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Best Animation Screenplays
| Script Name | |
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| 1 |
Sam Katt, DetectiveSam, a down-on-his-luck cat detective, reluctantly agrees to find a missing puppy. As his brother disappoints him, his secretary leaves town and his girlfriend breaks up with him, Sam struggles to change in a demimonde of stray animals and lost souls. |
| 2 |
The Magnificent Harry FlyA deformed mutant fly must harness his superpowers to defeat an evil genius determined to destroy insect life. |
| 3 |
SEA-GENSearching for her estranged sister, FBI Agent November Knight reluctantly joins an Elite Team, A.R.M.S., (Advanced Research in Marine Science), to prevent one of their rogue members from creating a new race of underwater breathing humans, called Manphibians, only to discover that she becomes the catalyst. Script Excerpt |
| 4 |
MarloweA brown, Virginia, field mouse moves into the bedroom of eleven-year-old-Cole who teaches the animal to talk and wear clothes. In the end, Marlowe saves Cole and his family and a small group of humans and animals, from a virus that kills all animals globally in less than a year. |
| 5 |
VICKI IN VIEWLANDVicki's crush for Jay has her falling head over heels, dropping her in the fantasy world of Viewland, where she must defeat all types of idiotic people and their foolish views in order to return home to Jay and newfound knowledge. |
| 6 |
The Rocking Horse ChristmasA seven year old boy named Cody saves Christmas with the help of his dog and two animated mice. In this action/animated adventure Cody passes through the fire of manhood by saving an ancient Christmas ornament that has been in his family for three hundred years. |
| 7 |
Turf WarAs Florida neighbors fall in love, their rival lawn ornaments start a war. Script Excerpt |
| 8 |
My EverestAfter his mother dies in a wildfire, a troubled 13-year-old boy reluctantly moves in with his estranged father in Colorado, where he finds purpose and redemption by leading a crusade to save a mountain bluebird trapped in a big box hardware store, ultimately healing his relationship with his dad. |
| 9 |
GrassCachi is a twelve-year-old Hispanic boy with Autism who learns how to beat his condition by inventing a new world under the grass in his front lawn and by learning how to get there by rocking in his chair on the front porch and concentrating till he jumps out of his body and into his new world where he is whole and can speak. |
| 10 |
FURGROW BIRDS SPIRITUAL ROSEWhen a dog loses his owner and home, he discovers a dark conspiracy involving an evil king, a hidden realm, and God's magical crystals used to alter the world. Spiritually driven, he recruits crossbred animals to seize the crystals and end Earth's out-of-control evolution. Script Excerpt |
| 11 |
AMERICAN OOZEAmerican Ooze follows an entitled pre-teen that reveals his essential self, through a frightful, metaphysical, journey on All Hallow’s Eve. |
| 12 |
BORN TO BE YOUA female seagull gets stranded and injured on an island of flightless cormorants. The leader nurses her back to health. He wants her to be his mate with the condition that she gives up flying. The story is about choosing wisely and following the path of destiny, no matter if born male, female or whatever race or origin. |
| 13 |
The Cat and The RatPharaoh's favorite cat Horus is accused of stealing the king's jewels forcing Horus to go underground in the sacred tunnels to find Tarik The Rat to help clear his name. |
| 14 |
My Friends call me SantaWhen 10-year old Selorm Osei decided to change from naughty to nice before Christmas, he unknowingly successfully surmoned Santa Claus to Ghana. |
| 15 |
Green PlanetTen children with no memories wake up on the mysterious Green Planet-a cosmic academy between worlds, where they must find their spiritual totems, uncover their past lives, and stop an ancient demonic empress before her vengeance destroys not only them but the very balance of the Universe. Script Excerpt |
| 16 |
FLIGHT OF THE HEN GLIDERSWhen strong winds blow a flock of chickens and their coop away from young Emily and Sam's backyard, it's up to the chickens to learn to fly their coop back home. Script Excerpt |
| 17 |
NOCTURNE'S RAINBOWKids and their dogs find the Rainbow Bridge in a snowstorm. They teleport, fly, zoom through tunnels, and levitate, around this heaven-like universe. They have a lot of fun, but get a few surprises along the way, from the messages, and musical communication with angles and whales....to a run in w.ith a demon |
| 18 |
THE GEPETTO PROTOCOLTo stay "real" in the real world after their last creator dies, an action figure, fashion doll, superhero, anime girl, and crash dummy—now real flesh and blood—must find new believers in ten days or be forgotten forever, and get help from two kids and their dad at a cosplay convention. (Could be Animation or Live-Action) Script Excerpt |
ScriptLinks
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A world-class heart transplant surgeon is an absolute magician at finding compatible hearts for wealthy clients.
A DAY AT THE RODEO
A wealthy, widowed New York socialite, and a know-it-all preacher enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” the widow’s wayward daughter who has fallen for a young bull rider.
A Man Who Thinks He Knows Who Really Killed the President
To feel worthy of Madeline, the love of his life, George takes on the scars of the nation and goes mad.
The Loss of Heaven
In 1961, a guilt-ridden Catholic schoolboy convinced he has damned himself and his family by breaking "Divine Law" must confront fear, superstition, and a violent bully after a tragic church fire forces him to become the hero he never believed he could be.
Rebecca Saves the Human Web
A teenage girl in a violent future inhabits the gentle spirit of her murdered grandmother and discovers that acts of violence are connected through an invisible emotional web; together they learn to prevent tragedies amid the threat of violent global collapse.
The Ephod
Based on a true story. After a troubling Bible study shakes her lifelong Catholic faith, a woman experiences a vivid dream turned Spirit encounter when a mysterious Black Noble Man enters her dream and began preaching to her with passion and authority.
Translation
Two strangers meet at a bar and discover they share more in common than either expected, navigating identity, attraction, and the courage to be truly seen by another person.
Flatus Maximus
In 9 A.D., a pacifist Roman teenager with a deadly cinnamon allergy is conscripted by a ruthless general to weaponize the one thing he's always been ashamed of — and must choose between his homeland and the people who showed him kindness.
The Casing
After a pickleball injury leaves a strange mark on a retiree's shin, he discovers a trans-dimensional anomaly that will either ruin his life or change it forever.
Hitler in Hell
Bored with his luxury accommodations in the underworld, Adolf Hitler requests a meeting with Satan to negotiate an upgrade — but every promotion comes with a price designed specifically for history's most infamous monster.
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