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Mesmerizedby  Mike Bevins
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2024
Love can be dangerous. *Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards*

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2024
Twin sisters Mistyi and Cristi love each other to death and won't let anything come between them. But one sister stands stronger on the motto than the other.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Long Momentsby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
An alcoholic living in a small town stubbornly refuses to change, even when his high school sweetheart returns for their reunion, stirring memories of the life he left behind and the man he used to be.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
A western romance based on O. Henry’s short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
Two agents travel back in time to alter history, but their mission misfires, unleashing unintended consequences they can’t undo.

Genre: Sci-Fi
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dedicatedby  Lisa Marie Brennan
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Plaidby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A man dressed in a horrible plaid outfit begins to bond with a flashy woman at a party after being ignored by the rest of the guests.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Openingby  Jon McDonald
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
At an erotic art opening, the patrons react, amusingly, to the sexy art. The Ice Queen gallery owner, Laura, ignored by her flirting husband, is approached by one of her young and sexy artists. He offers her the gift of exotic perfume, making clear he is seeking more. She evades him, but the perfume and the art open her up to new possibilities.

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Killshot Kidby  Charles William Lane
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2024
When three-time loser, Fred Crumb, discovers a love for Jai Alai, he thinks he's on the road to redemption. But two rogue Interpol agents on the trail of a notorious Basque terrorist get in his way.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Badlandsby  Pamela Schott
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
When a woman who sleepwalks through her entire life being the “perfect” everything — daughter, wife, mother, career professional, member of society — loses her young son in a drowning accident, she must confront the truth about a brief but liberating affair that calls into question who the real father is and forces her to make an impossible decision.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Sometimes it Stares Backby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2024
An obsessive codebreaker solving Cicada 3301 uncovers a forgotten Mayan god’s secret, risking the release of an ancient evil.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
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
A Beseiged Worldby  Walter Wessels
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2024
When two friends embark in different careers, chaos strikes at the heart of these men, the first losing his partnership in a company he started in a country plagued by strikes, arson and terror. The second loses his wife in a farm attack and both need to find purpose and meaning to life.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Day Careby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
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
The Navvies Lamentby  John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A man reflects on the meaning of his identity, within a bar that has shape shifted it's patrons

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloody Mouseby  Sergey Dobrine
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025
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
A Stroke of Luckby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2024
After suffering a debilitating stroke, a cynical, once successful, writer struggles to regain his mobility and passion for writing while finding inspiration and unlikely friendships with quirky fellow patients in a rehabilitation hospital.

Genre: Biographical
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leiheiby  Inky Egwuenu
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
When the grandson of a ruthless assassin leader is killed in a U.S. raid, he invokes an ancient blood feud, targeting the President's family while evading a worldwide manhunt.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Secrets of Kovintong Campusby  Annette M Delgado
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2023
While trying to solve the disappearance of a graduate student, a keen detective finds herself running out of time before the next victim goes missing and the culprit carries out their ultimate plan that might be the end of humanity itself.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Necklaceby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A woman is gifted a strange necklace and meets its former owner.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Beachby  William Walkerley
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2025
In the near future, euthanasia is legal, and the elderly who continue to clog up the healthcare system are offered a cash incentive to end their lives; one senior takes the cash, has a sudden change of heart, but finds out that that is not an option.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirabelby  Gregory Gibson
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2024
Her psyche tainted as a child, a young woman plays out her singular form of vengeance with the help of a unique weapon.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lonely Onesby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
A young man controlled by common technology encounters an old man in a coffee shop who upends the assumption that old people are the lonely ones. One location, micro budget. Written by award-winning, produced screenwriter.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Just Telling It Like It Isby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 18 Mar 2024
In a tight-knit community, the residents are fed up with their pastor’s brutal honesty during funeral eulogies. They want to ban him from preaching, as he's known for degrading the deceased with his, "tell it like it is" attitude.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Noahby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2024
When a modern day vampire's cruelty reaches unbearable heights, an ancient one, a killing machine, is sent forth to dispatch him. Cast size: 4 people Location: nightclub, nearby building.

Genre: Action/Adventure
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brown Bottle Fluby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A frustrated writer struggles to work while being belittled by a belligerent drunk woman who wants to relive the past.

Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Snitchby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2023
A bookworm finds himself facing down a dangerous gang after witnessing a terrible mugging.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wipeoutby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
A MAN gets caught by his Girlfriend flirting at the beach and he must plead for her forgiveness.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby  Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ghoul Partyby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 16 Aug 2024
When his ultra-strict parents' home is invaded by so-called admirers a shy class genius summons a supernatural troupe of deadly bouncers to show the gate-crashers the fatal way home….

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gluttonous Zombieby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
In two girls are hunted by a ravenous zombie at night time after Mia and Abby use a resurrection spell for fun.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Mirrors of Betrayalby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 11 Jul 2025
Having always held her mother as an untouchable icon, a newlywed's joy turns to ashes when she walks in on her beloved mom entangled with her brand-new husband, forcing her to navigate a landscape of unthinkable betrayal where the lines of love and hate are dangerously blurred.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On Lineby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
Various people blindly line up behind realistic human sculptures to wait for a bus to arrive. When the bus arrives, the sculptures come alive to board the bus. They leave behind all the former live people who have become sculptures.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Farther’s Debtby  Fahad Joyfield
Date Posted: 12 May 2024
When a former hitman's daughter is kidnapped, he must confront his past and make an impossible choice: protect the girl he loves or make amends for his sins by giving her back to her rightful family.

Genre: Action/Adventure
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
 
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