STAGE PLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

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I think I watched the whole video performance of my play with a smile on my face. I’ll have to watch it again to be more objective. DEAR ACTORS – thank you! I’m so thrilled with your performances, you don’t know how happy you have made me.
– Gina Surles, Playwright

WILDsound THEATRE Contest

Submit your PLAY here: http://www.wildsound.ca/play_contest.html

FULL FEEDBACK on your STAGE PLAY from our committee of Professional Play Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your PLAY performed by professional actors at the festival.

SUBMIT your play now (both 1st act or full length accepted). To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events

WINNERS get their full stage play read by professional actors and showcased online for the world to see!

Watch Past Stage Play Performance Readings: 

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FIRST SCENE SCREENPLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

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The communication, organization and feedback these guys offer are fantastic and scriptwriters of all disciplines and experience should be jumping at the service WILDsound provides. The best thing about it is they are as enthusiastic as you about your work. Thank you to everyone involved with WILDsound.
– Grant Reid, 1st Scene Submission

FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants.

Are you just starting off your screenplay and want immediate feedback on your first scenes/first moments of your script?

Go here to submit: 

Send your first scene (or first moments – 10pg. limit) and get feedback. Winners (at least 40 a year) get their first scene read at the MONTHLY WILDsound Screenplay Festival (see video on right for example of what you’ll get when you win).

Great way to promote your script!

Watch the Past Winning Screenplay: 

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October 2016: Read the best of NEW Poetry from around the world:

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Submit your POETRY for FREE to the festival: https://festivalforpoetry.com/

Read the best of NEW Poetry:

I AM POETRY, by Allyson Olivia
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/i-am-poetry-by-allyson-olivia/

DREAMS AND REALITY, by Natalia Gorbunova
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/dreams-and-reality-poetry-by-natalia-gorbunova-spain/

YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW, by Eve Noel
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/yesterday-today-tomorrow-poetry-by-eve-noel/

THE FRACTAL DEBRIS, by Keefe RD
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/the-fractal-debris-poetry-by-keefe-r-d/

RUN, by LA Shan Know
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/run-poetry-by-la-shan-knox/

SUNDAY NIGHT SERVICE, by Carla Fox
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/sunday-night-service-poetry-by-carla-fox/

CAGED BIRD, by Khalid
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/caged-bird-poetry-by-khalid/

SURROUNDED BY LAND, by Bernadette Perez
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/surrounded-by-land-poetry-by-bernadette-perez/

DATING LESSON, by Marcie Tau
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/dating-lesson-poetry-by-marcie-tau/

GRAVITY, by Melody Wilson
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/gravity-poetry-by-melody-wilson/

TRIUMPH OF LOVE, by Juan Antonio Garcia
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/triumph-of-love-poetry-by-juan-antonio-garcia/

DO NOT COME HOME, by Michael Ace
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/do-not-come-home-poetry-by-micheal-ace/

I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, by Kris
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/i-am-here-to-tell-you-poetry-by-kris/

THE GIFT, by Jo Anne Kennedy
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/the-gift-poetry-by-jo-anne-kennedy/

OH BEAUTY BEAUTY, by Caitlin Dwight
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/oh-beauty-beauty-poetry-by-caitlin-dwight/

SOULFUL WISH, by Lalwani Ashok
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/soulful-wish-poetry-by-lalwani-ashok/

MY DEMONS, by Nadia Caballero
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/my-demons-poetry-by-nadia-caballero/

MY DAUGHTER MY DELIGHT, by Khan Mohd
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/my-daughter-my-delight-poetry-by-khan-mohd/

R I P WILLIAM, by Vashaun D. Baker
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/r-i-p-william-poetry-by-vashaun-d-baker/

BRAVOBRAINBRAVO, by Iiafiam Immortal

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Died Today (October 4th): Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

grahamchapman.jpgGraham Chapman (1941–1989)

Born: January 8, 1941 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Died: October 4, 1989 (age 48) in Maidstone, England, UK

John Howard Davies was not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

[Chapman and the other members of the Monty Python group traveled to visit the site of Dachau concentration camp in Germany, but were told by staff that they were too late and the museum was about to close] Tell them we’re Jewish.

And Now For Something Completely Different
1971
dir. Ian MacNaughton
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAILMonty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
dir. Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones
Life of Brian
1979
dir. Terry Jones
Starring
Chapman
John Cleese
THE MEANING OF LIFEThe Meaning of Life
1983
dir. Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam
Starring
John Cleese
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Died Today (October 4th): Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

janisjoplin.jpgJanis Joplin (1943–1970)

Born: January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Died: October 4, 1970 (age 27) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working and you’ve got the audience with you, it’s a oneness you feel.

 

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Happy Birthday: Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

jackiecollins.jpgJackie Collins (1937–2015)

Born: October 4, 1937 in London, England, UK
Died: September 19, 2015 (age 77) in Los Angeles, California, USA

[from her last interview] Looking back, I’m not sorry about anything I did. I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’ve written five books since the diagnosis [for stage 4 breast cancer], I’ve lived my life, I’ve traveled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it. Now I want to save other people’s lives.

 

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Happy Birthday: Armand Assante

armandassante.jpgArmand Assante

Born: October 4, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA

[on the recession] I’ve never seen a time when the financial end of film was so fragile. Projects come and go on the capacity of whether people have the financial ability, even for the lowest budget projects. It shows what has happened since 2008.

TWO FOR THE MONEY
2005
dir. D.J. Caruso
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey
Al Pacino
DEAD MAN DOWN
2013
dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Stars:
Colin Farrell
Noomi Rapace
SydneyWhiteAmerican Gangster
dir. Scott
Starring
Russell Crowe
Washington

 

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Happy Birthday: Buster Keaton (1895–1966)

busterkeaton.jpgBuster Keaton (1895–1966)

Born: October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, USA
Died: February 1, 1966 (age 70) in Los Angeles, California, USA

I’ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this, I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I’ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

The Boat: Short Film
1921
dir. Keaton
starring
Keaton
the balloonatic buster keatonThe Balloonatic
1923
dir. Keaton
Starring
Keaton
Phyllis Haver
THE FROZEN NORTHThe Frozen North
1922
dir. Keaton
Edward F. Cline
starring
Keaton
Bonnie Hill
COPSCops
1922
dir. Keaton
Edward F. Cline
starring
Keaton
Virginia Fox
Sherlock Jr
1924
dir. Keaton
starring
Keaton
Kathryn McGuire
The GeneralThe General
1927
dir. Keaton
Clyde Bruckman
starring
Keaton
Marion Mack
AT THE CIRCUSAt the Circus
1939
dir. Edward Buzzell
starring
The Marx Bros
Keaton co-writer
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966
dir. Richard Lester
Starring
Zero Mostel

Born in 1895 in Kansas, into a vaudeville family performing with the likes of Houdini (who coined his name ‘Buster’), Keaton was an early physical talent.

He entered film in his early twenties making shorts, and was deemed a star upon his first feature, 1920’s The Saphead. Keaton wrote, directed and starred in many of his own films, as well as doing studio comedies which did not garner him critical success.

With the discovery of lost stock of his early work, and 1952’s Limelight with Charlie Chaplin, Buster was finally recognized as an icon of his genre. Buster Keaton died in 1966.

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Happy Birthday: Alan Rosenberg

alanrosenberg.jpgAlan Rosenberg

Born: October 4, 1950 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA

Fair play doesn’t pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage. Here [pointing to the crowd] is the leverage. Our leverage is that we’re the product. We took a bad deal for cable 25 years ago. We took a horrible deal for VHS 20 years ago. We won’t be fooled again. (At WGA Rally in front of FOX Plaza)

 

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Happy Birthday: Charlton Heston (1923–2008)

charltonheston.jpgCharlton Heston (1923–2008)

Born: October 4, 1923 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Died: April 5, 2008 (age 84) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Lydia Clarke (17 March 1944 – 5 April 2008) (his death) (2 children)

People don’t perceive me as a shy man. But I am. I am thought of mostly in terms of the parts I play. I am seen as a forbidding authority figure. I only wish I were as indomitable as everyone thinks.

The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Cast
Betty Hutton
Cornel Wilde
PLANET OF THE APESPlanet of the Apes
1968
dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring
Charlton Heston
Roddy McDowall
Earthquake
1974
dir. Mark Robson
Starring
Heston
Ava Gardner
AIRPORT 1975Airport 1975
1975
dir. Jack Smight
Cast
Charlton Heston
Karen Black
ANY GIVEN SUNDAYAny Given Sunday
1999
dir. Oliver Stone
starring
Jamie Foxx
Al Pacino
TOMBSTONETombstone
1993
dir. George P. Cosmatos
Starring
Kurt Russell
Val Kilmer
TRUE LIES MOVIE POSTERTrue Lies
1994
dir. James Cameron
Starring
Schwarzenegger
Jamie Lee Curtis
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APESBeneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
dir. Ted Post
Starring
James Franciscus
Kim Hunter
THE OMEGA MANThe Omega Man
1971
dir. Boris Sagal
Starring
Heston
Anthony Zerbe
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