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Facing Northby Mark Konik
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025
Facing North is a contemplative road drama about estranged siblings Hayley and Ben, forced together on a journey to a funeral they’d rather avoid. As old wounds resurface and truths unravel, a flat tire and shared vulnerability steer them toward healing. Amidst tension and bittersweet humor, they rediscover connection.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Edison Dollby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
Two estranged twin sisters reunite after their mother’s death, their shared childhood memories—and a cherished antique doll—unlocking decades of guilt, rivalry, and a chance for reconciliation.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Under the Bridgeby Mike Bevins
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2024
In 1946 three preteens lose their innocence after witnessing a horrific act. Six characters, one location. (Finalist in Reno-Tahoe Screenplay Contest)
Genre: Drama
28 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
28 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Symphony Of Loveby Shadia Bukuwah
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2024
A 30 year old man goes against his culture of being circumcised in bamasaba culture, in Eastern Uganda, will he be circumcised?
Genre: Family
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Wake Up Callby David-Matthew Barnes
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
When three unsavory people wake up in an abandoned hotel, they realize the world has ended for everyone except them.
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not the Brightest Guy in the Worldby John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A hard-working, middled-aged plumber admits that he's not the brightest guy in the world, then struggles to understand why his middle-aged lady is happy one minute, sad the next, and mad the next
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dolce, Fraud Relationshipsby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
Three women share a similar tale of being in a relationship for the wrong reasons, but refuse to leave the lifestyle.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chucklesby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
A serial killer is reincarnated as a character in a sitcom and is reunited with his estranged daughter and ex-wife.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Monster Mansionby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
On the last day of the carnival, young Billy Slater enters a haunted house and never returns.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Classmatesby Emy Dust
Date Posted: 30 Nov 2024
When three estranged friends reunite for their 20-year class reunion, a harmless prank to steal the town's iconic statue spirals into a deadly game of deception, betrayal, and hidden agendas, forcing them to confront their darkest secrets as the night unravels their lives.
Genre: Action/Adventure
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Conversionby Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
In 1968, a rebellious teen is abducted to a remote ranch under the guise of salvation—only to uncover a harrowing world of abuse, resistance, and a reckoning long overdue.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Apartmentby Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
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
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Broken Promisesby Andrea Zastrow
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2025
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father’s Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Hit and Runby Marc Prey
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2025
After hitting and killing a jogger with her car and not reporting it, a young woman is haunted by his spirit. Or is it merely her guilty conscience?
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Feed Geeseby Steven Burton
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
A young man jogs and feeds geese as a diversion while he decides to come out as gay to his girlfriend.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vietnamby Kevin Frasure
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
Haunted by the horrors of his past, a Vietnam veteran’s grip on reality unravels as he’s stalked by the vengeful spirit of a fallen enemy, forcing him to confront the trauma that has followed him home—before it consumes him entirely.
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Delusional Paby Frank Mancuso
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2025
A production assistant takes revenge on the cast of a horror set when they are making a horror movie. *IMDb page: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0541559
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dunkirk Spiritby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
Two strangers meet on the deck of a cross-channel ferry. One makes the other a business proposal, and with a little financial incentive, they agree on a deal. However, the chance meeting is not as random as it seemed for one of the pair.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Should Have Stayed Homeby Michael Angelella
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2024
A desperate film director threatens to destroy all the footage of his just-completed film unless his producer gives him creative control of it. Semi Finalist 2024 Golden Script Competition; Semi Finalist 2024 Creative Screenwriting Shoot Your Short Contest.
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Sucker Punchby Richard Cowley
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2024
In this satirical short, an irreverent and unlettered savant challenges the hidebound academic establishment to accept his ground-breaking ideas.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Devious Desiresby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2024
An unhappy married man wants out of his boring marriage and craves excitement in his life, so he begins online dating and meets a beautiful, but mysterious woman who only desires to rob and kill him.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Funeral Crasherby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2024
At a funeral where grief hangs heavy in the air, a scandalous proposal disrupts the somber eulogy when a man proposes to his secret mistress in the middle of her husband's funeral, sparking a whirlwind of emotions that threatens to unravel their lives forever.
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Biff Bang, American Heroby Ron Micci
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2023
Expelled from the Air Force during WW II for his reckless paranoid bombing antics, fighter-pilot Biff Bang and high school sweetheart, Penny, embark on a crusade to rid the US of Nazi infiltrators.
Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dangerous Cargoby Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Two girls throw out the driver and his car at gunpoint, not suspecting the valuable cargo in the car, more than ten kilograms of drugs which was supposed to be delivered to New York to a local drug dealer. After a drug dealer in New York learns about the disappearance of his goods he personally wants to find and kill the girls.
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Nailsby John Ravitz
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2025
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharistic Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between his sacred duties and the need to stop a killer before he kills again.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pigeon Academyby Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
Ever seen a baby pigeon? Probably not, because they are all learning their trade at the world renowned Pigeon Academy in Los Angeles, with classes in pidgin English, statue "painting," mastering the proper head bob.
Genre: Animation
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
15 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Halloween Short Film Festivalby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and find a horror movie to watch on TV. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits and awards.)
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Spookyby Tony Jerris
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2024
Terror ensues, when a guy hooks up with an online date who is already dead... Or is she?
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Desert Muleby Jack Lindauer
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2025
A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Overthrow of the Ayatollahby Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2025
There is great plot to overthrow the Ayatollah. CIA and Mossad agents succeed, helped by a charismatic opposition leader, and 1 million Iranians storm the capital and oust the Ayatollah and begin a secular democratic republic.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Out With The Oldby Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 25 Dec 2024
An older woman’s transition to assisted living exposes the callous nature of her son whose obsession with finding a large sum of hidden cash threatens not only his marriage but also his sanity. TOP 10 FINALIST: CinemaStreet Women's Short Screenplay Festival 2023
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Prefer Not To Sayby Maroun Rached
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2025
Three people are challenged about how to tackle gender on their company's website.
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tommyby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 12 Dec 2024
A young graffiti artist decides to tag a war memorial and finds his lack of respect has surprising consequences.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Define Loveby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024
Blake and Darrell's relationship is on the rocks because Blake wants Darrell to move in, but Darrell is hiding a secret.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bogey 3by Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Four elite Desert Storm pilots are assigned to a wasteland to find and destroy an Iraqi “Red Baron” that’s halted the U.S. campaign, but instead find something worse.
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Taking Care of Businessby William Walkerley
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2025
Ray meets up with his old pal Mark, who turns out to be looking for someone to take the blame for murdering his benefactress.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tethered Soulsby Andrew Chisholm
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2025
Trapped in a decaying home with his dying wife, a man’s mind begins to fracture under the weight of grief and isolation, as a mysterious voice urges him toward suicide and he begins to question whether her fate is bound to his own.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Tree or Bustby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
As December approaches, dusty ornaments in the attic spiffy themselves up, get makeovers and begin exercise regimens as they vie for a spot on the Christmas tree. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Father's Loveby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 May 2024
Love enters your life when you’re at your lowest point, and that’s exactly what Tiffany and Bernard need to deal with the pain their father’s inflicted on them.
Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
39 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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