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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
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Short Script Reading: AGAIN, by Lee Nordling (with interview)
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
It’s about a page. (Heh.) Story-wise, it’s about the recriminations a couple goes through when they’re not on the same page (pun intended).
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Humor and fantasy.
3. Why should this screenp...
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Full Feature Screenplay: CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by Andrew Cahill-Lloyd
When two detectives are confronted with solving the mystery of a priest’s murder, they are led into the depths of an underground child trafficking ring.
Children of The Night is essentially four intertwined stories and their crossover points.CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
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1st Scene Reading, Underwater Hazards, by Pamela PerryGoulardt
While searching for a great story, a young journalism student swims into the lair of a cannibal Merman Wizard deformed from water pollution.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
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1st Scene Reading, We Are All Dead, by Arthur Tiersky
When a robbery goes wrong and the getaway driver is killed, the gang's two leaders become romantic rivals when the driver's widow shows up to collect her share.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Voice/McBride: Shawn Devlin
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Winning HORROR SHORT Screenplay Reading: SOLI DEO GLORIA, by Andrew Wade Bowcock
In a rural early 20th century midwest American town, young August must face frequent abuse by his fundamentalist preacher father. As domestic troubles intensify with August’s family, so do visions of a monstrous presence chasing him. Can August escape both the source and the symbol of his trauma...
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POLITICAL Festival 1st Scene Script Read: The Olive Branch, by Danny Boushebel
When their sightseeing is cut short at a Syrian Army checkpoint in Lebanon, a new couple is forced to learn more about each other as well as themselves in order to find the strength to escape a life-threatening situation.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Danny: Steve Rizzo
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COMEDY Festival TV SPEC Screenplay: Ted Lasso "The Tryout", by Geoffrey Prather
A best scene reading of an original screenplay from the hit TV series TED LASSO.
CAST LIST:
Ted: Bill Poulin
Brent: Sean Ballantyne
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1st Scene Script Reading: Omissions, by Jessica Marie Sadler (with interview)
A couple, whose marriage teeters on the brink due to infidelity, split during a visit to Baltimore for Thanksgiving. Separated, they go through harrowing experiences that leave them bruised and battered and teaches them the unconventional secret to relationship longevity. Omissions is a dark dram...