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Winds of Kandaharby PAUL BYRNE
Racing the clock on 9/11, a two-fisted female private eye goes head-to-head with a terrorist sleeper cell and risks everything to save the Pentagon on that fateful day.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Like Wearing Blueby Alicia Renee Norman
In a future where conformity is survival, a defiant girl dared to stand up and stand out--even if it cost her the ultimate price.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Conceptionby Anthony Cawood
The very start of the Armageddon is captured on film for posterity by an extremely proud father, god help us all.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Kitchen Tableby John W Welch
How much emotional abuse can one woman endure before the truth comes out?
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Anonymous Heroby Jose Luis Azcarreta
"Anonymous hero" is a 4-page short script with no dialogue in which a nobody is the laughing stock of his office mates despite saving humanity from an alien attack.
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Black Boxby William Walkerley
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
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clock Of Timeby Kline Fishborn
On his 18th birthday, Eddie receives a time clock from a strange woman that allows him to travel to the past and the future. At first he was skeptical about the gift, but once he used it he did not immediately understand the great price of time traveling and he loses his youthful years.
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Same Insideby John Porter
A young man and his fiance 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
From Rat to Bossby Jed Power
"From Rat to Boss"Before he became the infamous Mafia kingpin, "Lucky" Luciano made a secret betrayal to save himselfan act that, years later, threatens to destroy his empire and the myth of his loyalty."
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby John Boal
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
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In Creeps the Boogeymanby Doug J Robbins
A deeply perverted killer named Jason brutally murders and mutilates a female classmate who denied him a date, and ten years later, he escapes the asylum on Halloween night to stalk a sorority house.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inhospitable Takeoverby Michael Hutchinson
An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Morning Walk With the Killerby Grag Raymond
Emma meets a man during a morning run, eventually she learns about his terrible crimes against his ex-women who are found dead.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Deadliest Jobby Jed Power
A female courier delivering mob cash at a deserted train station is confronted by a stranger who demands half, but as motives unravel, the exchange becomes a deadly game of deception and survival.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 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
Genre: Sci-Fi
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Judge Smithersby timur yildiz
A off kilter Judge goes back to his fraternity to help the organization with a pledge's death during hazing. What he finds out after returning to the college campus is there might be a serial killer on the loose.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
44 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Change the F*cking Nameby Christopher Harmon
A fearless Indigenous teen, intent on restoring the dignity of his people, goes on a mystical vision quest...only to find the legendary Jim Thorpe as his guide and mentor. Jim reinforces the young man's determination to end the racial slur that is the name of a Washington sports team and he champions a movement - that eventually succeeded.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby Jason K. Allen
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kill Pillby Stan Usherenko
A love guru and chemist's attempt to create the world's first ever Love Pill turns catastrophic when a defective batch forces the recipient to want to kill the next person they see. Visually sleek, darkly comic, and psychologically disturbing KILL PILL fuses the tragic irony of Requiem for a Dream with the biotech horror of The Fly. A modern moral fable about the dangers of playing god with human emotion.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Dream Come Trueby Frank Charles Scott
A thrilling suspenseful story filled with deception and betrayal as Michael gets entangled in a web of deceit while gaslighting his wife and daughter to run off with her money to skip the light fantastic with his Mistress.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Weekend at the Monasteryby Mike Skidmore
Mike Dray decides to go to a MONASTERY to learn what he can about reincarnation after discovering through hypnosis that he has a past life and maybe even more.
Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thanks, Lucindaby John Porter
A family romance in which two thirteen-year-olds try to work up the courage to invite each other to a high school dance.
Genre: Family
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
6 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
Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Widow's Oilby Barbara Blomquist
Widows, young and old, gather for a potluck and healing, aided by a mysterious bottle of olive oil.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Comeuppanceby Martin Train Bartlett
After committing a heinous crime, a violent man is cursed to relive the horrific moment through the eyes of the victim.
It's Source Code meets Stephen King.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cimpleby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Darryl and his right hand man Ryan's lavish lifestyle from drug dealing comes apart when Darryl's girlfriend Sharice unveils something sinister neither one of them saw coming.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Vaccineby DJ Robbins
The Covid vaccines turn people into Zombies and another vaccine is promised to remedy the original vaccine. The second vaccine causes male sterility.
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gondolierby Anthony Cawood
A power engineer must fight for his life after a zombie horde chases him into the pylons high above the ground.
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby Dominic Uwem Lawrence
When a group of friends ventures into the heart of darkness, they unleash a malevolent force that hunts them down, forcing one survivor to confront the evil head-on in a desperate bid to escape the Undertaker's gruesome realm.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Magic of Misfitsby Bill Freas
After suffering a traumatic car accident that takes the life of his alcoholic father, a teen is sent to live with a distant relative in an oppressed blue-collar town, where he meets a group of bullied teens with a special bond and a supernatural secret.
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
27 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Marlene's Last Sederby Ron Brawer
When a middle-aged widow decides to honor her late husband's death -- a year ago on Passover -- by hosting her first seder, a Wisconsin late-winter blizzard, a drunken boyfriend, and an estranged mother-in-law almost turn the event into a disaster.
Genre: Family
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Touchby Esra Cengel
A poor little girl tries to find a way to do a huge favor to the woman who saved her life.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lunch with Lelandby Jason K. Allen
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (3 actors, 1 main location. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Award-winning writer and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Guns, Guts, & Gucciby DC Copeland
A top secret government agency assists a "mature" man in getting a job based on his merits despite his age. With commentary by Rod Serling.
Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Living in the Pastby Bernhard Riedhammer
A 30-year-old disillusioned loner must deal with his estranged and socially awkward father, after he suffers a stroke losing part of his memory. Both share a painful past he cannot forget, and his father cannot remember.
Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Phoenix Dreamsby Patricia Bruce
A gritty drama unfolds when betrayal and murder upend a beautiful, deranged woman.
Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Agence Paradisby Slobodan D. Pesic
In a surreal bureaucratic universe, a lonely man enters Agence Paradis, a state-run institution promising to fulfill any human desire. As he lists his wishes from sneakers to love his dreams spiral into absurdity, revealing the tragic comedy of modern aspiration and divine automation.
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Memory Survivalby Steven Burton
Two men are in a loving long-term relationship. The beautiful, shared memory of their past together provides relief from the current challenges of dementia.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby Christopher Harmon
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
The Thesisby Linda Gould
Imogene, a senior English major at Glendary College, is late deciding on a topic for her honors thesis. She proposes to her skeptical academic advisor an innovative subject ... but it will require her to go on a road trip in search of a volatile rock band.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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