BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.
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DRAMA Festival: Gallatin, by Ryan Skinner
A famous author goes on a quest of revenge as he tracks down and plans to murder the priest who molested his daughter.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Matt: Geoff May
Phillip: Sean Ballantyne
Monica: Val Cole -
FAN FICTION: The Sea Captain's Cottage, by Stephanie Marie Couture (interview)
After losing her job in NYC, Marylin and her daughter move away for a quieter life in Maine. Marylin hopes to fix her strained relationship with her daughter and find new purpose by restoring an old seaside cottage. What she didn't anticipate was falling in love with the ghost that resides there....
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LGBTQ+ Festival: A-Okay, by Casey Seline (interview)
Merritt and Hylan are returning to their high school for their ten year reunion. Friends and roommates, the two complete each other in being completely different; Hylan — a confident, sexually active and adventurous extrovert, and Merritt — a shy, hopeless romantic who is struggling with her sexu...
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LGBTQ+ Festival: Queer Cowfolk: The Gay Rodeo Musical, by Bear Kosik (interview)
One is confused. One is growing older. One is afraid of settling down. They all take their chances on rodeo weekend amid the dancing, riding, and drinking.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Paul: Geoff Mays
Martin: Steve RizzoGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Ni...
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Wrath, by Martin White II (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Envy/Michael/All Angels: Geoff Mays
Greed/Dan/All Angels: Sean Ballantyne
Justin/Gary/All Angels: Steve Rizzo
Rebecca/Pride/Tina: Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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 MaysG...
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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