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Ken, Continuedby D. Greene
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2024
If he can’t be a doctor, how about a cop? Ken, Continued.
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gnome Sweet Gnomeby Diana Kemp
Date Posted: 27 Dec 2023
Teenaged Maddie Gaynor has broken curfew. But this time, sneaking home isn't going to be so easy.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
5 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
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sundays with Ethelby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
An elderly man and woman cross paths while visiting the graves of their departed spouses. Sparks don't exactly fly, but sometimes a simple connection is enough. (1 location, 2 actors. Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Stroke of Luckby Jed Power
Date Posted: 26 Feb 2024
After suffering a debilitating stroke, a cynical, once successful, writer struggles to regain his mobility and passion for writing while finding inspiration and unlikely friendships with quirky fellow patients in a rehabilitation hospital.
Genre: Biographical
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Biographical
29 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
No Take Backsby William Walkerley
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2024
In the near future, where euthanasia is legal and the elderly burden the healthcare system, seniors are offered cash incentives to end their lives. When one senior accepts the money but has a sudden change of heart, he discovers that backing out is not an option.
Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bargain Storeby Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Never The Same Miraby Michael Thomas Yahn
Date Posted: 10 Apr 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: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Undertakerby Dominic Uwem Lawrence
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2024
When a group of friends ventures into the heart of darkness, they unleash a malevolent force that hunts them down, forcing one survivor to confront the evil head-on in a desperate bid to escape the Undertaker's gruesome realm.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Return of Hopeby Ershov Konstantin
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2025
Three characters "don't see, don't hear, don't speak" receive a mysterious box that could change their lives.
Genre: Fantasy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Bookby Terrika Bell
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2024
In her quest to uphold her family's noble legacy, a young woman discovers an ancient heirloom that has safeguarded their stature for generations. As she delves deeper into its power, she grapples with the seductive allure of wealth and influence. However, she soon realizes that her greed threatens not only her family's heritage but also her own survival, forcing her to confront the perilous consequences of her desires.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Fine Dayby Dempsey Samways
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
A relaxing day-off for stoner Danny quickly goes sideways when a mysterious agency of 'Enforcement Officers' begin fining him for increasingly nonsensical offences.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Just In Timeby Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Determined to succeed as a web designer, their having collided on entering her new place of employment. a delightful young woman downplays an interested salesman’s efforts to engage. *Semi Finalist: 2024 New York International Women Festival; Dublin Movie Awards; Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Competition-Shorts; Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards In Spanish: Justo a Tiempo.*
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pity the Poor Cowboyby John Porter
Date Posted: 06 May 2025
A Western musical in which two cowboys mourn the passing of one of their own.
Genre: Musical
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Musical
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Adventures of Tom Wolfby Pelham Mead III
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025
In the mid 1800's a man named Tom Wolf is committed to Bedlam Hospital for the Mentally Insane in London, England. He claims he is a wolf. The Doctors doubt him and torture him to admit he is not a wolf. In the end the real wolf in Tom comes out to surprise the Doctors.
Genre: Fantasy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
You Deadass?by Ricky Lamar Jackson
Date Posted: 10 Sep 2024
A family is in for a surprise when their loverboy family member brings a different type of meat to the cookout.
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Model Citizenby Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
Under pressure to find male models, a talent scout recruits a cat-calling construction worker, giving him a taste of what it’s like to be objectified.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have No Wordsby Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
As a couple debates the fact that women use more words in a day than men, the husband hits his daily word limit and loses the ability to speak, sparking a feud with his wife.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I am Godby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 29 Feb 2024
Believing the bible is based about him because of what happened as a child, Brendan goes on a bloody murder spree.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Etiquette of a Necrophiliacby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2025
After uncovering his wife's infidelity, a man descends into a dark spiral, finding solace and control only in the macabre act of necrophilia, leading him down a path of irreversible perversion and escalating violence.
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Marlene's Last Sederby Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024
When a middle-aged widow decides to honor her late husband’s death -- a year ago on Passover -- by hosting her first seder, a Wisconsin late-winter blizzard, a drunken boyfriend, and an estranged mother-in-law almost turn the event into a disaster.
Genre: Family
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fear the Unknown Graveby Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2024
Ten-year-old Brian is terrified of his own mother, who becomes possessed by a demon after visiting an old unmarked grave near their home.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Human Experienceby Judah Ray
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
A grieving father struggles to guide his reluctant son through a funeral as they confront their fears, grapple with their complicated family dynamics, and discover the power of love and imagination in the face of loss.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Genre: Horror
7 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
Genre: Drama
11 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
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Rise of the Plutoniansby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
The Plutonians are a secret club that promotes and restores honor to those things that get no respect or have gone out of style: yo-yos, paper airplanes, VCR's, gluten, Pluto, and more. Albert wants to join, but he faces a difficult initiation process.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cheers To Temptationby Maria
Date Posted: 24 Apr 2024
When a husband's solemn promise to abstain from alcohol clashes with his wife's celebratory mood at a bar, he must navigate a hilarious game of temptation and wit as he tries to conceal his relapse, only to find that his clever wife is one step ahead in this uproarious battle of wills. Low Budget, 1 interior location. Tiny Cast.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Park Rangerby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2023
It's Dave's first day as a park ranger, and he's super excited to defend Mother Nature. Unfortunately he's a bit harsh as he confronts an innocent birdwatcher, a wayward hacky sack player, and a pair of tree huggers.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Propertyby Dj Robbins
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2023
In a Dystopian society where, white people have become the property of black people, one vigilante takes justice into his own hands.
Genre: Other
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Other
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Love & Mayhemby STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
Battle begins when a man on a date with his new boyfriend to a paintball centre bumps into his handsome Ex in a healthy relationship with the woman he left him for.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Lord of the Shelvesby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2024
Hoping to go straight, a former mob boss moves to a small town and becomes a librarian. But it won't be easy because he's paranoid, hot-tempered and prone to violence. Just pray your library books aren't overdue.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Tripby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
ONE LOCATION: About to turn thirty, George wants to try something wild and different. So convincing his friends to try acid with him for the first time they hire Cameron, an old school hippie, but the acid trip he's got planned is one no one is going to return from.
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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
Genre: Horror
10 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
Deadly Wormsby Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2024
A company that is developing a secret weapon for the US military, but something goes wrong, the experimental worms break free and start killing innocent people.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'
Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
Genre: Action/Adventure
3 pages
The Forgeby Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
Three teen brothers with unique Eagle Scout survival skills must join forces during a camping trip to fight off a Cryptid and find their missing father.
Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
20 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
Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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