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Inhospitable Takeoverby Michael Hutchinson

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An odd-ball group of aliens disguised as humans are sent to the Solar System before their kind harvest and enslave the Humans, but are then forced to setup shop on Earth and prepare the planet for assimilation.

Genre: Comedy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Bernard's Ashesby Mike Bevins

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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

The Knock Before Christmasby Kudzai Zigarwi

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During the festive season, a recently escaped convict hides in a cramped apartment complex, dodging close calls and suspicious neighbors but as Christmas approaches, the greatest surprise is the one waiting for him at his own front door.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
17 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Flat Pebble's Philosophyby Marc-Olivier louveau

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In 1830, in a Vietnamese village, Master TRY, a rich, bitter and lonely old man, decides to retire, but the unexpected arrival of his orphaned niece, SONG, upsets his routine. As he struggles to maintain his habits, the young girl transforms his home and his life with her sweetness and her cooking. Confronted with his own past mistakes, Master TRY rediscovers the true value of family and love.

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

Thrill in Manilaby Robert Michael Benn

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In 1975, the fight of the century occurs in Manila with Ali's stream of consciousness descriptions.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Trifling Heiferby Melissa Diane Hudson

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When a dangerous woman sets her sights on her best friend's NFL star husband, she'll stop at nothing to steal him, even if it means destroying his career and marriage in the process.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Dallianceby Bernard Mersier

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When wealthy Benjamin poisons his blackmailing wife during a romantic dinner, Claudia survives, forcing him to protect his mistress.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

A Moment In Timeby PAUL BYRNE

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A bounty on their heads, a middle eastern woman in D.C. must trust a psychotic D.E.A. agent to save her family from an arms dealer's vendetta despite his claims of loving her in a past life... and he can prove it.

Genre: Action/Adventure
41 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Dance Your Dreamsby Christine Lara

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A passionate young dancer prepares for the audition of her life at the Opra Garnier, but a chance encounter with a man seeking redemption at the Caf de la Paix may change both their destinies.

Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Killerby DJ Robbins

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Jeff kills under a lifelong desire to try his hand at being a serial killer and his brother, Mike tags along to write about the experience and turn it into a screenplay.

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

Family Diamondby Simon Parker

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When John's elderly father is left on his doorstep due to unpaid private care, a desperate friend introduces him to a scientist with a serum that grows diamonds inside the human stomach.

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

Tough Loveby Warren Lane

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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

SLICEby Wendy Appelbaum

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When a lonely and introverted young woman purchases a 3D printer, she is amazed at its ability to communicate how she is feeling through the prints until she realizes that she is not the one in control. ( Comps: Black Mirror meets Christine)

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Wake Upby Delaina M. Waldron

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Guests at a funeral home are in for a Wake Up call, when their loving deceased BJ speaks at his own Wake.

Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

A long Road Aheadby Bernhard Riedhammer

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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

Afterlifeby DJ Robbins

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A 26-year-old man regrets committing suicide and death shows him the ramifications of the effects his suicide had on his parents and girlfriend.

Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Ol' Mean Joeby John W Welch

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A legend surrounding mean children being taken on Halloween claims the one that got away years earlier.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

The Echoby Amrita Baines

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A lone hiker documenting her journey through a remote wilderness begins hearing an eerie echo leading her to a terrifying discovery about what's following her. At first, the echoes of her voice bouncing off the cliffs seem naturaluntil they start repeating words she never said. As paranoia sets in, her recordings reveal an unsettling truth: something in the wilderness is listening... and answering back.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

College Memoriesby Simon Parker

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Phil, a high school principal with a reputation to uphold, is thrust into a perilous game of cat-and-mouse when his former college roommate, now a desperate junkie, demands $50,000 to keep silent about Phil's scandalous secrets.

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

Car Bombby Ange Fassinou

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Story happens in a car. Trapped inside his car a man has a few minutes to pay a ransom to save his life.

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

Frank Sinatra's Hatby John McWilliams

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A war-wounded janitor finds Frank Sinatra's favorite fedora and must decide whether to return it or use it to pay off a bookie threatening his life.

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

But Wait ... There's More!by John Boal

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On this segment of "But Wait ... There's More!" at a local TV station, the mid-40s Host, Tiffany Long, and her two Reporters, as usual, critique weird, wacky and often wasteful single-use plastic products that viewers may or may not need. But in the closing segment, Tiffany and her Reporters break the 4th wall; show how these plastic products are killing our oceans and sea life and defiantly quit their popular program on air.

Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Moors: The Freedom Fightersby Tirrell J. Paxton

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During Medieval Spain, a tyrannical King holds hostage a debutante from a noble family. A Jewish ally flees and evades knights to inform her father of his daughter's predicament. The Jewish crusader and Count seek military assistance from the Moors in North Africa to liberate the debutante and Spain from oppressive Gothic Rule!

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
11 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles

Desert Muleby Jack Lindauer

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A drug deal in East Los Angeles goes terribly wrong.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Marcus and his Snowmanby DJ Robbins

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Marcus brings his snowman to life through Christmas Magic, based on love and Joy, but hateful and Miserable Hazel, the Winter Witch, wants to make everyone as miserable and vicious as she is. Can love and Joy triumph over hate and misery?

Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Toilet Whispererby John Alexander Fraser

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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Drama
3 pages

Daggersby Jason K. Allen

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A man sits beside a woman on a park bench to eat his lunch, but he gradually scoots away from her. When the puzzled woman questions his actions, it leads to a series of bitter insults which arouses them both. (1 location, 2 actors)

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Traphouseby Melissa Diane Hudson

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Fueled by a bad breakup, two best friends create a Podcast where scorned women compete to tell the worst man-hating story, until a shocking confession derails their man-hating mission and challenges their definition of love.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Family Abuseby Bernard Antoine Mersier

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It takes for Carl to lose his family to realize his addictions are more important than them, but even after reclaiming his wife and daughter...is he able to stay on the straight and narrow?

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

A Reckoning Beckonsby Lynwood Shiva Sawyer

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A ruthless banker with terminal leukemia begs his estranged, destitute brother for a lifesaving bone marrow donation, only to discover a dark family secret that turns his desperation into a deadly schemeand poetic justice.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

The Creepby Dj Robbins

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A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Spunk!by Harker Jones

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Amid a rash of kidnappings, two gay college students embark on a romance via a hook-up app called Spunk!

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

Willpowerby John Porter

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A young black woman and a middle-aged white man love each other, but their friends tell them they must separate--and they can if they only fight with their willpower.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles

A Mouse's Lamentby John Porter

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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

Let Us Preyby James D. Tuverson III

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Three very different men confront themselves and each other during a grueling group-therapy session. One man, however, will discover his greatest struggle is within. If he loses the battle between his morals and urges, he may become the Devil himself. This short was a FINALIST at the 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival.

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

The Toilet Whispererby John Alexander Fraser

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An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages

Where Toe Beginby Clifford Shepherd

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When a neurotic man wakes up to find his big toe missingwith no pain or explanationhe spirals into a surreal, comedic nightmare where his body vanishes piece by piece, and no one around him seems to notice or care. A darkly absurd satire on identity, sanity, and the disappearing sense of self.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles

Voidby John McCarney

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A seemingly routine curbside pickup turns into a quiet collision of two liveslinked by what they don't say. A two-page micro-short about mental health and unseen scars.

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

Facing Northby Mark Konik

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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

Nasty Nightby Simon Parker

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A young woman, excited for her blind date, finds herself kidnapped by a deranged taxi driver.

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