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Perspectivesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
Two lovers plot a violent act of revenge to escape their abuser, but their shared trauma complicates their path to freedom.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
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
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I Won't Takeby  Hiabu Hassebu
Date Posted: 29 May 2025
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
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Skagway, Dawson, and Buckby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2025
in 1898, Robert and Siberian husky Buck cross the Chilkoot Pass and find gold in Dawson. But evil Soapy tries to steal their gold and Buck saves the day.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Ancient Secretsby  Wayne E. Johnson
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2025
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
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Painted Vengeanceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Quiet Timeby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2025
When a neuroscientist’s sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother’s nightmares—one that’s now crossing from dream to waking world.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Elderly Influencerby  Eric Faulkner
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2024
As they both coupe with the tragic loss of loved ones, a social media crazed grandmother is forced to adopt her introverted Gothic, Emo, granddaughter in a high stakes game of virtual versus real life experiences.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Landminesby  Gordon Virtue
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2024
A young volunteer at a VA hospital gives perspective to a disabled veteran's life. Mack (38), a bilateral (BK) amputee meets Candy (16), a bubbly hospital volunteer with Down syndrome. The two foster a unique relationship during the holiday season. It's a heart-warming tale with O. Henry-like twists and a surprise ending.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Second Windby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes “one crease at a time.” Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Momby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 27 Oct 2024
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Northwoodby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 13 Oct 2025
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
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Imageby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A lonely man creates a world from his imagination where he lives a perfect happiness.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Park Benchby  Marc Prey
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2025
While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Burning Manby  Jack Halliday
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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DB Cooperby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 01 May 2025
DB jumps from a 727 with $500K, falls in love with Andrea, organizes a gang to rob Brinks warehouse. In the meantime: visits Alaska, Seattle, Avalon and Highway 1. Meets Ron Kovich at VA hospital where Viet Nam war is disputed. The gang fights during the split-up meeting. The Viet Nam war ends. DB and Andrea fly to Rome, buy a condo and vow to never return to the US.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Black Box of Antiquityby  Richard Campbell
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
Richard visits an old man to evict him for back taxes. The old man invites Richard to place a historic relic inside his Black Box of Antiquity. Richard travels back in time to the exact moment that relic is being used by its historic owner. One trip back in time, the Pope arranges for Hitler and his wife to escape from Germany to Argentina.

Genre: Sci-Fi
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Black Egoby  Ali noun
Date Posted: 28 May 2025
A former investigator, shattered by the death of his family, hunts their killer - to discover that the chasing has been himself all along.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Dolce, Fraud Relationshipsby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
Three women share a similar tale of being in a relationship for the wrong reasons, but refuse to leave the lifestyle.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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New Amendmentby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
One man's passionate monologue on law and religion unfolds, revealing the thin line between conviction and chaos—will his petition bring change, or simply the solitude he's chosen?

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Playtime: Episode 1 Plasticby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2025
Eric discovers that everything in his life is made of plastic.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Where Toe Beginby  Clifford Shepherd
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
When a neurotic man wakes up to find his big toe missing—with no pain or explanation—he spirals into a surreal, comedic nightmare where his body vanishes piece by piece, and no one around him seems to notice or care. A darkly absurd satire on identity, sanity, and the disappearing sense of self.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Ghost Witnessby  Kudzai Zigarwi
Date Posted: 23 Oct 2025
When a murdered scientist’s ghost crashes his own trial, it’s up to a reluctant janitor with a strange gift to help deliver the most shocking courtroom testimony of the century.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Heelsby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
The copilot of SouthJet 242 bound for Atlanta is forced to land a crippled plane, but not before she deals with a passenger manifest of the undead. A 2 location, 30 minute short with a strong FEMALE lead.

Genre: Horror
31 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Injured Partyby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2025
An injured footballer’s anguish is intensified by his manager’s curious disassociation with him. While out of the team, footballer Jordan Jeffries can’t understand why he is being ghosted, and he wants to know the reason for it. It is a scenario that seasoned professional Ade Akinwande is all too happy to expand on.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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I Like Wearing Blueby  Alicia Renee Norman
Date Posted: 16 May 2025
In a future where conformity is survival, a defiant girl dared to stand up and stand out--even if it cost her the ultimate price.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Policeman No Leaves Tracesby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
A policeman at night kidnaps and kills people who sell drugs and dissolves their bodies in an abandoned warehouse so as not to leave traces of his crime.

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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He Came From The Lakeby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 13 Jul 2024
A couple, Jeff and Darla, go on a weekend camping trip and encounters the urban legend/ ghost/ zombie murderer known as Travis Kramer.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Blessed by the Heavensby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 02 Mar 2025
When a gifted singer, Laura, captures the attention of a music producer while singing for church donations in the park, Father Dan, desperate to keep her voice for the church, takes drastic measures to prevent her from leaving, leading to an intense struggle between faith and ambition.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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S'moresby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Young Eric and Molly are having the time of their lives roasting marshmallows over the campfire. Their parents, not so much... (Horror/Comedy. One location, two actors.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Why Cows Are Contentedby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented, even though they end up as hamburger and baseball gloves.

Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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We Need a New Refrigeratorby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
An irritable middle-aged housewife is sick and tired of almost everything, and her sympathetic husband knows why.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Murder By Chairliftby  Ken Hauser
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
When a young woman is left on a chairlift overnight in a minus 60 windchill, a Deputy must shovel through the bullshit from four suspects to find the killer.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Quantumanic Entanglementby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
Two bickering scientists studying quantum mechanics begin to uncontrollably do the opposite movements to each other after a failed experiment.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Sundays with Ethelby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Conversionby  Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvation—only 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
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Pyrisousby  Allen Mummert
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2025
A writer's reality unravels into a disturbing virtual labyrinth, forcing him to confront the fabricated nature of his existence before he's permanently consumed by the digital abyss.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Cursed Mirrorby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
Georgia invites her friends to her grandmother's old house by the lake for the weekend. While vacationing in this house, they find an old mirror in the basement, but the next day, Amanda who is Georgia's friend, starts cutting her body in front of the mirror that they found the day before.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Usualby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors his dead mother by continuing her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Something for the Weeekendby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.

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