Month: September 2016

Upcoming Writing Festival Deadlines: TV/Feature Screenplay. Short Films. Novels.

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Deadline September 15th

TV CONTESTSUBMIT your TV PILOT or TV SPEC Script
Voted #1 TV Contest in North America.		FILM CONTESTSUBMIT your SHORT Film
Get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Festival
writing CONTEST1st CHAPTER or FULL NOVEL CONTEST
Get full feedback! Winners get their novel made into a video!		SCREENPLAY CONTESTSUBMIT your FEATURE Script
FULL FEEDBACK on all entries. Get your script performed

Deadline September 20th

short script CONTESTSHORT SCRIPT CONTEST
Submit your short film screenplay!		ACTORFREE TWITTER SHORT STORY CONTEST

Submit 140 character story. Get made into movie.

Deadline September 25th

writing CONTESTSHORT STORY CONTEST
Get full feedback! Winners get their short story made into a video!		ACTORVIDEO PITCH FESTIVAL

Submit your own video pitch today.

FEEDBACK Film and Writing Festival.Three events a month! Daily deadlines to submit. Full Feedback on all entries. Get your screenplay, novel, short story, play, or poem performed by professional actors at the festival and then showcased online for agents…

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Submit to the FanFiction Festival via FilmFreeway

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I know it’s often hard to get fan fiction work recognized and when I found out about the festival I saw it is a wonderful opportunity. The the quality of the feedback was amazing. I feel like it has helped me understand further into the screenwriting craft and will ultimately help me become a better writer.
– Andrew Akler (Batman: Patient Zero, screenplay)

Guaranteed winner every single month!

Submit via FilmFreeway:

In today’s market, agents and producers are looking for new talent who can write under the parameters of existing works and franchises. The art of adding a new twist/plot while knowing the themes and characters of the works you’re writing for. That is why the Fan Fiction Festival has been created.

Submit a FAN FICTION Script of a classic television show, movie series, or iconic franchise. Any past TV show or movie in the history of cinema. For example:…

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Today’s TIFF Movie Reviews:

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Today’s Toronto International Film Festival reviews: https://festivalreviews.org/category/tiff-2016-movie-reviews/

TIFF 2016 Movie Review: UNLESS (Canada/Ireland 2016) ***

Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener and Hannah Gross star in this adaptation of the final novel by the late, great Canadian novelist Carol Shields, about a writer who discovers her runaway daughter panhandling on the street and seemingly deprived of speech.

TIFF 2016 Movie Review: TRESPASS AGAINST US (UK 2016) ***1/2

Like the 2010 Australian film ANIMAL KINGDOM, also the name of the film’s production company, TRESPASS AGAINST US is a film about a dysfunctional crime family – British style. The family live in a trailer park in England a kind of white British trailer trash.

TIFF 2016 Movie Review: TRAMPS (USA 2016)

Adam Leon’s low budget lonely hearts club romance has two newcomers Callum Turner and Grace Van Pattern play two unlikely pawns in a shady delivery deal.

TIFF 2016 Movie Review: THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM (UK 2016)

This crime…

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Read Best of Professional Costume Designer Interviews

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Interview via Matthew Toffolo at http://www.matthewtoffolo.com

Interview with Costume Designer Malgosia Turzanska (Maggie’s Plan)

Chatting with Costume Designer Malgosia Turzanska was inspirational, educational, and fun! She’s a true talent and someone who is obviously in love with her job. Maggi To learn more about Maglosia, go to her website: http://www.turzanska.com

Interview with Costume Designer Janelle Nicole Carothers (The Perfect Match)

No matter the medium it’s all a delicate balance between style and craft. I put 100% into every project so they all require the same amount of blood, sweat and tears.

Interview with Costume Designer Linda Muir (The Witch, Bitten)

What a terrific honour it was sit down with the talented costume designer Linda Muir, who is based in Toronto, Canada. She has worked in the industry for the last 30 years, on many successful films and TV shows, which she talks about in the interview. A must read for anyone working or…

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Watch Aug. 2016 FEEDBACK Film Festival Videos (20 short films)

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festival posterDO NOT DISTURB, 13min, UK
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterA FILM BY VERA VAUGHN, 10min, USA
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterDON’T LET THEM IN, 13min, USA
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterPREFERENTIAL OPERATION, 20min, Spain
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterKADDISH!, 6min, France
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterDRAWN TO FEAR, 7min, USA
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
101 CUPCAKES, 13min, Australia, Family/Drama
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterLUCY, 16min, Greece, Family/Drama
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterGHOSTBOY, 9min., UK, Animation/Comedy
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterAWESOME BEETLE’S COLORS, 3min, Latvia, Animation/Musical
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterINSIDE, 3min., Belguim, Animation/Comedy
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival poster5476 Miles, 4min, UK, Animation/Music Video
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterSPARROW DUET, 4min, USA, Animation/Experimental
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterA SMALL VOICE, 2min, UK, Animation/Drama
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterBOTTOMLESS, 2min, USA, Animation/Biography
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterSEA OF INK, 3min, USA, Animation/Drama
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival poster1916, 4min, UK, Animation/Drama
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK		festival posterTIME SMASH, 2min., USA, Animation/Sci-Fi
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK
festival posterJAILBREAK, 1min., USA, Animation/Crime
WATCH Audience FEEDBACK

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Died Today (September 13th) – Paul Gleason (1939–2006)

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paulgleason  Paul Gleason

Born: Paul Xavier Gleason
May 4, 1939 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Died: May 27, 2006 (age 67) in Burbank, California, USA

Married to:

Susan Kehl (August 1995 – 27 May 2006) (his death) (2 children)
Candy Moore (13 March 1971 – 1978) (divorced) (1 child)

QUOTE: I went into acting because I had nothing more sensible to do. However, once I began acting classes with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio in New York, I found it stimulating and rewarding.

Died Today (September 13th) – Jeff Conaway (1950–2011)

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jeffconaway.jpgJeff Conaway (1950–2011)

Born: October 5, 1950 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: May 27, 2011 (age 60) in Encino, Los Angeles, California, USA

[on his suicide attempts]: I’ve tried to commit suicide 21 times. Mostly, it’s been with pills.

[on leaving Taxi (1978)]: In ‘Taxi,’ I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

 

Happy Birthday: Mel Tormé (1925–1999)

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meltorme.jpgMel Tormé (1925–1999)

Born: September 13, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: June 5, 1999 (age 73) in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to:
Ali Severson (30 October 1984 – 5 June 1999) (his death)
Janette Scott (20 May 1966 – 26 May 1977) (divorced) (2 children)
Phyllis Arlene Miles (31 October 1956 – 9 November 1965) (divorced) (1 child)
Candy Toxton (11 February 1949 – 15 February 1956) (divorced) (2 children)

One of the joys of a jazz singer is to try to keep a dimension of constant improvisation in relation to what he sings. But–and it’s a big but–only if you never lose sight of the original musical value which the composer put in it. And above all, if you don’t sacrifice the most important element of a popular song: the words.

Happy Birthday: Fiona Apple

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fionaapple.jpgFiona Apple

Born: September 13, 1977 in New York City, New York, USA

This world is bullshit, and you shouldn’t model your life about what you think that you think we think is cool, and what we’re wearing, and what we’re saying and everything. Go with yourself.

When I was a kid–10, 11, 12, 13–the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody. And back then, a thought would go through my head almost constantly: “There’s never gonna be a room someplace where there’s a group of people sitting around, having fun, hanging out, where one of them goes, ‘You know what would be great? We should call Fiona. Yeah, that would be good.’ That’ll never happen. There’s nothing interesting about me.” I just felt like I was a sad little boring thing.

Happy Birthday: Frank Marshall

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frankmarshall.jpgFrank Marshall

Born: September 13, 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Kathleen Kennedy (1987 – present) (2 children)

When I made Eight Below (2006), they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn’t want to do it because that’s just what I need–to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.

MOVIE POSTEREIGHT BELOW
2006
dir. Frank Marshall
Stars:
Paul Walker
Jason Biggs