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Post Your Script Here!Eternal Blessings
A dying woman must break the spell of her former Indian guru -- or risk having him follow her into the afterlife.
LIPIUNA
...A group of young people are planning an exciting trip on a yacht in Croatia.
Contortions
Contortions is a psychological chamber piece that unfolds almost entirely within a dim sitting room.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
A teenage girl, afraid of her vindictive impulses in a violent future world, seeks safety in the gentle spirit of her dead grandmother.
Identity Fragments
This psychological drama about identity and mental illness begins in 1945, when LUCY is an 8th grade choir girl living in a strict Catholic orphanage, and follows her through 1987 and ultimate redemption.
Henry-Henry
In this virtuoso acting vehicle, one actor plays a dual personality, a defrocked priest with dark secrets and a mildly alcoholic bureaucrat who argue with each other but are able to use their illness to infiltrate a child sex trafficking ring.
A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the President
An old man takes on the scars of the nation and claims to know who killed JFK and that he helped set the conspiracy in motion.
The Cajun
When a notorious pirate, made immortal by the curse of a Voodoo Queen, is invited to a mysterious poker game in modern day New Orleans, he discovers a clue to find the treasure that can set him free.
Bubbling Under the Surface
After a Holocaust survivor narrowly survives an attempted murder in her nursing home — saved by a Muslim care worker — her family is drawn into a race to expose a coordinated extremist network targeting the last witnesses of history.
RICH KID$
When an imaginative 12-year-old and his friends discover buried cash from a decades-old crime, their secret attempt to live like Rich Kid$ spirals into chaos when newly released convicts come looking for their dough — and the kids must decide what all that money is really worth.
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