Selection 2025
| Project Title | Synopsis | Writers |
| Salad Daze | A man is robbed, gets a cat, and finds love all from the comfort of his own bathroom. | Steve Levandoski |
| We’ll Always Be Freaks | When Mal’s missing friend Cassie suddenly reappears years after disappearing, Mal is grateful to have her friend home. But a lot has happened to Cassie in the time that she was missing, and some changes can’t be undone. | Elise Kristina Finlinson |
| Your Husband’s Password | When a man passes away, his widow uses his password to open his laptop, only to find that he may have loved someone else. | Peter Hardy |
| SENTINEL 9 | It’s 2099 AD. Location: Lunar Project Dome. Humans find alien technology under the lunar surface. It’s Sentinel 9, the last of the great Sentinels. Aliens are about to attack the Lunar Dome. It’s a good thing that Sentinel 9 is on our side. | Robert Wagner |
| Overdue | Tom meets a strange man in a cafe whilst returning some library books for his mother. It soon becomes apparent that there is something rather sinister about him. | Philippa Rae |
| Briefcase of Grievances | Paul Corricelli | |
| Macho Picchu | Dr. Frank vows to climb Machu Picchu after his son is killed in Afghanistan and he suffers a major myocardial infarction. A feel-good story. | Noah Greenspan |
| Is she Chinese or …? | A British-born Chinese man becomes obsessed with figuring out the ethnicity of a mysterious and captivating woman he meets on the train, only to realize that his assumptions say more about himself than her. | Yew gene Kuan |
| JENO | A young Jewish boy’s Bar Mitzvah in a concentration camp becomes an act of spiritual resistance against Nazi oppression, preserving identity and hope in the face of unimaginable brutality. | Anthony Salamon |
| The Answer Girl | A brilliant but shy waitress goes on a quiz show to finance her niece’s ballet career and falls for her competition–a man with the longest winning streak in history whose sole focus is to triumph at any cost, including lying about who he really is. | Stephanie Scott |
| Arizona Sunrise | In present-day Arizona, with help from his basketball coach, a teenage boy overcomes his parents’ separation, and, the death of his best friend. | John Martins III |
| The Last Set | On the final night of a beloved neighborhood bar, a jazz singer wraps her set as the regulars, human and toon alike, prepare to say goodbye. Old tensions rise when a rival vocalist walks in, setting the stage for one last unexpected duet. The Last Set blends live action with expressive 2D animation to explore grace, ego, and connection at the end of an era. | Daryl Henry Della |
| A good Mother | “Run Lola Run” meets “The Villainess”: Sarah wakes up beaten up and alone without any memory in an alley. However, there is one last thing she knows: she is a mother and her daughter has been kidnapped. As she rushes through the city to save her daughter in this non-stop adrenaline short film, the memories of how this situation came about and who she really is slowly return. A gripping story of motherhood, false protection and about when the best decision is to simply let your children go. | Leonard Cyrill Sanftenschneider |
| This Side of Broken | Fresh out of prison and trying to outrun the wreckage of his past, Jake is placed at a coastal transitional home — unaware the woman he once loved, and the daughter he never knew, are living quietly nearby. Surrounded by others carrying burdens of their own, he finds fragile hope in an unexpected place. But when his old crew kidnaps the girl to force him back into a high-risk job, Jake must decide whether to run — or fight for the life he never thought he deserved. | Tresha Johnson |
| Tangerine | “A spoiled rich girl, on a mission to avenge her fiancé’s murder, inherits a Voodoo superpower used to battle an unspeakable evil in the vineyards of Napa Valley.” | Kit Wilson |
| Puppy Cam | Megan likes to create order out of chaos, especially for those she loves, only sometimes she goes to far. | Sally Llewellyn |
| MAYHEM AT TRANQUILITY MANOR | A witty ex-mob fixer recovering from a stroke in a convalescent home must outsmart a corrupt psychiatrist and two ex-cons to survive a deadly plot-armed with only a dagger cane, loyal allies, and his charm. | |
| Return to Crystal Mind | Return to Crystal Mind is a novella fantasy that follows the journey of Andron, a young woman with strong psychic abilities and a defiant spirit. In a world where the Trumusk Collective suppresses individuality and psychic powers, Andron’s father, Major Victor, is tasked with eradicating those with such abilities. As Andron breaks free from her father’s control, she embarks on a perilous journey to reclaim the lost Crystal Mind, the key to restoring balance and saving their realm from impending doom. Guided by her mentor Santer and accompanied by allies like Kai and Gaylord, Andron discovers ancient wisdoms tied to Atlantis and Lemuria. Along the way, she encounters mystical beings, including Big Foot and a talking snake named Luminara, who help her navigate the challenges ahead. As she reaches the hidden sanctuary of Telos within Mount Shasta, Andron and her friends must awaken their DNA and harness the power of ancient crystal skulls to fight against the Trumusk Collective. With the resistance growing stronger, Andron learns that her psychic abilities are not just a gift but a weapon. She must confront her father, the Major, and uncover the truth about her mother’s fate. As the battle for freedom and higher consciousness intensifies, Andron’s journey becomes a quest to return to the Crystal Mind and liberate her people from the Collective’s control | valorie cullen goldenbrook |
| “SPOILED” | ALICE, a shopping addict has a serious accident because of her new and expensive high heeled shoes “SPOILED”, and falls into a coma. Her mother EMILY is devastated. ZOE, Alice’s best friend is sorry about Alice. But she’s extremely obsessed with “Spoiled”, and keeps wondering who will get “Spoiled” in case Alice dies. BRIAN, Zoe’s boyfriend, tries to handle Zoe’s obsession about “Spoiled”. Emily, who is not aware of Zoe’s obsession, asks her to take away the dangerous shoes, as she doesn’t want to see them around. A few weeks later, Zoe has an accident in “Spoiled”, and gets into a surgery for fragmanted fracture. Platin is inserted into her ankle bone. After a few months, Alice comes out of coma. Emily is still in a wheelchair, recovering. Just before they check out from the hospital, the girls receive to pairs of high heels , as compensation gifts from the shoe company. They cheer up, and look forward to wear the new high heels. | Günseli ORHON |
| Clare Voyante | After the violent death of her sister, a young comic creator loses her inspiration. When she finally finds her creative spark again, it leads her to an unlucky monumental mason. Both of their fates, as well as those of his dying wife and a disaffected fortune teller, mysteriously become more and more intertwined, leading them all to a shared tragedy. | Scott Brand |
| Daughter vs The Swindlers | Toni Hills | |
| Hanging Threads | “Hanging Threads” is not merely a visual narrative about loss, but an attempt to embody absence as a living entity—breathing between the folds of fabric and the silence of crumbling walls. This screenplay emerges from a long philosophical preoccupation with the existential question: how do we live in the presence of those who are no longer here? How do we document what cannot be seen or what was never spoken? In this work, phenomenology intersects with visual symbolism, as the simple, manual act of sewing becomes a ritual of remembrance and resistance. The tailor is not a conventional hero; he is a witness to the fragility of human existence in the face of war, famine, and oblivion. Through this cinematic experiment, we aimed to create a slow, contemplative temporal space where the smallest details—a thread, a ledger, a piece of cloth—become vessels for a torn memory, dangling not on a clothing rack, but on the very hanger of life itself. This screenplay offers no answers, but poses a single question that echoes through the silence: “Is there anyone left to extend a thread toward life?” | Faten Hamza Al-Jazzar, Hanan Muneer Al-Sheikh |
| Parousia | As punishment for their original sin, the souls of Adam and Eve are reincarnated in endless cycles, doomed to watch the deterioration of the world and their progeny, while separated by great distances. An ancient tribe of men called The Rodef hunts them mercilessly through each appearance. The Rodef believe their existence is unnatural and contrary to God’s design. The couple’s intense yearning for each other is complicated by a psychic connection they share; a connection which not only serves as a homing device to find each other, but also allows for a type of energy exchange to fuel supernatural powers they have developed over the millennia. When in danger, they can mind control another human — a limited ability that comes in handy when cornered by a Rodef Warrior. The downside to using this power is the attention it brings: their psychic union wreaks havoc on the natural world around them, with cyclones, earthquakes, and electrical storms developing on the spot when they connect. The current Adam – college student Huelo Topui of Tonga – seeks the help of Linguistic Anthropology Professor Duke Pennington of Cambridge University. The world-weary agnostic professor reluctantly agrees to help the persuasive youth under the pretext that the youth knows where rare, ancient artifacts can be found to further his career. Having tragically lost two sons in their early years — one minutes after he was born — Duke struggles to find meaning in his life. As he ventures on the journey with his young comrade, he discovers some shocking truths. Huelo reveals himself to be the Biblical Adam with a twofold mission: he wants to know how The Rodef always find them with precision each incarnation cycle, and he seeks to reunite with his primordial wife Ava (Eve) before the Rodef find and kill her. Together, the male comrades discover the method to The Rodef’s success: they have struck a deal with the devil, who can sense Adam and Eve when they use their psychic skills. To complicate things further, they learn that the cursed horn of Cain can break the reincarnation cycle if Cain’s parents are simultaneously pierced by it. The devil, manifested in corporeal form as a canine shape-shifter known as “The Prince”, wants to learn the location of Cain’s horn for good reason: if Adam and Eve ever physically reunite, Creation will begin again, and the devil will lose his lease over the world in the reboot. Huelo and Duke bond like father and son throughout their dangerous trek, and their final adventure ends with a twist. In the climactic moment of Adam and Eve’s physical reunion, Huelo caresses Duke in a poignant farewell, and reveals that he is Duke’s reincarnated firstborn son. After the ensuing shock wave, when the world has been reshaped with a new Creation, Adam and Eve rise again from the primordial muck. As their adult figures supernaturally morph, it becomes clear that the female figure of Eve is pregnant, presumably with the reincarnated Duke. | Todd Sorrell |
| Windy | A trio of high school geeks scramble to figure out how to cope with one of them developing a superpower. | |
| Theater 8 | Set in the early 1990s, during the height of the “Satanic Panic,” a long-estranged daughter returns to her hometown to collect her inheritance — and uncover the truth behind her mother’s mysterious reasons for abandoning her. Her search puts her in the path of a weathered investigative journalist haunted by personal demons and obsessed with a series of missing teen cases. Their separate investigations lead them to a local movie theater — ordinary in appearance but hiding a mounting evil and a darkness for which neither is prepared. | John P Martinez |
| Split | Sharing a bottle of expensive wine at an upscale restaurant, two women explore how wise observations, mobile homes and California culture influence a major life decision. | John A. Goodlove |
| Play Therapy | A woman with bipolar disorder battles her narcissistic husband for custody of their two young children in a legal drama that tests a flawed system and the will of its participants. | Cindy Lee Cannon |
| This Saturnalia | As the Roman Empire converts to Christianity in the 4th century AD, four mismatched slaves travel to the Eternal City in order to convince Pope Julius not to cancel their beloved pagan festival Saturnalia in favor of some new holiday called “Christ’s Mass.” | Michael Blomquist |
| On Tour | Rachel and Matthew Franks are on the brink of divorce. Rachel is a focused nursing student, weary from years of emotional disconnect. Matthew is a struggling comedian who copes with pain by telling jokes. When a frustrated judge orders them to spend two weeks trying to work things out before finalizing their divorce, Matthew is forced to bring Rachel along on a modest nine-stop comedy tour through the backroads and bars. Can this awkward road trip bring them back together? | T. Marie King |
| My only family | On March 11, 2002, in the state of New York in the United States, the highly publicized trial of Rayan ATTA took place. He was accused of the murder of Mrs. Julia JEFFERSON, which occurred on September 16, 2001, at her home. | Andy TAGNE |
| Burden of Representation | Xavier Gilman must find the strength to make an unimaginable decision after experiencing a night of brutality at the hands of a historically problematic police department. | Jonathan Corey Williams |
| Not Lisa | Tormented by depression after a stillbirth, a young woman struggles to battle the guilt left behind in her mind. | J. E. Ruiz |
| Excursion | A neglected wife and mother decides to switch things up with her husband and kids. | Lukas Hassel |
| She Sleeps at Night | Anne Lynden and Brent Jackson enjoy dinner and a movie. the audience is their dinner and then they might watch the movie. | Kristyn Shelley Olson |
| I Should Tell You | Just before bedtime, a wife shares life altering news with her husband that will force the two to reckon with one another’s place in life, and most importantly, speak honestly with each other for the first time in decades. | Evan Pascal Covington |
| The Gift Hidden In The Unknown | Nelle was raised to be cautious of strangers, because in life they carry no context—no one knows their intentions. She learned to lean on her perceptions, but still followed what she had been taught: to see the label of “stranger” before the person. One day, Nelle noticed someone’s actions—small, genuine, unmistakably human. Her intuition stirred, urging her to look beyond the category she had inherited. She chose to follow up, to step closer instead of turning away. What she discovered in that moment was more than a person; it was a lesson. | Bryan Huynh |
| PEAK WATER | A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought. | John Boal |
| A Dying Crescendo | A Dying Crescendo follows Nic, a gifted young cellist facing a terminal illness, as he navigates the loss of his father, the weight of his own diagnosis, and the music that has always connected them. Moving between pivotal childhood memories and present day struggles, Nic must decide whether to give up or to perform one final, life-defining peace. | Jordan Pope, Emma Sumlin |
| The Forever Man | In 1930, a Mixed Race Demi-God, who passes for an Indiana Jones-type Artifact Dealer and Fixer Extraordinaire, challenges Actor Charlie Chaplin, Professor Albert Einstein and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt to a unique Game of Chance to try to convince them that they must help save the World. | Daniel Richard Stevens |
| Dark Sunlight | “Bella,” a desperate woman struggling with the death of her daughter and terminally ill mother, is saved from danger by “Bones,” an ex-military loner battling his own demons. Determined to repay her debt, Bella tracks down Bones’ and discovers his incredible secret, which lands her in the middle of a violent vendetta and a deadly government cover-up. | Maurice Moore |
| The veil of silence | Quiet, nondescript man. Well-liked by coworkers, but mostly keeps to himself. He has a fascination with the medical field and anatomy that goes far beyond mere professional interest. Hidden beneath his mild-mannered exterior is a compulsion to control life and death. | Michael Davies |
| Lab Partners | Preeti and Daniel have won the Future Physicians essay contest, but when they struggle to raise their creative writing grades, the nightmare begins. | Tommy Britt |