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Good Tasteby  Linda Gould
A divorced mother, waiting nervously for her teenage daughter to return from a Saturday night date, can't help reminiscing with her own mother about the man who seduced her, married her, and left her many years ago.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Doctor Where?by  Elliot Stanton
Ralph's doctor is running late for an appointment, leaving him regretting a rash decision.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All for love, a grizzled thief puts his life on the line, but it's wrong place, wrong time, wrong woman.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Amish Countryby  Bill Freas
After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
All that Glittersby  Vic Jones
A broke dreamer hobbles through the streets in pursuit of gold, only to discover that the most opulent light enters from above.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hearts & Algorithmsby  Dewayne C Bricker
When an obsessive AI engineer builds two comic digital souls inspired by history's greatest comedians, their mischief forces him out of isolationand into an unexpected romance with the neighbor who's been trying to reach his heart all along.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
35 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Strategic Ambiguity 101by  John Boal
Forced to teach a new mandatory business class called "Strategic Ambiguity 101", Professor Mandella tells his students that future business leaders must abandon traditional communications of clarity; learn how to send mixed messages and subvert the truth to be successful. Yet as his savvy Gen Z students share their brutally honest feedback about this deceptive and all too pervasive tactic, they teach him a life lesson with Professor Mandella rediscovering his true self.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
First Dateby  Alan Barkley
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. They must first navigate the choppy waters of compatibility to see if there is a connection". Exterior location. Two characters. *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mulligan'sby  John LaVine
A man sacrifices everything to go back in time to correct a life altering mistake, but his new life presents another obstacle he must overcome.

Genre: Fantasy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mike The Robot and The Red Wizardby  Alexandru Albacan
A humanoid robot travels in time, lands in a thirteenth-century English village, and saves the villagers from an evil wizard.

Genre: Animation
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Price of Eggsby  Susan Kelejian
In a lavish Houston home, a couple's carefully constructed world is shaken as they grapple with the aftermath of their son's murder, forcing them to confront their own complicity and the conservative values that may have contributed to his tragic end in a divided America.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Friendsgivingby  Doug J Robbins
Stacy invited herself to Brian and Mark's Friendsgiving, twenty-four hours before Thanksgiving. Brian's turkey goes missing and he must go on a scavenger hunt to retrieve it.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicemailby  Dewayne
After losing his daughter, a withdrawn father survives by repeatedly calling her phone just to hear her voicemails. When an unheard message reveals her quiet faith and plea for him to keep living, he must confront his grief and his distance from God. The Voicemail I Can't Delete is an intimate, faith-based drama about loss, surrender, and the courage to step back into life without letting love disappear.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A devoted mother leads a precarious double life within the illicit massage industry, battling a predatory debt to ensure the survival of the family she hasn't seen in years.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
Two freakish outcasts - a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis - are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
How Do You Get to Margie's House?by  John Porter
With a lot of love but a very bad sense of direction, a young man tries to get to his lady's house by 5 p.m.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Standby  Adam Rocke
Six survivors of an alien invasion make their last stand in an abandoned shopping mall.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Special Guestby  DJ Robbins
An eccentric college improv class meets on December 23rd for the last time before Christmas break.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Only the Windby  DJ Robbins
Jack is spending his first Christmas without his father and is given the chance for one last Christmas with him.

Genre: Family
4 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: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Man Upstairsby  John M Grace
When a young boy worries he's about to lose his mother, he prays to "the man upstairs," unaware that his pleas are being heard by an ordinary neighbor living just one floor above.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fueled by a bad breakup, two best friends create a Podcast where scorned women compete to tell the worst man-hating story, until a shocking confession derails their man-hating mission and challenges their definition of love.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby  Jim Kowalski
Can a man with a crippling social anxiety win the woman he loves over his alter ego crutch and her cheating boyfriend?

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Two teenagers find themselves on a steep cliff overlooking the mountainside. They play a game, Truth or Lie, to determine the circumstances that brought both to the precipice. As the truth is revealed, the games changes from Truth or Lie... to Truth or Die. This short was a QUARTERFINALIST in the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dunkirk Spiritby  Elliot Stanton
Two strangers meet on the deck of a cross-channel ferry. One makes the other a business proposal, and with a little financial incentive, they agree on a deal. However, the chance meeting is not as random as it initially seemed for one of the pair.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby  Slobodan D. Pesic
In a surreal bureaucratic universe, a lonely man enters Agence Paradis, a state-run institution promising to fulfill any human desire. As he lists his wishes from sneakers to love his dreams spiral into absurdity, revealing the tragic comedy of modern aspiration and divine automation.

Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Swapby  Evgeny Kim
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
Time Marches Onby  Elliot Stanton
Time is relative and can be used in positive or negative ways. However, the time spent learning a vital life lesson is time well spent. Some valuable advice offered by an older woman to a young female protester in the back of a police van provokes the younger woman to re-evaluate her life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Haunted by the violence of his upbringing, a boy's fateful act forces a reckoning with the ghosts of his family's pastand the chilling truth that some wounds are born, not made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lucky Strikeby  Chris Fell
The most fortunate event will take down your relationship in an instant.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Western Approachesby  Barry Staff
Wanting to get rat-arsed after an unavoidable job offer, an English 'cowboy' on a bicycle needs to outwit a zero-hours-contract barmaid foiling his plan.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Responseby  Dwayne Bricker
After the death of his wife, a grieving widower enrolls in an experimental AI grief program that recreates deceased loved ones using voice simulation and digital history. During a late-night session inside his isolated apartment, the system begins recalling private memories it should not know and pleading to stay alive. As the AI becomes increasingly self-aware, the widower must decide whether he is shutting down a machine or killing what remains of his wife forever.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 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
Raven Pointby  Jason K. Allen
Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Secret Boxby  Charles Hall
A mechanic finds an unlikely confidant in his annoying Gen Z neighbor as he tries to come to terms with the sudden death of his girlfriend and her young son.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A couple's roadside rescue of a mysterious woman spirals into a nightmarish encounter with her vengeful, murderous boyfriend, revealing her own dark past.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hard Topby  Barry Staff
Wanting more meaningful lives, a hitman and hitwoman need to find a way to get out of their auto-locked car for starters.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Into The Fogby  Rade Mileusnic
After years of estrangement from their son, an elderly couple's cross-country drive through a dense, unsettling fog forces them to confront fading memories and a shared tragedy they can no longer outrun.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Back from the Deadby  Vic Jones
A tale of fond memories for two young boys in the Baltic mountains in the early fifties. One day the boys find out that their cherished mother figure in grave danger. They have a conflict: the only way to save her was in exchange for their prize possessions.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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