BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

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

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • SCENE: Game of Thrones "The Rains of Castamere", by Anthony Hyatt (interview)

    The iconic GAME OF THRONES ‘Red Wedding’ episode in the style of PARKS AND RECREATION:
While a recently divorced wedding planner attempts to engineer the perfect day, a self-conscious groom tries desperately to discover who he is marrying, all while the realm’s most famous conflict mediator striv...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: The One Hit Wonder, by Bob Dawson

    When his one and only hit song from the 80s unexpectedly becomes a viral hit on social media, a washed up rock and roller finds his family life turned upside down.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Abby: Hannah Ehman
    Grace: Julie Sheppard
    Erin: Allison Kampf

  • TV Festival PITCH Reading: DREAM STATE, by Helena Giersz, Christina Giersz

    A young woman stumbling through the New York fashion world finds solace in her dreams and the relationships she cultivates within them, but when her dreams manifest in her real life she must contend with the discrepancies between flawed humanity and her subconscious perfection.

    CAST LIST:

    Narr...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Script: The Founders' Plot, by Frank Victoria

    Wealthy man is bored with life, and even gambling doesn't give him an adrenaline rush. He plays poker with the devil for his soul.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Mike: Steve Rizzo
    Colonel: Geoff Mays
    Josephine: Val Cole

  • ACTION Fest Script: What Would Lombardi Say, by Patrick Cottington (interview)

    A college football star is forced to deal with CTE as he prepares for a professional football career.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Harry: Steve Rizzo
    Larry: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    This story actually focuses on CTE and its universal eff...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: BURDS, by Patricia Fuller, Elaine Brett (interview)

    Burds follows Katie and her group of teenage girlfriends growing up in a shitty town in the West coast of Scottish during the 80s. The story is about their friendship, the hilarious shenanigans they get up and navigating one of the worst situations that a teenage girl has to deal with. The story ...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Screenplay: DSP VS USA, by D. Sidney Potter

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Sidney: Steve Rizzo
    Selina: Val Cole

  • THE ONE HIT WONDER. WILDsound Festival Best Scene. by Bob Dawson

    When his one and only hit song from the 80s unexpectedly becomes a viral hit on social media, a washed up rock and roller finds his family life turned upside down.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Lily: Hannah Ehman
    Pete: Sean Ballantyne
    Grace: Julie Sheppard

  • THE BIG W. TV Festival Best Scene. by Laurel Nicholson

    When an undocumented worker has a vision of a murder, he can’t go to the cops. So he recruits a group of his eccentric drinking companions from a neighborhood bar, The Big W, to help stop the murder.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Pittman: Steve Rizzo
    Willow: Hannah Ehman
    Miller: Geoff ...

  • 7 YEARS AFTER. TV Screenplay Festival Scene. by Melissa Skirboll (interview)

    Seven years after a religious-nationalist sect has taken over most of the country, as the last of the sanctuary cities begin to fall, a poet and her friends fight the forces of oppression.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Mischa: Hannah Ehman
    Lili: Julie Sheppard
    James: Shawn Devlin

    Get...

  • THE BIRTHDAY LIST. Female Festival Best Scene. by Jacqueline Escolme (interview)

    Inspired by a young adventurer, a frustrated midlife wife escapes her marriage and flies to America with a birthday bucket list that helps her find truth, freedom and the future she’s waited twenty years for.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Jenny: Hannah Ehman
    Richard: Sean Ballantyne

    G...

  • THE PASS. - Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Graham Northrup

    Deep in the forest near a mountain pass, Darren Reed’s life is turned upside down - first from the terrible accident that took his family - and now from their ghosts, whose appearance threatens to drive him to madness. He must find the courage to face them and learn to listen - before it’s too la...

  • MESSAGE TO SHIGATSE - Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Don Thompson

    Logline: A BBC journalist works with the Dalai Lama to outwit the Chinese government in the selection of Tibet’s Panchen Lama, all told via a Hitchcock-style suspense drama that echoes films such as ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and ‘The Killing Fields’. Based on Isabel Hilton’s non-fiction book ‘The Search for...

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene: Death Row Challenge, by Richard M. Kjeldgaard

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Figure: Geoff Mays
    Eric: Sean Ballantyne
    Parking Attendant/Female Voice: Shawn Devlin

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene: DESERT SLAYGROUND, by Richard M. Kjeldgaard

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Woman/Alexis/Rachel: Val Cole
    Bellhop/Pilot/Nick: Steve Rizzo
    Flight Attendant/Hannah: Hannah Ehman
    Katie/TV Reporter: Julie Sheppard
    Driver/Older Man/Marco: Geoff Mays
    Jesse/Javier: Sean Ballantyne

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Violent Indigo, by Deborah Hodgetts

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Margaret: Hannah Ehman
    Benji/Jack Denton: Sean Ballantyne

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Number Two, by Robert Tartell (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Meg: Julie Sheppard
    Tim: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the screenwriter:

    1. What is your screenplay about? We've all heard of marital bliss. This is the opposite of marital bliss.

    2. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Farce comedy

    3. Why...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Heaven Sent Me, by Jim Norman (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Mark: Geoff Mays
    Erica: Julie Sheppard
    Bobby: Sean Ballantyne

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    A depressed firefighter falls in love with a guardian angel.

    2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
    Romantic comedy; fant...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Down At The Val, by Neil Goodchild

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

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Melvin: Geoff Mays
    Nate: Sean Ballantyne
    Otis...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Burning Old Man, by Joe Farhatt and Jim Clemens

    A group of grade school friends reconnect to throw a communal sixty-fifth birthday party for one another - leading to a Burning Man type celebration.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Harlan/Burt: Steve Rizzo
    Millie/Anita: Hannah Ehm
    Michael/Wayne: Geoff Mays
    Arthur/Gus: Sean Ballantyne
    Bet...

  • COMEDY Festival Scene: Kill the Millennial, by Dedra L. Stevenson (interview)

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Mr. Blaynard/Shandel/Harley: Sean Ballantyne
    Ryan/Ryan's Inner Voice: Geoff Mays
    Mandi/Mandi's Inner Voice: Hannah Ehman
    Lunch Lady/Cashier/Emily: Julie Sheppard

    Get to know the writer:

    What is your screenplay about?
    My screenplay is a Dark Comedy pa...

  • BEST Scene Reading: A Dangerous Gamble, by André Meira (interview)

    A woman with mental health issues, pressured by the insults of her own mother, attempts to stage the kidnapping of her daughter to prove she can make money... but the stunt goes wrong.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Amanda: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Richard: Geoff Mays
    Rage: Sean Ballantyne...

  • Toronto Female Festival: TINU, by Nirali Shastri (interview)

    Tinu, an Indian woman in her 40s, is going through a divorce. Leaving her acting career in Los Angeles and moving in with her parents in Buffalo, NY, Tinu attempts to rebuild her life as she pursues her back up engineering career plan with a job as a Construction Inspector. What she expects to be...

  • HORROR Festival: Some Enchanted Evening, by Ian Welfley

    On a quiet, snowy Valentine's Day, a psychotic high schooler breaks into his crush's home and forces her to have a romantic dinner with him -- A dinner that will leave none of its guests unscathed...

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Caleb: Geoff Mays
    Scarlett: Hannah Ehman