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Best Drama Screenplays
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ContortionsContortions is a psychological chamber piece that unfolds almost entirely within a dim sitting room. The film blends absurdist dark comedy with existential horror, using physical entanglement as a visual metaphor for emotional and moral distortion. Reality fractures as past and present, life and death, and truth and delusion collapse into one another. Script Excerpt |
| 2 |
Identity FragmentsThis 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. The story weaves seamlessly in and out of her delusions, which are fully realized alternate realities that collapse into one another without warning. Script Excerpt |
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Rebecca Saves the Human WebA teenage girl, afraid of her vindictive impulses in a violent future world, seeks safety in the gentle spirit of her dead grandmother. Together, they learn how to prevent evil. Script Excerpt |
| 4 |
Henry-HenryIn 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. Script Excerpt |
| 5 |
A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the PresidentAn 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. His story unfolds through fractured memories of deep interracial love, political idealism, and psychological desperation. Script Excerpt |
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Post Your Script Here!FULL CONTACT — Price of Redemption
Under the suffocating pressure of a championship spotlight, a redlining linebacker must outplay a hijacked beta safety system that turns every 200lb impact into a lethal cardiac glitch.
Last Train Home
As he’s removed from Florida's death chamber, an executed man is guided by a mysterious presence into his own past, where preventing a single bad decision could rewrite the life that brought him to this dire destiny.
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.
ALTA CALIFORNIA
A young mixed blood, determined to avenge his mother’s brutal death, is thrust into a battle of survival and identity as he navigates through the oppressive and inhumane colonizers of California's “Mission Era.
“Be prepared for what?” Episode 2: THE BOY WHO EARNED HIS MAGIC
Howell and friends arrive at a school in the desert where they prepare to face evil forces.
THE MONGREL, pilot for THE COMING MORROW series
A virus is decimating the male population making most impotent.
GHOST TOWN, NM
When an obstinate father insists his daughter marry a rich but foolish young man, she escapes, with her boyfriend, to a ghost down.
BORDERLINE JUSTICE
Rita Fuentes, a fiery, attractive Latina social worker introduces Martin Wilkins, a law-and-order judge, to the violent, politically charged world of power, money, illegals, and life for the drug mules--like Demetria Plascentia, and his foolish new son-in-law, Antonio Borja--he condemns daily in his courtroom.
UNCLE FRANCO'S BIRTHDAY SUIT
Paolo’s relatives, including his zany Uncle Franco, are determined to reunite their nephew with his teenage love, Magdalena.
THE QUISLING
A young lawyer defends a wanted terrorist from international extradition.
