BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • LGBTQ+ Festival: Pocketful of Mondays, by Lindsey Morrison Grant (interview)

    A highly sensitive, two-spirit person living above their adopted parent's appliance store has their life turned upside down when they learn their two "stillborn" babies may still be alive (now teens) and that their recurring childhood nightmare of the alien abduction of their birth parents may ha...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: HARVARD V DREYFUS, by Connor Harrington-Brandt

    When Harry Dreyfus, the popular owner of a café in Boston, becomes involved with a Harvard student, he can’t imagine that a year later the President of Harvard will summon him to an interrogation threatening his business, his friends faced with expulsion, after his lover is found dead.
    Inspired b...

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: BAUBLE, by Scot G Kleinman

    A criminal gang of Drag Queens gets more than they bargained for in the pursuit of stolen royal jewels.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Lips: Shawn Devlin
    Ruthless Ruth: Hannah Ehman

  • LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: CAN I KEEP YOU?, by Xavion Niles

    Summary: Teo is a straight man who has a hard time settling down, on the other end, Zan is a gay man who doesn't know how to casually date. The two of them end up helping each other out with their dating issues, until it's quite clear that they are in love with each other.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator:...

  • Best Scene: Shesafella: The Fancy Tales, by Felice Cohen (interview)

    Summary: Fella, a softball player, is bullied at home by her stepmother and stepbrothers, who treat her like Cinderella. She cooks, she cleans, and she caters to all their needs. However, when the family gets invited to the Mayor's daughter's birthday ball, she is excluded until her fairy godmoth...

  • BEST Scene Reading: THE TREE WITH NO HEART, by Aaron Huckleberry (interview)

    In war-torn Syria, a troubled woman, her idealistic son, and her mentally challenged cousin take in a wounded Western aid worker, unknowingly igniting a chain of deadly consequences that forces them to confront their pasts, their beliefs, and the brutal realities of survival.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrat...

  • BEST Scene Reading: MY MOTHER'S WRATH, by María Elena González

    MAGGIE KAWAR, an art gallery owner in her fifties, struggles with the emotional scars left by her abusive mother, RUBY. She juggles being a grandmother to her six-year-old grandson, FREDDY, and her tumultuous relationship with her self-absorbed daughter, ELIZABETH, who works as her assistant. The...

  • BEST Scene Reading: TICKET TO KYIV, by Hannah Miyamoto (interview)

    A carefree young American woman gains a new appreciation for life when she is caught up in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Geoff Mays
    Kalyna: Hannah Ehman
    Rachel: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Stepan: Shawn Devlin

    Get to...

  • BEST Scene Reading: DEAR MR HUTTON, by Jennifer Marsh

    Inspired by the music of Three Dog Night, a young girl enjoys childhood in 1970s Ohio and develops a desire to travel abroad, if she can convince her parents to let her go.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Ruth: Hannah Ehman
    Andrea: Val Cole

  • BEST Scene Reading: LOULOUTHKIA, by Andry Platrites

    "Loulouthkia" is a powerful screenplay set during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. Through the eyes of 11-year-old Annoula, we witness the sudden collapse of innocence, the heartbreak of displacement, and the quiet strength of a family in crisis. As memories of a once-peaceful childhood fade ...

  • BEST Scene Reading: SALLIE, by Chase Yancey (interview)

    When the paths of the 11th Pennsylvania Civil War regiment and an American Staffordshire Terrier pup intertwine, the men of the 11th's lives are changed in ways they never could've predicted.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    R. Coulter: Shawn Devlin
    Captain Terry: Geoff May

    Get to know the...

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Dwarf's Tale, by Tony Barone (interview)

    Set in 1890, the Greens (the leftist) vs Reds (Right Wing Faction) fighting for control of the government. Lucretia, daugher of a Red falls inlove with Mariano a stage actor who also happens to be a green. Her father forbids her to see him, and orders him to be killed while she is sent to a conve...

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Fold, by Robert Cooke (interview)

    Using his tech capabilities, Matt puts a team together to help build a virtual reality world that is a mirror if the real world, however, lack of funding needs they need to find some way get the project off the ground. Matt decides to impress the Dean of Engineering by telling him about a special...

  • BEST Scene Reading: SPIDERSILK, by Akutra Ramses Atenosis Cea

    BUY Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Spidersilk-Akutra-Ramses-Atenosis-Cea/dp/1990695183

    With an imaginative technical view on the mechanics of time and space, Akutra weaves a schematic of logic that explores the fringes of reality in ways that are within the realm of the possibility and reality. Cre...

  • ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: Raven’s Choice, by Lor E Lynn

    James Stuart Donovan Hastings, Earl of Billingswood, has had one headache after another. First his home is in disrepair, his nephew is too young for his own good, his best friend thinks he's gone round the bend and now someone just tried to kill him. If it wasn't for the angel with strawberry blo...

  • DRAMA Festival Best Scene: HOUSTON, by Marcus Herzberg

    Civil rights attorney Charles Houston fights racist juries, corrupt officials, and hostile coworkers as he leads the battle to kill Jim Crow.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Young Charles: Shawn Devlin
    Thomas: Steve Rizzo

  • FEMALE Festival Best Sceen: ROCK BOTTOM, by Kevin Barney (interview)

    Summary: On the run from a job, Steph finds herself in danger and a target. She falls and lands under a Boulder which traps her for 2 days. While trying to survive as long as she can for help to arrive, she reaches an unpleasant realization.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Steph: Hannah Eh...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: MR. HOLLYWOOD, by Karen Powell-Riggs

    Summary: Molly wants to make it in Hollywood but cannot do so as a woman, she dresses up as a man and pretends to get a deal with an agent. This leads to ultimate success but still leaves her with one problem, she is a woman pretending to be a man.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    B...

  • ACTION Festival Best Scene: THE SHADOW KILLER, by Thad Alexander (interview)

    In the heart of Bangkok, Detective Aran Chen, a defiant inspector haunted by his past, pursues the elusive "Shadow Killer," a ruthless serial murderer. Armed with his sharp instincts and lethal martial arts skills, Aran battles through the city's underworld, uncovering a chilling link between the...

  • ACTION Festival Best Scene: THE ULTIMATE QUESTION, by Steven C. Shaffer

    When a young boy is found on a battlefield, it sets into motion a series of events that will have potentially catastrophic results unless that young boy - now a young man - can solve the puzzle that his mentor left him before he died.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Cyrten: Elizabeth Rose Mo...

  • Reading: JOSH'S EMPLOYMENT AGENCY OF BROOKLYN, by Nancy Lydia Kimmel (interview)

    In the dilapidated streets of Brooklyn, Josh runs a failing employment agency that’s haunted by three ghosts. Josh is reluctantly recruited by them to help solve a series of murders. Of Course, Death's AKA-Al curiosity is piqued and decides he's in too.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Mary: ...

  • New York Festival Scene: The Movie Bro versus The Tormenter, by Joshua G. Eton

    A young man named Joshua who develops a crush on a new but confused girl named Pam, must learn to become a true warrior in order to save her from the clutches of an evil and monstrous tormentor who she claims was once her insane and looked - upon father.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Mor...

  • New York Feedback Festival Best Scene: DREME, by Ashok Reddy

    Steven, a disillusioned neurologist, has quit his research position to practice as a clinician in the wake of his mother’s death several years earlier. He now grows alarmed when his wife, Diane, exhibits symptoms of, and is ultimately diagnosed with, a mysterious neurological condition called Sch...

  • FEMALE Festival Best Scene: WHAT'S A ZAYDE?, by Andy Epstein (interview)

    Logline: A young woman struggles with maintaining her relationship with her grandfather as she prepares to go to college.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Becky: Val Cole
    Lucille: Hannah Ehman

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?

    It's about an elderly man's loving r...