1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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1st Scene Festival Script Reading: The Darwin Protocol, by Shane McCabe
When a covert genetics project goes horribly wrong and two pathological serial killers are let loose on the streets of Dublin and Munich, a tough CIA Agent seems to be the only one capable of stopping their carnage. The only problem is he cannot do this without implicating himself in a massive co...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: Hel, the last saga, by Orso Vesperini, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic, Toby Osborne
A shipwrecked Viking awakens on a strange island, prowled by terrifying beasts and a Forgotten God, and has to escape before he is doomed to spend eternity there.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Erika: Val Cole
PETRONILLA: Allison Kampf
ALVAR: Steve Rizzo
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LA Festival 1st Scene Reading: Alex Goes To Paris, by Braeden Ayub
A young boy escapes his group home and travels to Paris in search of his biological parents
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Alex: Steve Rizzo
Stubbs: Allan Michael Brunet
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: At The Flash, by Sean Chandler, David Leeper
At The Flash tells the story of a fictitious gay bar over six different decades from the 1960's to current day. We begin in 1965 with Richard, a husband and father, struggling with his true identity and reaching a critical personal crossroads. The new gay freedoms of the 1970’s are represented in...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: I'm A Bad Person, by Chance Fuerstinger, Brandon Freeman
After an engagement announcement, the best man of the groom-to-be tries to express his love for him, but he cannot bring himself to do it. In an attempt to forget about it, he and the other groomsman drink themselves into oblivion, and the rest of the night goes awry.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val ...
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SPORTS Festival 1st Scene Reading: Shame Monster, by Todd Bird
As the NFL draft approaches, a questionable decision leaves top college prospect CJ Wallace with the choice of keeping his sexuality secret or coming out and risking his entire future with his family, friends, and the NFL.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
CJ: Allan Michael Brunet
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1st Scene FEMALE Film Festival Script Reading: Burn Pattern, by Laura M. Kemp
When past trauma jeopardizes the life of a Seattle firefighter, she returns to her home town to find her quest for healing entangled with her pursuit of a local arsonist.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard -
Maya: Val Cole
Cole: Steve Rizzo
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TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: Outlier, by Jeremy Davis
An indentured freighter pilot fights for his freedom, but when a nation led by religious zealots tries to leverage his dark past to take over his outlier colony, our hero must lead an unlikely crew to reclaim his colony's independence, as well as his own.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: Unfortunate People, by Diego Scerrati
Two seemingly different men meet by chance one rainy night. Will their connection last longer than a night, or will their differences take them apart?
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Oliver: Steve Rizzo
Lukas: Allan Michael Brunet
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: Chameleon, by Pat Brown
Near the end of Prohibition, after seeing his lover savagely beaten to death by his commanding officer, a gay cop must protect his new lover from his own self-loathing and the deadly contempt of his fellow officers.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Temple: Steve Rizzo
Ben: Allan Michael ... -
SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Mind Out Of Time, by Carole Starcevic
Following the arrival of a mysterious alien object in space, a brilliant woman scientist opens a Pandora's box in an attempt to save humanity from growing amnesia.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Carole: Hannah Ehman
David: Geoff Mays
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SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: VIOLE(N)T, by Thomas D. Rotenberg
A man and a woman wake up in a house with no memory of how they got there, only to find that they're locked inside and need to solve three puzzles to escape...or so they think.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Steve Rizzo
Man/Abe: Geoff Mays
Woman: Hannah Ehman-----------
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Pirate Groom, by Anthony Ventresca
In this sequel to the film "The Princess Bride", 25 years later, a princess and a pirate join forces in an attempt to save their parents and free the kingdom from an evil tyrant.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Steve Rizzo
Leah: Hannah Ehman
Father: Geoff Mays
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: North Beyond East, by Alex Farhandi
Logline: A high-achieving student neglects her application to a prestigious academy in order to stay with and look after her HIV-positive sister.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Olivia: Kyana Teresa
Darlene: Hannah Ehman
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1st Scene Reading: MAN CAVE, by Mark Higgins
Mike and Eddie are searching for antiques and they find one in Gordon, with his lifetime of collecting automobiles and old devices. It’s worth a fortune and they intend to scam him out of it, but Gordon has some plans of his own as he poisons them and adds them to his collection.
CAST LIST:
N...
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POLITICAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: THE JUNIOR SENTATOR FROM IDAHO, by David LeBlanc
After her horn-dog, Senator husband drops dead in the middle of an office tryst, a sarcastic, lifelong trophy wife is enlisted by a group of cynical political insiders to complete his term in office, only to find herself wholly unprepared for the political spotlight.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Stev...
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SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: Chase Of Destiny, by Jason Wallach
Mason, a scholar with a grudge, seeks a path to redemption and fame. He seeks to use a family heirloom of an ancient powerful artifact as providing a redeeming path, however, it calls for him to volunteer to be the subject of a scientific experiment. His sessions have the effect of altering his s...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: RAT, by Paul Harker
In a coastal backwater, a pregnant newcomer becomes the object of a lonely Ratcatcher's infatuation, but the arrival of her arrogant ex-lover triggers pest control of terrifying proportions.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alex: Sean Ballantyne
Mother: Hannah Ehman
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CRIME Festival 1st Scene Reading: THE SPLIT, by Nicola Green
Based on true events, this is the story of three lives intertwined; a 1960's London sporting hero turned gold thief, a sick child and a grieving daughter, determined to uncover her family's secrets, finding far more than she ever could have bargained for.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Steve Rizzo
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1st Scene Script Reading: The Grand Jury, by Suzanne Lutas
A small random group gets a chance at an interview for a sought-after position and endures a long wait in a room where the test truly begins.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Drew: Bill Poulin
Steve: Geoff Mays
Mary: Hannah Ehman
Kyoko: Kyana Teresa
Ageless Man - Sean Ballant... -
1st Scene Script Reading: Finding Eden, by Brad Dude
"Captured along with 30 female asylum-seekers by modern-day pirates on a remote utopian island, Captain Anna Kruger struggles to escape while her rescue ship's crew attempts to unite warring African, Arab and Asian villages to mount a rescue."
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Chi... -
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: JEWELS OF LIGHT, by Tessie Herrasti
In the world of Upprunkna, a guilt-ridden elven warrior is tasked with the care of a powerful and untrusting royal. Together, they begin a journey that will unite the most adventurous beings of the different realms and force them to work together in order to restore the vital energies of a darken...
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: DILF, by Orlando Wood, Victor Kubicek
DILF is a comedy drama following JACK NOVAC, a 37-year-old father who’s just lost his wife and has been carrying a secret his whole life. He’s gay.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jack: Geoff Mays
Diane : Kyana Teresa-------
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Date With Destiny, by Michael Brody
Everything happens for a reason...Finally the reason.
Two people on separate paths find themselves inextricably drawn together, raising the possibility that destiny is neither predetermined nor random acts of coincidence. Maybe destiny is just the fulfillment of a promise made in a previous life...