a remote valley and is declared a living goddess by a secluded mountain tribe.

Genre: Comedy
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Judge Smithersby  timur yildiz
A off kilter Judge goes back to his fraternity to help the organization with a pledge's death during hazing. What he finds out after returning to the college campus is there might be a serial killer on the loose.

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