1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Off The Rack, by Pilar Gibson (interview)
Desperate to break into the New York fashion scene of the 1970s, a struggling designer funds her clothing line by teaming up with an ex-model to counterfeit luxury clothes.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Dreenie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alice: Kyana Teresa
Toni: Hannah EhmanGet to k...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: A Woman's Hand, by Birgit Syran Myaard
Caught up in the conflict between two nations, a young, nomad bride defies a powerful, lecherous general in order to protect her marriage and restore peace.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Heber: Geoff Mays
Sisera: Allan Michael BrunetGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenp...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Presumption, by Andy Healy
As a jury deliberates, a desperate and disenfranchised African-American mother looks to balance the scales of justice by taking the lead prosecutor hostage and forcing her torelook atthe case against her son and prove his innocence before the verdict is handed down.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean B...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Lovely Miss Mercer, by Heidi Lauren Duke
With the world at war, a penniless socialite must keep her affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt a secret from his wife -- as well as the rest of the nation.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Violetta/Maid: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Lucy: Kyana Teresa
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: The Blakeneys, by Brigid May
During the French Revolution, a band of heroes rises to combat the slaughter of innocents. Yet when a French spy looks to bring down the leader by blackmailing his estranged wife, the lines between the rescuer and rescued are blurred and the couple's lives altered forever.
CAST LIST:
Narrator:...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Switch With Me, by Lexi Morgan
Two sisters form a plan to switch lives after one's husband is caught cheating.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Ally: Val Cole
Steven: Allan Michael Brunet
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: LITTLE GREEN MEND, by Linda Whitmore
A plant-like-alien from a distant planet receives a school assignment to help another planet without revealing themselves and gets assigned Earth.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Fayla: Kyana Teresa
Dribbit: Allan Michael Brunet -
LA Festival 1st Scene: DEADLINE TO DEATH, by Elliot Stanton (interview)
Author CJ Billings is under pressure from his publisher to finish a novel. He has an idea that a few days away in the setting of the finale will give him the inspiration he so desperately needs.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
CJ: Allan Michael Brunet
Jane: Val ColeGet to know the wr...
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LA Festival 1st Scene: Premium Economy, by Michael Harris
Falling Down meets Dude, Where's My Car? Over 24 hours, a recently divorced accountant loses his job, his Jeep and accidentally traffics Heroin. His only escape? Become a beige pants badass aka a Dad Ass.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Eugene: Allan Michael Brunet
Cori: Val Cole -
LA Festival 1st Scene: THE GOLDEN, by Luke LoCurcio
One year after the tragic death of their young daughter, an estranged husband and wife must come together again to survive in the face of mysterious global menace.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Grace: Kyana Teresa
Jack/John: Geoff Mays -
ENVIRONMENTAL Festival 1st Scene: HEAVEN AWAITS, by Paul Teese
A bereaved philosophy professor starts a new religion to save the planet from ecological destruction only to discover that what he really wants is his wife back.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Andrew: Allan Michael Brunet
Marty: Sean Ballantyne
Receptionist: Val Cole -
HORROR Festival 1st Scene: VIRULENCE, by Christopher Pennington
A group of scientists on an Antarctic research base fight for their lives as a visitor brings a deadly virus with him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Lewis: Allan Michael Brunet
Crewman: Geoff Mays
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene: CALL OF THE VOID, by Ben Monaco
At the Navy SEAL training academy, the disappearance of recruits sparks the discovery of something strange and supernatural happening in the SoCal desert just off-base.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Dawson: Allan Michael Brunet
Ashley: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene: JUSTINE'S QUEST, by Bernard Buzzell
An emotionally scarred fallen ascended who yearns for redemption travels with a group of demon hunters, while an ancient evil stalks her and her companions.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Metatron: Steve Rizzo
Ariel: Kyana Teresa
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: Love & Other Bloody Messes, by Brian McGrath
Zombies are on the attack! The fate of humankind is on the line. Can two high school loaners team up to save the planet? Will anyone come to their aid? Yes, and you'll never believe who!
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Dylan: Geoff Mays
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TV Festival 1st Scene: AR2, by Bree Wyrd
When a sociopathic billionaire sells a vaccine to the U.S. military that makes humans bulletproof, he loses everything and is forced to join a revolutionary group to defeat the fascist government his vaccine has empowered.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Male Voice: Geoff Mays
FBI Agent... -
TV Festival 1st Scene: I'M SO DONE, by Chuck Alley, Rachael Berman
When Pastry Chef, Rachael Berman bootstraps her bakery business, she relies on quick wit and biting humor to motivate eccentric employees, manage her quirky family and survive in Silicon Valley.
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Narrator: Allan...
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene: NO RULES, Ashley Gianni (interview)
In 1992 New Jersey, at the boom of drag culture and amidst the raging AIDS epidemic, drag queen Visa Declined and best friend Angela Caruso find themselves at a standstill in their creative endeavors while desperately trying to build a community to call their own. Their dream of one day owning th...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: KILL YOUR DARLINGS, by Neil McNeil (interview)
When a group of queer friends in East LA try to turn their struggling weekly party into the hottest spot in town, they seek out unconventional methods to bring success.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Kori: Val Cole
Tony: Allan Michael Brunet
Beth: Kyana TeresaGet to know the screenwrite...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: LORDS OF HOGTOWN, by Pat A. Brown
On his 37th birthday, a licentious gay reprobate discovers he has a 21-year-old son from a high school fling he doesn’t even remember. Now a promise made to a dying woman force the pair together to find each other.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Wager: Allan Michael Brunet
Pyotr: Shawn Dev... -
LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD ON THE SADDLE, by Olivia Marguerite Fouser
Robin Hood of the Wild West Ray Robinson makes trouble for herself wherever she goes, defending women and conning men. Now four of these men want revenge, and if she’s to survive she’ll have to confront her past, outrun her present, and race to reach the love of her life before it’s too late.
CA...
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: BILLIE THE KID, by Tom Michael Jennings
The day before she is to be sent to boarding school, a rebellious teenager named Billie steals a million-dollar horse from her father and rides off into the New Mexico desert to find the grave of her namesake, Billy the Kid. Along the way, she learns the truth about her past and how she and her f...
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DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: MOONSCOPE, by David Fein
Allen is an astronaut living on the moon, his only friend is Meg, an A.I. voice who only has a physical body inside his head. He is looking for habitable planets when one day the Earth disappears, making him the last human known to be alive. When Meg helps Allen hack into his deeper consciousness...
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene: FRANKENSTEIN IN THE LAND OF OZ, by Mike Mann
20 years later, Scarecrow calls Dorothy back to Oz to save it from tyranny!
In order to return she must enlist the help of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, his Bride, and his Creation.
The first Science Fiction story meets America’s first Fairytale in an action-adventure fantasy for the books.CAST LIST...