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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
Dobson: Shawn Devl... -
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
Polly: Kyana Teresa
Anne: Hannah Ehman -
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
Emma: Val Cole ... -
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...
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SCREENPLAY MOVIE: Senior Ditch Day, by Matthew Nicholson
An elderly woman plans an escape from her nursing home to keep a promise to her late husband during a once-in-a-lifetime meteorological event.
Writer Biography - Matthew Nicholson
Matthew Nicholson is an editor/writer based in New York City. He has worked as a researcher for Who Wants To Be A... -
TRAMPS LIKE US TV Pilot Script Reading
The diverse crew of the tramp steamer Stella Maris sails into fantastic danger in the South Seas in this horror adventure set in the 1930s.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Seaman Casey: Shawn Devlin
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VIKE TV Pilot screenplay reading, by Adam Kelly Morton
Where fantasy meets procedural mystery, a cantankerous Chief Constable must solve crimes AND judge them in a dark and dangerous metropolis. Vike struggles with his own addictions and fears while up against the Arklanen: an underground guild of dark magic, responsible for the death of Vike's wife....
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Best Scene Reading: THE SNOW QUEEN by Jacob Leyva
CAST LIST:
Skinny: Russell Batcher
Keelut: Brandon Knox
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Miki: Regan Brown
Mother Bandit: Kristen Pepper
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BEST Scene Reading: THE MODEL LISA, by Kevin Mounce
She has been called...
"A visual masterpiece." -Ray Charles
"A work of art." -Bob Ross, talking about something else
"My fatter, uglier twin with a different mom." -Ron Burgundy
"A pound cake with legs." -BrotherThere is only one.
The Model. Lisa.
Lisa Berry has always wanted to be a model. ...
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1st Scene Screenplay Reading: INVINCIBLE, by Andreas Nelander
As a mysterious plague spreads across the kingdom of Lordaeron, the Prince, burdened by the guilt of his past and the weight of the crown, must rise to save his people from a sinister force sent to test him.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
King Terenas: Geoff Mays
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SHORT Script: 3 Nights on the Plains, by Robert Walker
Two cowboys visit a witch for help in bringing a loved one back from the dead. They only have to spend three nights on the plains of Colorado and follow her instructions to the letter.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Celi: Val Cole
Gus/Chisholm: Steve Rizzo
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1st Scene Festival Reading: DARK FOREST, by Cole Dilts
After landing outside a Cabin in the Woods, a small crew of alien biologists search for viable human specimens, only to find themselves the victims of a cannibalistic cult.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Female Voices/Trixie/Woman: Kyana Teresa
Chad: Sean Ballantyne
John/Danny: Geoff Mays... -
SHORY Story: The Secret History, by Keshia L Nowden
– Horror, romance, historical
Performed by Val Cole
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Short Screenplay: Operation Flyswatter, by Dennis Flagg
Action/Adventure
Eastern European oligarchs double cross their countries and are then double crossed.
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SHORT Screenplay: The Worst of Times, by Daniel Broderick
Mary and her lawyer sit in jail, trial over, awaiting their fate. With the shadow and sound of the guillotine blade falling, she bemoans the unfairness of it all. My husband and I did nothing illegal. Well, you're a widow now. But it was the politicians' fault. Another shadow and another sou...
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SHORT Screenplay: The Gag Gift, by Sharon Goldner
Synopsis: During a surprise 40th birthday party, a woman gets a gag gift of a super-charged, state-of-the-art dildo, The Intrepid III. It gets tossed somewhere in her closet when she gets home. Fast forward ten years. The woman is trying to find the unused dildo, while the dildo promotes itself, ...
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1st Scene Reading: Turn This Spaceship Around!, by Jaye Blohm
Good news! You’ve escaped your enemies by fleeing to another planet!
Bad news! You’ve made yourself easy pickings for alien hunters!Relia, a teenager from Proxima Centauri b, is ruthlessly tormented by bullies, with no solutions in sight. While on her family vacation to Earth, she decides she’s...
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BEST Scene Reading: ONI, by Brian Pluchinsky
A mythological story set in feudal Japan, following a brother and sister and their masked guardian. They venture out west in search of protection and vengeance. On their way, they run into various demons and masked guardians who seem to share a similar backstory to their protector.
CAST LIST:
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BEST SCENE Reading: NOT MY SECRET TO TELL, by Karla S Bryant
A couple has shared a devastating secret for decades. Yet the wife's deeper secret is about to be revealed.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Danny/Todd: Geoff Mays
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1pg. SHORT Screenplay - What Makes Me Different, by Steven Kobrin
SCI-FI/MYSTERY/THRILLER
SYNOPSIS:A mid-air hijacking is thwarted by a rogue federal operative. But the incessant nightmares that plague him after the incident have more to do with his own mysterious origin.