BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS

The "best scene" take from features and TV pilots of winning screenplays.

BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY READINGS
  • GREEN RUSH, by Matt Gallagher script reading - Crime/Mystery Festival winner

    Out of work actors in LA plan a robbery of a marijuana dispensary in the middle of Covid lockdown.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Val Cole
    Corey: Steve Rizzo
    Blake: Shawn Devlin
    Patty: Julie Sheppard

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Walking Wounded, by Andrew Cahill-Lloyd

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Donna: Hannah Ehman
    Dawn: Julie Sheppard
    Noah/Monty: Geoff Mays
    Levi/Ian: Steve Rizzo

  • BEST Scene Reading: The Hollow Earth, by Kenneth James

    In the late 19th century, a young scientist embarks on an epic journey to a hidden, fabled land -- and to the darkest recesses of his own psyche.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Hannah Ehman
    Palmer: Geoff Mays
    Sheppard: Steve Rizzo
    Reed/Taylor: Sean Ballantyne
    Bradshaw: Andy Camp

  • LGBTQ+ Festival Scene: THE PLANT THIEF, by Norm Fassbender, Katherine Holowach

    Summary: Bellus and Invictus are royal siblings, Bellus the more inquisitive and caring and Invictus the rebellious and conniving sibling. Their mother has been missing, which their father forbids questions about, and she begins to explore whether her mother’s theft of a flower–a Draco Lily–could...

  • LA LGBTQ+ Festival Best Scene: BEGIN THE BEGUINE, by R.A. Modro (interview)

    Two families from different eras, one White and one Black, are inextricably linked by a violent family legacy and a historic home that holds a haunting secret. The story unfolds across two timelines, intricately weaving their lives together through violence, love, acceptance, and the discovery of...

  • HORROR Festival Best Scene: STAG NIGHT, by Wenzler Powers (interview)

    When Ian reluctantly plans a bachelor party for his awful college friends, confronting his past demons transforms into a desperate bid for survival when a group on their party bus has a very different definition of raising hell.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Alex: Hannah Ehman
    Ian: Geof...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: Moonwalking, by Jillian Smart

    When her parents demand rent money, Annie gives her dream of becoming a Michael Jackson Impersonator one last go, putting the threads of her personal relationships at risks as she hip-thrusts all the way to the top.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Frank: Steve Rizzo
    Annie: Hannah Ehman
    Ma...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD SCRIPT, by Dale A Brandenburg

    It's a story about a guy trying to write a movie script.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Pepe: Sean Ballantyne
    Margarita: Hannah Ehman

  • SCENE: Game of Thrones "The Rains of Castamere", by Anthony Hyatt (interview)

    The iconic GAME OF THRONES ‘Red Wedding’ episode in the style of PARKS AND RECREATION:
While a recently divorced wedding planner attempts to engineer the perfect day, a self-conscious groom tries desperately to discover who he is marrying, all while the realm’s most famous conflict mediator striv...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: The One Hit Wonder, by Bob Dawson

    When his one and only hit song from the 80s unexpectedly becomes a viral hit on social media, a washed up rock and roller finds his family life turned upside down.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
    Abby: Hannah Ehman
    Grace: Julie Sheppard
    Erin: Allison Kampf

  • TV Festival PITCH Reading: DREAM STATE, by Helena Giersz, Christina Giersz

    A young woman stumbling through the New York fashion world finds solace in her dreams and the relationships she cultivates within them, but when her dreams manifest in her real life she must contend with the discrepancies between flawed humanity and her subconscious perfection.

    CAST LIST:

    Narr...

  • SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival Script: The Founders' Plot, by Frank Victoria

    Wealthy man is bored with life, and even gambling doesn't give him an adrenaline rush. He plays poker with the devil for his soul.

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    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
    Mike: Steve Rizzo
    Colonel: Geoff Mays
    Josephine: Val Cole

  • ACTION Fest Script: What Would Lombardi Say, by Patrick Cottington (interview)

    A college football star is forced to deal with CTE as he prepares for a professional football career.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Harry: Steve Rizzo
    Larry: Geoff Mays

    Get to know the writer:

    1. What is your screenplay about?
    This story actually focuses on CTE and its universal eff...

  • COMEDY Festival Best Scene: BURDS, by Patricia Fuller, Elaine Brett (interview)

    Burds follows Katie and her group of teenage girlfriends growing up in a shitty town in the West coast of Scottish during the 80s. The story is about their friendship, the hilarious shenanigans they get up and navigating one of the worst situations that a teenage girl has to deal with. The story ...

  • COMEDY Best Scene Screenplay: DSP VS USA, by D. Sidney Potter

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Sidney: Steve Rizzo
    Selina: Val Cole

  • THE ONE HIT WONDER. WILDsound Festival Best Scene. by Bob Dawson

    When his one and only hit song from the 80s unexpectedly becomes a viral hit on social media, a washed up rock and roller finds his family life turned upside down.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Lily: Hannah Ehman
    Pete: Sean Ballantyne
    Grace: Julie Sheppard

  • THE BIG W. TV Festival Best Scene. by Laurel Nicholson

    When an undocumented worker has a vision of a murder, he can’t go to the cops. So he recruits a group of his eccentric drinking companions from a neighborhood bar, The Big W, to help stop the murder.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Pittman: Steve Rizzo
    Willow: Hannah Ehman
    Miller: Geoff ...

  • 7 YEARS AFTER. TV Screenplay Festival Scene. by Melissa Skirboll (interview)

    Seven years after a religious-nationalist sect has taken over most of the country, as the last of the sanctuary cities begin to fall, a poet and her friends fight the forces of oppression.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Steve Rizzo
    Mischa: Hannah Ehman
    Lili: Julie Sheppard
    James: Shawn Devlin

    Get...

  • THE BIRTHDAY LIST. Female Festival Best Scene. by Jacqueline Escolme (interview)

    Inspired by a young adventurer, a frustrated midlife wife escapes her marriage and flies to America with a birthday bucket list that helps her find truth, freedom and the future she’s waited twenty years for.

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Jenny: Hannah Ehman
    Richard: Sean Ballantyne

    G...

  • THE PASS. - Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Graham Northrup

    Deep in the forest near a mountain pass, Darren Reed’s life is turned upside down - first from the terrible accident that took his family - and now from their ghosts, whose appearance threatens to drive him to madness. He must find the courage to face them and learn to listen - before it’s too la...

  • MESSAGE TO SHIGATSE - Thriller Festival Best Scene. by Don Thompson

    Logline: A BBC journalist works with the Dalai Lama to outwit the Chinese government in the selection of Tibet’s Panchen Lama, all told via a Hitchcock-style suspense drama that echoes films such as ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and ‘The Killing Fields’. Based on Isabel Hilton’s non-fiction book ‘The Search for...

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene: Death Row Challenge, by Richard M. Kjeldgaard

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Julie Sheppard
    Figure: Geoff Mays
    Eric: Sean Ballantyne
    Parking Attendant/Female Voice: Shawn Devlin

  • THRILLER Festival Best Scene: DESERT SLAYGROUND, by Richard M. Kjeldgaard

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Woman/Alexis/Rachel: Val Cole
    Bellhop/Pilot/Nick: Steve Rizzo
    Flight Attendant/Hannah: Hannah Ehman
    Katie/TV Reporter: Julie Sheppard
    Driver/Older Man/Marco: Geoff Mays
    Jesse/Javier: Sean Ballantyne

  • COMEDY Best Scene Script: Violent Indigo, by Deborah Hodgetts

    CAST LIST:

    Narrator: Shawn Devlin
    Margaret: Hannah Ehman
    Benji/Jack Denton: Sean Ballantyne