1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dancing In Place, by Jeanne Dukes

    Escalating mutual interest between middle-aged neighbors gets complicated when he suddenly remembers their brief and awkward teen summer romance, but she doesn't recognize him. As he devises a plan to stir her memory, painful secrets from the past threaten to keep them apart.

    CAST LIST:

    Narr...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Goodbye Port Hope, by Sophia Lee

    Synopsis: In the small town of Port Hope, Alice Forester goes missing. With little help or success from the police, it is up to her friends Nico and Lily to find out where she went and what happened to her.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Lily: Hannah Ehman
    Nico: Shawn Devlin
    Principal: Kyana ...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: The Calling, by Steven Bogart

    Summary:
    John, a hospital director, raises his socially awkward daughter, Frankie by himself.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Frankie: Hannah Ehman
    Ali/Sophie: Kyana Teresa
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  • 1st Scene Reading: Losing The Plot, by Nicola Morris, Rupert Bogarde

    An absurd comedy set in a run-down New Forest estate agents where the living are swindled and the dead given houses to haunt.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Richard: Andy Camp
    Jay: Shawn Devlin
    Dregs: Geoff Mays
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  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Death's Hidden Love, by Ernestina Juarez

    A cynical teenage girl views her father's struggle with depression as a sign of weakness but her attitude toward him changes when an ancestor seeking a lost love saves them both from the wrath of an assassin in a drug cartel.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Peter: Sean Ballantyne
    Rudy: Sha...

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Magnetman, by Christian Riedel

    A young private investigator has an accident that causes him to develop magnetic powers. He tries to use them for good, but there is one person on earth who knows about his powers and tries to stop him.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Benjamin: Sean Ballantyne
    Watson (Parrot): Ha...

  • ENVIROMENTAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Surge, by David Cooper

    John O’Neal wants to change the world to honor his dead mother and to spite his abusive father—while getting very, very rich. Following a worldwide Global Warming catastrophe, he loses his invention to a deep conspiracy and becomes an eco-terrorist—until he uncovers the truth.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrat...

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: El Alacran, by Julie Miller

    After being stung by a scorpion during a holiday in Mexico, Lexie uses newfound superpowers to wreak revenge on men who have crossed her, ridding her world of toxic waste ... one asshole at a time...

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
    Lexie: Hannah Ehman
    Cassidy: Kyana Teresa
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  • DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Border Flesh, by Pepe García Gilling

    After losing his brother and the only family he has left, 14-year-old Connor encounters Fernanda and her 13-year-old daughter, Bárbara. Both women are Mexican and don't speak a word of English. Connor, Fernanda and Bárbara must communicate as best they can to survive zombie apocalypse at the Méxi...

  • 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: The Hawthorne, by Adam Pike

    After the sudden and mysterious death of his mother, Jacob is forced to live with his estranged Grandma and her weird troupe of friends at 'The Hawthorns', a very super retirement home.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Greece/Richard: Sean Ballantyne
    Wendy: Hannah Ehman
    Mary: Julie...

  • TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Brutal Journey, by Tom Freyer

    In 1528 Spain, the King’s timid treasurer is forced to accompany a sadistic lunatic and 500 conquistadors on the first cross-country exploration of North America.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Ayllson: Sean Ballantyne
    Castillo: Shawn Devlin
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Soroban Impact, by Gregory Ranky

    In a world like ours, where conscious robots are commonplace, a courageous female android enters a futuristic martial arts tournament to save her old neighborhood from developers.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Bill Poulin
    Advertiser/Liz-217: Kyana Teresa
    Meathead Kerel/Umar: Geoff Mays
    Terrapin S.I....

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Labyrinth Of Destiny, by Ernestina Juarez

    During the Mexican-American War, Lieutenant Ulysses Grant falls in love with a Mexican woman who helps American slaves escape bondage. The war separates them, but they meet again when the woman is sent to the United States to seek an alliance to prevent France from conquering Mexico and becoming ...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Rails Run Parallel, by Orso Vesperini, Guy Laudereau , Aurèle N’Dja, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic

    1943. Four prisoners escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and undertake a grueling trip to France via Germany in an empty wine barrel wagon, while being chased by a Nazi Sherlock Holmes.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Kyana Teresa
    Georges: Allan Michael Brunet
    Louis: Bill Poulin
    Henri: Geoff...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: THE WIND KILL FACTOR, by Sandra M. Matheson

    Sci-Fi Thriller Feature

    Concept:
    A top scientist is forced to work with her planet polluting ex-husband to save the earth from climate disaster and an ancient icy entity.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Deondra: Kyana Teresa
    Richard: Allan Michael Brunet
    Passenger/Kal: Geo...

  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Sarah Startup, by Gregg Greenberg, Christopher Kublan

    Sarah won't get married until she takes a company public. Her grandmother has another idea.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Hannah Ehman
    Announcer: Geoff Mays
    Man's Voice - Andy Camp
    Woman's Voice - Allison Kampf
    Sarah: - Kyana Teresa
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: HAUNTED HEART, by Mike Bencivenga

    LOGLINE: HAUNTED HEART is a romantic comedy about a struggling ghost-writer for motivational speakers who is haunted (emotionally, then literally) by a lost love, spurring her to find the closure and optimism to move on so that her ghost lover can do the same.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Elizabeth R...

  • FAN FICTION 1st Scene Script Reading: “KILLING EVE: SHE’S DEAD”, by Natalie Lomske

    Logline: After stabbing Villanelle and running away, Eve struggles to accept that she’s dead, especially when four lookalikes of her wind up similarly stabbed.

    CAST LIST:

    \Narration: Hannah Ehman
    VIllanelle: Kyana Teresa

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Greatest Generation, by Jeremy Soto

    A group of Latino hipsters must save missing children from their town's retirement home wizard death cult.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    The Masked Man: Geoff Mays
    Patrick: Allan Michael Brunet
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  • 1st Scene Script Reading: Jubilee Nation, by Henry Myers

    "Jubilee Nation" is an alternative history political erotic thriller set in a utopian 1960’s fictional black nation, where the Civil War resulted in a different outcome, and the South is ceded to the slaves forming a separate black nation after the war. The story focuses on a tormented black jour...

  • LA Festival TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading: NON-OFFICIAL COVER, by Jodi Shelton and Hudson Shelton

    This is a modern, historic fiction 8-part series. When a former CIA operative who has worked under Non-Official Cover in political hotspots from the Soviet Union to Pakistan to Sudan is discovered to have been on Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, her grieving husba...

  • ACTION Festival 1st Scene Reading: Advent, by Mark Allen

    A reclusive Black ex-Special Forces operator turned novelist comes out of retirement to track down a radical neo-nazi splinter group and rescue their hostage -- his daughter, whom he has not seen in 14 years.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Dolan: Sean Ballantyne 7
    Bob: Shawn Devlin
    Ron: A...

  • BLACK & WHITE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mr Buchman Goes To Washington, by Bill Baber

    An intense courtroom docudrama that recreates the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing when Sidney Buchman, the Communist who wrote "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", was blacklisted. This is the day that Mr. Buchman, like Mr. Smith, learned that patriotism requires sacrifice.

    CAST L...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mad Hadley, by Jodi Lustig

    After a clash with a client goes viral, a lawyer infamous for defending despicable men volunteers at a women's legal aid clinic run by her uber-feminist mother, hoping to turn over a new leaf without tearing down the whole family tree.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Mad: Hannah Ehman
    Kailey:...