BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene: WAKING UP TO CHRISTMAS, by Susan Arscott
She thought she had it all—until she woke up in someone else’s
perfect life.
Logline: When high-powered executive Claire Beckett dozes off in
an airport lounge, she wakes to a life she never lived—complete
with a Christmas tree farm, a cozy cabin, and a quiet artist who
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CHICAGO Festival Best Scene: Sharp for Life, by Candee Kramer (interview)
Sarah Smythe believes she only needs to follow the cards supplied by her company to make her first knife sale until she finds the perfect customer but they’re too sharp!
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Mr. Jones: Geoff Mays
McCready: Val ColeGet to know the writer:
1. What is ...
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CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Best Scene: DIRE STREETS by Alessandro Inca (interview)
LOGLINE: In the 1940s, prisoners — including infamous mob boss Joe Blunda — were released to defend America from Nazi spy attacks. What happened to them remains a chilling mystery: none were ever seen alive again.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Steve: Shawn Devlin
Hoover: Geoff M... -
ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: THE ANSWER GIRL, by Stephanie Scott
When a brilliant but shy young woman goes
on a quiz show to finance her niece’s ballet career, she falls in love with her eventual competition—a contestant with the longest winning streak in history whose sole focus has been to win at any cost, including lying about who he really is.CAST LIST: ...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Best Scene: SACRED STEEL, by Ryan Cooke
Trexel Unit AJN-A 852 burst into existence, his spirit unblemished and at peace. But tranquility proves fleeting, as the insertion of his core processor shatters his serenity. Now, driven by a maddening quest to reclaim his lost bliss, AJN-A 852 forms an unholy alliance with a ruthless scientist....
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SCI-FI/FANTASY Best Scene Reading: Project Z, by Tori Mosser
A young, aspiring screenwriter looking for inspiration is swept into a chaotic, superpowered fight that reveals abilities she never knew she had
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Presley: Geoff Mays
Adina: Val Cole -
COMEDY Festival Best Scene: GENDER REVEAL, by Stephen Lemieux (interview)
Mitchell Parkins is a 34 year old young man with a baby on the way, and a gender reveal party imminently closing in. Unfortunately, he's cursed. Going back hundreds of years, any time a Parkins finds out the gender of their child is a boy before it's born, they die on their 35th birthday. Worse, ...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene: The Big Date, by Paul Huenemann (interview)
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Harry loves Sandy and has planned “the big date” to propose, but between his twin, her twin, the guys from the Bobcat rugby team, Roxie, Linda, and One Eye'd Jacks, the world seems against it. Comedy.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Harry: Geoff Mays
Sandy: Val ColeG...
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: Gang Agley, by Jeremy Hogan, Aaron Krygier
Mark Tyler gets out of prison after twelve years for a robbery gone awry. The loot is still out there. A corrupt cop, a local grifter, a femme fatale and the partner he left for dead all come marching out of his past to come for it.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Counselor: Geoff Mays
Mark... -
ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene Readng: ENTANGLED, by Larry Elmore (interview)
A writer tasked with writing a true event is taken by the CIA to cover their tracks. However, his smart mind out smarts them when his characters learn their role in his book and save him
CAST LIST:
.Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Amira Khan: Val Cole
Ryan Tyler: Geoff MaysGet to know the ...
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene Reading: TRIBE LINE, by Harvey Goodman
An oilfield construction crew of 4 young vets working near the U.S, Canadian border, stumble upon a Mexican cartel and Canadian mob smuggling ring who in turn discover they know too much. A taut, fast-paced thriller.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Bethany: Val Cole
Nick: Geoff May... -
ACTION/ADVENTURE Best Scene: Corporate America, by Travis Lee & Jack Davidson
Torn apart by election wars and crippled with insurmountable debt, The United States of 2028 makes the decision to sell itself to four super-corporations each carving out their own sovereign territory. No longer needed, a team of special forces members disperses into varying aspects of their new ...
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BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: DOORS OPEN, by Alicia Petralia (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Astrid: Val Cole
Norma: Elizabeth Rose MorrisGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A former Army lawyer, Gemma Lightwater battles troubled family and calculating investors to reopen her Missouri Ozarks ranch that pairs broken veterans...
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BEST Scene Script Reading: CLIMATE CHANGED, by Alan J. Field
"When an all-talk-but-no-action environmentalist is forced to work for a fossil fuel conglomerate and then learns his new girlfriend may be running a global warming cover-up of a cataclysmic environmental disaster, he rounds up misfit coworkers to expose the truth before it's too late."
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1st Scene Script Reading: Dorming "Picture of a Hot Girl", by Megan Esch
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Mina: Val Cole
Willow: Elizabeth Rose Morris
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1st Scene Script Reading: MISSING PERSONS, by Nathan Burt (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Martin: Geoff Mays
Abraham: Steve RizzoGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
My screenplay is about a teenager named Abraham and his best friend Martin who are both on the precipice of graduating high school. As Abraham gr...
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1st Scene Read What Happened When Spunky Met Egotesticle, by Marietta R. K. Wilk
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Eva: Val Cole
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: THE LAST NORTHERN WHITE RHINO, by Sam Holeman
Hunted by a lethal crime syndicate, a disgraced ex cop finds sanctuary as a wildlife ranger where his seasoned lethality becomes vital to protecting the last northern white rhino from the very predators that employed him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
James: Shawn Devlin
Willem: Geoff Mays -
HORROR Festival Best Scene: THE TRAIT, by Jason Seelman (interview)
A family dinner takes a sinister turn when the children are reminded of a generational ritual at the onset of the father’s terminal illness.
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Dr. Bishop: Shawn Devlin
Grace: Hannah EhmanGet to know the writer:
1. ...
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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: THE OLD MAN & THE DEAD, by Robert Benjamin
Thirty years after a world-wide zombie apocalypse in which man kind prevailed — life is nearly back to normal, aside from the occasional residual zombie roaming about. When Tara and her new fiancé Paul finally decide it’s time for him to meet Tara’s father, Paul has one major fear: that her shotg...
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene: Indoctrinate, by Shannon Clarke
Summary: Kimberli is a psychologist who starts changing the way she helps her patients by showing them how to handle their conflicts with aggression.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Kim: Hannah Ehman
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FEMALE Fest Best Scene: KAM60 The Butterfly Prince, by Maria Pearce (interview)
The butterfly prince is a story of a fictional character K.A.M.60 that attempt to honour the great French astronomer Charles Messier who developed the Messier catalogue and discovered many Messier objects in the sky in particular in the Virgo constellation. In the book K.A.M.60 real name is = Kar...
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ROMANCE Festival Best Scene:SIMON'S FAT, by Darryl Bubner
Summary: Simon has the worst luck ever, he just can't seem to find a relationship to work and struggles to make it work no matter who he tries dating. After getting himself in some questionable situations, he finds himself in Vietnam, looking for his lost love but when it finds him, it's bitter s...
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ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: THE FOUNTAIN OF TRUTH, by R.A. Lee
Sometimes Love Needs a Grand Gesture
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Cherish: Val Cole
Joseph: Steve Rizzo
George: Shawn Devlin