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Gloss Overby Steven Blows

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A patient grandmother takes her hobby of writing product reviews to new extremes by watching paint dry, but her family wants her to stop her compulsion and deal with her grief.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

No Loose Endsby Adam Rocke

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Saying goodbye is never easy, especially when there's a price on your head.

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

Dennisby Doug J Robbins

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A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

If I Leave it Greenby Rodney A Myers

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Facing the cold reality of a corporate-driven future, an aging land owner must decide between a lucrative urban legacy and preserving the natural sanctuary that holds his most cherished memories.

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

In Creeps the Boogeymanby Doug J Robbins

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A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.

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

Returningby Susie Schecter

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After the tragic accidental death of her four-year-old child, a grieving mother is given an unexpected miracle when her daughter mysteriously returns from the dead, but struggles to understand and cope with the supernatural gift.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Take My Handby Jay Hodgkins

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A serial killer seeks a cure for loneliness when he develops a special relationship with the severed hand of one of his victims, only to discover it points him in the direction of true love.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Lathroby Aliki Sakallerou-Kokkinou

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A refugee from Syria lands with his family on a Greek island but discovers he is unable to wholly protect his family from racists.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Winter Walk inby Camelia Dinu

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When a lonely woman finds a fresh footprint in the snow, the past she buried threatens to return; what is she willing to sacrifice for her peace?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Moonlight and Rosesby Jack Halliday

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A screenwriter finds more than he bargained for during a late-night stroll with an actress, in this noir, short script. Award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Troubadour's Last Noteby Michael J Volpe

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After the death of his beloved cat, a wandering musician reconnects with the woman he once loved and lostproving that sometimes, it takes heartbreak to reconnect with love.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Why Cows Are Contentedby John Porter

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A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented, even though they end up as hamburger and baseball gloves.

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

A Late Waitby Elliot Stanton

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If listening is so important, then it's hardly surprising that turning a deaf ear to good advice creates an even greater problem.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Our Lives Are Goodby John Porter

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A medieval romance in which the father of three sons and the father of a daughter arrange for the sons to compete for the daughter's hand in marriage.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Mike The Robot and The Red Wizardby Alexandru Albacan

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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 Fairytale Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III

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Tom Wolf is thrown into the Bedlam Mental hospital in the early 1800s in London, England for being drunk. He tells the doctors that is is a wolf and they laugh at him. He then tells stories of three pigs whom he sold houses to and a young girl named Red Riding Hood and finally a Russian named Peter. The doctors punish Tom each time.

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

Black Girls Are Differentby Rocco Simonelli

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BLACK GIRLS ARE DIFFERENT is a darkly comic take on interracial relationships in Manhattan as a white Jewish male upper-eastsider falls in love with a black "princess."

Genre: Romantic Comedy
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Mad Womenby Anthony Truscello

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Three marketing students pull off a risky guerrilla museum stunt to go viral, only to learn that the biggest danger isn't the law, it's the algorithm.

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

The Patent Applicationby Stephen Delos Treacy

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This 5-page Vaudeville skit shows what happens when a retired Professor (with an atrocious German accent) from Jefferson County, Washington presents his cross-species invention to an area US Patent Office.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Last Lightby Gladman

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In a ruined room filled with memories of his lost daughter, a grieving man struggles to keep a single lantern flame aliveuntil one final, impossible spark forces him to confront the moment he chooses hope over despair.

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

The Generous Hostby Bernard Antoine Mersier

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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

Between Voicesby Danny King

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A bullied young man begins to reclaim his confidence during a therapy session, but when the session ends, he realizes he was alone the entire time.

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

The Black Boxby William Walkerley

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Tien shows up a Darius' apartment with a small mysterious black box that will change their lives before the night is over.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Boomerangby John Alexander Fraser

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A man in search of a shave and new start in life, following a traumatic event, enters a city side street that leads him to the heart of darkness and a reckoning with his past.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Next Voiceby Charles Hall

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Against her mistrustful daughter's advice, a divorcee hires a dubious paranormal expert to investigate a strange disturbance in their new home.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Zaryaby Jason K. Allen

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Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Baitby Kevin Pacey

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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

Lost Happinessby Marc-Olivier louveau

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Chanthou is not running away from the war; she has a much more important mission. But besides the Kmer regime, the only thing that could stop her is her husband.

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

Jasper + Mimi Foreverby Jason K. Allen

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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

Why Not?by Steven Blows

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A straightforward man's concealed circumstances prove difficult to navigate when he falls head over heels for a free-going photographer at a deserted diner.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Making Wavesby Drew Larimore

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A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby Tawnie Powell

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97%that's what Hana Murphy became part of when it happened. Now, dismissed by her University, she struggles to break free from the statistic and find herself. Spiraling into self-destruction and with her relationships unraveling, Hana is forced to confront the question: What happens to the drunk girl?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

In the Wallsby Dwayne Bricker

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When a cleanup crew arrives at an abandoned farmhouse, they discover signs that someone has been secretly living within the walls. As night falls, an unseen presence begins circling their truck, testing their fear before revealing itself. Trapped between the house and whatever lurks inside it, the crew must survive a sudden, violent encounteronly to realize, as they escape, that the farmhouse isn't home to just one hidden predator.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Park Benchby Marc Prey

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While sitting on a park bench, a suicidal man has a life-altering conversation with a woman who just may be his deceased wife.

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

The Labby Nancy Kimmel

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Angela, a phlebotomists in Detroit, gets trapped in a psychological nightmare by her boss of the lab who requires 50 vials of blood per day. No quota, she must draw her own blood. Detective Mureoux, Detroit cop, enters the lab to find out what is really going on. He's not leaving until he meets Mr. Alginescu, the owner of the lab, and find out what happened to the other girls who worked there.

Genre: Horror
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Pawnsby Adam Rocke

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The CIA uses a game of chess to recruit a child prodigy.

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

Clownby DJ Robbins

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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

Western Approachesby Barry Staff

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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

Hit and Runby Marc Prey

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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 Dream Come Trueby Frank Charles Scott

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A thrilling suspenseful story filled with deception and betrayal as Michael gets entangled in a web of deceit while gaslighting his wife and daughter to run off with her money to skip the light fantastic with his Mistress.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles