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The Detective and the Priestby  Jan Clinton Chilson
The Lead Detective of a police department, at the directions of the Chief, is assigned a priest, in assist in successfully solving crimes.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Beauty Pageant Redemptionby  Barbara Blomquist
Personal redemption is the ultimate prize in a beauty pageant held in a women's prison.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A volatile alcoholic father gets his just desserts after abusing his teenage son for the last time.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Things I Should Have Saidby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
Cecil is a odd ball kid from a small town and a Pizza man, he is thrust into a world where he has to play out a Cyrano De Bergerac and emerge triumphant among bullies and bad bosses and dire need for romance.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Real Page Turnerby  Phyllis C. Corley
A Hispanic horror novelist hunkers down in her manager's secluded getaway cottage to finish her manuscript and experiences some of the same perils as the story's heroine with a charming local.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rubic's Kubeby  Bernard Mersier
Driven to the edge by his ideological abuse, a woman delivers the ultimate, dehumanizing punishment to the man who thought it was justifiable.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Catchby  Melvin Taylor
Man goes fishing and finds himself fighting for his life.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Rainbowby  Vijay Kumar Dammalapati
A neglected boy finds solace in his nanny's love and decades later returns as a doctor to heal the woman who raised him, and himself.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rescue In Earth's Orbitby  Michael J Volpe
A lone astronaut survives an overdue rescue mission and an impossible spacewalkthen returns to Earth with a truth that cannot be spoken.

Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When their school bus is hijacked, three students must put their trust in a big brother and his dirt bike.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Very Truely Yoursby  John Porter
A dark comedy about a man who receives a letter from an old girlfriend who reminds him of a promise he made years and years ago.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fez Rescueby  Ed Tasca
A handsome young man discovers that the woman he's having an affair with is the niece of a mafia boss. In his panic, wishing to break up with her, he has to find a way for her to break up with him and not vice versa, or he could wind up with involuntary "knee surgery." He chooses a spiritual method.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Resurrection Fernby  Paul Weidknecht
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
Arroz Y Habichuelas (Rice & Beans)by  Iris Mangual
Two families that could put the Hatfields and McCoys to shame. A Dominican family and Puerto Rican family are forced to share a wedding weekend; old grudges and new chaos threaten to ruin the nuptials unless love and a little salsa can bridge the Caribbean divide.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It's Now or Neverby  Elliot Stanton
In a world where Elvis lives, a suburban man's golden ticket to see The King goes missing down the back of the bath sparking a hilarious battle between nostalgia, plumbing, and domestic survival.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A weird clown hands Steve a balloon at a campus Halloween carnival, and he and his friends find themselves stalked by the creepy clown.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not a Creature Was Stirringby  Michael Hogan
Karma and a hungry toilet catch up to the overly-testosteroned boyfriend of a single mom when he forces her young son to sleep alone in a creepy motel room.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Slice of Romanceby  Jack Sherry
In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Carlos Alex Ceni
What was initially supposed to be a simple journey for two strangers to each other is terrifyingly disrupted by the arrival of a third person.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
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 Professionals (Ali Guli Mane)by  Rochelle Potkar
A man who works professionally as a false witness in court cases hired by police, goons, or lawyers, agrees to help a grieving mother, who has just lost her son in a train accident, by being a false witness for a percentage of her compensation. But she too is no straight line.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Complaint to the Powerfulby  Hiabu Hassebu
After being prey to Eagles for years, the Hens complain to the Powerful to redo their fate of living and to possess flying wings so they can protect themselves from the sky strikers.

Genre: Animation
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A refugee from the world of dreams befriends a young girl in hopes of becoming real. The girls must hide their relationship or risk having the refugee taken back to the dream institute, where she would have to go back to being imaginary.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mars Landingby  Aaron Langvand
A space obsessed teenager who suffers from a terminal illness bonds with a space sciences graphic designer to fulfill the teen's dream of landing on Mars.

Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Generation Killerby  John Edward Bias
Time is of the essence as an assassin goes on a chronological murder spree searching for a time travel equation.

Genre: Sci-Fi
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Strings Attachedby  Dennis Manning
When a washed-up musician returns to his sacred studio to write one last song, the guitars he abandoned come alive, forcing him to face the haunting truth about the silence he choseand the music that never died.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trombone or Modern Romanceby  Linda Kampley
Two college students meet in a cafe, don't really know how to talk to one another, and yet fall in love.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby  Mike Bevins
A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Quandaryby  Brandi Self
A thirty-year-old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it's another drunken one-night stand until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don't know how they got there either.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After a one-night-stand with an exotic girl in the middle of a future pandemic, a young man wakes to find no trace of her, no contact details on his phone, and can barely remember her name.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby  LaKesa Cox
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
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Hit and Runby  Marc Prey
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A street thief with a stolen wand accidentally opens a portal into a mirror world and faces her own twisted reflection for control of her destiny.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Flowers for Lilyby  Candy Fox
Three grieving beings - a man, a woman, and a dog - find a glimmer of hope for a path forward, in the unlikeliest of places - a cemetery.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
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 Generous Hostby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
In a twisted tale of digital deception, a loving couple's date night spirals into terror when a vengeful brother exposes the boyfriend's secret online scam exploiting his girlfriend's image, ending in a ruthless home invasion and fatal betrayals.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clayton Mooreby  Doug J Robbins
Two friends enjoy a camping trip until it's interrupted by the killer Clayton Moore.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What appears to be a bank job, pulled by a mysterious couple, turns out to force a reckless politician into a life-changing and character-revealing decision.

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