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Post Your Script Here!A Taste of Cold Steel
A Chicago gangster's estranged and addicted son struggles to reunite with his psychpathic brother to get revenge against his immoral father.
The Rondo Conspiracy
In the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily St.
Judge, Me
Group-therapy prison inmates become a jury and must decide whether a vengeful reporter's expose' of a judge being elevated to the supreme court should be published.
Whirlabout
A New York actor returns to his decaying hometown to care for his father, only to uncover dark family secrets, confront a lifetime of abuse, and face a harrowing moral reckoning that could either destroy—or finally heal—his fractured family.
THE BEAUTY OF THE RODEO
A former rodeo queen returns home after thirty years, but her attempt to fit back in is further complicated by the arrival of the daughter she secretly placed for adoption.
e-DEAD
After a near-death experience, a woman discovers her dating app matches are ghosting her because they really are ghosts leaving her clues in order to solve their murders.
ISTANBUL CROSSING
A gay Syrian refugee in Istanbul, while juggling dangerous smuggling operations for both the CIA and Islamic State, falls in love with, and must decide between, two men who offer him very different futures.
Yrrem Samtsirhc from Mars
A gentle, highly intelligent alien crash-lands in a small town just before Christmas and forms an unlikely friendship with a girl with Down syndrome.
Dellwood
A successful but unhappy novelist reluctantly returns to his childhood town to attend a friend's funeral and reminisces about his experiences playing basketball on a city court to escape his abusive home.
Bubbling Under the Surface
After a Holocaust survivor narrowly survives an assassination attempt in her nursing home, a wave of coordinated attacks reveals a covert network intent on erasing the last living witnesses, forcing a police task force into a race to stop history from being wiped out.
