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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
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
Frank Sinatra's Hatby  John McWilliams
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A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Laura's Listby  Anthony Truscello
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A sexually repressed widow creates a secret bucket list of forbidden fantasies, only to begin checking them off with a man younger than her own children. (A vertical short consisting of eight 3-minute episodes)

Genre: Romance
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When I'm Lying In My Bedby  Jared Kelly
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Six year old Aaron is very fearful of what lurks underneath his bed - and he has good reason to be scared. Told in ryhyming voice over by Aaron, this creepy one-pager will have your skin crawling and your toes curling. "Sometimes when I'm in my bed, I hear the noise I really dread..."

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feeding Frenzyby  Philip Marraccini
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After murdering his wife Sally, Richard is forced to kill again in attempt to collect on her life insurance policy. As the investigation closes in on Richard, see if he escapes with the money thus committing the perfect crime. (A murder mystery with a comic twist)

Genre: Other
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
White Feathers - A Supernatural Dramaby  Susie Schecter
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Months after her four-year-old daughter dies tragically, a grieving mother believes a miracle has occurred when the child returns from the dead unchanged. But when only she and the family dog can see her, the mother's determination to prove her daughter's existence drives a wedge into her marriage and sends her on a heartbreaking search for the truth.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Revengeby  Melissa Diane Hudson
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Consumed by jealousy and insecurity, a suspicious wife obsessively stalks her husband and the younger woman she believes he is having an affair with, culminating in a bold confrontation and a horrifying Christmas Eve revenge plot that ultimately backfires with irreversible consequences.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sunday Morningby  Nichole C Moncada
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A small town sheriff grapples with her need for vengeance and her sense of justice when her husband's mistress is found dead in her back yard.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
41 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cherry Street Hauntingby  DJ Robbins
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June and her sister, Delilah, recount the story of the haunting they encountered on Cherry Street.

Genre: Horror
37 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blood Feudby  Doug J Robbins
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A wrestler must choose between his family and the ring.

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Infectedby  Doug J Robbins
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Officer Nick is a lone wolf and refuses to work with a partner, but warms up to his partner while everyone deals with a few rogue zombies.

Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something in the Waterby  Brandon Rhiness
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When a group of hungover friends wakes up to a city-wide emergency alert warning of contaminated water, they must survive a descent into animalistic madness as the thirst for water turns into a hunger for flesh.

Genre: Horror
20 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
Kindred Spiritsby  Iris Mangual
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A Black teen moves into a historic Southern home and clashes with the ghost of a young Confederate soldier, but their unlikely bond forces them to confront the past and find healing across time.

Genre: Drama
31 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Screamersby  Chris Lewis
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A world without fresh water or fruitful soil can lead to demarcation and brute force reality. Over population and stark sad realities.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
MEGAby  Tina Field Howe
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A working man confesses to his best friend that his frustrating years of depending on the lottery to bring him fortune are over.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby  Ronald V. Micci
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Expelled from the Air Force during WWII for his paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and his high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of imagined Nazis over Iowa cornfields, only to find their rickety, decommissioned plane threatening to crash. (Biff's Bravest Bang)

Genre: Action/Adventure
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Symbols of a Lifeby  Rochelle Potkar
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Three people come to terms with the aftermath of a plane crash: an embittered MOTHER who wasn't happy with her son and his family and wanted to leave them; a competent ATC OFFICER who undergoes gruelling interrogations; and a FISHERMAN in whose waters the plane fell.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby  Andrea Zastrow
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When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father's Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby  John Boal
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A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dutchess Greenby  Joseph Brown
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The quiet invasion began with the old "man" painting barns with alien spawn. The farm girls who figured it out were too late.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Troubloomby  Darlene Anthony
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Trouble blooms when a bad anti-gay law has Ugandans in an uproar. Over their governments decision to parse out life imprisonment sentences to their citizens for being gay.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Late Doorsby  Barry Staff
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Three 'remainers' congregate in a deserted pub and there contemplate whether the news that a meteorite will shortly destroy Earth is a hoax, but also to undertake their final acts in case it's true.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vampireby  Doug J Robbins
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A man sees an ultra-realistic vampire in a display window, and the diner owner next door swears the thing is alive. But that can't be true, can it?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Age Of Tyrannyby  Apostolos P. Kouroumalis
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When a newly wed couple are invited to two separate bachelor and bachelorette parties, things go awry sparking a perfect union in this drama/comedy.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Reflectionsby  Dewayne C Bricker
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When three stranded friends take shelter in an abandoned swamp cabin, they discover a mirror that exposes their darkest secretsand demands the truth before it devours them whole.

Genre: Horror
34 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gina's Veilby  Kevin Silva
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A lonely, facially scarred woman discovers that a charming writer has been sneaking into a private spot on her farm to complete his novel.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ol' Mean Joeby  John W Welch
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A legend surrounding mean children being taken on Halloween claims the one that got away years earlier.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Rainbowby  Vijay Kumar Dammalapati
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A neglected boy finds solace in his nanny's love and decades later returns as a doctor to heal the woman who raised him, and himself.

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
On The Subject of Loveby  Patricia Bruce
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Talk about self sabotage -- these 2 gals are the best! When searching for love and relationships, they lack caring and empathy. It takes a humorous, over-the-hill, overweight Mom who outsmarts her attractive, millennial daughters to successfully find romance.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Crunch Timeby  Ron Brawer
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Mere hours before the annual Board meeting, the company's 82-year-old CEO and its 81-year-old CFO discover a $13 billion shortfall. Time to thrust aside their mutual antagonism - and aluminum walkers - and leap into action.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pyrisousby  Allen Mummert
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A writer's reality unravels into a disturbing virtual labyrinth, forcing him to confront the fabricated nature of his existence before he's permanently consumed by the digital abyss.

Genre: Sci-Fi
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bridgeby  James Peacock
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Two Nashville 15 year olds, best friends before, but now estranged because of economic and motivational differences, are forced to write a song together for an assignment, all taking place in the high school band room over the course of 90 minutes. The music they write builds a temporary bridge between them before they part in different direction. A coming-of-age statement of how we grow apart from childhood friends.

Genre: Musical
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Viewing the Past with a Modern Perspectiveby  Zokora Zokirov
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A man was walking around New York, thinking about business, seeing various businesses like McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and others, and thinking, "I wish I could go back in time with these ideas, I was rich." He walks around, falls into a hole, and then wakes up in America, where even people don't know about coffee.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Relativityby  Michael G Holmes
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A wife intends to surprise her husband, orphaned as a child, with a DNA test for his 50th birthday, only to discover that he is her half brother.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Call Me Sirby  Brandi Self
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Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
From God and Manby  Zach Jansen
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Assigned to a desolate outpost, a young soldier must choose between his moral compass and his superior's twisted sense of divine duty when it comes the execution of questionable orders.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Another Time, Another Placeby  Bob Messinger
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Past and present collide in the world of a young White House staffer.

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