A showcase of the best TV PILOTS, shorts, and 1st scene screenplays from around the world today:
FULL CAST LIST: Rais Moui, Tim Paul McCarthy, Lara Amersey, Alicia Payne, Scott McCulloch, Hugh Ritchie, Georgia Grant, Jane Smythe
TV PILOT COMEDY – REMOTELY WORKING, by Bill Baber
Genre: Comedy
This sitcom web series pilot features five quirky diverse millennials who work remotely for an international tech corporation. They struggle with online meetings, living on the road, and working from “wherever.” Each lone wolf must cooperate with the others, or everyone will be fired. Meanwhile, none of these independent co-dependents has a personal life that is even remotely working. (Single-camera TV-14)
CAST LIST:
Anna: Alicia Payne
Nav: Tim Paul McCarthy
Akihiro: Scott McCulloch
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Phil: Rais Moui
Kate: Jane Smythe
Chloe: Lara Amersey
TV PILOT SCI-FI – GALAPAGOS, by by Lukas Hassel
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
It’s year 2437. 3000 meters under the icy crust of earth, the last remaining pocket of humanity struggles to answer the question: Is life for the sake of living any life at all?Extinction is the rule. Survival, the exception.
CAST LIST:
Red: Lara Amersey
Charlotte: Jane Smythe
Captain: Rais Moui
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Dan: Scott McCulloch
Bram: Tim Paul McCarthy
Laura: Georgia Grant
Ash: Alicia Payne
Under 5 Minute Short – MIRRORS, by R. Harris Smith
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Young Rachel is getting ready for bed, but as she sleeps, she worries her reflection might be watching her. Once her eyes are closed, her bedroom mirror reflection gets off the bed and presses itself against the mirror. Tapping to get out
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Rachel: Georgia Grant
Short Film Script – A SHORT DROP AND A SUDDEN STOP, by by Margaret Dane
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Peter is having a typical, banal mid-life crisis, and cannot see a way out of the mess he has made of his life. He can only see one way out, and has decided to go for the rope and hang himself.
CAST LIST:
Ariel: Alicia Payne
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Carmine: Rais Moui
Peter: Tim Paul McCarthy
Short Film Script – THE SEEKER, by Kaitlyn Kowalski
Genre: Drama
A young girl struggles between helping her family, and doing the right thing.
CAST LIST:
Jasmine: Alicia Payne
Dale: Scott McCulloch
Harry: Rais Moui
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Gretchen: Lara Amersey
Maria: Georgia Grant
Bridget: Jane Smythe
Short Film Script – THE BROKEN KINGDOM, by Mark Renshaw
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
In an alternate timeline in which Guy Fawkes blew up parliament and overthrew the English monarchy, on its anniversary half a century later, a French-American businessman finds himself on the run with Scottish Freedom Fighters after he inadvertently commits an act of heresy.
CAST LIST:
Female Reporter: Alicia Payne
Tramp/Angus: Scott McCulloch
Emilia: Lara Amersey
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Felix: Tim Paul McCarthy
Renee: Jane Smythe
Soldier: Rais Moui
Short Film Script – SANCTUARY CITY by Stephanie Annis
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Zen Ben is a shy tour guide. After witnessing the injuries of Lily Ladybug and Becky Butterfly, Zen Ben demands repairs. Repairs seem impossible after Queen Lee tricks Zen Ben with an opportunity to win the Philanthropy Awards.
CAST LIST:
Slick Rick: Tim Paul McCarthy
Lily Ladybug: Jane Smythe
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Queen Lee: Georgia Grant
Zen Ben: Scott McCulloch
Vicky: Lara Amersey
1pg. Comedy Short – BURSTING FOR A BREAK, by Kelly Lamphear-Dash
Genre: Comedy
A worker in a cubicle is about to explode if she doesn’t get a break.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Steffi: Jane Smythe
Co-Worker: Rais Moui
1st Scene Script Reading of TRIGGERS, by Robert J. Sawyer
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Action/Adventure
After an experiment to cure PTSD goes awry, one of fifteen people is now able to read the President’s memories — and the race is on to find out which one it is before national security is blown all to hell.
CAST LIST:
Susan: Jane Smythe
Daryll: Rais Moui
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Jerrison: Scott McCulloch
Manny Cheung: Tim Paul McCarthy
FEMALE TV 1st Scene Script Reading of MY MOTHER MURDERED MY FATHER, by Joanna Perry-Folino
Genre: Drama, Crime
Follows the story of a 30-year-old middle school counselor desperate to uncover the truth of her mother’s conviction for her father’s murder 25 years in the past in order to come to terms with her demons.
CAST LIST:
Claudine: Georgia Grant
Dev: Rais Moui
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Francesca/Frankie: Alicia Payne
Carla: Lara Amersey
FEMALE 1st Scene Script Reading of WAVERLY RIDING, by Carla Miles
Genre: Drama, Crime
A single mother in a financial crisis engineers a robbery at the supermarket she works in.
CAST LIST:
April: Lara Amersey
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Kat: Georgia Grant
Waverly: Jane Smythe
ANIMATION 1st Scene Script Reading of THE PAPER PRINCESS, by Stephanie Barnes
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy
When a courageous princess is transformed into paper, she goes on an epic journey to save her home from an evil sorcerer, learning that true strength comes from within.
CAST LIST:
King Jasper: Tim Paul McCarthy
Aeren: Scott McCulloch
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Tania: Alicia Payne
Paige: Lara Amersey
Chancellor: Rais Moui
LGBT 1st Scene Script Reading of THE THINGS WE MISS, by Bonnie Brookby
Genre: Drama, Romance
Two long-estranged childhood friends, suddenly thrust back into one another’s lives, must grapple with their turbulent history as they unearth and reconstruct the decades-long romance their mothers shared.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Young Mother: Lara Amersey
Jamie: Alicia Payne
SCI-FI 1st Scene Script Reading of THE FIRST A.I. PRESIDENT, by Bernard S. Smith
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Robert Conroy has five days to stop the swearing in of the first A.I. elected to be President of the United States, believing the primary directives against harming humankind have been corrupted by a solar flare.
CAST LIST:
Marcia: Alicia Payne
Nelson: Rais Moui
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Simon: Tim Paul McCarthy
Washire: Scott McCulloch
TV COMEDY BEST SCENE Reading: PAYCHECK 2 PAYCHECK, by Chris Skeeter
Genre: Comedy
Five friends from high school find themselves struggling with money, love, and life in the real world.
CAST LIST:
Drew: Scott McCulloch
Laten: Tim Paul McCarthy
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Rickey: Rais Moui
Shanna: Lara Amersey
FOUR NEGRO GIRLS IN A CHURCH
Cynthia: Lara Amersey
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Addie Mae: Alicia Payne
Denise: Georgia Grant
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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Camera Op: Mary Cox
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