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A Penny Earned
A Manhattan debutante who has exhausted her trust fund.
Andy Bellin
Man Alive
Over a few hours, a fugitive tries to save the life of her alleged murder victim.
Larry Cohen
Wait Listing Wally
A regular, albeit unbalanced, Midwestern dad begins systematically taking down the families ahead of his 5-year-oldson on the waiting list for a top-notch private school.
Marty Scott, Toni Kotite
Inside Man
A tough cop matches wits with a clever robber during a hostage situation at a bank.
Russell Gewirtz
The Governor’s Wife
The wife of the Idaho governor dreams of becoming the first lady of the United States and stops at nothing, including manipulating her husband’s political career, to achieve her goal.
Pablo Zachai
The Killing Floor
A young man is drawn into an FBI investigation to track down his brother, a suspect in a serial murder case, before he can kill again.
Jay Beattie
Kool Herc’s Breakbeat
Two, odd-ball DJs search for a prized hop-hop record titled, “Kool Herc’s Breakbeat,” the record known to be real life catalyst for the hip-hop movement. On the record, Herc mixed back and forth between the two copies of the identical records to indefinitely extend the “break,” and in doing so, he introduced the turntable as a musical instrument in and of itself and gave rise to the hip-hop DJ.
Paul Hirsch
Mile Zero
A young woman tries to clear her father’s name in a string of gruesome murders at a remote Alaskan oil facility. In doing so, she gets a job at the station, hoping to prove that the place is haunted.
Holly Brix
Charlie
A mute man from Texas moves to Manhattan to pursue his dream of being an orchestra conductor.
Rob Perez
Blind Spot
Set in Washington D.C., a man is wrongfully accused of a crime.
Evan Katz
A College Sex Comedy
Set in a college dorm just before Christmas break, one student hires a prostitute for his virgin brother, while another student waits for the arrival of a foreign exchange student.
Patrick Casey, Worm Miller
Wrecked
Set against a treasure hunt in Bermuda, a couple accidentally discover a sunken treasure that leads to betrayal, deception and jeopardy.
Steven Gilder
Shrinking Violet
A girl in her twenties lies to her family and pretends she actually has a wonderful relationship with a new boyfriend, who is actually just her shrink. Things get complicated for her when she can’t decide what would be worse news for her straitlaced family: to learn she’s in therapy or that her relationship is a fraud.
Julie Rotenberg, Elisa Zuritsky
Tonight, He Comes
Dark tale about the relationship between a troubled 12-year-old and a fallen superhero.
Vincent Ngo
The Time of Our Lives
Set in the arena of women’s basketball, an independent team tours the Midwest in the early 1960s.
Rod Spence
The Lost
While evaluating a woman who’s been diagnosed with multiple personalities, a psychiatrist becomes obsessed with her case once he realizes that her multiple “personalities” are actually murder victims.
Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie
Untitled Snowden-White Spec
A woman, who recently lost her child, is visited by the spirit of another deceased child, whom she believes to be her own. But when the woman tells her husband, he thinks she’s going mad. But this “harmless” ghost has an evil agenda all its own.
Juliet Snowden, Stiles Eliot White
After the Sunset
After a master thief’s big score, and as he is retiring in paradise, he soon realizes he is bored stiff. When his lifelong nemesis, an FBI agent, shows up to make sure that he is really retired, a new cat-and-mouse game of friendship, suspicion and thievery begins.
Paul Zbyszewski
Nevermore
A sexy, young agent engages in international espionage.
Michael Kingston
S.P.O.O.K.S.
S.P.O.O.K.S. (Special Paranormal Organization of Kids), a group of junior high school misfits empowered chiefly by their imagination and youthful but nerdish techniques, work together to save their town from evil spirits.
Kirby Atkins
The Golden Tux
Centers on the preparations for a wedding in which the groom has hired a professional best man to stand up for him.
Jeremy Garelick, Jay Lavender
Again
A man comes home from a business trip to discover his wife and child murdered. Against the advice of all those around him, he decides to investigate the murders and makes a shocking discovery.
Karl Bakke
Straight Up
Centers on the extreme sport of urban climbing.
Rod Spence
Class Clowns
Two best buddies think they’ve found the ultimate in teaching jobs until they end up at their old grammar school, which is still ruled by the same principal who swore revenge on them as kids.
Grant Calof, Greg Lee
The Reaping
A myth debunker tries to prove that a young boy is not the supernatural force behind the devastation of a small, religious Texas town.
Brian Rousso
By Virtue Fall
A young DEA operative finds himself framed and is sent to prison, while his corrupt partner gets away with his misdeeds. In prison, the clean partner becomes toughened and loses all his scruples, while the corrupt cop — anguished over the loss of his partner — straightens out.
Sheldon Turner
Don’t Get It Twisted
Twin brothers, separated at birth and raised at opposite ends of the socioeconomic ladder, meet for the first time as adults, and decide to trade places.
D.J. Pooh, Marcus Morton
Hardcourt
A prominent young criminal attorney must defend his old mentor, a college basketball coach, who is under suspicion of having murdered his mistress.
Mark L. Smith
Snow and the Seven
“Snow White”-inspired story in which a young aristocratic Englishwoman flees her home in Hong Kong after her stepmother threatens her life. The girl takes refuge at a Shaolin temple, where seven Shaolin monks keep her safe from the supernatural forces that seek her.
Josh Harmon, Scott Elder
Tulip
“Tootsie”-esque story that involves mistaken identity.
Gina Wendkos, Jerry Stahl
Indigo
Described as being along the line of “Flatliners.”
Alex Torres
Diesel Debutantes
A twenty-something debutante inherits a losing race car team only to become the lead driver and turn the team’s winning chances around.
Gregg Rossen, Brian Sawyer
Trails of the Warlock
An incompetent man attempts to earn his legacy as a serial killer.
Christopher Dean Johnston
Bankrobber
Revolves around a charming bank robber and the female FBI agent who is hunting him down.
Richard Regen
Accidentally Yours
The clumsiest man alive falls in love with a woman who works in a fine China shop. In order to keep a promising relationship from shattering, the man decides he’ll learn grace by taking dancing lessons.
Leslie Dixon