Deadline July 5th: FIRST SCENE (first 10pgs) SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL. Get script performed at the festival. Full feedback
http://www.wildsound.ca/firstscenescreenplaycontest.html
– Submit the first stages of your film, get it performed at the festival, and get full feedback!
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Due Date July 4th:
FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants. Get your entire script performed at the writing festival. SUBMIT your FEATURE, TV or SHORT SCREENPLAY.
Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays from all over the world.
Watch Recent Screenplay Winners (at least 1 winner every month)
The RULES are simple:
1. Write a script that is made for animation. Edit the heck out of it. We accept features and shorts of any genre.
2. Email your script to animation@feedbackanimationfestival.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format.
In the body in the email please add your:
– FULL NAME
– CITY AND COUNTRY
– TITLE OF SCRIPT
– TYPE OF SCRIPT (feature, TV, short)
– (optional) and a 1-2 line synopsis of your screenplay.
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Festival Deal – SAVE $10 off the regular submission.
Due Date July 3rd:
FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants. Get your entire script performed at the writing festival. SUBMIT your FEATURE, TV or SHORT SCREENPLAY.
Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays from all over the world.
Watch Recent Screenplay Winners (at least 1 winner every month)
The RULES are simple:1. Write a script. Edit the heck out of it. We accept features and shorts of any genre.
2. Email your script to romance@festivalforromance.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format.
In the body in the email please add your:
– FULL NAME
– CITY AND COUNTRY
– TITLE OF SCRIPT
– TYPE OF SCRIPT (feature, TV, short)
– (optional) and a 1-2 line synopsis of your screenplay.
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SAVE $50 off the regular submission for full novel submissions. Garner FULL FEEDBACK on your novel by our committee of industry professionals. Get a transcript of your novel performed by professional actors at the Fantasy Sci-Fi Festival Festival.
NEW OPTION: Just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)
22 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels/Stories Performed in 2015:
(Scroll down and watch winning performance videos)
The #1 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival and Contest in the World today!
Offers novelists and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).
One of the best places in the world for the writers to add sales to their self-published novel and/or obtain and agent.
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Died Today: Andy Griffith (1926–2012)
Born: June 1, 1926 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA
Died: July 3, 2012 (age 86) in Manteo, North Carolina, USA
Married to: Cindi Knight (2 April 1983 – 3 July 2012) (his death)
Solica Casuto (11 June 1975 – 1981) (divorced)
Barbara Griffith (26 August 1949 – 16 October 1972) (divorced) (2 children)
QUOTES:
[on his off-camera relationship with Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bee] There was just something about me she did not like.
[How he valued Don Knotts as an actor/best friend]: I loved Don. There was no one like him.
[For making Chapel Hill, which is where he went to college, proud of him]: I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life, … And now that I’m getting older, I realized that I’m walking even closer with my God.
I still play that guitar. It’s a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I’ve played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years.
[When he used a televangelist as his model]: I did an impression of Oral Roberts, and near the end, I took Elia Kazan’s head in my hands, and I healed him, I walked out of that restaurant with the part.
Died Today Jim Morrison (1943–1971)
Born: December 8, 1943 in Melbourne, Florida, USA
Died: July 3, 1971 (age 27) in Paris, France
During 1965-1966, before The Doors were established, Morrison, camping out on Venice rooftops, would peep on girls changing in neighboring apartments, recording everything he witnessed in notebooks (one of which survives).
Longtime girlfriend Pamela Courson died of a heroin overdose in 1974.
QUOTES:
[Los Angeles, 1969] Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was: just curiosity.
[Dinner Key Auditorium, 3/1/69, the infamous concert where he allegedly exposed himself] We are not talking about no revolution! I’m not talking about no demonstration! I’m talking about having some fun! I’m talking about dancing! I’m talking about love your neighbor ’til it hurts! I’m talking about love! […] This is your show, anything you want goes!
I’ve always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. When you make peace with authority, you become an authority.
Music is a pure expression of joy.
Happy Birthday actor Tom Stoppard
Born: July 3, 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]
Married to: Sabrina Guinness (2014 – present)
Miriam Stoppard (1972 – 1992) (divorced) (2 children)
Jose Ingle (1962 – 1972) (divorced) (2 children)
He worked as script doctor and re-write uncredited on: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Sleepy Hollow (1999), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), and others.
OSCAR Winner for Best Screenplay (Shakespeare in Love)
QUOTES:
[In 1968] I was asked to sign a protest against “censorship” after a newspaper declined to publish somebody’s manifesto. “But that isn’t censorship,” I said. “That’s editing. In Russia you go to prison for possessing a copy of Animal Farm. That’s censorship.”
[In 1968] A few miles away across the Channel, clashes between protesters and riot police were affairs of burning cars, overturned buses and buildings turned to rubble. Our own street-fighting man was only rock ‘n’ roll.
[In 1968] It wasn’t all posh, of course. The “scene”, as we called it, was more populously located in a shifting underground of art events – exhibitions, gigs, happenings, poetry readings – in dark places around Covent Garden and elsewhere and here the word “revolution” takes on some substance, I think. It was not a social revolution, but there was a sense of a cultural revolution pivoted on that moment. Unfortunately, I was embarrassed by that, too. I loved the music and the dressing up but I couldn’t take to the dialogue: a reductive argot of comrade-jargon and bogus wisdom derived from misunderstood eastern religions.
If I had known in 1968 what we were going to squander, long before we had the excuse of 9/11, I might have joined in the fun with less embarrassment, with less to lose. But at the time all the goings-on seemed frivolous compared with the freedoms we had invented – or should I say the freedoms you invented?
Happy Birthday director Peyton Reed
Born: July 3, 1964 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
He is a director and producer, known for Ant-Man (2015), Yes Man (2008) and The Break-Up (2006).
| THE BREAK-UP 2006 dir. Peyton Reed Stars: Jennifer Aniston Vince Vaughn |
 Yes mandir. Peyton Reed Starring Carrey Zooey Deschanel |
Happy Birthday actor Bruce Altman
Born: July 3, 1955 in The Bronx, New York, USA
Married and has one daughter
Studied in NYC with William Hickey and at the William Esper studio.
 ROOKIE OF THE YEAR1993 dir. Daniel Stern Stars: Thomas Ian Nicholas Gary Busey |
 Glengarry Glen Ross1992 dir. James Foley Starring Al Pacino Lemmon< |
 It’s Complicateddir. Nancy Meyers Stars: Meryl Streep Steve Martin Baldwin |
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Happy Birthday actor George Sanders (1906–1972)
Born: July 3, 1906 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died: April 25, 1972 (age 65) in Castelldefels, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Married to: Magda Gabor (5 December 1970 – 1971) (divorced)
Benita Hume (10 February 1959 – 1 November 1967) (her death)
Zsa Zsa Gabor (2 April 1949 – 2 April 1954) (divorced)
Susan Larson (1940 – 1949) (divorced)
QUOTES:
A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Acting is like roller-skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.
I am not one of those people who would rather act than eat. Quite the reverse. My own desire as a boy was to retire. That ambition has never changed.
I don’t ask questions. I just take their money and use it for things that really interest me.
I was beastly but never coarse. A high-class sort of heel.
I never really thought I’d make the grade. And let’s face it, I haven’t.
MORNING GLORY
GAME CHANGE 
THE SITTER 
DAMAGES Season 4
Festival Reviews 