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Table Read My Screenplay AFM LA 26

Table Read

Contact

Los Angeles, CA

Web:
https://tablereadmyscreenplay.com
Email:
Info@TableReadMyScreenplay.com

Contact: Dana Barney, Administrator

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
Report Cards: 62    
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Objective

This isn't your typical table read.

The Grand Prize Winner receives a pass to pitch their project at the American Film Market® — to producers, agents, and executives who can move the needle on a career.

Top entries are considered for the ISA Development Slate, where our team champions your script to literary representatives and industry executives from companies like CAA, ICM, Sony, Netflix, Amazon MGM Studios, Lucky Chap, and more.

It all begins with a professionally directed live staged reading with seasoned actors that transforms your screenplay into a presentation-ready industry asset.

Past Table Read winners have been staffed and their projects have been optioned, premiered at Cannes and been nominated for Oscars among other successes. Show More

Deadline/Entry Fees

Deadline Date
Days till:
Entry Fee
Mega-Early May 14, 2026 $39
Early June 4, 2026 $49
Regular June 25, 2026
16
$59
Final August 6, 2026
58
$79

Notification: Quarter-Finalists: Sept. 10th; Semi-Finalists: Sept. 24th; Finalists - Top 10: Oct. 8th; Grand Prize Winner: Oct. 15th.

Eligibility

Open to anyone (See rules for exceptions.)

Rules

Please see the website.

Awards

GRAND PRIZE WINNER
  • Flight and Accommodations
  • Cannes, France, during the Cannes Film Festival.
  • Cannes Festival Badge (Marché Du Film)
  • Access to screenings, events, panels, and more.
  • Live Staged Table Read of Your Script During the Festival with a Professional Director and Actors.
  • General Meeting with Development Exec (Exec to be announced soon)
  • Meeting with an ISA Development Exec
  • Access to our industry contacts' current mandates, plus development of a personalized producer outreach plan.
  • Consideration for Acceptance onto the ISA Development Slate
  • Development Slate writers are championed to top agents, managers and producer contacts.
  • Two 1-Hour Consultation Sessions with Suzanne Gundersen of ScreenwriteNOW
  • Suzanne mentors screenwriters and industry creatives to clear the path that lets their writing flow.
  • 1-Year Scriptation Industry Pro Subscription
  • A premium toolkit which unlocks all the advanced features Scriptation has to offer.
  • 12-Month ISAConnect Membership
  • Access to the most comprehensive platform for screenwriters.
  • Professionally Designed Movie Poster for promotion of your table read and project.
  • Writer Interview Published on Film Inquiry
TOP 10 FINALISTS
  • Consideration for Acceptance onto the ISA Development Slate
  • Development Slate writers are championed to top agents, managers and producer contacts.
  • 1-Hour Consultation Session with Suzanne Gundersen of ScreenwriteNOW
  • Suzanne mentors screenwriters and industry creatives to clear the path that lets their writing flow.
  • 3-Month Scriptation Industry Pro Subscription
  • A premium toolkit which unlocks all the advanced features Scriptation has to offer.
  • 6-Month ISAConnect Membership
  • Access to the most comprehensive platform for screenwriters.
  • 1-Year Membership to Film Inquiry
  • Access to over 6,000 articles, ranging from in-depth beginner’s guides, to film theory, to reviews of historical films and the most recent releases.

Table Read

Contact

Los Angeles, CA

Web:
https://tablereadmyscreenplay.com
Email:
Info@TableReadMyScreenplay.com

Contact: Dana Barney, Administrator

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
Report Cards: 62    
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Table Read My Screenplay Competition

Contact

Los Angeles, CA

Web:
https://tablereadmyscreenplay.com
Email:
Info@TableReadMyScreenplay.com

Contact: Dana Barney, Administrator

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
Report Cards: 62    
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Contest News

Table Read My Screenplay Names Contest Winners

But On Point by Marshall Gillson has been named the Feature/TV Pilot Grand Prize Winner of the Table Read My Screenplay Competition, while Kimberly Truong's The Ride was named the Grand Prize winner for shorts.

Grand Prize Winner (Features & TV Pilots)
But On Point by Marshall Gillson

Grand Prize Winner (shorts)
The Ride by Kimberly Truong

Top 10 Shorts
Do Tell by Bree Wyrd
A Foot Apart, A Chasm Between by Brian Cohen
Deb & Joan by Isaac Rathbone
Jackie by James Grayford
Follower by Joanna Cavlan
I Met With My Band by Joe McAdoo
The Ride by Kimberly Truong
Simulation by Peter Jang
The Assassination of Lost Innocence by Qiana Chukura
Aurora by Tim Debruler

Action/Adventure Winner
Year of the Horse by Brandon Carbaugh

Action/Adventure Top 10
In the Footsteps of Thaddeus Thackeray by Adam McDaniel
Year of the Horse by Brandon Carbaugh
Paladin by Bridget Bell McMahon
Frank Dresden by Colin McLaughlin
The Cauldron by Edi Ibok
Bloodlands by Emma Carter and David Guthrie
Ice by Heather Donnell
Wild C.A.T. by Lena Pousette
The Crimes Of Paris by Michael Stark
Call Out by Nir Shelter
Minimum Comfortable Distance by Steven Snell

Mystery/Crime/Thriller Winner
Big Stick by Linda MacPherson Davidson

Mystery/Crime/Thriller Top 10
Haloperidol Files by Adrienne Arno
Something To Hide by Brent Weindling
Goochelaar by Garrett Vander Leun
Necessary Detour by Kim Hornsby
Socrates H, Behavioral Detective by Kimon Koufogiannis
Big Stick by Linda MacPherson Davidson
Gone Too Long by Lori Roy
Venice of America by Michael Graf
Under Act by Nir Shelter
The Mender by R.B. Ripley

Horror/SciFi Winner
Revelations by Johnny Gilligan

Horror/Sci-Fi Top 10
The Digital Detective by Alan Hoffman
NeverMore by Betsy Morris
Stop! : A Horror Anthology by Chris Wiltz
Seance by Christian Canterbury
Flint Hill by Elizabeth Conrad-Yanders
All American Girl by Goldie Jones
Hear No Evil by Harry Chadwick
Between the Black Teeth by Jerome Marshall
Revelations by Johnny Gilligan
Abandoned by Malik Vallo

Updated: 10/02/2020

Table Read My Screenplay Competition

Contact

Los Angeles, CA

Web:
https://tablereadmyscreenplay.com
Email:
Info@TableReadMyScreenplay.com

Contact: Dana Barney, Administrator

Report Card

Overall: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.1/5.0)
Professionalism: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.2/5.0)
Feedback: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (4.0/5.0)
Signficance: 4 stars4 stars4 stars4 stars (3.8/5.0)
Report Cards: 62    
Have you entered?
Submit a Report card

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