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Agence Paradisby  Slobodan D. Pesic
A timid man visits a futuristic government agency where every human desire can be fulfilled. What begins as a simple request for a pair of sneakers spirals into an absurd chain of wishes exposing the fragile machinery of modern happiness and the divine comedy of human ambition.

Genre: Artistic
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
If you have ever been bullied at school or at the office, you will relate to this off the wall drama about exacting revenge on bullies.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Unable to cope with the prospect of his two sons watching him succumb to cancer as his wife did, a young surfer paddles out alone at night to suicide. As he sinks beneath the waves his connection with his late beloved becomes more focused, allowing him to re-evaluate not only the gifts inherent in her passing, but the importance of his boys sharing similar gifts from himself.

Genre: Fantasy
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Growing with Albertby  John Witcher
After being adopted by his Uncle Albert, Mickey comes of age in a small Midwestern town.

Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Soul Collectorby  Madison Smith
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
John owns a business repairing electrical appliances. What his assistant, Will, does not know is that the store is going bankrupt. What John does not know is that Will has a way of saving it. But which option is the best?

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A wounded veteran returning from Iran finds that the hardest battle isn't the one he left behind it's answering the door.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When a covert U.S. Special Forces team's midnight extraction in Afghanistan spirals into a desperate fight for survival, five soldiers must battle through ambush, betrayal, and their own breaking points to bring each other home alive.

Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A legendary serial killer with an affinity for carving up faces like Jack o'Lanterns for Halloween visits the home of Jack and Meg.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Return to Nam, Behind Memoriesby  Muresan Marta
Decades after the Vietnam War, a former idealist named Lee returns to the country where he lost his innocenceuncovering ghosts of the past, confronting guilt and trauma, and searching for reconciliation in a journey that bridges generations.

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
38 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Gameby  John Klawitter
Pregnant, Sandy has to give away her baby before she is executed tomorrow.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.

Genre: Romance
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mistletoeby  Harker Jones
When a woman joins her fianc for a wake, the family's dangerous secrets start bubbling to the surface.

Genre: Horror
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Revverby  Michael Hanson
At wit's end with a motorhead neighbor always revving his big truck, a distressed artist takes drastic measures to finish her masterwork for the event of a lifetime before deadline.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something Wrong with Chuckby  Doug J Robbins
Chuck falls into a grave and gets back at his classmates after being possessed by the spirit inhabiting the grave he fell into.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Writing Wrongsby  Richard Sloggett
Who does a person have to shoot to get their script shot?

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A refugee from the world of dreams befriends a young girl in hopes of becoming real. The girls must hide their relationship or risk having the refugee taken back to the dream institute, where she would have to go back to being imaginary.

Genre: Sci-Fi
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Ornamentby  Jayda
A grief-stricken young nurse reluctantly returns home for Christmas, but when her grandmother insists on finding a missing family heirloom star, she's forced to confront memories of her lost loved ones and rediscover the meaning of family tradition.

Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
A western romance based on O. Henry's short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Inside the Frameby  Francis F DiClemente
Three people in a city diner at night discover they are figures trapped in the painting Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.

Genre: Fantasy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
On a deserted strip of highway, a young slacker with no ambitions in life meets a beautiful hitchhiker with everything to prove, and she may have just found what she needs for her recipe for success.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Wars, Walls and Other Virusesby  Lucía Viñamata
Whether we cross the line or not determines our destiny.

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Openingby  Jon McDonald
At an erotic art opening, the patrons react, amusingly, to the sexy art. The Ice Queen gallery owner, Laura, ignored by her flirting husband, is approached by one of her young and sexy artists. He offers her the gift of exotic perfume, making clear he is seeking more. She evades him, but the perfume and the art open her up to new possibilities.

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A robot ship named Venturi Probe 5000 is sent into space in search of a planet to plant its 100 samples of sperm and eggs to establish a future generation. A meteor storm throws the space ship off course into a worm hole and is sent back to Earth to arrive hundreds of years earlier. Its prime directive less it to change history.

Genre: Sci-Fi
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
They All Want The King Deadby  NG
Haunted by treachery on all sides, a newly crowned king battles shadowy plots designed to murder him and plunge the kingdom into chaos.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 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
Mike The Robot and The Red Wizardby  Alexandru Albacan
A humanoid robot travels in time, lands in a thirteenth-century English village, and saves the villagers from an evil wizard.

Genre: Animation
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Soldier: Operation Christmas Rescueby  David Lee Hooker
When terrorists threaten a beloved holiday parade, an elite team of North Pole commandos led by Captain Dan Hero springs into action to save Christmas and deliver festive justice, military-style.

Genre: Family
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
After receiving a phone call from her future self, a failing screenwriter must perform an unthinkable task to achieve fame or risk paying the ultimate price.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Xanadu Shoresby  Jay Loish
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping. Needing help, our hero leaves clues unaware of a capricious agent and his comely accomplice are following his friends by land, air, and sea. The unscrupulous authorities are seeking the loot, confronting the criminals, culminating explosively with the sun rising on XANADU SHORES. It's about desire and duty to friends. A lively yarn encapsulated by adventure.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas at the Orpheumby  Todd Bronson
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
Monsters of 1935: A Newsreel Farceby  Paul Joseph Mulbrecht
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
Spider Daddyby  Wayne E. Johnson
An eleven-year-old boy, fixated on horror comics and monsters, finds that his recurring nightmares become reality with devastating results for his abusive, alcoholic stepfather and, ultimately, for him.

Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fear Of Fallingby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
A driven EMT takes a rescue call during a deadly storm. The tortured angel he finds in the old man's shed won't be his most life-changing discovery. -- multiple Finalists

Genre: Horror
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Confessionby  Adam Rocke
Asking for forgiveness is never easy, and some sins simply cannot be forgiven.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Breaks That Mendby  Lily Sanders
When a lover's breakup triggers deep introspection and reflection.

Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Listening Roomby  Dewayne
A hospice nurse cleaning out a dead patient's house brings home an old baby monitor that suddenly begins speaking with the woman's voice. When the voice warns her that her abusive ex is outside and urges her to fight back, Mara must decide whether the dead woman is protecting heror preparing her to become the next voice on the monitor.

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