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ROMANCE Festival TV PILOT Reading: 30 WAYS, by Maxie Dara, Caroline Concordia
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Cassie: Kyana Teresa
Janice: Val Cole
Ziggy: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Ex/Man: Sean Ballantyne
Pharmacist/Tattoo Client: Geoff Mays
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ANIMATION Festival SHORT Screenplay: TO BE GREAT, by Andréanne Milette
When comet debris containing life crashes into a biosphere on a colonized frozen planet, Martha, the captain of a Biosphere facility, must save the team botanist from a rapidly growing alien fungus trap and overcome hallucinations caused by its spores or risk losing her whole team to a similar fa...
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Chicago Festival SHORT Screenplay: DAVID'S CHRISTMAS MIRACLE, by Michael Moore
In the late 1960s college freshman David and high school junior Jimmy discover a new understanding of their friendship. Although they must keep their feelings for each other hidden, they enjoy the developing closeness until an indiscretion threatens to ruin everything.
Narrator: Val Cole
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SCI-FI/FANTASY Short Screenplay: OKORO, by Gregory Earls (interview)
A scientist explores the choice between benevolence and hostility as he tries to guide his artificial human toward humanity.
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Computer: Hannah Ehman
Tablet: Steve Rizzo
Dr. Woods: Geoff Mays
Okoro: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What is your s...
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HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay: HAN, by Esther Um
A young Korean woman is haunted by a ghostly figure, in the aftermath of her mother's death.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Grocery Employee/Sarah's Father: Geoff Mays
Young Sarah/Sarah: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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Winning SHORT Screenplay: 9066, by Cassie Phillips
This is a snapshot into the moment one Japanese-American family is forced from their home to live in an internment camp during World War Two, and what happens when one family member refuses to leave.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Canon: Sean Ballantyne
Joseph: Steve Rizzo
Miyoko: Hannah Eh... -
Winning STUDENT SHORT: Coffee Beans and Tea Leaves, by James Phagoo (interview)
Getaway drivers, Peter and Bill await to do their jobs of transporting their boss, John, to safety. However, chaos ensues in the process.
CAST LIST:
Narrator - Val Cole
Bill: Allan Michael
Peter: Shawn Devlin
John: Steve Rizzo
Charlie: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What ...
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WINNING Short Screenplay: Papalotzin, by Fernanda Cabarcos
In Mexico on average, 10 women or girls are killed daily nationwide. These rampant murders are attributed to machismo, gender inequality, domestic violence and a problematic justice system. Papalotzin is the Nahuatl word for butterfly , in my culture the Monarch Butterfly symbolized the spirits o...
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1pg. Short Script: The Furnace Room, by Nicolas Ardanaz
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Gary: Steve Rizzo
Tino: Sean Ballantyne
Narrator: Val Cole
Gary: Steve Rizzo
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Winning SHORT Screenplay: The Garden, by A.M. Chester (interview)
A short, short film about finding magic and the trauma of sudden loss when that magic goes away.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
The Woman: Kyana TeresaGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
The screenplay is about finding the magic within the joy of pregnancy and the d...
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Under 5min. SHORT Script: Prelude, by Jay Anne Dixon
In 1945, two RAF Officers prepare for an ill-fated operation.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Williams: Steve Rizzo
Teddy Geoff Mays1. What is your screenplay about?
’The Prelude’ is about two fictional RAF Officers preparing for an allied operation in 1945. The allies suffered heavy losses...
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STUDENT Festival Short Screenplay FULL RIDE, by Daniel Heechan Lim (interview)
A group of graduating seniors decide between their academic lives and the life of another following a drunken car accident.
https://www.instagram.com/heechan_lim
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Mac: Steve Rizzo
Jules: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Cleo: Kyana TeresaGet to know the writer:
1. ...
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1pg. SHORT Script: Rowbadoe, by Kipp Howard
Sci-Fi
Ambassadors Rowbadoe and Razor are on a secret mission for the Galactic Federation when their space cruiser is ambushed.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Rowbadoe: Geoff Mays
Razor: Steve Rizzo
Woman's Voice: Hannah Ehman -
1pg. SHORT Script: Waiting on a Plane, by Matthew William Kelcourse
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1pg. SHORT Script: Truckstop DNA, by Patrick McCarthy
An overnight TruckStop worker is attacked during a beer run. His manager gets rid of the assailant.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
Small Teen: Steve Rizzo
Big Teen: Geoff Mays
Paul: Allan Michael Brunet
Terry: Shawn Devlin -
1pg. SHORT Script: The Surge Protector, by Michael A. Reed
Science Fiction
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Walter: Steve Rizzo
Mike: Geoff Mays -
1pg. SHORT Script: It's a Fucking Dog, by Steve Feld
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Short Screenplay Reading: IN SILENCE, by Jeff Sommer-Zervos
The story follows Jamie Rommen, a man suffering in silence with grief, loneliness, and depression. The loss of his family weighs on him heavily a year later; still reliving the events of their death, alone in the new world of COVID quarantine. He’s out of work. Bills are piling up. His life falli...
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COMEDY 1pg. Script: AN AI'S NEMESIS. by Stephanie Kolar
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Ethan: Shawn Devlin
Dylan: Allan Michael Brunet
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Winning THRILLER Fest SHORT Script: INKWELL, by Dante Mathias (writer interview)
An unskilled artist discovers a pen that will draw whatever he wants at the cost of his talented friend.
https://www.instagram.com/inkwell_film/
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Rose: Kyana Teresa
Foster: Allan Michael BrunetGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about...
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SHORT Script Reading: God At Rest, by Adam Swimmer
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
God: Geoff Mays
Jesus: Sean Ballantyne -
SHORT Screenplay Reading: DO YOU WANT TO?, by Richard P. DiPietro
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Bray: Geoff Mays
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SHORT Script Reading: IN MY WOMB, by Thomas R. Mullen
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
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COMEDY SHORT Screenplay: ...CHATTER, CHATTER, by Mike Ede
A terrifying sound wakes a man from his drunken stupor.
https://instagram.com/Hankhilledge
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Ken: Steve Rizzo
Voice: Val Cole