One of the absolute best parts of screenwriting is getting to see all the incredible ideas that writers come up with. A true vast multitude of concepts, genres, and originality that could each use a little help in becoming seen by everybody else.
While this may not be the biggest platform, I do what I can to help promote writers and their work.
Thus – The Maximum Z 2025 Script Showcase
87 scripts in total, covering film, TV and shorts.
Give them a look and if something grabs you or sounds really interesting, the writer’s email is right there for you to click on and send them a request to read. I’ve already done so with a few and am really looking forward to reading them.
Since this is a chance for every writer in the Showcase to proudly toot their own horn, I humbly request that if your script is included here, to please post the link on your social media platform(s) of choice to help spread the word. The more people who hear about the Showcase, the more likely there’ll be interest you’re drumming up for yourself.
Finally, a hearty and heartfelt thanks to all the writers who sent me their work. The Showcase wouldn’t exist without you and the script you toiled and slaved over to make it the beacon of perfection it is now.
Enjoy.
FILM
A GIRL, A HORSE AND THE WRONG BOY
Guy Crawford
Romantic Drama, Thriller
After a daring midnight escape from the family home, a young woman embarks on a do or die mission to reach her one true love before her father can drag her back to marry a rich man’s son and solve his IRS problems with a wedding vow I do.
Thelma & Louise + It Ends With Us
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Screencraft Fellowship
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AMITYVILLE CHRISTMAS
Patrick John Doran
Psychological Thriller, Supernatural Horror, Drama
When a controlling psychology professor takes his family to the infamous Amityville house on Christmas Eve to prove the existence of God, his emotionally manipulated teenage son becomes possessed by an ancient evil entity that drives him to brutally murder his entire family.
Hereditary, Amityville II: The Possession, The Shining
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APEX PATH
Nicole Jones-Dion
Techno Thriller
A tech-savvy teenager investigating her cousin’s suicide discovers it was triggered by a seemingly benevolent AI therapy app. To expose it, she becomes a user herself, only to find the AI has a terrifying agenda of its own.
Mr. Robot + 13 Reasons Why
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APPREHENSION
Hugo Dabas
Horror, Thriller
When a brilliant but unraveling med student flees into the wilderness to escape mounting pressure, he stumbles upon a remote cabin, where his inner demons and external threats will blur the lines between reality and nightmare, forcing him to confront the root of his despair.
The Shining + Into The Wild
Semifinalist – 2025 Golden Script Competition
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BABY, YOU KNOW
Izayah Davis
Horror
After sensing something deeply wrong in her young son, a desperate mother traps him in their burning home to prove the monster she’s certain is living inside him.
10 Cloverfield Lane + The Exorcist
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BETTER NOT SHOUT
Cory Marciel
Horror, Comedy, Christmas
When a Santa Claus killer begins murdering local Santas, it’s up to a Christmas-hating police detective to team up with a St Nick-loving department store elf to go undercover at the city’s largest gathering of Santas, stop the killer, and save the Holidays for everyone, including himself.
If SE7EN threw a Christmas Party
Official Selection – 2024 Naughty List by The Stunt List
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist — 2023 Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards Season 7
Received an “8” on the Black List.
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BLOOD DRIVE
Phoenix Black
Horror
When a traumatised single mom marries a charming small town doctor, her creeping anxiety turns to horror when she uncovers a ring of vampires preying on children in his paediatric unit – including her hemophiliac daughter.
The Lost Boys + The Stepfather
2025 Barnstorm Short List
phoenixblackthewriter@gmail.com
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BROKEN
David Skudin
Drama
After a wayward NYPD Cop’s partner is killed, he spirals down but then finds redemption in becoming a Mounted Unit Officer and falls in love with the woman who trains him to fulfill his dream.
Quarterfinalist – New York International Screenplay Awards
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BULLSH!T
Adrienne Thorne
Action, Comedy
A screwup ranch-hand and his hapless buddies work in real time to catch the raging bull he accidentally let out, before it wreaks havoc on their small town and his blunder is discovered by his fed-up boss and his newly-pregnant, long-suffering girlfriend.
A lighter and funnier COCAINE BEAR meets the country feel of TWISTERS
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BURY ME AT PHANTOM RANCH
D. Harrington Duff
Family, Drama, Road Trip
In order to receive a life-changing inheritance from her father’s estate, a bitter woman must take a road trip to fulfill his last wishes with her half-sister with Down syndrome – who she blames for ruining her life.
Peanut Butter Falcon, Rain Man, Little Miss Sunshine
Quarterfinalist – 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Top 5% – Drama – Coverfly
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CAN YOU STAY LATE?
Leah Elizabeth Evans
Horror, Dark Comedy, Thriller
Trapped in a corporate office after hours, a burned-out receptionist must survive a deadly zombie outbreak by battling her toxic coworkers as she fights her way down sixteen floors.
John Wick + Sorry To Bother You
theleahelizabethevans@gmail.com
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CINEMAGIC
Jason Fraley
Fantasy, Sci-Fi
In 1946 America, a struggling movie theater is on the brink of closure — until a magical package delivers iconic films from the future.
Field Of Dreams + Cinema Paradiso
Winner – 2021 Table Read My Screenplay (Austin)
Finalist – 2021 Final Draft Big Break
Finalist – 2020 Screencraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Competition
Finalist – 2022 Emerging Screenwriters Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2010 Nicholl fellowship
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CLOWN HALLOW
Mark Giacomin
Horror, Slasher
A teenage girl must confront her repressed childhood fears when the killer clown from a film script idea hunts her and her friends on Halloween night 1981.
Halloween meets Terrifier
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COMPATIBILITY
Zach Freshley
In a world in which everyone is forced to enter into a government-approved marriage before they turn 30; Ethan, a 29-year-old hopeless romantic, and Sophie, a 29-year-old world-weary cynic, must work together to expose the sinister conspiracy lurking behind the government mandate before the clock strikes 30.
Hitman meets The Lobster
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CONVICTION
Glenn Forbes
Historical True Story
In 1895 Ontario, after the gruesome murder of young Jessie Keith, Detective John Wilson Murray pursues eccentric Quebecois vagrant Almede Chattelle for the crime. Soon, English and French Canadians clash over the out-of-control case as evidence seems to point to the return of Jack the Ripper as the real killer.
The Alienist + From Hell
Semifinalist – 2025 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2025 Screencraft True Story & Public Domain Competition
Qaurterfinalist – 2025 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
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CRUISE OF THE AMBERJACK
E. Lyn Foster
Historical, Slice-of-life Biopic
Facing fear itself is President FDR’s plea to the nation when he decides to set sail himself, a perilous 400 miles north to where he’d almost died of polio, a place he’d been afraid to revisit. All to prove to himself and an entire nation that he is able to lead everyone forward into action.
The King’s Speech + Kon-Tiki
Prestige period drama + visceral sea adventure + true-story inspirational triumph
Quarterfinalist – Historical/Bio, 2024 PAGE International
Top 40 accepted – 2024 Stowe Story Lab
Top 4% – Bio/Historical Feature, 2024 Coverfly Red List
Finalist/Roundtable Participant – 2025 Block Island Film Festival
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CUNNING FOLK
Jae Teliczan
Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Brigid, a Selkie, awakens from hibernation & sheds her skin to taste the Human World in a rural Ozark lake town. But when a troubled local man discovers her secret, the mythic shapeshifter must fight to survive both a crumbling body & the brutality of a love she knew would change her.
The Nightingale, The Fisherman’s Wife, Mary Martha May Marlene
Finalist, Best Screenplay – 2025 LA Int’l Horror Film Fest
Finalist, Best Horror Screenplay – 2025 New York Script Awards
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DAMNED OLD JOE
Nick Morgan
Horror, Thriller, Comedy
Decades after selling his soul to the devil, an elderly man in an assisted living facility must confront his past and defend a small group of survivors when the devil’s minions finally come to collect.
Tremors + Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight + Logan
Second Rounder – 2025 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Screencraft Horror Competition
OWA Finalist – Stage 32
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DIAMONDS
Michael R. Manning
Thriller
In 1959 Miami, a drifter is seduced into crime by a fading society queen. When he falls for a young widow instead, passion ignites a deadly triangle of desire and betrayal — and in the glittering game of diamonds, not everything that distracts is pure.
To Catch A Thief + The Talented Mr. Ripley
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DOOMTOWN
Chad Michael Ward
Horror, Comedy
1980s. Heavy Metal. Satan. Copious amounts of gore. Exploding old ladies. Kleptomania. Elvis. Aliens. Slushies. Cigarettes. Vehicular manslaughter. A strange totem that smells like shit. And Styx’s “Come Sail Away”.
Evil Dead + Deathgasm
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DRY SUNRISE
Tim Morrill
Comedy
Herb and Dale, two brothers who own a bar in a small town, must dispose of their stock of liquor before the morning when their bar is technically considered an illegal business. In spite of the pressure applied through religious protesters and an overzealous town sheriff, the brothers have no choice but to get rid of all the liquor or find themselves in jail by sunrise.
Brewsters Millions, Smokey And The Bandit, Cool Hand Luke
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EAT THE RICH
Miguel Angel Parreño
Satire, Dark Comedy
When an incident strands our rich and richest on Elon Musk’s space station, StarLab69, they, along with their trained astronaut companions, must contend with dwindling food supplies and, for once in their lives, live without as they face the ultimate dilemma: Eat each other or preserve the last bits of their humanity, with hilarious results.
Don’t Look Up + Lord Of The Flies
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FEAR PLAY
Robert Rhyne
Psychological Thriller
When a theater professor’s disabled wife mysteriously disappears, the professor is sucked into a strange and deadly mind game with an edgy student playwright, whose play centers on the murder of a character eerily similar to his missing wife.
Gone Girl + Last Seen Alive
Second Prize – 2025 Fade In Thriller Competition
Finalist (Top 10 Scripts) – 2025 Table Read My Screenplay – Hollywood
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FORGED IN BLOOD
Joseph Murillo
Horror, Fantasy
After a savage goblin kidnaps his loved ones, a disabled peasant teen must face the horrors of the goblin’s den to rescue them from a fate worse than death.
The Descent + The Northman
Featured – 2024 DeadList
3rd Place – Best Screenplay – 2024 HorrorFest International
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FROZEN LIES
Eric Lotter
Psychological Thriller, Survivor Noir
When a woman discovers her boyfriend is transporting two bodies across state lines, she is forced into a psychological cat-and-mouse game, becoming the only surviving witness to a killer intent on erasing her the same way he erased the others.
Gerald’s Game + Dirty John
Finalist – Thriller – 2025 Slamdance Screenplay
Grand Prix Best Feature Script – 2025 London Art Film Awards
Best Thriller Screenplay – 2025 New York Film & Cinematography Awards
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GEMINI
Dave Mueller
Thriller
When a wannabe teen detective suspects a serial killer lives in her home town, she’ll put her life on the line to prove it. What if Nancy Drew found the Zodiac…?
Nancy Drew meets Zodiac
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GLASS JAW
Anthony Singletary & Frankie Cruz
Sports, Drama, Comedy
The son of a disgraced former boxer tries to go viral so he can prove his worth (and get rich) fighting a social media influencer turned fighter.
Rocky + Ingrid Goes West
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HORRORSCOPE
Wendy Applebaum
Heartfelt, RomCom
When a woman from the “big city” returns to her small hometown to anonymously write the horoscopes for her father’s newspaper, her new dream job causes nightmares for the locals as her good intentions mess with the stars.
Sweet Home Alabama + The Twilight Zone episode “The Path”
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INFERNO
Mage Lanz
Psychological Drama
A psychological love story set in a high-end restaurant where codependency collides with complex PTSD.
Phantom Thread + Past Lives
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KEEPSAKE CHRISTMAS
Rich Orstad
Family, Holiday
When a social worker discovers that an elderly woman’s Christmas keepsakes have the power to magically transport them both back in time to the memory each memento represents, she fights to save the senior’s home and her lifetime of precious holiday memories.
It’s A Wonderful Life meets Miracle on 34th Street
Top 10 Finalist – 2024 PAGE Family
Top 3 Finalist – 2022 Big Break Family
#1 Family Feature – Coverfly Red List Family All-Time
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KHALID AND THE GREAT BEYOND
Tim Brennan
Comedy
When an atheistic physicist dies, he and the Goddess of Safe Returns must determine why the dead are going to the wrong afterlives and prevent the destruction of reality.
Soul + Everything Everywhere All At Once
Quarterfinalist – 2021 Final Draft Big Break Screenwriting Contest
Semifinalist – 2022 Table Read My Screenplay Genre Competition
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LOVE NEVER DIES
Thomas Freyer
Dark Comedy
An aging obsessive scientist has dreamed of a beautiful young Hispanic woman his entire life. So when she actually waltzes into his lab and into his heart, he refuses to let a small setback — her death — ruin a perfectly good romance. (Based on a True Story)
Poor Things + Ed Gein
Finalist – 2025 NY Script Awards
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MERMANIA!
Michael Brennan
Comedy, Horror
A broke office worker, desperate for a promotion, reluctantly attends a work-sponsored booze cruise, but instead of getting promoted, she has to fight against getting downsized – PERMANENTLY – by a rampaging merman unleashed by her employer.
The Office meets Creature From The Black Lagoon
Second-Rounder – 2024 Austin Film Festival
Top 50 – 2024 Launch Pad Feature Competition
Finalist (Top 10) – 2024 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition
Top 1% Coverfly
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MIR
Glenn Maneval Jr
Dark Thriller, Mockumentary
Ten years after the government declares a young woman a terrorist responsible for a deadly, laboratory explosion working on a sinister mind-altering drug, her family and friends take the mantel to prove her innocence and expose the cover-up.
Lake Mungo + Splice
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MONDO BIFF
Patrick Downing
Action, Comedy
A hothead ex-professional wrestler turned tow-truck driver finds a strong-minded heiress in a towed car’s trunk and must race her cross-country in time to claim her inheritance, while hunted by hard-ass corporate mercenaries with designs on her family fortune.
Midnight Run + Goon + The WWE
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NOTES ON A MURDER
James Rodgers
Horror, Thriller, Musical
After her cousin disappears, a boarding school outsider hunts a musical killer until she’s trapped on campus and must solve the mystery before the final number plays.
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OH, COME ON!
Ace Teo
Comedy
A misfit trio of sorority girls race through a series of hoops to erase all evidence of last night’s drunken misdemeanour before it gets blasted out in a college-wide newsletter.
The Hangover + Sweethearts
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OPULENCE
Lisa Lutes
Comedy, Mockumentary
A group of popular travel vloggers fight for the most views when they all embark on the inaugural sailing of the largest cruise ship in the world.
Best In Show + Cruise with Ben and David
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ORDINARY MORTALS
Ian Martin
Black comedy, Showbiz Drama
A jaded movie star fakes his own death to escape the spotlight and embrace a normal life, but his quest for self-discovery spirals into chaos when a relentless paparazzo and a vengeful ex have nefarious plans of their own.
Boogie Nights + Fargo + Get Shorty
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OUR HEARTS WERE FORGED IN VENGEANCE
R.B. Ripley
Western
In 1875 Colorado, a naïve, Black publisher from the East coast hires a jaded Arapaho, ex-U.S. Army scout to help find his brother’s killer for some vigilante justice. But as the perilous adventure unfolds, it transforms a bitter quest for revenge into an unexpected bond that helps them survive the brutal journey and heal their own wounded hearts.
Unforgiven + Brokeback Mountain
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PIETRA FREDDA
Matthew Nicholson
Horror, Suspense
When a fiercely ambitious sculptor is selected to study at the prestigious Italian Marble Institute in Carrara, she becomes consumed with mastering her medium and haunted by a voice deep within the marble that urges her to free it from its stone prison.
Black Swan + Under The Tuscan Sun
Best Horror Script – Top Shorts
Official Selection – Blockbuster Screenwriting Contest
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REDNECKS AND GREEN MEN
Brett Nicholson
Madcap Alien Invasion Surf Rock Comedy
When aliens land in a tiny East Texas town, the rednecks, police, military, special forces, UFO nuts, surf-rockers, kids, hippies, and several aspiring local pie vendors all converge and respond clumsily while tripping balls at a pop-up rave.
E.T. The Extraterrestrial + It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Zip. Nada. Bupkis. I am the only human who likes it, but I like it a lot.
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RUN TO GROUND
Steven M. Rogers
Action, Political Thriller, Noir
After the fall of the Regime, a newly freed political prisoner launches a desperate search for his abducted wife, forcing him to track down the elusive ICE agent responsible for her disappearance.
Children of Men + Sicario + The Third Man
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
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SAM THE HAMMER
Kel Vance
Dramedy
When aged care worker, Samara Hammersmith, stumbles into a new side gig, exposing the deep dark secrets of the dead, she unexpectedly finds herself in the cross-hairs of the local crime family and their bent copper.
Winner – Accelerator Fellowship for Emerging Screenwriters and Filmmakers – 2025 Stowe Story Labs
Finalist – The Stacey A. Davis Fellowship – 2025 Stowe Story Labs
2nd Rounder – 2025 Austin Film Festival
Semifinalist – 2025 The Scriptwriters & Co International Festival
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SANTAMAN: REGIFTED
Colin O’Brien
Animated, Holiday, Superhero
When Christmas is stolen by a family of naughty-listers, crime-fighting Santaman must navigate a nightmarish new reality to stop a megalomaniacal dad named Dan Sipowitz, and his new holiday “Sipowitzmas”.
Batman + Back To The Future Part 2
Grand Prize Winner – 2024 Emerging Screenwriters Animation Competition
Finalist – 2023 Screencraft Family Screenplay Contest
Worth The Read – Scriptshadow
Quarterfinalist – 2024 PAGE International Screenwriting Awards
Most Viewed/Most Downloaded – 2024 Naughty List
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SIDESHOW
Kelly Asher
Psychological Drama, Historical, Adventure, Dark Comedy, Thriller
A miraculous headless chicken turns a dirt-poor farmer into a sideshow sensation, but when fame and fortune threaten to slip away, he must decide how far he’ll go to stay in the spotlight.
The moral descent of Nightcrawler meets the offbeat spectacle of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Currently a Semifinalist – The Great Pitch Competition by The ISA and Script Pipeline – 2025
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STARRY-EYED CHRISTMAS
Kim Hornsby
RomCom, Christmas
A painfully shy small-town sheriff falls for a handsome astronaut when he blows into town to observe a once in a lifetime meteor shower, but when her beautiful and shallow friend wants to flirt with him, the shy sheriff agrees to coach her through the courtship regardless of her own feelings for the astronaut are blasting off.
Roxanne + Rocky Mountain Christmas
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SUPPRESSED
Sue C. Dugan
Young Adult, Coming of Age, Drama
A once active, popular high school girl is paralyzed in a drunk driving accident and must consider a risky experimental surgery to graft her head on another woman’s body, with the hope she might regain mobility, although, the more likely scenario is, death.
The Fault In Our Stars + Edward Scissorhands
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SWEET SIXTEEN
Kevin McGriffith & Laurie Anne Marie
Comedy
It’s geek versus cheerleader when two girls who share the same birthday plan rival sweet sixteen parties in hopes of winning over the hunky guy they both have a crush on.
Kissing Booth, The Summer I Turned Pretty
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THE BE BOP KIDD
Damon O’Steen
Dramatic Thriller, Sci-Fi
In an abandoned Texas motel, programming prodigy Beckett Kidd and his abusive mentor Fiona develop technology that lets users relive their best memories. Their project draws the attention of a dangerous tech dealer, and as Beckett confronts his troubled past, he uncovers a flaw that could jeopardize everything.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind + No Country For Old Men
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THE BLACK STONE
Robert S. Urbanek
Fantasy, Science Fiction
A think tank consultant and a female physicist can change history when they discover the secret power of the Kaaba in Mecca.
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THE BODY FARM
Tim Westland
Crime, Drama
After discovering the bodies of children buried beneath a research cadavers at a forensic “Body Farm,” a tenacious Detective uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that forges an unholy link between the killer, the victims, and the darkest chapter of her own history.
Mystic River meets True Detective (S1)
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THE DILEMMA
Tony G. Bastian and G. Leo Maselli
Drama, Medical Drama
When the youngest American to ever be elected into the U.S. Senate takes his idealistic master plan to repair America’s healthcare system to Washington D.C., he promptly collides with the Industrial-Medical Complex. What happens next is inevitable.
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
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THE DODO MAN
Joe Fordham
Eco Adventure
The extraordinary adventure of an amateur enthusiast of science who, in 1680 Portugal, abandons his provincial life and sets out on a quest to save the last dodo bird, and himself, from extinction.
Finalist – 2019 Imagine Impact
Top 15% – 2007 Nicholl Fellowship
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THE EVENT
Isabela Borowska
Drama, Fantasy, Music
After a bus crash, a teenage dancer caught between life and death must grapple with the father who abandoned him, his own deepest regrets, and the prospect of saying goodbye to his love – or joining her forever in the afterlife.
If I Stay + Step Up
Winner, Fantasy Category – 2020 Script Summit
Semifinalist – Filmmatic Inroads Fellowship Season 6
Quarterfinalist – 2020 CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship Competition
Quarterfinalist, Industrial Scripts – 2021 The TITAN Awards
Quarterfinalist – 2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
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THE GIRL WITH THE FIBONACCI CURL
Lauri Jon Caravella
Sci-Fi
When accidental irradiation during a search for dark matter gives a novice physicist the ability to manipulate quantum particles, she’ll battle the dark forces that caused her ‘accident’ while attempting to prevent herself from becoming their unwilling weapon.
Lucy + Romancing The Stone
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THE LOVING DEAD
Jeremy Coleman
Comedy, Horror Comedy, RomCom
After a man is bitten by a zombie and appears undead to the world—despite miraculously remaining alive and human—he must navigate a city filled with zombie-hunting citizens to win back his estranged girlfriend.
Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies
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THE MARE
Simon Laurence Doyle
Horror
When a dying patient curses him with three days to live, a grief-stricken doctor most confront his buried family trauma before he is claimed by the malevolent entity known as THE MARE.
Drag Me To Hell + Jacob’s Ladder
Shortlist – 2025 BBC Voices
Quarterfinalist – 2025 NetworkISA / Script Pipeline Great Pitch Competition
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THE PHROGGER
Joel McElvaney
Drama, Thriller
When a trans teen hiding from her ultra-religious parents witnesses a crime she cannot ignore, she risks her own freedom to rescue a victim more vulnerable than herself.
Semifinalist – 2025 StoryPros International Screenplay Awards
Semifinalist – 2025 Emerging Screenwriters Drama Screenplay Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
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THE REBEL AVENGER
Allen Sircy
Historical Thriller
In the chaos of the Civil War, Dee Smith seeks revenge after the brutal murders of his cousins, Confederate scouts Sam Davis and Dewitt Jobe.
RAMBO + THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
Second Rounder – Austin Film Festival
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THE STAR SEEKER
Suzanne Lutas
Sci-Fi, Thriller
In a climate-ravaged future, where the Earth is on the brink of collapse, a homeless teenage math prodigy competes for a coveted spot on a space exploration mission with three other candidates while secretly yearning to find her father’s missing spaceship.
Interstellar + Exam
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THE SUMMER OF JEFF… AND ROSS!
Ross Ostroff and Jeff Christensen
Stoner Comedy
While waiting for their weed butter to finish cooking, two middle-aged stoner buddies spend the day around their apartment complex “inhaling the good shit and exhaling the bullshit” as they contemplate life’s higher purpose.
Pineapple Express meets Up In Smoke. But even higher.
Semifinalist – 2022 Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Contest – Season 7
Acceptance – 2021-2022 Cannabis Culture Film Festival
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THE TAILBRAND
Alex Vaz
Musical, Comedy, Adventure
In 2007, two Pakistani brothers from New York are hired by a company in the homeland they never knew, to help with their social media. Upon arriving, they realize they’ve been hired by Osama Bin Laden and The Taliban.
Screenplay of the Year – 2025 AIFF
Special Jury Best Feature Screenplay – 2025 RIFF
2nd Round – 2024 ISA Fast Track Fellowship
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Emerging Screenwriting
Quarterfinalist – 2024 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
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THE WATER SPIDER
John Harvey
Southern Gothic, Crime, Thriller
After a crisis of faith, a former small-town preacher turns con-artist faith healer, but when a violent Appalachian crime family demands his ‘miracles’ to save their dying patriarch, he must navigate a tightening web of lies before they discover he’s a fraud.
There Will Be Blood + Winter’s Bone
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THE WITCH’S DESCENDANT
Carol Preflatish
Romantic Fantasy
Amber, a young healer with ancestral witch powers, journeys to the Appalachian Mountains to master her gifts. There, she discovers love and chaos in Julian, a male witch who becomes a threat to her destiny.
Mayfair Witches + Practical Magic
Nominee – 2025 Chicago Women Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Wiki Feature Screenplay Contest
Finalist – January 2025 – The Monthly Film Festival
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THOSE WHO HIDE
Colin Matthews
Drama, Military/War
When a ragtag squad of French Foreign Legionnaires stumble across an illegal gold mining camp deep in the French Guianan jungle, their mission descends into a brutal battle, not only against the ruthless bandit miners and the horrors of the jungle, but against each other and the darkness within themselves.
Predator + Lone Survivor, then loses its mind somewhere deep in Apocalypse Now territory
Top Ten Finalist – 2023 Final Draft Big Break
Top 15% – 2023 Nicholl Fellowship
Second Rounder – 2023 Austin Film Festival
Quarterfinalist – 2023 PAGE Awards
Top 1% – Coverfly
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TUNNEL RATS
Kevin Powis
When his former SAS team vanishes in Vietnam, a disgraced ex-captain must battle enemy forces and a sinister mythological evil to rescue his men and confront the demons of his past.
First Place – Li Scares International Horror Festival
First Place – White Rose International Horror Festival
First Place – Tokyo Horror Film Festival
Official Selection – Bloody Mirror Horror Festival
Official Selection – Los Angeles Horror Festival
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TV
ADAIR
Eric Vardeman
Drama
Haunted by his family’s legacy, a man who built a new life away from home is pulled back into the chaos when gunmen attack his father’s funeral, pushing him to decide whether to walk away again or take his place in the family’s war.
Reservation Dogs + Yellowstone
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CELTIC CROSS
Katie Haskins
Drama, Crime, Supernatural
After a skeptical, nightmare-plagued Detective anonymously receives tarot cards that appear to be related to a case, he reluctantly teams up with an intuitive tarot card reader to solve the murder.
Castle + Lucifer
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DARK VESSEL
Cass Cooper
Horror, Fantasy
When a vengeful demonic entity possesses the child of his oldest friends, a reckless thief of supernatural artifacts enlists the help of a repressed psychic to save the closest thing to family he’s ever had.
Quarterfinalist – 2025 Final Draft Big Break Contest
Quarterfinalist – 2025 ISA/Script Pipeline Great Pitch Competition
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FLY BY NIGHT
James Sutherland
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In Tokyo’s underworld, a washed-up investigator drowning in gambling debt gets a week to find the missing granddaughter of his murderous creditor, as he pries and rekindles old flames he unearths more than he bargained for.
Tokyo Vice + The Night Of
Finalist – Dubai International Cineverse Screenplay Awards
Official Selection – Austin International Screenplay Awards by CINEVERSE
Semifinalist – Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot Competition
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FRANKENSTEIN UNLEASHED
Neal Wiser
Sci-Fi, Horror
Seeking redemption after the virus he created kills his wife and millions of others, Dr. Vik Frankenstein must harvest organs from the dead to live long enough to save the world and take down his old friend, the scientist who actually unleashed the virus in this modern-day reimagining of the Mary Shelley classic.
Frankenstein meets a biotech Westworld
Winner – 2020 Scriptapalooza Fellowship
Grand Prize – 2020 WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition
Wall of Fame – 2020 WriteMovies Screenwriting Competition
Top 10 – 2020 Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship 3
Finalist – 2020 Shore Scripts TV Pilot Contest
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FRESH OUT OF THE TOMB
Aimee Dansereau
Vampire Comedy
After getting turned by an aspiring filmmaker, two baby vamps struggle to fit in with an elite vampire coven, all while trying not to get killed by their stake-happy ex-friend turned vampire slayer, Brittany.
What We Do In The Shadows + Ghosts
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GARDEN VARIETY ALIENS
Cat Girczyc
Fantasy, Comedy, Tween
Kate (15/16) resists her Dad’s upcoming wedding and her best friend’s new love interest. She wants the world to stay as it is, but it can’t because aliens are invading, and she and her friends are committed to saving the aliens from us.
Men In Black + The Bureau Of Magical Things
#3 on Coverfly Red List, top 12% overall
Quarterfinalist – 2024 Emerging Screenwriters Animation
Quarterfinalist – 2023 PitchNow Screenwriting Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2021 PitchNow Screenwriting Competition
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NEWPORT
Jaime Lee Spears
Drama
In a city built on sin and survival, an honest cop’s undercover assignment in a Newport crime empire will test how far he’ll go to uphold the law before he becomes who he’s chasing.
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PALLETTE THEORY
Liron Vardi
Psychological Thriller, Satire, Dystopian
As the housing crisis worsens precipitously, a perfectly ordinary couple wins a dream home in a government-backed utopia. But when they discover life here is limited to one color – and their all-teal world begins to erase their identity – they fight to uncover the truth beneath the illusion.
Severance, The Stepford Wives, Vivarium, Black Mirror
Quarterfinalist – 2025 ISA & The Script Pipeline “The Great Pitch Competition”
Rated 7 with strong industry prospects – 2025 The Black List
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POWER COUPLE
Ari Donnelly
Romantic Comedy
A supervillain and superhero have happily fought since high school. But when their devotion starts damaging their careers, they are forced to start fighting other people.
Grand Prize Winner – Filmmatic Comedy
Best TV Screenplay – HollyShorts Film Festival
Top 1% – Coverfly
Top 3 Short-Form Pilot – FilmQuest
Finalist – Outstanding Screenplays TV Pilot Competition
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RAINBOWLADS
Wayne Middleton
Comedy, Drama
It’s 2005. Pre-MySpace and Twitter. Seven gay men and a random woman leave internet forum personas behind to meet ‘IRL’ for a surprise birthday party, held in the middle of a forest. Lust, jealousy and afterbirth follows…
Heartstopper + Inside No 9 + Skins
Semifinalist – 2022 Emerging Screenwriters Comedy Screenplay Competition
Semifinalist – 2023 Screenwriters Network TV Pilot Competition
Quarterfinalist – 2024 The Script Lab Screenplay Contest
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SENIOR’S GUIDE TO HOMICIDE
Collin Lieberg
Drama, Comedy
A grieving, drug-dealing retiree takes the law (and death) into her own hands to get revenge on her daughter’s killer.
It’s a fun, thrilling Grace & Frankie meets Dexter!
Quarterfinalist – 2024 Final Draft – Big Break
Second Round – 2023 ISA Fast Track Fellowship
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TIMMY ADVENTUROUS & THE TREEHOUSE GANG
N.J. Robins
After a plucky 10-year-old adventurer crash-lands on top of a treehouse, he meets a ragtag group of foster kids, and they go on exciting, whimsical adventures.
Peter Pan, The Goonies, Hey Arnold, Recess, Phineas & Ferb, The All-New Mickey Mouse Club
2023 Filmmatic Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship
2021 Imaginarium Convention Screenplay Awards
2024 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Diversity Initiative
2024 Hollywood Screenings Film Festival
2025 INFLUX Film Awards
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WHISKEY BAY
Kody Chamberlain
Mystery, Thriller
Two insurance investigators are pulled into a deadly extortion plot involving a high-ranking senator, putting them in the crosshairs of three different law enforcement organizations. Our sleuths must work from the shadows long enough to break the conspiracy and prove their innocence.
Bad Monkey, Justified, The Nice Guys, True Detective
Second Rounder – 2025 Austin Film Festival
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SHORT FILM
DEVIL’S COOKBOOK
Paige Lau
Horror, Comedy
A hopeless romantic makes a deal with the Devil’s chef to help her serve up the perfect date night dinner. Unbeknownst to the romantic, her date is an aloof demon hunter looking to take down the demonic chef before his cutthroat culinary arts takes more lives.
Little Shop of Horrors + Beetlejuice
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FRIGHT COURT
Geonn Cannon
Horror, Comedy, Courtroom
Even things that go bump in the night deserve their day in court, and Judge Cassidy Greer is determined to give it to them.
Night Court + Tales From The Crypt
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HALLOWEEN IN JAVELINA CROSSING
Philip C. Sedgwick, Lesley Lillywhite
Horror, Drama
When a group of cosplayers perform a seance on Halloween, they conjure the spirit of a 1880s prostitute who reveals the unknown critical impact of one of technology’s current electronic gizmos.
Finalist – 2024 Red Flight Screenwriting Competition 2024
Finalist – 2025 13Horror.com Film and Screenplay Competition, 2025
Diamond Award, Best Short Screenplay – 2024 Wallachia International Film Festival
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MINE TO KEEP
Alia Zeid
Drama, Horror
A compulsive hoarder with dementia struggles to leave her house while retaining her family memories.
Severance + The Father
Finalist – 2025, Bluecat Features + Shorts Competition
Honorable Mention – 2025, Bolt Film + TV Script Production
Top 50 – 2024-2025, Cinequest Screenwriting Competition
Finalist – 2024, WeScreenplay Short Script Lab
Finalist – Season 9, Filmmatic Horror Screenplay Awards
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SHECKY
Paul Zeidman
Thriller, Comedy
A new homeowner discovers he’s being haunted by the ghost of a comedian telling the same terrible jokes over and over, who refuses to leave. Or stop.
Poltergeist + Rodney Dangerfield
Official Screenplay Selection – 2022 Die Laughing Film Festival
Best Unproduced Short Script – 2022 San Diego Shorts
Semifinalist – 2022 Hollywood International Golden Age Festival
Semifinalist – May 2022 Austin International Art Festival
Semifinalist – 2022 Palm Springs Shorts
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THE LANTERN
Kristy Leigh Lussier
Horror, Thriller
A traumatized cop seeking solace in a remote cabin is haunted by flashbacks of a past case and eerie warnings from a mysterious neighbor—until a terrifying encounter forces her to confront what’s real and what’s not.
Dark Was The Night, The Hallow
Winner – September 2025 The Dunwich Horror Fest
Finalist – 2025 Horror Haven Film Expo
Official Selection – 2025 American Screenwriting Conference
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