1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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