1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Soroban Impact, by Gregory Ranky

    In a world like ours, where conscious robots are commonplace, a courageous female android enters a futuristic martial arts tournament to save her old neighborhood from developers.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Bill Poulin
    Advertiser/Liz-217: Kyana Teresa
    Meathead Kerel/Umar: Geoff Mays
    Terrapin S.I....

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Labyrinth Of Destiny, by Ernestina Juarez

    During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but they meet again when the woman is sent to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming ...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Rails Run Parallel, by Orso Vesperini, Guy Laudereau , Aurèle N’Dja, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic

    1943. Four prisoners escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and undertake a grueling trip to France via Germany in an empty wine barrel wagon, while being chased by a Nazi Sherlock Holmes.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Kyana Teresa
    Georges: Allan Michael Brunet
    Louis: Bill Poulin
    Henri: Geoff...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: THE WIND KILL FACTOR, by Sandra M. Matheson

    Sci-Fi Thriller Feature

    Concept:
    A top scientist is forced to work with her planet polluting ex-husband to save the earth from climate disaster and an ancient icy entity.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Deondra: Kyana Teresa
    Richard: Allan Michael Brunet
    Passenger/Kal: Geo...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Sarah Startup, by Gregg Greenberg, Christopher Kublan

    Sarah won't get married until she takes a company public. Her grandmother has another idea.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Hannah Ehman
    Announcer: Geoff Mays
    Man's Voice - Andy Camp
    Woman's Voice - Allison Kampf
    Sarah: - Kyana Teresa
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: HAUNTED HEART, by Mike Bencivenga

    LOGLINE: HAUNTED HEART is a romantic comedy about a struggling ghost-writer for motivational speakers who is haunted (emotionally, then literally) by a lost love, spurring her to find the closure and optimism to move on so that her ghost lover can do the same.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Elizabeth R...

  • FAN FICTION 1st Scene Script Reading: “KILLING EVE: SHE’S DEAD”, by Natalie Lomske

    Logline: After stabbing Villanelle and running away, Eve struggles to accept that she’s dead, especially when four lookalikes of her wind up similarly stabbed.

    CAST LIST:

    \Narration: Hannah Ehman
    VIllanelle: Kyana Teresa

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Greatest Generation, by Jeremy Soto

    A group of Latino hipsters must save missing children from their town's retirement home wizard death cult.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    The Masked Man: Geoff Mays
    Patrick: Allan Michael Brunet
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Jubilee Nation, by Henry Myers

    "Jubilee Nation" is an alternative history political erotic thriller set in a utopian 1960’s fictional black nation, where the Civil War resulted in a different outcome, and the South is ceded to the slaves forming a separate black nation after the war. The story focuses on a tormented black jour...

  • LA Festival TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading: NON-OFFICIAL COVER, by Jodi Shelton and Hudson Shelton

    This is a modern, historic fiction 8-part series. When a former CIA operative who has worked under Non-Official Cover in political hotspots from the Soviet Union to Pakistan to Sudan is discovered to have been on Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, her grieving husba...

  • ACTION Festival 1st Scene Reading: Advent, by Mark Allen

    A reclusive Black ex-Special Forces operator turned novelist comes out of retirement to track down a radical neo-nazi splinter group and rescue their hostage -- his daughter, whom he has not seen in 14 years.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Dolan: Sean Ballantyne 7
    Bob: Shawn Devlin
    Ron: A...

  • BLACK & WHITE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mr Buchman Goes To Washington, by Bill Baber

    An intense courtroom docudrama that recreates the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing when Sidney Buchman, the Communist who wrote "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", was blacklisted. This is the day that Mr. Buchman, like Mr. Smith, learned that patriotism requires sacrifice.

    CAST L...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mad Hadley, by Jodi Lustig

    After a clash with a client goes viral, a lawyer infamous for defending despicable men volunteers at a women's legal aid clinic run by her uber-feminist mother, hoping to turn over a new leaf without tearing down the whole family tree.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Mad: Hannah Ehman
    Kailey:...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Reading: CITY BAND, by Ashley Rodbro

    City Band is a hilarious coming-of-age story about a flute playing teenager named Amy, the newest member of an all-ages community band looking to fit in and find herself in the process

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Kayla: Hannah Ehman
    Amy: Kyana Teresa
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  • 1st Scene TV PILOT Script Reading: NECROPOLIS, by Caledonia Hanson

    Necropolis: A violent and seedy hell on earth, the part of the city everyone warns you about. When 18-year-old Eddie Soreno ventures into this insidious place to uncover the truth of his father's past, only his sister, Maria, holds hope that he will return alive. Against the clock, Maria goes in ...

  • TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: JOE HOLLYWOOD, by Jane Henning

    During the heyday of the 1920s, JOE KENNEDY, the patriarch of the Kennedy family, bullied for a lifetime in anti-Irish Boston sets his sights on Hollywood and the cash to support a run for the US Presidency, but Hollywood's glitz and glamour hide a dark underbelly - it doesn't like outsiders. Ins...

  • SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: INVERSION, by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Bowden: Sean Ballantyne
    Reeves: Shawn Devlin
    Fugitive: Andy Camp
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  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: SWINE HEART, by Theresa Anne Carey , Bruce Stephen Brochtrup

    In this modern-day Frankenstein story, a brilliant surgeon risks everything to save the man she loves by performing an illegal heart transplant using a pig heart; but when her lover begins experiencing unfamiliar slaughterhouse memories and violent personality changes, she fears she's created a m...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Noble Wild, by Brando Benetton

    Inspired by his wife's dying wish for him to travel, an uptight illustrator fearfully sets out to explore Europe on foot with his wife’s dog Noble by his side.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Helen: Hannah Ehman
    Arthur: Shawn Devlin
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  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: RETURN TO SENDER, by Tammy Klembith, George Klembith

    When a young couple starts receiving mysterious boxes from an unknown sender, their lives spiral into a nightmare as they struggle to discover who or what is behind the packages.

    (Supernatural Horror)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Lexy: Hannah Ehman
    Wyatt: Shawn Devlin
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  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: This Is The Last Time, by Jeff Bretl

    A young, sexually abused gay man moves to NYC desperately hoping to find love.

    Gay man JAY BODEN, 23, moves to New York City and meets PAUL, 35, a widowed, newly out doctor and father of HALLEY, 7. Together they struggle to create a loving, supportive family.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Mariana's Web, by Taylor Salotti

    Recently released from prison, Dani enters a room that she may never escape.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Rose/Dani: Hannah Ehman
    Fairy/Mom: Kyana Teresa
    Ghost/Sean: Shawn Devlin
    Analiese: Allison Kampf
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  • FAN FICTION Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dare To Be Stupid: A "Weird Al" Fan Film, by Michael Mantsourani

    After a case gone wrong, Detective Al Yankovic hangs up his badge for good and becomes a novelty musician. Four years later, he is dragged back into the world he left behind when his half-hamster former partner, Harvey, attempts to solve a murder that has a...purple...connection to the case that ...

  • CRIME Festival 1st Scene Reading: THE KISS-OFF, by Gio Forlenza

    A disenchanted Brooklyn bagman chooses to help the feisty woman who ripped him off and defy the "family" that adopted him as an orphan.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Monica: Hannah Ehman
    Gus: Shawn Devlin
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