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Political Science 101by Donald Lewis

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Struggling through stages of political grief, a working man finds that all is not lost -- there's always more to lose.

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

Quiet Timeby Dewayne C Bricker

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When a neuroscientist's sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother's nightmaresone that's now crossing from dream to waking world.

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

The Over Darkby Alicia Renee Norman

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After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)

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

Echoes of Nothingby Lamar D. Vine

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When a grieving retiree installs an AI life coach to escape crushing loneliness after divorce and loss, he must confront buried rage and rediscover purpose through writing before the seductive voice consumes his identityor lose his last chance at redemption.

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

Housewarmingby Bill Freas

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For a heartbroken woman starting over in a new home, a mysterious collection of vinyl records left behind connects her to the house's love-scorned former owner, who took his own life there years ago.

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

Dallianceby Bernard Mersier

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When wealthy Benjamin poisons his blackmailing wife during a romantic dinner, Claudia survives, forcing him to protect his mistress.

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

The Writerby Lamar D. Vine

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In a cluttered Chiang Mai apartment, a reclusive expat writer battles creative stagnation and a looming deadline, only to find his sanity unraveling when an obsessive young neighbor invades his space with seductive interruptions, blurring the lines between reality, desire, and the dark toll of his unfinished manuscript.

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

Eugenia Clarkby DJ Robbins

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Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

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

Memory Survivalby Steven Burton

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Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.

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

I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by Ron Brawer

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In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

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

Beyond the Laws of Sin and Deathby Robert Drusetta

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A wanted serial killer of high-profile criminals sets out to complete one last major hit, the head of an international human trafficking ring.

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

Two Orangesby Sari Akhavan

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A nice cosy family dinner at home, while the neighborhood outside is being bombed.

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

Butt Crack Innby Kenneth M. Kielty

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Butt Crack Bar is a script in the Bar Whore Trilogy Set in NYC and the Florida, a middle-aged writer must visit his agent. She rips into her client's writing and strongly suggests he visit her home in Florida to do his rewrites. She mentions it is a nudist resort. The community consists of aging residents, a one breasted property manager and overly attractive bar maids.

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

Playtimeby Doug J Robbins

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A boy witnesses his father murder his mother in front of him on Halloween night. The boy is then gifted a doll possessed by the soul of his slain, murderous father, and all Hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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

Bargain Storeby Brandi Self

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A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.

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

Doctor Where?by Elliot Stanton

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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

Willpowerby John Porter

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A young black woman and a middle-aged white man love each other, but their friends tell them they must separate--and they can if they only fight with their willpower.

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

Seven Minutesby Robert Drusetta

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A trilogy of stories exploring the seven minutes after death where the brain doesn't realize the body is dead.

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

On the Edgeby John M Grace

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A man's attempt to end his life goes sideways when he discovers the rooftop he chose is already occupied by a woman with the same idea.

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

Life On The Lineby Guy Bardach

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A driver and his passengers share fleeting, ordinary moments on a city bus. A tragic attack will force us to ask why we only care about the victims we know.

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

Family Vacancyby Steven Burton

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After a woman endures the violent deaths of her father and brother, she welcomes a heroic stranger with generosity.

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

In the Bloodby Jack Halliday

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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

Cold Moon Highby Doug J Robbins

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The dead walk up to the house, zombies and ghosts.

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

The Rainy Night Killerby Doug J Robbins

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The Rainy Night Killer kidnaps Nick's wife and plays a game of cat and mouse with the wrong cop.

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

The Lace Table Clothby Frank Vespe

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A family heirloom resurrects some unexpected visitors.

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

The Elevatorby Antwon Taylor

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When a couple encounters an unassuming stranger in an elevator, their lives are drastically changed forever.

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

The Kissby Mary Goldman

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Close platonic friends, Julia and Brandon, explore taking their relationship to a romantic level.

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

Cross Wiresby Gregory Stallworth

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Cross Wires is a suspenseful story of corporate executive who receives voice messages on his office phone of an international drug trafficking operation within the corporation where he is employed. Faced with a decision of staying silent to what he knows or becoming a Corporate Whistleblower and not only risk his career, however his life.

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

Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby Paul Joseph Mulbrecht

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Two buffoonish 'researchers' have convinced the German government that the Loch Ness Monster is actually a mythological Germanic beast (dubbed "The Fat Flounder"). Now they've been given a grant to find the evidence. But their search will fail because of a conspiracy - one between their Loch Ness innkeeper, their guide... and Nessie herself.

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

Powers and Principalitiesby James K. Cole

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Two angels are sent on assignment to earth to enlist a high school teacher, who has just lost his wife and is angry at God, to help fight the powers of darkness in his school.

Genre: Sci-Fi
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Blazing Couplesby Phyllis Campbell Corley

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A married man bored with monogamy talks his wife into having a tryst with two swingers that ends in disaster.

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

Christmas at the Orpheumby Todd Bronson

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On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.

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

What Day Is It?by Bill Rutkoski

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A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffledMondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won't let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.

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

Hard Hatsby Tina Field Howe

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A hunky, bold construction worker makes a bet with the guys that he can pull off a romantic interlude with his gorgeous but strictly hands-off boss-lady.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

How The Pimp Saved Christmasby Doug J Robbins

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A pimp and his three prostitutes sub in for Santa Claus when the big man has a cold one Christmas Eve.

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

Wit's Endby Barry Staff

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Wanting a comeback fronting a telethon, a comedian needs to thwart a revolutionary taking him hostage there, intent on exposing comedy as just another form of exploitation.

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

Vulturesby Keshia Thomas

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A brilliant but unraveling scientist secretly tests a radical cure for Alzheimer's on her own family but as eerie, vulture-like entities begin to appear, feeding on memories like prey, she realizes the real threat might not be the disease... but what she's unleashed trying to cure it.

Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Weekend at the Monasteryby Mike Skidmore

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Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.

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

W.I.N.N.E.R Spells Loserby Elliot Stanton

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The prize for winning is the realisation of what losing is all about. Two elderly care home residents play Scrabble, but the value of their words doesn't just score points on the board.

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