1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • POLITICAL Festival Feature Film: I Gotta Be Me: The Musical, by Rich Figel

    A relentless authentic punk rock dreamer from 1988 Hoboken becomes the unwitting "poster boy" for a megalomaniacal media mogul's lifestyle makeover scheme, and must fight to reclaim his identity and stop the mogul from destroying his community.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Igor: Sean Balla...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival Feature: FIFI, A Monkey’s Tale by Brantley Edwards

    June 1940. Paris falls. A Jewish-German author and his pregnant wife flee on a borrowed bicycle — chased by a childhood friend now hunting them for the Nazis — they have six days to reach a ship and a hand-drawn children's book they refuse to leave behind.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Mo...

  • SCI-FI/THRILLER Feature Screenplay: Angelman Rising, by Elizabeth Anne von Isser

    Angelman Rising follows Eric Dunlop, a 17-year-old with Angelman Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that leaves him non-verbal, physically and mentally challenged. When Eric begins to inexplicably “remember” intergalactic experiences, he becomes the key to unraveling a covert extraterrestrial inva...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival Feature Script: THE HANGAR, by Ryan Thomas Hinrichs

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Jones: Sean Ballantyne
    Juarez: Geoff Mays

  • HORROR Festival TV PILOT: Grey Areas, by Kate Phillips

    A 20-something London neurosurgeon hunts down powerful criminals and absorbs their skills, driven by her quest for justice and craving for brains, while being pursued by a dogged Met detective.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Sylvie: Val Cole
    Jett: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • HORROR Festival Feature: One More Time With Feeling, by Isabella Rebecca Vergun

    Ashley Kincaid has never felt at home in their body. But today, they doesn't even feel at home in their home. Because Ashley just woke up with a man sitting on the end of their bed. The man says his name is Ashley Kincaid. The man says that it’s his turn with the body.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Shawn...

  • HORROR Festival TV PILOT: Public Access, by David Bawolski

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Carl: Sean Ballantyne
    Eve: Hannah Ehman

  • HORROR Festival Feature Script: Farmland, by Jacob Greenham

    A 1970s farming town faces buried supernatural horror when investigators enter a cursed property.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Bob: Sean Ballantyne
    Bill: Sahwn Devlin

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Feature Script: The Last Hunt, by Scott Joseph Cahill

    In the endless war against ruthless drug cartels, justice rarely survives the border.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Rodriguez: Shawn Devlin
    Jenkins: Sean Ballantyne

  • FEMALE Festival TV PILOT: The Women Who Don't Exist, by Luna Wu

    Five multi international students from Beijing University visit a secluded Chinese village to film a documentary. The plan is completely upset after they find a naked woman chained in a pigsty. She reveals a horrifying secret: high school girls were abducted, erased from official records, and sol...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV PILOT: The Gay Messiah, by Adela None

    The Gay Messiah is a mythic Caribbean love story about the Antichrist and the Son of God discovering that love, not prophecy, may determine the fate of the universe.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Cassandra: Hannah Ehman

  • DRAMA Festival Feature Script: A Place of Beauty, by Edward Robert Badal

    Madison and her estranged dad, Daniel spend time camping in the forest when an earthquake hits and pushes them further away from civilization.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    Daniel: Geoff Mays
    Madison: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • FANTASY/SC-FI Festival Feature Script: Memnon, by Kevin J. Carroll

    Galactic Federation Police and father of kidnapped family pursue Federation criminals and reptilian alien Grotona. Their next target is Earth.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Commander Ollu: Sean Ballantyne
    Leshnod: Shawn Devlin

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival TV Pilot: Ammamma & Raag, by Rocky Karri

    A legendary warrior and her estranged, recently orphaned grandson must overcome their fractured relationship in order to escape the clutches of a tyrannical empire that usurped their family many years ago...

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Raag; Geoff Mays
    Ammamma: Val Cole

  • WILDsound Festival Feature Script: MINT, by Jon C. Carlson

    After a mysterious alien organism transforms into a plant that grows authentic currency, financially struggling scientist Valentina Alvarez secretly uses it to help her family and rebuild her life. But as her impossible wealth attracts criminals, corrupt federal agents, and powerful institutions,...

  • WILDsound Festival Feature Script: The Language of War, by Semih Doğan

    1944, Germany. The Kaya family is torn apart whilst fleeing the war. The only one left is their youngest child, Kerim. He keeps his father’s last promise: he speaks to no one. He witnesses the concentration camps, the massacres, the annihilation of his family; yet he utters not a single word. His...

  • WILDsound Festival Feature Screenplay: Webelos, by Travis W. Bruyer

    A haunted small-town detective unravels a web of burglaries, betrayal, and murder among a group of troubled young men mentored by the victim, only to discover the killer is a celebrated local hero hiding in plain sight - Based on true events.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Larry: Shawn Devlin...

  • THRILLER Festival TV Script: A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Pamela R. West

    In the wake of a school shooting, a trauma therapist sees her daughter’s psychopathy when she steals a bracelet from a dead classmate, so she puts her in a mental hospital and ends her marriage. She picks up a gun, becomes a marksman, an active shooter tactician, and an undercover FBI school liai...

  • COMEDY Festival: Children of the Night: Virgin Blood, by Mark B. Newbauer

    A jilted teen races the clock to win back his born-again virgin ex-girlfriend as she is targeted for her unique abilities by a charming outcast vampire looking to reclaim his legacy as ruler of the underworld.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Drake: Geoff Mays
    Ron: Andy Camp

  • ACTION Festival 1st Scene: DERRY CHRONICLES, by Aidan Garrett (interview)

    Struggling with the trauma from a childhood tragedy, Lee Derry drinks and battles his way through loneliness and guilt. One night, he is invited to board a legendary but mysterious mega yacht for an article. The yacht has a history, and a reputation that the public is starving to find out. But, t...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: THE HOLMES ENIGMA, by Russell C. Babcock

    When a string of murders targeting police officers’ daughters is solved, a veteran lieutenant and his detective daughter, alongside a brilliant, enigmatic investigator, uncover the killings were only part of a long-buried conspiracy, forcing them to confront a threat embedded within their own dep...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Skinned, by Carlos Perez

    A young director uses the cast of his horror film as bait to help him capture a pair of serial killers who murdered his parents; however, things go awry when the female lead in the film learns of his plan and decides neither she or the rest of the cast will be used for his personal vendetta.

    CAS...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: Snowglobe, by Sheikh Jallow

    In 3044, as war rages for the last remaining land of Africa, fierce warrior Satu turns fugitive to help 13-year-old Laura Winfield, the enemy’s daughter, return home.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Safu: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    M'Bakeh: Geoff Mays

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: A Misnamed Fate, by Chelsea Lin

    The dark side of relationships and suburban life, where secrets amongst friends ruin lives and betrayal has deadly consequences.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stacy: Val Cole
    Dan: Geoff Mays