BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: The Portal, by Pamela PerryGoulardt

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Holiday: Val Cole
    Jax: Sean Ballantyne
    Samm: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Stranded, by Gini Graham Scott

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    William Forest: Geoff Mays
    Dan Parks: Sean Ballantyne
    Ken: Steve Rizzo

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Bandaged Knees, by Colin Simpson

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Meredith Burns: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Wilson/Bartender: Geoff Mays
    Sara: Val Cole
    Reynolds: Sean Ballantyne
    Tulip: Hannah Ehman

  • ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Never Trust, by Garry Hicks

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Bobby: Geoff Mays
    Waiter: Sean Ballantyne
    Woman: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • CRIME/MYSTERY Best Scene: The Seeds We Sow, by Scott Harbison

    A former hitman returns to his hometown of New Orleans and reunites with a former girlfriend. Trouble catches up with them and they have to fend off the demons of their past and the mafia who wants them dead.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Rita: Julie Sheppard
    Benny: Geoff Mays

  • GOING HOME, by Marilynn Loveless, Sara Dinga, Sherry Wachter, Patrick Dunphy

    Desperate human refugees from the Mars colony return home to Earth, only to discover they are no longer at the top of the food chain.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Queen: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Theo: Shawn Devlin

  • DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene Reading: DELULU, by Adam Jay Ung (interview)

    A Korean-born, American-raised K-pop idol working on the release of her solo debut track in Seoul, struggles with the language and cultural differences while dealing with a crazed stalker who’s dangerously obsessed with her.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Jie...

  • DIVERSITY Fest Scene: Heroes, Just For One Day, by Salvatore Riggio (inter.)

    While on vacation with his family in Disney World, Johnny, a FDNY Firefighter (along with the rest of America) receives word of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. He is not there with his fellow man and the guilt eats at him for years in the aftermath. Through a...

  • BEST SCENE Reading: AHOY FOR JOY, by Keith Reilly

    Amidst unrest in 1970s Belfast, troubled teenager Michael meets Dutch tourist Anna, and a whirlwind romance begins. Anna is enchanted with the Ireland Michael showcases in his letters, but he is shielding her from the truth. As Michael’s recovery from the trauma of his childhood progresses, event...

  • BEST SCENE Reading: Down At The Val, by Neil Goodchild

    The grandson of a golf course owner loses his job and has to return to the course, where his grandfather and two surprising new employees inspire him to try and help save it from bankruptcy.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Lazenby: Steve Rizzo
    Nate: Sean Ballantyne

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: The Favorite Haunt, by Edward Hicklin

    With a bond formed from their shared love of scary movies, a group of young boys discover an abandoned mansion whose secrets surpass those of any film.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Hobo #1: Steve Rizzo
    Hobo #2: Sean Ballantyne

  • Winning COMEDY Festival Best Scene: LETHAL WEAPONS, by Adam Hopwood

    Disillusioned with his day job as an engineer, Ken Hammer fights to be accepted in the offbeat world of professional swordsmithing.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Ken: Geoff Mays
    Forwoman: Val Cole
    Hr Woman: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • LA LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: REQUIEM FOR A BANTAMWEIGHT, by Enrique Berumen

    Bantamweight boxer Alfonso 'Panama' Brown, the first Latin American world champion, gains fame and fortune while living a torrid love affair with poet Jean Cocteau in 1930's France; until the Nazis goose-step into Paris.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Cocteau: Geoff Mays
    Al: Steve RIzzo

  • Winning ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival Best Scene: Scapegoat, by Richard Geiwitz

    An ex-cop dodges criminal charges in the town she had worked, only to get caught up in controversy in another when the opportunistic thieves she accuses, turn up dead.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Cervantes: Val Cole
    Markie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

  • Winning ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: MAPLE GROVE, by Richard Telesca

    An old-fashioned love story where in 1953, the lives of two people in search of true love and happiness seem to be headed in opposite directions until they come together in the little town of Maple Grove and discover that everything in life happens for a reason.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
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  • Winning CRIME/MYSTERY Festival Best Scene: CONCEPTUS, by Brian Herskowitz

    Homicide Detective Laura Drummond, a survivor of a brutal assault in her youth, must track down a serial killer that's tied to her past.

    Writer Statement
    CONCEPTUS is currently a 5-star reviewed novel on Amazon. The story began as a screenplay, and then when Covid was in full swing, I expanded ...

  • DIVERSITY Festival Scene: Injustice! Ex Parte Crow Dog, by Christopher Manydeeds

    Injustice! United States vs Tribes is a TV anthology series about Federal Indian Law in dynamic US Supreme Court decisions. The series will address how the United States and Tribes decided the course of history through a hostile court system. Ex Parte Crow Dog is about a why the Federal governmen...

  • DRAMA Festival Best Scene: Paths We Lead, by Sandon Yahn (interview)

    An aspiring screenwriter who struggles to support his family becomes successful after he uses a mysterious writing software that alters reality. But, with that comes a price that he never imagined he'd have to pay.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Kyana Teresa
    Richard: Steve Rizzo
    Brad: Geoff Mays

    G...

  • ANIMATION Festival Best Scene: BREAKDOWN: UFO, by Noel Quick

    AAA for UFOs

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Lorz: Geoff Mays
    Bigfoot: Shawn Devlin
    Fllrp: Kyana Teresa

  • LATINO Fest: El Cuento De Mi Papa (The Story of my Father), by Alejandro Lalinde

    When a naive D.A.C.A. single young father gets unexpectedly deported to a country he’s never been, he must at all costs journey back illegally despite crooks and cartels and a desolate rugged desert to reunite with his estranged daughter before his family is ultimately separated.

    CAST LIST:

    Na...

  • ROMANCE Festival Best Scene: Astral Flames, by Nicolas James

    A lonely, yet content young woman helps navigate a connection-deprived young man through the astral dimension while trying not to be detected by an ominous spirit.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Chase: Sean Ballantyne
    Violet: Kyana Teresa

  • Thriller/Suspense Festival: HENRY'S STARE, by A.M. Vasquez

    After her stalker goes missing and is presumed dead, Violet McBride's dreams suggest that he may still be alive, threatening to shatter her newfound peace.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Violet: Kyana Teresa
    Rachel: Hannah Ehman
    Ben: Shawn Devlin

  • TV Festival Best Scene: PALADIN, by Mark Andrew Pogodzinski

    Paladin is a gun for hire in the new west in 1800. His current task is to collect Caleb Barnes and deliver him to justice. The Barnes Gang attacked a wealthy ranch, killing several people and burning the house to the ground. Paladin kills the gang with little difficulty, taking time to explain to...

  • Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival Best Scene: THE GOD MACHINE, by Michael J Bowler

    Using an antique machine, a grieving boy hopes to apologize to his deceased mother, but instead unleashes an interdimensional being that wreaks havoc in San Francisco. With the aid of his detached father, some friends, and a tough female detective, he determines to stop the creature, even at the ...