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COMEDY Best Scene Screenplay: DSP VS USA, by D. Sidney Potter
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Sidney: Steve Rizzo
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DRAMA Festival: Gallatin, by Ryan Skinner
A famous author goes on a quest of revenge as he tracks down and plans to murder the priest who molested his daughter.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Matt: Geoff May
Phillip: Sean Ballantyne
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FAN FICTION: The Sea Captain's Cottage, by Stephanie Marie Couture (interview)
After losing her job in NYC, Marylin and her daughter move away for a quieter life in Maine. Marylin hopes to fix her strained relationship with her daughter and find new purpose by restoring an old seaside cottage. What she didn't anticipate was falling in love with the ghost that resides there....
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LGBTQ+ Festival: Out in the West, by Claire V. Riley
In 1865, when it was a crime to be queer, a sharpshooting gender outlaw poses as a man so she and her southern belle lover can escape a brutal husband and create a new life as a married couple out in the west.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Millie: Val Cole
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Wrath, by Martin White II (interview)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Envy/Michael/All Angels: Geoff Mays
Greed/Dan/All Angels: Sean Ballantyne
Justin/Gary/All Angels: Steve Rizzo
Rebecca/Pride/Tina: Elizabeth Rose MorrissGet to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: The Portal, by Pamela PerryGoulardt
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Holiday: Val Cole
Jax: Sean Ballantyne
Samm: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Stranded, by Gini Graham Scott
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
William Forest: Geoff Mays
Dan Parks: Sean Ballantyne
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ACTION/ADVENTURE Festival: Bandaged Knees, by Colin Simpson
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Meredith Burns: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Wilson/Bartender: Geoff Mays
Sara: Val Cole
Reynolds: Sean Ballantyne
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Winning FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: Black Sunday, by Katreana Bellew
A young fireman, and father of four, jumps to his death to escape a Bronx fire alongside four other firemen. Upon inspection of the fire, it becomes clear that both the building owners and the city of New York are at fault. The fireman's wife and the surviving, but chronically injured, men from t...
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TV FESTIVAL Best Scene Reading: Mayday, by Haley White
An eager new Coast Guard recruit navigates personal and physical danger in an attempt to atone for the sins of her past.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Female Drill Instructor: Kyana Teresa
Madison: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Lead Drill Instructor: Sean BallatyneWriter Biography
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POLITICAL Festival Best Scene Reading: HAMMER AND NAILS, by Lowell Williams
What if someone when into the seminary to bury his own anger? Jonathan Daniels stumbles into the Civil Rights movement and finds himself face to face with moments that viciously try and pierce his peaceful personality. Based on a true story, he joins Stokely Carmichael and other Black activists d...
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LGBTQ+ Best Scene Reading: OFFSIDERS, by Kate Holland, Marlowe Mitchell
Get to know the writers:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Playing with the old-as-time concept of the genderbending sports romcom (She's The Man, Ladybugs), Offsiders sees Max dressing up as a boy in order to take her gay best friend's place on the boys' soccer team. The story then takes a dis...
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It's Always Sunny Spec Script "Charlie's Web", by Theodore George Boozalis
Charlie is tired of being human and decides to become a rat. The gang must replace him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Eugenia: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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1st Scene Script reading: Origin, by Will Macduff (with interview)
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Its about who we may be versus who we have been led to be - but also... the difficult decisions we often have to make in the pursuit of self-knowledge. It's not really a creature feature, although i was tempted to write it like that.
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1st Scene Script Reading: Bite Me, by Andy Palmer, Ben Begley
To pay for her dream internship, Dusty Douglas returns to the family business she spent the last decade running from… Professional Bass Fishing. Partnered with a cable access fishing show host, Dusty will have to dethrone her own father and perennial champion, Hank “Large Mouth” Douglas, at a sp...
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LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Pray the Gay Away, by Michael & Zak Zakar
Pray The Gay Away (the series) is a half-hour, single-camera comedy based on the real-life misadventures of Middle eastern, gay twins, Michael & Zak Zakar and their ultra-religious family who are obsessed with keeping up appearances but are anything but perfect.
Inspired by the best-selling me...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Serrated, by Julia M. Sauder
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Marta: Hannah Ehman
Christopher: Geoff Mays
Lela: Elizabeth Rose MorrissInterview with the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
A magazine reporter who travels to Maine to find her missing brother and discovers a family practing voodoo in the hopes...
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Terry Stinger Show, by Carlos Perez
Romeo and Juliet meets Jerry Springer in this Elizabethan parody of the famous talk show.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Terry: Geoff Mays
Juliet: Hannah EhmanInterview with the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
Taking the characters from Romeo and Juliet and placing them on a...
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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Head Block, by Jessica Sadler
Cherry Ann Bigman hopes to hang up her casual-sex shoes for something more substantial. Unfortunately, online dating chews her up and spits her out. So she takes up a new hobby--MMA fighting--and once she stops seeking, what she wants finds her.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
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HORROR Festival Short Script: THE MOUSE, by Tonia Kempler
A woman falls pray to her lover's darker side and is forced to obey his wishes even if it costs her, her life.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
Nikki: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Brock: Sean Ballatyne
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SHORT Script: Evolution, by Zsolt Pozsgal
Two men, one little boy. And a woman. Unknown. Or not. One woman, two men and a boy. Or not. A little boy, a woman and two men. And pain.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Kyana Teresa
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Short Script: Creations Dance, by Bruce Purcell
Sci-Fi
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Quenton: Sean Ballatyne
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Short Script: SCRATCH, by Alexander Hernandez-Maxwell
Horror
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Will: Sean Ballatyne
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Short Script: FALLEN ON HOARD TIMES, by Matthew Nicholson
Genre: Drama, Dramedy
Logline: "Eva Brown must help her hoarder brother clean his apartment (and his life) before he gets evicted. In the process, she uncovers the real reason why he has such a hard time letting go of material objects."
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Eva: Hannah Ehman