1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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COMEDY Fest 1st Scene: SMOKEEASY, by Amy Copperman, Courtney Thomas (interview)
SmokeEasy is a stoner-buddy comedy about two ebony and ivory millennials, Jill and Red, disrupting the cannabis industry one “woke” misadventure at a time. First order of business: Get their THC tampon prototype into the hands of potential investor and festival headliner, Rihanna.
Narrator: Val ...
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1st Scene TV Pilot Script Reading: Kennel Club, by Jack Sherry
Narrator: Val Cole
Dana: Hannah Ehman
Angela: Kyana Teresa
Coach/Carlton: Geoff Mays
Thatcher: Steve Rizzo
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1st Scene Festival Reading: VILLAGE, by Adolpho Phillips
It takes a village to raise a child and Tasha's village is crazy but willing.
Narrator: Val Cole
Melvin: Geoff Mays
Tasha: Hannah Ehman
Dre: Sean Ballantyne
Little Girl/Tissy: Kyana Teresa
Michael/Dre: Steve Rizzo -
1st Scene Festival Reading: Mr. Pettigrew, by Larry J. Martin (interview)
Beau, having lost a leg in the Civil War, stumbles out of a cattle car at the little Nevada town of Nemesis. He's taken under the wing of Mr. Pettigrew, partner in the Angel Saloon and given a job sitting shotgun. Pettigrew kills the son of a powerful mine owner and Beau is drawn into the trouble...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: RAP VERSE, by Rickey Teems II
Michael Green loves hip hop… but loathes what it’s become. The introvert rapper, slash spiteful blogger, has grandiose plans of returning the genre to real artistic purpose. Unfortunately he’s failing miserably, which also summarizes his life in general. Mike’s daily woes fade when a future versi...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene Reading: PERFECT WORLD, by Emil Faithe
SARAH CAHILL went missing two years ago. Her grieving husband, ROB CAHILL hasn’t gotten over it. But he has gotten his fill of crap as an E.R. doc at a stately Napa, California hospital, where he routinely sees things he’d rather not see. Until he sees the one thing that changes everything. His f...
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1st Scene Script: End of Scene, by Jen Butler (interview)
When a jaded housewife realizes that her house is keeping her and her husband stuck in a repeating scene from the 1950s, she fights to awaken her husband from a mysterious trance so they can outsmart the house and escape before they forget who they really are and get stuck in the obsolete scene f...
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1st Scene Script: Kill The Competition, by Will Altmeier
Andrew Brooks is a recent college grad who's desperate to break into the entertainment industry but struggles to get his foot in the door. Over the course of three critical days, Andrew comes to realize what he must do to obtain his dream job: kill his competition.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah ...
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Fest 1st Scene: One Mad Apple, by Laurie Asbourne, Tom Pratt
A dark comedy feature inspired by a true story and based on the book of the same name. After a man moves to small town to care for his dying father, he embraces the community and his new life as a stepfather and husband, until he finds himself in the crosshairs of an unhinged townswoman who chall...
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SCI-FI/FANTASY TV 1st Scene Script: Hunt Man's Land, by Ryan Skinner (interview)
When A TV star finds out his best friend is dead it leads to uncovering a world of alternate realities, monsters, fantasy and more.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Past Man: Geoff Mays
Chester: Sean DevlinGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A TV star ...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Script: Vice Versa, by Jason Lajoie
Set in 1947 Los Angeles and based on true events, a young woman uses her free time as a secretary at a movie studio to secretly produce the first gay magazine in the United States, Vice Versa, finding a community and herself in the process.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
McGuire: Geoff May... -
LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Script: POSTMAN, by Anthony DiVastanzo
When the opportunity to move forward arrives at his doorstep, a mortician must decide whether to heal or hide.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Stephen: Geoff Mays
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Script: Down at the Val, by Neil Goodchild (interview)
The grandson of a golf course owner loses his job and has to return to the course, where his grandfather and two surprising new employees inspire him to try and help save it from bankruptcy.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Barbara: Kyana Teresa
Nate: Geoff Mays
Lazenby: Sean BallantyneGet t...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Off The Rack, by Pilar Gibson (interview)
Desperate to break into the New York fashion scene of the 1970s, a struggling designer funds her clothing line by teaming up with an ex-model to counterfeit luxury clothes.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Dreenie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alice: Kyana Teresa
Toni: Hannah EhmanGet to k...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: A Woman's Hand, by Birgit Syran Myaard
Caught up in the conflict between two nations, a young, nomad bride defies a powerful, lecherous general in order to protect her marriage and restore peace.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Heber: Geoff Mays
Sisera: Allan Michael BrunetGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenp...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Presumption, by Andy Healy
As a jury deliberates, a desperate and disenfranchised African-American mother looks to balance the scales of justice by taking the lead prosecutor hostage and forcing her torelook atthe case against her son and prove his innocence before the verdict is handed down.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean B...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Lovely Miss Mercer, by Heidi Lauren Duke
With the world at war, a penniless socialite must keep her affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt a secret from his wife -- as well as the rest of the nation.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Violetta/Maid: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Lucy: Kyana Teresa
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Blakeneys, by Brigid May
During the French Revolution, a band of heroes rises to combat the slaughter of innocents. Yet when a French spy looks to bring down the leader by blackmailing his estranged wife, the lines between the rescuer and rescued are blurred and the couple's lives altered forever.
CAST LIST:
Narrator:...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Switch With Me, by Lexi Morgan
Two sisters form a plan to switch lives after one's husband is caught cheating.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Ally: Val Cole
Steven: Allan Michael Brunet
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: LITTLE GREEN MEND, by Linda Whitmore (interview)
A plant-like-alien from a distant planet receives a school assignment to help another planet without revealing themselves and gets assigned Earth.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Fayla: Kyana Teresa
Dribbit: Allan Michael BrunetGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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LA Festival 1st Scene: DEADLINE TO DEATH, by Elliot Stanton (interview)
Author CJ Billings is under pressure from his publisher to finish a novel. He has an idea that a few days away in the setting of the finale will give him the inspiration he so desperately needs.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
CJ: Allan Michael Brunet
Jane: Val ColeGet to know the wr...
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LA Festival 1st Scene: Premium Economy, by Michael Harris (interview)
Falling Down meets Dude, Where's My Car? Over 24 hours, a recently divorced accountant loses his job, his Jeep and accidentally traffics Heroin. His only escape? Become a beige pants badass aka a Dad Ass.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Eugene: Allan Michael Brunet
Cori: Val ColeGe...
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LA Festival 1st Scene: THE GOLDEN, by Luke LoCurcio
One year after the tragic death of their young daughter, an estranged husband and wife must come together again to survive in the face of mysterious global menace.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Grace: Kyana Teresa
Jack/John: Geoff Mays -
ENVIRONMENTAL Festival 1st Scene: HEAVEN AWAITS, by Paul Teese (interview)
A bereaved philosophy professor starts a new religion to save the planet from ecological destruction only to discover that what he really wants is his wife back.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Andrew: Allan Michael Brunet
Marty: Sean Ballantyne
Receptionist: Val ColeGet to know the ...