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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: My Life In Three Easy Payments, by Dale Madison, Breeze Vincinz, Darryl LeMont Wharton-Rigby
A TV shopping host finds love in all the wrong places as he seeks fame, fortune, and acceptance- eventually discovering his true callingā¦a drag queen
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Ricky: Sean Ballantyne
Dale: Shawn Devlin
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Vaveyla Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DRAMA Film Festival
VAVEYLA, 10min., Turkey, Drama
Directed by Kenan Karayaz
The story set in an unnamed school begins with a teacherentering the school with an olive sapling. Parents enter the classroom with boxes, each of different sizes, each symbolizing a different student, and deliver the boxes to the teacher. ... -
SHORT Screenplay Reading: 1 PAGE DRUG DEAL, by Franco Duerme
Type of Story: Crime Drama
Synopsis: A drug dealer completes a deal with a college student and both end up learning a bit about each other.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Derrick: Allan Michael Brunet
Marcus: Steve Rizzo
Student: Andy Camp
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene Reading: Baby Queen, by Max Rasmussen
10-year-old drag queen Darien the Librarian dreams of going viral, but when the top child agent in Milwaukee launches their career in the lucrative and booming drag industry, their single gay father must rescue them from the murky depths of local fame.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris...
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Trans-Human, by Leon Masters
SYNOPSIS:
In a world where humanoid robots coexist somewhat peacefully with men and women, Artemis is an innocent robot who has a wholesome father-daughter relationship with her creator William Moore.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Ros Morriss
Hal: Sean Ballantyne
Blake: Shawn Devlin
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1st Scene Reading: Rocket Number Nine, by Alexander McCoy
LOGLINE: A young man, Kojo grapples with his past and immense loss.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Kojo: Sean Ballantyne
Band: Andy Camp
Santos/Tall Worker: Geoff Mays
Caster: Shawn Devlin
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: Perdition, by Leon Masters
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Lily: Kyana Teresa
Roxane: Julie Sheppard
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COMEDY Festival SHORT Screenplay Reading: The Eye Of Doris, by Cynthia M. Uhrich
In this dark comedy, Gillian, a skeptical client with a difficult disposition meets her match when Doris--an occult shop psychic---predicts a series of unsavory events for Gillian's future.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Doris: Hannah Ehman
Gillian: Kyana Teresa
Mortie: Allan Michael Brunet
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Aria (Air) Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
ARIA (AIR), 3min., Italy, Experimental
Directed by Brace Beltempo e Barbara Sirotti
How are relationships changing during lockdown? Is time, still and truly, the only thing missing to understand each other?
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Hacks: New York New York, by Shannon H Constantine
Deborah and Ava go to New York to reunite with one of Deborah's old comedy chums, and realize that the two of them need each other more than they ever thought.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Deborah: Hannah Ehman
Jimmy: Geoff Mays
Ava: Kyana Teresa
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SPORTS Festival BEST Scene: SLEDGEHAMMER, by Vinny Smith
A former tennis champion, now a rough and rowdy Las Vegas cocktail waitress, enters the US Open in an effort to win her way out of trouble with the FBI, navigating the world of biker gangs and Russian mobsters along the way.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Agent: Geoff Mays
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Dancing In Place, by Jeanne Dukes
Escalating mutual interest between middle-aged neighbors gets complicated when he suddenly remembers their brief and awkward teen summer romance, but she doesn't recognize him. As he devises a plan to stir her memory, painful secrets from the past threaten to keep them apart.
CAST LIST:
Narr...
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STUDENT Festival TV 1st Scene: Sous, by Joel Galanti
Billy, a young cook, must prove he has what it takes to work in the prestigious kitchen of a belligerent head chef.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jalen/Chef: Sean Ballantyne
Nikole: Hannah Ehman
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Racism Has No Home Here Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DIVERSITY Film Festival
RACISM HAS NO HOME HERE, 3min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Rylee Landau
This documentary short is Jen Schatzman's story behind the grassroots effort called Racism Has No Home Hereāan organization that is all about connecting, educating, and empowering communities to put a stake in the ground s... -
A Couple Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 STUDENT Film Festival
A COUPLE, 22min., Italy, Romance
Directed by Davide Petrosino
Diego and Anna dated for two years. After they broke up, they moved to different cities. Now they meet again in Rome for a concert and they decide to spend the day together while waiting for the concert to get started. During those hou... -
SCI-FI Festival TV 1st Scene Reading: Sky City Haya, by Adad Joel Warda
A tormented bounty hunter must track down his old flame's heroic husband to stop the word's first sky city from collapsing.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Riguirdo: Shawn Devlin
Captain Voice/Security Guard: Geoff Mays
Adrien/Baatar: Sean Ballantyne
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1st Scene Script Reading: The Calling, by Steven Bogart
Summary:
John, a hospital director, raises his socially awkward daughter, Frankie by himself.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Frankie: Hannah Ehman
Ali/Sophie: Kyana Teresa
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COMEDY Festival BEST Scene Reading: Bad Romance, by Chad Wellinger
A paperback romance fanatic who strives to pen a novel of her own but has no real-life experience to draw upon recruits a playboy Casanova for a crash course in hot and heavy.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Heath: Geoff Mays
Astrid: Hannah Ehman
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SHORT Screenplay Reading: A Rock And A Hard Place, by Kinsey Kunkel
A dark comedy about a pair of men trapped in a cave after a tunnel collapse.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Sage: Allan Michael Brunet
Henry: Steve Rizzo
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SHORT Screenplay Reading: Strewn Porcelain Dolls, by Michael Lane
TYPE OF STORY: An almost coming of age story.
SYNOPSIS: JIMMY CRAMPOWITZ has reached boiling point with his mom, GERTRUDE CRAMPOWITZ. . She has brought him up properly- to be polite, punctual and to be very 'woke'. Except she hasn't given him involved love since forever. Today, Jimmy becomes ...
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SHORT Screenplay Reading: George Martin, by Dayle Doods
Comedy
George and Martin face a burglar.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
George: Allan Michael Brunet
Martin: Steve Rizzo
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WINNING Short Script Reading: SPOTTY: A TORTOISE IN THE ERA OF COVID-19, by Paul Frift
Spotty is a tortoise. When Covid-19 arrives, he sees a chance to escape captivity.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Spotty: Allan Michael Brunet
Male Prison Guard: Andy Camp
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LGBTQ+ Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: MISS FORTUNE, by Breeze Vincinz
A thieving ex-con attends twelve-step meetings to deal with her relationship with money, her fledging L.A. based dispensary staffed exclusively with African American women, her relationships with her ex-girlfriends, and a system that is trying to lock her back up.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Ri...
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LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: RESIDENCY, by Natalie Lomske
Residency is a drama about ambitious, paraplegic, surgical resident Amelia Walters who transfers to a renowned hospital and must find a balance between the demands of her career, relationships, and disability.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Amelia: Hannah Ehman
Alex: Geoff Mays
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