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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
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Broadcastby Noureddine Hifad
In a remote Antarctic research station, a lone radio host continues daily broadcasts after a global communications blackout until strange voices begin hijacking her signal, hinting that something nonhuman has already arrived.
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pair of Brown Oxfords in the Middle Grey Boothby Charles Webb
I hadn't really noticed it until I zipped up my pants.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby John Alexander Fraser
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dedicatedby Lisa Marie Brennan
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
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Once Blue Now Dead Redby Darryl N. Layne
Mankind has always wondered what happened to our sister planet Mars or as it once was called "Seti". Dak, Band, and Mika environmental scientists is facing a severe environmental crisis. They work tirelessly to save Seti with help from AI android "Guardian". With time running out for Seti, they build a spaceship to migrate to a blue planet we now call Earth. Their desperate attempt lead to a desperate surprising end leading into part two "Spores ".
Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night Classby Ajokubi Miracle
A junkie teenage girl must expose the illegal drugging of students by the schoolteacher before there's a next victim.
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Reflectionsby Jeff Walker
On a fateful day a desperate man filled with fear and uncertainty races to connect with those who have most impacted his life before confronting his destiny.
Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Find My Fiendsby Edward Chapman
When the party hostess isn't answering calls her friends assume she's been kidnapped and use a tracking app to locate her - with fatal consequences...
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Report Just In...by Elliot Stanton
A schoolboy's ill-thought-out plan backfires when his mother uncovers his subterfuge when his school report is received by post. However, his fears of a damning report appear unfounded - for a time, anyway.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Yoo-foesby John Porter
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shotgunby Jessica Lynn Bruce
Hoping for a peaceful retirement, a former Marine takes to the Alaskan highways as a trucker, but when ruthless gun men target his rig, he must use every ounce of his training to survive a high-octane chase across a frozen mountain.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Night Stayby DJ Robbins
A weary businessman checks into a hotel with a history of violence, and said hotel is supposed to be extremely haunted.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
About a Bearby S.C. Smith
An aging TV writer desperate for a comeback pitches a last-ditch movie about a vengeful bear to a Hollywood producer, only to watch his hopes unravel as the industry leaves him behind.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Pumpkinby Doug J Robbins
The spirit of Zozo, the Ouija board demon, possesses whoever carves the pumpkin from Mr. Jenkins' pumpkin patch.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Touchby Esra Cengel
A poor little girl tries to find a way to do a huge favor to the woman who saved her life.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Green Dangerby John Witcher
A science experiment goes wrong and creates one of the most sinister villains of a lifetime.
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Smells Like Steinbeckby Jason K. Allen
A young man with a passion for pleasant aromas is lured into the underground world of book sniffing. (Could be short or TV pilot. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby Drew Larimore
An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Burning Manby Jack Halliday
A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Eternal Optimistby John Porter
A dark comedy in which a young man breaks a lamp, plugs up the toilet, gets jilted, gets fired, and so on. But, hey, tomorrow's another day, right?
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Car Salesman Builds His Dream Houseby Alan Barkley
Jim is a car salesman who is building a house to woo back a wayward spouse. Can Jim close the deal? (No house construction filming needed). *2024 Semi-finalist - Grande Stories Screenplay Competition*.
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Brown Bottle Fluby Brandi Self
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
Rise of Tony Rainesby Doug J Robbins
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
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bug Boyby J. J. Hillard
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
But Wait ... There's More!by John Boal
On this segment of "But Wait ... There's More!" at a local TV station, the mid-40s Host, Tiffany Long, and her two Reporters, as usual, critique weird, wacky and often wasteful single-use plastic products that viewers may or may not need. But in the closing segment, Tiffany and her Reporters break the 4th wall; show how these plastic products are killing our oceans and sea life and defiantly quit their popular program on air.
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Laughterby Deogratias Nyakiki
Four best friends explore the hilarity and absurdity of love in a series of three-minute vignettes, revealing that sometimes laughter is the best remedy for heartbreak.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Mouse's Lamentby John Porter
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
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lunch with Lelandby Jason K. Allen
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (3 actors, 1 main location. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Award-winning writer and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Is In Front Of Youby Adrian Milnes
Two gangsters have a decision to make when they are ordered to guard a wounded boss who has a bounty on his head.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Personal Demonsby Brandon Rhiness
After being fired for his reckless lifestyle, a narcissistic corporate climber visits a psychic to "exorcize" his personal demons (drinking and womanizing) only to have them manifest as physical entities that refuse to let him stop partying.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shapes and Coloursby Craig Ford
After a brief moment of forbidden tenderness reignites his buried humanity, a gay concentration-camp prisoner must choose between suppressing his desire to surviveor risking death by claiming love in a place built to destroy it.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something in the Waterby Brandon Rhiness
When a group of hungover friends wakes up to a city-wide emergency alert warning of contaminated water, they must survive a descent into animalistic madness as the thirst for water turns into a hunger for flesh.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The City: A Tragedy in Three Actsby Larry Shannon
The story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
Genre: Drama
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
43 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Grass is Always Greenerby Daniel J. Broderick
Jack is unhappy. Who else in L.A. rides the bus, has no girlfriend, no money, and no status? Sam, the bus driver, assures him things will change. When they do, suddenly and mysteriously, is Jack finally happy? Not exactly. Something is still missing.
Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Change the F*cking Nameby Christopher Harmon
A fearless Indigenous teen, intent on restoring the dignity of his people, goes on a mystical vision quest...only to find the legendary Jim Thorpe as his guide and mentor. Jim reinforces the young man's determination to end the racial slur that is the name of a Washington sports team and he champions a movement - that eventually succeeded.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Take Backsby William Walkerley
In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.
Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Satan's Shrinkby Daniel J. Broderick
Satan needs a consult; it's just not as much fun anymore.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Double Takeby Marjory E. Leposky
A stalker is following unaware couple.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something for the Weeekendby Anthony Cawood
A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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