A showcase of a winning TV screenplays, short and 1st scene scripts.
CAST LIST: Twain Ward, Pearl Ho, Elizabeth Rose Morriss, John Leung, Julie C. Sheppard, Katelyn Vanier, Peter Nelson
Female Festival TV PILOT: MY MOTHER MURDERED MY FATHER by Josephine A. Perry
Genre: Drama, Thriller
When she learns her mother’s been released on parole for the murder of her father 25 years earlier, a bi-racial woman suffering from panic attacks faces inner demons and the possibility of losing her career as a counselor for troubled teens.
(Inspired by a true event )
CAST LIST:
Dev: Twain Ward
Doug: Peter Nelson
Sally: Pearl Ho
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Francesca: Katelyn Vanier
Claudine: Julie C. Sheppard
Rob: John Leung
TV Spec Screenplay: Rick and Morty – What Have You Learnt Morty? by Javier Torregrosa
Genre: Comedy, Adventure
Morty struggles to study for his exam, Rick decides to help Morty to learn by showing him first hand. Meanwhile Jerry starts a new job that doesn’t turn out as expected.
CAST LIST:
Mortar: Pearl Ho
Beth: Julie C. Sheppard
Jerry: Twain Ward
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Rick: Peter Nelson
Morty: John Leung
Summer: Katelyn Vanier
LGBT 1st Scene Screenplay: PUNKER AND PROPHET by M. V. Montgomery
Genre: Drama
Two LGBTQ women from very different backgrounds form a close bond and help to fight each other’s battles.
CAST LIST:
Heather: Julie C. Sheppard
Ginny: Pearl Ho
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Bill: Peter Nelson
Heather: Katelyn Vanier
1st Scene Screenplay: APHELION by Karl van Allen
Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Following a tragic death in the family physicist Hank Keating and his research partner open a gateway to another reality, promising a second chance and unleashing a malicious alien sentience in the space between spaces, threatening to destroy everything they’ve ever known.
CAST LIST:
Diana: Katelyn Vanier
Hank: Twain Ward
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Michael: John Leung
Claire: Pearl Ho
1st Scene Screenplay: OPERATION BABYLIFT by John McCarney
Genre: Drama
The true story of a hard drinking, Bowie knife toting, Airline CEO, a Volkswagen van driving hippie and an Iowa housewife, who risk their lives, to save abandoned orphans in collapsing war torn Vietnam.
CAST LIST:
Reverend: Twain Ward
Conklin: John Leung
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Daly 50s: Peter Nelson
Leann: Katelyn Vanier
DIVERSITY Short Screenplay: BUREAU 121 by Helene Taylor
Genre: Romance, Thriller
A North Korean hacker must decide between defection and love or family and life as a cyber warfare terrorist.
CAST LIST:
Mother: Julie C. Sheppard
Jin’s Father: Peter Nelson
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jin: John Leung
Min-Seo: Pearl Ho
General: Twain Ward
DIVERSITY Short Screenplay: I FEARED FOR MY LIFE by Jorge Abreu
Genre: Drama
Officers experience courageous circumstances during their tours that in an instance become decisions of life and death. A therapist gets a rookie to relive his nightmarish trail of his first time drawing his firearm. She is task with concluding if his actions was justify, or racially fear based.
CAST LIST:
Janey: Pearl Ho
Officer McBrady: Peter Nelson
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Eric: John Leung
Dr. Grey: Julie C. Sheppard
Yamal: Twain Ward
LGBT Short Screenplay: LOOK IN MY EYES by Eddie Baca
Genre: Drama
Gay sober military man meets Crimean Muslim taxi driver in NYC.
CAST LIST:
Karim: Twain Ward
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Eddie: Peter Nelson
Henry: John Leung
Short Screenplay NORTHWOOD by John Fraser
Genre: Action, Thriller
The commander of a nuclear submarine struggles to deal with an accident during NATO submarine exercises that quickly escalates into a deadly international conflict.
CAST LIST:
Jack: John Leung
Alex: Twain Ward
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Geoff: Peter Nelson
Maryann: Katelyn Vanier
Sci-Fi Short Screenplay: ALGORITHM by by George Deihl Jr.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure
Designated to save her home planet, a woman must make a choice between devotion to her humanity and the glorification of The Algorithm.
CAST LIST:
The Algorithm: Peter Nelson
Male: John Leung
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Female: Pearl Ho
Ship’s Computer: Katelyn Vanier
Him: Twain Ward
Under 5min. Short: 1801 BUCK by Jalen Thompson
Genre: Thriller, Drama
A dramatic piece about the sexual exploitation an enslaved African family endures leading up to the murder of their slaveholder.
CAST LIST:
Adell: Katelyn Vanier
Amiyah: Pearl Ho
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Cassell: Twain Ward
Ibo: John Leung
Under 5min. Short: IT LIVES WITHIN by Matty Farrugia
Genre: Thriller, Drama
A middle aged woman finds herself in trouble when the power goes out and she starts hearing strange noises.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Sara: Pearl Ho
Weatherman: Peter Nelson
Short Screenplay: WHERE I’M LEFT by Annaliese von der Burg
Genre: Drama
This is a short film dealing with suicide and how it affects the loved ones left behind still searching for answers. How you can love someone so much, but sometimes everything isn’t always enough to save someone.
CAST LIST:
Man: John Leung
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Grace: Pearl Ho
Kaya: Julie C. Sheppard
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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
