1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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COMEDY Fest 1st Scene Read: Wordlotto, by Thomas A. Lopilato (with interview)
Comedic view of America's Cultural and Political quagmire. First installment in a series of ten episodes. Three total seasons.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Delores: Hannah Ehman
Frank: Geoff MaysGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
‘Alternative Facts’ are over...
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1st Scene Reading, Underwater Hazards, by Pamela PerryGoulardt
While searching for a great story, a young journalism student swims into the lair of a cannibal Merman Wizard deformed from water pollution.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Polly: Kyana Teresa
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1st Scene Reading, We Are All Dead, by Arthur Tiersky
When a robbery goes wrong and the getaway driver is killed, the gang's two leaders become romantic rivals when the driver's widow shows up to collect her share.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Voice/McBride: Shawn Devlin
Johnny: Steve Rizzo -
LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: Out In The West, by Claire V. Riley
The first lesbian western TV series about a sharpshooting gender outlaw who poses as a man so she and her shrewd southern belle lover can escape a vindictive brother and a brutal husband returning from the Civil War and create a new life as a married couple out in the west.
CAST LIST:
Narrator...
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POLITICAL Festival 1st Scene Script Read: The Olive Branch, by Danny Boushebel
When their sightseeing is cut short at a Syrian Army checkpoint in Lebanon, a new couple is forced to learn more about each other as well as themselves in order to find the strength to escape a life-threatening situation.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Danny: Steve Rizzo
Emma: Val Cole ... -
1st Scene Script Reading: Omissions, by Jessica Marie Sadler (with interview)
A couple, whose marriage teeters on the brink due to infidelity, split during a visit to Baltimore for Thanksgiving. Separated, they go through harrowing experiences that leave them bruised and battered and teaches them the unconventional secret to relationship longevity. Omissions is a dark dram...
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TRAMPS LIKE US TV Pilot Script Reading
The diverse crew of the tramp steamer Stella Maris sails into fantastic danger in the South Seas in this horror adventure set in the 1930s.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Seaman Casey: Shawn Devlin
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VIKE TV Pilot screenplay reading, by Adam Kelly Morton
Where fantasy meets procedural mystery, a cantankerous Chief Constable must solve crimes AND judge them in a dark and dangerous metropolis. Vike struggles with his own addictions and fears while up against the Arklanen: an underground guild of dark magic, responsible for the death of Vike's wife....
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: DEEP AS HELL, by Laddie
Twelve strangers trapped in a subway car during a blackout fight for their lives when a man-eating creature emerges from the darkness and attacks.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
James: Steve Rizzo
Mother: Val Cole
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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Quantum Entanglement, by KC Kramer
After being led to an ancient artifact that bears her signature as well as a mysterious name drawn inside a heart, Clea Smith finally gets to realize her childhood dream of becoming a time traveler when she crosses paths with agents of a time travel law enforcement agency from the future and join...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: MTL Baths, by Cliff Zimowski
A Homophobic, unemployed woman inherits a failing gay bath house in Montreal's Gay Village and tries to make it a success.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Paquet/Uncle Lou: Andy Camp
Marco/Cedric: Steve Rizzo
Benoit/Felix: Allan Michael Brunet
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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Hoodz, by Christina Brandon-Gómez
Two years after a deadly virus wipes out the adult population of the Earth, the remaining youth fight each other and the airborne assassin as they struggle to survive in a lawless world. Can secretive loner Ravyn and a hodgepodge group of teens overcome mistrust of each other to uncover the bigge...
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Board Games, by Madeline Hombert, Michael Markus
With the dark dysfunctional-family tone of Hitchcock's "Psycho" and the intensity of Freddie's“Elm Street” adventures,
BOARDGAMES is a character-driven thriller.
A SMALL CITY DESCENDS INTO CHAOS AS A SERIAL KILLER SLASHES HIS WAY THROUGH THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Shepp...
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POLITICAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: Night, by Tom Thorpe
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of two teenagers from a fire watch tower, discovers a mutilated body, an incinerated car with human remains and reports of a UFO hurtling towards the San Francisco peaks.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Richard Lee: Steve Rizzo
John Tharp: Allan Michae... -
1st Scene Festival Script Reading: The Darwin Protocol, by Shane McCabe
When a covert genetics project goes horribly wrong and two pathological serial killers are let loose on the streets of Dublin and Munich, a tough CIA Agent seems to be the only one capable of stopping their carnage. The only problem is he cannot do this without implicating himself in a massive co...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: Hel, the last saga, by Orso Vesperini, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic, Toby Osborne
A shipwrecked Viking awakens on a strange island, prowled by terrifying beasts and a Forgotten God, and has to escape before he is doomed to spend eternity there.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Erika: Val Cole
PETRONILLA: Allison Kampf
ALVAR: Steve Rizzo
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LA Festival 1st Scene Reading: Alex Goes To Paris, by Braeden Ayub
A young boy escapes his group home and travels to Paris in search of his biological parents
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Alex: Steve Rizzo
Stubbs: Allan Michael Brunet
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: At The Flash, by Sean Chandler, David Leeper
At The Flash tells the story of a fictitious gay bar over six different decades from the 1960's to current day. We begin in 1965 with Richard, a husband and father, struggling with his true identity and reaching a critical personal crossroads. The new gay freedoms of the 1970’s are represented in...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: I'm A Bad Person, by Chance Fuerstinger, Brandon Freeman
After an engagement announcement, the best man of the groom-to-be tries to express his love for him, but he cannot bring himself to do it. In an attempt to forget about it, he and the other groomsman drink themselves into oblivion, and the rest of the night goes awry.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val ...
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SPORTS Festival 1st Scene Reading: Shame Monster, by Todd Bird
As the NFL draft approaches, a questionable decision leaves top college prospect CJ Wallace with the choice of keeping his sexuality secret or coming out and risking his entire future with his family, friends, and the NFL.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
CJ: Allan Michael Brunet
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1st Scene FEMALE Film Festival Script Reading: Burn Pattern, by Laura M. Kemp
When past trauma jeopardizes the life of a Seattle firefighter, she returns to her home town to find her quest for healing entangled with her pursuit of a local arsonist.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard -
Maya: Val Cole
Cole: Steve Rizzo
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TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: Outlier, by Jeremy Davis
An indentured freighter pilot fights for his freedom, but when a nation led by religious zealots tries to leverage his dark past to take over his outlier colony, our hero must lead an unlikely crew to reclaim his colony's independence, as well as his own.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: Unfortunate People, by Diego Scerrati
Two seemingly different men meet by chance one rainy night. Will their connection last longer than a night, or will their differences take them apart?
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Oliver: Steve Rizzo
Lukas: Allan Michael Brunet
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Reading: Chameleon, by Pat Brown
Near the end of Prohibition, after seeing his lover savagely beaten to death by his commanding officer, a gay cop must protect his new lover from his own self-loathing and the deadly contempt of his fellow officers.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Temple: Steve Rizzo
Ben: Allan Michael ...