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Parts #1 & #2 – Best Scene Script Readings: By Way Of Prague

Part #1 reading of By Way of Prague: CAST LIST: Narrator: Allison Kampf Tucker: Geoff Mays Ambassador Bowes: Steve Rizzo Charlie Greyeyes: Sean Ballantyne Part #2 reading of By Way of Prague: CAST LIST: Narrator: Allison Kampf Sergei: Steve Rizzo Washerwoman: Hannah Ehman

Winning BEST SCENE Feature Screenplay Reading: GREENWOOD, by Jody Hadlock, ,A.J. Orr

Based on a true story, a 1920’s African-American lawyer takes on the system to defend the residents of Greenwood, the all-black district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, when it’s destroyed by an angry white mob. CAST LIST: Narrator: Allison Kampf John Ros: Geoff Mays B.C: Sean Ballantnye

Winning 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: THE RED CLOTH, by Bo Svenson

 Largely based on historical facts, “The Red Cloth” tells of men and women fleeing the cruelty of early Christianity in what is now Norway, their arrival in North America five hundred years before Columbus, and the birth there of the first European child. CAST LIST: Narrator: Allison Kampf Parks Canada Voice/Norse Boy (M): Sean Ballantyne… Continue reading Winning 1st Scene Screenplay Reading: THE RED CLOTH, by Bo Svenson

LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: AWAY WITH MY HEART, by Hoyt Richards

A washed up, womanizing, alcoholic country singer is forced to revaluate his life when he discovers not only is he dying of cancer but he also has a twenty-year old daughter that he never knew he had. CAST LIST: Stage Manager: Sean Ballantyne Beau: Pierre Simpson Narration: Esther Tribault Sally: Elizabeth Erhart Groupie Girl: Nadine… Continue reading LA Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: AWAY WITH MY HEART, by Hoyt Richards

Feature Screenplay Reading of AT THE MERCY OF FAITH by Samuel Taylor

A fourteen year old preacher renounces his faith in God in the wake of a terrifying and traumatic event. Eighteen years later, the psychotic demons from his past, viciously return to wreak havoc on of his home and collect his soul for the god of their hell. CAST LIST: Tall Man: Malcolm Taylor Sylvestus: Christopher… Continue reading Feature Screenplay Reading of AT THE MERCY OF FAITH by Samuel Taylor

Best Scene Reading of THE WAITING ROOM by Joel Stern

In this suspense/comedy, Bill Egan, a crusty Alcatraz corrections officer, suddenly finds himself in a waiting room along with a one-armed Medal of Honor award winner-turned hitman, a ditzy bank teller and a Bronx street hoodlum. From different time periods, they try to piece together the events that brought them there. Little do they know… Continue reading Best Scene Reading of THE WAITING ROOM by Joel Stern

Winning Feature Screenplay Reading of Fear by Peter Jang

  The father of a slain Muslim-American soldier attempts to help a bullied Middle Eastern teen who has turned to Muslim extremists online as the current wave of Islamophobia hits their Pennsylvania town. CAST LIST: Monica: Cassandra Guthrie Ibrahim: Sam Fazli Joseph: Shawn Devlin Narrator: Kat Smiley Suliman: Sean Ballantyne Anthony: John Marcucci Hasna: Zena… Continue reading Winning Feature Screenplay Reading of Fear by Peter Jang

BEST Scene Screenplay of NEVER SPEAK MY NAME, by Jo Ann Allen, Walter G Meyer, Stampp Corbin

Genre: Drama, History The story of Bayard Rustin a civil rights activist who fought resistance to his participation in the civil rights movement because he was an openly gay man. Bayard triumphs by planning the seminal 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. CAST LIST: Narrator: Sean Ballantyne Martin Luther King: Rais Moui Bayard:… Continue reading BEST Scene Screenplay of NEVER SPEAK MY NAME, by Jo Ann Allen, Walter G Meyer, Stampp Corbin

Winning TV PILOT of SIRINGO, by Nathan Ward

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama, Western, History A TV series based on the life of the Pinkerton “Cowboy Detective” Charlie Siringo, who spent two decades working undercover across the violent American West, infiltrating gangs including Butch Cassidy’s. The show crosses the Western with undercover crime dramas like Sneaky Pete or The Americans, since the lawman lives… Continue reading Winning TV PILOT of SIRINGO, by Nathan Ward

Short Screenplay – Red Dot by Mark Richards

Watch the August 2016 Winning Short Screenplay. Red Dot  by Mark Richards SYNOPSIS: Genre: Suspense, Comedy, Action Synopsis: An assassination attempt gets botched by an unlikely source. CAST LIST: TEXTILE MANAGER – Sean Ballatyne NARRATOR – Julian Ford Get to know the winning writer:  What is your screenplay about? An assassination attempt on a journalistic… Continue reading Short Screenplay – Red Dot by Mark Richards