BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • 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...

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Fold, by Robert Cooke

    Using his tech capabilities, Matt puts a team together to help build a virtual reality world that is a mirror if the real world, however, lack of funding needs they need to find some way get the project off the ground. Matt decides to impress the Dean of Engineering by telling him about a special...

  • BEST Scene Reading: SPIDERSILK, by Akutra Ramses Atenosis Cea

    BUY Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Spidersilk-Akutra-Ramses-Atenosis-Cea/dp/1990695183

    With an imaginative technical view on the mechanics of time and space, Akutra weaves a schematic of logic that explores the fringes of reality in ways that are within the realm of the possibility and reality. Cre...

  • ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: Raven’s Choice, by Lor E Lynn

    James Stuart Donovan Hastings, Earl of Billingswood, has had one headache after another. First his home is in disrepair, his nephew is too young for his own good, his best friend thinks he's gone round the bend and now someone just tried to kill him. If it wasn't for the angel with strawberry blo...

  • DRAMA Festival Best Scene: HOUSTON, by Marcus Herzberg

    Civil rights attorney Charles Houston fights racist juries, corrupt officials, and hostile coworkers as he leads the battle to kill Jim Crow.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Young Charles: Shawn Devlin
    Thomas: Steve Rizzo

  • FEMALE Festival Best Sceen: ROCK BOTTOM, by Kevin Barney

    Summary: On the run from a job, Steph finds herself in danger and a target. She falls and lands under a Boulder which traps her for 2 days. While trying to survive as long as she can for help to arrive, she reaches an unpleasant realization.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Steph: Hannah Eh...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: MR. HOLLYWOOD, by Karen Powell-Riggs

    Summary: Molly wants to make it in Hollywood but cannot do so as a woman, she dresses up as a man and pretends to get a deal with an agent. This leads to ultimate success but still leaves her with one problem, she is a woman pretending to be a man.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    B...

  • ACTION Festival Best Scene: THE SHADOW KILLER, by Thad Alexander (interview)

    In the heart of Bangkok, Detective Aran Chen, a defiant inspector haunted by his past, pursues the elusive "Shadow Killer," a ruthless serial murderer. Armed with his sharp instincts and lethal martial arts skills, Aran battles through the city's underworld, uncovering a chilling link between the...

  • ACTION Festival Best Scene: THE ULTIMATE QUESTION, by Steven C. Shaffer

    When a young boy is found on a battlefield, it sets into motion a series of events that will have potentially catastrophic results unless that young boy - now a young man - can solve the puzzle that his mentor left him before he died.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Cyrten: Elizabeth Rose Mo...

  • Reading: JOSH'S EMPLOYMENT AGENCY OF BROOKLYN, by Nancy Lydia Kimmel (interview)

    In the dilapidated streets of Brooklyn, Josh runs a failing employment agency that’s haunted by three ghosts. Josh is reluctantly recruited by them to help solve a series of murders. Of Course, Death's AKA-Al curiosity is piqued and decides he's in too.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Mary: ...

  • New York Festival Scene: The Movie Bro versus The Tormenter, by Joshua G. Eton

    A young man named Joshua who develops a crush on a new but confused girl named Pam, must learn to become a true warrior in order to save her from the clutches of an evil and monstrous tormentor who she claims was once her insane and looked - upon father.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Mor...

  • New York Feedback Festival Best Scene: DREME, by Ashok Reddy

    Steven, a disillusioned neurologist, has quit his research position to practice as a clinician in the wake of his mother’s death several years earlier. He now grows alarmed when his wife, Diane, exhibits symptoms of, and is ultimately diagnosed with, a mysterious neurological condition called Sch...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: WHAT'S A ZAYDE?, by Andy Epstein (interview)

    Logline: A young woman struggles with maintaining her relationship with her grandfather as she prepares to go to college.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Becky: Val Cole
    Lucille: Hannah Ehman

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    It's about an elderly man's loving r...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: THE UNRAVELLING, by Susan Kelejian

    "The Unravelling" follows Beth Carter, a young American woman who inherits a lighthouse on the remote Irish island of Inishenbarr. As she settles into island life, Beth begins experiencing visions of the past, specifically of her ancestors Brigid and Llewellyn, star-crossed lovers whose story end...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: THE EIGHT DATES OF HANUKKAH, by Laurel Gans

    A top efficiency expert is forced to prove her new dating program works by going on all eight dates herself.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Natalie: Julie Sheppard
    Wallace: Shawn Devlin
    Sam: Steve Rizzo

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Best Scene:RACE WARS: A EUGENICS EXPERIMENT, by Eric Faulkner

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Caucasoid: Geoff Mays
    Negroid: Shawn Devlin

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Reading: NEANDERLAND, by Muli Glasberg

    In a venture into an uncharted human civilization on Earth that evolved without sunlight, a checkered doctor must bridge - with a resilient local leader - science and ancient tradition to find a cure to a deadly disease, navigating together hostile landscapes, corporate grid, personal demons.

    CA...

  • FANASY/SCI-FI Fest Best Scene: THE RED ZONE, by Terry Luke Podner (interview)

    Summary: An American footballer has the greatest super human strength and is undefeated on the field. What make him stand out even more is that he had a terrible car accident which could have killed him but surprisingly he survived and is now a force putting his underdog team back on the map. How...

  • FANTASY Festival Best Scene: Alaric The Rising Knight, by Sammy Vogel-Seidenberg

    In a realm where the balance of power is governed by the elements—Earth, Fire, Water, and Desert—the theft of the Elementarium by the ruthless Kael threatens to plunge the world into chaos. The Council of Elders, desperate to restore order, turns to Alaric, a young but gifted Earth Knight, to uni...

  • HORROR Best Scene Reading: Echoes From The Veil. by Nicole Sell (interview)

    Newly widowed father, Daniel Lambert, grapples with his skepticism of the supernatural as he moves into a charming old house with his four children, seeking a fresh start after the untimely passing of his wife. The family struggles to adapt to their new life, each of them finding their own way to...

  • BEST Scene Reading: THE SUSURRUS, by Krista Amigone (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Lydia: Julie Sheppard
    Charmilla: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Jilly: Hannah Ehman

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    The Susurrus is about a dollmaker who starts to date a year after her husband abandoned her. The jump back into the dating ...

  • BEST Scene Reading: MORE GOING DOWN, by Dennis J. Manning (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Jake: Geoff Mays
    Bartender: Shawn Devlin
    Robin: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    More Going Down is a neo-noir crime thriller set in Miami's underworld, where power, seduction, and betrayal collide. It follows Jake, a m...

  • Best Scene Reading: MARILOU & MARILYN, by Melanie Klug

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Jane: Julie Sheppard
    Policeman #1/Archie: Steve Rizzo
    Marilou: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • BEST Scene Reading: Dirty Kid, by Klemesheva Olga

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Molly: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Walter: Shawn Devlin