BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.
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LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Handsome Devil, by Andrew Albert
When a masked stranger crashes a celebration of life party at a secluded estate, an all-guys weekend becomes a terrifying battle for survival - one that will force a grieving young man to use all of his wits and resources to win.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Adam: Bill Poulin
Bryce: Geoff ... -
LGBT Festival Best Scene Reading: Almost A Movement by Stephen Rea
Part Fictional / Part Real transformation drama that focuses on LGBT campaign side of the Irish 2015 same-sex marriage referendum interspersed with recent and historical lead-in events. Attention paid to how the coming out of prominent public figures during the campaign strengthened the strong po...
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LA Festival BEST Scene Script Reading: Dropped Out, by Eric Smith and Mike Roberts
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Dunno: Andy Kamp
Maddy/Kiri: Julie Sheppard
Sam/Captain Ed: Shawn Devlin
Vigilante/Tucker: Allan Michael Brunet
Akmed/Colonel Parker: Bill Poulin
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HORROR Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Man In The Hat, by Phyllis Allison
Thirty years have passed since Beth’s sister vanished, believed to be taken by a child predator, but when a woman posts a tale on the internet eerily similar to Beth’s own experience, she is forced to admit THE MAN IN THE HAT is real, but not like us. This time around he’s playing tricks with her...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: Belfast Connection, by John Donovan
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Big Freddie: Steve Rizzo
Raymond : Bill Poulin
Gerry: Andy Kamp -
LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Readng: Interpretation Of A Dream, by Farnoosh Dayyani
Logline: A young girl pursuing a forbidden romance tries to escape the overbearing village she resides in.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Maryam: Val Cole
Sarah: Julie Sheppard
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Winning BEST SCENE Reading: Bad Love Strikes, by Kevin Schewe
It’s the summer of 1974 in the small town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The kids in the Bad Love Gang live daring lives, filled with high adventure. When they stumble upon an abandoned World War II-era time machine, part of as the White Hole Project, that word adventure takes on a whole new meaning. T...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: ORSON WELLS ASHES, by Debra Knox
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Charlie: Allan Michael Brunet
Susan: Hannah Ehman -
COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: Fair Dubs, by David Chambers
This is a comedy Sci-Fi/Dramedy. Aliens arrive in Earth orbit intending to take Earth back with them, to its place of origin – their star system, Sirius. Earth was previously used and then left where it is now by one of the ancestors of the same aliens, after similar past events. It is now wanted...
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SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Strike Of Artemis, by Brandon Haynes
A black woman kidnapped at a young age by aliens, trying to find her place back on Earth where she has become an alien herself
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Agent Wayne: Shawn Devlin
Mom/Regina: Julie Sheppard
Random 4/Guard (one line)/Noah: Allan Michael Brunet
India: Hannah Ehman
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene Script Reading: COPPERLAND, by Eila Algood, Holly Algood, Susan Froetchel
Four intelligent, complex women are drawn together. A lesbian couple, their friend and a young woman are looking to find peace relating to their deceased mothers. The fight for equal rights shows up both from the past and present. There is an exciting discovery to bring solar energy to mainstream...
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Female Festival Best Scene: WHEAT DANDY, by Anna Patterson
Dad’s death throws the wheat farm into turmoil
Sis and husband felt for years they owned the place, they had raised their children here, and worked day and night to keep the place financially stable. They had fought disease, insects, and violent weather. Now they faced financial ruin, and local p... -
LGBTQ+ Best Scene Script Reading: Ziggy And Rachel, by Michael Rispoli & Gregg Greenberg
ZIGGY AND RACHEL focuses on the friendship between a young boy and a transgender girl in his Manhattan building.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Lisa: Julie Sheppard
Pendergast: Allan Michael Brunet
Rachel: Kyana Teresa
Ziggy: Geoff Mays
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Female Festival Best Scene: MILKWOOD MANOR, by Alexia Kosmider
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Hania: Hannah Ehman
Elizabeth: Julie Sheppard
Emily: Kyana Teresa
Charles: Geoff Mays -
DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene Script Reading: ACE, by Jacobo Fe
Sir Douglas Bader was a British pilot during WWII, who, after losing both of his legs, became a flying ace. The use of prosthesis was not an impediment to prove his value and wit; both when he was battling in the skies or as an inmate in the most inexpugnable Nazi prison. His rude and rebel spiri...
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NYC Festival 1st Scene TV PILOT: SEEN, by Colin J. Murphy
een follows Caleb Jamison, a NYC writer and podcaster who is quick-witted, sensitive and has a pop culture reference at his fingertips to pull out at any moment. Basically, he is the person who slays the GIFs in a group chat. After continually taking a back seat in his own life, Caleb's friend So...
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Female Festival BEST SCENE Reading: HELL'S BELLE, by Kari Karsten
In the early 20th century a young woman discovers a way to prosper from her husband's death, leading her down a lifelong path of murderous treachery that threatens to be discovered by a local police detective investigating a sinister series of mysterious events.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth R... -
SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Ocean City, by Kevin Mongelli
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Brandon: Allan Michael Brunet
Mia: Kyana Teresa
Dr. Periculum: Julie Sheppard -
THRILLER Festival Best Scene Reading: Opposition Research. by T. R. Schumer
When a brilliant young law grad with a talent for speed-reading takes a well paid gig scraping bulk data for dirt on a rival political candidate, his idealistic naiveté and misplaced loyalty land him in the crosshairs of powerful enemies, the FBI, and his murderous boss.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geo... -
SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Script Reading: LOST PLANET, by Thomas Thorpe
Following discovery of a nanometer-sized memory storage device within an asteroid fragment, a scientist hastens to understand holograms left on a doomed planet and is horrified to learn that Earth is about to encounter a similar fate.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Sydney: Allison Kampf
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Female Festival BEST Scene Reading: FORGOTTEN VOICE(S), by Malathi Vulupala
A young innocent girl trusts her
first love too much and pays the
ultimate price when he
betrays her, and must decide if she
can move forward and trust in love
again.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Adithya: Shawn Devlin
Padmini: Kyana Teresa -
COMEDY Festival TV PILOT Best Scene: Nervous Rex, by Sean Sullivan
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Wendy: Kyana Teresa
Jesus: Shawn Devlin -
TV Festival Best Scene Reading: A Kansas Mermaid, by A.S. Templeton
A mythical creature raised as human must team up with a delusional federal agent and a motley crew of sentient species to save Earth from space alien invasion.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Barnesdale: Allan Michael Brunet
Yeager: Hannah Ehman -
TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: Pure, by Erika Hakmiller
A 30 minute single camera comedy following Mary Smith, the most eligible pilgrim in New England whose life is turned upside down when an unexpected group of Puritans move in next door.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Mary: Julie Sheppard
Peter: Steve Rizzo
Grace: Kyana Teresa
Paster Smith: ...