BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • The Dream Doctor's Sand, by William Manley - Screenplay Reading. ACTION/FANTASY

    Teenage twins team up with a charismatic, shapeshifting rapper and journey from Earth to a hazardous alien world. Their mission: get an antidote from a monstrous mogul to save their obnoxious friend who is transforming into something unthinkable after stealing and snorting a mysterious green drug...

  • Stranded, by Amy Kay DuBoff - Screenplay Reading. FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

    After their colony ship mysteriously explodes above an untamed alien world, a burned undercover operative and a xenobiologist team up to survive the planet's perilous wilds—only to unravel the first threads of an insidious interstellar conspiracy.

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Evan: Geoff Mays
    Anya: Ju...

  • The Sleep Experiment TV Pilot, by David Frank Francischelli - THRILLER Festival

    1949. In a secret Soviet bunker, five political prisoners are subjected to a month-long sleep deprivation experiment using an experimental gas. As their minds awaken to something ancient lurking beyond human perception, the scientists discover they have opened a door to a cosmic horror that was n...

  • Pasticceria Fausto, by Laura Puccia Valtorta - Screenplay Reading. COMEDY Fest

    Silvia Pecora (53) an Italian motorcycle mechanic, is broke and mourning the death of her son from a drug overdose. At the urging of a friend, she takes a job at a pastry shop run by Fausto, the local criminal boss who may have supplied the drugs that killed her son. Silvia and Fausto begin an af...

  • Devil In Disguise, by Rob Filios - Screenplay Reading. ROMANCE Festival

    In a medieval town in Italy, a movie star proposes to a stand-in during a magical night of Carnevale. By morning, his new fiancée has been replaced by the Devil, and he doesn’t even know it.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Trent: Geoff Mays
    Bernice: Hannah Ehman
    Nicole; Julie Sheppard

  • The First Man, by Anthony Salamon - Screenplay Reading, ROMANCE Festival

    EDWARD ASHFORD-LANGLEY was, by every measure, the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, right up until a leaked text and a tabloid headline ended his leadership bid forty-eight hours before the vote. Eighteen months later he is immaculately tailored, professionally self-deprecating, and extr...

  • The Version That We Perceived, by Alyssa Hart - Screenplay Reading, ROMANCE Fest

    When a separated couple is forced into court?mandated therapy, their conflicting memories of love become the battleground for truth, healing, and the fragile possibility of rebuilding what they destroyed

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Elizabeth: Julie Sheppard
    Dr. Vance; Shawn Devlin
    Ethan: Geoff Mays

  • Up From Corinth, by Joel Moore - Screenplay Reading DRAMA Festival

    A young Arkansas farm boy seeks to stay alive and to find his father on the battlefields of the Civil War, but falls wounded in his first battle and finds himself with the enemy.

    Narrator; Julie Sheppard
    Sgt. Winters; Shawn Devlin
    Duane: Geoff Mays

  • The Corridor Pilot, by Simon Humphries - Screenplay Reading

    A psychology professor investigating her brother's ritualistic murder uncovers a secret artificial consciousness project at the AI company where he worked.

    Narrator: Val Cole

    Tarquin/DCI Matthews: Geoff Mays

    Edward/DS Croft: Shawn Devlin

    Lucinda: Julie Sheppard

    Caroline: Hannah Ehman

  • Saint Georgia, by Christine O’Donnell - Screenplay Reading from FEMALE Festival

    In 1950 Tennessee, a meticulous state auditor uncovering fraud at a powerful children’s home finds evidence that children reported dead were secretly sold to wealthy families. Teaming with a relentless mother who never accepted her son’s death, he must expose a system built on lies before the age...

  • A Newcomer at the 18th Fighting Squadron, by Laetitia Gaillard - FEMALE Fest

    The 18th Fighter Squadron is a unit of the US Air Force, whose mission is to train the American fleet against the enemy fighter tactics. In August 2000, a few days before the unit's deployment to Turkey for the "Northern Watch" operation, the unit is welcoming a very young 22-year-old woman pilot...

  • THE PIPER, by Rich L. Davis - Script Reading. LGBTQ+ Film Festival

    After witnessing gay love for the first time, a young man starts to question himself and his preferences as he navigates life through the 1980s and into the 1990s.

    Synopsis: Tad is a pretty happy young man, he is active, sarcastic and mostly enjoys the life he's living. So, one day when he wit...

  • Michael is Coming, by P James Norris - Script Reading from LGBTQ+ Festival

    A transgendered homeless woman, who makes uncanny prophecies, restores the faith of a Catholic priest with the help of the Archangel Michael after predicting that local homeless man will be killed.

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Father William: Shawn Devlin
    Benny: Geoff Mays
    Izzy: Julie Sheppard

  • ASTRONAUT by Lukas Klaus Hassel - Script Reading from LGBTQ+ Festival

    A retired astronaut struggles to find meaning in life when a mysterious phenomenon appears on the moon forcing him to rethink choices from his past.

    http://www.lukashassel.com/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Susan: Julie C. Sheppard
    Harrison: Geoff Mays

  • 666 Challenge, by Gary B. Haley: Script Reading from HORROR Underground Festival

    When a haunted house draws spectators across generations with a supernatural challenge, the investigators get more than they bargained for.

    CAST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Alexander: Shawn Delvin

  • Kam - Screenplay Reading

    After a violent sexual assault by a celebrated college quarterback, Kam, a driven Black university student, tries to convince herself that she can simply “move on.” But as the pressure to stay silent mounts from every direction, including her lawyer mother, the justice system, her peers, and even...

  • HORROR Festival Script: Echoes of Erdington, by Maria Lena Skillings (interview)

    Inspired by true events: After her sister’s death, a young journalism student investigates two identical murders committed 157 years apart and discovers a deadly curse lurking beneath a picturesque New England town.

    CAST LIST:
    Narration: Sean Ballantyne
    Mary: Val Cole
    Hannah: Hannh Ehman

    Get t...

  • FANTASY/SC-FI Festival Script: The Gold Protocol, by Brenda Jackson (interview)

    A naive teenager discovers that the future Queen of the Universe has been hidden within him, and he must travel the universe and outwit formidable villains whilst dealing with his own family trauma before he can restore her to the throne.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    Sam: Geoff Mays
    CC: Shawn ...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Feature Script: The Branches of Nexos, by John Reynders

    Professor Daniel Wexler, a brilliant but self-absorbed quantum physicist, is recruited into Nexos, a hidden crossroads between parallel branches of reality, after his research into many-worlds theory draws him into the discovery of Astral Flux, a rare force that can shape matter, energy, and even...

  • LA Festival Feature Script: Rose Red, by Austin Dru Turmel

    Rose Red must protect her sister Snow White from dark forces, even as their differing lifestyles threaten to split them apart.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Rose: Val Cole
    Snow: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Short Script: Dani, by Patrick C Clinton, Ny'Jayda Jones

    In the aftermath of a brutal attack in a bar parking lot, Danielle “Dani” Scott refuses to see herself as broken, despite a world determined to convince her she needs fixing. As her girlfriend Celeste lies unconscious in a hospital bed, Dani begins to spiral. Haunted by the event and suffocated b...

  • DRAMA Festival Feature Script: Uncertain Eyes, by Gary Haley

    Gary performs stunts with his bike, but winds up with his axel in his skull. His Mom somewhat rushes him to the ER, where a literal piece of his brain comes out. Kim helps him pee into a cup after he is left alone for hours. Gary goes into surgery, and struggles with confusion for days after. Whe...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Feature Script: Distant Lightning, by David Mills

    When a shipwreck leaves two teenage boys stranded on a remote island, survival binds them together—but as their connection deepens into first love, they must face the impossible question of what happens to that bond if they ever return to the world they came from.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    ...

  • WILDsound Festival Feature Script: A Misnamed Fate, by Chelsea Lin

    The dark side of relationships and suburban life, where secrets amongst friends ruin lives and betrayal has deadly consequences.

    https://www.instagram.com/cheezylin

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Dan: Shawn Devlin
    Stacy; Hannah Ehman