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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.

TV Spec of TRANSPARENT “The Board Shorts”, by Marissa Lessman

  Genre: Comedy, Drama Maura is haunted by her old life as Josh and Ali set up a garage sale while Sarah and Shelley try to throw the perfect Purim party resulting in an unexpected outcome. CAST LIST: Gary:  Allan Cooke Ali: Rachel Rain Packota Josh: Geoff Mays Narrator: Olivia Jon Maura: Shawn Devlin Shelley: Lesley Ballantyne Sarah: Jennifer Vallance Get to… Continue reading TV Spec of TRANSPARENT “The Board Shorts”, by Marissa Lessman

TV PILOT Best Scene Reading – WHAT THE HELL, by Melissa Willis

  Genre: Comedy A single-camera comedy that follows a free-spirited young woman who’s lost everything and her four friends who are all forced to recreate their lives and themselves one humiliating, semi-permanent situation at a time. Cast List: Jamie: James Dooley Narrator: Val Cole Amy: Kelci Stephenson The Messenger: Gary Graham Get to know the writer: 1. What is… Continue reading TV PILOT Best Scene Reading – WHAT THE HELL, by Melissa Willis

TV PILOT 1st Scene Script – JAKOB’S COVE, by Travis Darkow

  Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Suspense A crazy mash up of The X-Files and Supernatural, but with more violence, old school noir detective movies like The Maltese Falcon, and the soundtrack style of Stranger Things or It Follows, 80’s synthesizer and all. CAST LIST: Narrator: Peter Nelson Det. Jameson: Neil Bennett Get to know the writer:   1. What… Continue reading TV PILOT 1st Scene Script – JAKOB’S COVE, by Travis Darkow

TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading – BY TOUCH, by Robert Cox

Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama Anton Michaels is a college professor with a gift. To some people in the police force Anton is used to help catch criminals with his abnormal psychometric abilities. After an explosion at a nuclear power plant leaves one man as a prime suspect, Anton is called in by his friend Father John… Continue reading TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading – BY TOUCH, by Robert Cox

Winning TV Screenplays for February 2018

Watch readings of the winning screenplays performed by professional actors: WINNING TV PILOT Screenplay – FAMILY SECRETSFebruary 2018 Readingby Allison Osborne SCI-FI BEST SCENE TV Screenplay – MORPHFebruary 2018 Readingby Christine Davis 1st Scene TV Screenplay – JAKOB’S COVEFebruary 2018 Readingby Travis Darkow COMEDY 1st Scene TV Screenplay – CHARACTERSFebruary 2018 Readingby Chris Harris 1st… Continue reading Winning TV Screenplays for February 2018

TV PILOT 1st Scene Script – JAKOB’S COVE, by Travis Darkow

  Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Suspense A crazy mash up of The X-Files and Supernatural, but with more violence, old school noir detective movies like The Maltese Falcon, and the soundtrack style of Stranger Things or It Follows, 80’s synthesizer and all. CAST LIST: Narrator: Carina Cojeen Det. Jameson: Charles Gordon Get to know the writer:   1. What… Continue reading TV PILOT 1st Scene Script – JAKOB’S COVE, by Travis Darkow

TV SCI-FI BEST SCENE Reading of MORPH, by Christine Davis

Genre: Sci-Fi, Crime Logline: “Morph” is a Sci-Fi story in which Jack Oberman is a Los Angeles homicide detective who gets captured by the killers he pursues, mad scientists who alter his DNA and turn him into a monster. CAST LIST: Narrator: Sean Ballantyne Morty: Allan Michael Brunet Jack: Nick Baillie Get to know the writer:  1. What… Continue reading TV SCI-FI BEST SCENE Reading of MORPH, by Christine Davis

HORROR 1st Scene Script Reading of Red Light, by Dempsey Tillman and Ted Dewberry

Originally posted on Los Angeles feedback film festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z1q5_n1tK8 Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi A slacker husband (with a child on the way) gets a rude awakening when aliens invade his home and target his family. CAST LIST:  Narrator: Carina Cojeen Miriam: Carly Tisdall Aaron: Christopher Huron Cork: David Occhipinti Bluetooth: Alicia Ryan Get to know the writer:  1. What is your…