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A confident house-hunting career woman finds more than she bargained for when she spots a mysterious figure in the upstairs window and decides to investigate. One character, one location.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
Dietrich Sloaneby  Tidy Eye
A MAGICAL DABBLER is tricked into murder by a DEMON.

Genre: Horror
25 pages
Herbie and the Snowboogiemanby  Charles Webb
Herbie made a snowman. Now the snowman is making mayhem. Only Herbie can stop him. If he really wants to.

Genre: Comedy
44 pages
Unplugging Aunt Veraby  Angela Page
What if your living will mistakenly gave a stranger the power to unplug your life support? Kay's elderly Aunt Vera, a formerly promiscuous showgirl, falls into a coma and is at the mercy of a local psychic.

Genre: Comedy
17 pages
The Lemonade Standby  Melissa Field
Monica's dreams of being a doctor crash and burn when she discovers she can't handle the workload. Unsure what to do she moves back in with her parents. Her parents alarm for her grows when she declares she's found her new path: opening a lemonade stand.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
The Cleanerby  Jez McMillan
Bern works as a "cleaner" for a local crime lord. Essentially what he does is hack into Police Closed Circuit TV networks and erases any footage that might incriminate his boss. But one day he discovers CCTV footage of himself murdering a woman and is given a blank ultimatum by a mysterious caller: kill his boss or the incriminating fake footage of him will be surrendered to the police.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
14 pages
Live Action Anachronismby  Jared Wynn
A group of Live Action Role Players manages to find some common ground even though one of their members is sporting an out-of-context costume. (Four characters, one exterior location. In the vein of a "WKUK" or "Key & Peele" sketch.)

Genre: Comedy
4 pages
A Really True American Love Storyby  Christian Blaney
A 19 year old Boy throws a party, and kisses the girl that he would eventually marry.

Genre: Drama
9 pages
A 20 year old single mother with a rough past and present is accused of murdering her young son, and is vilified by media sensationalism and investigative judgment to the point of false conviction.

Genre: Drama
40 pages
The Wishing Wellby  Susan Hahn
Two young girls take a blood oath to never grow old. One of them succeeds.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Destiny Deliversby  Mindy Goldhammer
You can choose your friends but you can't choose your family. Ben does not have that option. He is bullied by his mother to marry the girl of her choice. He becomes outraged and searches for sanctuary. Destiny follows him and manifests a stunning transformation in his life.

Genre: Romance
6 pages
The Horror Seriesby  Ange Fassinou
A Young couple discover a mysterious book that leads them to live horrible and dangerous adventures.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
40 pages
In the Scottish Highlands, an old man finds himself face to face with a creature from legend - and a memory from the past which threatens to take away the last of what he still holds dear.

Genre: Horror
13 pages
How I Became Famous (Comedy/drama)by  Fassinou Ange
The unbelievable story of Thomas Bold, the homeless man who wanted to be famous.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
The Woman from Estero Bayby  Michael Fawcett
When a seaside town’s new woman doctor examines the bizarre body of a woman pulled from the open sea by a hard-up fisherman and his two sons, she becomes an even greater curiosity than the dead woman herself.

Genre: Sci-Fi
29 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
Memory Lineby  Aatish Thakerar
In a future where memory line software allows users to revisit old memories, the technology's billionaire founder returns home after a twenty year absence. Writing reviewed by Wendy Mitchell (Editor of Screen International) as "snappily written, with a great pace about it...dialogue also well written."

Genre: Artistic
16 pages
Dex and Duny: Voyage to Earthby  John Witcher
Dex and Duny are two not so intelligent life forms. Follow them on their journey to Earth. A low budget film. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxYJFAy6zno&feature=c4-overview&list=UUMf34nEb1KkEfazjEHrL9gA

Genre: Animation
5 pages
Terminal Zby  Anthony Cawood
A critically ill patient seeks a radical cure as his surgeon tries to disuade him from his terminal choice.

Genre: Horror
5 pages
Centuries-old origin of Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary hound unfolds in a self-contained excerpt from the feature-length œCurse of the Baskervilles, a modern rendition of the classic novella.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Indian Summerby  Michel Corbeil
An elderly, retired piano teacher, now an invalid, fears to be abandoned by her slightly younger sister and caregiver who is about to get married for the first time. Low budget. One-set. Challenging script for two terrific actresses in their 70s.

Genre: Drama
26 pages
The Wu Tang Project or Death Gameby  Fassinou Ange
A great Fighter, Wu Tang, is obliged to fight dangerous and pitiless adversaries through different rooms to save his son and his wife, captured by the Creator of the Death Game project.

Genre: Action/Adventure
30 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
Valarie's Simple Giftby  Michael Bavota
Valarie's Simple Gift is a fictional heart-warming story for the entire family that involves a girl (Valarie), as a Down Syndrome adult and as a child, an old hat and a random act of kindness that results in a healing miracle for a paralyzed Vietnamese refugee boy.

Genre: Family
15 pages
A hunger for more. Feeding on the innocent. Innocence strikes back. (Haiku)

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Gone Fishingby  Jason Clowers
While fishing, a young boy named James meets an unexpected visitor.

Genre: Family
7 pages
Keep Connectedby  Susan Hahn
The head of the KEEP CONNECTED TALENT AGENCY receives a phone call the propels to wrap a reality show that has been 75 years in the making.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
11 pages
Who Needs a Conscience?by  George Klembith
You want to treat people badly but you feel bad.

You want to kill someone but you might feel guilty.

Well.... wouldn't be wonderful if there was a place you could have your conscience removed?

In... Out... and no more guilt.

Genre: Comedy
2 pages
Sadie Hawkinsby  Stephen Camelio
In this teen-adventure-comedy, a high school girl's life turns into an action film when she decides to ask a popular boy to a Sadie Hawkins dance.

Genre: Action/Adventure
14 pages
Buddy Can You Spare a Job?by  Tom Dwyer
Two men enter a business office to apply for a job. The owner of this small marketing novelty company is a Mexican woman in her thirties, who likes to bet on the horses. One of the men looking for a job is in his sixties, the other man is only in his twenties. At the very beginning neither men like each other. In the end they must work together. A comedy.

Genre: Comedy
5 pages
The Seanceby  Barbara Palmer
When your wife and mistress want to know why another woman’s underwear was in your car, being dead doesn’t always get you off the hook. (One interior set.)

Genre:
19 pages
The Night I Met The Boogiemanby  Charles Webb
What's so scary about the boogieman?

Genre: Drama
1 pages
Killer Viewsby  Alan Barkley
When a realtor and a prospective buyer view a California coastal home, their past connections lead to complications and conflict . one location. 2 female characters.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
A child psychologist makes a chilling discover that puts into question all her beliefs and theories.

Genre: Horror
3 pages
The line between fiction and reality starts to blur for a novelist as he writes the end of his latest piece. NOTE: Writer is repped at Caliber Media and made the 2013 Hit List.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
The Bitter Taste of Champagneby  Stuart Creque
In the staff car, Chantal rides with Wehrmacht Colonel Hassler, headed to a lavish party. In the vineyard, her lover Philippe waits in ambush with his French Resistance fighters.

Genre: Action/Adventure
5 pages
Hand of Godby  Mark Stavar
A deeply religious hitman, who is controlled by a corrupt Catholic priest, is told in a vision that he must now protect the very woman that he has been instructed to kill.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cosmic Justiceby  Linda Bosso
An American doctor, searching for his Scottish kinsmen, is sidetracked by a cosmic connection.

Genre: Other
25 pages
What if there was a second pregnant couple that night long ago in ancient Bethlehem?

Genre: Comedy
15 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
 
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