BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • TV FESTIVAL Best Scene Script Reading: Stealing The Mona Lisa, by Erik Corradino

    After his daughter is kidnapped, a US Navy SEAL must steal the Mona Lisa for a crime lord to get her back.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
    Boris: Bill Poulin
    Ivan: Sean Ballantyne
    Anastasiya: Allison Kampf
    Alex: Andy Kamp

  • FEMALE Festival TV Best Scene Reading: IVY, 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: Allan Michael Brunet
    Chief Robinson: Sean Ballantyne
    Male Detective: Andy Camp
    Detective Cady: Julie Sheppard
    Leah:...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Best Scene Reading: Conquist, by Dirk Strasser

    While pursuing an Incan emperor, a driven conquistador and his men find themselves trapped between the warring forces of demonic natives and angelic beings in a world whose morality proves to be less black and white than it initially appears.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Sarpay: Allison Kam...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Hysteresis, by Lynn Vincentnathan

    A deep water Arctic Ocean oil rig explosion in our near present releases gigatons of methane, causing runaway warming to spiral out of control much faster than it would have. By 2273 the only habitable place is the Arctic and life is dying out there. May’s malnourished son dies and the autocratic...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Script Reading: My Home Far Away, by Diego Scerrati

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Oliver: Geoff Mays
    Lukas: Sean Ballantyne

  • FANTASY/SCI-FI FESTIVAL Best Scene Reading: Galaxy Chamber, by Patrick Hatten

    After a cargo of cloned bodies on a starship rise up as blood-thirsty marauders, a young apprentice learns that some of the crew have reasons for planting the deadly disruptor virus -- even as he struggles with his own shattered past and empathy for the clones.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allan Michael...

  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Strange Desires, by Doug Allen

    An openly gay man's insecurity with his masculinity leads him to heteronormative modes of expression putting him at odds with the world and himself.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Phil: Sean Ballantyne
    Gina: Julie Sheppard
    Jasper: Shawn Devlin
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  • LA Festival Best Scene Reading: Zero Gravity, by Stephen Thompson

    Jealousy takes center stage when two friends apply for the same job to become the first M.D. on Mars.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Jamie: Shawn Devlin
    Nance /Berkley: Allan Michael Brunet
    Amy: Val Cole
    AJ: Bill Poulin

  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Our Home, by Claire Kathryn Roche

    Set against the backdrop of the 2015 Marriage Referendum in the small, Irish town of Kilkee, several vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of prejudice, loss and identity while a Siren stalks them from a distance.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Erin: Allison Kampf
    Tammy: Val Co...

  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Vincent & Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood, by Frank Hays

    Logline: A mentally unstable painter must overcome his tumultuous relationship with his narcissist lover, who uses and exploits him to advance his career.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Paul: Geoff Mays
    Vincent: Sean Ballantyne
    Waitress: Val Cole
    Theodorus: Bill Poulin
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  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: The Little Death, by Daniel Appleby

    Two non-binary high end restoration laborers attempt a disembiguation of T.S. Elliot's "The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock" while speculating on the sex life of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Max: Julie Sheppard
    Alex: Allison Kampf
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  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Perfect Karma, by Jeanine Barone

    Pax, a dyslexic, niave 25-year-old slacker, has one dream: to live in a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the one person getting in her way is a hypocritical, Evangelical Christian who wants to demolish the house in favor of a Cracker Barrel franchise.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allison Kampf
    ...

  • SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Reading: THE RED SOFA BED, by Semyon White

    A cheap second hand red sofa bed is a weird portal to hedonistic damnation. In its presence inhibitions are shed and pleasure the only preoccupation. It falls into the hands of Ritchie; a prostitution ring's foot soldier. The Red Sofa Bed causes a whorehouse cash exchange with a dirty cop to go a...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Slaughter Lake, by John Kestner

    Two single mothers join forces to hunt down and destroy the supernatural killer that murdered their teen children.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Patti: Julie Sheppard
    Alexis: Val Cole

  • FAN FICTION Festival Best Scene Reading: BLACK WIDOW: LEGACY, by Brooke Elowe

    Set three months after the events of BLACK WIDOW: FUGITIVE, Natasha Romanoff is presumed dead. Gravely injured and caught behind enemy lines, Natasha awakens not only to a world that believes she died in disgrace but to a dangerous new weapon threat she herself had a hand in creating. In a desper...

  • LA Festival Best Scene Reading: Flame, by Derek McDaniel

    A sexually trafficked teen gets tangled up with a degenerate drug addict in her quest for freedom.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
    Josh: Shawn Devlin
    Nikki: Val Cole

  • DRAMA FESTIVAL Best Scene Reading: Homebound, by Joud AlAmri

    An aspiring young writer, Norah, leads a mundane life in Los Angeles until her father’s passing uncovers family secrets that send her on an unexpected journey.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Nora: Hannah Ehman
    Mark: Steve Rizzo

  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Homecoming, by Loren Gonzales

    Tagline: "There's no place like it"

    A coming of age story centered around one high school senior and the Homecoming dance.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Darcy: Bill Poulin
    Juliette: Val Cole
    Romeo: Shawn Devlin
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  • SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Reading: Cosmosis Of Worlds, by Richard Trask

    Adam Chapman, 1.4 million years ago, on planet Longon, gets hurt in a rock climb and dies during a hernia surgery. His (random) exact replica self, Mark Meyhee, born on Earth in 1989, is also a rock climber. Mark is married to Mary; both are young attractive academic nonscientists. Like Adam Chap...

  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Handsome Devil, by Andrew Albert

    When a masked stranger crashes a celebration of life party at a secluded estate, an all-guys weekend becomes a terrifying battle for survival - one that will force a grieving young man to use all of his wits and resources to win.

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Adam: Bill Poulin
    Bryce: Geoff ...

  • LGBT Festival Best Scene Reading: Almost A Movement by Stephen Rea

    Part Fictional / Part Real transformation drama that focuses on LGBT campaign side of the Irish 2015 same-sex marriage referendum interspersed with recent and historical lead-in events. Attention paid to how the coming out of prominent public figures during the campaign strengthened the strong po...

  • LA Festival BEST Scene Script Reading: Dropped Out, by Eric Smith and Mike Roberts

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Dunno: Andy Kamp
    Maddy/Kiri: Julie Sheppard
    Sam/Captain Ed: Shawn Devlin
    Vigilante/Tucker: Allan Michael Brunet
    Akmed/Colonel Parker: Bill Poulin
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  • HORROR Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Man In The Hat, by Phyllis Allison

    Thirty years have passed since Beth’s sister vanished, believed to be taken by a child predator, but when a woman posts a tale on the internet eerily similar to Beth’s own experience, she is forced to admit THE MAN IN THE HAT is real, but not like us. This time around he’s playing tricks with her...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: Belfast Connection, by John Donovan

    CAST LIST:
    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Big Freddie: Steve Rizzo
    Raymond : Bill Poulin
    Gerry: Andy Kamp