BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 By morning, his new fiancée has been replaced by the Devil, and he doesn’t even know it.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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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 EhmanGet t...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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