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The Windowby Mark Ndlovu
Date Posted: 11 Sep 2024
A reclusive man and an enigmatic artist living across the street engage in a silent but profound connection through drawings in their windows, sparking an unspoken bond that compels him to step beyond his comfort zone and into her world.
Genre: Romance
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Logicby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2024
A woman wants the simplest things, but why should a man give it to her? That's the question plaguing Bear's mind.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wicked Girlfriendby Melissa Diane Hudson
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2023
When a vivacious teenage girl is dumped on prom night by her notable, good-looking boyfriend, she plots how to strike back with the ultimate revenge, but gets a rude awakening when the tables turn.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Pair of Brown Oxfords in the Middle Grey Boothby Charles Webb
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2024
I hadn't really noticed it until I zipped up my pants.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Living in the Pastby Bernhard Riedhammer
Date Posted: 26 May 2024
A 30-year-old disillusioned loner must deal with his estranged and socially awkward father, after he suffers a stroke losing part of his memory. Both share a painful past he cannot forget, and his father cannot remember.
Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
32 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Missing Girlsby Yura Shevchuk
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2024
Arriving in a small town, two girls fall into sexual slavery with the local sheriff and his assistant.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Boycotted by Prejudiceby Carlos Galinho Pires
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2023
An insanely handsome man goes through an introspective journey to understand why his life is perfectly worse than everybody else's.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
I Know That I Am Dreamingby Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2024
A heartbroken man goes to the utmost extreme to hold onto the memories of his lost true love, neglecting himself, and his reality, all to live within the false world he created within lucid dreams just to be with her.
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ozmosisby Jim Kowalski
Date Posted: 28 Oct 2024
A young professional’s life is changed for eternity when he unwittingly makes the choice between trading one heinous addiction for another on a different level.
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Days of Gloryby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
A sidewalk shoeshine man touches the life of a hopeless customer. (1 location, 2 actors.)
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Chicken Crossingby Nathan M. Scrivens
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2024
A determined Chicken endures a series of humorous challenges in his quest to cross a road and reach a tempting apple.
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Dollby DJ Robbins
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2025
A mysterious elf doll arrives on Helen's front door step on Christmas Eve and weird stuff starts to happen.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leaving Nowhereby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Excited by life's possibilities, a young baseball named Johnny is batted into the woods and never found. He awakens in a strange land called Nowhere, where all lost and forgotten items end up. But he vows to escape and prove that he and his forgotten friends have plenty of life left in them.
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shoplifterby Sarah Kennedy
Date Posted: 06 Feb 2024
Rural vigilantes misappropriate justice when they accost a man suspected of shoplifting at the local Walmart.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Genre: Action/Adventure
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Latin-American Victimby Jason Kirman
Date Posted: 10 Jul 2024
The police find two young women of Hispanic appearance in different locations. Roberto, who is the former of the two victims, is suspected of their murders but he suddenly disappears.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
8 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
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
Genre: Action/Adventure
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Night of the Swingin' Deadby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2025
A zombie desires to dance like his hero, Fred Astaire. But first he must find a willing teacher. (Comedy/horror. 1 location, 2 main actors. Winner of Best Short Screenplay at Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.)
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Shrouded by Shadowby Hutira Gábor
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2025
Ryu Hayashi, a skilled ninja of the Shadow Syndicate, one day he is tasked with a mission to eliminate a thief, only to discover that the thief is just a poor man who stole vegetables to feed his starving family. Rejecting the mission, Ryu is marked as a rogue and must fight for his life against his former allies, facing the consequences of his decision.
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
40 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Three Lines of Zailaby Andrew Bowen
Date Posted: 12 Mar 2024
After they rescue and adopt a lost female wolf pup, the matriarch of a farm family of German Shepherds tells her brood the mystical story of how one line of ancient wolves remained wolves and another became dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history.
Genre: Animation
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Vengeance Appby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 19 Aug 2024
Desperate for retribution against her bullies, a tormented teen obtains a sinister app allowing her to execute a revenge of her choosing upon them — but soon discovers it comes with chilling consequences as her actions begin to consume her own life.
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Schrödinger's Momby Phil Abrams
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024
A man with autism must face the new reality of being parentless, and yet his neurodiverse perspective helps his caretaker discover there’s more than one way to look at life.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
No Nailsby John Ravitz
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2025
A grieving police detective who serves as a Eucharistic Minister identifies a mob hitman while serving Holy Communion and must tread the line between his sacred duties and the need to stop a killer before he kills again.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
34 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Toilet Whispererby John Fraser
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025
An airport handyman is put in a position of unthinkable jeopardy as a blocked W.C. threatens, 'blowback'
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cimpleby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2024
Darryl and his right hand man Ryan's lavish lifestyle from drug dealing comes apart when Darryl’s girlfriend Sharice unveils something sinister neither one of them saw coming.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Making Wavesby Drew Larimore
Date Posted: 26 Jan 2025
An questioning isolated young man in rural Maine pursues a summertime tryst with a local merman.
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Table for 3by Michael Joseph
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2024
A brother and sister, entrenched in crime with their abusive uncle, make a routine stop at a diner. But when tempers flare, their ordinary night takes an unexpected turn
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
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
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Perfect Christmas Treeby Alan Barkley
Date Posted: 06 Dec 2024
When a father and mother visit a Christmas tree lot looking for the right tree for their new home, they discovery that their four-year-old daughter has her own idea of what constitutes the perfect tree.
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cyrus Myers: Psychic Vampireby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 21 Apr 2024
After killing his father, Cyrus Myers haunts the girl who reject him through her dreams while institutionalized.
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Mesmerizedby Mike Bevins
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2024
Love can be dangerous. *Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards*
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
35 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Kick-Ass Picnicby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2024
Neal and Amy meet up for their first date, a relaxing picnic in the woods. But their tranquility is soon thwarted by spoiled food, a sudden skin rash, an angry tree, and lots of blood. (1 location, 3 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Comedy
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
7 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
Child Starby Simon
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2024
When James discovers that his parents secretly uploaded every moment of his childhood to YouTube, amassing a fortune without his knowledge, he embarks on a journey to reclaim his money.
Genre: Drama
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
11 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
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Brain Foodby John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A psychiatric patient in a counselling session must come to terms with a trauma that they must overcome to lead a normal life.
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
