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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
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Family Abuseby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
It takes for Carl to lose his family to realize his addictions are more important than them, but even after reclaiming his wife and daughter…is he able to stay on the straight and narrow?
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
33 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
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ken, Continuedby D. Greene
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2024
If he can’t be a doctor, how about a cop? Ken, Continued.
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Graves Of Vengeanceby Edwin Barandarou
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2023
A traumatized young man whose been beaten by his mum his whole childhood and been laughed at by other females takes revenge by raping and killing them before taken his own life.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Jury Serviceby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2025
When David is selected as a juror in the trial of a man accused of a murder he secretly committed, he must manipulate the jury to secure a guilty verdict.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cimpleby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024
Darryl and his right hand man Ryan's lavish lifestyle from drug dealing comes apart when Darryl’s girlfriend Sharice unveils something sinister neither one of them saw coming.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Boy from Under the Bridgeby Susan Adair Harris
Date Posted: 11 May 2024
He was released from his murder conviction on appeal, but he needed a student tutor to help him graduate high school and evade the drug cartel.
Genre: Romance
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Devil's Servantby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Mar 2025
A murderer kills his improv group after blacking out and pursues members of his neighborhood.
Genre: Horror
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Told You Soby S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
A once-successful cryptocurrency investor, Michael Tanner, finds his empire destroyed overnight by a devastating crash, leading him into a spiraling journey of regret, desperation, and the harsh realization that the pursuit of wealth may have cost him everything that truly mattered.
Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Shelpek Pizzaby Carlos Galinho Pires
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2025
Compelled to leave Kazakhstan due to political reasons, an idealistic migrant must overcome the challenges of integration and the distractions of an unexpected love while seeking justice and a new home.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shark Underneathby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Limited location. Horror/thriller. A group of outlaws, who recently robbed and killed a lawyer and his wife, become the preys of a smart and dangerous shark living underneath the house they chose as hideout.
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Everlasting Imageby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
Seductive wordplay is Jeanqúal’s introduction leading to his murders in a quest to create the perfect woman.
Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nasty Nightby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2025
A young woman, excited for her blind date, finds herself kidnapped by a deranged taxi driver.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Picnicby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Four hipsters pack their lunch and excitedly head into the woods for their first ever wilderness picnic. Unfortunately, it all goes very, very wrong. (Dark comedy/horror/satire. 1 location, 4 actors.)
Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby Mark Wakely
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
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
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Postmanby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 01 Jun 2024
Victim of a murder, a postman is brought back to life by a cursed Indian Talisman who gives him the power to fight criminals.
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Phoenix Dreamsby Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
A gritty drama unfolds when betrayal and murder upend a beautiful, deranged woman.
Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bus Stopby Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2024
A distracted mother experiences every parent’s worst nightmare when a heated cell phone conversation incites a chilling abduction. Single location, micro-budget. Award-winning, produced screenwriter.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Giftby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025
In 1977, a young man receives a camera that takes disturbing pictures. (1 location, 1 actor. Produced writer, see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trouble with Bermudaby PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Vacationing in Bermuda, an American woman is seduced by a dashing, dry-witted con artist who takes her on a run-for-your-life swindle of a narco-paramilitary general.
Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
If I Left Earlyby Rosalind-Renèe Lindsey
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
Living with his ambitious breadwinning girlfriend, a young job-hunting loser feels left behind in life and relationship. Motivated, he works to get things back on track, but all of that is halted when a call comes in and the unpredictable happens.
Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A-rrhythmiaby Tigran Vardanyan
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2025
A reserved man visits a secluded seaside restaurant, masking his internal turmoil as he prepares for an evening with "guests" who may never arrive, culminating in a haunting act of finality that echoes his quiet despair.
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'
Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
Night of the Swingin' Deadby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Z-Townby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
When the letter Z is set to be removed from the alphabet, several brave residents of Z-Town - including Zack, Zebra, Zucchini and Zipper - must prove that Z is essential. (Animation/Web series pilot.)
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
And the Dead Body Makes Fourby Audra Elasik
Date Posted: 24 Mar 2024
When three young baseball players search for their ball in the woods, they are blackmailed into surrendering their belongings or facing a faux curse after mistaking a drunk man for a zombie.
Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Oh Boi!by Sara Mancini
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2024
Marta is a 14 years old weirdo with no friends but with a particular obsession: porn. She watches a lot of porn videos but has never had sex and doesn’t know what pleasure is: she never even masturbated! Determined to understand what sex is, she decides to emulate her peers living a day like them and get close to an older guy who has no problem having sex with anyone.
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Trespassingby Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
In a post-apocalyptic world, a mute medicine woman’s drug stash blurs the lines between good and evil. Award-winning produced screenwriter.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Our 13th Birthdayby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
On her thirteenth birthday, Machi unleashes her deliciously dark revenge on everyone who has wronged her.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Classic Western Love Storyby John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A western comedy in which two young men compete for the favor of a lovely young woman.
Genre: Western
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
10 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
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Insideby John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A young man and his fiancée confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bump in the Nightby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2025
When a desperate young thief breaks into the wrong house, he discovers the elderly homeowners are far more dangerous—and sinister—than he could have ever imagined.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
PAIN @ THE PUMPby Bob Canning
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024
Two aliens from another galaxy pretty far away have a major disagreement with a fuel pump they think is an Earthling -- the fuel pump wins.
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dinner Partyby Ron Greene
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2024
Career driven attorney, Nathan O'Neil and his wife are invited to a dinner party hosted by the law firm's founder, which can only mean, being made a partner. To test how badly Nathan wants the partnership, he and his wife must play a simple after dinner game. If they win, he's awarded the partnership. If they lose, no partnership, no more living.
Genre: Horror
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Famous Fathersby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2024
Two wildly contrasting icons of the 20th Century share an encounter which saves them both.
Genre: Artistic
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pigeon Academyby Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Ever seen a baby pigeon? Probably not, because they are all learning their trade at the world renowned Pigeon Academy in Los Angeles, with classes in pidgin English, statue "painting," mastering the proper head bob.
Genre: Animation
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Chucklesby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome to '79by D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
Girls. Gigs. Growing up. Redondo Beach; 1979. Teenage Dion is a dreamer and a drummer; together with his three best friends, he’s ready to spend the summer surfing, playing gigs and meeting girls. Slowly, each of these things changes or falls apart or just disappears. He wishes for them back. He wishes himself away. And finally, he embraces and clings to the unknown, because it’s the only thing he has left.
Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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