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Peeperby  Delaina M. Waldron
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A Peeping Tom witnesses a woman's murder and it is up to him to decide on whether he will save the new occupant or just watch.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
See You In Courtby  Linda Gould
Date Posted: 29 Apr 2025
Miranda, a Homeland Security bureaucrat, is having a tryst with Pete, a handsome but crude major league ballplayer. One early morning encounter is interrupted by two policemen, who take Petie in for questioning about the apparent kidnapping of his teammate, Manny Chavez ... who is engaged to Miranda's sportswriter sister, Jessica. Manny was about to testify against several teammates in a steroids hearing.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Where the Heart Isby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
The spirit of Christmas must overcome those with hatred in their hearts.

Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Zoomby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2024
A couple's illicit affair is forced to go virtual due to a pesky global pandemic, and if that wasn't bad enough someone else wants in on the action.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A War Storyby  Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024
When a dying Holocaust survivor describes her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, she reveals a dark family secret to her two adult sons––and encounters angry disbelief.

Genre: Biographical
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Andrea Drives to Heavenby  Edward Matthew Donnelly
Date Posted: 07 Apr 2024
Haunted by the memory of a fiery redhead who perished in a daring escape from the authorities, a troubled teen finds himself tormented as she continues to manifest in his dreams, leading him on a journey of self-discovery.

Genre: Drama
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Gatorsby  Linda Kampley
Date Posted: 12 Jul 2024
On a porch in the Garden District of New Orleans a woman talks with a friend about her distant cousin from Massachusetts who is visiting due to an embarrassing “emotional disturbance”. The cousin went on a tour of the swamps and became deeply fascinated by the alligators, their “burning eyes”. Now she has disappeared.

Genre: Drama
15 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: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Numbersby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A plucky bunch of nerds get more than they bargained for when they uncover an ancient evil and must fight for their lives as midnight approaches on Halloween.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
Guy painfully caught between former "love of his life" who is sending him a final goodbye via live video and his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's promised to engage in a serious relationship and is waiting for him at her flat. (Both women are played by the same actress.)

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Orphan Floodby  Anthony Piazza
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2024
During a flood, a young girl must retrieve her brother's rare medicine, with the help of a self-isolated helmsman.

Genre: Drama
15 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
On Lineby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
Various people blindly line up behind realistic human sculptures to wait for a bus to arrive. When the bus arrives, the sculptures come alive to board the bus. They leave behind all the former live people who have become sculptures.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Into the smogby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
In a post-apocalyptic world shrouded in toxic green smog, two sisters must learn to survive and reclaim their freedom from a man who controls their fate through his precious vegetable garden.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lockdown Survivalby  Walter Wessels
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2024
To save humanity from an extremely infectious super virus, a vial containing a cure that can stop an orchestrated pandemic must fall into the correct hands. But corrupt world leaders and their sinister forces will stop at nothing to retrieve this antidote to further their own agenda.

Genre: Other
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Death & Humanityby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
A debate between death and humanity about people ends with one final conclusion. 

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bug Boyby  J. J. Hillard
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025
A young migrant boy near death in the Arizona desert is rescued by a hunter and endures years of subjugation before an experimental medical treatment dramatically changes the trajectory of his life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shark Underneathby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Limited location. Horror/thriller. A group of outlaws, who recently robbed and killed a lawyer and his wife, become the preys of a smart and dangerous shark living underneath the house they chose as hideout.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dark Snowby  Ron Micci
Date Posted: 29 Jul 2024
A sexually repressed woman in her 30s overcomes her inhibitions when she meets a man at an office Christmas party, then races north to her maiden aunt's cabin in the woods to share the joyous news, only to encounter bitterness and jealousy and a poignant parting of the ways.

Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Late Night Stayby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2025
A weary businessman checks into a hotel with a history of violence, and said hotel is supposed to be extremely haunted.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
About a Bearby  S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2024
An aging TV writer desperate for a comeback pitches a last-ditch movie about a vengeful bear to a Hollywood producer, only to watch his hopes unravel as the industry leaves him behind.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Vengeance Appby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
Desperate for retribution against her bullies, a tormented teen obtains a sinister app allowing her to execute a revenge of her choosing upon them — but soon discovers it comes with chilling consequences as her actions begin to consume her own life.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
A Very Different Thanksgivingby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2024
On Thanksgiving night, a driver offers a ride to a blind stranger, but the holiday's spirit of hospitality unravels into an uncomfortable confrontation with buried prejudices and truths.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Goodnight Sweet Miaby  Marina Loos
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2025
Paul, desperate to get his girlfriend back at all cost, realizes his fantasy of her is stronger than his reality.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Clownby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A little girl lures Kathy into the funhouse to find her mommy.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Recycleby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
A young woman working for a company that recycles human souls finds peace within an eco-burial ground over the loss of her cantankerous mother.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Fly Squattingby  Steven Blows
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
A mother grieving for the loss of her daughter takes her anger out on a pesky fly that won’t leave her alone.

Genre: Animation
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Synchronicityby  Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
When a musician aching for connection meets a soft-spoken neighbor with a spiritual heart, their mirrored lives begin to align—proving that sometimes, the universe writes the love story for you.

Genre: Romance
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Spaceby  Simon James
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2025
Fresh from a recent breakup, that he caused, Simon embarks on a hilarious but frustrating quest to find the perfect parking spot at the mall, all while juggling his idiot best friend and precocious daughter.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Cycleby  Stephanie Neroes
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2025
Haunted by the violence of his upbringing, a boy’s fateful act forces a reckoning with the ghosts of his family’s past—and the chilling truth that some wounds are born, not made.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pursuit of Happiness a Constitutional Rightby  Fausto Politi
Date Posted: 14 May 2024
In 2221 happiness is a primary asset granted by a Constitutional Right. A man gets the permission to kill his wife being in the dark that his wife had the same permission.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Full Exposureby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
A female artist asks a male photographer to pose nude for her project, which triggers other uptight challenges before he decides to pose.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he’s looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Echoes of Tomorrowby  Sharon
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2024
In a future where memories can be shared and experienced like virtual reality, a young woman discovers set of illegal, ancient memories that reveal the truth about humanity's past and set her on a collision course with the authoritarian government determined to keep history a secret.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Crankdownby  Walter Wessels
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2024
When Simon seeks justice for the death of his sister, he finds himself in a small town with two cops after the same man who wreaks havoc in a wicked game of cat and mouse play. With stakes increasing, our heroes attempt an all-out effort in taking down a psychopath who is willing to take the game further.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
On a Sunday Morningby  Gregory Kohring
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2023
After a night of partying, a young man, charged with watching over his autistic sister, sends her to church alone, but when she doesn’t arrive he begins a frantic search to find her.

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