Watch 1st Scene Winner: DEATH GRIP by Tracy Sherwood

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DEATH GRIP by Tracy Sherwood

SYNOPSIS:

A female war hero home from Iraq struggles with PTSD while trying to resume her life as a soccer mom. But the married soldier hides an even darker secret…she witnessed the death of her lover overseas who also happens to be the husband of her now widowed sister.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
Ben – Jim Canale
Sammy – Rob Salerno
Kat – Ida Jagaric
Jackie – Danielle Nicole
Shayna – Alissa DeGrazia

Watch 1st Scene Winner: MY LAST DUCHESS by Grant Reid

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MY LAST DUCHESS by Grant Reid

SYNOPSIS:

When recently single Thomas moves next door and strikes a friendship with Catherine, Alexander spirals into a dark paranoia. With his sanity at stake Alexander is on the brink of losing everything.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Q Wilson
Catherine – Alissa DeGrazia
Thomas – Jacob Klick
Alexander – Rob Young
Duke – Todd Dulmage

Watch 1st Scene Winner: DIETRICH DANZIG by John Pisano-Thomsen

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DIETRICH DANZIG by John Pisano-Thomsen

SYNOPSIS:

A 95-year-old Pink Triangle survivor recalls his romance with a Nazi Officer’s son in 1935 that led to his interment at Dachau.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Q Wilson
Dr. Bitten – Todd Dulmage
Ziggy – Barry Minshull
Zaki – Rob Young
Pearce – Jacob Klick
Emma – Alissa DeGrazia

Watch 1st Scene Winner: LITTLE PROFESSOR by Monte Light & Cooper Holmes

 

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LITTLE PROFESSOR by Monte Light & Cooper Holmes

SYNOPSIS:

It’s a surreal crime thriller about three Las Vegas college students saddled with crippling debt. They break some laws, raise havoc. But when their friend overdoses on drugs, they take it on themselves to pay his out-of-control medical bills, which means they have to rob a very ruthless bank. Finally they must seek revenge against a manipulative drug dealer.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Angelica Alejandro
SAM – Steve Rizzo
JACK STROOP – Craig Estrella
ZEBRA – David Occhipinti
DANNY – Sean Ballantyne
PRETTY WOMAN – Holly Sarchfield

Watch 1st Scene Winner: BELLE BREZING by Margaret Carlyle Price

BELLE BREZING by Margaret Carlyle Price

SYNOPSIS:

BELLE BREZING is a haunting love story about a loyal paperboy on a high-stakes mission: To guide his former lover to remember the secret that forged her rise to fame but closed her heart to love.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
Belle – Becky Shrimpton
Miss Flora – Michelle Lecky
Gil – Ryan Anning
Lacey – Mandy Mclean

BELLE BREZING by Margaret Carlyle Price

SYNOPSIS:

BELLE BREZING is a haunting love story about a loyal paperboy on a high-stakes mission: To guide his former lover to remember the secret that forged her rise to fame but closed her heart to love.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
Belle – Becky Shrimpton
Miss Flora – Michelle Lecky
Gil – Ryan Anning
Lacey – Mandy Mclean

Watch 1st Scene Winner: GOOD NIGHT CRONKITE by Rita Doyle Roberts

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GOOD NIGHT CRONKITE by Rita Doyle Roberts

SYNOPSIS:

GOOD NIGHT, CRONKITE is a family comedy about a group of misfits.

When a bright, young girl coaxes a monster out from under the bed, her self-absorbed foster mom exploits him for showbiz fame, leaving the girl in the hands of a monstrous nanny.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Steve Rizzo
CRONKITE – David Occhipinti
CHERYL – Angelica Alejandro
POOKY – Holly Sarchfield

 

Watch 1st Scene Winner: MYA’S TRUTH by Thomas L. Ferguson

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MYA’S TRUTH by Thomas L. Ferguson

SYNOPSIS:

A reluctant writer finally gets the courage to follow her repressed dreams and her ambitious boyfriend to Hollywood, but his dark secret and her reconnection with a former flame, both threaten to turn those dreams and her reality into an emotional nightmare.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
MYA – Leah Doz
MONA – Erynn Brook
CANDACE – Graciela Martinez
JASMINE – Jillian Cameron
ROBERT – John Marcucci
WALTER – Rob Salerno

January 2016 Winners

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Watch the January 2016 1st Scene Script Winners:

GUNNISON
Written by Daniel Duane

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Supernatural

A sniper who hunts an Air Force colonel for humiliating her on a botched cover up discovers he’s masterminding one himself when a man hunt for two gunman leads to the capture of an extraterrestrial pilot being held prisoner.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Peter Nelson
MYERS – Katelyn Vanier
HENDRICKS – Dan Cristofori
DOCTOR – Lorne Hiro
MULLIN – Geoff Mays
MOTHER – Holly Sarchfield

PURGATORY
Written by Alex A. Kecskes

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Crime, Fantasy

Two small time ex-cons run into two angels on probation who must save their souls or be dammed forever.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Holly Sarchfield
DAVE – Geoff Mays
JEFF – Dan Cristofori

Watch 1st Scene Winner: MEMOIRS OF A DOCKET by Michael Damien

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MEMOIRS OF A DOCKET by Michael Damien

SYNOPSIS:

Biker Frank Cluskey finds his family’s lives are at stake when an old acquaintance tries to drag him back into the sinister world he’d left behind.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Andrew Farr
HARRY – Julian Ford
FRANK – Sean Kaufmann
BIGMAN – Sean Ballantyne
FULLBACK – Susan Wilson

Watch 1st Scene Winner: It Came Upon A Mid-Nightmare by Gregory Lane

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It Came Upon A Mid-Nightmare by Gregory Lane

SYNOPSIS:

The three Spirits of Christmas are kidnapped by the three Demons of Christmas. Now it’s their turn to corrupt the most kindhearted, generous and foolhardy man on earth into a coldhearted, greedy bastard… with bad manners too!

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Wilson
JACOB – Julian Ford
RYAN – Sean Ballantyne
FEZZIWIG – Sean Kaufmann