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The Beachby  William Walkerley
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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
The Unbelongerby  Brandi Self
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After becoming stranded in the desert, an outcast soldier is attacked by a stranger who looks just like him.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Real Heroesby  Tina Field Howe
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Convinced they're the good guys, brother and sister drug dealers dispose of the competition to 'save' their neighborhood.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
New Amendmentby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
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One man's passionate monologue on law and religion unfolds, revealing the thin line between conviction and chaoswill his petition bring change, or simply the solitude he's chosen?

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Head Traumaby  Elise Marenson
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Two guys get in big trouble when they find the human head of a Russian mobster buried in the sand.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Change of a Dressby  Elliot Stanton
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When two ladies fortuitously meet in a clothes shop fitting room, their taste in clothes is not the only thing they have in common. The discovery that they share something very personal becomes the catalyst for what may become a firm friendship.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Firewoodby  Gary A. Edwards
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FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
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A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Leiheiby  Inky Egwuenu
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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
Take A Step Backby  Edward Chapman
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A late night act of kindness has shocking consequences. Based on a real event.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
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Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuseshiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pain & Sympathyby  Dale Easterling
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A dysfunctional married couple seeks therapy, where the psychiatrist hypnotizes them into feeling each other's pleasure and pain - literally.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Flat Pebble's Philosophyby  Marc-Olivier louveau
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In 1830, in a Vietnamese village, Master TRY, a rich, bitter and lonely old man, decides to retire, but the unexpected arrival of his orphaned niece, SONG, upsets his routine. As he struggles to maintain his habits, the young girl transforms his home and his life with her sweetness and her cooking. Confronted with his own past mistakes, Master TRY rediscovers the true value of family and love.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mafia Prom Dateby  Michael Volpe
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A determined high schooler battles failing grades, skeptical parents, and the perils of Mafia connections to take the Don's daughter to his prom in 1970s New York City. He almost succeeds until his dream prom night ends when the FBI arrests his date and her family in dramatic raids regarding the Don's high-profile Emmy Awards jewelry heist.

Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Only the Windby  DJ Robbins
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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
Portrait of a Girlby  Niagara Ross
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A group of teenagers, exploring an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, find an old portrait of a mysterious girl. But the more they learn about her past, the more nightmarish visions and dangerous phenomena begin to haunt them.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Farther's Debtby  Fahad Joyfield
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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
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
There's Something Behind Door #1by  Andrew Tarquinio
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A young man helps his parents clear the squalid apartment of his recently deceased Aunt, finding more than filth waiting for him in the hoarder's heaps.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
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A P.I. resorts to supernatural means to solve a case where the suspect in three murders is an older man bedfast in hospital, despite the man's DNA & fingerprints being found at three crime scenes. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby  LaKesa Cox
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A woman in her 40s has a pregnancy scare only to find out through a meeting with Mother Nature that she's about to start menopause.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
My Angel Friendsby  Pelham Mead III
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Tom Sizer is a college student who was driving on Meadowbrook Parkway when he had an accident with his car. When he is about to die the Archangel Michael decides to keep him alive. After Tom recovers, Michael tells him he is to be a human advisor to the angels in special situations and his adventures begin.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoesby  Helen Watson
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When public condemnation of a well-known author results in online outrage, cancellations ripple through association.

Genre: Comedy
26 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
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A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Mouse's Lamentby  John Porter
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Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tommyby  Anthony Cawood
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A young graffiti artist decides to tag a war memorial and finds his lack of respect has surprising consequences.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shoesby  Carlos Alex Ceni
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The life of a middle-aged man turns into a nightmare when, after moving into a small block of flats, finds himself involved in a series of quarrels with some of his neighbors, leading him to take an ingenious but risky move to turn things around.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Saturday in the Parkby  Elliot Stanton
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Dark Secrets Will Not Remain Hidden Forever. An "old" woman befriends a young man in a park. He is unaware of who she is or the secret she holds, but the woman knows precisely what she must do to draw him into her life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
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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
Antiques Sh**showby  John Boal
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A tart-tongued substitute host for the genteel Antiques Roadshow dishes caustic comments on the innocent guests which triggers not only a boost in the ratings, but also a goofy lad to make a sign dubbing the proceedings as the Antiques Shitshow. Yet when the host's Aunt comes by with the world's oldest vibrator, she dangles it as a hostage heirloom to make the host change her wicked ways by apologizing to her deceased mum.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sketchyby  Sebastian Ackland
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A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Injured Partyby  Elliot Stanton
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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
Love Attackby  Jackie Bateman
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A cardiologist falls for a heart attack patient, who turns out to be an anxious man who has accidentally swallowed the diamond ring intended for his high maintenance girlfriend.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby  Mark Wakely
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A young student's affair with his teacher makes him an outcast at his middle school.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby  Jayda
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A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Home-Cookedby  Simon Parker
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A pretentious food critic, skeptical of anything homemade, is reluctantly sent to interview a 90-year-old pie-making legendonly to have his icy demeanor crumble when one bite of her pie shatters his expectations and changes his life.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Policeman No Leaves Tracesby  Jason Kirman
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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
Mistletoeby  Harker Jones
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When a woman joins her fianc for a wake, the family's dangerous secrets start bubbling to the surface.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Job for Tenderfootsby  Jason K. Allen
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Four notorious hit men show up at the same place, brought together by a mysterious cowboy who gives them an unusual mission. (Drama/Comedy/Crime. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall In Loveby  M SHAHZAIN USMAN SHAMSI
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A business man fall in love with poor girl whose life is full of problems and always facing huddles in her life. One upon a time she saw a business man who is looking handsome and a business man who also see this poor girl who is looking a beauty of his heart and he started fall in love with this poor girl and one day he proposed her and she accepted her proposal.

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