BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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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LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: RESIDENCY, by Natalie Lomske
Residency is a drama about ambitious, paraplegic, surgical resident Amelia Walters who transfers to a renowned hospital and must find a balance between the demands of her career, relationships, and disability.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Amelia: Hannah Ehman
Alex: Geoff Mays
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COMEDY Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: Poulet Realty, by Melanie McCullough
Peaches Poulet, recently cheated on and widowed, is determined to reinvent her life in small town Alabama. She's going to lose 30 pounds, change the carpet in the den, and finally achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a realtor. But first, she has to ruin her treacherous ex-best friend's funeral...
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COMEDY Festival TV Best Scene Reading: HUGS NOT DRUGS, by Edward Dorsey
A bumbling father trips and falls into the middle of a drug deal. The cartel and police are after him, but he still has to pick his kids up from orchestra practice.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Jerry: Geoff Mays
Sheldon: Steve Rizzo
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: MISS FORTUNE, by Breeze Vincinz
A thieving ex-con attends twelve-step meetings to deal with her relationship with money, her fledging L.A. based dispensary staffed exclusively with African American women, her relationships with her ex-girlfriends, and a system that is trying to lock her back up.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Ri...
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BEST Scene Reading: Shady's Last Stand, by Stan Barton
When a misplaced border wall throws his honky-tonk into no-man’s land, Shady establishes a new kingdom to offer folks a second chance, but powerful politicians have other ideas.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Santos: Steve Rizzo
Shady: Geoff Mays
Landry: Sean Ballantyne
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BEST SCENE TV PILOT Reading: THE MÂR CHRONICLES, by A. S. Templeton
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Barnesdale: Allan Michael Brunet
Yaeger: Hannah Ehman
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TV Festival Best Scene Reading: This Next Year, by Mark Violi
After surviving a school shooting and now suffering from PTSD, Kate takes a position as guidance counselor at a Pennsylvania high school. In crisis herself, Kate must navigate new rules and deal with a haunting past while employing unconventional methods to identify and help those students most a...
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POLITICAL Festival BEST SCENE Reading: Confined Hatred, by Jeffrey Swerdan
Sgt. Robin Sole wakes up to find herself trapped with six strangers in a deadly game of racism and torment. Can the seven strangers overcome their personal differences to come together and escape or will they take their personal prejudice to an early grave?
CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose ...
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LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: KING, by Jessica L. Folk
After landing a coveted junior associate position at a prestigious law firm, a freshly minted lawyer must navigate the harsh reality of working for one of D.C.'s top firms, all while uncovering a dark family secret buried under decades of carefully cultivated deceit.
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THRILLER Festival BEST Scene Reading: CALLING CARD, by Israela Margalit
Julia's estranged husband has just left for an island vacation with their daughter. Her best friend is busy. So is everyone else on her Rolodex. The phone rings. A man says that he has her calling card in his wallet. How did it get there? That has been driving him crazy. Would she meet him for an...