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AT THE MERCY OF FAITHA former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul. As his faith wavers, he must confront his past, his sins, and a terrifying entity that threatens to consume him entirely. Script Excerpt |
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The Passage of SunThree brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War. |
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Undue InfluenceAn unscrupulous and money hungry debt collector is forced to make hard choices when she becomes the target of a wrongful death law suit. Script Excerpt |
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MAN OUT OF COUNTRYPilot log line: Multi-cam When an Iranian music teacher in California launches a nightly dinner tradition to stay close to his wife and two teenage sons, unexpected drop-ins from eccentric American in-laws—and plenty of teenage rebellion—turn his heartfelt plan into a battleground of culture, chaos, and family bonding. Series premise: An Iranian music teacher, his American wife and their free-thinking teenage sons try to find common ground in a small town in California amid clashing cultures and in-laws. “Man Out of Country” is an hour-long serialized dramedy series about an interracial married couple raising a family in a small California town. Iranian immigrant Amir and his American wife Kate teach classical guitar and piano to young students while juggling marriage, two teenage sons and quirky in-laws. The series will explore the complex needs of the characters as they navigate cultural differences/traditions, relationships and pressing issues, such as teenage drug experimentation, empty nest syndrome, career setbacks, family secrets and immigration challenges. Script Excerpt |
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EuthanizedA grieving animal control officer becomes an unlikely social media hero when she embarks on a vigilante crusade against animal abusers, but her violent actions trap her between friends on the police force and the leader of a citywide dogfighting ring. Script Excerpt |
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New Jack HustlersTwo seasoned D.E.A. agents go undercover with a rookie female officer to infiltrate a ruthless gang of New Jack Hustlers, moving large quantities of a potent new narcotic. Script Excerpt |
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The Longest GoodbyeA poignant look at an elderly mother's battle with dementia and her son's commitment to keeping love alive, as memories fade, and life on the road is rearranged to moments in time. |
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La Tierra Que Yo Amo (Land That I Love)After trying for seven years to successfully make it as a dancer in New York, a 30-year-old half-Mexican, half-American woman with dual citizenship reluctantly returns to her hometown of Oaxaca, Mexico and struggles to find her identity. [MIDNIGHT IN PARIS meets EVEN THE RAIN--38 awards/honors including, First Place-2015 Las Vegas Screenplay Contest (Drama Category), and Grand Prize-2015 London Film Awards (Feature Screenplay Category)] |
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The SubA dramedy, spotlighting the realities--comical, tragic, and inspiring--of the grossly overcrowded public school system and one off-centered substitute teacher’s journey through the bureaucratic, educational circus of urban public education. |
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A ROSE BY THE DOORA God fearing woman finds herself burned out by hurtful tragedies in her life. By trying to hide secrets from the past, she comes to the place where faith seems gone. But she overlooks, that old wounds must be touched and tended before they could be healed for good. A ROSE BY THE DOOR is an adaptation of Deborah Bedford's inspirational novel with the same title. |
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A Long Way From SundayAn edgy, faith-inspired, drama about the relationships of Andre, a mischievous 11year old, and a series of family revelations that lead his grandfather, a working class, Pentecostal pastor, to question his faith, murder his friend, and burn down his church. |
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I Hear YouA belligerent boss struggles with his marriage and hearing impaired son, but after he is caught pilfering from the company, he must find a way to reconcile his relationships and save his career. |
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SandleyA first-year teacher in an at-risk Los Angeles middle school finds the inspiration to confront his bullies through his interactions with a lovable, but equally teased, student. [Ranked 2nd in the Urban short script category of MovieBytes.com's "Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts"] |
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BROKENA witty, Two-Act dramatic play about mental illness in an African American family revolving around a woman suffering compulsive guilt, drug addiction, alcohol abuse and multifaceted visual and auditory hallucinations regarding the accidental death of her 17-year-old son. |
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DellwoodA 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. [STAND BY ME meets THE SANDLOT--Ranked 7th in the Urban category of MovieBytes.com's "Top 10 Contest Winning Scripts"] |
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TwistedA young man scarred in a fire as an infant exhibits secretive behavioral problems, but must straighten out his twisted thinking at a rehabilitation facility whose head has his own twisted logic. |
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EquityAre you in or out? The year is 1919. Your name is Frank Bacon, and you’re the author and lead actor of the most successful play in Broadway history. Your fellow actors are about to go on strike in support of their union, the Actors Equity Association. You’ve spent your life fighting for the rights your friends are hitting the bricks to protect. If you go out on strike with them, you risk losing everything you’ve achieved. Your wife doesn’t want you to go out. The managers will fire you and take away the rights to your play if you don’t cross the line. What about it, Frank — which side are you on? Are you in or out? Script Excerpt |
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F.A.C.E. (Fragile. Angel. Crushed. Emotionally.)On the grimy streets of Detroit, Ebony, a resilient homeless woman becomes an unexpected guardian angel to Shaleta, a broken soul, proving that reclaimed self-respect and compassion can outshine the brightest stars in heaven. |
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Unbreakable bondIn the 1980s in Detroit, childhood friends Latrice and Antoine forge a deep friendship amidst parental abuse and urban decay, discovering that while true love offers warmth, its preservation often demands a heavy, heartbreaking sacrifice. |
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The black rose family?A criminal, action-based saga centers on Blu Rose, a well-groomed leader of a ruthless dynasty, who enforces his cold-hearted legacy with a Desert Eagle, eliminates weak links to maintain his family's dominance. |
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RepresentChris is a Detroit teenager caught between the Crips and Bloods, while trying to save his sister Tasha from joining the bloods, but his efforts spiral into tragedy when family loyalty collides with the brutal realities of street warfare. |
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ImmunityBryan and Sheila prove loyalty is the ultimate power, when Charmaine attempts to break their bond, turning a street-tested romance into an invincible fortress. |
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Ignored flagsWhen a charming romance curdles into a violent cage, Brittany must sacrifice her last shred of innocence to orchestrate Devonta’s permanent exit. |
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Open a Can of Worms (Open the Can)Detectives descover the body of young woman. It seems that her life was a horror story. Confused atittuide, scared of men and proud of any pain. Everything happen in her flat, on the 14th floor of the large tower in a big city. |
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Episode 2: Across the Hudson: The Dark KnightAs media attention and political pressure explode, a shadowy kingpin known only as The Dark Knight makes his first calculated moves, forcing law enforcement into high-risk raids that threaten to expose just how deeply the system is compromised. Script Excerpt |
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Episode 1 - Across the HudsonAn officer haunted by a childhood destroyed by addiction is recruited by a covert DEA task force to hunt the elusive opioid kingpin known as the Dark Knight, only to find her mission becoming a living nightmare when she unknowingly falls in love with the man himself. Script Excerpt |
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Blue DreamA man wakes up in a hospital ER with a marijuana leaf growing in the palm of his hand, and he becomes known as The Marijuana Man after the Marlboro Man Poster. |
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CARO (or Fried Green Bananas)A New York family struggles to move on after the loss of their young son and the attempted suicide of their remaining daughter, whose strained relationship with her mother threatens to unravel what’s left of the families fragile bond. |
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She Curses Like a SailorA thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York. Two twenty-something artistes and a fifty-something writer explore various facets of whether it is 'ladylike' to curse - or not - in public - a philosophical comedy - of sorts. Are we too brash as a society? Crass? Maybe - maybe not. You decide! Is America 'off the hook'? Are we gone? Does etiquette exist anymore? Are expletives the 'new norm' in the English language?- (Copyright Wash. DC) A mini-play and/or teleplay. Script Excerpt |
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The Rondo ConspiracyIn the late fifties a resident lawyer of Rondo, primarily St. Paul's Black community, must help a Chicago rogue cop hunt a killer through after-hours joints or be charged with murder. The lawyer agrees and soon believes he can save himself and Rondo when he learns the cop is hunting him and is in a conspiracy to destroy Rondo. Script Excerpt |
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Judge, MeGroup-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. As the inmates clash over therapy, power politics creeps in and they soon realize what they intuitively know: some people believe they're beyond the law. Script Excerpt |
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Lady Diogenes of the ShadowThree retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee. Is she mentally ill but legally sane or vice versa? Who is ultimately responsible for her well-being? An 'in-your-face' 'slice-o-life' highlighting Americana today. Are Americans too passive & indifferent? Ya' think? (Dark comedy overtones) (A short play/teleplay) (Official Selection for Hollywood Stage Script Film Competition 2025) ***Semi-Finalist NY Script Awards 2025 Summer*** Script Excerpt |
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A Taste of Cold SteelA Chicago gangster's estranged and addicted son struggles to reunite with his psychpathic brother to get revenge against his immoral father. He's marked for death, barely survives, gets revenge but loses more than he gains. Script Excerpt |
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A Force Of HabitA brother and sister, burdened by the emotional challenges that have impacted their lives, discover hope and healing through faith and forgiveness. |
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Twelve LessTwelve teenagers survive a plane crash, which at first was thought to be caused by a structural flaw. However, one-by-one the surviving teenagers are being killed. It is left to those still alive to find the saboteur before they too perish. Script Excerpt |
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The Return of the Bad BoysA group of friends from a working-class Detroit neighborhood cheat their way through a three-on-three basketball tournament to prove to themselves that they’re not losers (WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP meets THE HANGOVER). |
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Once YoungTwo parent-less 18-year-olds fall in love and, alone and together, struggle with what love and maturity may look like amid an adult world that is often confusing and sometimes dangerous. A panoramic tale of life as seen through the eyes of innocence. Script Excerpt |
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WatchAn L.A. homicide detective, who also rents spare rooms in his apartment building to aspiring Hollywood actresses, must prove his innocence when one of them is brutally murdered by someone bent on revenge, exposing the detective's voyeurism fetish. |
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Developing Minds: An American Ghost StoryA group of recent college graduates who struggle with feelings of alienation and their addictions try to survive a year of teaching at two dysfunctional Miami public schools. [#1 Amazon Best Seller ("Satire" and "Urban Life" Kindle categories) and Winner of 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes (Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category)] |
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Sandwich GenerationA white woman and her Korean boyfriend have to take in their fathers, hers because he’s a broke compulsive gambler, and his, because his fifth wife just threw him out while a third generation gets added, when they decide to foster an at-risk African American boy who keeps breaking into their garage to raid a box of porn magazines. |
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Riviera DriveThree felons on the run invade the home of a prosperous insurance executive, who must reconnect with his own violent gang-banging past to save his family. |
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Post Your Script Here!Eternal Blessings
A dying woman enters a time portal to confront her criminal past, only to realize that what she seeks is in the present--but getting back is proving harder than she thought.
Unknown Black Assailant
As the crack epidemic erupts across 1980s small-city America, a Black rookie detective investigating a string of gang murders in Little Rock, Arkansas uncovers a CIA-backed arms-for-drugs conspiracy—forcing him to choose between protecting his family and exposing a truth that could destroy him.
SETTLING THE BOOKS
A cautious investigator is none the less drawn in, along with four other heirs, by the reading of a billionaire rare book dealer’s will, they’re sealed in an airtight panic room, and with only four hours air, must solve the centuries-old mystery contained in the book ‘The Castilian Cypher’ in order to escape.
AT THE MERCY OF FAITH
A former preacher, haunted by the tragic rape/murder of his twin sister, spirals into darkness as supernatural forces, both angelic and demonic, wage war for his soul.
Lab Rats
An anonymous organization uses an ***AI Bot*** to moderate a Focus Group on the topic of ***Fake***.
She Curses Like a Sailor
A thought-provoking view of women and cursing is entertained at this art opening in New York.
Lady Diogenes of the Shadow
Three retired ladies candidly discuss their bizarre neighbor over morning coffee.
Perfect Beau
A Brainiac Plain Jane clones her ideal boyfriend out of her gorgeous girlfriends' boyfriends' DNA for her university's senior class science project.
Cold Pepper
A law-abiding, church-going court stenographer becomes a one-woman vigilante 'offing' violent domestic abusers (and other pathetic souls) after their third offense.
Psychotic USA
A dramedy. A razor-sharp satiric view of the laughable state of modern psychiatric treatment as seen through the lens of four patients in an asylum.
