New Screenplay Videos
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HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay: NIGHTFALL, by Johnny Storme
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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LGBTQ+ Festival First Scene: The Urning - Life and Times of a Gay Rights Pioneer
"Hambach Awakening" - Pilot episode of a limited series on the life and times of Karl Heinrichs Ulrichs - a German gay rights pioneer and scholar who wrote the first queer theory known to the LGBTQ movement, published the first gay magazine, and used his privilege and law degree to go into battle...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene: Tequila Express, by Thomas J Kearns
A sequence of events leads a bunch of friends on a fun musical journey in time. One where they may not come back from.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Bailey: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Maria: Hannah Ehman
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ROMANCE Festival 1st Scene: The Labyrinth, by Nicholas J. Szegedi (interview)
When a successful aerospace engineer is sabotaged by a vengeful business rival and haunted by two failed marriages, he embarks on an international journey of self-discovery with newfound hope and determination. Based on actual events.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Michael: Shawn Devlin
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FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene:The Octopus's Garden, by Ed Moran (interview)
A delightful blend of adventure and emotional depth, reminiscent of films like "Finding Nemo," where the bond between characters drives the narrative through perilous waters. I thought of "The Shape of Water" as well, with its unique exploration of relationships between humans and extraordinary c...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: Grad Nite, by Sion-Raize (interview)
While enjoying an overnight celebration at a regional theme park, a group of graduating high school students are targeted by a vicious killer wearing a dragon mask.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Mr. Randol: Sean Ballantyne
Gracyn: Geoff MaysGet to know the writer:
1. What is ...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: CRYSTAL MAGICIAN OF ATZLAN, by Mui Rah
A hot-shot Crystal Magician puts domestic life on pause to strike back against the big business that ordered a mercenary “hit” on her Animist Kijutsu Temple...and, really, to send a message to all the Atzlan “haves”: nature and Ancient wisdom are more powerful than any human law.
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LGBTQ+ 1st Scene Reading: Canoe, by Ron Wayne Kennell
When a hot shot architect inherits his grandfather’s remote cabin, the locals become restless and reveal secrets he can no longer ignore.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Trudy: Hannah Ehman
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AWAKEN THE MEDIUM, by Lee Bice-Matheson, Kevin Matheson (interview)
Awaken the Medium is a feature-length script that follows the story of Maggie Samson, whose latest near-death experience thrusts her into discovering her gifts and powers. Maggie is a librarian in her forties. Married to Chris, a professor, with whom she has a son, Justus Samson, now eleven years...
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TV Best Scene: The Victorian Ladies' Detective Collective, by Patricia Milton
Two eccentric sisters and a fan-fighting American actress thwart a serial killer in Victorian London, defying society’s expectations to become private detectives. A 50-minute TV pilot.
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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Loveday: Hannah Ehman
Katie: Elizabeth Rose Morriss -
SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: CE-V (The Fifth Kind), by Deb Havens & Brad Havens
It’s Halloween night in the late 1980s. Three kids return from trick or treating with their mom and their dog, hang out in their tree house to sample their loot. That night, on a botanical survey of planet Earth, an alien space craft collecting samples mistakenly uproots the highly unusual “famil...
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BEST Scene Script Reading: MRS. O'LEARY, by Melissa Birks
Inspired by the Great Fire of Chicago 1871 following the investigation of Mrs O'Leary, a woman the newspapers blamed for starting the fire that spread all the way to Lincoln Park.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Patrick O'Leary: Shawn Devlin
Mrs. O'Leary: Val ColeGet to know the writer:...
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COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Wit Happens, by Shaun Delliskave (interview)
“Wit Happens” is a dramedy blending sharp satire and heartfelt comedy, capturing the unlikely bond between two souls at different stages of life. As Jack learns to break out of his “one-trick pony” role, Barbara guides him in finding his unique voice—one that has the power to connect, heal, and i...
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BEST Scene Reading: WE'RE GOING ON A CRUISE, by John McCann
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Fem (F): Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Dealer (M): Geoff Mays
Ale (F): Val Cole -
BEST Scene Reading: THE POLSKI AFFAIR, by Ken Gildin
After losing her family in the Warsaw ghetto, Rosa Feurmann is sent by the Resistance to the Hotel Polski to uncover the Germans’ covert plan there. Her intimate relationship with the Nazi commandant of the Hotel results in her survival, but her guilt haunts her and affects her family for decades...
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Chicago Festival Scene: THE PEBBLE CHAMPION, by Alan David Pritchard (interview)
When a grieving teenage boy, sent to live with the father he's never met, is haunted by memories and wrestling with his identity, it takes the magic of pebbles on water and the transformative power of kind friends to help him accept his past and welcome his future.
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SHORT Screenplay: Cowabunga, by Kabrien Gathers
Set in 1991, a cocky young boy faces off against the menacing main villain of a popular video game... in real life.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
J.C.: Geoff Mays
Shredder: Sean Ballantynehttps://www.instagram.com/kay.gatzby/
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Best Scene Reading: THE LAWS OF THE GODS, by Mary Oleske
LGBTQ+ Drama
This is a study in gender rights and the rights of all humankind. What truly makes one female or male?
A female attorney is assigned to represent a transgendering inmate seeking a transfer from a male to a female prison. This is a study in the struggle for the balance of rights: pe...
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1st Scene Reading: The Refugee And The Racer, by Noura Abd Alsalam
Biography/Drama/Romance
When the arrival of a female Syrian refugee fleeing a war-torn past completely disrupts the quiet life of an Italian former car racer who retired from ...
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Rita: Hannah Ehman
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BEST Scene Reading: WEDDING RESCUE, by Jack Sherry
Romantic Comedy
In order for a bride-to-be to drastically lower the budget for her wedding, she turns to her creative marketing boss who does not believe in marriage.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Jennifer: Hannah Ehman
Gerard: Geoff Mays
Ashleigh: Elizabeth Rose Morrisshttps://j...
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COMEDY Best Scene Screenplay: DSP VS USA, by D. Sidney Potter
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Sidney: Steve Rizzo
Selina: Val Cole -
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
Monica: Val Cole -
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
Beth: Hannah Ehman