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Killergartenby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2025
Being devoted assassins and parents makes up for a healthy work-life-death balance.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Conceptionby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025
The very start of the Armageddon is captured on film for posterity by an extremely proud father, god help us all.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Heelsby  Steven Pony Hill
Date Posted: 21 Dec 2024
The copilot of SouthJet 242 bound for Atlanta is forced to land a crippled plane, but not before she deals with a passenger manifest of the undead. A 2 location, 30 minute short with a strong FEMALE lead.

Genre: Horror
31 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Juliasby  Sharon Mae Disney
Date Posted: 17 Jan 2024
"JULIAS", is a compelling story set in the east end London underworld, where a power struggle unfolds as various gangsters contemplate merging into a single organization under the leadership of the mysterious "Julias." The narrative follows the unfolding tensions, loyalty tests, and hidden agendas that threaten to disrupt the delicate balance of power within the criminal underworld. As secrets come to light, the stage is set for a thrill of betrayal and ambition.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Our 13th Birthdayby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 11 Dec 2024
On her thirteenth birthday, Machi unleashes her deliciously dark revenge on everyone who has wronged her.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Wasabiby  John McCarney
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2025
A night out for an affluent millennial couple unravels after a clash over whether to help a homeless man.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Make Haste Slowlyby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
Doc Holliday shares some wisdom with the outlaw Dave Rudabaugh--then meets Wyatt Earp.

Genre: Western
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Twisted mindby  Christine LARA
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
"Twisted Minds Unite" revolves around a specialized team formed within the FBI to apprehend a new type of serial killer who is not only intelligent and organized but also has significant influence within society. The team consists of individuals with unique skills, each with a personal history of trauma, which drives their pursuit of justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Strychnineby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2024
A new strand of STD that displays no symptoms places the country in a state of emergency trying to find a cure.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
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
Dorothy... after Ozby  robert ingraham
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
After Dorothy returns from colorful Oz, she moves to the San Fernando Valley, where everyone seems comparatively gray. That is, until she meets someone as colorful as the characters from Oz... Peter Pan. She falls in love with him... but there's a problem. He's wanted by the police for stealing kids.

Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inkby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2025
A ex-Nazi tries to hide then get rid of his swastika tattoo, easier said than done.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Down to the Wireby  Dexter Williams
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2024
A defiant cop gets involved in a race against time to stop two escaped convicts who have taken hostages on a bus rigged to explode.

Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ 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
Wipeoutby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2024
A MAN gets caught by his Girlfriend flirting at the beach and he must plead for her forgiveness.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Mouse's Lamentby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
Harold, a poetic mouse, "wanted only to run free / To eat and drink and then to pee / To defecate and then to say / 'I'll eat and drink another day,'" but man and nature conspire against him. Although he doesn't complain, he does lament.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sunday Bestby  STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A resident of a retirement home who dresses in costumes to bring joy into the daily life of all residents must come to terms with the degrading health of his sidekick and best friend.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Home-Cookedby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2025
A pretentious food critic, skeptical of anything homemade, is reluctantly sent to interview a 90-year-old pie-making legend—only to have his icy demeanor crumble when one bite of her pie shatters his expectations and changes his life.

Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Indian Summer of Dry Valley Johnsonby  John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
A western romance based on O. Henry’s short story (first published in 1881, now in the public domain) about a grizzled middle-aged shepherd who falls in love with a beautiful young Mexican girl.

Genre: Western
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Dipsomaniaby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2024
John doesn’t believe he’s ruining his wife's life by binge drinking, but he finds out the hard way the price of his addiction. 

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Over Darkby  Alicia Renee Norman
Date Posted: 16 May 2025
After a third of humanity dies, a billionaire tycoon flees a ravaged earth to isolated luxury aboard a self-sustaining capsule staffed only by synthetic companions. (Horror Tech)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cursed Mirrorby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
Georgia invites her friends to her grandmother's old house by the lake for the weekend. While vacationing in this house, they find an old mirror in the basement, but the next day, Amanda who is Georgia's friend, starts cutting her body in front of the mirror that they found the day before.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
Love And The Old Hotelby  Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
Sarah is a successful realtor in New York, before Christmas she receives a task from her boss to sell an old hotel in a small town, but things do not go according to plan. She meets Jim, the owner of the hotel, who does not want to sell.

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Same Nameby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
After both survive turmoil, their same name brings a straight black actor and a gay white actor-writer together. They team up on a film project that creates more greatness for both.

Genre: Drama
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Good Griefby  Duane Kellogg
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2025
A celebrated screenwriting couple stalled on their most ambitious script and strained by personal distance, faces a dilemma when the husband turns to AI to revive their creative spark, pitting professional ambition against ethical integrity.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Inner Voiceby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2024
On the night of his sold out concert, a rapper has a debate with his conscience about the lyrics he’s saying not relating with the life he’s living.

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Believe The Drunk Girlby  Tawnie Powell
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2025
97%—that’s what Hana Murphy became part of when it happened. Now, dismissed by her University, she struggles to break free from the statistic and find herself. Spiraling into self-destruction and with her relationships unraveling, Hana is forced to confront the question: What happens to the drunk girl?

Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Welcome To Tokyoby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Having just lost their jobs on the police force, Antonio and Marcus escape their dead-end lives and domineering women, to support a childhood friend in Japan for his father's funeral. While there, caught in a gangster turf war, they find their moves, their manhood and so much more.

Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Playtime: Episode 1 Plasticby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 25 Aug 2025
Eric discovers that everything in his life is made of plastic.

Genre: Artistic
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Only Towards Youby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2024
Inside of an empty church, standing beside a closed casket, Donna expresses her feelings about her dead friend.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Table for 3by  Michael Joseph
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2024
A brother and sister, entrenched in crime with their abusive uncle, make a routine stop at a diner. But when tempers flare, their ordinary night takes an unexpected turn

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Beautiful Suicideby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2024
Obsession is a cute word in Mimi's eyes, until Ja'mere applies what the word really means.

Genre: Horror
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Vortican Orderby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2024
Five years after a terrifying encounter with a mysterious figure, high school senior Ethan Thomas is drawn back into a supernatural nightmare when the shadowy entity reappears, threatening to unravel the fragile peace his family has found.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Imaginary Friendby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2023
A friendly ghost that likes to take on the role of ‘imaginary friend’ enters into random homes looking for lonely children to befriend, but inside this latest house he finds a beaten up housewife in desperate need of friendship.

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Going Homeby  Rhuben
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2024
After a 4 year sentence in jail, VINGO, an ex-convict, hopes to reunite with his family. Only hope and faith leads him through his journey, as he travels by bus through the towns to his home town, wife and kids.

Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Callby  William Walkerley
Date Posted: 30 May 2025
The accidental death of his girlfriend comes back to haunt Michael.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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