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Xanadu Shoresby  Jay Loish
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2025
Two ex-pilots become embroiled in a kidnapping and gold heist, after an employer's scheme escalates from theft to kidnapping. Needing help, our hero leaves clues unaware of a capricious agent and his comely accomplice are following his friends by land, air, and sea. The unscrupulous authorities are seeking the loot, confronting the criminals, culminating explosively with the sun rising on XANADU SHORES. It's about desire and duty to friends. A lively yarn encapsulated by adventure.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Nightingale in Burkaby  Abhilash Mohan
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2025
Subaida, a spirited 10-year-old Afghan girl, dreams of music in a world that's trying to silence her. This poignant drama set in Kabul follows Subaida's journey as she discovers her passion for the rubab, a traditional Afghan musical instrument, against the backdrop of a society teetering on the edge of radical change.

Genre: Animation
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Serving Caesarby  Pelham Mead III
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025
Marcos Cassius Scaeva was perhaps one of the greatest Centurians to serve Proconsul Caesar in Britain, the Rine, and in Greece agains Pompey. In Greece Scaeva took 400 arrows to his shield, an arrow to his eye and his knee without saying. Caesar made him Primus Pilus.

Genre: Non-Fiction/History
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Last Jokeby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 16 Mar 2024
After the death of their prankster bartender, a close-knit group of friends discover his final joke at his funeral, turning sorrow into laughter and a celebration of camaraderie.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Painted Vengeanceby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 25 May 2025
Painted Vengeance - A talented face painted is attacked by a gang of thugs, but when the devil gives him the chance to take revenge, it's an offer he can't refuse.

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Voidby  John McCarney
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2025
A seemingly routine curbside pickup turns into a quiet collision of two lives—linked 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
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Outstanding Talentby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024
An arrogant comic book artist who believes he’s the blood of the company finds out the hard way the promotion he’s seeking comes with a cost.

Genre: Musical
42 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Fun Sizeby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
A young trick-or-treater is angry after receiving a "fun size" candy bar. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 actors.)

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Tourists in a Foreign Filmby  Kimberly Ann Laux
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024
Two tourists, Honey and Sweetheart, are on their way to Hollywood to bask in the glow of Tinsel Town when they take a wrong turn at the corner of Despair and Desperation. Will they decipher the motifs in a strange black and white world with subtitles before it's too late?

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Unbelongerby  Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
After becoming stranded in the desert, an outcast soldier is attacked by a stranger who looks just like him.

Genre: Sci-Fi
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Reality Checkby  Ed Tasca
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2025
Guy painfully caught between the "love of his life" sending him a final goodbye via live video and his commitment to meet with his new "rebound girlfriend," whom he's committed to a serious relationship and their first evening of love, and is waiting for him at her flat.Their scene of love-making ends shockingly with "rebound girlfriend" raging at him for using her. The result is a twist, a deadly tragedy twist.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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I Like Wearing Blueby  Alicia Renee Norman
Date Posted: 16 May 2025
In a future where conformity is survival, a defiant girl dared to stand up and stand out--even if it cost her the ultimate price.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Faith: Brought To The Lightby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2024
90% of story happens in a house with three principle characters. Inspired from true events. A mother who has lost her faith, rediscovers her purpose when she must help a troubled father with a dark secret.

Genre: Drama
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Post-Mortemby  LARA
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024
After inheriting his father's fortune following a tragic death, Ken, trained in martial arts in Japan, faces assassination attempts and family betrayal in France, uncovering a deadly conspiracy that threatens his inheritance.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Truth or Denialby  Dilece Connor
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2024
A twin has hallucinations of her deceased twin who died in a car accident they were both in. She denies her loss and struggles to overcome her grief and accept the truth.

Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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When COVID Cameby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
After COVID arrives, in silence, a woman living alone copes by isolating, masking, and eventually being vaccinated after which she is only then able to welcome others into her home. Music accompanies her actions and the only line of dialogue occurs at the films end when she welcomes her grandson and his girlfriend into her home. *Dallas Shorts 2023 Semi Finalist*

Genre: Artistic
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Cozenageby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 01 Apr 2024
A hopeful screenwriter resorts to deception to partner with a junk dealer to write the next big movie but faces consequences when the dealer outsmarts her.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Split Endz (A Rapunzel Story)by  Phoebe von Satis
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2024
A young woman survives WWII only to return to a life of emotional and physical captivity and is forced to be her own hero.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Woodby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
A lonely man falls in love with a tree. But can they live happily ever after? (No dialogue, silent comedy. One location. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Yoo-foesby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 Apr 2025
A young journalist tries to discover whether UFOs and space aliens really do exist.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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L.I.L.I.T.H.by  Tigran Vardanyan
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2025
A determined medical intern, Lilith, is drawn into the turbulent lives of an eccentric opera singer, her troubled twin, and a reclusive artist, Albert. As she navigates their world of emotional outbursts and hidden pain, an unexpected bond with Albert begins to unfold—challenging her perception of duty, connection, and the fine line between care and entanglement.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Adventures in the Aislesby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
A father takes his tech obsessed daughter to the bookstore to show her the true meaning of a good story.

Genre: Family
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Car Bombby  Ange Fassinou
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
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
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Lunch with Lelandby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2025
On a whim, a restless young business woman buys lunch for a homeless stranger, and soon they strike up a friendship which transforms their lives forever. (3 actors, 1 main location. Finalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. Award-winning writer and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Drama
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Giftby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 01 Jan 2025
In 1977, a young man receives a camera that takes disturbing pictures. (1 location, 1 actor. Produced writer, see IMDB for credits.)

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Phantom’s Revengeby  John Witcher
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
After unearthing an ancient artifact, four female students inherit superpowers and embark on the journey of a lifetime. (Female Driven Screenplay)

Genre: Animation
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Final Decisionby  Jed Power
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2024
In the dead of night, a dementia-stricken U.S. President faces a harrowing decision: launch nuclear missiles or risk annihilation in this heart-pounding thriller with a chilling twist. When a false alarm triggers a nuclear crisis, a frail President must grapple with his crumbling mind and the fate of millions in this tense, race-against-time thriller.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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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
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Heartwarming Horrorby  Jennifer Milne
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
A couple on a first date realize the premise of a heartwarming romance could just as easily be a horrifying horror movie, and get a little of both when they go back to her place.

Genre: Horror
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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John Wick is a Dickby  Christopher Harmon
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2025
A prison-hardened grief counselor is confronted with a group therapy session where all the patients suffer because of the violent actions of one man…John Wick. She organizes a protest, in order to provoke him to move away – but it does not work out as planned.

Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Welcome to '79by  D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
Girls. Gigs. Growing up. Redondo Beach; 1979. Teenage Dion is a dreamer and a drummer; together with his three best friends, he’s ready to spend the summer surfing, playing gigs and meeting girls. Slowly, each of these things changes or falls apart or just disappears. He wishes for them back. He wishes himself away. And finally, he embraces and clings to the unknown, because it’s the only thing he has left.

Genre: Biographical
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Same Woman as a Wholeby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 22 Apr 2024
Down on her knuckles on a broken road, the energy of life explains why women should bond together as one and uplift each other. 

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Santa Tyroneby  Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 23 Mar 2025
A mall Santa targets three families on Christmas Eve and has murderous plans for each family.

Genre: Horror
36 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Irresistible Rageby  Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2024
A policeman receives threats against his family who leads the investigation against the son of a local political who is involved in drug trafficking, and the end of work the policeman finds his whole family dead at home.

Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Take My Truck, Please!by  Mary Barrett
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2024
When his wife demands Joe not to come home until he sells his gas guzzling truck, he is directed by the used car salesmen to the bad side of town where he meets up with other guys waiting for their trucks to be stolen.

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Sketchyby  Sebastian Ackland
Date Posted: 25 Mar 2025
A woman spends her Christmas Eve by mulling over her past sins, only to face them head-on in the form of a haunted Etch-A-Sketch.

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