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Incarnationsby Bob Messinger

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A young man fears for his sanity and love relationship as disturbing episodes from his youth come back to haunt him.

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

When You Go to Townby Susan Jordan

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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

Butt Crack Innby Kenneth M. Kielty

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Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.

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

Good Griefby Duane Kellogg

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As pressure mounts to deliver a breakthrough script, a screenwriter working remotely with his wife (who's also his writing partner) begins to unravel, caught between ambition, loyalty, and a deepening divide caused by technology (ai) that threatens both his career and the partnership he's built his life around.

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

On the Edgeby John M Grace

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A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.

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

Mercyby Michael Morra

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A ten-year-old cancer patient must fight for her life when she's hospitalized with pneumonia and is stalked by a supernatural entity that's intent on killing her.

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

The Haunted Pizzaby Doug J Robbins

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Ginger orders a pizza, and all Hell breaks loose. She winds up getting possessed.

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

Dreamcatcherby Doug J Robbins

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A father buys his nightmare-plagued son a dream catcher to stop his bad dreams.

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

Twas the Night Before The Night Before Christmasby Elliot Stanton

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When a wife asks her husband why he no longer likes Christmas, he explains it's due to its commercialism. However, the real reason is revealed by a simple longing glance at a beloved family photo.

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

Back On The Couchby Elliot Stanton

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Tables are turned, and seating arrangements are swapped when a patient sneakily becomes the psychiatrist.

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

The Winter Meetingby Michael G Holmes

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Four baseball executives brainstorm increasingly absurd ways to make Major League Baseball more exciting for a new generation, only to have the simplest solution come from the maintenance man changing a light bulb.

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

Dragomir and the Ieleby camelia dinu

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While Dragomir stumbles upon the enchanting dance of the iele mysterious forest spirits from Romanian lore fascination quickly turns to terror. Trapped between irresistible beauty and deadly magic, he must fight to resist their spell or be claimed forever by the darkness.

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

Gagging For Itby Barry Staff

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A budding mute and blind standup needs to get through an audition to prove the act will work.

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

The Pilotby Jay Loish

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Four friends become enmeshed in a heist, kidnapping, and escape plot, saving each other from death. The protagonist[s], and the antagonists[s] are introduced with each character's role clarified while enhancing three sexier feminine characters and the Federal Agent [foil] in an intense office situation before the heist, kidnapping and chase unfold later that day. The audience has invested in a veiled story line.

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

Coming Aliveby John Klawitter

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Dr.Voit's invention, the Life Spike, can do almost anything - drive a jet plane or bake a perfect dinner - but he'd do almost anything to have a human body.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Little Pumpkinby Alan Walsh

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Little Pumpkin is a moving science-fiction fable about hope, sacrifice and the enduring love of a parent. Beneath its imaginative premise lies a universal story: that every generation dreams of giving the next a better world than the one they inherited.

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

The Putt Putt Preacherby Jason K. Allen

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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. First Place: Tennessee Screenwriters Association Comedy Screenplay contest.)

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

Influencerby Tom Miller

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A hopeful influencer moves to Hollywood to find success, but winds up in a battle royale.

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

Winter Walk inby Camelia Dinu

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When a lonely woman finds a fresh footprint in the snow, the past she buried threatens to return; what is she willing to sacrifice for her peace?

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

Home Like a Shadowby Linda Boroff

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Cynical college girl accompanies her new boyfriend, an aspiring law student, to his decayed San Joaquin Valley home town for his alcoholic mother's birthday dinner and is pulled into family conflicts and secrets dating back a hundred years. To her surprise she finds belonging and acceptance amidst the drinking, gambling, and a violent 2 a.m. free-for-all. Adapted from prizewinning short story: https://adelaidebooks.org/linda-boroff-home-like-a-shadow.

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

Suitcaseby Walerian Domanski

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The fate of the suitcase stolen by a policeman during a search of a criminal's house. It was hidden, found, changed hands a few times, and ultimately ended up in the possession of a policeman again. Marginal actors: the policeman's girlfriend, her dog, and the neighbor.

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

Babbleby Kevin Pacey

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Anonymous online abuse invades the real world and a vulnerable woman suffers a deadly attack.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Elvis Hasn't Left the Buildingby Elliot Stanton

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The excitement and anticipation of getting a brief glimpse of the King of Rock' n' Roll is seemingly dashed. However, as one door shuts, the stage door opens and reveals the man himself, resplendent in a powder blue sequined jumpsuit - Elvis Presley.

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

Birthby Mico Montes

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An alien woman crawls out of the earth and discovers a lonely astronomer who helps her return to the stars before ARCON (Anomaly Research Center of Neutrality) a band of nerdy conspiracy theorists can capture her. Visit www.MicoMontes.com for a teaser.

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

2 Heart Shuffleby Bernard Mersier

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Sitting on opposite sides of the bathroom door, Laura and Rodney confront their deepest insecurities and unspoken boundaries, ultimately deciding whether emotional vulnerability or possessive fear will dictate the future of their relationship.

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

Cucuyby Erick Torres

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After slaving away years of his life in a fighting pit, a Xolo dog rescues a puppy and escapes into the Mexican slums to seek redemption for the murders he was forced to commit. (2025 Slamdance Mentorship Winner)

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

Weekend at the Monasteryby Mike Skidmore

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Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

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

Roadsideby Brian Wallace

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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

Renewalby Darryl N. Layne

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A desperate, jobless ex-athlete is offered a fortune to let a dying billionaire assume his body under a new law, forcing him to choose between his family's future and his own life as sinister forces close in.

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

Catharsisby Rochelle Potkar

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Two WOMEN shoplifters brainstorm elaborately with dramatic rehearsal about returning their loot (a pair of stolen earrings), imagining how the SHOPKEEPER would forgive them and how the media would celebrate them for their honesty. Then after feeling satiated with this drill, they end up into inaction and status quo.

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

Beyond Avalonby Edward Ybarra

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Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.

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

Doctor Where?by Elliot Stanton

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Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

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

Hold Itby Danny King

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A lovesick young man desperately tries to hide his diarrhea from his crush, only to have his best friend expose both his stomach and his secret feelings.

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

Destinyby Pelham Mead III

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A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.

Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

For Whom The Chimes Tollby Elliot Stanton

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Unable to sleep, a lonely, embittered old man spends the early hours of the morning drinking brandy and reminiscing on his life. The actions of which, ultimately, call time on his earthly existence.

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

Root Causeby Iris Mangual

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After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.

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

What Goes Around...by Elliot Stanton

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When a struggling second-hand record-shop owner discovers a valuable Beatles demo in a collection he has bought for next to nothing, his attempt to secretly cash in forces his sharp-tongued employee to confront him with a very different price: his conscience.

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

Lila Monroeby Lucy Versallies

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A missing persons case takes a sinister turn when a detective realizes the victim's family has been lying about the timelinemasking a disturbing secret that keeps the girl closer than anyone suspects.

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

Resurrection Fernby Paul Weidknecht

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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

Familyby Jean-Luc Julien

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A young Arab refugee fights to save the life of his unborn child when his German girlfriend's parents force her to get an abortion. A modern-day "Romeo & Juliet" in a controversial, sociopolitical love story with thriller elements. Award-winning director and cast attached. Shooting in November 2026. Feature screenplay is a finalist in the Launch Pad Feature Screenplay Competition and Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition.

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