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When the Leaves Start to Fallby kathleen stevens
A student is sent to fight in Burma during the Second World War, but the night before leaving, he has a nightmare when he is smothered by falling leaves, so beginning a year when, fighting in the jungle, he recovers from Malaria, has a fling with his nurse, is captured by the Japanese, survives, only to then face an arduous hike back to freedom, returning home just as the leaves start to fall.
Genre: Action/Adventure
33 pages
Genre: Action/Adventure
33 pages
The Craziesby John Rae
A young receptionist at a plastic surgeon's office wanted nothing more than to have the afternoon off to celebrate her birthday. Instead she must fight ghosts, demons, and her pain-in-the-butt boss when a patient claims her breast implants are possessed.
Genre: Horror
21 pages
Genre: Horror
21 pages
For I Have Sinnedby Sheri Tor
A young boy’s prank has dangerous repercussions when he plants a tape recorder in the neighborhood congressional and overhears a local shop owner confess to murder.
Genre:
15 pages
Genre:
15 pages
GRANDPA FONZ-Cool Never Grows Oldby Frank Vespe
After he loses his wife to a drunk diver, Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli plans to move into an Assisted Living Residence, but when his daughter's Air Force husband is shot down over Afghanistan, he's forced to move in to help raise her twin children, one of which is overweight, stutters, and bullied in school. When the principal of the local Middle School offers him a Security Guard position to squash the school's rampant bullying problem, Grandpa Fonz gladly joins the fight.
Genre: Family
33 pages
Genre: Family
33 pages
Reel Stageby Amanda Raymond
A Shakespearean actor's limits are tested when an action film director is brought in to direct the stage play of Hamlet.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
The Break Upby Chloe Humphreys
Why would a mediocre, unemployed, jam band musician, who still lives with his parents want to break up with Jenn, an intelligent, attractive woman with a career? That’s what Jenn desperately tries to find out but the harder she tries the more he retreats. After one year and several œcoincidental cafà meetings later, Jenn realizes that although there is nothing else she can do, there is still one last thing that he should know.
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Leviathanby mark stavar
What if researchers working to integrate bio-technology with a giant squid for deep ocean research discovered a sentient being?
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
Genre: Sci-Fi
20 pages
The President's Letterby Patrick McNamara
A bitter, sarcastic correspondence writer who works for the U.S. Government in D.C. is forced by his feisty new boss to write condolence letters for the President, so he deliberately does a bad job, until his boss makes him hand-deliver one of his letters to a grieving African American grandmother in a poor suburb of D.C. who pretends she can’t read or write.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Genre: Drama
15 pages
S3rialby Michael E Berg
A lowly beat cop canvasses a barbershop for leads on an unsolved murder and finds the killer -- only he doesn’t know it.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
A Day in the Shark Tankby John Keckhaver
Unprovoked, a predator takes two innocent lives on the street.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Heart Rateby Alan Barkley
When a male and female cop enter an abandoned building looking for a cop killer, they are soon hunting each other. Lots of action- on foot - no car chases. Winner Vail Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, short film category.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
How a Man of Vision Learns to Seeby John Porter
An elderly, extremely successful man shows how he has become a man of vision: he's looked through the eyes of others, thanked them for their vision, and enjoyed it with them.
Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Genre: Artistic
4 pages
Interrogationby Scott Carter
Hung over, a woman tries to figure out who she slept with last night.
Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Genre: Comedy
9 pages
Dreaming Peter Weaverby John Keckhaver
A boy genius finds enough revenge, pleasure and room to create in his dreams to help him through the drudgery and malevolence of the real world around him.
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
Genre: Fantasy
12 pages
The Ultimate Manby Diana Suber
Hilarious and unexpected œglitches ensue when a brilliant single woman takes matters into her own hands by building herself the ultimate man.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Genre: Romantic Comedy
17 pages
Shadow Playby Jonathan Clancy
A geeky schoolboy, whose cocky shadow has a life of it’s own, must rise to the occasion to impress the girl of his dreams.
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Genre: Animation
4 pages
Edie Plus Rexby Bonita Maffei
A Black Tragic Comedy, inspired by the Greek myth of Oedipus Rex. A man unwittingly murders his father and marries his mother. One page, one location.
Genre:
1 pages
Genre:
1 pages
Judasby Karl Larsson
Six weeks till opening night, and a hitman is hired to kill the actor playing Jesus, but everything isn't quite as it seems.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
9 pages
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
9 pages
The Shineby Dena McKinnon
After a night of boozing, a woman wakes up next to a dead man.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Early Mourning (SG SERIES)by Ramona Baillie
Mindy and Shari prepare for a funeral.
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Genre: Comedy
5 pages
Love with Issuesby Jonathan Logan
A young woman is reliving her past, while she struggles to figure out her life.
Genre: Drama
45 pages
Genre: Drama
45 pages
23 Minutesby Penny Minor
When a fired employee goes on a shooting rampage, a group of employees must put aside their differences and work together to survive the next 23 minutes.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
26 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
26 pages
The Docksby Jack McGuire
Patrolman Steve Karr, a modern day NYC cop, ditraught over his father's death in a violent thunderstorm at sea, steps onto a Brooklyn fishing pier and becomes involved in a gunfight with Prohibition day bootleggers and a harbor patrol boat from another era.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
It Came Upon A Midnight Clearby Ted King
When a troubled woman running away during the holiday season finds herself the only patron at an out of the way diner, she soon discovers the owner is not who he claims to be. But neither is she!
Genre: Fantasy
11 pages
Genre: Fantasy
11 pages
Killing Targetby Fassinou Ange
The story follows a hitman who uses subliminal messages to bait innocent people to do the killings for him, leaving the innocent people to take the blame while he is allowed to walk free. With LA Detectives clued on to what is actually happening, they race against the clock before the hitman kills again.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
45 pages
Rest in Pieceby Sheri Tor
The investigation surrounding a series of killings focuses on a domestic abuse shelter, a stalking husband and an ear on one of the victims that forensics says isn't his.
Genre:
25 pages
Genre:
25 pages
Memory Lineby Aatish Thakerar
In a future where ˜memory line’ software allows its users to revisit their memories, the technology’s billionaire founder returns home after a twenty year absence.
Genre: Fantasy
23 pages
Genre: Fantasy
23 pages
Asylumby Janet Goodman-Clarke
A young man in the 1890s is sentenced to an Asylum for the crime of love. Will he survive the loneliness and the brutality - or are worse things waiting, behind those walls? Mental institutions make for strange bedfellows...
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Give My Love to Roseby Michael Sieve
A widowed woman (Rose) finally hears the dying words of her murdered husband from the man who was falsely accused of killing him.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Kateby Keturah Miller
A young rebellious Bahamian slave risks it all in order to get freedom for an entire plantation even if it means losing her life.
Genre: Drama
24 pages
Genre: Drama
24 pages
Killing Foolby Marjory Kaptanoglu
A woman tries to escape the clutches of a macabre April Fool’s Day killer. (Top 5 finalist KCWIFT; 5 pgs, 2 characters, 1 location.)
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Dating A Man With Two Penisesby George Klembith
Two men discuss the risks of dating a woman who has a "V-Snapper". Rumor has it that if you don't sexually satisfy her, the V Snapper snaps off your manhood. Worth the risk... I think not,
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
Genre: Comedy
4 pages
The Catchby Tenel writers
Fish can be used in many ways. Ask the drug dealer how. Honorable Mention 3X3: 2007
Genre:
3 pages
Genre:
3 pages
Big Catchby Jason McCloy
A film crew from a small news station visits the remote town of Beauford to do a piece on the Big Catch fishing competition. In true mockumentary style, they meet the local six time Big Catch champion, Bobby Ray, and come to find there really are such things as backwoods divas.
Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Genre: Comedy
16 pages
Never Judge a Book By Its Coverby James Collins
Pugnacious gent chastises a young woman whom he believes to be a œBig Issue vendor, but in a surreal twist of fate her true vocation comes back to bite him in the backside.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Live Fast, Die Funby Desiree Streamland
A new high school teacher teeters on the brink of inappropriate conduct versus mentorship, when he helps a directionless teen girl find her passion, by exposing her to various subjects and activities.
Genre: Drama
28 pages
Genre: Drama
28 pages
Cageyby J. J. Hillard
Anticipating a severe reprimand for a failed drug deal, two criminal operatives in a safe house await a phone call from their mysterious boss, but instead get a surprise directive that may have deadly consequences for one of them. [Nominated for best dialogue/Action on Film Festival]
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
7 pages
The Party Houseby Ronald Fordham
A screenplay that features one location and three characters, The Party House is about a teenage couple who trespass into an abandoned home while looking for a secluded party location and meet a mysterious young woman who claims to live in the house with her grandfather.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Spitting Nailsby Charles Hall
Lowlife carpenter and fading rugby player Rusty Carson confronts his dark sexual past when a former hookup he wronged seeks retribution.
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
9 pages
Genre: Gay/Lesbian
9 pages
Dead Societyby James Pickering
A fractured family respond to the news of an outbreak of zombies in the town in very different ways.
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Genre: Horror
10 pages
Genre: Horror
10 pages
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