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The Thesisby  Linda Gould
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2024
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
Let's Keep Workingby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young man wants to develop a TV reality show, and a young woman suggests that he can do so by helping her with the household chores.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Farther’s Debtby  Fahad Joyfield
Date Posted: 12 May 2024
When a former hitman's daughter is kidnapped, he must confront his past and make an impossible choice: protect the girl he loves or make amends for his sins by giving her back to her rightful family.

Genre: Action/Adventure
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Endless Loveby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
With hopes of getting vengeance, an army major suckers his daughter’s killer into participating in a military experiment involving an erratic timeline-teleportation-chamber, but there is no vengeance to be had only horror.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cowardly Lyonsby  Patrice Sarath
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2024
The squabbling Lyon family comes together to protect their matriarch when she's haunted by a disapproving spirit.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Utopian Tetragonby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2024
In a meta twist of fiction, a struggling novelist pens a novel about his own attempts to gain representation in the cutthroat world of literary agents, all while contending with eccentric neighbors and a disinterested industry, blurring the lines between his fictional narrative and reality in Utopian Tetragon.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lost and Foundby  Katrina Jaxson
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2024
After her mother is killed in a hate crime, a transwoman is forced to face her deepest fears and societal prejudices, when her ID is lost and her true identity is revealed, sending her on a poignant journey of healing, love, and self-acceptance.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Kid nappingby  Kerens
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2024
What could happen when Peter, 25, lost his fiancée and son during a miscarriage meets Julian, nepo baby, father businessman, mother surgeon, who never knows the joy of parenthood, because his parents have time for him?

Genre: Family
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
In a New Orleans hotel lobby, a Brooklyn businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two realise they have common ground and begin to enjoy one another’s company – quite a lot.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby  Mike Bevins
Date Posted: 16 May 2025
A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Last Christmasby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
Every child deserves to see Santa at least once... even if it means the end of the human race.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Oscarby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2025
What appears to be a bank job, pulled by a mysterious couple, turns out to force a reckless politician into a life-changing and character-revealing decision.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
29 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Cubicle Jockeysby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
An anxious employee organizes a strike after a series of stress-related deaths take out his co-workers, and his boss pees on his shoe.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Life in a Dayby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
Two former lovers struggle to decide whether to love each other again or say goodbye forever.

Genre: Romance
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Date Posted: 05 Jan 2024
An enervated lawyer procures the help of his neighbor, in committing suicide.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Almost By Designby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
A young environmentalist Midwestern interior designer of schools must leave home when her web of reality forces her to risk seeking employment with upper class homeowners as an interior home decor designer in faraway New York City. **2024: Best Drama Screenplay New York Film Awards; Best Short Screen Play - Los Angeles Film Awards; Festigious Los Angeles Monthly Film Competition; Semi Finalist - Palm Springs International Screenplay Contest; Brooklyn International Short Awards; Berlin Shorts Award*

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Vanishingby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 27 May 2025
When two desperate parents pin their hopes of a cure for their only child on a six year old boy, there's nothing that will stop them, expect of course that little boys own parents.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mary Go Roundby  David-Matthew Barnes
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2024
At a remote wedding, two people meet a seductive stranger unaware that he's really a messenger of death.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Guantanamo Galaby  Robert Ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Musk’s DOGE team’s preps the opening of the prison—adding efficiencies to the electric chair to reduce personnel—Trump invites his bff billionaires down for a grand opening celebration. The party is held in the only room with electricity—the one with the electric chair. What happens next is… well, electrifying.

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Antagonistby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Antwan, The Christmas Strangerby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 08 Jun 2024
Inspired from true events. The destiny of a little boy, victim of abuse, changes when he unexpectedly meets a good-hearted woman on the day before Christmas.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby  Judah Ray
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Shark Watchby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
A Mafia wiseguy is sent to make a drug buy on the Jersey Shore, where a gypsy fortune teller acts as the middleman, but he is double-crossed by another hood posing as a fed.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Santa Tyroneby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2025
A mall Santa targets three families on Christmas Eve and has murderous plans for each family.

Genre: Horror
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Early Bird Catches the Planeby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
An excruciatingly long and dull wait for a flight is suddenly made far more interesting when a long-suffering wife notices an old flame - an old flame she discovers is holidaying at the same hotel she and her husband are staying in.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Take Backsby  William Walkerley
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2024
In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fall From Heavenby  PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Tortured by a sadistic Russian general, a former female Ukrainian commando finds justice in her gripping testimony before a war crimes tribunal.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Mercy Dashby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A Soccer Mom undertakes a midnight mercy dash when she gets an unexpected call, but things aren't quite what they seem.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tough Loveby  Warren Lane
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2024
In this dark coming-of-age tale a suicidal tween finds a reason to live after her maniacal new therapist shows her how to quiet the voices inside her head.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Eyes of the Hallowby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 29 Feb 2024
10-year-old Sophie's visit to her grandparents' secluded house leads to an unwitting switch with her doppelgänger, whose Black eyes harbour unsettling secrets.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Heart Rateby  Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2025
A male and a female cop enter an abandoned building looking for a cop killer. Soon they are hunting each other. Winner, Vail film festival.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Deepstareby  Gerard Docherty
Date Posted: 22 May 2024
A short film exploring mental health from the main character's POV. Main character descends into a fantasy world. Explores his invented world. Kills someone at the end. Ends up in a police cell. Multiple scenes, multiple locations, all adaptable to whatever circumstances you find yourself in. Modest length, flexible set up, few locations, relatively easy to stage. 10-15 mins duration.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
The Accidentby  Daniel Genchev Yanev
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
Two guys get their karma back and have to face the consequences of drunk driving.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Queunityby  Kat Rollinson
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2023
A squabbling family summon their communal strength against their common enemies: a rollercoaster queue and simmering hormones.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Sister's Promiseby  Andrea Lynn Anthony
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
A resilient woman navigates the challenges of supporting her non-verbal, autistic brother while pursuing her own dreams. Along the way, she discovers the power of familial love and resilience, transforming their struggles into a legacy of hope and inspiration.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pizza Killerby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2024
A pizza delivery that leads to a massacre.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 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
Fireman From The Heartby  Timothy McVeigh
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2024
Since childhood, Amber dreams of becoming a firefighter and she has a chance to prove herself as a firefighter by rescuing a woman with two children who cannot get out of a burning house, but getting to the girl's house is not so easy and calling the fire department at night becomes impossible due to the lack of network.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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