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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
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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...
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FANTASY Festival Best Scene: Alaric The Rising Knight, by Sammy Vogel-Seidenberg
In a realm where the balance of power is governed by the elements—Earth, Fire, Water, and Desert—the theft of the Elementarium by the ruthless Kael threatens to plunge the world into chaos. The Council of Elders, desperate to restore order, turns to Alaric, a young but gifted Earth Knight, to uni...
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HORROR Festival Reading: Something in the Water, by Mike Kelso (interview)
Poisoned drinking water turns the town into vampire zombies.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Barfly 1: Geoff Mays
Hunter: Shawn Devlin
Barfly 2: Steve RizzGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
It's about a small town that is suddenly struck by a strange disease and t... -
FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Reading: NEANDERLAND, by Muli Glasberg
In a venture into an uncharted human civilization on Earth that evolved without sunlight, a checkered doctor must bridge - with a resilient local leader - science and ancient tradition to find a cure to a deadly disease, navigating together hostile landscapes, corporate grid, personal demons.
CA...
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Best Scene:RACE WARS: A EUGENICS EXPERIMENT, by Eric Faulkner
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Caucasoid: Geoff Mays
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: THE UNRAVELLING, by Susan Kelejian
"The Unravelling" follows Beth Carter, a young American woman who inherits a lighthouse on the remote Irish island of Inishenbarr. As she settles into island life, Beth begins experiencing visions of the past, specifically of her ancestors Brigid and Llewellyn, star-crossed lovers whose story end...
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SHORT Screenplay Reading: Bold, by Andry Platrites
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Harlen: Hannah Ehman
Audrey: Val Cole
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HORROR SHORT Screenplay Reading: Deep Red, by David Rogers
Little Red Riding Hood needs to defend herself against the big bad werewolf - but she has a surprise or two up her sleeve!
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Little Red: Hannah Ehman
Lumberjack #1: Geoff Mays
Lumberjack #2: Shawn Devlin
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FANASY/SCI-FI Fest Best Scene: THE RED ZONE, by Terry Luke Podner (interview)
Summary: An American footballer has the greatest super human strength and is undefeated on the field. What make him stand out even more is that he had a terrible car accident which could have killed him but surprisingly he survived and is now a force putting his underdog team back on the map. How...
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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
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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
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FEMALE Festival Best Scene: THE EIGHT DATES OF HANUKKAH, by Laurel Gans
A top efficiency expert is forced to prove her new dating program works by going on all eight dates herself.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Natalie: Julie Sheppard
Wallace: Shawn Devlin
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Best Scene Reading: MARILOU & MARILYN, by Melanie Klug
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Jane: Julie Sheppard
Policeman #1/Archie: Steve Rizzo
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HORROR 1st Scene Reading: Killer Identity, by Sammy Vogel-Seidenberg
Sarah Light, a woman haunted by a lifetime of abuse, struggles with dissociative identity disorder, a condition that splinters her psyche into distinct personalities. Among them, Kristina, a ruthless vigilante driven by a thirst for justice, begins a campaign of violent retribution against figure...
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New York Feedback Festival Best Scene: Otherworldly, by Doug Stich
A young girl with special abilities skips several grades to enter high school early as her father leaves on the first manned mission to Mars and her mother contends with a family member's illness.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
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HORROR Short Script: The Sabbath of The Dead, Sammy Vogel-Seidenberg (interview)
The screenplay The Sabbath of The Dead follows Rachel, a determined woman, who, along with a group of survivors, faces a zombie apocalypse centered around an abandoned synagogue in Eastern Europe. As the undead rise, Rachel retrieves ancient scrolls and a shofar from the synagogue, initiating a s...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: REWIRING JADE, by Jane DeFoe (interview)
A fierce forty-something woman tries to escape traumatic memories by participating in the Ironman triathlon, only to be diagnosed with CFS. As her life unravels, she clings to an unlikely friend who helps and then hinders her journey to recovery.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Jade: Val Col... -
BEST Scene Reading: MORE GOING DOWN, by Dennis J. Manning (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Jake: Geoff Mays
Bartender: Shawn Devlin
Robin: Steve RizzoGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
More Going Down is a neo-noir crime thriller set in Miami's underworld, where power, seduction, and betrayal collide. It follows Jake, a m... -
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...
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HORROR Best Scene Reading: Echoes From The Veil. by Nicole Sell (interview)
Newly widowed father, Daniel Lambert, grapples with his skepticism of the supernatural as he moves into a charming old house with his four children, seeking a fresh start after the untimely passing of his wife. The family struggles to adapt to their new life, each of them finding their own way to...
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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...
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BEST Scene Reading: THE SUSURRUS, by Krista Amigone (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Lydia: Julie Sheppard
Charmilla: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jilly: Hannah EhmanGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
The Susurrus is about a dollmaker who starts to date a year after her husband abandoned her. The jump back into the dating ...
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BEST Scene Reading: Dirty Kid, by Klemesheva Olga
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Molly: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Walter: Shawn Devlin