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The Underground

Writer: Arken Wheeler
Number of pages: 59
Country of Origin: United States


In 1905, John, an Irish immigrant tunnel digger and bare-knuckle boxing champion on the run from New York City after killing a cop and haunted by arrives in burnt down Havre, Montana. Haunted by Dagda the giant Celtic earth god following a traumatic head injury, and down to his last dollar amidst joblessness, he enjoys a subterranean world of brothels, speakeasies and opium dens. He takes a job as bodyguard for Sing Lee, a polarizing and eccentric Chinese entrepreneur who shares tales of supernatural treasures hidden beneath Death Valley. Escaping an ambush by a racist cowboy mob, John kills the sheriff during an all-night gun battle, before they steal a train and skip town.

The two co-dependent outsiders are joined by Michael Murphy, an Irish ex-NYC cop, Lita and Erin, a pair of exotic prostitutes in love, Lisa Jefferson, the slain sheriff's fifteen-year-old daughter, and Maria Magdalena, a New Mexican dominatrix, among other odd outliers of the weird and dying wild west. Hunted by the sadistic Deputy Jefferson seeking vengeance for his father, the scheming caravan of fugitives encounters new enemies at every turn across strange and unforgiving stolen lands, navigating vast criminal underworlds raging amidst cities along the Pacific coast, descending toward their Death Valley fortune.

This uncanny tale, inspired by surreal history and the ambitious stories of downtrodden characters turned against each other, reveals mysterious lives and forgotten societies, lost but thriving in The Underground.


Marwood

Writer: William Turner Brett
Number of pages: 90
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

A troubled single mother and her disabled daughter move to a mysterious and dangerous forest, which is coveted by a mercenary construction company. Can they save their fractured relationship in time to save themselves?

Strongbow

Writer: Ray Whelan
Number of pages:  120
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Richard De Clare is a norman warrior, the Earl of Pembroke and Strigoil. After the death of his father, Richard inherits the name Strongbow. Falling out of favour, his land and title is stripped away by King Henery the 2nd and he is left with no choice but to look across the sea. Diarmait Mac Murchada, the King of Leinster, has been betrayed by the High King of Ireland, Rory O' Conner, and wit the help of Mac Murchada fiercest rival, Tiernan O' Rourke, the King of Breifne, they blind his son and heir and oust Diarmaid from his land. Diarmaid has to seek the aid and protection of King Henry 2nd of England. Always wanting to conquer Ireland but fighting a war in France, King Henry 2nd, can't spare any fighting men. Instead, he gives Diarmait permission to take Ireland as his leige Lord. With Strongbow's reputation preceeding him, he is asked to lead Diarmait's army and is promised the Kingship of Leinster upon Diarmaid death and to wed to his daughter, Princess Aoife. Strongbow recruits the best mercenaries to aid him on his conquest of Irland to reclaim Diarmait's land. After a ferocious battle, they sack Waterford, Strongbow and Aoife are married while the smoke of the battle still rises behind them. An instant attraction exists between them. After the death of Dairmait, the Kings of Ireland unite their armies behind the High King to drive Strongbow and the Normans out of Ireland. Hunting them down, the High King traps Strongbow and his men inside the walls of Dublin. Drying up all the provisions the High King's army tries to starve them out in a three month long siege. Separated from his love and new born child, Strongbow and his men formulate a amaster plan and take the High King army off guard, slaughtering them in a bloody battle and reuniting him with his family. After hearing tales of Strongbow's success, a jealous King Henry fears that Strongbow is afetr his title. He sails to Ireland with the biggest army the Irish have ever seen, full of heavy artillery and conquers Ireland swiftly forcing the Irish Kings to submit to his rule. Strongbow takes the chance to resolve their differences and , finally realising his loyalty, King Henry names him constable of Ireland. His name and the legend of Strongbow strikes fear into the hearts of all who hear it.

Good

Writer: Monte Albers de Leon
Number of pages:  130
Country of Origin: United States

Hostage to AI amid apocalyptic chaos, Eli, Eva, and four colleagues attempt to save the world. An uneaten apple sits on a desk of the regional headquarters of (not Amazon) Nile.com where a group of colleagues are introduced:
A. Main Characters – 6 Everyday Personality Archetypes
i. AJ: The Leader (white or mixed, early thirties, brilliant and arrogant (e Miles Teller or Jesse Williams))
ii. ELI: The Good One (white or Jewish, late forties or early fifties, affable and easy going (Paul Rudd or Robert Downey Jr.)
iii. EVA: The Clever One (mid 30s, white or mixed, strong (Blake Lively or Zoe Kravitz))
iv. LEO: The Genius (Middle Eastern or Subcontinental, early forties, introvert, (Tomer Capone or Rami Malek))
v. LILY: The Bad One (Mid 20s, Asian, or White, petite, fiery) (Tati Gabrielle or Chloe Grace Moretz))
vi. JOHN: The Introvert (black man, early-thirties, beefy, no-bullshit ( Michael B. Jordan or Winston Duke)

The introduction is interrupted by the abrupt, unexpected, and shocking unraveling of humankind. In recent days, the UN Secretary General outed an American non-profit worker kidnapped by ISIS, who then broadcast the worker being thrown from a building. The US retaliated by destroying ISIS headquarters in Nigeria. The US strike against ISIS inadvertently killed a number of Wagner fighters, and in response, Wagner provided ISIS with nuclear material absconded from
Email: montealbersdeleon@me.com
Phone: (646) 872-6707
Ukraine.

ISIS outfitted a nuclear weapon onto the private jet of a Saudi sovereign wealth fund representative, who inadvertently delivered the bomb to the annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha, Nebraska, where it detonated upon landing. FEMA announces the United States is uniquely prepared to meet the moment, as FEMA’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fully integrated with the AIs of the nation’s military and critical infrastructure . FEMA’s AI mistakes a unique mutation bloom of Covid in Arizona as a bioweapon, and alerts the Pentagon AI to attack China, its deciphered source. A cascade of algorithmic reactions leads to all-out war. The FEMA AI locks down access to all egress, and the main characters are trapped inside their work building, as the FEMA AI believes they need protection from rotating sources of danger outside throughout the movie. One-by-one, the circumstances of humankind’s downfall team up with the unique character of each archetype to cause their death, until only two characters remain: EVA/the Clever One and ELI/the Good One. EVA/the Clever One, finds a way to stop and even reverse the apocalypse, but to do so the Good One must die. Tortured by this dilemma, EVA considers letting the world end rather than be responsible for the ELI’s death. ELI, the Good One, understands the gravity of the situation, reflexively saying, “Oh god,” to which a bitter EVA snaps back that the situation has proven that no god exists. Instantly, there is no sound, no wind, no violence, no shaking, all kinetic activity abruptly stops, and the Good One turns to her saying, “But I’ve been here the whole time.” Eli/God explains that he is having a “time out,” for the first time in a while regarding humanity, which Eva/the Clever One quickly interprets as existential and defends humanity’s potential, despite everything. The characters are then instantly returned to the movie’s critical moment, and Eva, with surprise help from a character thought dead, saves the world. The survivors banter with Eli/God as the credits begin and the camera pulls away. And away. And away, stopping when it reaches a beefed-up international space station. Inside, mega-wattage actor cameo astronauts observe the ravaged earth below. discussing – among themselves their
plans to restore the planet with the provisions stored there. The film ends with a close-up on the (bitten) apple.

After the credits, the audience is finally shown the never-shown back story of John, who is revealed to have previously been an arms dealer in Nigeria (suspiciously dealing in bioweapons), who had recently transitioned to cyberweapons and was hired by a mysterious consortium to develop the very machine sought after to save the world in the movie. It is revealed that he is the one who told Eva/the Clever One the secret password she needed in the end to save the world.

The Friend

Writer: Jorge Troncone Osorio
Number of pages:  101
Country of Origin: United States

An older woman befriends a younger neighbor whose life she sees as exciting and strange. The fascinating and frenzied alliance looms on an attraction riding on danger when the younger woman’s jealous lover blames the older woman for his tarnished and tumultuous relationship, already on the rocks. But the couple stays together, bonded by their odd thirst of lust, revenge and thrills--perhaps murder—giving others the wild ride they crave, fueling their own.

Visum Infinitum/ View of Infinity

Writer: Jorge Troncone Osorio
Number of pages:  101
Country of Origin: United States

This is a story about the infinite possibilities of human minds transcending themselves through their passion for science and the understanding of the Universe with an amazing discovery for all humanity.

The Screecher

Writer: Lazar Karov
Number of pages:  96
Country of Origin: United States

Decebal Cornea direct descendant of Radu the younger brother of Vlad III Dracula, unknown to him, is racing against him to catch The Screecher before he does preventing him to build his army of bloodsuckers.

The Fortunate Son 

Writer: Christopher Power Power
Number of pages:  103
Country of Origin: Canada

"The Fortunate Son" is a compelling drama that follows the journey of Seif, a young man from Iran who embarks on a quest for self-discovery and redemption. Abandoned by his father, Arash, at a tender age, Seif grows up with unanswered questions and a void in his heart. Arash, a renowned Canadian movie director forced into exile.
"The Fortunate Son" is a gripping exploration of family dynamics, the complexities of heritage, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment. It delves into the universal themes of love, forgiveness, and self-acceptance, as Seif learns to embrace his individuality and find his own path, both in the world of film-making and in matters of the heart.

The Fifth Ring AKA Vagabond Samurai

Writer: Arken Wheeler
Number of pages: 90
Country of Origin: United States

BOOK 1: EARTH. The story opens on The Divine Ruler, a paranoid schizophrenic oligarch hermit living in his penthouse office and looking down upon his city that doesn't know what's coming. From under a bridge on the 4th of July, Native American Specialist Sam tries and fails to meditate. His gruff mentor, Master Sergeant, states the impossibility of peace and teaches samurai lessons of Musashi as told in The Book of Five Rings. Master Sergeant sleeps, but while Sam keeps watch, he pops pills and falls asleep too. Sam awakens to find a trio of masked men beating Master Sergeant. He reveals to Sam before dying that Sergeant Hollis is responsible. He gives Sam a tanto blade and commands Sam to avenge him. Sam escapes police arrival on the scene. A flip switches in Sam and he goes from addict with PTSD, to single-minded killing machine. He prowls the streets, scouring homeless camps for the Sergeant Hollis. He finds Captain Hollis, an eccentric older black vagabond, who Sam accuses of murder, before realizing the case of mistaken identity. Cop lights flood the scene and Sam runs deeper into the Underground Mall, reaching a dead end. Concealing himself under his robe and feigning sleep, Sam listens as two undercover officers, Officer Musa, an idealistic rookie, and the power-hungry Officer Vasquez, discuss their mission of killing Sam as part of their boss’s operation to rid the streets of crime. Before discovering Sam, the cops get a call from Sergeant Hollis who orders them to meet at their rendezvous. The shame almost pushes Sam to suicide, but the spirit of Master Sergeant appears to remind him the mission is unfinished. He tells Sam to go to The Warrior’s Forest. The sun rises upon Weelaunee People’s Park, as Sergeant Hollis waits, fantasizing about Cop City. The others arrive, and he chastises them. Fed up, Musa goes home to his family. Vasquez assures Hollis but also leaves. Hollis, left alone, leaves a voicemail for his wife to let him come home. He decides to sleep in his car and upon getting in, Sam is waiting in the backseat with blade drawn. Demanding answers, it’s revealed Sergeant Hollis is a foot soldier in a master plan already set into motion. Sergeant Hollis hits the squad alarm. After plunging the blade into Sergeant Hollis’s brain stem, Sam is locked in the backseat as sirens move in. Sam raises the tanto high above his abdomen preparing to commit seppuku.

BOOK 2: WATER. Officer Vasquez opens the car door as a smoke grenade goes off. Sam escapes, evading bullets in his sprint to the woods. Vasquez finds the body of SGT Hollis along with recorded instructions left by Hollis on his phone. Vasquez flees the scene to avoid implication and calls mercenary Private Hawk, an Australian degenerate speed freak military experiment with dissociative personality disorder, to kill Sam. Deep in the woods, Sam struggles to get food. After resting and washing the blood from his hands in the pond, Hawk approaches Sam, engaging him in a disturbing revelation about the illusions of identity. They engage in a fight and after becoming disarmed and playing a game of cat and mouse along the Dolls Head Trail in the woods, they fight, with Sam fatally wounding Hawk, who reveals that he was a PMC who went to Vietnam and was the subject of Project Montauk, mind control experiments and time travel. Hawk takes his own life with a hatchet strike to the jugular.

BOOK 3: FIRE. Sam returns to the city to get food from the shares and discover who orchestrated the offensive. Dahlia, the social worker who runs the food shares, offers Sam and Fox, a trans sex worker comedian, a place to sleep. Fox accepts and Sam declines. Captain Hollis joins and offers his services as a scout, giving Sam a phone. Vasquez calls Musa, who is annoyed that the repercussions of their actions have been so severe. Musa vows to help bring in the cop killer Sam in the name of justice. Vasquez gets no answer from Hawk, so calls another mercenary, a Yakuza assassin, Rikomi, to kill Sam. Sam walks back toward the woods but as a shadowy figure pursues him, he spots a garbage bin fire and a houseless guy on the way. Caught off guard, the houseless guy is Rikomi the ninja assassin, who reveals himself to be a clone of Master Sergeant, attempts to slice his throat but Sam dodges and their fight commences. The shadowy figure is Captain Hollis, trying to warn Sam, but get incapacitated by a throwing star to the face. Eventually, after the tanto gets knocked into the fire, Sam wields the flaming blade in the last minute to throw blinding ashes at Rikomi and kill him. Rikomi reveals that Master Sergeant was most likely also a clone of the original soldier they cloned in Tokyo.

BOOK 4: WIND. Vasquez finds Rikomi’s corpse, while Sam and Captain Hollis hide behind him. Vasquez calls a third mercenary, Big Bro for "overkill". Captain Hollis’s phone rings and Vasquez pulls a gun but is caught by Sam’s blade. Vasquez reveals that all of them were PMC soldiers together in the First Water War building a pipeline in the Amazon for Total Power, a multinational energy corporation. Sam’s memories of Afghanistan are implanted, while the commander, Captain Hollis, lost his memory due to a lobotomy after he went AWOL. Vasquez moves to take Sam out first as a traitor. Sam slices Vasquez’s throat, before Musa enters. Sam and Captain Hollis flee. Sam shows up at Dahlia’s house and passes out, requiring a blood transfusion, which Dahlia provides. The doorbell rings, and paranoid, Sam answers it. No one there, he steps out on to the porch, and before going back inside, is attacked by Big Bro. They get into a knife fight on the porch, which comes to a halt once Sam recognizes his assailant as his actual older brother who he thought died in Syria. They reconcile and are then approached by Officer Musa, who comes in peace and reveals the final messages of Sergeant Hollis, revealing the plans of mastermind, The Divine Ruler.

BOOK 5: NO-THING. Musa and Big Bro bring Sam in to the Total Power energy corporation skyscraper as an offering for The Divine Ruler, along with Dahlia and Fox. Musa takes Dahlia and Fox to a dungeon, where the lower guard kills Fox for outing him as one of the johns she pegs for crypto. After Musa kills the guard in a shootout, Dahlia breaks out fifty houseless individuals including Captain Hollis kept in group holding cells. Sam and Big Bro are stopped on the elevator up to the penthouse, and in an outgunned firefight, the brothers take everyone out, but Big Bro catches a bullet to the neck and dies. In the penthouse office, The Divine Ruler gets frustrated that his ritual is now late and they are going to miss the window of the solar eclipse. Musa calls and says he has brought Sam, and to grant them access. Sam enters alone, and reveals his scheme for becoming God upon the earth by channeling every god of every religion that ever existed, offering his body as the ultimate avatar. They fight and Sam moves in for the kill, as The Divine Ruler offers a place by his side, a military commander in the divine new world, heaven on earth and immortality. Sam declines, but instead of killing The Divine RUler himself, allows the mob to enter and tear the oligarch to pieces. Dahlia, Musa and Captain Hollis enter as Sam leaves, resisting Dahlia’s urges to stay and rebuild the city and heal together. As some of the rescued captives begin to eat The Divine Ruler, Officer Musa reveals his plans to build a better more equal city, where no human goes this hungry again. Sam walks the street out of town, but stops at the underpass where Master Sergeant dies, seeing that Dahlia had made a memorial for him with a photo of Sam and his mentor. He meditates, at peace.

A Wonderful School  

Writer: Will Landon
Number of pages: 132
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

When a troubled young boy is moved schools for what his parents hope is the final time, he begins to uncover a mystery where this seemingly perfect school may not turn out to be so wonderful...

The Solomon Project

Writer: Nancy Lydia Kimmel
Number of pages: 65
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Henry is a game designer, who is referred to a A.I. interface on the Dark Web by his friend Bill. Henry reluctantly buys into it, but to his surprise finds out more than he bargained for, when he begins to interact with a fantasy A.I. character who informs him of a sinister plan that has been set in motion millennia ago from the building of Solomon's Temple, and a lake of gold beneath the pyramids to world domination. Now Henry, may be the only one to stop the apocalypse.

Shelley Can't Sing

Writer: Helen Rana
Number of pages: 84
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Lonely teenager Shelley fits into her new school so well that people start resenting her. Alarmed, alone, and with a serial killer on the loose, she gives a fake performance at the talent show, in the hope of making friends and getting close to gorgeous Alex. But lying just creates more problems, and in the end being authentic leads to true friendships.

Playback

Writer: Toby Smith
Number of pages: 1
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

A grieving mother relives the memories of her late daughter through her many VHS tapes

My Lovely Jay

Writer: Sofia Ferrara-Garcian
Number of pages: 12
Country of Origin: United States

A biracial young man’s life.

HEADWIND

Writer: Jeff Gendelman
Number of pages: 110
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

HEADWIND - A resilient seven-year-old orphan in rural South Korea searches for his missing little sister, and perseveres through heart wrenching experiences, and his rocky path to adulthood in America, eventually becoming a respected Taekwondo Master, and accidentally finds what he was looking for.

A coming of age drama, inspired by a true story, and set in the pre-internet world of the late 1970s to early 1990s.

Shelley Can't Sing

Writer: Helen Rana
Number of pages: 84
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Lonely teenager Shelley fits into her new school so well that people start resenting her. Alarmed, alone, and with a serial killer on the loose, she gives a fake performance at the talent show, in the hope of making friends and getting close to gorgeous Alex. But lying just creates more problems, and in the end being authentic leads to true friendships.

Machliar

Writer: Robert Kouba
Number of pages: 89
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Thomas Machliar is a young and successful writer. He is about to close a great deal with Hollywood. Hollywood wants to film its trilology. However, the third book is still missing.

Time is running out and Thomas hasn't finished the third book yet. It turns out that Thomas is not the actual writer, but that his father is the real author of his books. Thomas vehemently denies that. A fanatical fan of Thomas doesn't believe him and feels cheated.

The fan tries to shoot Thomas at an event. But it only hits him on the shoulder. All this excitement leads to his father having a stroke and having to go to the hospital. He can no longer write for his son. Desperate, Thomas believes the deal with Hollywood is off. But he finds out that his father has already written the third book and the manuscripts are in his office. Thomas is saved. The deal takes place, so there's a big party going on in Los Angeles.

At this party, Thomas learns that his father has died. Desperate, Thomas flies home again. He decides to finally tell the truth and writes a script about himself and his father called "Machliar".

Krazy Dead

Writer: Horatio Tihanyi, Dawn Nargi
Number of pages: 94
Country of Origin: United States

Kray Dead is comedy about a dysfunctional family that owns operates in funeral home. Seems even the dead need a good laugh now and then.

Joe Strummer's Cadillac

Writer: Bryan Farrell
Number of pages: 100
Country of Origin: United States

Two boys hijack their rock and roll hero when he comes to town looking to buy a Cadillac.

Spellbinding

Writer: Alla Kolmanovsky
Number of pages: 27
Country of Origin: United States

Smiley Face

Writer: Lucas Reinke
Number of pages: 66
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

The family of the Antichrist unravels alongside the Biblical Apocalypse.

RESERVOIR

Writer: EK Gaylord
Number of pages: 66
Country of Origin: United States

The family of the Antichrist unravels alongside the Biblical Apocalypse.

The Genesis Project

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 45
Country of Origin: United States

What happens when a family member goes missing? The mysterious disappearance of Frank Walker propels his entire family into a search that forces them to confront their own demons while uncovering a political scandal with seismic consequences. A faith-based drama.

Dash Away All

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 116
Country of Origin: United States

Hoping to escape her life in the spotlight, country singer superstar Madyson Myles travels to a small town where she discovers the man of her dreams, the true meaning of Christmas, and the reason to embrace the life she wanted so much to leave behind.​

Closet Cases

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 27
Country of Origin: United States

In the early '90s when people listen to music on CDs and dial up to enter AOL chatrooms, two closeted gay law students face their families, their futures, and their feelings for each other.

Family Cellars

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 46
Country of Origin: United States

When the Wallace family winery tragically burns to the ground, family members turn on each other, plans for revenge unfold, and a mysterious stranger exploits the chaos to his own advantage.

Majesty

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 41
Country of Origin: United States

The shocking murder of King Zachary Chamberlain sends his entire family and kingdom into turmoil as the hunt for his killer begins.

As Zachary’s eldest son Prince Tobias prepares to be crowned as the new king, suspicions arise between him and his three younger brothers. In the meantime, the once-ruling Henderson family seizes on the chaos in the kingdom in an effort to overthrow the Chamberlains and retake control.

As tensions rise and the search for the king’s murderer continues, some relationships crumble, forbidden love flourishes, a prisoner escapes, and a common farmer rocks the royal family to its core.

It all leads up to an exciting series of cliff-hangers that plunge every member of the royal Chamberlain family into peril.

Power reigns. Absolutely.

A Broken Soldier

Writer: Noel Kearns
Number of pages: 112
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

A young soldier suffering from PTSD deserts the army and hides away in an inner city housing estate. Now, can his unlikely friendships with a frightened old woman and a troublesome young tearaway halt his deadly descent into darkness?

Inspired by true events:
In July 2009, British forces were engaged in fierce battle with the Taliban in Helmand Province, the epicentre of the ‘War in Afghanistan’. Over ten days, fifteen soldiers lost their lives, the highest concentration of British deaths in the twenty-year long war. Six of the fallen soldiers were just teenagers, including the youngest soldier to die in the entire conflict.
A major thread of ‘A Broken Soldier’ is the unfolding news of each of the fifteen soldier’s deaths, told in the exact order and timeline that they tragically occurred.

Outline:
Jerome hides away in a flat that was once the home of his grandmother, who recently died. His mind is plagued by horrific memories of an IED bomb attack when he recently served in Afghanistan, in which two of his army buddies were killed and he was severely injured.

In the next-door flat lives Esther, a frail old woman who suffers from agoraphobia but she refuses all assistance from Social Services. To distract from her loneliness, she watches hours of TV news coverage of the onging war in Afghanistan.

Jerome spends his days sitting outside in the grounds of the estate. Darryl, a lonely youngster, approaches and is startled by Jerome’s aggressive mood.

Jerome has now taken to repeated bouts of self-harm, by near drowning himself in the bath, a technique he uses to remember details of the deadly IED attack.

To distract his mind, Jerome riffles through his grandmother’s things and finds an old photo of himself with Esther and her late husband Jim, who was a soldier in his younger days.

Jerome knocks on Esther’s door and leaves a bag of groceries outside. Eventually, Esther retrieves the bag and searches inside and finds the old photo of Jerome.

The following day, Esther gingerly opens her door and invites Jerome inside. Over the next few days, a cautious friendship between them slowly blossoms.

Although Darryl is wary of Jerome, a friendship develops and the boy opens up about his neglectful mother Tanya and her violent boyfriend Wayne.

One day, Esther suffers a major angina attack. Jerome wants to call a doctor but instead she asks him go to the chemist to get a repeat prescription. On the prescription form, Jerome notices her doctor’s number and phones it.

By now a close bond of friendship and trust has developed between Jerome and Esther. His mental anguish begins to find some respite and she relies on him for companionship and practical help.

One day, a Social Worker unexpectedly arrives, saying that someone had phoned Esther’s doctor after she had an angina attack. Esther feels totally betrayed and furiously orders Jerome to leave.

Jerome feels completely dejected and his aggressive temper returns. He assaults Darryl who runs away upset.

Jerome repeatedly asks Esther’s forgiveness but she remains too hurt and angry.

As a troubled Jerome sits outside, Tanya, who has just split up from Wayne, makes a sexual move on him that is scornfully rejected. She vows revenge.

Over the following days and nights, Jerome remains outside. On not hearing any sound from next-door and on seeing TV news coverage of the horrific deaths and injuries of young soldiers in Afghanistan, Esther’s angry mood slowly changes to one of concern.

Without warning, Jerome is attacked by Wayne, who warns him to stay away from Tanya. But Wayne has misjudged the strength of a fit young soldier. Jerome brutally smashes Wayne’s head in until he lies dead-like on the floor. Upon realizing what he has done, Jerome flees back to the flat.

On hearing panic-stricken noises coming from next-door, Esther calls out to Jerome but he doesn’t respond. Now Esther realizes the unthinkable, that to help Jerome, she must conquer her worst fear and leave her flat to go next-door.

With his head under the bath water, Jerome is determined to relive the IED attack in full. As more detail is relieved, he recalls the horrifying fact that it was his own naive actions that lured his two mates into the IED trap, to their deaths!

Esther finds Jerome in the bath but his body has turned blue. She screams out as she shakes and slaps him back to life.

Later, Esther confides that her beloved Jim, the former soldier, had suffered for years with PTSD. This revelation seems to lance a terrible pain in Jerome’s brain. Now Esther pleads with Jerome to contact the army to get expert help. He agrees but only on condition that she contact Social Services.

Before contacting the army, Jerome goes outside to find Darryl who tells him that Wayne will be ok. Jerome apologises to Darryl who is glad to have his friend back.

Jerome, dressed in his army uniform, goes to Esther to tell her that he is returning to the army for treatment. Esther is so proud of him and they embrace fondly before he leaves.

Later, as Esther sits alone, there is a knock on her door. Outside stands Darryl holding a bag of groceries.

Inspired by true events: In July 2009, British forces were engaged in fierce battle with the Taliban in Helmand Province, the epicentre of the ‘War in Afghanistan’. Over ten days, fifteen soldiers lost their lives, the highest concentration of British deaths in the twenty-year long war. Six of the fallen soldiers were just teenagers, including the youngest soldier to die in the entire conflict.
A major thread of ‘A Broken Soldier’ is the unfolding news of each of the fifteen soldier’s deaths, told in the exact order and timeline that they tragically occurred.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Writer: Shuqi Chen
Number of pages: 91
Country of Origin: China

Ling is a well-known therapist who publishes a book named Unconditional Love,but her perfect life overturns when she finds her 5 years old adopted son`s biological father is her husband. What`s the worse is she can`t love her son unconditionally anymore like she writes in her book. She starts to investigate the truth, but it points toward herself. After her life disintegrates, she is on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery. Can she get her life back and understand what the unconditional love means?

Just Talk

Writer: Patrick Bailey
Number of pages: 10
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Paul is the life and soul of the party. Behind closed doors however, is a different story. His mental health is at an all time low, and he has turned to drugs and alcohol to try and cope. Can he get his life back on track?

The Cutting Room

Writer: Toby Smith
Number of pages: 3
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

A censor is given an impossible task - making a family-friendly cut of Psycho - and faces an ultimate question: what comes of censorship, and what will come of him?

STANTON & ANTHONY

Writer: Helise Nancy Stamos
Number of pages: 120
Country of Origin: United States

Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton take on the world by changing the social norm of Women's Rights & Suffrage which includes voting, owning property, keeping their own pay, equal pay, attend college, temperance and helping with the abolishionment movement. However they both kept a secret hidden from each other that leads to inner personal disaster.

Samson

Writer: Colin Duncan
Number of pages: 108
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Jason (AKA Samson) in his early forties, returns to Belfast following a career in the military, after the sudden and unexplained death of his father. As a boy growing up in Loyalist South Belfast, Jason was a junior amateur boxer, who was on the brink of being recruited into a loyalist paramilitary organisation, (The Sons of Ulster). To escape this potential life of criminality, Jason's father encouraged him to join the army and leave Northern Ireland. Jason now embarks on a mission to uncover what happened to his father. He meets old friends, rekindles relationships and takes matters into his own hands. He finds Belfast to have modernised, but in many ways has stayed the same. Jason clashes with Ulster Loyalism and finds it is fighting internally, between the old brigade and new form of criminal gangsterism. Jason, a veteran special forces operative, favours brain over brawn, finds himself navigating a series of complex situations throughout the working class streets of South Belfast. Jason is assisted by ex-military pals, who struggle with a loss of identity, culture and PTSD from their former military life. Nothing but nothing, will stand in the way from Jason finding the truth and seeking justice.

The Unsaid - Script

Writer: Eliane Germanos
Number of pages: 14
Country of Origin: United Arab Emirates

After an ordinary date night turns into a pivotal moment of reckoning, a Lebanese wife and a Pakistani husband in their late 30s must navigate the complexities of their marriage as they confront deep-seated issues of communication, identity, and love. As they reassess their priorities and explore their options, they find themselves at a crossroads, forcing them to make life-altering decisions that will either strengthen their bond or lead them down separate paths.

Operation Renewal

Writer: Xiaoye Mu
Number of pages: 120
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

To survive, an elderly British widow who has lately been widowed has no choice but to employ a young Chinese nanny, only to discover that she has travelled all this far to fulfill a dying wish.

Women in the Castle

Writer: Xiaoye Mu
Number of pages: 60
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

For their own benefit, three reputable ageing husbands introduce their young, dainty wives to a mysterious social butterfly known for solving marital problems. Yet after this, these three men committed suicide one by one.

School of Murder - Logline

Writer: Luke Davies
Number of pages: 38
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

A young American student is forced to work for the Natzi´s at the seemingly innocent Hartheim castle, but discovers the castle is a school of murded for the third Reich.

For more info contact lukedavies1435737@gmail.com

You Are My Oxygen

Writer: Toby Smith
Number of pages: 85
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

When an acclaimed saxophonist, Johan, begins experiencing difficulty breathing, the love of Sara, his devoted wife, is pushed to its limits.

Baby Blue

Writer: Toby Smith
Number of pages: 9
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Following a personal tragedy, the relationship between a young couple begins to buckle.

Playground Insults

Writer: Toby Smith
Number of pages: 6
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

After seeing an advert for an idyllic holiday resort, a housewife's ordered life is suddenly thrown out of whack.

A Woman's Work

Writer: Toby Smith
Number of pages: 13
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

After seeing an advert for an idyllic holiday resort, a housewife's ordered life is suddenly thrown out of whack.

Playing God's Game

Writer: Teodora Pancheva
Number of pages: 12
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Just when God thought life was getting boring, one human being throws him a curve ball, that's not according to his plan.

Pocket Money

Writer:  Teodora Pancheva
Number of pages: 105
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Rose leads a double life. At work she's a pick-pocketing burlesque dancer and at home she's the good daughter to a cop. She has it all under control, until Rose finds herself entangled with the city's most wanted criminal. The lies keep building and Rose can't tell if she enjoys drowning in them.

The Colouring Book

Writer:   Toby Smith
Number of pages: 7
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

A director is eager to film his daughter with her new colouring book. She, however, is less than thrilled. His constant struggle to capture the "perfect moment" on film is the core conflict of this story, and the twists and turns we take are all as a result of this illicit desire of his.

Speechless

Writer:   Lottie Andersen
Number of pages: 11
Country of Origin: France

Ingrid, a 16-year-old fashion model, goes to the police station to report a rape. Accompanied by a friend, Ingrid is faced with a dilemma: break the silence or think about her own future, especially as it turns out that pressing charges against a powerful person won't be easy.

PARADISE BOUND

Writer:   Jay Wheddon
Number of pages: 115
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

No politician would be stupid enough to think they could control American voters with the use of advanced technology. Would they?

F.F.S!

Writer:   Jay Wheddon
Number of pages: 106
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

You think YOU'VE got it rough? Try being a stand-up comedian with tourettes!

HARD PLACE

Writer:   Jay Wheddon
Number of pages: 95
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Two fixers fight to keep east-London free of disastrous gangland shenanigans.

Cortland Parkway

Writer:  Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 50
Country of Origin: United States

When neighbors move into the new Cortland Parkway development, they quickly find themselves entangled in secrets, seduction, and scandal in suburbia.

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Writer:   Melinda Marie Core
Number of pages: 37
Country of Origin:
 

When a young teenager finds herself in heaven after killing herself, she is forced to see everything she would be missing as a consequence for taking her life. Only then is her spirit able to move onto the after life... or is it?

Brotherly Hate 

Writer:   Elliot Stanton
Number of pages: -
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Kit Manley, the eldest son, and heir apparent to the Manley dynasty, sits at a table at the annual family barbecue, watching his younger, free-spirited brother, Russell, happily getting drunk on beer. Following a warning from his father that Russell is his responsibility, Kit's years of resentment, including playing second fiddle to the golden boy, Russell, and being overlooked for the vacant Head of Finance position at the company, overflow into a seething rant to his wife, Jasmine.
Later, and calmer, Kit tries to involve Russell in light conversation, but Russell soon finds a way to torment his elder brother further. Russell goes into the house to get a jumper, and Kit decides to follow him and give him a piece of his mind. He finds Russell stumbling around in a drunken stupor, trying to get his head into the sleeve of the jumper. Far from amusing Kit, this seen angers him further. He realises that a small nudge on the top of the stairs would have Russell tumbling down, hopefully injuring himself. He concludes this is rough but fair justice, and just as Russell manages to find the correct hole, his head pushing through the garment, he smiles and gives him that little push. Russell tumbles down the ornate stairway and lands on the marble-floored hallway where guests gather around his lifeless body. He is dead. Blood is seeping from a head wound. Kit looks on in horror from above. He didn't mean to kill him, but that is what he did. He takes the side stairs down and out to the garden, where he joins the back of the gathered throng of guests. No one is the wiser.

A week later, at his brother's funeral, Kit's heartbroken father takes him aside and makes a confession to him. He knew that Russell would never amount to much, but he wanted to protect him from the big, cruel world, which is why they were so harsh on Kit. They needed to prepare him, toughen him for life, being the head of a massive corporation – Manley Corporation. Kit is crestfallen. Then the bombshell – Charles intended to announce at the barbecue that he was going to step down as CEO of his company and promote Kit to the position, but due to Russell's death, he feels he needs to sell the business. As they walk back, sombrely to the funeral car, it is Kit who regrets that decision more than anyone.

Logline - Timing Is Everything… Or Nothing. The responsible brother sees his younger, carefree sibling as a threat to him taking over the family business until fate steps in.

Deadline To Death

Writer:   Elliot Stanton
Number of pages: -
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Life imitates art, imitates life, fatally blurring the lines between reality and make-believe. A crime writer struggles to complete a manuscript until he visits the venue of the story's finale. There, he meets an elderly but mysterious female fan who he later finds out knows him much better than he could imagine.

Synopsis - Author CJ Billings is pressured by his publisher to finish a novel. He has an idea that a few days away in the finale setting will give him the inspiration he desperately needs. After arriving in Bude, Cornwall, a fan of his, recognises him and invites him back to her cottage for a bite to eat and to sign her CJ Billings novels. Margaret is an older woman who lives alone. An unfinished painting in her house curiously provides the inspiration CJ was looking for. The harsh, depressing, stormy harbour scene gives CJ the ending for his protagonist. CJ revisits the following day, and Margaret admits to him that her younger life was far from idyllic, and she escaped to Cornwall for reasons she keeps to herself. Margaret begins to feel tired, and CJ promises to visit again the next day before returning home to London, but when he does, he is met by a neighbour, Emily, who informs him that Margaret has died. She gives him one of his books that Margaret had marked 'For Chris'. On his return home, a shell-shocked CJ finds a letter within the pages of the book - it is a confession by Margaret. She moved from London to escape justice after murdering a baby in her care when she was a nanny. The confessional story bears an uncanny resemblance to the conclusion of CJ's book. The conundrum he has is a moral one. Does he submit his manuscript knowing that a real-life murderer inspired the inspiration for ending, or does he delete the whole computer file, preserving his morality but possibly ruining his career?

Queen of Parks

Writer:  Suzann Wade
Number of pages: -
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

We follow the 'Queen' of Parks down London Thames, and there lies behind The Globe, a secret garden, frequented by modern day actors but originally by Shakespeare and the inspiration of many of his plays. We challenge the stereotypes of not using mature artists in film by leading this story with a seasoned, gifted, theatrical presenter.

Windy City

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 55
Country of Origin: United States

Unleashed secrets, sinister schemes, and forbidden desires fuel the fiery feud between the Mancini and Caruso families who are hell-bent on destroying one another in the Windy City.

Series Trailer: https://youtu.be/N2xC5o1s-80

CROWN POINT

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 56
Country of Origin: United States

A scandalous event in their hidden past transformed the once-friendly Dalton and Alvarez dynasties into bitter rivals. Against the backdrop of the Crown Point skyline, members of these two empires scheme to gain the upper hand, leaving a path of broken dreams, broken promises, and broken hearts behind them.

Single At Christmas

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 111
Country of Origin: United States

When his relationship ends just before the holidays, Gio Rossi and his best friend Marci Morgan decide it’s best to be “single at Christmas.” But when Gio encounters Marci’s sexy new associate Javi Garcia and Marci meets Gio’s handsome boss Clint Anderson, they wonder whether they’ll be able to honor their pact and stay single into the new year.

NOTE: This film has a sequel titled "Married at Christmas."

Home For Christmas

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 98
Country of Origin: United States

Kayla Brennan and Miles Walker discover that attending their ten-year high school reunion offers them a second chance at love and a heartfelt understanding of the importance of being home for Christmas.

GONE

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 46
Country of Origin: United States

Lifelong friends cope with relationship issues while searching for a dear friend who has gone missing. (GONE is a micro TV/web series consisting of short, five-minute episodes. The scripts for the first six episodes are attached.)

Vinegar and Oil

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 46
Country of Origin: United States

When the Wallace family winery tragically burns to the ground, family members turn on each other, plans for revenge unfold, and a mysterious stranger exploits the chaos to his own advantage.

Christmas Conundrum

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 97
Country of Origin: United States

When snowboarding superstar Christian Reed takes a bad fall during a run, his future becomes a conundrum. While on the bumpy road to recovery during the Christmas season, Christian crosses paths with Rose Barclay, a charming reporter who trips up his future plans and teaches him that falling can be a blessing...especially when you're falling in love.

Passport

Writer: Bob Crandall
Number of pages: 93
Country of Origin: United States

A comedy about a family that talks their way into the Bahamas and are now having a devil of a time getting back into the US.

Daydreaming Mom

Writer: Renata Elis Martins
Number of pages: 30
Country of Origin: United States

A a female-driven half-hour comedy about a dynamic home-based elite travel consultant who daydreams to escape her reality when juggling work with being an expat mother of a multicultural family in Prague becomes overwhelming.

PILOT episode: Hoping to gain entry into an exclusive mom clique and find some companions for her restless kids, an expat lures a few local moms over to a fabricated charity event at her house. But as her guests arrive, she’s forced last minute to take her biggest client on a tour of Prague while muddling through her guests, family and client.

$enior Care

Writer: Renata Elis Martins
Number of pages: 32
Country of Origin: United States

$enior Care is a multi-generational dramedy TV series about the Golden Care assisted living – a hotbed of greed – and its caregivers with questionable ethics, who exploit seniors through profit, kickbacks, and overcharging for services.

The Pilot Episode: Desperate to save her assisted living and beloved elderly residents from her ruthless franchisor, a young woman commits a wicked embezzlement and is now stuck in a game of hide-the-fraud-and-don't-get-caught, to keep her secret safe and protect all she’s fought for.

Wish Granting Factory

Writer: Olena V Chepurna
Number of pages: 80
Country of Origin: Ukraine

A runaway teenager, who dreams of changing an event from his past that he believes ruined his life, accidentally stumbles upon the Wish Granting Factory and decides to make a wish. However, the consequences of his wish lead to unexpected and unintended results.

Say Zayn

Writer: Elis Anom Abdul Hamid
Number of pages: 126
Country of Origin: Malaysia

A successful celebrity with a secret dark past, Jake, and Arissa, an overqualified relief teacher-cum-rookie screenwriter, bump into each other in the most unexpected of places, the stairwell, after a screenplay pitch session. Through some "divine" intervention, or perhaps Arissa's dry humor and Jake's congeniality, they develop a special bond that would change their lives forever.

Last Tour

Writer: Jeremy Wade Rodman
Number of pages: 80
Country of Origin: United States

A recently deceased rock star is taken on one last tour of the U.S. by a group of misfits.

A ragtag group of true fans of the late rock star “Hugo” liberate him for a last tour of the United states. They load into the Beast, a titanic 1970s-era car, for a drug-and-alcohol-fueled trip while finding the dream of the American road. Shenanigans and hilarity ensue—from within the car, at the morgue where “Hugo” is kept, and a variety of other locations.

Along the way, “Laney” and “Ethan” find love, “Shaun” realizes the jackass driving is a good guy, and memories are made during the innocence of youth in a bygone era.

Samson

Writer: Colin Duncan
Number of pages: 97
Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Jason (AKA Samson) in his early forties, returns to Belfast following a career in the military, after the sudden and unexplained death of his father. As a boy growing up in Loyalist South Belfast, Jason was a junior amateur boxer, who was on the brink of being recruited into a loyalist paramilitary organisation, (The Sons of Ulster). To escape this potential life of criminality, Jason's father encouraged him to join the army and leave Northern Ireland. Jason now embarks on a mission to uncover what happened to his father. He meets old friends, rekindles relationships and takes matters into his own hands. He finds Belfast to have modernised, but in many ways has stayed the same. Jason clashes with Ulster Loyalism and finds it is fighting internally, between the old brigade and new form of criminal gangsterism. Jason, a veteran special forces operative, favours brain over brawn, finds himself navigating a series of complex situations throughout the working class streets of South Belfast. Jason is assisted by ex-military pals, who struggle with a loss of identity, culture and PTSD from their former military life. Nothing but nothing, will stand in the way from Jason finding the truth and seeking justice.

The Wakefields II

Writer: Chris Pearce
Number of pages: 132
Country of Origin: Australia

An impoverished handloom weaver sets out to make good but various family members suffer greatly along the way.

Synopsis: Handloom weaver Henry Wakefield, his wife Sarah and their five children live in abject poverty in the Manchester area of the UK in the early 19th century at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Henry hates the new factories and won’t let his family work in them. He clashes with Sarah, a factory agent, a local priest and reformers, and son Albert runs away. The family are evicted and move to Manchester but are even worse off, living in a cellar in a terrace and have another little mouth to feed. They attend Peterloo where a family member disappears in the melee.

Henry’s love of money overrides his hatred of factories and he starts one of his own, but it is beset with problems. The Wakefields eventually become quite wealthy, but Henry holds the purse strings and this has a devastating effect on the family. Albert is caught stealing and is transported to New South Wales. Her baby’s death, Albert’s unknown fate and society parties become too much for Sarah, who hears voices and is taken to the lunatic asylum. Son Benjamin falls in love with an orphan girl and they have a baby. Henry is furious. Family members, including Sarah who has escaped from the asylum and Albert who has returned to England unbeknown to Henry, have had enough and seek revenge.

Would suit period drama TV series. TV pilot submitted to this competition is the first 132 pages of a total of 647 pages.

Love. Without a Trace.

Writer: Sean Hynes
Number of pages: 81
Country of Origin: Ireland

A cunning man conceals an affair so professionally that it exposes the lovers to being terminally vulnerable.

Cover your tracks well enough, and you can get away with almost anything.
Cover them too well. And you may never find your way back.

Rewiring Jade

Writer: Jane A Dafoe
Number of pages: 118
Country of Origin: Canada

Reeling from the end of a traumatic relationship, a Type A 40-something woman seeks to move on by training for the notoriously gruelling Ironman, but a devastating illness forces her to face her past instead of running away- literally- from it.

The price of love

Writer: William Dorian KANE Louis
Number of pages: 13
Country of Origin: Canada

It is very early (6h) in a residential area of the Paris region still asleep. An unmarked police car is parked in front of the only house with lights already lit. A man comes out of it, 1.75m, in his 30s, stocky, short hair, wears a 70 year leather, raw jeans and Jordan sneakers .
It’s Inspector Warren, it’s a special day for him today.
He has to announce a terrible news to his best friend, his wife whom he believed in his brother is found dead in the company of a stranger.
Who is this unknown person? Is it a crime of passion, if he is the author?

The Lavender Girl

Writer: Sophie von Rheden
Number of pages: 120
Country of Origin: Spain

LOGLINE
After the tragic loss of her entire family, the Lavender girl wants to find peace in a humble life, until she meets a popular songwriter who shakes her life up.

Synopsis: This is the story of a young girl's life on the picturesque island of Mallorca in Spain. When the natural beauty is 12 years old, she loses her entire family and survives with her nursemaid and driver. Growing up with her simple-minded maid in a tiny village house, she refuses to return to the family mansion.

One day she has a chance encounter with an American pop idol who is on vacation on this Spanish island with his mother and his boy band. The popular songwriter adopts a local puppy, which is the cause of a dramatic car accident in which he survives, but his mother dies. Only the lavender girl and her maid bring the depressed musician back to the stage with their positive, down-to-earth spirit and all their love. The two of them get married and have two children.

Single At Christmas

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 111
Country of Origin: United States

When his relationship ends just before the holidays, Gio Rossi and his best friend Marci Morgan decide it’s best to be “single at Christmas.” But when Gio encounters Marci’s sexy new associate Javi Garcia and Marci meets Gio’s handsome boss Clint Anderson, they wonder whether they’ll be able to honor their pact and stay single into the new year.

NOTE: This film has a sequel titled "Married at Christmas."


Windy City

Writer: Joseph Anthony Francis
Number of pages: 55
Country of Origin: United States

WINDY CITY tells the thrilling story of the rival Mancini and Caruso families and their friends living in Chicago.

Muted For Justice

Writer: Amy Marie Philbert-Serna
Number of pages: 58
Country of Origin: United States

Virginia, 1885; Slavery has legally been abolished, however, former slaves Jeremiah and his pregnant wife, Millie, are still under the hand of slave master, Mr. Goodman, before being forcefully sold off to a traveling circus, with a plan for Jeremiah to become the next champion fighter. With a master plan to destroy Jeremiah before he can become the next champion fighter, Mr. Goodman sends his men to kill Jeremiah and Millie out of anger, knowing that money and living a life of freedom were right around the corner for the couple. Millie and her unborn baby are murdered in a very vicious manner, and after finding his wife and baby, Jeremiah sets out with a vengeance to kill Mr. Goodman and all his men. During his physical altercation with Mr. Goodman, Jeremiah is injured in such a way that he looses his ability to speak, leaving him a mute for the rest of his life, but the victory sought was well worth being muted for justice.

Bait and Switch

Writer: Shawnee Idahosa
Number of pages: 26
Country of Origin: United States

A London woman named Natalie takes on a new persona and seeks out an American drug dealer named Jay.She tricks him into teaching her about the drug business in order to pay for her ailing grandmother's medical treatments.

Fleur Fleur

Writer: Rob Messenger
Number of pages: 112
Country of Origin: Australia

A dark comedy

After Xmas, an unlucky rookie parole officer wants an abortion.

But on Xmas day, she has to survive a tropical flood in Australia - while home-detention checking a troubled combat veteran, who raided a council pound to rescue his dog.


Teacups are Smiling

Writer: Brad Sherman
Number of pages: 102
Country of Origin: United States

Still mourning the tragic deaths of his parents while living with his alcoholic Uncle, a 20-year-old wimp must prove his worth at a new security guard job in order to fulfill his dream of becoming a cop, but learns some harder lessons along the way.

DemonTrap

Writer: Clem Martini
Number of pages: 104
Country of Origin: Canada

Seventy-six year old retired academic, Patricia Borden, enormously envious of seventy-eight year old Jacob Caforo’s spectacular garden, scales the towering iron fence enclosing Jacob’s property and demands to know how he has attained his horticultural prowess. Initially Jacob is reluctant to share his secret, but Patricia is inexorable. The answer she receives is surprising. Jacob, applying arcane knowledge he gained during his long tenure as a Classics and Religion Scholar, has trapped a minor demon, and for the past ten years, bound the demon to tending his (now) flourishing estate.

Threatening to reveal this information to others, Patricia persuades Jacob to supervise the demon in Patricia’s garden so that she may win a coveted gardening prize that has eluded her for almost a decade. Patricia, Jacob and the demon, together, prove to be a winning combination and Patricia garners the vaunted gardening trophy.

Patricia, comprehending the great potential in harnessing demonic powers, convinces Jacob and the demon to help her win the affection of her estranged daughter, Gayle. Patricia plans to assist Gayle in an ambitious campaign to reclaim a forested area to its natural state, and then gain government protection for this area.

Their endeavor is complicated by the fact that a land developer has ambitions of his own for the forested area, and by the fact that the demon has come to the end of its tenure on earth, and is eager to return to Hell.

When Jacob compels the demon to remain on earth and work longer than the agreed upon time, Hell comes calling, and the relationships, and lives, of Patricia and Jacob are placed in jeopardy.

Absolute Zero

Writer: Bryce Hatch
Number of pages: 33
Country of Origin: United States

A young girl with a bumbling passion for science, her fashionista gal pal, and a nerdy culinary neighbor film weekly experiments and exploits for their terminally ill friend.

PREACHER'S DAUGHTER: GIANT SLAYER

Writer: Gregory Bonds
Number of pages: 119
Country of Origin: United States

FACT; IN 2002, THE U.S. MILITARY KILLED A 14 FOOT, 1100 POUND, RED-HAIRED GIANT IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AFGHANISTAN.

FACT; WHEN THEN 8-YEAR-OLD AMANDA FRANKLIN HAD AN OTHERWORLDLY EXPERIENCE IN HER FATHER’S CHURCH IT WAS JUST THE BEGINNING OF HER AWAKENING TO BATTLE THE RAPHAIM GIANTS, DEMONS.AND MORE.

Fast-forward 18 years, AMANDA is a 20-something-year-old army sniper/preacher's kid stationed in Afghanistan. What would be a usual night for her unit is disrupted when a HERDER rushes toward their base, signaling wildly for help. Amanda is forced to shoot him in the leg, after which point the unit learns he was running from giants-- actual giants of biblical proportions. Amanda's unit is put in charge of investigation/containing the situation and when they affirm that they are dealing with real monsters, they are assigned an above-top-secret task of protecting the world from their wrath.
As the only believer in her unit, Amanda's biblical knowledge becomes indispensable to the mission. Along with commandeered man-of-faith-and-science SETH WATERS, she leads the strategy under the Agnostic MAJOR STRYKER. Amanda uses what she can remember from her father's teachings, some tidbits from brief phone calls between them, and spot-readings of the bible to gather intel. At the same time, she realizes she has a special understanding and rapport with these creatures that others on the mission do not.

Meanwhile, demons summoned by power-hungry Russian agents and evil priests have joined the fray and plot to unleash Armageddon on the world. As the supernatural activity goes global, Amanda's military unit joins forces with the Russian Spetsnaz to keep it under control.

While the giants are tracked, ARCH DEMON AKIBEEL leaves in his wake a trail of portals that spew demonic chaos. Amanda struggles to maintain the confidence of her unit and is forced to defend her belief while losing friends to the fight. She hearkens back to a moment in her youth when she first encountered demonic activity and used the power of her faith to overcome it. It is then that she realizes she's had all that it took to defeat the forces of darkness-- belief. Amanda calls upon ANGELS OF FIRE from heaven and charges them in the battle, which they win for the forces of good.

Dream Casting Note:

Keke Palmer as Amanda Franklin
S.L. Jackson as Major Stryker
Ramy Youssef as Dr. Seth Waters


Stranded in Perth

Writer: Gregory Bonds
Number of pages: 119
Country of Origin: Uruguay

The true story of the crew members of an Uruguayan-flagged ship, the Maya V, captured in remote Australian waters and dragged to the port of Perth, accused of illegal fishing. A young Uruguayan consul does her duty to help them while getting involved in a mix of unexpected events and in the middle of an international incident and political maneuvering between three countries and the transnational mafia that runs the fishing business.

Supposed to be

Writer: Dr.Beth-Anne Blue
Number of pages: 86
Country of Origin:

In purgatory after an attempt to take her own life, a young woman must decide if her life is worth fighting for with the help of an unlikely healer.

Desperate Measures

Writer: Helena Rana
Number of pages: 135
Country of Origin:

At thirty-seven, with the ancestral home falling down around his ears, amenable English Lord Jake is obliged to search for a suitable, wealthy bride who can keep the family estate afloat. Unfortunately, he’s deeply in love with the skint, radical black activist L’Wren, who makes him keep their relationship secret to avoid being seen as a race and class traitor. His friend’s assistant Zola sets him up with an assortment of rich singletons, whilst falling for him herself. And some of his dates have other, more unpleasant things in mind...

The Fallen

Writer:  Mark Ramsey
Number of pages: 45
Country of Origin:

In the fantasy world of Angels, demons and all things mythical it sees a ferocious war rage between the heaven’s armies and the demon lord Satan. In this epic fantasy we see Michael test the might of himself and has to regain Gods faith in order to find the missing Fallen angels and deliver them the justice they deserve but things go wrong and Michael is forced into a place, nobody dare to end up, not even a powerful angel. In this mythical land, painted with farms of Lavender, everyone hides a sin or two. How can such an elegant flower survive in such a harsh place. Well, people need to make a living. Lavender is the lifeblood of these inhabitants; it is the heart of this world. With faith comes the ability to perform miracles.

The Fighting First

Writer:  Alex Peter Stephens
Number of pages: 130
Country of Origin:

An interwoven story of a young Army officer leading his men through the harrowing battles of WWII and his 14-year-old son, 32 years later, wrestling with understanding his ailing father's past and the changing world around him.

Lucid

Writer:  DeAndre Harris
Number of pages: 93
Country of Origin:

Stuck in a coma, Lorenzo creates a dream world where he tries to escape with the help of his friends before they all get stuck there and relive the events that unfold.

The Beginning of the Rest of your Life

Writer:  Margot Pitts
Number of pages: 118
Country of Origin:

Lucy is an overworked, exhausted, and unhappy woman in her early 20s living in NYC. She feels as though her life post-college is repetitive and dull and is struggling to find her purpose. On one particularly wild evening, Lucy reaches her breaking point and overdoses on a combination of drugs. She wakes up in the hospital and is surprised to see both her parents there. She spends the weekend at home with her family. Her father promises her that he will attend a concert with her weekly to get her spirits up. When she returns to NYC she is given a second chance at life and explores new romance, exciting prospects at work, and attends concerts with her father. Lucy learns that your 20s are some of the most defining years in your life and it is important to be present during them.

The Christians - Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile

Writer:  Tony Gioutsos
Number of pages: 120
Country of Origin:

Log Line: Exploring the harrowing times of Christian persecution in history, a devoted present-day believer answers God’s call to greatness.
Pitch: The Passion of the Christ meets It’s a Wonderful Life

Hot Toddy

Writer:  Scott Cox
Number of pages: 110
Country of Origin:

An outlandish trash collector becomes a cult figure in the absurd world of darts in 1970's England. Inspired by actual events.

A Good Return

Writer:  Helen Rana
Number of pages: 88
Country of Origin:

Lilah’s had three strokes of luck in her life – rape, blackmail and being battered half to death by a VIP. Travelling to her Caribbean island home after seventeen years in London, she finds that life there has changed in her absence. Money's everything now. She needs to find a way to make a good return, and make things right with her family.

The Recital

Writer:  Helen Louise Taylor
Number of pages: 113
Country of Origin:

A former violin prodigy rekindles her love of music and finds the strength to overcome drug addiction and trace her abducted child.
Set in present day Venice, the story draws on motifs from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and bridges past and present through a violin once played by one of Vivaldi’s scholars and which now offers a chance for salvation to a young, destitute mother.

Gimme Shelter Part Three

Writer:  Kevin O’Neal AKA Dave Davidson
Number of pages: 110
Country of Origin:

This is a love, sex and action story. Officer Jack Bordowski is a Viet Nam Veteran who battles to reintegrate with society. When things get tough he turns to his wife Mary’s arms for comfort. Facing crime on the streets of New York and a lot of family disasters, this man needs a lot of shelter. This script contains descriptive sex and violence.

'79

Writer:  Kacy Boccumini
Number of pages: 33
Country of Origin:

Tony Tranero is a Disco dancer at the end of an era, competing in a contest that could change the trajectory of his life. While preparing for this moment, he meets other dancers that are fighting their own battles that force him to confront the real politics of dancing - who gets to stand in the spotlight. Tony uses his privilege to even the playing field and invites all the dancers to a Battle Royale for a winner-take-all dance off that sets Queens ablaze.

The Shadow Falls

Writer:  Clay Callender
Number of pages: 107
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A sweet-natured architect, his husband and their young daughter, face frightening consequences when he unwittingly unleashes a monstrous darkness that feeds on his long-repressed anger and pain to commit murderous acts of retribution, forcing him to confront the traumas of his past before it consumes him and destroys his young family.

Shapeshifter

Writer:  Anthony Ford
Number of pages: 112
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When a Russian military experiment goes awry, then the Scottish Highlands is the perfect terrain to unleash a psychotic shapeshifter, with a vengeance.

Where the Leopards Dream

Writer:  Fernando Paez
Number of pages: 121
Country of Origin: United States

An American professor and his daughter must fight for their lives against threats both human and animal when they run afoul of an African warlord and an unusually predatory group of leopards.