March 2016 Winning Short Screenplay

Watch LEROY’S DREAM Table Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
LEROY – Ucal Shillingford
DARYL – Rob Notman
SONYA – Alicia Payne

Get to know writer Diarra McCormick:

1. What is your short screenplay about?

My screenplay is about a disgruntled hardworking father struggling to communicate with his combative alcoholic wife who must find the strength to pursue his true passion of becoming a world renowned painter.

2. Why should this screenplay be made into a film?

This screenplay should be made into a film because this story needs to be told. It’s universal and inspirational. Everyone has a dream that they would like to come into fruition, whatever that dream may be. This story not only displays the harsh realities and struggle to get there, but also the satisfaction of making progress. It also continues to shed light on the struggles of living…

LEROY’S DREAM
Written by Diarra McCormick
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CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
LEROY – Ucal Shillingford
DARYL – Rob Notman
SONYA – Alicia Payne

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Drama

A disgruntled hardworking father struggles to communicate with his combative alcoholic wife who must find the strength to pursue his true passion of becoming a world renowned painter.

BEST INTERESTS
Written by James M. Freeman
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SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Action, History, Drama

To protest inhumane treatment and unfair rejection of his application for refugee status, a teenage Vietnamese asylum seeker challenges the authority of a Hong Kong detention camp commandant, resisting the commandant’s efforts to force him to repatriate.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Nadia Gigi Inara
ANN – Alicia Ryan
HIEU – Suchiththa DeSilva
MINH – Ryan Anning
UNHCR OFFICER – Steve Rizzo

Watch the March 2016 Feature Screenplay Winner

GATES OF HELL Feature Screenplay Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
EVERETT – Ryan Anning
MABEL – Alicia Ryan
VARIOUS – Steve Rizzo
VARIOUS – Suchiththa DeSilva
VARIOUS – Nadia Gigi Inara

Get to know writer Pamela Green:

What is your screenplay about?

This screenplay entails the life of Everett House as he grows up in a poor, Christian home in a Midwest city following the Great Depression, portraying his passion for playing the steel guitar just as his invalid father had, and then, beginning at age 17, portraying Everett’s years in a mental asylum. While in the institution, Everett undergoes shock treatment and other psychiatric practices popular to that era. But through it all, Everett finds God to be his stable source of strength, hope, and deliverance, and he is left with a divine promise concerning his future that his testimony…

Watch the March 2016 Winning Short Screenplay

BEST INTERESTS Short Screenplay:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Nadia Gigi Inara
ANN – Alicia Ryan
HIEU – Suchiththa DeSilva
MINH – Ryan Anning
UNHCR OFFICER – Steve Rizzo

Get to know writer James M. Freeman:

What is your screenplay about? 

To protest inhumane treatment and unfair rejection of his application for refugee status, a teenage Vietnamese asylum seeker challenges the authority of a Hong Kong detention camp commandant, resisting the commandant’s efforts to force him to repatriate.

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? 

The plight of asylum seekers, past and present, calls attention to recurring human rights issues. “Best Interests,” tells an underreported story: what happens to a person denied refugee status.

How would you describe this script in two words?  

Heartbreaking; Controversial. 

What movie have you seen the most times in your life? 

 “M”

How long have you…

Watch the March 2016 Winning Best Scene Reading

THE HOOPLA Best Scene Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
GRACE – Nadia Gigi Inara
ASHER – Steve Rizzo

Get to know writer Thomas Nesti:

1. What is your screenplay about?

Love and the world’s last movie theater.

2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

It breaks the rules. *audience oohs*

3. How would you describe this script in two words?

Innocence lost.

4. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Halloween

5. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

Since September.

6. How many stories have you written?

Really only one that I keep changing.

7. What motivated you to write this screenplay?

Escapism.

8. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?

This one time the computer froze. #firstworldproblems

9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

Watch the March 2016 Winning Best Scene Reading

SCREAMING MY HEART OUT Best Scene Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
MANNY – Suchiththa DeSilva
DON – Steve Rizzo
DOCTOR – Ryan Anning
TONI – Alicia Ryan
BABS – Nadia Gigi Inara

Get to know Janyce Lapore:

1. What is your screenplay about?

“Screaming My Heart Out” is the dramatic tale of a large Italian family of girls coming of age in a small steel mill town in the late ’60’s

The Scarletta family live in row houses near a large, roaring Steel Mill. It’s 1968, and as tradition dictates, the men work in the mill, and the women work in their homes. But, times are changing, and the Scarletta girls know it. Toni, a vibrant hairdresser with big dreams, wants to escape this blue collar world, where her neighborhood, alive with Motown music and passionate love affairs, defines her …