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Lucky Strikeby  Chris Fell
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
The most fortunate event will take down your relationship in an instant.

Genre: Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Quiet Timeby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2025
When a neuroscientist’s sleep-paralysis app accidentally links thousands of sleepers at 3:13 A.M., it awakens a shared shadow entity from her mother’s nightmares—one that’s now crossing from dream to waking world.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Deadly Swampby  Chris Chatzikirlis
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2025
In the haunted swamps of Louisiana, a disgraced scientist's experiments unleash monstrous leeches, driving a mutated village into madness, murder, and a chilling new religion built on sacrifice.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Anonymous Heroby  Jose Luis Azcarreta
Date Posted: 03 Oct 2025
"Anonymous hero" is a 4-page short script with no dialogue in which a nobody is the laughing stock of his office mates despite saving humanity from an alien attack.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Artificial Lightby  Cephra Stuart
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2025
An AI Humanoid joins a tech startup as the new HR lead, but as it begins to assess the team, unsettling truths bubble to the surface, threatening to unravel the company from within.

Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Two Travelersby  Tigran Vardanyan
Date Posted: 26 Mar 2025
A troubled man checks into a seaside restaurant, masking his despair behind a lavish order, while a young chef, burdened by his own dilemmas, unknowingly becomes the only witness to his final moments—forcing him to confront his own path before it’s too late.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Shotgunby  Jessica Lynn Bruce
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2025
Hoping for a peaceful retirement, a former Marine takes to the Alaskan highways as a trucker, but when ruthless gun men target his rig, he must use every ounce of his training to survive a high-octane chase across a frozen mountain.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Adriftby  Dewayne C Bricker
Date Posted: 16 Oct 2025
After a yacht capsizes during a sudden storm, a lone survivor records her final hours aboard a half-sunken vessel, sending video logs to anyone who might find them. As night falls, she notices distant lights beneath the waves—moving in patterns too deliberate to be natural. With her oxygen fading and rescue signals unanswered, she realizes she isn’t alone on the ocean—and that what’s watching her is waiting for her to drown.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Wake Up Callby  David-Matthew Barnes
Date Posted: 05 May 2024
When three unsavory people wake up in an abandoned hotel, they realize the world has ended for everyone except them.

Genre: Sci-Fi
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Nothingby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2025
Wanting to buy his fathers freedom, an Evil oil baron bullies land owners to hand over everything they own or be killed.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Eternal Optimistby  John Porter
Date Posted: 03 May 2025
A dark comedy in which a young man breaks a lamp, plugs up the toilet, gets jilted, gets fired, and so on. But, hey, tomorrow's another day, right?

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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My Journey Through Two Cultsby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2025
Robert goes to Synanon to get detoxed and is referred to Scientology. He meets Deitrich in LA and Hubbard at his San Francisco branch where he reads his poetry and meets Richard Brautigan, Alan Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Borrowing money from Jane Fondo does no good and Dietrich goes broke. He goes off the wagon. Robert dumps Synanon and Scientology to write his novel.

Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Silent Nightby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2024
A distraught wife believes her successful husband is having an illicit affair with a much younger woman and comes up with a deadly scheme on Christmas Eve for revenge.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Echoes of Broken Promisesby  Andrea Zastrow
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2025
When a slick, absentee father blows in unexpectedly on Father’s Day, his resentful adult son has an epiphany as he protects his own son from all-too-familiar grandiose, but empty, promises.

Genre: Drama
20 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Rhino vs. Gorillaby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
When Ronald takes a seat on a park bench, he simply wishes to enjoy his lunch in peace. But when his banana rings like a phone, he answers it and receives a message that turns his life upside down. (Surreal comic fantasy. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Killer Cupidby  Janet Prescott
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2025
A serial killer in real life proves a hard habit to break for Cupid in the after-life.

Genre: Horror
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Invasion of Panamaby  Robert Michael Benn
Date Posted: 16 Sep 2025
In 1989, Noreiga seizes control of Panama. Protagonist (101st Airborne) Robert & President Bush take it back, install democratic Engara, and sip lemonade afterwards in Kentucky.

Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Can We Partner This Deal?by  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
With buzzwords on cellphones, a young businessman and a young businesswoman try to plan their future.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Cellby  Bill Wyza
Date Posted: 19 Jul 2025
An imprisoned man must find a way to escape his captors before time runs out.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Not the Brightest Guy in the Worldby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A hard-working, middled-aged plumber admits that he's not the brightest guy in the world, then struggles to understand why his middle-aged lady is happy one minute, sad the next, and mad the next

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Selfby  Truong Nguyen
Date Posted: 15 Sep 2025
The story of a young man living an uninspired life, getting drunk all alone and talking to himself about his life choices.

Genre: Artistic
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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I Will Wait For Youby  Kevin Silva
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2025
A legendary lawman separates from the attractive fugitive he's fallen for and attempts to cover up her connection to a mysterious heist.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Bearby  DeWayne Bricker
Date Posted: 21 Oct 2025
When a rogue bear terrorizes the Alaskan Wilderness, a stranded doctor and his Yupik friend and their twin loyal huskies must survive the night where man and predator share the same hunger.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Anne's Forever Christmas Treeby  Andrew Bowen, APR
Date Posted: 10 Oct 2025
Struck by a soft blue bolt of lightning that gives her mysterious powers, a fir tree that becomes a beloved Christmas tree teams up with the family's Irish Setter to work wonders in the house that leave the baffled family members joyously scratching their heads in gratitude. And when Christmas is over, the magic really happens!

Genre: Family
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Find My Fiendsby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 31 Aug 2024
When the party hostess isn’t answering calls her friends assume she’s been kidnapped and use a tracking app to locate her - with fatal consequences…

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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His Fatherby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2025
A man scarred by his abusive past must confront his estranged father's secret love and a devastating family truth, leading him to choose forgiveness and a fragile new beginning.

Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Farther’s Debtby  Fahad Joyfield
Date Posted: 12 May 2024
When a former hitman's daughter is kidnapped, he must confront his past and make an impossible choice: protect the girl he loves or make amends for his sins by giving her back to her rightful family.

Genre: Action/Adventure
34 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Take A Step Backby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2024
A late night act of kindness has shocking consequences. Based on a real event.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Sweet Reflectionby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 12 Oct 2025
A man's worth is not measured by his wealth but by the difference he makes to others. An elderly shopkeeper is reminded of his worth in the community just as he loses all faith.

Genre: Drama
19 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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The Openingby  Jon McDonald
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
At an erotic art opening, the patrons react, amusingly, to the sexy art. The Ice Queen gallery owner, Laura, ignored by her flirting husband, is approached by one of her young and sexy artists. He offers her the gift of exotic perfume, making clear he is seeking more. She evades him, but the perfume and the art open her up to new possibilities.

Genre: Romance
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Making Wavesby  Drew Larimore
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2025
A questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Murder Inkby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2024
After witnessing her tattooist father murdered, his orphaned daughter uses his dying gift to payback his killers in a uniquely creative way.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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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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
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Eugenia Clarkby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2025
Pink Obsessed Eugenia Clark meets a tired Santa Claus and teaches him the value of asking for help, and reminds him that breaking with tradition isn't always necessarily a bad thing.

Genre: Family
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2025
In the lobby of a New Orleans hotel, a Brooklyn-born businessman inadvertently offends a local woman. Instead of apologising, he compounds his error, which causes the woman to return insults. However, peace soon breaks out, and tension releases as the two begin to enjoy each other’s company significantly more than seemed possible.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Giggedby  Joseph B. Atkins
Date Posted: 06 Jun 2024
A bullying ex-con taunts his elderly uncle as they wrap up a night of frog gigging, even boasting about having sex with the uncle’s young granddaughter. A fugitive arrives on the scene, tries to steal their truck, and inadvertently enables the old man—with his granddaughter’s help--to get the revenge he’d planned.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Aunt Lillian's Lipby  John W Welch
Date Posted: 09 Oct 2025
What happens when what we thought were true turns out to be an incorrect memory.

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