1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: HIGH GROUND, by AG Conlyn

    Gloria is uncomfortable on her own skin and needs to learn how to love herself. She endured many challenges to love her body and even embraces a pregnancy that she didn't consent to.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Nancy: Val Cole
    Gloria: Elizabeth Rose Morris

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: CYCLIC, by Fenton E. Queens

    Celia is out to break general curses when she learns that her grandmother, her mother and herself were all victims of sexual abuse. With her 5 year old niece the main focus, she sets out a path to continue speaking out about this to avoid it happening to her.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    ...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: PUEBLO, by Eric A. Vasallo

    Three individuals go on a self-seeking journey to find out a way to get to a better version of themselves, seeking out a powerful Shaman who plays tricks on them mentally.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Wallace: Geoff Mays
    Odys: Elizabeth Rose Morris

  • SCI-FI Best Scene: THE PIT, by Duncan B. Putney, Greg Chopoorian (interview)

    When disgraced TV journalist Matthew Coleman is sent to South America for a "where-are-they-now" piece on thirty-three miners rescued from a cave-in a decade ago, he expects an easy fluff assignment. But what begins as a redemption story turns into a chilling investigation, as Matt uncovers a dar...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: GUARDIAN AHOLE, by David Case

    A bad angel is given a second chance to help the woman he let down at her high school prom. Now a brilliant OCD wreck of a lawyer, she needs the angel’s help more than ever. But being bad is the only thing he appears to be good at…

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Charlie: Geoff Mays

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE 1st Scene: The Clearing Eliza, by Michael L Dennis

    In post-Civil War America, a tormented young woman marked by ancestral abuse becomes the unwilling vessel for a curse born of ancient blood—but as the darkness awakens within her, so too does a scream powerful enough to end it.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Whispers/Teen Girl: Val Cole
    El...

  • THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: THE GARBAGE PATCH, by Jonathan Fear

    A grieving oceanographer and his fearless research partner discover a rogue North Korean general has built a hidden nuclear missile base beneath the Pacific’s Great Garbage Patch and must outwit his deadly forces and sabotage the launch before millions die in an undetectable first strike.

    CAST L...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: SOME KIND OF ROT, by Connor Jr Brown (interview)

    When a young, broke librarian buys an abandoned house on the outskirts of a British Columbian town, he starts to uncover the house's secrets as unexplained incidents occur.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Anna: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Eric: Shawn Devlin

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: VAMPIRA AND TIMBO, by A.L. Jobrail

    A lone prepubescent soon-to-be werewolf falls in love with a vampire. His family disapproves, but it's too late to stop them.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Vampira: Val Cole
    Timbo: Shawn Devlin

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: THEY BRING HELL, by Bernard Schaffer

    Two Federal Agents investigate cases of the paranormal, usually ending with them splattered with goo, but a darker evil awaits.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Pike: Geoff Mays
    Farley: Val Cole
    Officer Santos: Shawn Devlin

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD RED, by Roberto Roy Nylund (interview)

    Summary: Researching transfusion therapy on different blood groups, something goes completely wrong when the test subjects start mutating and transforming into Zombie like creatures.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Marv: Geoff Mays
    Ruby: Val Cole

    Get to know the writer:

    What is your scr...

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE 1st Scene Script Reading: PLUS ONE, by Edward V. Lacina

    Haunted from the chilling events. Someone finally has to pay the price of shattered consequences. A life for a life... Plus One.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Rosie: Val Cole
    Jolene: Elizabeth Rose Morris

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE 1st Scene Reading: BAD SOULS, by Jordan Galland

    An undercover officer for a secret agency that monitors reincarnated souls develops feelings for a woman he's spying on, who may or may not be the reincarnation of a bad soul.

    CAST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Ari: Shawn Devlin

  • 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:...

  • HORROR Festval 1st Scene Reading: LITTLE STEPS, by Jennifer LeBeau (interview)

    Kathy, a failed writer, barely gets by selling "haunted" dolls online to gullible marks, writing elaborate backstories to up the selling price. Her quiet life is upended when she encounters the real deal: Clara Jane, a vintage doll possessed by a foul-mouthed spirit. Clara Jane makes Kathy questi...

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI 1st Scene: THE EARTHLIEN, by Muli Glasberg

    In a venture into an uncharted human civilization on Earth that evolved without sunlight, a checkered doctor must bridge - with a resilient local leader - science and ancient tradition to find a cure to a deadly disease, navigating together hostile landscapes, corporate grid, personal demons.

    CA...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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
    Orinday: Steve Rizzo...

  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: THE ART OF THE MATTER, by Janna Jones (interview)

    Two strangers meet and sparks fly, but when he accidentally discovers forged paintings at her house, he leaves abruptly. That would be the end of their story except for the fact that he's reported her to the FBI, and their children are marrying one another on Christmas day.

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  • 1st Scene Reading: Take Care, by Olivier Ross-Parent (interview)

    Something has happenned in Mady's life. As an immigrant woman in America, she has achieved the American dream; A successful career as a doctor of psychology, a lavish home, nice car, and, most importantly a husband and two wonderful children, yet something is missing. Not knowing what it is, she ...

  • 1st Scene Reading: Angry Horses, by Jack Rice

    The End of Days has arrived and the people of the world have formed a series of coalitions in order to achieve a false sense of economic prosperity and economic security. Along with this new world order, all thoughts of God are openly ridiculed and, when necessary suppressed. The creatures of thi...

  • 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
    Brandon: Steve Rizzo