PERMISSION is a winning short screenplay about a married couple still suffering from an unimaginable tragedy, and are challenged with an unexpected opportunity.

Great conversation with screenwriter Joe Capucini on the process of writing screenplays and writing in general.

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Still suffering from an unimaginable tragedy, a married couple is challenged with an unexpected opportunity.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo

Ethan: Sean Ballantyne

Ashley: Julie Sheppard

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HOPE was the Animation S HOPE hort Screenplay Winner. Great conversation with the writer Tienny The, based in China on the process of writing this terrific script.

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Deep inside a womb, a foetus begins to move around and feel own mother’s heartbeat, differentiating every voice and sound. Foetus is unaware of its own birth in the delivery room of a hospital.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf

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The art of writing a screenplay: Hunker down and get the words on the page. Go back and edit.

Great chat with winning screenwriter Sierra Hall on the process of writing her TV PILOT script SWEET VALLEY SPY, loosely based on the “Sweet Valley High” novel series. Now the characters have grown up!

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Liza has a budding career at a pharmaceutical company. Her twin sister, Jess, talks to a bottle of tequila and dates a guy who tells dead-baby jokes. When Liza mysteriously disappears, Jess gets a crash course in the family business – espionage.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison
The Narrator: Geoff Mays –
The Spy: Andy Kamp
Rick Astley: Rick Astley
Jess: Hannah Ehman
Liza: Julie Sheppard
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THROWAWAYS was the winner of BEST SHORT FILM at the ENVIRONMENTAL Feedback Film Festival.

Great chat with Andy Carpenter on the process of writing this script.

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After a seemingly insignificant plastic toy is manufactured by a young child in Latin America, it begins a journey across the world by tractor trailer, a fast-food restaurant trash can, SUV, a garbage truck, and an ocean-freighter. Each mode of transportation offers glimpses into the lives of its transporters, whether mundane, privileged, or desperate. Finally making its way into the grateful hands of a young orphan trying to survive in the trash-wastelands of Malaysia, these throwaways prove that significance is relative.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Iris/Shelly: Julie Sheppard
Juan/Manager/Foreman: Geoff Mays
Man/Father/Rayyan: Sean Ballantyne
Oliver/Nathaniel: Allan Michael Brunet
Wife/Woman: Hannah Ehman

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“Solstice” is written along the lines of films like “April Fool’s Day” and “Wicker Man.” The story is about Angela who tries to overcome her fear of death while friends from her past are being murdered around her.

Conversation with the screenwriter Stephen John Beyer. He talks about his writing process, and the art of getting it done on the page.

Watch the best scene of SOLTICE HERE

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Angela: Julie Sheppard
Peter/Julius: Steven Rizzo
Fred/Thomas: Allan Michael Brunet
Amy: Kyana Teresa
Clayton: Andy Kamp
Ken: Bill Poulin

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COME ALIVE is a winning LGBTQ+ Festival script about a middle-aged gay couple’s attempt to rekindle their relationship that turns into an absurd, hormone-fueled quest to defeat alien invaders and save a new LGBTQ society.

Great chat with screenwriter L. Andrew Cooper on the process of writing this script.

Watch the winning best scene reading: https://vimeo.com/503731254

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alvy: Bill Poulin
Tim: Allan Michael Brunet
Ron: Steve Rizzo
Michelle: Julie Sheppard
Duke: Geoff Mays

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SUMMONING DEMONS is a winning HORROR Festival SHORT Screenplay. Terrific interview with screenwriter Larry Dwyer on the process of writing this script. Plus, Larry also chats about the festival he created that shows classic Horror films: www.ConnecticutCultClassics.com

Watch the Winning Screenplay Reading: https://vimeo.com/503753018

A couple, expecting a child, toy with the demonic.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Deborah: Hannah Ehman
John: Allan Michael Brunet

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Friendship. Relationships. LGBTQ+, Mothers, Ashes., Death, Forgiveness, Mediums, Connections - There a lot of essence in the COPPERLAND screenplay written by the guests to the podcast today.

Candid chat with writers Eila & Holly Algood on the process of writing the screenplay. LISTEN to the best scene reading after the interview.

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Four intelligent, complex women are drawn together. A lesbian couple, their friend and a young woman are looking to find peace relating to their deceased mothers. The fight for equal rights shows up both from the past and present. There is an exciting discovery to bring solar energy to mainstream culture. A huge secret is revealed causing tension and turmoil yet offering new potential for depth in the relationships between the women.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Grace: Julie Sheppard
Raven/Dorothy: Hannah Ehman
Cate: Kyana Teresa
Maggie: Allison Kampf

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A based on a true story screenplay about a female serial killer at the beginning of the 20th century. Candid conversation with the writer of HELLE’S BELLE, Kari Karsten, about the process writing this screenplay from the research to finding the structure.

Summary of Script: In the early 20th century a young woman discovers a way to prosper from her husband’s death, leading her down a lifelong path of murderous treachery that threatens to be discovered by a local police detective investigating a sinister series of mysterious events.

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Upcoming screenwriter Jacobo Fe is a recent graduate from the UCLA Screenwriting program. He wrote a winning script based on a the true story about Sir Douglas Bader, a British pilot during WWII, who, after losing both of his legs, became a flying ace.

Listen to interview with Jacobo, plus a best scene reading performance after the interview.

Watch the best scene reading: https://vimeo.com/492733632

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Bader: Shawn Devlin
Halahan: Sean Ballantyne
Coach: Matthew Camp

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A young woman with a genetically evolved, cognitive ability is transported to a secret island, for her protection. But upon learning the real forces in charge of the island, she steps up and leads a revolution to take action against inaction.

Based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Lola.

Watch the Best Scene Reading: https://vimeo.com/493906055

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Geoff Mays
Sonya: Hannah Ehman
Gian: Allan Michael Brunet

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CRACKSMEN is a terrific high concept feature screenplay written by comic book writer/screenwriter Daniel Corey:

“Cracksmen are a new class of criminal that specialize in slipping into an alternate dimension to commit crimes. Jake is one of the best, but to escape the mob, he has to strike a deal that will get him in trouble with syndicates on both sides of reality.”

Watch the Best Scene Screenplay Reading: https://vimeo.com/491979244

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jake: Steve Rizzo
Leo: Sean Ballantyne
Isis: Allison Kampf

Writer Biography – Daniel Corey

Daniel Corey is a writer and content producer who has created for comics, live theatre and virtual reality.

Daniel’s projects include the graphic novels BLOODWORTH and PROPHET, which he wrote and distributed through his company, DangerKatt, as well as MORIARTY and RED CITY, which he published through Image Comics (home of THE WALKING DEAD). MORIARTY has been adapted into a VR comic book titled MORIARTY: ENDGAME VR, which earned him the #2 spot on Onalytica’s Top 100 VR Influencers list.

He has also worked in broadcast news for NPR and ABC, serves on the Creative Writing Program Advisory Committee at Full Sail University, and speaks at pop culture conventions around the country.

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Winning short screenplay writer Antony Catino wrote a polarizing story called NEIGHBOR VERSUS NEIGHBOR, about the insidious nature of government oppression and how blind we are to the methods government and political parties use to retain power.

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0z9ULTvuZY

Wracked with guilt, a former East German Stasi officer who enforced tyranny and destroyed lives – including his own family – uses current events as a chance for redemption to fight government oppression.

CAST LIST:
Anneliese: Julie Sheppard
Frank: Geoff Mays
Martin: Shawn Devlin
Brianna: Hannah Ehman
Esf Agent/Desmond: Bill Poulin

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WHO KNEW? is the story about a Hollywood A-lister falling for a spunky political press secretary. A classic romantic comedy that everyone wants to watch, whether they admit it or not!

Great chat with Monty C. Floyd, the Romance Festival screenplay winner, on the process of writing & living overseas in Germany raising a family.

Watch the best scene script reading of WHO KNEW? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49-1ppVF80

Hope finds unexpected love in Washington D.C..

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Hope: Kyana Teresa
Dan/Howard: Geoff Mays
Audra: Julie Sheppard

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A double screenplay winner turned filmmaker, Carmine Bicchetti is bringing back the tone and style of 1950s cinema with a modern twist of important topics.

Great interview with the talented writer. Listen to the best scene reading of his screenplay “Halfway to Heaven” after the interview.

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When Hollywood’s biggest director dies, his drunken ghost remains on Earth to help his best girl Friday complete one last picture.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Allison Kampf
Wadsworth – Shawn Devlin
Henry/Georgie: Geoff Mays
Cookie: Julie Sheppard

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The first ever podcast done in a Hobbit Hole. Writer Brent Peterson made his “Own Private Hobbit Hole”. See it here: https://myownprivatehobbithole.com/

Star Wars: Rendezvous is a fan-fiction film set in the Star Wars universe with a cast of new characters as well as some more established ones. Matthew chats with the winner Fan Fiction writer Brent Peterson on the process of writing in the context of this legendary franchise.

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZre_ceojo

A pair of do-gooders attempt to save a young girl wanted by the Empire.

CAST LIST:

Hologram Voice/Darth Maul: Sean Ballantyne

Mandalorian/Ashoka/Voice: Steve Rizzo

Rahn: Allan Michael Brunet

Qu’ra/R’iila/Zandara: Julie Sheppard

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Kurt T. Choate, PhD is an associate professor and department chair of psychology and counseling at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

He’s also a great screenwriter.

Listen to the interview with the professor/writer and after listen to the best scene reading of his screenplay INHERITANCE

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnJF1NFTRcU

, by Kurt T. Choate

An F.B.I. agent turns to someone from his past to stop a serial killer, but healing the fractured relationship may prove to be the bigger challenge.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Allison Kampf

Caleb: Geoff Mays

Vaughn: Shawn Devlin

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Larry gets a phone call from his old friend, NFL Network legend, Rich Eisen. He is asked to attend Colin Kaepernick’s press conference revealing his new Athletic Shoe; by Colin’s request. Larry causes an uproar when he inadvertently takes a knee at the event. Anchovies and Humble pie save the day.

That is the summary of this amazing TV SPEC script on the CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM HBO show. Great chat with the writer Lance Barnett.

Watch the Best Scene Script Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnjQsjL9MfE

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Richard Lewis: Shawn Devlin
Larry: Steve Rizzo
Mail Courier: Kyana Teresa

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Terrific interview with the actor turned winning screenwriter who wrote this script in a barn during Covid!

“The Last Gableton” takes place at the turn of the twentieth century and is the story of Hildegard Ashdown, an upperclass social pariah who finds herself pursued by Elijah Gableton, the son of a wealthy family. As things progress between them, it becomes clear that Elijah has a very dark secret and that his family will do whatever it takes to keep it.

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CAST LIST:
Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Madeline: Julie Sheppard
Hildegard: Kyana Teresa

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700 years ago there was another virus called the “Bubonic Plague”. Set in the time of the Black Death, “1348-1350”, “THE PESTILENCE” is a terrific award winning script by Tyler Frech.

Listen to interview with the screenwriter with best scene audio version after.

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Matthias is torn between God and Man as he travels home to England amidst the Black Death.

CAST LIST:

Matthias: Steve Rizzo
Father Alberto: Sean Ballantyne
Italian Woman: Julie Sheppard

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