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Carrie, Walter, and Garboby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
A man sits alone in an empty theatre to wait for a Greta Garbo film to begin, and then a woman stranger, sits next to him.  Confrontation ignites; technical problems delay the screening, humor, and then this couple share surprise revelations.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blue Horsesby  Paolo Galli
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Every year, a reclusive painter creates the same image: two blue horses. When a slick broker offers him a fortune to sell one, he refuses—hiding a heartbreaking truth buried in canvas and ashes.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blood, White, And Blueby  Antoine Mizel
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2025
Set in a future where the families of murder victims are legally sanctioned to face those convicted in a 3-minute death match, an apprehensive, yet determined couple, faces off with their daughter's killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
War or Marriageby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
A man needs to divorce his wife, but when war breaks out requiring all single men sign up he has a sudden change of heart.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Car Bombby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Story happens in a car. Trapped inside his car a man has a few minutes to pay a ransom to save his life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rise of the Plutoniansby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
The Plutonians are a secret club that promotes and restores honor to those things that get no respect or have gone out of style: yo-yos, paper airplanes, VCR's, gluten, Pluto, and more. Albert wants to join, but he faces a difficult initiation process.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lockdown Treasureby  STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
During a national lockdown caused by a virus pandemic, a curious 12-year-old girl and her persuasive younger brother set off on a hunt after finding a treasure map in their weekly online supermarket delivery.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Parkby  Anselmo Garcia
Date Posted: 19 Jan 2025
A distraught husband gets a lesson in etiquette from a homeless man.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Golden Scepterby  Bobby Banuelos
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
With the help of his cynical talking cat, a young man must embark on an adventure to retrieve a valuable family heirloom before the evil force that possesses it destroys the world.

Genre: Animation
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Giggedby  Joseph B. Atkins
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2024
A bullying ex-con taunts his elderly uncle as they wrap up a night of frog gigging, even boasting about having sex with the uncle’s young granddaughter. A fugitive arrives on the scene, tries to steal their truck, and inadvertently enables the old man—with his granddaughter’s help--to get the revenge he’d planned.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
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
Piggyby  Don Willis
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
Piggy follows the aftermath of a young man who gets in trouble with the law for a little mischief. The events that unfold afterward reveal a dark secret that should have remained hidden, for it will change his life forever.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Return of Hopeby  Ershov Konstantin
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2025
Three characters "don't see, don't hear, don't speak" receive a mysterious box that could change their lives.

Genre: Fantasy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gatorsby  Linda Kampley
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2024
On a porch in the Garden District of New Orleans a woman talks with a friend about her distant cousin from Massachusetts who is visiting due to an embarrassing “emotional disturbance”. The cousin went on a tour of the swamps and became deeply fascinated by the alligators, their “burning eyes”. Now she has disappeared.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mary's Last Giftby  Andrea Lynn Anthony
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
Struggling with addiction and a devastating AIDS diagnosis, a homeless woman discovers that the compassionate nurse treating her is the daughter she gave up 25 years ago. As they forge a bond, a hidden truth emerges through a forbidden DNA test, leading to a poignant journey of redemption, loss, and the rediscovery of family.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
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
Madam Lucindaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
A man visits a psychic seeking knowledge about his love life and his favorite fishing hole. Unfortunately, he is Madam Lucinda's first ever customer and things don't go quite as planned. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 characters.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Next Rest Stop, 2.5 Million Light Yearsby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
A futuristic update of the family road trip, where the Boffs head to the happiest place in the universe in their minivan-sized space ship, only to be marooned on Earth. Forced to wait five years for a tow, they must adjust to life in New Mexico.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Eternityby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2025
A brilliant physicist’s groundbreaking experiment in spiritual time travel unravels the fabric of reality,forcing him to confront the ultimate paradox: can he exist if his past self never did?

Genre: Sci-Fi
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Definition of Loveby  Carlos Galinho Pires
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2023
A boy and a girl, both unconventional and counter-stereotypical, meet while searching for love, but insecurities and past traumas break them apart leading them to a fight for their own definition of love.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
Marie and Tyler display a loving couple, and it's true, on one side of the relationship.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2024
A woman wants the simplest things, but why should a man give it to her? That's the question plaguing Bear's mind.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eyes of the Hallowby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 29 Feb 2024
10-year-old Sophie's visit to her grandparents' secluded house leads to an unwitting switch with her doppelgänger, whose Black eyes harbour unsettling secrets.

Genre: Horror
10 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
The Christmas Withoutby  Derrick Vernon
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2024
An orphan kid, who was abandoned on a porch with two of his siblings, has been living on the streets. In order to survive another day, he then starts to steal food and flee from the authorities. By assisting a bunch of criminals in robbing the guy who provided him with refuge he eventually has the chance to be reunited with his brother and sister, but the story doesn't end there. This great adventure touches lives.

Genre: Family
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
2-Hour Delayby  Frank Vespe
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2024
A school bus driver's trip turns from mundane to miraculous when he picks up a new student during a snow-induced 2-Hour Delay.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Tis the seasonby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024
Seeking revenge for the loss of his family, Jack captures the person behind the crime and makes him feel his pain.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dorothy... after Ozby  robert ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Dorothy returns from colorful Oz, she moves to the San Fernando Valley, where everyone seems comparatively gray. That is, until she meets someone as colorful as the characters from Oz... Peter Pan. She falls in love with him... but there's a problem. He's wanted by the police for stealing kids.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind, Twenty-Twenty Visionby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2024
A decorated officer is under investigation for his brutal crimes, he believes he should receive an award for. 

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feed Geeseby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
A young man jogs and feeds geese as a diversion while he decides to come out as gay to his girlfriend.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Five Yearsby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2024
After discovering he's to become a father, Mark steals a quarter of a million then gifts it to his girlfriend, but she refuses to accept it.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lunaby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2024
An imaginative little girl won’t speak, but she does have a plan, and in the course of a day shows her exhausted mum and neurotic friend what’s important in the world: simple living, being themselves, and chocolate.

Genre: Comedy
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
Judge Smithersby  timur yildiz
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
A off kilter Judge goes back to his fraternity to help the organization with a pledge's death during hazing. What he finds out after returning to the college campus is there might be a serial killer on the loose.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Arnoldby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Standing in front of a mirror, a young boy tries to understand why his reflection is a dog.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kuzuri: Dark Avengerby  NG
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
Story happens in Japan. When a young man with a superpower and a dark past struggles to keep the city safe and his family's company successful, a woman with a revenge plan comes to destroy everything, leading him to rethink his purposes and bring peace to the city and to himself.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Truck, Please!by  Mary Barrett
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2024
When his wife demands Joe not to come home until he sells his gas guzzling truck, he is directed by the used car salesmen to the bad side of town where he meets up with other guys waiting for their trucks to be stolen.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Running for Breathby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
When a man’s breath escapes him, he must chase it through the manic streets of London to get it back before his time runs out.

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