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Transferenceby  Frazer Lee
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Dom and Sam are two science lab workers, let go by their boss Adrian. To beat the boredom of lockdown, they decide to continue Adrian's experimental teleportation research online. But they are being watched.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mulligan'sby  John LaVine
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A man sacrifices everything to go back in time to correct a life altering mistake, but his new life presents another obstacle he must overcome.

Genre: Fantasy
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Young Poet's Dilemmaby  Mohammed Elmzaghi
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As graduation approaches, an idealistic NYU math graduate student wrestles with whether to pursue financial security in Seattle or an uncertain life writing poetry in New York, finding hope in an unexpected connection with a young aspiring physician that may be more imagined than real.

Genre: Romance
39 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Apartmentby  Brandi Self
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A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can't connect.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby  Jim Kowalski
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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
I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by  Ron Brawer
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In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
In Creeps the Boogeymanby  Doug J Robbins
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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
Underachieverby  Michael G Holmes
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A brilliant, nihilistic teen gets sent to the principal for a crude remark on the same day a rumored gunman arrives at school, forcing him into the first meaningful choice of his life.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Creepby  Dj Robbins
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A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Death Sentenceby  Brian Jackson
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In a stark cell, a guilt-ridden man haunted by visions of his mother, bride, and daughter must utter the command that becomes humanity's death sentence.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Knockby  Dewayne
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After his young daughter's death, a guilt-ridden father begins hearing three knocks at his door every night at 2:12 AM. When the voice outside belongs to the child he left to die, he realizes something supernatural has learned her voiceand it won't stop knocking until he lets it inside.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Callby  William Walkerley
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The accidental death of his girlfriend comes back to haunt Michael.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Unbelongerby  Brandi Self
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After becoming stranded in the desert, an outcast soldier is attacked by a stranger who looks just like him.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Real Page Turnerby  Phyllis C. Corley
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A Hispanic horror novelist hunkers down in her manager's secluded getaway cottage to finish her manuscript and experiences some of the same perils as the story's heroine with a charming local.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Clusterby  Kevin Dembinsky
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A story of two people meeting on their way to Switzerland before both going to a euthanasia facility.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Noble Deceptionby  Chris Burns
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After a ruthless businessman discovers a dying cashier inside a locked supermarket, he becomes convinced the killer is still inside and fights desperately to escape. But the terrifying ordeal is no random nightmare: his fed-up wife and the employee whose life he ruined have carefully constructed a deadly deception, exploiting his arrogance, temper and instinct for violence to turn him from the hunted into the man the police believe is the killer.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tetheredby  James B Barker
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When a struggling screenwriter's horror script is greenlit for production, her screenplay begins rewriting itself, trapping her inside the story she created. As a sinister digital entity known as Unbound forces fiction to become reality, she must outwrite the nightmare before the ending demands the ultimate sacrifice.

Genre: Horror
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Faster By Nightby  Paul Byrne
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Surviving rape and torture in a Russian filtration camp, a Ukrainian female commando pursues her American dream of being a concert violinist, until she crosses paths with the sadistic general who wants to finish their dirty little war.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Elevatorby  Lily Sanders
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A helicopter parent is finally forced to listen.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Return to Nam, Behind Memoriesby  Muresan Marta
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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
The Burning Manby  Jack Halliday
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A private detective investigates the murder of a teen as a friend of the grieving family, and becomes judge, jury and executioner in this noir, hardboiled short script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
24 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Saturday in the Parkby  Elliot Stanton
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Dark Secrets Will Not Remain Hidden Forever. An "old" woman befriends a young man in a park. He is unaware of who she is or the secret she holds, but the woman knows precisely what she must do to draw him into her life.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Have A Little Faithby  Lloyd Muchenje
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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
The Static Roomby  Dwayne Bricker
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A cynical podcast host who prides himself on debunking the supernatural receives a mysterious package of cassette tapes that begin predicting his actions with unsettling accuracy. As he follows their instructions, reality distorts, leading him into a motel room that shouldn't existone that reshapes itself based on his attention. Trapped inside a loop of his own voice, he realizes escape may depend on confronting the connection he's spent his life avoiding.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blessings of the Yellow Ringby  Danny King
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When a well-meaning priest shares the inspirational story behind his treasured yellow ring, an outrageous revelation transforms a moving testimony into a deliciously awkward comedy of misplaced faith.

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vampire Experimentby  Brian Daunter
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Genetic transfer and IVF research creates Vampire flying foxes with talon thumbs. They escape and terrorize the countryside attacking people, domestic and farm animals. A mix-up in the IVF laboratory leads to the birth of human neonate vampires that attack other neonates. These two new species qualify for listing as endangered. One species survives in a disused railway tunnel.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Second Windby  Dewayne C Bricker
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Sleepless before surgery, Lauren wanders into a hospital chapel and meets Carol, a night custodian who teaches her to fold paper cranes "one crease at a time." Their quiet exchange transforms fear into acceptance. As dawn breaks, Lauren tucks the crane over her heart and walks into surgery, choosing courage over control, faith over fear.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Take My Handby  Jay Hodgkins
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A serial killer seeks a cure for loneliness when he develops a special relationship with the severed hand of one of his victims, only to discover it points him in the direction of true love.

Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Root Causeby  Iris Mangual
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After discovering a mysterious glowing pod beneath the Atlantic Ocean, a young scientist becomes Earth's last hope when ancient celestial forces awaken to destroy the planet.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Carbon Datingby  Barry Staff
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Wanting a girlfriend via dating sites while working a lonely late-night shift, a man needs a reappraisal when discovering a beautiful young vagrant hiding there.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Returningby  Susie Schecter
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After the tragic accidental death of her four-year-old child, a grieving mother is given an unexpected miracle when her daughter mysteriously returns from the dead, but struggles to understand and cope with the supernatural gift.

Genre: Drama
29 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Chillby  Bari K. Willerford
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Five people isolated at the Arctic Circle. Three scientists, a meteorologist and a chopper pilot all have to contend with a monster outside the compound wanting to get in, another monster already inside.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Old Fashionedby  Jose Villanueva
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A mysterious woman with a hidden agenda seduces an unsuspecting bartender, luring him into a conversation where each revealed secret tightens the noose around their necks and turns flirtation into a ticking countdown to bloody murder.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Thanks for the Rideby  David E Ballard
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An attractive young woman gets a ride from her boss after the office Christmas party and things don't go exactly as planned for either of them.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Autumn Falls: The Beginningby  Jacob Enix
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A masked killer wearing a grotesque pumpkin mask emerges in the quite town of Autumn Falls, forcing a group of friends to confront a terrifying reality: the legend of Jack is real, and they are his first victims.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Same Nameby  Steven Burton
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Their same name brings a straight black actor and a gay white actor/writer together to collaborate on a film project that creates more greatness for both.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Grandma's Secret Ingredientby  Elliot Stanton
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A long-held secret family gravy recipe is passed down to another generation when an older woman believes the time is right for her granddaughter to learn the 'killer' secret ingredient.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dead Airby  Dwayne Craig Bricker
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A high-school radio crew hijacks an "unused" emergency frequencythen a calm voice begins broadcasting their deaths for tomorrow.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
House for Saleby  John Porter
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A mystery/dark comedy about a young family man who wants to buy a Victorian mansion from a beautiful young woman whose unfaithful husband lies dead in the master bedroom.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Third Degreeby  Barry Staff
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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
 
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