“A Very Christmassy Hallmark Holiday Christmas” was the winner of best feature script at the March 2022 Comedy Film Festival.

“A disgruntled Hallmark employee strives to save Christmas from the evil clutches of, well - Hallmark, in this Christmas movie parody.”

Conversation with writer Mark Schiponi, followed by the best scene reading of the winning script. Watch the Screenplay Reading also HERE.

Screenplay also showing on the WILDsound TV app next month. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it’s only $3.99 per month.

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CUT OFF is the Best Feature Screenplay winner at the THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival.

A paranoid shut -in loses touch with his only contact, but quickly realizes that he’s not as isolated as he thought. Forced to face his greatest fears, he fights to restore balance to his world.

Conversation with screenwriter Christy Price on writing the screenplay, followed by the audio-version best scene reading.

Film also playing at the WILDsound TV app next month. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it’s only $3.99 per month.

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CHANCE DAY was the winner of Best Screenplay at the Female Filmmakers Festival. Conversation with writer Jill Murphy Long, followed by the audio-version best scene reading transcript of the screenplay. https://www.jmlfilms.com/

“On a chance day at a busy hospital in Portland, Oregon, the fatal prognosis is given to the wrong woman with a time stamp of only thirty days.”

Screenplay also showing at the WILDsound TV app next month. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it’s only $3.99 per month.

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BATMAN: RESURRECTION was the winner of best screenplay at the December 2021 Fan Fiction Festival. Listen to the interview, followed by the best scene reading of the script.

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XND-iUBiI8

It’s been 15 years since Gotham City last saw the Caped Crusader but with gangs threatening to take over it’s up to 65 year old Bruce Wayne to save the city.

CAST LIST:
Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
COMMISSIONER KENDRA JONES: Kyana Teresa
BRUCE WAYNE: Allan Michael Brunet
BLUE MASK: Geoff Mays
ROMAN: Steve Rizzo

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EVE was the winner of best screenplay at the January 2022 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Festival. Listen to interview with writer Cal McGhee, followed by the best scene reading of EVE.

WATCH the screenplay reading

A narcissistic geneticist ignites a passionate affair with her own clone, and soon begins to see the cracks in her own reflection.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
News Reporter: Kyana Teresa
AVA / ADA: Julie Sheppard
RENNER: Sean Ballantyne
ANNA: Hannah Ehman

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A DEATH IN THE FAMILY is the winning Crime/Mystery Festival from 2021. Listen to interview with writer followed by a best scene screenplay reading.

WATCH the best scene reading

Former detective August Cavett and his new wife Elizabeth return from their honeymoon to learn that Elizabeth’s father has died. Now the family matriarch is threatening to cut ties with the rest of the family and keep the inheritance. When she ends up dead, the Cavetts are reluctantly drawn into the investigation. Between drinking copious amounts of alcohol and dealing with crazy relatives, August agrees to dig into the family secrets to solve the crime.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Elizabeth: Julie Sheppard
Auggie: Allan Michael Brunet
Cecile: Allison Kampf
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GOING NATIVE! is a winning TV PILOT screenplay. A satire following a group of Taínos (indigenous Puerto Ricans) whose lives are forever changed when introduced to America’s first douchebag – Christopher Columbus.

WATCH the Winning best scene reading of GOING NATIVE!

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Christopher Columbus: Sean Ballantyne
Craig: Steve Rizzo

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JUBILEE NATION is a WILDsound winning screenplay. The production company turned the entire screenplay into a “Script Movie”, the longest production of our unique genre to date.

“Jubilee Nation” is an alternative history political erotic thriller set in a utopian 1960’s fictional black nation, where the Civil War resulted in a different outcome, and the South is ceded to the slaves forming a separate black nation after the war.

Watch the Screenplay Movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZGNs0gjCg

The story focuses on a tormented black journalist, plagued by an addiction to sado-masochistic sex, who’s sexual perversions lead him to discover a plot to overthrow the country when he enlists the help of his faithful white servant to foil the conspiracy. It has elements of love, sex, reverse discrimination, corruption, and violence in its story plot. It is a nostalgic look at what could have been America if it had a radically different history.

Conversation with screenwriter Henry Myers on the writing of the script.

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KURT & BLEST is a winning COMEDY Festival TV screenplay.

Conversation with screenwriter David Gray on his journey as a writer.

When an Angel and a Demon decide to open a restaurant, they did not expect that working with humans would be their biggest challenge.

Watch the Screenplay Reading:

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
LIVE: Hannah Ehman
IZZY: Sean Ballantyne
BOY/JAKE: Steve Rizzo
MOTHER/GOD: Kyana Teresa

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MISFORTUNE COOKIES is the 2021 winning HORROR Festival screenplay. Conversation with writer Don Stroud on the process writing the screenplay, followed by the best scene reading.

Watch the Best Scene Reading of “Misfortune Cookies”

After killing an elderly Chinese chef during a botched robbery, a desperate teenager and her redneck cohorts struggle to stay alive when the chef's spirit returns from the grave, brutally picking them off one-by-one with fortune cookie-themed deaths.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

RUDY RAY: Steve Rizzo

DELMER: Geoff Mays

GARNELL: Allan Michael Brunet

PANSY: Kyana Teresa

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“Intergalactic Io” was the winning feature screenplay for 2021 at the LGBTQ+ Film & Screenplay Festival. Conversation with writer Seth Nesenholtz on the process of writing this screenplay and the art of writing “camp” movies.

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Space thief Io finds herself caught in a galactic war while attempting to sell a stolen crystal. Now the most wanted person in the galaxy, she races against the clock to save her alien dog and face responsibility for the war she inadvertently started.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Allan Michael Brunet
DOMINATRIA: Val Cole
NIRYAT: Julie Sheppard

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TAGS was the POLITICAL Festival winning screenplay. Conversation with screenwriter Stephen Glickman on the process writing the TAGS.

“A young woman abandons her dying mother to free laboratory animals; capturing the world’s attention and forever changing the vivisection industry (based on real events)...”

You can WATCH the Screenplay Reading HERE

CAST LIST:

Narration: Steve Rizzo

Sarah: Hannah Ehman

Marcu: Bill Poulin

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JEWELS OF LIGHT is a TV PILOT screenplay winner. Interview with screenwriter Tessie Herrasti on the process and journey writing the pilot. Followed by the audio version best scene reading.

“In the world of Upprunkna, a guilt-ridden elven warrior is tasked with the care of a powerful and untrusting royal. Together, they begin a journey that will unite the most adventurous beings of the different realms and force them to work together in order to restore the vital energies of a darkening era. But, one of them holds an ominous secret.”

Watch the BEST SCENE Reading

CAST LIST:

Narration: Steve Rizzo

Mullion: Bill Poulin

Thulia: Kyana Teresa

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THE SPLIT was the CRIME/MYSTERY 2021 Winning Screenplay.

Conversation with writer Nicola Green on the process writing this screenplay. Followed by the best scene reading (audio version) of the script.

“Based on true events, this is the story of three lives intertwined; a 1960's London sporting hero turned gold thief, a sick child and a grieving daughter, determined to uncover her family's secrets, finding far more than she ever could have bargained for.”

WATCH the Best Scene Reading:

CAST LIST:

Narration: Steve Rizzo

Paula: Hannah Ehman

Frank: Geoff Mays

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BORDER FLESH was the DIVERSITY Festival winning screenplay for 2021.

“After losing his brother and the only family he has left, 14-year-old Connor encounters Fernanda and her 13-year-old daughter, Bárbara. Both women are Mexican and don't speak a word of English. Connor, Fernanda and Bárbara must communicate as best they can to survive zombie apocalypse at the México-U.S. border. When they all decide to head North, a series of events unfolds that will ultimately lead Bárbara and Connor to unexpected encounters and unwanted confrontations.”

You can watch the 1st Scene Reading HERE

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Dustin: Geoff Mays

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SERIAL was the winning September 2021 Feature Screenplay from the CRIME/MYSTERY Festival.

Conversation with writer Robert Benjamin on the process writing SERIAL, followed by a best scene reading from the script. We also dive into the feature film, BLOODY HELL, that he wrote, and his past editing for UFC.

You can watch the Best Scene Reading HERE

The peaceful life of a kind, old retiree is thrust into anguish and peril when it is disrupted by a present day serial killer. Following the connections, this otherwise trusting father can only suspect that the brutal killings have been at the hands of his own flesh and blood. His eldest son.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Steve Rizzo
Rebecca: Hannah Ehman
Helmer: Geoff Mays
Bradley: Bill Poulin

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“A Package Of Dreams”, is a short animated script, is about a six-year-old boy, Andrew who dreams of becoming a horror host when he grows up. But, by the time he’s in his early twenties, that life long dream gets derailed. His father has arranged for Andrew to work at the same package delivery service as he does.

Conversation with Bradley M. Look on his prosperous writing career, following by the best scene reading of his screenplay. You can watch the video version HERE

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Uncle Icky (M-50s): Steve Rizzo
ARCHAELOGIST #1 (M-30s): Geoff Mays
ARCHAELOGIST #2 (F-30s): Hannah

Bradley is also an accomplished makeup artist in Hollywood who has worked on over 63 productions, including The Hunger Games and Star Trek franchises. You can see his full resume on IMDB.

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FINDING EDEN is an award winning screenplay. “Captured along with 30 female asylum-seekers by modern-day pirates on a remote utopian island, Captain Anna Kruger struggles to escape while her rescue ship’s crew attempts to unite warring African, Arab and Asian villages to mount a rescue.”

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Conversation with Brad Dude on the process writing this screenplay. Followed by the 1st scene reading of the script.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Chike: Bill Poulin
Desta: Geoff Mays
Kruger: Hannah Ehman
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THE SURGE is the winning ENVIRONMENTAL Festival screenplay.

Conversation with writer David Cooper on the process of writing the screenplay, plus his time running for office in Georgia. Followed by best scene reading of the screenplay.

You can watch the video best scene reading of THE SURGE - HERE

“John O’Neal wants to change the world to honor his dead mother and to spite his abusive father—while getting very, very rich. Following a worldwide Global Warming catastrophe, he loses his invention to a deep conspiracy and becomes an eco-terrorist—until he uncovers the truth.”

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
O’Neal: Geoff Mays
Foster: Andy Camp
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EL ALACRAN is the winner feature screenplay from the Female Film Festival.

“After being stung by a scorpion during a holiday in Mexico, Lexie uses newfound superpowers to wreak revenge on men who have crossed her, ridding her world of toxic waste ... one asshole at a time..”

Interview with writer Julie Miller and best scene reading afterwards.

WATCH the Best Scene Reading of EL ALACRAN HERE

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Lexie: Hannah Ehman
Cassidy: Kyana Teresa
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