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Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Guy painfully caught between former "love of his life" who is sending him a final goodbye via live video and his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's promised to engage in a serious relationship and is waiting for him at her flat. (Both women are played by the same actress.)

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hit and Runby  Marc Prey
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
Can You Hear Me Now?by  Bob Messinger
Estranged from friends and family, Jake is forced to confront the voices he's been hearing and eerie phone calls he's been getting since childhood.

Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something for the Weeekendby  Anthony Cawood
A desperate driver has to jump through hoops to get his car back before the impound yard closes for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Cows Are Contentedby  John Porter
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
Quantumanic Entanglementby  Steven Blows
Two bickering scientists studying quantum mechanics begin to uncontrollably do the opposite movements to each other after a failed experiment.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marilyn Comes To Niagara Fallsby  Alan Barkley
A WWII war bride, about to leave her GI husband has a life-changing encounter with Marilyn Monroe filming on location.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Underground Cageby  Yura Shevchuk
Two martial arts master brothers wake up in an unknown underground cage but do not remember how they got there but are offered freedom win two deadly duels with dangerous rivals.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A widow and a widower meet for the first time in a public park. Their date hits choppy waters until they discover a connection. Exterior location. Two characters. (Finalist in the 2025 Woods Hole Screenplay competition). *Best short screenplay nominee, 2026 Austin Revolution*

Genre: Romance
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killing The Changelingby  DJ Robbins
A couple has the misfortune of having a dark elf switch its deformed offspring for the couple's healthy, human one.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ingwe - the leopard who didn't want spotsby  Cilla Lowen
When a leopard cub is confused for a spotted hyena, he decides his spots must go... until he discovers they're the key to his own special superpower.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Have A Little Faithby  Lloyd Muchenje
Having struggled to conceive for years,a praying woman finally gets pregnant only to lose her unborn child and uterus during a premature delivery. Years later, she miraculously conceives through an ectopic pregnancy and goes to give birth to a healthy baby without medical complications.

Genre: Family
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A business man fall in love with poor girl whose life is full of problems and always facing huddles in her life. One upon a time she saw a business man who is looking handsome and a business man who also see this poor girl who is looking a beauty of his heart and he started fall in love with this poor girl and one day he proposed her and she accepted her proposal.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Beyond Avalonby  Edward Ybarra
Dedicated to living in the Now; Robert is incapable of commitment. With Rachael, he had it all but the Now allowed him to lose her. An all-too familiar drunken weekend goes too far.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Imagine That!by  Tina Czarnota
Grace under pressure can be a royal disaster.

Genre: Fantasy
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan: The Christmas Strangerby  NG
Feature Length Version Available. On the eve of Christmas, the life of a lonely young boy takes a miraculous turn when he crosses paths with a compassionate woman, unknowingly setting off a battle for his survival, his freedom, and his last chance at hope.

Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
It Was Only Yesterdayby  Nathan M. Scrivens
A boy attempts to get his mother to smile again after her father's passing.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
After a yacht capsizes during a sudden storm, a lone survivor records her final hours aboard a half-sunken vessel, sending video logs to anyone who might find them. As night falls, she notices distant lights beneath the wavesmoving in patterns too deliberate to be natural. With her oxygen fading and rescue signals unanswered, she realizes she isn't alone on the oceanand that what's watching her is waiting for her to drown.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Finally Coming Homeby  Dennis Bruce Shipman
A clairvoyant female visits a Confederate Civil War Cemetery to help a dead earth-bound soldier cross over into the light. The story takes place in the present. The soldier has been walking the grounds of the graveyard waiting 162 years for his sweetheart to come fetch him. Initially, he's hesitant to step into the light. But once he experiences its soothing warmth and majestic wonder, he's all in.

Genre: Other
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mister Christmasby  Jason K. Allen
When Albert meets his girlfriend's parents and sees their inadequate Christmas tree, he decides to give them a few pointers on the meaning of Christmas. (One location, four characters. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset that can be achieved by whatever means, even with murder. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lotby  Doug J Robbins
A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner. Update

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Degreeby  Barry Staff
Wanting a meaningful relationship for once, a strung-out womaniser goes to a quiet beach to try with Nature herself, but needs to prove his sincerity to make any headway.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Toys of Lester Lakeby  Jason K. Allen
Bill only wants to catch a few fish for his dinner. The old, abandoned toys underneath Lester Lake only want someone to play with. (1 location, 1 actor. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Storytellerby  DJ Robbins
A storyteller pays for his hotel room with three supernatural storiestwo supernatural horror stories about love, lust, and violence, and one supernatural love story.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby  Linda Gould
Miranda, a Homeland Security bureaucrat, is having a tryst with Pete, a handsome but crude major league ballplayer. One early morning encounter is interrupted by two policemen, who take Petie in for questioning about the apparent kidnapping of his teammate, Manny Chavez ... who is engaged to Miranda's sportswriter sister, Jessica. Manny was about to testify against several teammates in a steroids hearing.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Desperate to save her unborn child, a remorseful woman seeks the help of a scorned Native American healer, agreeing to an unthinkable trade that will change their lives forever.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
In a meta twist of fiction, a struggling novelist pens a novel about his own attempts to gain representation in the cutthroat world of literary agents, all while contending with eccentric neighbors and a disinterested industry, blurring the lines between his fictional narrative and reality in Utopian Tetragon.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Delivery Manby  Susan Adair Harris
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
I Heart Jodyby  Doug J Robbins
A serial killer gets distracted by his favorite sitcom when about to enter a potential victim's home.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Political Science 101by  Donald Lewis
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
Chicken Crossingby  Nathan M. Scrivens
A determined Chicken endures a series of humorous challenges in his quest to cross a road and reach a tempting apple.

Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
While strolling late at night, an ordinary man is surprised to see three open doorways in a hundred-meter stretch of the same sidewalk. His first impulse is to continue on his way, but curiosity makes him turn back.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
An insecure Rose finds an unexpected friendship with a short-winged Bumblebee and unites against their bullying foes.

Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Small Talkby  Larry Shannon
20 year old college student Clark Cleland opens a door he should not have opened, and the devil comes in through that door and thrashes him.

Genre: Biographical
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shrouded by Shadowby  Hutira Gábor
Ryu Hayashi, a skilled ninja of the Shadow Syndicate, one day he is tasked with a mission to eliminate a thief, only to discover that the thief is just a poor man who stole vegetables to feed his starving family. Rejecting the mission, Ryu is marked as a rogue and must fight for his life against his former allies, facing the consequences of his decision.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Love Never Grows Oldby  Don Mezei
A guru like figure MAIN enters (stage left) while a group of young people celebrate the day. He provides a contrast to their joie de vivre, tells them his story and listens to their narrative. LNGO is a search for deeper meaning, a feel good musical about spiritual themes, told through song. Hear some of the music at https://barbarji.wixsite.com/lovenevergrowsold

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