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Short Scripts

Award Winning Projects

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Hush Little Baby

The one that started it all.

Click for details of this multi-award winning script.

Click for details on the The Baby Next Door

ILL-GOTTEN GAINS

Logline:

A millennial nanny flies to Spain to take care of an imaginative kid. Together they will face a ghost desperate to give away her ill-gotten gains, but the ghost's altruism comes at a price

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Horror

Lenght. 16 pages

Accolades:

Winner - A Night of Horror International Film Fest

Screenplay Finalist - 13th Waterford Film Festival 2019

Finalist - Hollywood Just4Shorts Film & Screenplay Competition 2020 (Horror/Thriller)

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An Inconsequential Choice

Logline:

An easily obsessed scientists will put his life and relationship at risk to advance his research of parallel universes. Will he make the right choice?

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Sci-Fi, Drama

Lenght. 24 pages

Accolades:

Europa Platinum Award 2022 Best Unproduced Sci-Fi Screenplay - L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Festival

Best Screenplay Sci-Fi Short Film - Horrorigins Film Fest

Second Place, Sci Fi Competition - 27th Annual Fade In Awards

Runner-Up - Sunday Shorts Film Festival

Finalist - Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards

Finalist - International Horror & Sci Fi Film FestivalOfficial

Finalist - Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards Season 8

Selection - Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival

For the Record

Logline:

During a police interrogation, a seasoned detective faces off against a most innocuous old lady accused of a most heinous crime.

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Horror

Lenght. 12 pages

Accolades:

Mary Shelly Platinum Award  2025 Best Unproduced Screenplay - LA Sci-Fi Film Festival 

Finalist - A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2025

Quarter-Finalist - Killer Shorts 2025

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@DarkGuy02

Logline:

A doom-scrolling teenager meets an enigmatic dark character on her social media. As the videos become more personal and violent, she discovers both her sanity and her life are in danger.

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Action, Sci-fi

Lenght. 14 pages

Accolades:

Finalist - Sunday Shorts Film Festival 2026

Finalist - 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest 2026

Quarter-Finalist - The Wiki Screenplay Contest May 2026

A-7394

Logline:

A pair of security guards working for an evil genius will try to fend off an attack from a super-skilled hero

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Action, Sci-fi

Lenght. 30 pages

Accolades:

Finalist - Hollywood Just4Shorts Film & Screenplay Competition 2020 (Action/Sci-Fi)

Finalist - Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Winter 2020 (Short Screenplay)

Official Selection - HollyShorts Film Festival

Semi-Finalist - Filmmatic Short Screenplay Awards

Quarter-Finalist - WeScreenplay Shorts Contest

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Eva Nováková

Logline:

A seasoned cop and a psychology professor attempt to help a teenager rescued from a sex ring in Prague with no memory of her past. However, the more they dig, the more they'll uncover secrets that will put their lives in danger.

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Thriller, Horror

Lenght. 20 pages

Accolades:

WINNER - Sunday Shorts Film Festival 2021

Devil's Quarry

Logline:

Two social outcasts perform a demonic séance at an abandoned quarry, but one of them has more nefarious  intentions.

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Horror

Length. 7 pages

Accolades:

Finalist - Chicago Horror Film Festival 2023

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One Last Time

Logline:

A tale of love and sorrow in times of pandemic quarantine isolation where video-conferencing provides more than just connection with loved ones

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Drama

Lenght. 9 pages

Accolades:

Screenplay Finalist - 13th Waterford Film Festival 2020

Semi-Finalist - Sunday Shorts Film Festival

A Sherry Before Year's End

Logline:

A suburban couple get more than they bargained for when a game of truth-or-dare with their recently widowed neighbour turns mortally dangerous. Now they will have to reveal their darkest secrets if they want to survive the night.

Script Info:

Script type. Short

Genre. Horror

Lenght. 8 pages

Accolades:

Semi-Finalist - Sunday Shorts Film Festival 2021

Quarterfinalist - Outstanding Screenplays Shorts Competition                               2021

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