1ST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
Winning screenplays. First scenes readings from features, and television specs.
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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...
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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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Narrator: ...
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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...
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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...
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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 TeresaGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Cleansing Acts is about a young man who ...
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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 TeresaGet to know the screenwr...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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 TeresaGet to know the screenwriter:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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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
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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
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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...
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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 CampWriter Statement
As soon as I retire...