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Returningby  Susie Schecter
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2025
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
The Violinby  Victor Jones
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
A poor musician down on his luck, pawns his only means of income, his violin. The pawnbroker discovers it's true value and tries to cheat the owner with a surprising outcome.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lot 2by  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2025
Emily take Baby Farts A Lot to show and tell and it creates quite a stink in the classroom.

Genre: Comedy
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Orphan Floodby  Anthony Piazza
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2024
During a flood, a young girl must retrieve her brother's rare medicine, with the help of a self-isolated helmsman.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Accountabilityby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
Deciding to bury the hatchet, Rosa invites her mother over for dinner so she can explain why her father wasn’t in her life. The answers Rosa receives are nothing compared to the ones she gives Giselle, exposing the true reason why.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dreamby  Nancy Lydia Kimmel
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
Mark has been having dreams that are coming true. His psychiatrist may or may not be a killer. He starts to hear a voice which turns out to be his future self who is trying to warn him of impending danger.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
War or Marriageby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
A man needs to divorce his wife, but when war breaks out requiring all single men sign up he has a sudden change of heart.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abel's Promiseby  Anthony Crossen
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023
When a cop learns of his wife's affair with someone close to the family, his only choice to protect his family is outside the law.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Whiskey Glass . . .by  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A young cowboy learns an old lesson about love and liquor.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ruins to Redemptionby  Derrick Vernon
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2024
A retired military and police veteran, uprooted to a new state with his family, faces a nightmarish twist when his son is mistaken for a robber.Now, with a chance at redemption, he's recruited by the government to hunt a vengeful serial killer, driven by the loss of his twin brother in a tragic drive-by incident, targeting both cops and gang members. The father must confront his own demons and fight to protect those he loves.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bitch Smackby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2024
A detective is goaded into punching a possessed mental patient

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tis the seasonby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024
Seeking revenge for the loss of his family, Jack captures the person behind the crime and makes him feel his pain.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangerous Vocationby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
Three friends during outdoor activities witness the murder of a person by two unknown men, but the girls manage to escape. Two men who not long ago escaped from the police for murdering a married couple do not want to leave the girls alive as witnesses who saw them and start hunting them.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fly Squattingby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A mother grieving for the loss of her daughter takes her anger out on a pesky fly that won’t leave her alone.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Across The Milesby  Hamdeyatu Seidu
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2025
When a chance encounter sparks an instant connection, two young souls make a vow to wait for each other, navigating a lifetime of longing, loss and circumstance until fate unites them in a heartwarming twist of destiny.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rogue Gambleby  Michael Hayles
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2024
A small time punter is hired to back a horse owned by an underworld bigwig, but on his way to the track a chance encounter derails everything.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Maxby  Victor Titimas
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024
You should always trust the dog. Note: This script features a dog.

Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Raven Pointby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 04 Aug 2025
Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The N King and Queenby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2024
The things people complain about are the same things they support, and that’s bothering the soul of a deceased melanated Queen.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Preyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
Two promiscuous businessmen plan to pick up a beautiful young woman--who plans to pick them up.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
Vincibleby  Kat Rollinson
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2023
A conflicted victim of image-based sexual abuse must examine her morals when a vigilante fights fire with fire.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rahab and the Ribbon of Redemptionby  Jack Halliday
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2025
An innkeeper's resourcefulness saves herself, and her family, from destruction, through her audacious act of faith in this Bible based script. 1st place award-winner, Indie Gathering Film Festival.

Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Killer Cupidby  Janet
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2024
A serial killer in real life, proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after life.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pool Boyby  Joseph Anthony Francis
Date Posted: 09 May 2024
When an unemployed deaf man takes a job as a pool boy, he finds himself caught in a game of manipulation and seduction.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fedora - A Tale or the Unseenby  Adham Ossama Adham
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2024
Left behind at a concert, a Fedora embarks on a vengeance-fueled odyssey.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Famous Fathersby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2024
Two wildly contrasting icons of the 20th Century share an encounter which saves them both.

Genre: Artistic
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Phoenix Dreamsby  Patricia Bruce
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
A gritty drama unfolds when betrayal and murder upend a beautiful, deranged woman.

Genre: Fantasy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deadly Wormsby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Just Before Midnightby  John Layne
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2023
Emotionally ravaged by the tragic death of his wife, a bourbon-drinking private detective is summoned by his former police lieutenant after two homicide victims, both murdered in the same unusual manner, are found to be private investigators.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The High-Speed Chaseby  D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
This white Ford Bronco isn’t going to drive itself. Hop in. You’ve watched them on the news. Now you’re going to be in one. Pursued white Ford Bronco meets the L.A. freeway as millions watch renegade Park Ranger Adam Henry’s bumbling attempt to recover his carjacked work truck, the true bad guy and his pride.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Straight Talk with Sadie & Santaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
On Christmas Eve, a little girl wakes to find Santa rummaging through her fridge. After scolding him about his diet, she proceeds to grill him about reindeer, elves, bad gifts and other curiosities, and soon develops a new understanding about Christmas. Santa, meanwhile, gets a dose of reality himself – and perhaps a new friend.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby  Linda Gould
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2025
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
Backflipby  Jessica Taylor
Date Posted: 27 Jul 2024
When The World’s Fair comes to town, a gymnast in a side show act must keep her wits about her to escape from H.H. Holmes or else perish in his murder castle alone and afraid.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Prisoners' Songby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A blues musical about how we sometimes love someone who loves someone else--and what we can do about it

Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
2 Plates @ The Endby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2024
At a Thai restaurant, two mourners—one a scarred woman, the other a man who can only communicate through writing—gather for a funeral unlike any other, reflecting on the life of an artist whose unfulfilled potential and tragic choices led them all to a brutal conclusion about life’s unrelenting cruelty.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Drowby  Adam Thomas Lumb
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
A pregnant couple in labour, trapped in an ambulance sinking into a remote island bog in the Orkney Islands during a storm, must fight alongside their paramedic to protect their unborn child from a creature disturbed from a Neolithic ruin and drawn to her giving birth.

Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
John Wick is a Dickby  Christopher Harmon
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
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
The Ringby  Daniel Yanev
Date Posted: 12 Jun 2024
A man has seemingly lost everything, including his will to live.

Genre: Drama
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2024
Split screen of one day in the life of two people who never meet and yet are forever entwined in death and grief.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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