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Winning LGBTQ+ SHORT Script Reading: LAILA MANJU, by Kamya Nair, Prithvi Vatsalya
Laila and Manju have been going out for what seems like a lifetime, but Manju’s mother, Poornima, has only just learned about it. In an absurd combination of FOMO, identity crisis and alienation, Poornima worries that her daughter may not be ‘normal’. Was this a result of her laissez faire parent...
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Female Festival Best Scene: MILKWOOD MANOR, by Alexia Kosmider
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Hania: Hannah Ehman
Elizabeth: Julie Sheppard
Emily: Kyana Teresa
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene Script Reading: COPPERLAND, by Eila Algood, Holly Algood, Susan Froetchel
Four intelligent, complex women are drawn together. A lesbian couple, their friend and a young woman are looking to find peace relating to their deceased mothers. The fight for equal rights shows up both from the past and present. There is an exciting discovery to bring solar energy to mainstream...
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COMEDY Festival SHORT Screenplay: Bad Karma, by Caleb Parazette, Jarret Rosenblatt
Emina is a war crimes victim who is having trouble accepting her horrific past. In her desperation, she seeks the counsel of Starchild who is all too happy to put her suffering into cosmic perspective.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Starchild: Julie Sheppard
Emina: Hannah Ehman
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Winning LGBTQ+ Festival SHORT Script: ALL ARE WELCOME, by Ross Morin
A young gay man risks everything as he chooses between his religious community and his own happiness after he’s asked on a date by his bike mechanic.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Miles: Steve Rizzo
Sam: Shawn Devlin
Holly: Kyana Teresa
Clerk/Scott: Sean Ballantyne
Jess: Mat... -
DIVERSITY Festival Best Scene Script Reading: ACE, by Jacobo Fe
Sir Douglas Bader was a British pilot during WWII, who, after losing both of his legs, became a flying ace. The use of prosthesis was not an impediment to prove his value and wit; both when he was battling in the skies or as an inmate in the most inexpugnable Nazi prison. His rude and rebel spiri...
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LGBTQ+ Festival 1st Scene TV Reading: THE MENDER, by Robert Ripley
A transgender man turns to contract killing to pay for his gender reassignment surgery, while his murky past begins to catch up with him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Roy: Sean Ballantyne
Jiron: Matthew Camp
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SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Script Reading: The Masked Chronicles, by Isaiah Carter & John Azzopardi
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Alien: Matthew Camp
Paul: Geoff Mays
Bob: Sean Ballantyne
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SHORT Screenplay Reading: THE BLUE PARROT, by Antonia Patsidou
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Otto: Steve Rizzo
Rudolf: Geoff Mays
Chris: Allan Michael Brunet
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1st Scene Script Reading: SURFACE TENSION, by Shane Walsh-Smith
When the world ends in a nuclear explosion, a family of pampered and petty one-percenters bicker and blunder their way through the apocalypse, confined in their luxury underground bunker.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Clem: Allison Kampf
Camile: Hannah Ehman
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NYC Festival 1st Scene TV PILOT: SEEN, by Colin J. Murphy
een follows Caleb Jamison, a NYC writer and podcaster who is quick-witted, sensitive and has a pop culture reference at his fingertips to pull out at any moment. Basically, he is the person who slays the GIFs in a group chat. After continually taking a back seat in his own life, Caleb's friend So...
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TV Festival 1st Scene Reading: Pure, by Erika Hakmiller
A 30 minute single camera comedy following Mary Smith, the most eligible pilgrim in New England whose life is turned upside down when an unexpected group of Puritans move in next door.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Mary: Julie Sheppard
Peter: Steve Rizzo
Grace: Kyana Teresa
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Poetry Reading: Tiptoeing Elephants, by John Hansen
Read Poem: Tiptoeing Elephants, by John Hansen
Why do people take offence
so easily these days?
It seems that almost everything
offends in certain ways.No matter what is said or done,
written or expressed,
someone somewhere, who knows why,
will be visibly distressed.There once was something...
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THRILLER Festival Best Scene Reading: Opposition Research. by T. R. Schumer
When a brilliant young law grad with a talent for speed-reading takes a well paid gig scraping bulk data for dirt on a rival political candidate, his idealistic naiveté and misplaced loyalty land him in the crosshairs of powerful enemies, the FBI, and his murderous boss.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geo... -
SCI-FI Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Ocean City, by Kevin Mongelli
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Brandon: Allan Michael Brunet
Mia: Kyana Teresa
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Female Festival BEST SCENE Reading: HELL'S BELLE, by Kari Karsten
In the early 20th century a young woman discovers a way to prosper from her husband's death, leading her down a lifelong path of murderous treachery that threatens to be discovered by a local police detective investigating a sinister series of mysterious events.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth R... -
COMEDY Festival TV PILOT Best Scene: Nervous Rex, by Sean Sullivan
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Wendy: Kyana Teresa
Jesus: Shawn Devlin -
Female Festival BEST Scene Reading: FORGOTTEN VOICE(S), by Malathi Vulupala
A young innocent girl trusts her
first love too much and pays the
ultimate price when he
betrays her, and must decide if she
can move forward and trust in love
again.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Adithya: Shawn Devlin
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LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene Reading: HANDSOME DEVIL, by Andrew Albert
When a masked stranger crashes a celebration of life party at a secluded estate, an all-guys weekend becomes a terrifying battle for survival - one that will force a grieving young man to use all of his wits and resources to win.
"Handsome Devil" is a twisty horror/slasher with an undercurrent o...
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Winning ANIMATION Short Screenplay Reading: Feliz Navidad, by Edward Tyndall
Luis just wants to bake cookies, but his tough-as-nails father has other plans, until a South Texas miracle makes everyone rethink the meaning of love and acceptance. Feliz Navidad takes a scrumptious look at dismantling traditional gender roles in this warm comedy set in the heart of Tejano Amer...
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THRILLER 1st Scene Script Reading: Eat What You Kill, by Leslie Lyshkov
A cunning, but naive attorney gets in over his head with a Wall Street financier and the Russian mob.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Max: Sean Ballantyne
Ruben: Steve Rizzo
Vulture Capitalist: Matthew Camp
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Best Scene Script Reading: BIG SISTER, by David Chester, Blake Pinter
A successful woman abandons her career to save her destitute younger sister, but her enabling tactics backfire and she becomes the one who needs to be saved.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Oliver: Allan Michael Brunet
Lynn: Kyana TeresaWriter Biography - David Chester, Blake Pinter
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1st Scene Screenplay Reading; CRACKSMEN, by Daniel Corey
Cracksmen are a new class of criminal that specialize in slipping into an alternate dimension to commit crimes. Jake is one of the best, but to escape the mob, he has to strike a deal that will get him in trouble with syndicates on both sides of reality.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morr... -
TV Festival Best Scene Reading: A Kansas Mermaid, by A.S. Templeton
A mythical creature raised as human must team up with a delusional federal agent and a motley crew of sentient species to save Earth from space alien invasion.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Barnesdale: Allan Michael Brunet
Yeager: Hannah Ehman