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Treasureby John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
A young native American woman must overcome her sensitivities to protect herself when a deranged killer attacks her friends for an underground culinary treasure in a remote forested area.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dipsomaniaby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2024
John doesn’t believe he’s ruining his wife's life by binge drinking, but he finds out the hard way the price of his addiction.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Phonesby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
The impact of phones in the life of couples.
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Once Upon A Crimeby Shane O'Connor
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2024
A weary, heartbroken detective returns to Neverland to investigate a series of fairy murders, navigating the island’s dark and dangerous underbelly where the power of belief is the ultimate weapon.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Soul Collectorby Madison Smith
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2025
Two ghost hunters travel to Salem MA in order to search for ancient witch artifact. Along the process, they uncover history between pirates and witches, which they mistakenly unlock ghosts from the past to collect souls to sacrifice.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shoplifterby Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2024
Rural vigilantes misappropriate justice when they accost a man suspected of shoplifting at the local Walmart.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dollby DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Omar's Taxiby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 28 Dec 2023
Pilot and Bible available. A Saudi Arabian Prince leaves his royal family in Riyadh to begin a new life in the United States of America as a taxi driver.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Off Limitsby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 Feb 2024
Choosing to remain Single, Sydney believes no man can take her first love place because he accepted her for who she is.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Serving Caesarby Pelham Mead III
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025
Marcos Cassius Scaeva was perhaps one of the greatest Centurians to serve Proconsul Caesar in Britain, the Rine, and in Greece agains Pompey. In Greece Scaeva took 400 arrows to his shield, an arrow to his eye and his knee without saying. Caesar made him Primus Pilus.
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Non-Fiction/History
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Teacher's Petby Mark Wakely
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A young student's affair with his teacher makes him an outcast at his middle school.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Madam Lucindaby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
A man visits a psychic seeking knowledge about his love life and his favorite fishing hole. Unfortunately, he is Madam Lucinda's first ever customer and things don't go quite as planned. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 characters.)
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby Fausto Politi
Date Posted: 14 May 2024
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2024
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
Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mary's Last Giftby Andrea Lynn Anthony
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
Struggling with addiction and a devastating AIDS diagnosis, a homeless woman discovers that the compassionate nurse treating her is the daughter she gave up 25 years ago. As they forge a bond, a hidden truth emerges through a forbidden DNA test, leading to a poignant journey of redemption, loss, and the rediscovery of family.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dorothy... after Ozby robert ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Dorothy returns from colorful Oz, she moves to the San Fernando Valley, where everyone seems comparatively gray. That is, until she meets someone as colorful as the characters from Oz... Peter Pan. She falls in love with him... but there's a problem. He's wanted by the police for stealing kids.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lenaby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
While backpacking alone in the wilderness, a young man encounters a mysterious girl who has a unique relationship with the forest. (One location, two characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wicked Girlfriendby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2023
When a vivacious teenage girl is dumped on prom night by her notable, good-looking boyfriend, she plots how to strike back with the ultimate revenge, but gets a rude awakening when the tables turn.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Car Bombby Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Story happens in a car. Trapped inside his car a man has a few minutes to pay a ransom to save his life.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Imagine That!by Tina Czarnota
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2024
Grace under pressure can be a royal disaster.
Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Drowby Adam Thomas Lumb
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A pregnant couple in labour, trapped in an ambulance sinking into a remote island bog in the Orkney Islands during a storm, must fight alongside their paramedic to protect their unborn child from a creature disturbed from a Neolithic ruin and drawn to her giving birth.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Viewsby Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2025
A female realtor shows a female client around a view home. But when the two women discover their paths have unhappily crossed before the business meeting descends into physical comic conflict.
Single Location
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Echoby Amrita Baines
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what’s following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem natural—until they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening… and answering back.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Take Backsby William Walkerley
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2024
In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.
Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lockdown Survivalby Walter Wessels
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2024
To save humanity from an extremely infectious super virus, a vial containing a cure that can stop an orchestrated pandemic must fall into the correct hands. But corrupt world leaders and their sinister forces will stop at nothing to retrieve this antidote to further their own agenda.
Genre: Other
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Symphony Of Loveby Shadia Bukuwah
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2024
A 30 year old man goes against his culture of being circumcised in bamasaba culture, in Eastern Uganda, will he be circumcised?
Genre: Family
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sometimes it Stares Backby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2024
An obsessive codebreaker solving Cicada 3301 uncovers a forgotten Mayan god’s secret, risking the release of an ancient evil.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Misfortuneby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2024
Two hipsters get more than they bargained for when they break open their fortune cookies. (Surreal horror/comedy. 1 location, limited dialogue.)
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Never The Same Miraby Michael Thomas Yahn
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2024
Never The Same MIra is a short film script about a remarkable young teen with the ability to shape shift. Her special ability is much needed when her and her little brother's attempt to track down local bank robbers goes sideways, but there's only one problem with Mira's power...she has no control over what she changes into, and when.
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Same Nameby Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
After both survive turmoil, their same name brings a straight black actor and a gay white actor-writer together. They team up on a film project that creates more greatness for both.
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beat of Your Own Drumby Judah Ray
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
In a black-and-white world, Iris, a struggling singer, and David, an eccentric drummer, find solace in their own musical pursuits until their paths cross, igniting a harmonious connection that brings color to their lives.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bloodiedby Adam Dyer
Date Posted: 06 Sep 2024
Newlyweds Melanie & Carl Colvey move in to their dream house in their favorite neighborhood. After discovering the house to be the scene of a grizzly murder, they must decide whether to leave immediately, or live with a horrible truth.
Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On Lineby Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
Various people blindly line up behind realistic human sculptures to wait for a bus to arrive. When the bus arrives, the sculptures come alive to board the bus. They leave behind all the former live people who have become sculptures.
Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Pumpkinsby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
Halloween comes only once a year, but not everyone is happy about this. In fact, several pumpkins are mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. (Horror/comedy)
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fur Realby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024
In a quaint suburban house, secrets are buried beneath wagging tails and chewed-up slippers. “Fur Real” is a heartwarming comedy-drama that explores love, identity, and the lengths we’ll go to find companionship—even if it means donning a furry suit
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Delivery Manby Susan Adair Harris
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
An inept aging delivery man tries to charm his equally mature customer, but first they must cope with the local serial killer.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ride Shareby Marc Prey
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025
A despondent ride-share driver picks up a female passenger who just may be his recently-deceased wife. Three characters. Most of the story takes place inside the car. Shocking twist in final moments.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby Christopher Harmon
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
A prison-hardened grief counselor is confronted with a group therapy session where all the patients suffer because of the violent actions of one man…John Wick. She organizes a protest, in order to provoke him to move away – but it does not work out as planned.
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Working Manby Dj Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2023
A writer trapped by the tyranny of his 9 to 5, frees himself using the power of artistic expression.
Genre: Artistic
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Artistic
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Carrie, Walter, and Garboby Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
A man sits alone in an empty theatre to wait for a Greta Garbo film to begin, and then a woman stranger, sits next to him. Confrontation ignites; technical problems delay the screening, humor, and then this couple share surprise revelations.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles