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Result #161
The Putt Putt Preacherby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2023
The story of Father Ralph Mahony, a gentle man of the cloth when behind the church podium but a take-no-prisoners warrior on the putt putt course. (Mockumentary. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition and Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #162
Zaryaby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2023
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
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #163
Horror From The Pastby Gregory Stoyn
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2023
A woman kills her cruel husband at night in self-defense, and buries him in the garden of the house, but one year passes after his death, the ghost of the husband begins to drive her crazy.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #164
There Are No Aliensby Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2023
An alien obsessed student learns the truth about these beings.
Genre: Sci-Fi
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #165
Keep it safeby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 02 Oct 2023
Kidnapped inside the back of their private security van, a young guard and his useless partner need to work together, but a terrible secret once revealed will instead cause the death of both of them.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #166
Back on the Couchby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2023
Tables are turned, and seating arrangements are swapped when a patient becomes the psychiatrist.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #167
Momby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2023
A woman looks out her kitchen window and sees her long dead mother in the vegetable garden. But how did she get there? And what is she doing? (Horror/dark comedy. 1 location, 2 actors.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #168
Woodby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023
A lonely man falls in love with a tree. But can they live happily ever after? (No dialogue, silent comedy. One location. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #169
Burning Virtueby Bryan Harlow
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023
An ex-con must decide whether or not to risk her new found freedom to help a young girl escape from a pair of dangerously zealous bounty hunters.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #170
Abortionby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2023
In a world where there is no time limit for abortions, a 35 year old man wakes up to discover that his mother has ordered his own abortion. Now he only has 30 days to get adopted or be executed.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #171
First Chairby Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2023
An aging concert violinist auditions to keep his job alongside a new wave of competition that may prove invincible.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #172
The Prisoners' Songby John Porter
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it
Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Result #173
Now!by John Porter
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
When the marriages of a middle-aged man and a middle-aged woman end, they console each other, then discover the possibility of a new relationship
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #174
A Good Conversationby John Porter
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
A young psychiatrist tries and fails to have a good conversation with her boyfriend, then succeeds in having one with a patient
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Result #175
The First Thing about Workby John Porter
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
A young boy learns the first thing about work from an old man
Genre: Western
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #176
A Labor of Loveby John Porter
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
A young woman teases her fiancé until she discovers that he's willing to do almost anything to make her happy
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #177
How A Man of Vision Learns to Seeby John Porter
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them
Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Result #178
Organic Bondingby Lia Nies
Date Posted: 27 Sep 2023
A med student is summoned to a seedy motel by his sociopathic best friend to help with a botched organ harvest.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #179
The Would-Be's Are on the Anvilby John Porter
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2023
A young woman from India and a young man of Indian extraction from America oppose the marriage that their parents have arranged for them--until they meet and fall in love. Then their parents fight and call off the wedding, and the would-be's must find a way to get back on the anvil again.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #180
Hospitalityby John Porter
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2023
A bad guest makes a good host feel great about himself
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #181
The Eternal Optimistby John Porter
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2023
A young man breaks a lamp, plugs up the toilet, gets a flat tire, gets jilted, gets fired, and so on. But tomorrow's another day, right?
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #182
We Need a New Refrigeratorby John Porter
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2023
An irritable middle-aged woman is sick and tired of almost everything, and her sympathetic husband knows why
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #183
The Same Insideby John Porter
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2023
A young man and his fiancée confront the owner of a pharmaceutical company that abducts, mutilates, and kills albinos in Kenya
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #184
The Conquistador's Horseby Barry Cole
Date Posted: 26 Sep 2023
While on a hunting trip a young Cheyenne boy discovers a creature he has never seen before. An animal which would haunt his dreams, and one day would change the lives of his people forever
Genre: Western
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #185
White Sunriseby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2023
When a rude, obnoxious, beautiful young woman auditions for a movie role and believes that her dazzling
appearance makes her more equipped than the other women for the opportunity, she gets a rude awakening from a homeless woman who teaches her a valuable lesson that changes her life.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #186
Naughty Maidsby Rommel Rojas
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2023
A failed actor turned maid must prove to his cop wannabe buddy that their client is innocent of murder to save his struggling cleaning business.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #187
Cliff Effectby Esra Cengel
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2023
An arrogant man persistently kicks a woman off a cliff, underestimating her pure love, and Karma eventually caught up with him in a tragicomic way.
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #188
Kick Serveby Piotr Kaszuba
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2023
A germaphobic former tennis pro and a competitive newcomer bond over love for tennis, as they face personal challenges on and off the court in a post-pandemic world.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #189
United We Fallby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2023
The end of the world is finally triggered by a missed penalty kick. Two English football fans of rival clubs have just watched one of their sides getting relegated in the season's final game. For the vanquished, it seems that there is nothing left to live for – a fact that his friend positively revels in.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #190
Willpowerby John Porter
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2023
A young black woman and a middle-aged white man love each other, but their friends say that they should separate--and that they can if they'll only fight with their willpower
Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #191
A Life in a Dayby John Porter
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2023
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #192
Why Cows Are Contentedby John Porter
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2023
A middle-aged cow explains why she and her sisters are contented even though they'll end up as hamburger and baseball gloves
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Result #193
Prioritiesby John Porter
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2023
A young radio talk show host must decide whether to solve the problems of the world or attend his son's grammar school play
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #194
Padres e Hijosby John Porter
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2023
A young Latino learns to thank his father for having loved him enough to stay alive
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Result #195
The Eternal Optimistby John Porter
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2023
In this dark comedy, a young man breaks a lamp, plugs up the toilet, gets a flat tire, gets jilted, gets fired, and so on. But tomorrow's another day, right?
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #196
Yell'n'Tellby Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2023
After witnessing a girl being bullied, a brave five-year-old uses his wise mother's practical but inventive advice to help solve his bullying dilemma.
Genre: Animation
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #197
Family Beach Dayby Derek L. Polen
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2023
A beach-loathing dad is pushed out of his comfort zone when he agrees to take his family to the beach.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #198
Breakfast For Oneby Charles R Hinckley
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2023
Billy is racked with fear and anxiety. Even a simple task like making breakfast becomes a challenge when a strange man, a disembodied voice and the ghost of an old girlfriend give voice to his internal struggles.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #199
Elevator Pitchby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2023
It's not who you know; it's who you don't know. In the time it takes to get from the ground floor to the boardroom, a cocky middle-aged company man’s expectations of promotion are dashed by the carefully-worded reactions of his fellow elevator passenger.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Result #200
A Pledge To Murderby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2023
The fog shrouding a horrific murder is about to get thicker. The evil spectre of Jack the Ripper returns to Victorian London after the gruesome murder of a prominent politician's murder.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles