Christmas Dinner
You’ve never been invited to a dinner like this.

Easter, New Years, Hanukkah, Christmas. Is there any time more joyous than the holidays?

No matter one's particular faith, holidays represent abundance galore: delicious food, seasonal games, music and the special company of beloved family and friends. Who could turn down all that? It’s a celebration! An occasion people look forward to all year long.

Well - most people anyway.

In Richard Russell’s Christmas Dinner, you'll meet Roy. A man who's holiday "indifferent". Let's just put it that way.

The kind of archetypical guy you see in logging commercials. Big, burly, plaid wearing. Roy'd be happy sipping black coffee at his favorite diner - watching the waitress more than parades on TV.  And watching every calendar holiday come and go.

Which doesn't mean he's typical.  When it comes to holidays, Roy might just be the 1%.

But on the night before Christmas - when he’s kicked out of the diner so employees can commune with their families - Roy's in danger of finally becoming a real-life Scrooge.

When that bad news goes down, there’s nothing left for a truck driver to do but grab his keys and cruise.
Good thing Roy loves the open road. Robbed of his comfy diner, it’s all he has left.

The miles and road roll by. As does time.

Until Roy spots a young man in the chilly snow. Feeling a subtle tinge of holiday humanity, he pushes aside his grumpiness and offers the hitchhiker a ride. But where is this stranger going?

A family Christmas dinner. Of course.

And there’s something revealing beneath Roy’s reaction to this news that might just cure his bahumbug blues.

Roy's seen a lot in his rough and ready life - but he only spills the beans if you ask him questions outright. Turns out, his hitchhiker is in need of some serious advice. Roy and the mysterious traveler may have lots in common after all.

And as they reach the drop off point, something happens which changes Roy’s perspective on holidays forever. For Roy, Christmas - and other holiday celebrations - may never be the same again.

Come along for the journey of Roy’s most memorable Christmas ever. This script is truly the gift that keeps on giving. The holiday season can be full of magic if you greet it with open arms. Richard Russell’s Christmas Dinner will leave you yearning to create a little magic of your own. Make sure YOU'RE the one who brings this short to life!

Take a seat at the table. It’s comfortable, it’s crazy, it’s Christmas…dinner!

Here’s a fact every parent knows and fears: the fact that curiosity is rampant in children. Sometimes, they just can’t help but do something they know their elders would forbid them to do at all.

In the case of 7-year-old Rusty, the titular character of Lucky Kid, the rebellious action is taking his father’s spotless BMX bike from its resting place in the well-stocked trophy room out for a quick ride around his upper-middle-class neighbourhood.

A ride that’s quick only because Rusty loses control, falls off, smashes his ankle against solid concrete, and breaks the bone in it. Right in front of his mom.

As you’d expect, his mother calls for an ambulance on 9-1-2. 9-1-2? Yup. And if you thought the number was strange, the events that follow are even stranger.

When told to pour honey over the wound while waiting for help, his mother replies that they, a well-off family, can’t afford it.

When the ambulance arrives and the honey bees with it, Rusty remarks that he’s only seen a bee in a museum before.

And a bee shortage isn’t the only thing that’s off about Rusty’s world. His Dad’s trophies may be physical, but it wasn’t physical prowess that helped him obtain them. And on the way to the hospital, an angry mob assaults and attempts to the ambulance from reaching its destination.

There’s a reason behind these eccentricities. A reason that’s very real. A reason you may not know about. A reason that poses a potentially fatal threat to every human being on our planet... sooner than we might think.

But if you want to know what that reason is, you’ll have to read this script. Lucky is what "you'll" be when you crack this story open. Not to mention educated. About a looming danger we might all soon face. And should hear, now. Before it's far too late.

23 and Them
DNA Tests Never Turn Out Well....

The world’s full of mysteries. Does God exist, how did we get here, is our world even real…and how on earth does that milquetoast office slave have such a stunning wife?

That final mystery, of course, is the one relevant to 23 And Them. And it’s one that Harvey, the office slave in question, is forced to seriously ponder after a fellow co-worker observes that his two “children” don’t really resemble him at all. Nor their mother, Sue.

Now Harvey’s home life is blissful – Sue’s a stay-at-home cook, and the kids are just as innocent and smiley as she is.

Almost too innocent, in fact.

But the seeds of doubt have been sown, and eventually they grow too big for Harvey’s mind. So, he secretly obtains a 23 and Me kit, along with DNA swabs from his “perfect” wife and kids.

8 weeks later, the results arrive. At the front door. When Harvey’s not home.

And when he does get home, his wife’s words and actions show her fury, but the smile never disappears from her face…or the kids’ faces, for that matter.

Why? Because Sue’s got her reasons for tying the knot with Harvey, but they’re not obvious reasons. Rather, they relate to the results of the DNA tests, which also reveal his wife’s darkest secret. One which she shares with “their” kids.

Are Harvey’s children his? Why did Sue marry him? And what do Sue and the kids have in common that Harvey doesn’t?

With tension oozing off every page as the moment to the truth draws nearer and nearer, 23 and Them will hook you in and never let you go until you find answers to these questions. Answers you certainly won’t be able to guess!

Satellite Motel
A travel-weary salesman checks into a small Mom' n' Pop motel and has an extraterrestrial encounter.

The seemingly friendliest places and people often hide the darkest secrets and evils: ever since Psycho revolutionised horror all those years ago, this idea has been abused more than Janet Leigh’s character in THAT scene, and usually to similarly awful results.

Not so in John Hunter’s Satellite Motel, which uses that well-worn trope to create an inevitable sense of dread, then completely turns it on its head.

The setup just begs for a skilful director to create that unsettling feeling: a lonesome man, Davis, drives down a lonesome road into a lonesome town and checks into the only hotel for miles: The Satellite Motel.

Booked into room Number 7 and handed an old-school metal key by one half of the elderly yet cynically simple couple who run the joint, Davis leaves the meagre and messy reception to knock himself out for the night.

But he’ll never reach the comforts of Room 7’s bed. Nor will he not survive the night. Instead, Davis is about to experience the weirdest few hours of his life.

From a strange room and stranger conversation through to a mind-bending finale via a, joining Davis on his adventure guarantees twists and revelations just like any horror…but with a Twilight Zone-esque abonormalness and humour.

A mixture that comes together to create one brilliantly inventive genre-flipping script which just oozes with cinematic potential. So why delay? Check into the Satellite Motel today!