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 TV Pilot Screenplay: Jewels Of Light, by Tessie Herrasti

    In the world of Upprunkna, a guilt-ridden elven warrior is tasked with the care of a powerful and untrusting royal. Together, they begin a journey that will unite the most adventurous beings of the different realms and force them to work together in order to restore the vital energies of a darken...

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: That's Our Show, by Judd Cherry, Aaron Krebs

    A hopeful group of comedy upstarts travel the country performing and grinding out a name for themselves, all while surfing the bonds of friendship and facing the trials and tribulations of that touring road life.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Hannah Ehman
    Otis: Sean Ballantyne
    Margot: Kyana Teresa ...

  • CRIME Festival BEST Scene Reading: SERIAL, by Robert Benjamin

    The peaceful life of a kind, old retiree is thrust into anguish and peril when it is disrupted by a present day serial killer. Following the connections, this otherwise trusting father can only suspect that the brutal killings have been at the hands of his own flesh and blood. His eldest son.

    CA...

  • FEMALE Festival BEST Scene: WINDS OF TRANSITION, by Sil Brook

    Suffragettes cross ideological and class lines in their pursuit of both liberation and love.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Steve Rizzo
    Emily: Hannah Ehman
    Thomas: Bill Poulin
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  • ACTION Festival BEST Scene Reading: Sergeant Freeman, by Gloria J Browne-Marshall

    African-American Army Sergeant Stella Freeman's college-bound daughter Keisha goes missing on the day Freeman becomes the first woman to train the Army’s new Urban Terrorism platoon. A single mom and widow, Freeman is fighting to find her daughter while the Army pressures her to represent women i...

  • POLITICAL Festival BEST SCENE Reading: Tags, by Stephen Glickman

    A young woman abandons her dying mother to free laboratory animals; capturing the world’s attention and forever changing the vivisection industry (based on real events)...

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Steve Rizzo
    Sarah: Hannah Ehman
    Marcu: Bill Poulin
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: NZR, by Leon Masters

    In a bleak futuristic world were zombies exist and are outliers in society, a man who is part of the elite civil service, hides a major secret about his identity that could result in a grim fate.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Steve Rizzo
    Board Barista: Andy Camp
    Hector: Bill Poulin
    Steven: Sean Ball...

  • COMEDY Festival TV SPEC Screenplay: Ted Lasso "The Tryout", by Geoffrey Prather

    A best scene reading of an original screenplay from the hit TV series TED LASSO.

    CAST LIST:

    Ted: Bill Poulin
    Brent: Sean Ballantyne
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: Lafayette Square, by Katherine Martinez DeLeon

    In 1885, a lesbian First Lady moves into the White House to support her brother, a conservative president, and finds herself caught between two worlds, both of the ‘old’ and the ‘new’: the old society of white politicians and army heroes, and the new society of feminists, black aristocrats, and t...

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: The Epigones Club, by John McCloskey

    What is an epigone? The word epigone means: “undistinguished descendant of the great.” My characters are the adult sons and daughters of celebrities. They are frustrated, bitter, because they have failed to achieve success on their own. They resent the celebrity world that has left them behind.

    ...

  • TV BEST Scene Script Reading: Bound By Blood, by Dakota Banks

    Bound by Blood is an action-thriller TV Pilot with strong mythological elements in which a Colonial woman unjustly burned as a witch struggles to reclaim her soul from the Sumerian demon who saved her from the flames and used her as his Ageless assassin for over 300 years. Adapted from an award-w...

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: Miley Chase: The Science Ace, by Richard Lasser, Dennis Edwards, Larry Little

    Based on the musical - MILEY CHASE THE SCIENCE ACE. Miley Chase, a lonely, nerdy 10-year old science whiz, discovers the notes of her recently retired grandmother - a former mathematician and scientist - and builds a time machine. When Tyler -- her sports minded neighbor who thinks that science i...

  • LA Festival BEST Scene Reading: Arbakai, by Daniel W. Smith

    A female teacher for a rural Afghan school for girls demands protection from a Talban attack. A lone tribal guardian, an Arbakai, learns the value of female education.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Steve Rizzo
    School Teacher: Kyana Teresa
    Bilqees: Hannah Ehman
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  • BEST SCENE Female Festival Script Reading: Runaway Ruth, by May Walker

    It's the 1970s and Ruth, an imaginative fifteen year old, has had enough of her mother's abuse and decides to run away. She immediately finds trouble, but is rescued by an ultraterrestrial named Peter. After striking up a friendship, the two of them set off on the road to find the mysterious Engi...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: Her Defense, by Anthony E. Commodore

    An intelligently profound Transgender female, seeks to establish her dominance as one of the top defense attorneys in the Nation's Capital of Washington, DC, but must face the demons of her troubled past as a male, before setting her sights on a promising future.

    CAST LIST:

    Narration: Steve Ri...

  • POLITICAL BEST Scene Reading: CALLE OCHO, by Robert W. McKnight, Jeremy Culver

    “A critical election in Florida intersects with the opportunity for real freedom in Cuba.”

    Logline: When the smart and beautiful daughter of a wealthy Cuban refugee (the most powerful conservative voice in Florida) becomes a U.S. Senator, she works cleverly and clandestinely to defy both her fat...

  • BEST SCENE Black & White Festival Script Reading: A WRAY OF LIGHT, by Preston Harrison Ahearn

    A young pilot at the dawn of aviation is set for takeoff but is grounded after the death of his father. He has to save his family's empire, but can he save his wings?

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Henry: Allan Michael Brunet
    Clyde: Andy Camp
    Dupont: Geoff Mays
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  • BEST Scene Animation Festival Script Reading: Tyler Hudson's Christmas Eve Adventure, by Carol Hoffman

    When Santa's sleigh is hijacked with a non-believer boy and his younger brother aboard, it might take a Christmas miracle to get them all home and keep Santa out of jail.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Tyler: Allan Michael Brunet
    Alvie: Andy Camp
    Alice: Hannah Ehman
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  • BEST SCENE Black Festival Script Reading: The Passage Of Sun, by Aaron Braxton

    Three brothers challenge the Convict Leasing System of forcing African American men into prison in order to continue providing slave labor and county revenue in Alabama following the Civil War.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Henry: Geoff Mays
    Tenzer: Allan Michael
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  • BEST SCENE Comedy Festival Script Reading: BREAKING NEWS, by Samuel Spitale

    Network meets Anchorman after an attack on the capitol spurs a Fox News-type outlet to become a legitimate news network.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    David: Geoff Mays
    Student: Hannah Ehman
    Student: Kyana Teresa
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  • BEST SCENE Female Festival Script Reading: The Takeover, by Ivana Strajin

    A newly appointed CEO of an occupational health company gets catfished... by her job. What she hopes will be her legacy gets bungled by fraud, coverups, and the death of an offshore oil rig worker.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Larry: Allan Michael Brunet
    Isabel: Kyana Teresa
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  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: Perdition, by Leon Masters

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Lily: Kyana Teresa
    Roxane: Julie Sheppard
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  • SPORTS Festival BEST Scene: SLEDGEHAMMER, by Vinny Smith

    A former tennis champion, now a rough and rowdy Las Vegas cocktail waitress, enters the US Open in an effort to win her way out of trouble with the FBI, navigating the world of biker gangs and Russian mobsters along the way.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Agent: Geoff Mays
    Charlie: ...

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: Bad Romance, by Chad Wellinger

    A paperback romance fanatic who strives to pen a novel of her own but has no real-life experience to draw upon recruits a playboy Casanova for a crash course in hot and heavy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Heath: Geoff Mays
    Astrid: Hannah Ehman
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