#1

Black Sea Rose

Deirdre L. Brenner, Jillian Reilly • Drama • Feature

Haunted by her daughter's death, a hairdresser flees her sheltered life in Texas to rescue HIV-positive orphans in dangerous post-Communist Romania where hostile adversaries threaten not only the children's survival, but her own. Based on a true story.

#2

Forget-Me-Nots

John Dummer • Sci-fi • Feature • 107 pages

As they await a supernova explosion that will end all life on earth, an astrobiologist and two uninvited guests at his island cabin must fend off an invasive plant from another world – but is the plant a predator or an interstellar lifeline?

#3

Halcyon Falls

Jeff Bower • Drama • Television (One-hour) • 58 pages • View Writer Profile

A traumatized town struggles to return to normalcy after a brutal school shooting, while desperately hiding their secrets from the media...and each other. Think AMERICAN CRIME meets THE KILLING.

#4

Mount Pleasant

Cat Dale • Drama • Television (One-hour) • 61 pages • View Writer Profile

1889, Oklahoma Territory. Native American children are forced from their families for "reeducatation" at Mount Pleasant Indian School by the US Government, but when Lola's brother does not return from the school, she risks her life by leaving the reservation to find out what happened to him.

#5

A War On Terror

Peter Haig • Drama • Short • 27 pages • View Writer Profile

When a group of soldiers is hit by an IED they are left to figure out if they are alive, dead, or worse.

#6

Guns and Grace

Odin Ozdil • Adventure • Feature • 91 pages • View Writer Profile

A Southern belle and a tough Blackfoot woman team up to survive being hunted down by bank robbers in a chase across the Montana wilderness loaded with guns and gold. An action-adventure that proves sisterhood is not just by birth.

#7

DARRYN THE BOLD AND THE SWORD OF BOLDNESS

Justin Best • Fantasy • Feature • 111 pages • View Writer Profile

When a past-his-prime knight is asked by his estranged daughter to find a fabled sword, his quest leads him to his two worst enemies: the evil woman who nearly killed him and his own ego.

#8

Shrimp

Nicole Jones • Fantasy • Feature • 102 pages • View Writer Profile

An introverted 62-year-old woman with supernatural abilities born to a young polygamist girl in The Great Salt Lake discovers the confidence to share her unique powers with the rest of the world as her loving husband begins to lose his battle with illness.

#9

Off the Strip

Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn • Thriller • Feature • View Writer Profile

A young Las Vegas police officer takes his fiancée on a ridealong to show her that his job isn’t as dangerous as it seems. But when the night takes a violent turn, she’s on her own against a corrupt detective and a citywide manhunt.

#10

The G.O.A.T.

Sid Patwa • Comedy • Feature • 102 pages • View Writer Profile

A gifted Indian teen rapper in the 90's, dealing with disappointing his family, has one night to finally face his nemesis in an epic rap battle in order to "up" his social status, impress his crush and become the Greatest Of All Time.

#11

Love and Insurrection

Ernestina Juarez • Drama • Feature • 110 pages • View Writer Profile

An African-American slave joins Mexico's struggle for independence after befriending, and then witnessing the execution of, the author of the first law against slavery on the North American continent. (Based in part on true events)

#12

Warrior Girl

Laurie Whitaker • Drama • Feature • 120 pages • View Writer Profile

After a horrific car accident kills her father and shatters her leg, Amy, 15, an Olympic bound gymnast, is sent to live on an Indian Reservation with an equally wounded stranger, her Native American grandfather, who, as it turns out, is a healer...

#13

BUTTERFLY CHILDREN

Melanie Schiele • Drama • Feature • 95 pages • View Writer Profile

A furniture craftsman struggles to save his failing marriage and six-year-old daughter afflicted with a rare and debilitating disease, leaving her skin as fragile as a butterfly's wings.

#14

Sugar Land

R.B. Ripley • Drama • Television (One-hour)

#15

Labyrinth of Destiny

Ernestina Juarez • Drama • Feature • 111 pages • View Writer Profile

Ulysses Grant's experience of love and death as a young officer in the Mexican-American War influences an important decision he makes as the commanding general of the Union Army during the Civil War.

#16

Ripple

Heather Faris • Adventure • Feature • 104 pages • View Writer Profile

A female war photographer enlists the help of an escaped child prostitute to track down her mother's killer in Cambodia.

#17

Encounters

Gary King • Comedy • Feature • 125 pages • View Writer Profile

(2018 Nicholl Semifinalist) After a drunken one night stand, two strangers wake up to discover an alien invasion outside the window, forcing them to navigate their budding relationship while fighting to survive.

#18

Childproof

Michael Noonan • Comedy • Feature • 102 pages • View Writer Profile

When all their friends start young families and their dinner-party lifestyle is ruined, a wealthy couple hires an assassin to kill all the children and restore the adults-only decadence that completes them.

#19

The Anklebiter

Andy Jones • Comedy • Feature • 106 pages

Five years after the Zombie Apocalypse, a couple fighting about whether to start a family adopts a baby zombie they don't have the heart to kill.

#20

The Divinity Cycle

Nelson Downend • Thriller • Television (One-hour) • 62 pages

The lives of a disillusioned priest struggling with addiction, a recently widowed homicide detective and an ambitious young journalist converge as an enigmatic performance artist leads them into the mystery surrounding an active serial killer.