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WINNING Short Screenplay: Bentobox, by Victoria Hirakawa-Lee Castro
With his father depolyed overseas in 90s rural America, a little boy of a half Japanese-half American decent connects with is mother through her cooking. After being teased at school for his strange lunches, he struggles to find his idenity between school and home, rejecting his mother in the pro...
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1st Scene Reading: Losing The Plot, by Nicola Morris, Rupert Bogarde
An absurd comedy set in a run-down New Forest estate agents where the living are swindled and the dead given houses to haunt.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Richard: Andy Camp
Jay: Shawn Devlin
Dregs: Geoff Mays
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Against My Will Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 Film Festival
AGAINST MY WILL, 28min., France, Drama
Directed by Nils Lane
Valérie, a successful woman, happy in her couple, has left her consulting firm to open a very popular restaurant. Unfortunately, her life is suddenly turned upside down when the second lockdown of the French population was announced. At... -
COMEDY Festival TV BEST Scene Reading: Poulet Realty, by Melanie McCullough
Peaches Poulet, recently cheated on and widowed, is determined to reinvent her life in small town Alabama. She's going to lose 30 pounds, change the carpet in the den, and finally achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a realtor. But first, she has to ruin her treacherous ex-best friend's funeral...
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1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Magnetman, by Christian Riedel
A young private investigator has an accident that causes him to develop magnetic powers. He tries to use them for good, but there is one person on earth who knows about his powers and tries to stop him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Benjamin: Sean Ballantyne
Watson (Parrot): Ha... -
1st Scene Screenplay Reading: The Hawthorne, by Adam Pike
After the sudden and mysterious death of his mother, Jacob is forced to live with his estranged Grandma and her weird troupe of friends at 'The Hawthorns', a very super retirement home.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Greece/Richard: Sean Ballantyne
Wendy: Hannah Ehman
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Death's Hidden Love, by Ernestina Juarez
A cynical teenage girl views her father's struggle with depression as a sign of weakness but her attitude toward him changes when an ancestor seeking a lost love saves them both from the wrath of an assassin in a drug cartel.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Peter: Sean Ballantyne
Rudy: Sha... -
Ecclesiastes Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
ECCLESIASTES, 5min., Spain, Sci-Fi
Directed by Lola Rui
Beyond our known time space the human being discovered the sacred code that made them immortal, covering with obscurity their days for ever... -
BEST Scene Reading: Shady's Last Stand, by Stan Barton
When a misplaced border wall throws his honky-tonk into no-man’s land, Shady establishes a new kingdom to offer folks a second chance, but powerful politicians have other ideas.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Santos: Steve Rizzo
Shady: Geoff Mays
Landry: Sean Ballantyne
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COMEDY Festival TV Best Scene Reading: HUGS NOT DRUGS, by Edward Dorsey
A bumbling father trips and falls into the middle of a drug deal. The cartel and police are after him, but he still has to pick his kids up from orchestra practice.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Jerry: Geoff Mays
Sheldon: Steve Rizzo
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ENVIROMENTAL Festival 1st Scene Reading: The Surge, by David Cooper
John O’Neal wants to change the world to honor his dead mother and to spite his abusive father—while getting very, very rich. Following a worldwide Global Warming catastrophe, he loses his invention to a deep conspiracy and becomes an eco-terrorist—until he uncovers the truth.
CAST LIST:
Narrat...
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1st Scene Script Reading: Goodbye Port Hope, by Sophia Lee
Synopsis: In the small town of Port Hope, Alice Forester goes missing. With little help or success from the police, it is up to her friends Nico and Lily to find out where she went and what happened to her.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Lily: Hannah Ehman
Nico: Shawn Devlin
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: El Alacran, by Julie Miller
After being stung by a scorpion during a holiday in Mexico, Lexie uses newfound superpowers to wreak revenge on men who have crossed her, ridding her world of toxic waste ... one asshole at a time...
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Lexie: Hannah Ehman
Cassidy: Kyana Teresa
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The Gift Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DANCE Film Festival
THE GIFT, 5min., France, Dance
Directed by Paul Mignot
The gift is a dance performance to express the beauty inside all of us. -
WINNING Short Script Reading: The Pizza Paradox, by John McCloskey
“The Pizza Paradox” is a short dramedy. It runs about 15 minutes.
FELIX GRANT is a frustrated man who longs for greatness. He thinks that he has a brilliant idea, but it all may be illusion.
MARTA SEMPLE is his friend who acts as the voice of rationality, guarding against Felix’s proclivity to ...
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Baby Grief Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
BABY GRIEF, 4min., USA, Drama
Directed by Tatyana Yassukovich
Facing the loss of their baby two women and are forced to reconcile with each other as they find different ways of coping with their grief. -
TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: Brutal Journey, by Tom Freyer
In 1528 Spain, the King’s timid treasurer is forced to accompany a sadistic lunatic and 500 conquistadors on the first cross-country exploration of North America.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Ayllson: Sean Ballantyne
Castillo: Shawn Devlin
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BEST SCENE TV PILOT Reading: THE MÂR CHRONICLES, by A. S. Templeton
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Barnesdale: Allan Michael Brunet
Yaeger: Hannah Ehman
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DIVERSITY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Border Flesh, by Pepe García Gilling
After losing his brother and the only family he has left, 14-year-old Connor encounters Fernanda and her 13-year-old daughter, Bárbara. Both women are Mexican and don't speak a word of English. Connor, Fernanda and Bárbara must communicate as best they can to survive zombie apocalypse at the Méxi...
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Cherry Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
CHERRY, 25min., Israel, Drama
Directed by Naama Lahav
Broken-hearted Omer finds out she is pregnant and tries to use it to lure back her ex. She pushes away her worried mother but ends up realizing she is her true source of love and support. -
Tang'o Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 DANCE Film Festival
TANG'O, 3min., France, Dance
Directed by Bastien Soleil
Sometimes, art is doing something simply because we know it will be beautiful.
With the combination of water, lighting and dancer Ariadna’s talent, TANG’O offers the viewer an innovative take on underwater videography and art in general. -
Sour Patch Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Aug. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
SOUR PATCH, 7min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Marie-Christine Roussel
On Gaby’s birthday, Willa brings her friend Gaby to the nail salon in order to reconnect with her. After much confessions and recollections of the past, their friendship clashes. Sour Patch recalls the story of two high school f... -
LOGLINE Video Pitch: Dawsons, by James E. Carter
LOGLINE PITCH
DAWSONS by James E. Carter
Kevin opened his restaurant Dawsons in the early 1970’s. The restaurant was a joint dream project with his wife Thelma who sadly passed away from breast cancer.
The neighborhood that he loves and adores Harlem is dealing with gentrification. His restaur...
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MR. BUCHMAN GOES TO WASHINGTON, by Bill Baber
Mr. Buchman Goes to Washington is an intense courtroom docudrama that recreates the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing of Sidney Buchman – the Oscar nominated Communist screenwriter of the classic patriotic film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. This is the day that Mr. Buchman, like...