One Man’s Junk, Twitter Short Story by Jesse Heikkila

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch the 140 Character Shory Story: ONE MAN’S JUNK:

Get to know writer Jesse Heikkila:

1) What is your very short story about?

It suggests a character in the future where cyborgs are a part of the norm. The story centers around a guy who is down on his luck and owing the wrong people money. He has an altercation and has to search for his arm. He finally finds it in a dumpster.

2) What motivated you to write this story and submit it to the festival?

I had already come up with the premise and only had to polish it down a little bit to fit it into the 140 character format.

3) What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Memento.

4) How many scripts and stories have you written?

Around 15.

5) What artists would you love to work with?

Neill Blomkamp.

6) What…

View original post 82 more words

Deadline August 15th: TV PILOT Screenplay Festival

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Deadline August 15th: TV PILOT Screenplay Festival – Get FULL FEEDBACK. Get script performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/tvscreenplaycontest.html

Watch WINNING TV PILOT Screenplay Readings
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/tv_pilot_readings.html

READ 100s of testimonials for past submitters –
http://tvfestival.org/2015/06/18/tv-screenplay-testimonials/

Watch the 2015 TV PILOT Winners:

TV PILOT – ERASER
February 2015 Reading
Written by Kim Godfrey
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/eraser.html

TV PILOT – NO LOVE DOVES
March 2015 Reading
Written by Alexandre Kounde
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/no_love_doves.html

TV PILOT – FAUST
April 2015 Reading
Written by Niel Thompson
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/faust.html

TV PILOT: REDEEMING GRACE
May 2015 Reading
Written by WL Gorman
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/redeeming_grace.html

TV PILOT SCRIPT – SEX THERAPY
June 2015 Reading
Written by Michelle J Brezinski
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/sex_therapy.html

TV PILOT – RUST
July 2015 Reading
Written by Cody Carson
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/rust.html

Watch All the TV PILOT Winners from the Festival:

View original post

Read NEW Feature Film Story Ideas and Movie Pitches:

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Free logline submissions. The Writing Festival network averages over 95,000 unique visitors a day.
Great way to get your story out: http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html

Read Today’s Movie Pitches:

Title: ECHO
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/echo_by_kristi_corbett.html
Written by: Kristi Corbett
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Action/Thriller

Title: Lawn of the Dead
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/lawn_of_the_dead_by_rick_mele.html
Written by: Rick Mele
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Comedy/Horror

Title: The Truth about Huntington’s
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/the_truth_about_huntingtons_by_dominique_seward.html
Written by: Dominique Seward
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama, Family, History, Biography

Title: The Promise of Peace
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/the_promise_of_peace_by_michael_beddoes_and_kristina_heaney.html
Written by: Michael Beddoes & Kristina Heaney
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Biography, Romantic, Period Drama

Title: TAG
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/tag_by_austin_daniel_moody.html
Written by: Austin Daniel Moody
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action/Thriller

Title: Unlikely Angels
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/unlikely_angels_by_anne_nemes.html
Written by: Anne Nemes
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Supernatural Dramatic Comedy

Title: Twinks with Guns
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/twinks_with_guns_by_keith_soforic.html
Written by: Keith Soforic
Type: Feature Film
Genre: Drama

Title: Grandma Dee and the Lost Continent
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/grandma_dee_and_the_lost_continent_by_mark_perlick.html
Written by: Mark Perlick
Type: Feature Film
Genre:…

View original post 62 more words

VIDEO PITCH for The Whistle Blower’s Confession, by Jennifer Lang

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch VIDEO PITCH for The Whistle Blower’s Confession:

For more information, go to: http://thewbconfession.com

Or, buy the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/The-Whistle-Blowers-Confession-Jennifer-Lang/dp/1634490533

Get to know writer Jennifer Lang:

1. What is your story about?

The Whistle-Blower’s Confession is about an investigative reporter named Kelley Anderson, who after the death of her aunt to cancer, sees a news report on TV that discusses how cancer, autism, obesity, diabetes are all up more and more every year. And rather than just accept it, she starts to question why. She starts to investigate and the more she uncovers, the more danger she and the people around her are in.

2. Why should people know about yourself and your story?

People should know about me and my story because it affects them and their children. I, like most Americans never heard of genetically modified foods. I think we have a naive sense that if it’s…

View original post 536 more words

VIDEO PITCH for The Polo Player, Feature Screenplay by Ulisses Santiago

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Video Pitch for THE POLO PLAYER:

Get to know writer Ulisses Santiago:

1. What is your story about?

A political thriller about the CIA covert espionage operations in Europe and Cuba of a 1960s Latin Diplomat, Polo Player and Playboy on a mission to save the upscale status of his youth in Paris by conquering the richest and most notorious women of his time.

2. Why should people know about yourself and your story?

I am an Author and Screenwriter born in Brooklyn, New York bringing new, non-stereotyped Hispanic Characters into mainstream film storytelling.

3. How long have you been writing stories?

Since I was 10 yrs old.

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick

5. Who would you like to collaborate with on a creative project?

Benicio del Toro and Martin Scorsese

6. How many stories/screenplays have you written?

12

View original post 174 more words

VIDEO PITCH for “INKED IN BLOOD”, by Paul Corricelli

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch the Video Pitch for INKED IN BLOOD:

Get to know writer Paul Corricelli:

1. What is your story about?

INKED IN BLOOD is a gritty horror screenplay about a tortured, tattooed young albino named Aesop Quarrels. Seventeen years after escaping from a living hell, he has returned to the town he ran away from as a child, to exact his revenge on all those who wronged him. One by one he will make them pay. Not only to mend the shattered pieces of his own life, but for his mother’s suffering as well.

Past horrors begin to unfold as he embarks on a twisting trail of carnage that will ultimately lead to Aesop facing the one man responsible for their suffering – his father, and in the process he will uncover a hidden family secret that threatens to tear him apart.

2. Why should people know about yourself and…

View original post 706 more words

VIDEO PITCH for Plan B Positive, Short Screenplay by Elizabeth Buck

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch the Video Pitch for PLAN B POSITIVE:

Get to know writer Elizabeth Buck:

1. What is your story about?

My short film is about a bisexual vampire (Mina Strigoi) who is encouraged to go to a speed dating event after receiving encouragement from her ex. Mina reluctly attends and, by the end of the night, seems to have found her true love (Antoinette). However, she quickly realizes that it was all a revenge ploy, set up by Lucy.

2. Why should people know about yourself and your story?

I think people should know my story because it is a refreshing take on the now cliché vampire drama in that it doesn’t take itself to seriously and it isn’t just for teens. (I mean no insult, my Tumblr friends.) Also, if/when people take interest in me as a writer, then I will feel motivated to possibly extend the story of…

View original post 321 more words

VIDEO PITCH for Pagan Flames, Novel by Vanayssa Somers

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch the Video Pitch for PAGAN FLAMES:

BUY this book on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.ca/Pagan-Flames-Vanayssa-Somers-ebook/dp/B00OSP04O0

Get to know writer Vanayssa Somers:

1. What is your story about?

Arch-Wizard Faery Prince recruits an under-confident young orphan
girl for training in Shapeshifting, Time Travel, Quantum Mastery, all
to turn her into a super-hero who travels through time, saving lives
and bringing evil to its knees.

2. Why should people know about yourself and your story?

This story, in large part, is based on a past life reading I gave once to a
young woman several years ago. I never forgot the reading, it was so unusual
and vivid. This young woman had been a psychic master of some sort in a past
life and was able to shape shift…take on the form of animals at will,
including eagles and wolves. I had been giving past life readings for years
but had never experienced a…

View original post 785 more words

VIDEO PITCH for CHILDREN WANT WHAT THEY WANT WHEN THEY WANT IT, Short Script by Carolyn Reese

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch the Video Pitch for CHILDREN WANT WHAT THEY WANT WHEN THEY WANT IT:

Get to know writer Carolyn Reese:

1. What is your story about?

It is about, What if space aliens were really in to Cosplay and traveled all the way to earth to take part in contents, even pregnant one about to give birth.

2. Why should people know about yourself and your story?

I went to my first Cosplay event in costume, last March and was so good nobody knew me. I was a bear. No, not that kind of bear. Just in time a friend came in from Arkansas on his knew Triumph and took me/us and paid my way in. He looks like a bear but isn’t.

3. How long have you been writing stories?

Since I was nine. My first story was about a page of one of those old Native American on…

View original post 285 more words

Watch NOVEL turned into a MOVIE. Submit your own book to be made into a film.

WILDsound Festival's avatarWILDsound Festival

Watch Chapter 2 Novel Movie – ADOPTED BY AN AMERICAN HOMOSEXUAL IN THE BELGIAN CONGO

Novel Written by Albert Russo

ADOPTED BY AN AMERICAN HOMOSEXUAL IN THE BELGIAN CONGO
published by l’Aleph, Wisehouse Publishing

http://l-aleph.com/wordpress/?p=610

http://www.amazon.com/dp/9187751321/ref=cm_sw_su_dp

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

Narration by David Kinsman

Visual Design by Vira Solovyova

    * * * * *

Deadline August 15th: SUBMIT your NOVEL (both your 1st chapter or full novel accepted)
And we’ll make it into a MOVIE
http://www.wildsound.ca/audio_video_book.html

DEADLINE August 15th: 1st CHAPTER/FULL NOVEL Festival. FULL FEEDBACK. Get novel performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/book_contest.html

Get your story performed at the Writing Festival. FULL FEEDBACK on all entries.

WATCH the Recent Winning Short Story/1st Chapter Readings:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/novel_and_short_story_readings.html

View original post