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Poetry Reading: Reason Enough, by Brooke Bianchi-Pennington
https://youtu.be/nEdWr4lIOFc
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
I don’t remember ever being beautiful.
Must have been, at some point.
Kindergarten maybe?
All I know is, by third grade,
My tummy was a tad too
Big to be beautiful.But don’t worry. This isn’t a poem
About hating my body. Actually,
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV Best Scene: JESSIE, by Sallyann Fellowes
Jessie follows the haunting of a ghost girl who visits her great great niece and starts cause chaos in their lives.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Anna: Hannah Ehman
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: PEARL FISHER, by Suzanne Birrell (interview)
When a precocious mixed-race five-year-old wanders into a fire station with only a backpack and a cryptic note about her missing mother, she has no idea it will set off a chain of events that will reshape her life. The little girl, who refuses to give her name, is sent into foster care and given ...
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: THE LAST NORTHERN WHITE RHINO, by Sam Holeman
Hunted by a lethal crime syndicate, a disgraced ex cop finds sanctuary as a wildlife ranger where his seasoned lethality becomes vital to protecting the last northern white rhino from the very predators that employed him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
James: Shawn Devlin
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BEST Scene Reading: DEAR MR HUTTON, by Jennifer Marsh
Inspired by the music of Three Dog Night, a young girl enjoys childhood in 1970s Ohio and develops a desire to travel abroad, if she can convince her parents to let her go.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Ruth: Hannah Ehman
Andrea: Val Cole -
FEMALE Fest Best Scene: KAM60 The Butterfly Prince, by Maria Pearce (interview)
The butterfly prince is a story of a fictional character K.A.M.60 that attempt to honour the great French astronomer Charles Messier who developed the Messier catalogue and discovered many Messier objects in the sky in particular in the Virgo constellation. In the book K.A.M.60 real name is = Kar...
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Best Scene: Shesafella: The Fancy Tales, by Felice Cohen (interview)
Summary: Fella, a softball player, is bullied at home by her stepmother and stepbrothers, who treat her like Cinderella. She cooks, she cleans, and she caters to all their needs. However, when the family gets invited to the Mayor's daughter's birthday ball, she is excluded until her fairy godmoth...
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Poetry Reading: Accolade to a Nameless Station, by Inge Sorensen (interview)
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
September 29th, 2020
Air from Terra Rising
Quivering in the Mountains
Rocks Rumble Beneath Earth, & One’s Feet
Wind Blares Down on All of Us
Nature Plays Tambourines – Touching Each of Our Ears
Terrene Mother Drums her Hands’ Down on the Planet’s Crust
Manmade Iron ... -
Poetry Reading: A Story from Hell, by Robert Wen
https://youtu.be/_3QgQ-xnSD8
Voice Over by Val Cole
POEM:
somewhere in my travels i had taken the wrong turn
i can’t inform my path to there for i have yet to learn
i don’t know how it happened, how hell i stumbled into
journey aside, i found the devil’s lair without a clueamidst flames i ...
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Poetry Reading: X, by Ruthie Marlenee
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
Look at the big, beautiful Moon tonight.
See the little red spot that is called Mars.
See the almighty Elon Musk take flight.
Launched from the earth through its cosmos and stars.But lo, it’s only his robot doppelganger
on a mission to plant the American flag.
Oh ... -
BEST Scene Reading: TICKET TO KYIV, by Hannah Miyamoto (interview)
A carefree young American woman gains a new appreciation for life when she is caught up in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.instagram.com/hannah_pacificostudios/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Kalyna: Hannah Ehman
Rachel: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Stepan: Shawn DevlinGet to...
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1st Scene Reading: The Ghosts of Rachel Young, by Shaun Mark Burrell
Haunted by a fatal mistake, a shattered vice cop reunites with a bright but brooding detective and his mysterious family to tame her frightening new power and protect it from the evil eager to control it.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Rachel: Val Cole
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NYC Festival 1st Scene: RENEGADES, by Warner J. Miller
In an alternate 1831 Virginia, enslaved preacher Nat Turner, along with hundreds of enslaved Black people in the antebellum South, live with a horrifying truth: white townspeople and plantation owners led by the charismatic Pastor Sarx are ancient demonic beings who literally feed on Black flesh....
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: HARVARD V DREYFUS, by Connor Harrington-Brandt
When Harry Dreyfus, the popular owner of a café in Boston, becomes involved with a Harvard student, he can’t imagine that a year later the President of Harvard will summon him to an interrogation threatening his business, his friends faced with expulsion, after his lover is found dead.
Inspired b... -
ACTION/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: HOW THE WORLD ENDS, by David Case
In a world where a Death Cloud has the power to destroy every last
human and man-made object, the toughest soldier on the planet, a woman, is unhinged by the memory of her father killing her mother when she was a kid.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Voice/Black: Steve Rizzo
Faith:... -
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: THE WATER CLOCK, by Sheil Seclearr
LOGLINE: Our reluctant Water Clock hero is bent on finding a scientist to teach the world about an ancient family relic, until the stone bowl’s mysterious force reveals a climate crisis no one sees coming: What if water is alive?
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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Script: Welcome to the Occupied States of America, by Sarah Cawdron (interview)
Ashley Kelly is your typical American young woman—or she would be if it weren’t for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Ten years after the alien invasion, over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war, with millions more dead. Ash has spent ten years learning to walk again, and...
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: BAUBLE, by Scot G Kleinman
A criminal gang of Drag Queens gets more than they bargained for in the pursuit of stolen royal jewels.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Lips: Shawn Devlin
Ruthless Ruth: Hannah Ehman
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HORROR Festival Best Scene: THE TRAIT, by Jason Seelman (interview)
A family dinner takes a sinister turn when the children are reminded of a generational ritual at the onset of the father’s terminal illness.
https://www.instagram.com/jason_e_seelmann/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Dr. Bishop: Shawn Devlin
Grace: Hannah EhmanGet to know the writer:
1. ...
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SHORT Script Reading: FIDO, by John Norris Ray
A young girl watches an old dog. Taking the dog on a walk, a rough encounter with a bully has dire consequences.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Kyle: Steve Rizzo
Jason: Geoff Mays
Sydney: Val Cole
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BEST Scene Reading: MY MOTHER'S WRATH, by María Elena González
MAGGIE KAWAR, an art gallery owner in her fifties, struggles with the emotional scars left by her abusive mother, RUBY. She juggles being a grandmother to her six-year-old grandson, FREDDY, and her tumultuous relationship with her self-absorbed daughter, ELIZABETH, who works as her assistant. The...
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ENVIROMENTAL Festival Best Scene: Co(r)pse, by Alan & James Bradshaw (interview)
A re-imagining of Frankenstein with an AI-enhanced tree
https://bradshawediting.com/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Phil: Shawn Devlin
Monica: Hannah EhmanGet to know the writers:
1. What is your screenplay about?
It's a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein with an AI-enhanced tre... -
ROMANCE Festival Best Scene:SIMON'S FAT, by Darryl Bubner
Summary: Simon has the worst luck ever, he just can't seem to find a relationship to work and struggles to make it work no matter who he tries dating. After getting himself in some questionable situations, he finds himself in Vietnam, looking for his lost love but when it finds him, it's bitter s...
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BEST Scene Reading: LOULOUTHKIA, by Andry Platrites
In her later years, Aria finds herself plagued by traumatic memories from her past. But when her daughter reveals her ex-husband will reveal the truth, Aria fears what will happen. Things are made worse still when she catches sight of her ex-partner Emily. But determined to rise above it, she emb...