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Enemy of the Christby  Charles Okika
Date Posted: 29 May 2024
An army of privileged angels jettison their empyrean phalanx in pursuit of pride and self love but at a costly price.

Genre: Other
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Save the Last Danceby  John J McWilliams
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025
The last two soldiers to be killed in World War 1 are thrown together just before they meet their tragic fate.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Girl Who Rode a Wolfby  Pelham Mead III
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025
Based on folklore and true stories of the Pawnee Indians in the mid 1880s . She who rode a wolf is a Pawnee folktale of a young girl who was associated with the North Star.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Love Never Grows Oldby  Don Mezei
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
A guru like figure MAIN enters (stage left) while a group of young people celebrate the day. He provides a contrast to their joie de vivre, tells them his story and listens to their narrative. LNGO is a search for deeper meaning, a feel good musical about spiritual themes, told through song. Hear some of the music at https://barbarji.wixsite.com/lovenevergrowsold

Genre: Musical
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
Bill only wants to catch a few fish for his dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Crystal Eggby  Maroun Rached
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025
A cheeky female telemarketer tries to sell online a crystal egg statuette to a middle-aged recluse man.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Synchronicityby  Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
When a musician aching for connection meets a soft-spoken neighbor with a spiritual heart, their mirrored lives begin to align—proving that sometimes, the universe writes the love story for you.

Genre: Romance
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Swapby  Evgeny Kim
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2025
When a man agrees to lend his body for a day so his girlfriend can see her brother again, he discovers too late that the “brother” is an imposter and that his own compassion has cost him his life.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Not For Everyoneby  Philip C. Sedgwick
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2025
Up against a production deadline, two casting directors seeking the next “it” actress, encounter a waitress who perplexes their sensibilities when she rejects their casting offer of fame and fortune. While wooing the waitress, a life-threating emergency at a nearby table is thwarted by an immigrant worker in the establishment.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cliff Effectby  Esra Cengel
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
An arrogant man persistently kicks a woman off a cliff, underestimating her pure love, and Karma eventually caught up with him in a tragic-comic way.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dedicatedby  Lisa Marie Brennan
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
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
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander 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
ERA IIby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A naive scientist who has discovered a way to bring people back from the past, interviews infamous dictator Hitler but his German translator has different plans.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
American Comedianby  Gary Lynn Nowell
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2025
Jerry Sternfeld (50s) had a successful television show but critics hated the final episode with the four of the main characters going to prison. Years later, Sternfeld tells his co-star how the final episode should have ended as the alternate version of the show plays out on screen. The story is an obvious satire of the final episode of Seinfeld.

Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
This Dedicated Physicianby  Michael Volpe
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2025
After overcoming a painful miscarriage and divorce from her unfaithful lawyer wife, Neonatal Doctor Lee Lopez fights an uphill battle to stop her inner-city hospital from being closed by a greedy Board of Directors headed by her ex-wife’s lover.

Genre: Drama
44 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Violinby  Victor Jones
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.

Genre: Drama
8 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
Fear the Unknown Graveby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2024
Ten-year-old Brian is terrified of his own mother, who becomes possessed by a demon after visiting an old unmarked grave near their home.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
In the Bloodby  Jack Halliday
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
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
Dennisby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
A living doll babysits a baby and protects it during a burglary.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Across The Milesby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2025
When a chance encounter sparks an instant connection, two young souls make a vow to wait for each other, navigating a lifetime of longing, loss and circumstance until fate unites them in a heartwarming twist of destiny.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Creepby  Dj Robbins
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vacuumby  Barry Staff
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2025
Wanting sex again after an op leaves erectile dysfunction, a man needs a specialist nurse coming to his aid.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Painted Vengeanceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killing The Changelingby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2024
A couple has the misfortune of having a dark elf switch its deformed offspring for the couple's healthy, human one.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby  Linda Gould
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Miranda, a Homeland Security bureaucrat, is having a tryst with Pete, a handsome but crude major league ballplayer. One early morning encounter is interrupted by two policemen, who take Petie in for questioning about the apparent kidnapping of his teammate, Manny Chavez ... who is engaged to Miranda's sportswriter sister, Jessica. Manny was about to testify against several teammates in a steroids hearing.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Tree or Bustby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
As December approaches, dusty ornaments in the attic spiffy themselves up, get makeovers and begin exercise regimens as they vie for a spot on the Christmas tree. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mirror Manby  STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2024
A man made from mirrors struggles to make a true human connection and find someone who sees past their own reflection in him.

Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Chosenby  Paul Byrne
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2024
A troubled homicide cop must team up with his estranged father to stop a serial killer who mysteriously resurfaces after three decades before he butchers his next victim - his Holiness the Pope.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby  Chris Burns
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
Charles Noble, a callous man, reluctantly allows an employee to tend to his ailing wife. However, a scheme unfolds that leads to a fatal encounter at a supermarket, altering their lives forever.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Watchersby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2024
A high school senior, once haunted by mysterious events, is thrust back into a nightmarish realm when a dark figure reemerges, leading him on a perilous journey.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Dennis 2.0by  Peter Donald Skagen
Date Posted: 28 Jun 2025
In his garage, a retired robotics engineer builds a conscious robot he calls Dennis, then has to fight to save both their lives when a lovely enforcer from an 'agency' arrives to erase them.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blade of Betrayalby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
After the tragic death of his mother, Ken Deluisart moves to Japan, immersing himself in its culture and martial arts. When he returns to France for his father's funeral, he's plunged into a treacherous web of family deceit. Targeted for his inheritance, Ken must confront his cousin's betrayal and unearth the truth behind his father's death before it's too late.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Underground Cageby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 28 Apr 2024
Two martial arts master brothers wake up in an unknown underground cage but do not remember how they got there but are offered freedom win two deadly duels with dangerous rivals.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fishby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2025
When a man's attempt to save his suicidal wife with doctor-prescribed medication only worsens her condition, he must overcome his denial and rescue their teenage son from her delusion that the boy is a fish who belongs in the ocean.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perennialsby  Donald Lewis
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2025
Paranoia takes root when a White suburban woman repeatedly receives business cards from a Mexican landscaper through her front door mail slot, sending her on a frantic mission to stop the invasion of her home.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Rare Gemby  Paul Henry Landry
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2025
A young woman, abused by her mother, is drawn to a motherly real estate agent, but becomes trapped alone during an open house with a serial killer client and unleashes her veiled rage.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Punchmateby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A down on his luck man who lets people punch him for money navigates the murky waters of romance after a strange request comes from a client who was once his High School crush.

Genre: Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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