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Family Mattersby Luke Stevens
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2024
A young man fights to save the life of his unborn child when his teenage girlfriend's parents force her to get an abortion.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mafia Prom Dateby Michael Volpe
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2025
A determined high schooler battles failing grades, skeptical parents, and the perils of Mafia connections to take the Don’s daughter to his prom in 1970s New York City. He almost succeeds until his dream prom night ends when the FBI arrests his date and her family in dramatic raids regarding the Don’s high-profile Emmy Awards jewelry heist.
Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Family Beach Dayby Derek L. Polen
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2024
A beach-loathing dad is pushed out of his comfort zone when he agrees to take his family to the beach.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Never The Same Miraby Michael Thomas Yahn
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2024
Never The Same MIra is a short film script about a remarkable young teen with the ability to shape shift. Her special ability is much needed when her and her little brother's attempt to track down local bank robbers goes sideways, but there's only one problem with Mira's power...she has no control over what she changes into, and when.
Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Smoking loveby Dimitris Sokolakis
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2024
A group of teenagers in the 90s are sitting in a park while smoking and discussing about their not so promising future. One of them has different worries. The love of his life is about to leave and he hasn't managed yet to reveal his love towards her. Her coming to the park is his last chance to make a move, will he grab it?
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hungerby DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2023
A spoiled child ignores his father's pleas to be good because Santa is watching.
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Baby Farts A Lotby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2025
A babydoll that farts creates an awkward moment when Dan blames the doll when someone breaks wind at dinner.
Update
Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Screamby STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 15 Mar 2025
On a cold night, a woman goes to an abandoned field to release her emotions in a primal scream. On a cold night, her scream comes back to haunt her.
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A long Road Aheadby Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 25 May 2024
A trailblazing transgender woman, stranded in the middle of nowhere, must hitch a ride with an opinionated retiree in order to stop her ex from leaving the country with their son.
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Big Digby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2024
Pete once heard that if you dig a hole far enough you will end up in China. So one day he takes a shovel and decides to find out for himself. Several months later he emerges in a strange land that is definitely not China. (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Dark Comedy. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
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 Old manby Suzanne Birrell
Date Posted: 12 Nov 2023
After two college students stumble into a sheriff's station and beg to be locked after a crime spree, a young idealistic deputy takes it upon herself to meet the source of their sudden conversion and comes face to face with the source of unimaginable guilt.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder By Chairliftby Ken Hauser
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2024
When a young woman is left on a chairlift overnight in a minus 60 windchill, a Deputy must shovel through the bullshit from four suspects to find the killer.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Jane Doll, Spy Extraordinaireby D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
Barbie isn't the only doll in town. Hopelessly talented Jane Doll (a Plastic) and ravishingly awkward Plain Jane (a Real)…the stakes couldn’t be higher. The danger couldn’t be scarier. The skirts couldn’t be shorter (or longer). They’re bringing sexy (and smart) back to D.C. sleuthing – one crime at a time.
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
G.I.S. (Global Internet shutdown)by Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2023
As humanity comes to a violent end, one person stands on a skyscraper watching, explaining why the apocalypse is taking place.
Genre: Sci-Fi
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
1 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
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Pumpkin Faceby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A killer stalks his family after being let off on a technicality.
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Unmutedby Derrick Vernon
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2024
In the aftermath of a tragic prank gone awry, a once-mute prodigious athlete gains an unexpected voice but chooses to communicate solely through sign language as a cover. Enduring relentless humiliation, he transforms into a vengeful monster, chanting ominously before seeking revenge on those responsible for his torment.
Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Deputyby Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2025
His deputy shot, a lone frontier sheriff must use his wits and local know-how to subdue a dangerous thug.
Single location.
Genre: Western
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Blind Manby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
With a dangerous cartel coming after them, two men need to kill a third to save their own skin, now hoping that a blind butcher will do the dirty work for them.
Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
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
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Creepy Clown For Hireby DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
Pamela is upset that her son is skipping his tutoring sessions, so she hires a creepy clown to scare her son into seeing his tutor.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Happy Endingsby Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2023
A pair of financially strapped old-timers on a farm in the Midwest, Eleanor and Bertrand Cornweevil, receive a surprise visit from a man trying to entice them into selling the oil drilling rights to their land. But he's an emissary of Satan and it's really their souls he's hoping for them to sign away.
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Shotsby Don Willis
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
Two Shots follows a young Marine veteran with PTSD who returns from war to his true love, Rita. Things soon spiral out of control as he struggles to find his place in her life.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Coyote Medicineby Christopher Shotwell
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2024
When Coyote unleashes the spirit world onto his bizarre contestant show, his phantasmic antics may cost him his friendships, girlfriend, and even the show before he can prove he’s no fool but a clever-hearted trickster
Genre: Animation
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Truth & Treasuresby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2024
When a seven-year-old girl is denied a life-changing school trip for telling the truth about her mother's deception, she embarks on a whimsical adventure to reclaim her lost opportunity, learning about the value of truth and the power of forgiveness along the way.
Genre: Family
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Now and Thenby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 03 Sep 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: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
WTF?by Sherrie Presson
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2024
When an aging maintenance worker goes on a killing rampage in an apartment complex, an unsuspecting man looking for an apartment takes the fall. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr
Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lunch with Lelandby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025
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
Brush Stroke Loveby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 Jan 2024
Needing to find a girlfriend, Ian goes out to find one but instead falls in love with a magical painted portrait of a girl from the 1800’s.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abby’s Cursed Paintingsby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 18 Jan 2025
In the wake of her parents' violent murder, an eight-year-old girl communicates only through her macabre, otherworldly art- a cryptic language that captivates an unsuspecting audience while hiding secrets that could either save her or doom them all.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
There's Something Behind Door #1by Andrew Tarquinio
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2024
A young man helps his parents clear the squalid apartment of his recently deceased Aunt, finding more than filth waiting for him in the hoarder’s heaps.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shadow Among Usby Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
A gathering among friends turns into a nightmare when strange events begin to unfold in an isolated house deep in the forest. Trapped and confronted with their own secrets, they realize that one of them is not who they claim to be.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Genre: Musical
4 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Painted Vengeanceby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
What Day Is It?by Bill Rutkoski
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2025
A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffled—Mondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won’t let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.
Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Most Unusual Visitorby DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A woman receives a visit from a man who is the spitting image of her dead husband.
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The House that Whispersby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Two boys explore an abandoned house rumored to answer questions with eerie whispers, but a cruel prank turns deadly when the house reveals it has secrets—and a sinister voice—of its own
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 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
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Simonby Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
When a teacher reads Edgar Allen Poe to her sixth graders on Halloween, she must find out why one student’s interest in the poem borders on obsession.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Kindness Coinsby M.r. Fitzgerald
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2024
A budding artist orders a Muse Bot named Camille to inspire him. Little does he know that the more she learns...the harder she is to control.
Genre: Sci-Fi
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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