1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: VIRULENCE, by Christopher Pennington
A group of scientists on an Antarctic research base fight for their lives as a visitor brings a deadly virus with him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Lewis: Allan Michael Brunet
Crewman: Geoff Mays
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: CALL OF THE VOID, by Ben Monaco (interview)
At the Navy SEAL training academy, the disappearance of recruits sparks the discovery of something strange and supernatural happening in the SoCal desert just off-base.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Dawson: Allan Michael Brunet
Ashley: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Madison: Hannah EhmanGet t...
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene: JUSTINE'S QUEST, by Bernard Buzzell
An emotionally scarred fallen ascended who yearns for redemption travels with a group of demon hunters, while an ancient evil stalks her and her companions.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Metatron: Steve Rizzo
Ariel: Kyana Teresa
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: Love & Other Bloody Messes, by Brian McGrath
Zombies are on the attack! The fate of humankind is on the line. Can two high school loaners team up to save the planet? Will anyone come to their aid? Yes, and you'll never believe who!
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Dylan: Geoff Mays
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TV Festival 1st Scene: AR2, by Bree Wyrd
When a sociopathic billionaire sells a vaccine to the U.S. military that makes humans bulletproof, he loses everything and is forced to join a revolutionary group to defeat the fascist government his vaccine has empowered.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Male Voice: Geoff Mays
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TV Festival 1st Scene: I'M SO DONE, by Chuck Alley, Rachael Berman
When Pastry Chef, Rachael Berman bootstraps her bakery business, she relies on quick wit and biting humor to motivate eccentric employees, manage her quirky family and survive in Silicon Valley.
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https://www.instagram.com/imsodonetv/?hl=enCAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan...
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene: NO RULES, Ashley Gianni (interview)
In 1992 New Jersey, at the boom of drag culture and amidst the raging AIDS epidemic, drag queen Visa Declined and best friend Angela Caruso find themselves at a standstill in their creative endeavors while desperately trying to build a community to call their own. Their dream of one day owning th...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: KILL YOUR DARLINGS, by Neil McNeil (interview)
When a group of queer friends in East LA try to turn their struggling weekly party into the hottest spot in town, they seek out unconventional methods to bring success.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Kori: Val Cole
Tony: Allan Michael Brunet
Beth: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwrite...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: LORDS OF HOGTOWN, by Pat A. Brown
On his 37th birthday, a licentious gay reprobate discovers he has a 21-year-old son from a high school fling he doesn’t even remember. Now a promise made to a dying woman force the pair together to find each other.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Wager: Allan Michael Brunet
Pyotr: Shawn Dev... -
LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, by Olivia Marguerite Fouser
Robin Hood of the Wild West Ray Robinson makes trouble for herself wherever she goes, defending women and conning men. Now four of these men want revenge, and if she’s to survive she’ll have to confront her past, outrun her present, and race to reach the love of her life before it’s too late.
CA...
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: BILLIE THE KID, by Tom Michael Jennings
The day before she is to be sent to boarding school, a rebellious teenager named Billie steals a million-dollar horse from her father and rides off into the New Mexico desert to find the grave of her namesake, Billy the Kid. Along the way, she learns the truth about her past and how she and her f...
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: MOONSCOPE, by David Fein
Allen is an astronaut living on the moon, his only friend is Meg, an A.I. voice who only has a physical body inside his head. He is looking for habitable planets when one day the Earth disappears, making him the last human known to be alive. When Meg helps Allen hack into his deeper consciousness...
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene: FRANKENSTEIN IN THE LAND OF OZ, by Mike Mann
20 years later, Scarecrow calls Dorothy back to Oz to save it from tyranny!
In order to return she must enlist the help of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, his Bride, and his Creation.
The first Science Fiction story meets America’s first Fairytale in an action-adventure fantasy for the books.CAST LIST...
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ENVIRONMENTAL Festival TV 1st Scene: ENDURE, by Dan Fabrizio
65 years from now, humanity is at the edge of extinction.
Countless countries have crumbled under the weight of a rapidly collapsing global economy. Many of the largest cities of our time have been wiped out by great wildfires or swallowed by rising seas. An unending heat stroke chokes all living... -
SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: THE MOONSTRUCK, by Tanya Wheelock, Will Phillips
A military power couple suddenly finds themselves at the center of a lunar phenomenon turning ordinary people into zombies and must work together to save the world, their daughter, and their marriage.
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Narrator: ...
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ANIMATION Festival 1st Scene: GOING COMMANDO, by Adam Hopwood
After the loss of his wife, 1980's military hero Commando Dan moves to the suburbs to live with his daughter and her family.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Commando Dan: Shawn Devlin
Maskface/All: Allan Michael Brunet
Gunshow/All: Steve Rizzo
Bombshell/All: Kyana Teresa -
1st Scene Script: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, by Jeffrey van Davis (writer interview)
When a police detective, hunting a serial killer, gets too close, the killer murders his wife and two children, sending him into a downward spiral of alcohol, suicide, and a near-death experience where God tells him to become a priest. Years later the serial killer reappears - in his confessional...
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TV Festival 1st Scene: SHADOWS, by Michael Angel Johnson (interview)
SHADOWS begins with Reverend Josie Strickland (late 40s, African-American) entering her office at St. Thomas Church and finding her mother, Violet Audrey, (60), standing over a dead body and holding the bloody murder weapon. Through a series of flashbacks, it’s revealed that Diana (21) , the gran...
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WILDsound 1st Scene: The Hollywood'll Eat, by Jeffrey Riley Kazanjian
A dark coming of age satire about a young boy trying to break into Hollywood.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Old Man/Gepetto: Allan Michael Brunet
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WILDsound 1st Scene: CLEANSING ACTS, by Carlos Perez (writer interview)
A young man contemplating suicide calls a prostitute to keep him company before he commits the act.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
William: Allan Michael Brunet
Maxine: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Cleansing Acts is about a young man who ...
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LA Festival 1st Scene: BLOCKHEAD, by Garrett Nicholson
When a mid-30’s concrete truck driver injures himself at work, he partners up with some friends to pursue his passion as a magician in order to separate himself from the constraints of his father’s business.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Roy/Lou: Allan Michael Brunet
Jill/Lucky: Kyana Ter... -
HORROR Festival 1st Scene: THE FOURTH, by Gabriel Gervais (interview)
While undergoing fertility treatments, a budding psychotherapist becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving kidnapped women, cryptic symbols, and shocking revelations about her troubled past.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehma
Boy: Shawn Devlin
Angie: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwr...
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: QUASH, by John McCarney
Inspired by true events... A homeless Vietnam Vet loses custody of his children and to get them back is forced to take a job with a diverse group of community workers in the middle of a gang war.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
John: Allan Michael Brunet
Mo: Kyana Teresa -
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: THE PAINTED MUSE, by Farah Merani
A brilliant art restorer is commissioned by a big fancy British museum to track down and restore a series of rare miniature masterpieces scattered around
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Curator: Val Cole
Samara: Kyana Teresa
Dusty : Allan Michael Brunet