BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • 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

    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.

    https://www.instagram.com/jason_e_seelmann/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Dr. Bishop: Shawn Devlin
    Grace: Hannah Ehman

  • 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...

  • 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
    Terry: Shawn Devlin

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: KAM60 The Butterfly Prince, by Maria Pearce

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • ENVIROMENTAL Festival Best Scene: Co(r)pse, by Alan & James Bradshaw

    A re-imagining of Frankenstein with an AI-enhanced tree

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Phil: Shawn Devlin
    Monica: Hannah Ehman

  • GENRE Festival 1st Scene Reading: VOODOO VALENTINOS, by Michael Louis Gould

    ‘bigger the fools, bigger the stars’

    A night-long, road comedy set in seventies, north-west England.

    The paths of two girlfriendless, working class, teenage misfits are dramatically and hilariously altered by a 'voodoo cabbie' who collects them en route to a middle class, village party to which...

  • LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: LOST & FOUND, by Nathan Burt

    Summary: Martin's mother passes away after a two year battle with cancer and his long lost best friend Abe finally shows up after seven years. They have to catch up and fill each other in on what they have missed out on -only to realise that they might have missed out on being more than best frie...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV Best Scene: JESSIE, by Sallyann Fellowes

    Jessie follows the haunting of a ghost girl who visits her great great niece and starts cause chaos in their lives.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Anna: Hannah Ehman
    Susie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: The Healing, by Tala Motazedi

    A queer Iranian woman in Toronto becomes haunted by a malevolent jinn, unleashed through her devout mother’s supernatural attempts to 'heal' her, forcing her to confront deep-seated familial trauma and an ancient force threatening to consume her identity and life.

    https://www.instagram.com/TALAM...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: Pocketful of Mondays, by Lindsey Morrison Grant

    A highly sensitive, two-spirit person living above their adopted parent's appliance store has their life turned upside down when they learn their two "stillborn" babies may still be alive (now teens) and that their recurring childhood nightmare of the alien abduction of their birth parents may ha...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: HARVARD V DREYFUS, by Connor Harrington-Brandt

    When Harry Dreyfus, the popular owner of a café in Boston, becomes involved with a Harvard student, he can’t imagine that a year later the President of Harvard will summon him to an interrogation threatening his business, his friends faced with expulsion, after his lover is found dead.
    Inspired b...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: BAUBLE, by Scot G Kleinman

    A criminal gang of Drag Queens gets more than they bargained for in the pursuit of stolen royal jewels.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Lips: Shawn Devlin
    Ruthless Ruth: Hannah Ehman

  • LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: CAN I KEEP YOU?, by Xavion Niles

    Summary: Teo is a straight man who has a hard time settling down, on the other end, Zan is a gay man who doesn't know how to casually date. The two of them end up helping each other out with their dating issues, until it's quite clear that they are in love with each other.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator:...

  • Best Scene: Shesafella: The Fancy Tales, by Felice Cohen

    Summary: Fella, a softball player, is bullied at home by her stepmother and stepbrothers, who treat her like Cinderella. She cooks, she cleans, and she caters to all their needs. However, when the family gets invited to the Mayor's daughter's birthday ball, she is excluded until her fairy godmoth...

  • BEST Scene Reading: THE TREE WITH NO HEART, by Aaron Huckleberry

    In war-torn Syria, a troubled woman, her idealistic son, and her mentally challenged cousin take in a wounded Western aid worker, unknowingly igniting a chain of deadly consequences that forces them to confront their pasts, their beliefs, and the brutal realities of survival.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrat...

  • BEST Scene Reading: MY MOTHER'S WRATH, by María Elena González

    MAGGIE KAWAR, an art gallery owner in her fifties, struggles with the emotional scars left by her abusive mother, RUBY. She juggles being a grandmother to her six-year-old grandson, FREDDY, and her tumultuous relationship with her self-absorbed daughter, ELIZABETH, who works as her assistant. The...

  • BEST Scene Reading: TICKET TO KYIV, by Hannah Miyamoto

    A carefree young American woman gains a new appreciation for life when she is caught up in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    https://www.instagram.com/hannah_pacificostudios/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Kalyna: Hannah Ehman
    Rachel: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stepan: Shawn Devlin

  • BEST Scene Reading: DEAR MR HUTTON, by Jennifer Marsh

    Inspired by the music of Three Dog Night, a young girl enjoys childhood in 1970s Ohio and develops a desire to travel abroad, if she can convince her parents to let her go.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Ruth: Hannah Ehman
    Andrea: Val Cole

  • BEST Scene Reading: LOULOUTHKIA, by Andry Platrites

    In her later years, Aria finds herself plagued by traumatic memories from her past. But when her daughter reveals her ex-husband will reveal the truth, Aria fears what will happen. Things are made worse still when she catches sight of her ex-partner Emily. But determined to rise above it, she emb...

  • BEST Scene Reading: SALLIE, by Chase Yancey

    When the paths of the 11th Pennsylvania Civil War regiment and an American Staffordshire Terrier pup intertwine, the men of the 11th's lives are changed in ways they never could've predicted.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    R. Coulter: Shawn Devlin
    Captain Terry: Geoff May

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Dwarf's Tale, by Tony Barone (interview)

    Set in 1890, the Greens (the leftist) vs Reds (Right Wing Faction) fighting for control of the government. Lucretia, daugher of a Red falls inlove with Mariano a stage actor who also happens to be a green. Her father forbids her to see him, and orders him to be killed while she is sent to a conv...