BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.
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THRILLER Festival Best Scene Reading: Solstice, by Stephen John Beyer
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Angela: Julie Sheppard
Peter/Julius: Steven Rizzo
Fred/Thomas: Allan Michael Brunet
Amy: Kyana Teresa
Clayton: Andy Kamp
Ken: Bill Poulin----
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Strange Desires, by Doug Allen
When a middle-aged gay man's sartorial choices create an identity crisis, he is forced to reconsider his relationships with the men in his life, and ultimately what it means to be a man.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Jasper: Allan Michael Brunet
Phil: Shaun Devlin
Receptionist: Andy Camp
Gina... -
THRILLER Festival Best Scene Script Reading: The Dark Valley, by T.J. Morehouse
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
V.O.: Shaun Devlin
Ella: Kyana Teresa
Sam: Allan Michael Brunet
Parking Lot Attendent/Stoner Dude: Andy Kamp -
THRILLER Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Recital, by Penny Brommersma
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Aker: Allan Michael Brunet
Beth: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival TV Best Scene Reading: Spores, by Pat Brown
While searching for their missing parents, a botanical researcher and her conspiracy-minded brother discover deadly Mycorrhiza wreaking havoc on the largest rainforest on the west coast as aliens prepare to terraform Earth for themselves.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Ellen: Julie S... -
TV FESTIVAL Best Scene Script Reading: Stealing The Mona Lisa, by Erik Corradino
After his daughter is kidnapped, a US Navy SEAL must steal the Mona Lisa for a crime lord to get her back.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Boris: Bill Poulin
Ivan: Sean Ballantyne
Anastasiya: Allison Kampf
Alex: Andy Kamp -
FEMALE Festival TV Best Scene Reading: IVY, by Nicole Dawson
A lower-class, Adderall-addicted student from an Ivy League university becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when her ex-friend is found dead.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Chief Robinson: Sean Ballantyne
Male Detective: Andy Camp
Detective Cady: Julie Sheppard
Leah:... -
SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene Reading: Conquist, by Dirk Strasser
While pursuing an Incan emperor, a driven conquistador and his men find themselves trapped between the warring forces of demonic natives and angelic beings in a world whose morality proves to be less black and white than it initially appears.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Sarpay: Allison Kam... -
FEMALE Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Hysteresis, by Lynn Vincentnathan
A deep water Arctic Ocean oil rig explosion in our near present releases gigatons of methane, causing runaway warming to spiral out of control much faster than it would have. By 2273 the only habitable place is the Arctic and life is dying out there. May’s malnourished son dies and the autocratic...
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LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Script Reading: My Home Far Away, by Diego Scerrati
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Oliver: Geoff Mays
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FANTASY/SCI-FI FESTIVAL Best Scene Reading: Galaxy Chamber, by Patrick Hatten
After a cargo of cloned bodies on a starship rise up as blood-thirsty marauders, a young apprentice learns that some of the crew have reasons for planting the deadly disruptor virus -- even as he struggles with his own shattered past and empathy for the clones.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael... -
LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Strange Desires, by Doug Allen
An openly gay man's insecurity with his masculinity leads him to heteronormative modes of expression putting him at odds with the world and himself.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Phil: Sean Ballantyne
Gina: Julie Sheppard
Jasper: Shawn Devlin
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LA Festival Best Scene Reading: Zero Gravity, by Stephen Thompson
Jealousy takes center stage when two friends apply for the same job to become the first M.D. on Mars.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Jamie: Shawn Devlin
Nance /Berkley: Allan Michael Brunet
Amy: Val Cole
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LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Our Home, by Claire Kathryn Roche
Set against the backdrop of the 2015 Marriage Referendum in the small, Irish town of Kilkee, several vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of prejudice, loss and identity while a Siren stalks them from a distance.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Erin: Allison Kampf
Tammy: Val Co... -
LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Vincent & Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood, by Frank Hays
Logline: A mentally unstable painter must overcome his tumultuous relationship with his narcissist lover, who uses and exploits him to advance his career.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Paul: Geoff Mays
Vincent: Sean Ballantyne
Waitress: Val Cole
Theodorus: Bill Poulin
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LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: The Little Death, by Daniel Appleby
Two non-binary high end restoration laborers attempt a disembiguation of T.S. Elliot's "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" while speculating on the sex life of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Max: Julie Sheppard
Alex: Allison Kampf
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Perfect Karma, by Jeanine Barone
Pax, a dyslexic, niave 25-year-old slacker, has one dream: to live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the one person getting in her way is a hypocritical, Evangelical Christian who wants to demolish the house in favor of a Cracker Barrel franchise.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
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SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Reading: THE RED SOFA BED, by Semyon White
A cheap second hand red sofa bed is a weird portal to hedonistic damnation. In its presence inhibitions are shed and pleasure the only preoccupation. It falls into the hands of Ritchie; a prostitution ring's foot soldier. The Red Sofa Bed causes a whorehouse cash exchange with a dirty cop to go a...
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HORROR Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Slaughter Lake, by John Kestner
Two single mothers join forces to hunt down and destroy the supernatural killer that murdered their teen children.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Patti: Julie Sheppard
Alexis: Val Cole -
FAN FICTION Festival Best Scene Reading: BLACK WIDOW: LEGACY, by Brooke Elowe
Set three months after the events of BLACK WIDOW: FUGITIVE, Natasha Romanoff is presumed dead. Gravely injured and caught behind enemy lines, Natasha awakens not only to a world that believes she died in disgrace but to a dangerous new weapon threat she herself had a hand in creating. In a desper...
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LA Festival Best Scene Reading: Flame, by Derek McDaniel
A sexually trafficked teen gets tangled up with a degenerate drug addict in her quest for freedom.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
Josh: Shawn Devlin
Nikki: Val Cole -
DRAMA FESTIVAL Best Scene Reading: Homebound, by Joud AlAmri
An aspiring young writer, Norah, leads a mundane life in Los Angeles until her father’s passing uncovers family secrets that send her on an unexpected journey.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Nora: Hannah Ehman
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LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Homecoming, by Loren Gonzales
Tagline: "There's no place like it"
A coming of age story centered around one high school senior and the Homecoming dance.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Darcy: Bill Poulin
Juliette: Val Cole
Romeo: Shawn Devlin
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SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Reading: Cosmosis Of Worlds, by Richard Trask
Adam Chapman, 1.4 million years ago, on planet Longon, gets hurt in a rock climb and dies during a hernia surgery. His (random) exact replica self, Mark Meyhee, born on Earth in 1989, is also a rock climber. Mark is married to Mary; both are young attractive academic nonscientists. Like Adam Chap...