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Paradise Partyby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
With art, photography, fun, love, family, strangers, and fantasy, a man shares adventures before an unexpected life change.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
It Was Only Yesterdayby  Nathan M. Scrivens
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
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
A Gift from Grandmaby  Shane R. Nolan
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2024
A young woman receives a gift from her late grandmother that bears damning consequences for opening.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Weddings, But a Funeralby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Being in the right place but at the wrong time changes the fortune of a serial chancer. Tim Harcourt’s bravado and white lies present the widow of a crime family with everything she needs to make him their latest client – a fact Tim is blissfully unaware of.

Genre: Drama
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Morning Walk With the Killerby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
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
Sketchyby  Sebastian Ackland
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2025
A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Lost Campby  Connor Etter
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2024
Three boys at a sleepaway summer camp discover an abandoned, Old West town that is home to a dark spirit with intent on vengeance.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Stroke of Luckby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2024
After suffering a debilitating stroke, a cynical, once successful, writer struggles to regain his mobility and passion for writing while finding inspiration and unlikely friendships with quirky fellow patients in a rehabilitation hospital.

Genre: Biographical
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2025
An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind, Twenty-Twenty Visionby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2024
A decorated officer is under investigation for his brutal crimes, he believes he should receive an award for. 

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gambling with Bulletsby  Carl
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
When contract killer and compulsive gambler Alex Viper Cooper" wins 3 million dollars from Mexican Mafia leader Ricardo, he sends his top female assassins to collect, only to discover they've been duped into a deadly plot. As Alex races against time to clear his name, he unveils a web of deception, leading to a final confrontation where debts are settled in blood.

Genre: Action/Adventure
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Car Salesman Builds His Dream Houseby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2025
Jim is a car salesman who is building a house to woo back a wayward spouse. Can Jim close the deal? (No house construction filming needed). *2024 Semi-finalist - Grande Stories Screenplay Competition*.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Love Probeby  Gustavo Melo
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2024
In 1985 while the world believes the US president to be enduring colon cancer, Ronald Reagan does everything in his power to reunite with his new love, the alien that anally probed him.

Genre: Animation
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Eavesdropperby  Charles Webb
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2024
On a late-night train ride, a comic book loving kid overhears a sinister plot.

Genre: Animation
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Imageby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A lonely man creates a world from his imagination where he lives a perfect happiness.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rumor Has Itby  Paul Weidknecht
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2025
A phone stolen at work leads a woman to understanding her capabilities and, even, her future.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hogwash and Tommyrotby  STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2025
When household rubbish begins to fall from the sky and into their garden, an environmentally conscientious homeowner must deal with the consequences of this mysterious phenomenon.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime Episode 2 Tea Timeby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 26 Aug 2025
Zoe is close to her magic Teddy Bear, and their relationship has parallels; their fights, in particular, mimic Mom and Dad's.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Poet Dancerby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
A female choreographer is inspired by a disabled musician which creates more greatness for both of them.

Genre: Artistic
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alone with Himselfby  Anastasiia
Date Posted: 14 May 2024
What if an ordinary little kid is left alone without any support? Do you know what a little person experiences when he has to cope with difficulties alone? Perhaps each of us has experienced this, but do you remember how scary it was?

Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2024
An artist must usurp the artist of the day at a string of galleries in New York City, upon meeting a lone grifter what follows is the result of mass consumption awry as nuclear testing leads to the end of the artist and the city.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perspectivesby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
Two lovers plot a violent act of revenge to escape their abuser, but their shared trauma complicates their path to freedom.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Zaryaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2024
Two fishermen visit a secluded lake where they hope to catch the big one. Instead, they encounter a mysterious lake creature known as Zarya. (1 location, 3 actors. Top 20 Horror Short on Coverfly's The Red List. Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival & Nashville Film Festival screenwriting competitions.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antidoteby  Jon Hughes
Date Posted: 05 Aug 2024
A forlorn wife poisons her unfaithful husband only to discover he could inherit a fortune.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Why Cows Are Contentedby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
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
The Goodness Creoniaby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Julia is an unremarkable girl who wants to brutally punish two girls from her school for bullying her, and she turns to the Godness Creonia for help, after the godness fulfilled her promise by killing the girls in the most brutal way. Julia learns that she must give her soul to the godness with whom she made a deal with her blood.

Genre: Fantasy
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
By a Threadby  Max Wigren
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2024
Dale, a once well respected nurse practitioner turned free clinic assistant, has the chance to win his 16 year old daughter and 11 year old son back over both emotionally and legally once his ex-wife lands herself in prison. This edgy, wacky, and hilarious dramedy unravels a unique blend of family chaos, raunchy comedy, personal growth, and legal escapades.

Genre: Animation
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Shower Sceneby  Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2024
A young and wildly in love couple enjoy a sensual, playful morning. Little do they know, a madman has entered their quaint New Orleans apartment. Silently, he stalks them until they come face to face, separated by nothing more than a shower curtain.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby  John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
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
Self Preservationby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 21 Mar 2024
Confined in a meat factory, Audrin has to decide what’s more important between his life and the lives of his family because of what he did.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blade of Betrayalby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
After the tragic death of his mother, Ken Deluisart moves to Japan, immersing himself in its culture and martial arts. When he returns to France for his father's funeral, he's plunged into a treacherous web of family deceit. Targeted for his inheritance, Ken must confront his cousin's betrayal and unearth the truth behind his father's death before it's too late.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jasper + Mimi Foreverby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Two freakish outcasts -- a bearded woman and a man who has a carrot for a penis -- are madly in love and want to have a baby. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Dinner Partyby  Ron Greene
Date Posted: 28 Feb 2024
Career driven attorney, Nathan O'Neil and his wife are invited to a dinner party hosted by the law firm's founder, which can only mean, being made a partner. To test how badly Nathan wants the partnership, he and his wife must play a simple after dinner game. If they win, he's awarded the partnership. If they lose, no partnership, no more living.

Genre: Horror
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Ragnar's Vikingsby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2025
Ragnar conquers Britain. Kiev and Sweden. Lagertha is his beautiful wife. His son lands at Vinland and discovers America.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fur Realby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2024
In a quaint suburban house, secrets are buried beneath wagging tails and chewed-up slippers. “Fur Real” is a heartwarming comedy-drama that explores love, identity, and the lengths we’ll go to find companionship—even if it means donning a furry suit

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Usualby  Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
A woman and her Korean church rescue a failing coffee shop owner who honors his dead mother by continuing her tradition of ruining coffee with a special ingredient. Award-winning produced screenwriter.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Girl In The Subwayby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Two policemen on patrol see a 12-year-old girl sleeping in the subway, when the policemen approached her to ask about her parents, they realized that she could not speak.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spoken Forby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 01 May 2025
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
Latin-American Victimby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
The police find two young women of Hispanic appearance in different locations. Roberto, who is the former of the two victims, is suspected of their murders but he suddenly disappears.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Timeby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
A family of four enjoys a quiet dinner around the table. But mom seems different tonight... (1 location, 4 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

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