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Monthly Festival showcasing new TV Pilots and TV Spec Screenplays. All submissions receive full feedback. Winners get their script performed by professional actors and shown online.

Watch the July 2018 1st Scene Script Winners

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
  Winning 1st Scene Script: UNTIL THE DAY by Craig Andrews Winning THRILLER 1st Scene Script: MARCO POLO by Jeff Heckler Winning FEMALE 1st Scene Script: AMERICAN PRINCESS by Jenny Kleiman Winning SCI-FI 1st Scene Script: POLE by Robert Dodrill Winning DRAMA 1st Scene Script: TAKE THE SHOT…

1st Scene Reading – LOVERS IN PARADISE, by Meg Bowen

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6N21b9MBg Genre: Romance, Crime, Action A bank robbery goes awry and our two criminals have to steal a getaway car. Except there’s a girl tied up in the trunk, who might just be their best chance at walk-away money. CAST LIST: Janine: Alicia Payne Kip: Dorian Shine Narrator: Val Cole Brad: Jolly…

1st Scene Reading – LOVERS IN PARADISE, by Meg Bowen

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ6N21b9MBg Genre: Romance, Crime, Action A bank robbery goes awry and our two criminals have to steal a getaway car. Except there’s a girl tied up in the trunk, who might just be their best chance at walk-away money. CAST LIST: Janine: Alicia Payne Kip: Dorian Shine Narrator: Val Cole Brad: Jolly…

1st Scene Reading – REMEMBERING LIZ, by Joan Beilstein

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxojlcaO5o Genre: Drama A runaway fifteen year-old girl is found dead from a heroin overdose. Forty years later, her best childhood friend, haunted from unresolved guilt and grief, uncovers a secret, which sheds light on her friend’s tragic short life. CAST LIST: Laura: Amrit Kaur Narrator: Val Cole Jane: Zena Driver…

1st Scene Reading – EDEN, by Jean Barker

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tZdQayLgSs Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Romance A teenage girl who grew up in a cult based on the biblical myth of Eden falls in love with an intruder from the sinful world outside the garden walls. CAST LIST: Judith: Zena Driver Narrator: Val Cole Edie: Amrit Kaur John: Jolly Amoako ****** Producer: Matthew…

THRILLER 1st Scene Script – FIELDS OF BLOOD, by Michael Meade

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEwdWQ-MFQ Genre: Thriller, Horror Passing through a small Mid-West town and lending a helping hand to a stranger soon turns into a nightmare for Scott in this tense, paranoid horror thriller. A short screenplay by Mike Meade. CAST LIST: Earl: Scott McCulloch Trucker: Danilo Reyes Nicki: Tayna Bevan Narrator: Kate Fenton…

Watch the June 2018 1st Scene Script Winners

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
HALFWAY TO MARS – 1st Scene LGBT ScreenplayJune 2018 Readingby Fabian Martin PIANO LESSONS – 1st Scene LGBT ScreenplayJune 2018 Readingby Nevada McPherson CROSSSING THE COWHOUSE – 1st Scene LGBT ScreenplayJune 2018 Readingby David Lykes Keenan UNBALANCED LIFE – 1st Scene ScreenplayJune 2018 Readingby Kristy Leigh Lussier ****…

TV 1st Scene Reading of Jillian And The Sharks: A Dramedy with Music by Josephine Perry

  A conflicted professor desperate to hide her lifestyle from her Jehovah’s Witness family faces her fears when she begins proceedings to gain custody of her bi-racial brother and sister, emotionally abused by her mother. With outrageous musical numbers, Big Love Meets Community…all based on real events. CAST LIST:  Mr. Bismark:   Geoff Mays Narrator: Kat Smiley… Continue reading TV 1st Scene Reading of Jillian And The Sharks: A Dramedy with Music by Josephine Perry