BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • LA Festival BEST Scene Reading: 15, by Tim McClelland

    As a child, Adrian experienced a horrific trauma resulting in 15 years of self-imposed solitude in his home, and now, his brother is sanctioning a radical new therapy that will push Adrian to his limits, forcing him to question his own sanity.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Adrian: Steve ...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: The Man Who Didn't Exist, by Ivan Toth

    Bruno Balz is a German songwriter, who rose to fame during the Nazi regime, and was found guilty of boosting morale during the war. Bruno navigates his lifestyle as a closeted gay man and gets married to a woman, in order to maintain his image.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    Herbert: Steve...

  • BEST SCENE Reading of Destiny Of Tar & Feathers, by Harold L. Brown

    Estranged from his family Matis settlement, a corporate lawyer finds his loyalties torn when he's caught in the middle of a settlement dispute with the government and a powerful company over jobs and oil rights."

    CAST LIST:

    1. ARCHIE GLADUE - Sean Ballantyne

    2. JAMES CARDINAL - Shawn Devlin

    ...

  • Female Festival BEST SCENE Reading: THE HALOPERIDOL FILES, by

    Lexie Addison, a cold case detective with a history of psychosis, works with her hallucinations (whom she casts as the great detectives of literature) to help the local PD find a serial killer in the community.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
    Lexie: Kyana Teresa
    Sherlock: Geoff Mays...

  • FAN FICTION Best Scene Reading: A CREEP, by Gahee Lee

    Summary: A strange young man, BILL, learns he has penile cancer and is faced with the difficult decision to remove his member altogether. The diagnosis sends BILL on a downward spiral of creepy sexual fantasies.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
    Bill: Steve Rizzo
    Follower 1/Nurse/Moth...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST SCENE Script Reading: HOW TO CARE FOR CRICKETS, by Jessica Hilscher

    Through a string of family events, an emotionally estranged woman comes face to face with her step-father's abuse. The confrontation threatens to unravel her facade and reveal the dark secrets she keeps in the guise of protecting the family she’s avoided for fifteen years.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator:...

  • FAN FICTION Best Scene Reading: The Mandalorian Chapter 17 : "Legacy" , by Valeran Lothaniel

    Four years after returning the child Grogu to the Jedi, the lone Mandalorian warrior Din Djarin faces his greatest challenge yet: protecting four foundlings from conflicting Galactic forces, and raising them in the way of the Mand'alor.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Cobb Vanth: Allan Micha...

  • HORROR Festival BEST Scene Readng: THEY'RE WATCHING US, by D.G.

    ‘They’re Watching Us’ is a psychological thriller surrounding an actor couple who agree to partake in an interactive experience acting opportunity.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Emma: Kyana Teresa
    Lenore: Val Cole

  • THRILLER Festival BEST SCENE Script Reading: OUT NEIGHBORHOOD, by Jarrod Raymond Distrola

    Divorce-bound parents are desperate for answers after their young son is kidnapped by a mysterious figure known only as “Messenger“ while the kidnapper takes interest in his next victim -- a quick tempered, closeted twelve-year-old.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    Annie: Kyana Teresa
    Peter: Geoff...

  • CHICAGO Festival BEST Scene Reading: BELLY, by Anna Zabel

    A 30-minute dramedy pilot by Anna Zabel.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Leah: Kyana Teresa
    Kai: Val Cole
    Rowan: Andy Camp

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  • FAN FICTION Festival Best Scene Reading: STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE REDEMPTION OF SKYWALKER, by Brian O'Flaherty

    Some stories are too important, some stories must be retold. The story of Anakin Skywalker will be molded between the pressure of separate forces vying for his soul, which will determine the fate of the galaxy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Anakin: Steve Rizzo
    Obi Wan/Owen: Geoff Mays
    Bre...

  • FEMALE Festival BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: NEMESIS, by Helena Derett

    In a world where heroes and villains are genetically identified at birth, a desperate superhero father will do anything to protect his young daughter tagged as a future villain, even if it means turning into the world’s greatest nemesis.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
    Skinny Triplet:...

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene Reading: 15, by Tim McClelland

    As a child, Adrian experienced a horrific trauma resulting in 15 years of self-imposed solitude in his home, and now, his brother is sanctioning a radical new therapy that will push Adrian to his limits, forcing him to question his own sanity.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Adrian: Kyana Teresa
    ...

  • BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: CAVEAT EMPTOR, by Ray Goldberg

    ‪After a law school drop-out accidentally makes a deal with the devil, she fights back by striking a new bargain with the demons who are now possessing her.‬

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Zip: Allison Kampf
    Rob: Geoff Mays
    Tyler: Andy Camp

  • Thriller Festival BEST Scene Reading: STUNG, by Richard M. Kjeldgaard

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Angela/Angela: Kyana Teresa
    Kyle/Scary Clown Mask: Allan Michael Brunet
    Figure #1/Zombie Mask: Sean Ballantyne
    Figure #2 and #4/Wife: Val Cole
    Driver/Man/Skull Mask: Steve Rizzo
    Alien Mask/Figure #3: Allison Kampf
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  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene Reading: SERIAL, by Robert Benjamin

    A kind, old retiree's life is thrust into anguish and despair when he suspects his son may be a serial killer.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Irate Woman: Kyana Teresa
    Manager: Geoff Mays
    Helmer: Andy Camp

  • POLTICAL Festival BEST Scene Script Reading: THE ELECTRIC WAR, by Arthur Tiersky

    Black-comic satirical version of the events that led to the invention and ratification of the electric chair and its inaugural official use.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Fell: Geoff Mays
    Southwick: Steve Rizzo

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene Reading: June In California, by T.J. Morehouse

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    John: Geoff Mays
    June: Kyana Teresa

  • CRIME Festival BEST Scene Reading: EVIL FACES, by C.J. Doukakis and T.J Doukakis

    Hollywood 1946. When a private detective is tasked with solving the possible murder of an old friend, he's plunged into a much larger and more sinister plot.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
    George: Geoff Mays
    Vera: Kyana Teresa

  • BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: EVACUATION, by Aubrey Reynolds

    After losing his father in an air raid, Arthur and his brother are evacuated from Liverpool to Wales to safely wait out World War 2 with a kind farm family. There he comes to suspect the woods on the farm's edge are full of danger, and that his younger brother has been replaced with a changeling....

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: ONE NIGHT AT THE MORRISON, by Joan Beilstein

    It’s 2040, and Victoria, age 75, has died from cancer. Before her death, Victoria reveals to one of her two daughters, Kelly, that twenty-five years ago, she had met the love of her life, a woman named Jessie, at a wedding weekend. Victoria asks Kelly to please contact Jessie when she dies so Jes...

  • BEST SCENE Screenplay Reading: Out Of The Ditch, by Charley Vance

    An addict hits bottom, vows change, works to regain the trust of her son, repair relationships and fends off an abusive, menacing dealer. The son and his girlfriend hatch a plan to get revenge on the dealer, but victory is short-lived, putting the lives of the addict, the son and girlfriend in je...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene Reading: In Hyding, by Carlos Perez

    Dr. Jekyll has perfected a medical formula that will bring back a part of himself that was lost because of his father's mistreatment, and now that Miss Hyde has entered the picture, she has no intention of leaving. This is a transgender woman version of the Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde Tale.

    CAST LIST:
    N...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: Sister Stones, by Nicole Dawson

    A lower-class, Adderall-addicted student from an Ivy League university becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when her ex-friend is found dead.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Val Cole
    Max: Shaun Devlin
    Lola: Allison Kampf
    Erin: Kyana Teresa