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Off to Warby  Ed Tasca
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2024
A retiree turned down decades before by the army tries to second guess the kind of man he is or warrior he would have been. During a casual visit to a hotel reputedly haunted by wounded soldiers, he gets his startling, otherworldly answer.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Gift from Grandmaby  Shane R. Nolan
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2024
A young woman receives a gift from her late grandmother that bears damning consequences for opening.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Imaginary Friendby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2023
A friendly ghost that likes to take on the role of ‘imaginary friend’ enters into random homes looking for lonely children to befriend, but inside this latest house he finds a beaten up housewife in desperate need of friendship.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Rogue Gambleby  Michael Hayles
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2024
A small time punter is hired to back a horse owned by an underworld bigwig, but on his way to the track a chance encounter derails everything.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lunch with Lelandby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (3 actors, 1 main location. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Award-winning writer and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Gatorsby  Linda Kampley
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
An emotionally troubled woman becomes fascinated by 'gators.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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WTF?by  Sherrie Presson
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2024
When an aging maintenance worker goes on a killing rampage in an apartment complex, an unsuspecting man looking for an apartment takes the fall. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Halloween Short Film Festivalby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Rise of Tony Rainesby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
An escaped convict confronts a guy he plans on murdering and stealing his Halloween costume.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Almost By Designby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2025
When her web of reality moves a young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer to seek employment as a home decor designer in New York City, she lands among a multicultural group whose mismatched goals result in both poetic and situational comedy.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Vortican Orderby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2024
Five years after a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure, high school senior Ethan Thomas is drawn back into a supernatural nightmare when the shadowy entity reappears, threatening to unravel the fragile peace his family has found.

Genre: Horror
20 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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Customer Service Lifeby  Derek L. Polen
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2024
A customer service rep shows the challenges they face when trying to make customers happy.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Boneyardby  M.r. Fitzgerald
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2024
After receiving numerous letters from a prison inmate, a renowned children's author agrees to meet him for a conjugal visit.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Yuletideby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2025
An impoverished, mall Santa is forced into reconciliation with his mother by his rough around the edges mama's boy older brother

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Freebornby  Shane Harbinson
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2024
When a young girl with extraordinary mental abilities catches the attention of a totalitarian regime seeking to exploit her gifts, her working-class cyborg father must survive an interrogation in a desperate attempt to buy time for his daughter's escape and protect the essence of their humanity. 'Coverfly top 1% genre'

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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I Have No Wordsby  Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
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
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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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Afterlifeby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2024
A 26-year-old man regrets committing suicide and death shows him the ramifications of the effects his suicide had on his parents and girlfriend.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Betty and Booby  Patrice Sarath
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2024
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
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In Silenceby  Jeff Sommer-Zervos
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2023
When a man's silent struggle with grief and depression becomes too overwhelming to bear, an attempt to end his suffering awakens a spirit in his house that pulls him back from death's grip.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Christmas Tree or Bustby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
As December approaches, dusty ornaments in the attic spiffy themselves up, get makeovers and begin exercise regimens as they vie for a spot on the Christmas tree. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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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Worst Dayby  Julie Whalley
Date Posted: 09 May 2024
A troubled teen, haunted by a harsh argument with her recently divorced mother, speeds off into the night, only to crash into a tree. As she clings to consciousness, an empathetic off-duty firefighter keeps her awake with a story of his own tragedy until help arrives. But when she recovers and seeks him out to express her gratitude, she discovers a shocking truth about the identity of her mysterious savior.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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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Just Before Midnightby  John Layne
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2023
Emotionally ravaged by the tragic death of his wife, a bourbon-drinking private detective is summoned by his former police lieutenant after two homicide victims, both murdered in the same unusual manner, are found to be private investigators.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Mona Lisaby  Keith Moody
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A museum maintenance worker risks everything by confronting the malevolent spirit residing within Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece, The Mona Lisa.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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No Weddings, But a Funeralby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Being in the right place but at the wrong time changes the fortune of a serial chancer. Tim Harcourt’s bravado and white lies present the widow of a crime family with everything she needs to make him their latest client – a fact Tim is blissfully unaware of.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Boycotted by Prejudiceby  Carlos Galinho Pires
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2023
An insanely handsome man goes through an introspective journey to understand why his life is perfectly worse than everybody else's.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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It's a...by  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
Two expectant mothers share their precious last moments together as they prepare for the end of the world.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Killing The Changelingby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2024
A couple has the misfortune of having a dark elf switch its deformed offspring for the couple's healthy, human one.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Glue Storyby  Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024
A secluded bench in an urban park. A chance meeting: two women with secrets. Who’s who? What’s true? And why the glue?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Gnome Sweet Gnomeby  Diana Kemp
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2023
Teenaged Maddie Gaynor has broken curfew. But this time, sneaking home isn't going to be so easy.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Fabricby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2024
A young accountant’s decision to cut costs in a quaint village unravels its hidden connection to time itself, plunging the community into chaos.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Last Jokeby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2024
After the death of their prankster bartender, a close-knit group of friends discover his final joke at his funeral, turning sorrow into laughter and a celebration of camaraderie.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Voicelessby  Janice Foster
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025
A woman, who can dream herself into crimes, becomes involved in the murder of a schizophrenic assassin.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Darker Side of Goodnessby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
A horror/dark comedy/Halloween script based on Cheryl Pierson’s short story in which a young man meets a demon who offers him the chance to see whether his wife really does love him.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Wake Up Callby  David-Matthew Barnes
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
When three unsavory people wake up in an abandoned hotel, they realize the world has ended for everyone except them.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Happy Endingsby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2023
A pair of financially strapped old-timers on a farm in the Midwest, Eleanor and Bertrand Cornweevil, receive a surprise visit from a man trying to entice them into selling the oil drilling rights to their land. But he's an emissary of Satan and it's really their souls he's hoping for them to sign away.

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