1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ENVIRONMENTAL Festival TV 1st Scene: ENDURE, by Dan Fabrizio

    65 years from now, humanity is at the edge of extinction.
    Countless countries have crumbled under the weight of a rapidly collapsing global economy. Many of the largest cities of our time have been wiped out by great wildfires or swallowed by rising seas. An unending heat stroke chokes all living...

  • SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene: THE MOONSTRUCK, by Tanya Wheelock, Will Phillips

    A military power couple suddenly finds themselves at the center of a lunar phenomenon turning ordinary people into zombies and must work together to save the world, their daughter, and their marriage.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: ...

  • ANIMATION Festival 1st Scene: GOING COMMANDO, by Adam Hopwood

    After the loss of his wife, 1980's military hero Commando Dan moves to the suburbs to live with his daughter and her family.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Commando Dan: Shawn Devlin
    Maskface/All: Allan Michael Brunet
    Gunshow/All: Steve Rizzo
    Bombshell/All: Kyana Teresa

  • 1st Scene Script: THE EVIL THAT MEN DO, by Jeffrey van Davis (writer interview)

    When a police detective, hunting a serial killer, gets too close, the killer murders his wife and two children, sending him into a downward spiral of alcohol, suicide, and a near-death experience where God tells him to become a priest. Years later the serial killer reappears - in his confessional...

  • TV Festival 1st Scene: SHADOWS, by Michael Angel Johnson (interview)

    SHADOWS begins with Reverend Josie Strickland (late 40s, African-American) entering her office at St. Thomas Church and finding her mother, Violet Audrey, (60), standing over a dead body and holding the bloody murder weapon. Through a series of flashbacks, it’s revealed that Diana (21) , the gran...

  • WILDsound 1st Scene: The Hollywood'll Eat, by Jeffrey Riley Kazanjian

    A dark coming of age satire about a young boy trying to break into Hollywood.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Old Man/Gepetto: Allan Michael Brunet
    Pinnochio: Shawn Devlin

  • WILDsound 1st Scene: CLEANSING ACTS, by Carlos Perez (writer interview)

    A young man contemplating suicide calls a prostitute to keep him company before he commits the act.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    William: Allan Michael Brunet
    Maxine: Kyana Teresa

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    Cleansing Acts is about a young man who ...

  • LA Festival 1st Scene: BLOCKHEAD, by Garrett Nicholson

    When a mid-30’s concrete truck driver injures himself at work, he partners up with some friends to pursue his passion as a magician in order to separate himself from the constraints of his father’s business.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Roy/Lou: Allan Michael Brunet
    Jill/Lucky: Kyana Ter...

  • HORROR Festival 1st Scene: THE FOURTH, by Gabriel Gervais (interview)

    While undergoing fertility treatments, a budding psychotherapist becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving kidnapped women, cryptic symbols, and shocking revelations about her troubled past.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehma
    Boy: Shawn Devlin
    Angie: Kyana Teresa

    Get to know the screenwr...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Festival 1st Scene: QUASH, by John McCarney

    Inspired by true events... A homeless Vietnam Vet loses custody of his children and to get them back is forced to take a job with a diverse group of community workers in the middle of a gang war.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    John: Allan Michael Brunet
    Mo: Kyana Teresa

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: THE PAINTED MUSE, by Farah Merani

    A brilliant art restorer is commissioned by a big fancy British museum to track down and restore a series of rare miniature masterpieces scattered around

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Curator: Val Cole
    Samara: Kyana Teresa
    Dusty : Allan Michael Brunet

  • FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: ALL THAT YOU LOVE, by Ken Gire

    A teenager's idyllic life on a German farm is shattered during World War II by a ruthless Soviet invasion that separates her from her family, putting

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Mildred: Val Cole

  • THRILLER Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: ZOOM HIT, by Laura Puccia Valtorta

    When idealistic attorney Silvia Moretti watches her obnoxious doctor/lover get assassinated during a Zoom meeting, she travels to California with her housemate, Wyshonda, to find the killer.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Cedric: Shawn Devlin
    Silvia: ...

  • DRAMA Festival 1st Scene: AGAIN, by Melissa L. White (screenwriter interview)

    AGAIN tells the story of three strong women whose lives intertwine in three parallel stories about r eincarnation, life-altering love, and the re-connecting of souls throughout history: from Duchess Bianca Maria Visconti in 15th Century Milan; to author Jean Rhys in Devon, England in 1966; to cur...

  • COMEDY Fest 1st Scene: YOU MUST BE THIS TALL, by Randall R. Reese (interview)

    Workers of a run down amusement park rush to save the park before an evil developer buys the land.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Colette: Hannah Ehman
    Ryan/Kristopher: Geoff Mays
    Julia : Kyana Teresa

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    The series is about...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene: SHELTER, by Janna Jones (interview)

    A smart, but indecisive movie theater owner is about to lose her husband, movie theater and her family's legacy, but when two forces of nature sweep into her life--a violent tropical storm and a gorgeous and compassionate man--she finally jumps into action to get what she wants.

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  • LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY, by Kate Harbert

    With the help of her best friends, a strongly-spirited girl must do whatever it takes to keep her family on the right track no matter how desperate the antics become.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Reese/Jim: Geoff Mays
    Sierra: Kyana Teresa
    Finn: Hannah Ehman
    Victor: Sean Ballantyne

  • LA LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene: THE BLESSED, by Sarah Grodsky (interview)

    When a young, queer nun confined to a life of labor, starvation, and flagellation reaches her threshold, she draws attention and takes control by performing possessions and miracles, electing herself a holy conduit of God's word.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Carlotta: Val Cole
    Benedetta: ...

  • THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: Infinite Man, by Greg Robbins

    The consequences of a society that no longer ages and a journey to revive death.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Harlan: Sean Ballantyne
    Madalyn: Hannah Ehman

  • THRILLER Festival 1st Scene: BLOOD MONEY, by Dominic Flanagan

    Howard Swan, a doctor with a severe drinking problem, loses his medical license, his wife, his house, and is on the verge of losing his daughter as well. In a desperate act, he enlists the help of Caspar, his drug dealer brother, to make some easy money. After a deal goes wrong, Howard uses his m...

  • SHORT Screenplay 1st Scene: The Debt He Never Promised, by Daniel Foster

    When a lone rancher learns of his impending death, then he must find homes for his six beloved Labradors before he pays the debt he never promised

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Eugene: Geoff Mays
    Everitt: Steve Rizzo
    Ammon: Sean Ballantyne
    Alex: Andy Camp

    Writer Statement
    As soon as I retire...