BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • DIVERSITY Fest Best Scene: D.D.S- Drama of Dental Surgeon's, by Steph Gallagher

    An intelligent young woman regrets her hookup with an ex. Her co-workers suggest she get back in the dating game, but her studies stand in the way. Work place drama distracts her and a budding relationship with a new man threatens a situation where personal and private life overlaps and is sure t...

  • LGBTQ+ Scene: HOW NOT TO WRITE A ROMANCE NOVEL, Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez (int)

    The world's greatest romance novelist has given up on love due to long-standing grief, but will his blossoming relationship with a younger man lead to a new chapter or the same tragic ending.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Bibi: Hannah Ehman
    Ezra: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival TV Best Scene: GOOFY FOOT, by Richard Redlo (writer interview)

    Eliot Glassman, 15, openly gay and precocious, becomes emancipated from his suburban parents and friends, following incidents of physical abuse. Freed from his troubled suburban origins, he navigates (often on a skateboard) the dangers and delights of his new urban surroundings. Through it all, E...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene: THE UNINVITED, by Matthew Domingos (writer int.)

    When two American soldiers go on a mission to an abandoned house in the Iraqi desert, what they find there makes them question reality itself.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Sonny: Sean Ballatyne
    The Chief: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screenplay abo...

  • COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: WHEN I SAY BLUE, by Kelly Perine

    Set in a small Central Pennsylvania town, “When I Say Blue” is a short script that follows 2 aging former High-School football team-mates that haven’t seen each other in years. Will, Caucasian, was the quarterback of the team, while ‘A-Train’, African-American, was the running back and heart of t...

  • ANIMATION Festival BEST Scene: ANIMARIA, by Michael Van Patten

    Miss Mona takes her students on a great adventure to Animaria so they can learn the value of teamwork, but she learns as much about herself along the way

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Federico (M): Geoff Mays

  • FEMALE Festival BEST Scene Reading TV: EXPIRED, by Wendy Braff

    Five female friends over 50 have had enough of being dismissed and ignored by a society that thinks of them as "expired." When they decide they're no longer going to give a fuck, their lives truly begin.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballatyne
    Courtney (F): Elizabeth Rose Morr...

  • FEMALE Festival BEST SCENE: GOLD MOUNTAIN EXPRESS, by Gene Lassers

    The Nazis conquer Warsaw at the beginning of World War II and take-over the infamous Jewish Ghetto. The last shipment of valuables leaves Berlin for

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballatyne
    Lisal: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
    Hans: Geoff Mays

  • THRILLER Festival BEST Scene: THE COVENTRY DECEPTION, by Michael Thomas Holliday

    Following the President's suicide, a reluctant Vice President discovers a covert operation that compromises national security.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Jordan: Sean Ballatyne
    Gorley: Geoff Mays
    Sarah/Secret Service Agent: Hannah Ehman

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: MOTHER SUPERIOR, by James W Gould (interview)

    In 1350s Florence, an insecure nun unwillingly becomes the Mother Superior after the Plague kills the leaders of her nearly bankrupt convent. To save her convent, she must find the strength to confront the male dominated Church, Guilds and civil authorities, and her own demons.

    CAST LIST:

    Narra...

  • DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene: NO ADDRESS, by Julia Verdin, James Papa

    A group of homeless people bond together as a family, struggling to survive the streets while fending off a harassing gang, an unforgiving community and the local authorities in hopes of finding their humanity again.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Jimmy: Steve Rizzo
    Liz: Kyana Teresa

    ...

  • COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Script: FEELING JUNG, by Lauren Kettler (interview)

    Tara and Glen can't afford a divorce so they take week's vacation, with 10-year-old son Ned in tow, to find new, better-heeled spouses.

    http://laurenkettler.com/

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Tatiana: Kyana Teresa
    Glen: Steve Rizzo

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screen...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: DRAG ME TO CHRISTMAS, by Tennessee Martin

    When Scrooge-like tech-whiz, Chip Webber, finds out that her mother has passed away a few days before Christmas, she begrudgingly returns to her small hometown after a decade away to pay her respects. Upon learning she has inherited her mother’s pride and joy, a dilapidated community recreation c...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene: ALL THE COOL KIDS, by Jennifer C Clark (interview)

    A closeted teen football star, Harley Harris, discovers his friends and fellow townsfolk are being replaced by demonic shapeshifters, and he is next! Together with, out and proud friend, Tessa, Harley must break the demon's curse before his identity and life are lost forever.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrat...

  • ROMANCE Festival BEST Scene: The Highwayman, by Patrick Norman (interview)

    A deep and all-consuming romance set in eighteenth-century England between a highwayman and a landlord’s daughter tests their love, loyalty, and willingness to make the ultimate sacrifice.

    Logline: He met her on life’s darkest road, and her soul became his moon.

    CAST LIST::

    Narrator: Hannah ...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene Reading: Simulation, by Peter Jang

    In the near future, a man practices for a date with his dream girl by running simulations indistinguishable from reality.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Grayson: Steve Rizzo
    Frank: Sean Ballantyne
    NPC CHEVELLE: Kyana Teresa

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene Reading: Saviours, by Guy Ducker

    An alien force, having occupied Earth to save us from corrupt governments and fix our broken climate, appoints Claire Burgess—an honest but inexperienced Green Party MP—as interim Prime Minister of the UK. Meanwhile, Trevor Daunt—a disgraced minister on the run—founds a resistance movement aiming...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: The Electric Eye by Kimberly Butler, Marissa Lessman

    A middle aged woman finds herself convicted of murder in the 1930’s. She is sent to an all male prison in deep Southern Illinois to await her fate for a crime she may not have committed. Based on true events.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Marie: Kyana Teresa
    Young Roberta: Hannah Ehman

    Get...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: Ready to Mingle, by Olivia Belluck

    Ready to Mingle follows Dr. Millie Ward, a defensive self-help columnist for the clickbait-dependent news site Nova Press. Millie thrives on applying her analytical mind to patients she cannot see, snuggled in sweaters that ensure that no one can ever see her. After a lifetime of being told she w...

  • ASIAN Festival Best Scene Reading: The Pear Tree, by Hong Zhou

    Dong Sheng and Mei Ning’s cherished family pear tree bursts out in buds and blossoms, only to be wrecked by their friendly new neighbors. Heartbroken, they strive to help the tree heal and thrive, while at the same time feeling through a season of recovering from the incident themselves.

    CAST LI...

  • DRAMA Festival Best Scene Reading: TERROR AND VIRTUE, by Ernest Pysher

    A young, ambitious idealist returns home from war to find his king and country on the brink of ruin - and ripe for positive reform - until a bankrupt alcoholic becomes the unlikely leader of the movement instead and all hell breaks loose. The incredible true story of the French Revolution.

    CAST ...

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Best Scene Reading: LENA'S RULES, by Ken Comer

    WHEN A DETECTIVE'S YOUNG PARTNER IS BRUTALLY MURDERED IN AN AMBUSH. HER CAMPAIGN OF REVENGE TURNS INTO AN ACT OF REDEMPTION.

    CAST :LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Paz: Kyana Teresa
    Lena: Hannah Ehman
    Deputy Chief Man: Steve Rizzo
    Lt. Mann: Sean Ballantyne

  • Toronto Comedy Festival Script Reading: SUPERLATIVE PICKLEBALLS!, by Dan Beeman

    When disgraced former tennis champion loses his job, home, and mother on the same day, he must reinvent himself by reuniting with his former rival to compete in Pickleball tournaments for money as teammates to pay off debts. Living in an old RV while traveling across the country, they discover th...

  • DIVERSITY Best Scene Reading: Esperanza, by David Christopher Loya

    In 1973 L.A., a spirited Chicano family rock band is discovered by an ambitious record exec. Catapulted on a rollercoaster journey from the barrios to pop stardom, they must rely upon their heart, talent, and street smarts if they’re to survive the prevalent racism, intolerance, sexual predation,...