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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 BallantyneG...
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COMEDY Best Scene Script: Number Two, by Robert Tartell (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Meg: Julie Sheppard
Tim: Sean BallantyneGet 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...
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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
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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...
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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 SheppardGet to know the writer:
What is your screenplay about?
My screenplay is a Dark Comedy pa... -
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
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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
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COMEDY Best Scene Script: Violent Indigo, by Deborah Hodgetts
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Margaret: Hannah Ehman
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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...
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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
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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 DevlinGet...
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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
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POLITICAL Shorts Festival (North American) - Nov. 30th/Dec. 1st event
See the Full Lineup of Films:
15, 20min., USA
Directed by Melody Brooke
When a 15 year old girl discovers she is pregnant in a state where abortion is illegal, hard decisions have to be madehttp://melodybrookefilms.com/
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DIVERSITY DOC Festival - Nov. 30th/Dec. 1st event
See the Full Lineup of Films:
UNCONQUERED, 28min., UK
Directed by John Parr
The true story of two elite soldiers severely injured in the line of duty. “Unconquered” charts their inspiring journey from the depths of despair to break the chains of life changing injuries to rise again.http://www....
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SHORT Script: F the M, by Charles Marks
Charlie Marks takes the train to work.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Charlie: Steve Rizzo
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SHORT Script: Mr Toad's Wild Ride, by Rick Karlin
Romantic Dramedy
This is the first scene from a longer play about a gay couple who's lives diverge and it tests the strength of their love.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
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SHORT Script: Look Out, it's the Lumber Man, by Kabrien J. Gathers (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Kimber: Val Cole
Klay: Geoff MaysGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
My screenplay is about two siblings facing the aftermath of their friend returning to their campsite but without his body intact. It also quickly shows the relationsh...
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ROMANCE Short Script: I Swiped the Wrong One, by Joe Fishel
A movie within the The Haunting of Prince Dom Pedro feature film, I Swiped the Wrong One is the story of four people who discover dating in the physical world is much different than dating online. Their first dates begin and end in ways that they did not anticipate.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn...
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SHORT Script: Love. Santa, by Jim Newton
Genre: Holiday
Synopsis: A Mall Santa is having a bad day, until a young boy shows him love.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Marcus: Steve Rizzo
Store Manager: Geoff Mays
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SHORT Screenplay: Sasquatch Sprintin', by Ken Eason
Title: Sasquatch Sprintin'
Genre: Sci-fi/Comedy
Synopsis: Youth camp coaches use fake bigfoot footprints to scare out-of-shape preteen into sprinting only to find themselves sprinting from real sasquatch.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Les: Steve Rizzo
Ken: Geoff Mays
Steve: Sean Ballant... -
SHORT Script: 8 DAYS 'TIL THE END, by Ray Charles (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Desmond: Steve Rizzo
James: Geoff Mays
Waitress 1/Danya: Val Cole
Waitress 2/Ada: Hannah Ehman
Bryan: Sean BallantyneGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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Short Script: ENVY, A CURANDERO STORY, by Christine Longoria
DRAMA
A curandero dreams his grand-daughter's marriage is a subject of not only envy but a curse. He races to find and eliminate the curse before the wedding.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Delfina: Val Cole
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SHORT Script: I Might Have Something To Tell You, by Robert McCann
COMEDY
A quick scene about how technology has made conversation more complicated when we sometimes can't tell who is talking to us and who is listening.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Man: Geoff Mays
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SHORT Script: Free Tomatoes, by JT Tuttle
Narrator: Val Cole