TV Best Scene Script Reading: A Guide To Basic Politics, by Hiram Alexander Orozco

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After feeling inspired by voting in a local election, Katherine Herrera decides to run for Mayor of McAllen and enlists the help of her unfulfilled, unhappy, and unqualified millennial friends to launch her campaign and get her elected. Headstrong and determined, a mixture of Leslie Knope and Selina Meyer, she dives straight into the world of local politics. What could go wrong?

CAST LIST:

Child: David Rowan
Abbot: Thomas Fournier
Narration: Kat Smiley
Katherine: Aimee Poulin
Tessa: Jillian Robinson

Mother: Pascale Behrman

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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TV Best Scene Script Reading: Libertine, by Michael Mizrahi & Zoe Warncke

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A young lawyer recovering from an abusive childhood and addiction is ill-equipped to cope with the relentless demands of work, love and family, when she takes a radical step into an underground kinky society to moonlight as a dominatrix reclaiming control of her own life.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Kat Smiley
Zoe: Pascale Behrman

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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ACTION Best Scene Screenplay: Eyes of a Swami, by Kim Renner

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Liv seeks out change in her life. She knows there is something missing, and that these issues lie within her deep past. She embarks on a journey to an ashram in India where she learns healing through yoga. She fills her missing father-figure void with an unlikely person. When she is violated by a teacher in the compound, her new mentor vows revenge on her behalf.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Val Cole
Niraj: Chris O’Bray
Liv: Aliya Hamid

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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ACTION/CRIME 1st Scene Script Reading: Cadillac Mike, by Alexander Storm & Julian Brantley

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CAST LIST:

Renee: Julie Sheppard
Narrator: Carina Cojeen
Mike: Kaleb Alexander
Cashier: Nikolai Afanasev

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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Action BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: SKULL HUNTER, by Steven Murphy

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A detective is close to solving the one case that has driven him throughout his life, that of the serial killer known as The Skull Hunter. His obsession drives his every thought and action, risking relationships with his family, friends and all that he holds dear to himself, blurring the lines between obsession, his very existence and exposing repressed nightmares that force him to question his sanity as he spirals into a vortex of self destruction to achieve what he believes is his goal.

CAST LIST:

Mrs. Jones: Julie Sheppard
Sanson: Luke Robinson
Narrator: Regan Brown
John: Daniel Jones
Captain: Scott McCullouch

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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Action BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: SKULL HUNTER, by Steven Murphy

crimemysteryfestival's avatarCrime/Mystery Film & Writing Festival

A detective is close to solving the one case that has driven him throughout his life, that of the serial killer known as The Skull Hunter. His obsession drives his every thought and action, risking relationships with his family, friends and all that he holds dear to himself, blurring the lines between obsession, his very existence and exposing repressed nightmares that force him to question his sanity as he spirals into a vortex of self destruction to achieve what he believes is his goal.

CAST LIST:

Mrs. Jones: Julie Sheppard
Sanson: Luke Robinson
Narrator: Regan Brown
John: Daniel Jones
Captain: Scott McCullouch

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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Action BEST Scene Screenplay Reading: SKULL HUNTER, by Steven Murphy

crimemysteryfestival's avatarCrime/Mystery Film & Writing Festival

A detective is close to solving the one case that has driven him throughout his life, that of the serial killer known as The Skull Hunter. His obsession drives his every thought and action, risking relationships with his family, friends and all that he holds dear to himself, blurring the lines between obsession, his very existence and exposing repressed nightmares that force him to question his sanity as he spirals into a vortex of self destruction to achieve what he believes is his goal.

CAST LIST:

Mrs. Jones: Julie Sheppard
Sanson: Luke Robinson
Narrator: Regan Brown
John: Daniel Jones
Captain: Scott McCullouch

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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ACTION/CRIME Best Scene Reading: Chemical Attraction, by Alan Field

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When recovering amnesiac FBI agent Katelyn Carrie accepts an assignment to interrogate a traitorous government chemist who knows the location of a deadly nerve agent controlled by terrorists, Kate learns that she is the subject of the interrogation to uncover the weapon’s secret chemical formula locked inside the depths of her own mind.

CAST LIST:
Eric: Aaron Maxwell Williams
Susan: Carina Cojeen
Narration: Aaron Williams
Joanne: Christina Leonard
Abigor/Gunther: Geoff Mays

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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ACTION/CRIME Best Scene Reading: Chemical Attraction, by Alan Field

crimemysteryfestival's avatarCrime/Mystery Film & Writing Festival

When recovering amnesiac FBI agent Katelyn Carrie accepts an assignment to interrogate a traitorous government chemist who knows the location of a deadly nerve agent controlled by terrorists, Kate learns that she is the subject of the interrogation to uncover the weapon’s secret chemical formula locked inside the depths of her own mind.

CAST LIST:
Eric: Aaron Maxwell Williams
Susan: Carina Cojeen
Narration: Aaron Williams
Joanne: Christina Leonard
Abigor/Gunther: Geoff Mays

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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Action/Crime/Mystery Festival Best Scene: Lena’s Rules, by Ken Comer

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WHEN A TERMINALLY ILL DETECTIVE’S PARTNER IS BRUTALLY MURDERED, AND POLICE BRASS HAVE RULED AGAINST HER WORKING THE CASE. WITH LESS THAN TWO MONTHS TO LIVE, THERE’S ONLY LENA’S RULES.

CAST LIST:

Paz: David Rowan
Narration: Kat Smiley
Lena: Jillian Robinson
Det. Gotay: Sean Ballantyne

Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson

Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy

Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch

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