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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
What Day Is It?by  Bill Rutkoski
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2025
A struggling actor wakes up each day to find the calendar reshuffled—Mondays vanish, Fridays repeat, and Saturdays won’t let go. But when he witnesses the same murder three times in one looping Saturday, he must stop the crime before time skips away for good.

Genre: Other
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
A Most Unusual Visitorby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 10 Jan 2025
A woman receives a visit from a man who is the spitting image of her dead husband.

Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The House that Whispersby  Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 24 Dec 2024
Two boys explore an abandoned house rumored to answer questions with eerie whispers, but a cruel prank turns deadly when the house reveals it has secrets—and a sinister voice—of its own

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lurve and Other Five-Letter Wordsby  Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
In a New Orleans hotel lobby, a Brooklyn 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 realise they have common ground and begin to enjoy one another’s company – quite a lot.

Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Simonby  Shelly Paino
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
When a teacher reads Edgar Allen Poe to her sixth graders on Halloween, she must find out why one student’s interest in the poem borders on obsession.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Kindness Coinsby  M.r. Fitzgerald
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2024
A budding artist orders a Muse Bot named Camille to inspire him. Little does he know that the more she learns...the harder she is to control.

Genre: Sci-Fi
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 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
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
Family Abuseby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
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
It's Not A Bear! It Has A Bigger Foot!by  Casey Newel
Date Posted: 19 Mar 2025
College students battle turmoil in filming their student film project and the urge to film a terrifying creature they encounter in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Genre: Horror
19 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Famous Fathersby  Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2024
Two wildly contrasting icons of the 20th Century share an encounter which saves them both.

Genre: Artistic
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tis the seasonby  Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2024
Seeking revenge for the loss of his family, Jack captures the person behind the crime and makes him feel his pain.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life Recycleby  Jackie Bateman
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
A young woman working for a company that recycles human souls finds peace within an eco-burial ground over the loss of her cantankerous mother.

Genre: Comedy
10 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
The Girl Who Rode a Wolfby  Pelham Mead III
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2025
Based on folklore and true stories of the Pawnee Indians in the mid 1880s . She who rode a wolf is a Pawnee folktale of a young girl who was associated with the North Star.

Genre: Drama
23 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
O Nadador (The Swimmer)by  Mark
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2023
During a swim, a young Portuguese soldier gets pulled from shore by an ocean current only to discover a floating dead body of a woman who's key to his survival. Based on a true story.

Genre: Drama
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Freebornby  Shane Harbinson
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2024
When a young girl with extraordinary mental abilities catches the attention of a totalitarian regime seeking to exploit her gifts, her working-class cyborg father must survive an interrogation in a desperate attempt to buy time for his daughter's escape and protect the essence of their humanity. 'Coverfly top 1% genre'

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alone with Himselfby  Anastasiia Borisova
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2024
What if an ordinary little kid is left alone without any support? Do you know what a little person experiences when he has to cope with difficulties alone? Perhaps each of us has experienced this, but do you remember how scary it was?

Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
You're Not Invitedby  Jacques
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024
After a 2024 NYE celebrating, a man wakes up alone to a quiet world realizing all minorities have disappeared from the planet. He struggles valiantly to figure out, "Where did everyone go?"

Genre: Sci-Fi
43 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Killerby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 27 Aug 2024
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
Beauty Beholdby  Steven Burton
Date Posted: 08 Nov 2024
A beautiful young woman changes her focus from outer to inner beauty after a natural disaster accident.

Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mr. Bowling Ballby  Simon Parker
Date Posted: 28 Jan 2025
When a young boy takes his father's advice to be bold with his comedy a bit too seriously, he ends up accidentally traumatizing his boss with a literal interpretation, turning a simple office skit into an unforgettable disaster

Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All This and Heaven, Tooby  John Porter
Date Posted: 05 May 2025
A quiet young man and woman buy an old house, then wonder how they can cope with a loud religious congregation next door.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Monster Mansionby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
On the last day of the carnival, young Billy Slater enters a haunted house and never returns.

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
SMILE - Its an Ulster Affairby  Alan Riley
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2024
Amidst the political chaos of Stormont, a hapless but well-intentioned intern accidentally triggers a series of hilarious misadventures when he uncovers a scandalous secret, forcing unlikely allies from opposing parties to band together and save face before their antics bring down the entire political establishment. *Has twists and turns!*

Genre: Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Detective With Unique Talentby  Grag Raymond
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2024
Christina, an excellent police detective, has a unique talent to feel a murderer in a person and this helps to quickly reveal and catch him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The High-Speed Chaseby  D. Greene
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2024
This white Ford Bronco isn’t going to drive itself. Hop in. You’ve watched them on the news. Now you’re going to be in one. Pursued white Ford Bronco meets the L.A. freeway as millions watch renegade Park Ranger Adam Henry’s bumbling attempt to recover his carjacked work truck, the true bad guy and his pride.

Genre: Action/Adventure
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas Tree or Bustby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2024
As December approaches, dusty ornaments in the attic spiffy themselves up, get makeovers and begin exercise regimens as they vie for a spot on the Christmas tree. (Award-winning screenwriter and journalist; see IMDB for writer's credits.)

Genre: Animation
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Customer Service Lifeby  Derek L. Polen
Date Posted: 01 Aug 2024
A customer service rep shows the challenges they face when trying to make customers happy.

Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Vaccineby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2024
The Covid vaccines turn people into Zombies and another vaccine is promised to remedy the original vaccine. The second vaccine causes male sterility.

Genre: Sci-Fi
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Save the Last Danceby  John J McWilliams
Date Posted: 21 Jan 2025
The last two soldiers to be killed in World War 1 are thrown together just before they meet their tragic fate.

Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Mary's Last Giftby  Andrea Lynn Anthony
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2024
Struggling with addiction and a devastating AIDS diagnosis, a homeless woman discovers that the compassionate nurse treating her is the daughter she gave up 25 years ago. As they forge a bond, a hidden truth emerges through a forbidden DNA test, leading to a poignant journey of redemption, loss, and the rediscovery of family.

Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night Skyby  Brendan Lee
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2024
In a not too distant future, a Mother, daughter, and Grandfather try to survive life on another planet after fleeing a planet Earth that has become uninhabitable.

Genre: Sci-Fi
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trifling Heiferby  Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 17 Aug 2024
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
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
Clownby  DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A little girl lures Kathy into the funhouse to find her mommy.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby  Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2025
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Horror/Comedy. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)

Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Suspectsby  Will Johnson
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025
A grieving man befriends a mysterious stranger, finding answers to what happened to his deceased wife.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
She Confused The Tableby  Kline Fishborn
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
During a date Angie confuses the table in a restaurant and sits down with another man. But the man does not admit that he is not the one with whom she is on a date because he liked from the beginning.

Genre: Romance
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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