1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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CHANCE MEETINGS, by John Woodard script reading - LA LGBTQ+ Festival
Two gay men seek to find each other again after a lost encounter on a busy street. While one turns the city upside down, the other places a "Chance Meetings" add in the LA Weekly newspaper.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Chance: Geoff Mays
Duey: Sean Ballantyne -
DARK ARRIVAL, by John Berry, Ken Jones reading - Action/Adventure (interview)
A worldwide disaster is created when a cloud of dark matter, a mysterious and powerful relic from the Big Bang, collides with modern day planet Earth.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Woman/Karla: Julie Sheppard
Richard: Geoff MaysWriter Statement
With Dark Arrival we hope to delive... -
YOU ARE WHAT YOU LOVE 1st scene script read - Female Festival Winner (interview)
Set against the backdrop of the OxyContin crisis, ‘Leah’s Choice’ unravels the true tale of Leah, a young woman entangled in a poignant queer love triangle. Caught between her soulmate and her best friend amidst her struggle with addiction, Leah’s journey is a harrowing blend of deep love and int...
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1st Scene Reading: Barstow, by Brittany Scott Smith, Arjay Smith
Logline: It might seem like a quiet town, but don't get it twisted...Barstow's the new Vegas, and everyone wants a piece of the pie.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Don: Geoff Mays
Marc: Steve Rizzo
Big Bud/Ratz: Sean Ballantyne -
Female Festival 1st Scene: LOWLIFE, by Alexandra Watson (interview)
Summary: AMELIA, a lawyer, returns home to visit her estranged father LIAM, whose health is rapidly declining. As she returns to their Texas land, she learns that the town has been ruined by fracking companies, which is starting to cause earthquakes, along with draining resources and money from t...
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: RESERVOIR, by E.K. Gaylord
The family of the Antichrist unravels alongside the Biblical Apocalypse.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Alonso: Geoff Mays
Griffith: Sean Ballantyne -
HORROR Festival 1st Scene: When the Moon is Right, by Jacob Schmidt (interview)
Sam and his mother move to a small town in Ohio. As he tries to navigate high school and adjust to his new home, he learns the town is plagued by unexplained murders that happen every full moon. After coming face to face with the beast responsible, it's up to Sam and an unlikely group of new frie...
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: VIEWING, by John C. Fitch III (interview)
After a supernatural experience, a street artist at the end of his rope goes to work for a billionaire as a psychic viewer but must fight his way out when he discovers that his shadowy employer is embroiled in a deadly conspiracy. Inspired by true events.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Scot... -
SCENE: Game of Thrones "The Rains of Castamere", by Anthony Hyatt (interview)
The iconic GAME OF THRONES ‘Red Wedding’ episode in the style of PARKS AND RECREATION: While a recently divorced wedding planner attempts to engineer the perfect day, a self-conscious groom tries desperately to discover who he is marrying, all while the realm’s most famous conflict mediator striv...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: Sav's Boy, by Connor Brandt
After receiving a letter from his estranged sister, a gay trans man goes home to Boston in hopes of reconnection, teams up with his best friend to solve an old family mystery across from Massachusetts to Italy, and discovers what family and love truly mean along the way.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: ...
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LGBTQ+ Festival: This is Jan, by Robert Larriviere, Hunter Burke, Nick Lavin
Some time in the 1950s, Jan checks into
The Pontchartrain Hotel. Alone in the executive suite, Jan has the solitude and freedom to shed the identity imposed on them by the tight constraints of the era's societal norms. Relieved of that burden, Jan relishes the opportunity to transform into the p...
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: Cuckoo Cuckoo, by Terry Lynam (interview)
[A contained sexy and scary psychological thriller set in 2 locations with 4 characters] In a desperate game between a wealthy older man and his attractive, but unfaithful, younger wife, a mutual friend sees a chance to play both sides.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Grimsby: Geoff Mays
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HORROR Fest 1st Scene: NO 3 Hollythorne Cottage, by Denis Crampton (interview)
When a remote cottage is invaded by three young women and their psychopathic hostage takers, it's malevolent spirit is unwittingly awakened with tragic consequences.
http://www.threeinonepictures.com/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
John: Steve Rizzo
Sally: Val ColeReading of the firs...
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DRAMA: Beyond The Rivers of Babylon, Laura Elliott & Joseph Samuels (interview)
A journey through time when the Jews were threatened by the Muslims and how one young man’s life changed when he escaped and helped others smuggle into Israel from Baghdad- based on a true story.
https://www.laurasmagicday.com/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Joseph/Elderly Man: Steve Rizzo... -
DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: Dancing in Place, by Jeanne Dukes
When escalating interest between a middle-aged professor and his attractive new neighbor suddenly gets complicated after he remembers their painful young summer romance, he struggles over how to tell her until he comes up with a perfect plan.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Cassie... -
FAN FICTION Festival: Firefly Show Spec Script, by Anastasia Warmuth (interview)
Type of Script: TV spec script for the tv show Firefly
The pain caused by the bounty hunter, Jubal Early, in the finale of Season Two still echoes. When the crew of Firefly are infected with a mysterious and deadly airborne virus with dark links to River's past, Simon must choose between saving ...
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SHITSTORM 1st scene feature script reading. COMEDY Festival
Written by Adrian Cunningham
A Berlin-based plumber is forced to play a part in the final, chaotic hours of Hitler's Third Reich when he's summoned to unblock the toilets in the Fuhrer's bunker.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Female Officer: Val Cole
Russian Soldier: Geoff Mays -
Losing It TV Pilot screenplay reading. WILDsound Festival
Written by Victoria Wojick, Deborah Wojick
The Day/Wilson family, composed of siblings Breezy and Finn and their father Chris, recently moved to a small town in Maine where Chris will be working at the local police department.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Zander: Steve Rizzo
Luke: Geo... -
THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival: Murder on Mars, by Patrick McKinley
During the early days of humanity’s colonization of Mars, two police detectives investigate the first death on the red planet. As the investigation unfolds, the detectives realize not all is what it seems as they uncover a vast conspiracy that questions human civilizations’ place on Mars.
CAST L...
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COMEDY Festival TV PILOT: Group Therapy, by Jaycee J. Brill
In this dark comedy, 7 unique and relatable characters venture out of their comfort zone through group exercises, exposure therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy. Following each of the characters in their personal lives, (Carmen in the pilot episode) we see how they interact with the world o...
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LGBTQ+ Festival: Out in the West, by Claire V. Riley
In 1865, when it was a crime to be queer, a sharpshooting gender outlaw poses as a man so she and her southern belle lover can escape a brutal husband and create a new life as a married couple out in the west.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Millie: Val Cole
Beth: Hannah Ehman -
LA Festival 1st Scene: NAZI NUKE, by Eamonn Eeles
Harvey Hardaz, special forces, must choose duty over love in order to rescue a nuclear scientist from being used by the Nazi’s to build an atomic bomb and destroying London.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Sabine: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Hardaz: Geoff Mays
Patrick: Steve Rizzo -
LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: NOT TONIGHT, by Lisa Triano (interview)
A story of abuse and love.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Diane: Hannah Ehman
Tanner: Geoff Mays
Doris: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Frank: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
My screenplay is about a young woman managing a life of abuse.
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: THE WHITE FENCE, by Claudia Dato (interview)
It’s 1953 and Helen Parker’s husband has been MIA in Korea for 18 months. When a local bully graffiti’s her white fence, handy woman Lou Taylor shows up to paint the fence and steal her heart. In the end Helen must decide on which side of the fence to live.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyn...