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The Echoby  Amrita Baines
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2025
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 natural—until 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
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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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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
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In Loving Memoryby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
After her unfaithful husband’s death, a vengeful widow uses advanced funerary technology to trap his consciousness—forcing him to confront his sins for eternity.

Genre: Sci-Fi
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Fireflies or C.S.H.C.?by  Martin Richmond
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
Avoiding certain incineration by the skin of his teeth, a young man basks on a desert isle, reflecting on his survival and the manic, apocalyptic balloon flight he shared with Alfred Hitchcock!

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Balloon Releaseby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 06 May 2024
Mourning the loss of their friend, a group goes live expressing their emotions towards the people who killed him, having no idea something more sinister is at hand.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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A Gift from Grandmaby  Shane R. Nolan
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2024
A young woman receives a gift from her late grandmother that bears damning consequences for opening.

Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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Dunkirk Spiritby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2023
Two strangers meet on the deck of a cross-channel ferry. One makes the other a business proposal, and with a little financial incentive, they agree on a deal. However, the chance meeting is not as random as it seemed for one of the pair.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Just Take a Breathby  Roberta M Roy
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2024
New to the newsroom a happily married young woman, struggles to avoid risking her marriage when she experiences an unexpectedly strong attraction to a just met co-worker with whom she will be working regularly. * 2023: Semi Finalist: Dallas Shorts; Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival; Sydney Indie Shorts Festival; Dallas Movie Awards Festival*

Genre: Romance
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Omar and Jimmyby  Phil Naiman
Date Posted: 27 Jan 2025
A dominant house cat tries to prevent the family’s new rescue puppy from being returned to the shelter and its dire consequences.

Genre: Animation
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Betty and Booby  Patrice Sarath
Date Posted: 28 Jul 2024
When the human Boo discovers the cockroach Betty in her bedroom, all-out war ensues as she seeks to destroy the pest, but in the end, her humanity gets the best of her and they both learn to live and let live.

Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Darker Side of Goodnessby  John Porter
Date Posted: 04 May 2025
A horror/dark comedy/Halloween script based on Cheryl Pierson’s short story in which a young man meets a demon who offers him the chance to see whether his wife really does love him.

Genre: Horror
23 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Knockoutby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2024
A BOXER receives devastating news from his Wife seconds before a Championship Bout.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Dr. Coup De Graceby  Sherrie Presson
Date Posted: 16 Apr 2024
A disgruntled husband tricks a mercy killer into killing his wife, who is recovering from plastic surgery. Produced screenwriter: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4977524/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_1_wr

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 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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Something Sinisterby  Dexter Williams
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2024
A young lady gets hypnotized by a mysterious gypsy woman in order to overcome her tremendous fear of snakes.

Genre: Horror
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Nasty Nightby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2025
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
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Winds of Kandaharby  PAUL BYRNE
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2025
Racing the clock on 9/11, a two-fisted female private eye goes head-to-head with a terrorist sleeper cell and risks everything to save the Pentagon on that fateful day.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
40 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Search the Darknessby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Saving a beautiful protester from being killed, Curtis thinks he's found love, but has second thoughts about her when she staples his lips shut and straps enough explosives to him to bring down a building.

Genre: Action/Adventure
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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It's My Lifeby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A family drama in which a young Indian-American woman struggles to decide whether to continue living with her parents or to move into an apartment with her American boyfriend.

Genre: Family
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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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The Worst of Timesby  Daniel J. Broderick
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
But I never really said, "Let them eat cake." Everything that's happening is not my fault. Too late. The revolution is here. You and your kind are doomed. Marie Antoinette or Melania Trump? You decide.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Love Sex Shoesby  Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2025
LOGLINE When an edgy aging Casanova hooks up with a young sophisticated lawyer who favors Louboutins, past mistakes are dredged up with tragic consequences... and the possibility of acceptance.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Kuzuri: Dark Avengerby  NG
Date Posted: 03 May 2024
Story happens in Japan. When a young man with a superpower and a dark past struggles to keep the city safe and his family's company successful, a woman with a revenge plan comes to destroy everything, leading him to rethink his purposes and bring peace to the city and to himself.

Genre: Fantasy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
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Double Dutyby  Theresa Meeker Pickett
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2024
A single mom clones herself to break free from the limitations of her own life, but when the original version self-destructs, her oldest child builds a time machine to show her what she truly needs as a mother.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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Carrie, Walter, and Garboby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 17 Nov 2023
A man sits alone in an empty theatre to wait for a Greta Garbo film to begin, and then a woman stranger, sits next to him.  Confrontation ignites; technical problems delay the screening, humor, and then this couple share surprise revelations.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
13 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Feed Geeseby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
A young man jogs and feeds geese as a diversion while he decides to come out as gay to his girlfriend.

Genre: Gay/Lesbian
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Dedicatedby  Lisa Marie Brennan
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Lucy arrives at a creepy old mansion for a dinner date with misfit Harold-a creepily pale young man with a rare breathing condition, who she plans to trick into marriage and swindle, only to get the tables turned on her by his even creepier family.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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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
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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
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Killing The Changelingby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2024
A couple has the misfortune of having a dark elf switch its deformed offspring for the couple's healthy, human one.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Behind the 8 Ballby  John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young man must either make a billiard shot or lose his beautiful young wife to an evil old man.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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All Inby  Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2024
After losing their club, a clique of Miami male strippers tries to save their income and relationships by robbing a bank.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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The Crosses We Bearby  Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 01 May 2024
Stefon and Cin are aspiring "influencers," traveling the US in an effort to create content. Within their fake relationship, they partner to build wealth and fame in any way they can. One stop along the highway serves a dish of karma neither expected.

Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Accountabilityby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
Deciding to bury the hatchet, Rosa invites her mother over for dinner so she can explain why her father wasn’t in her life. The answers Rosa receives are nothing compared to the ones she gives Giselle, exposing the true reason why.

Genre: Drama
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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Ride Shareby  Marc Prey
Date Posted: 05 Feb 2025
A despondent ride-share driver picks up a female passenger who just may be his recently-deceased wife. Three characters. Most of the story takes place inside the car. Shocking twist in final moments.

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