I’ve been very impressed with WILDsound. The script performance aspect of the contest sets it apart, and leaves you with a tangible reward if you win. WILDsound also puts genuine effort into giving you feedback, and into promoting winning scripts.

Author: Michael Kellner, November 11, 2014 from MovieBytes.com

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The WILDsound Festival has gotten some great reviews from screenwriters who have submitted to the festival in the past.

On the Feature Screenplay page, the ratings are a solid 4.2 out of 5
http://www.moviebytes.com/ContestDetail.cfm?ContestNumber=2100

On the TV Screenplay page, the ratings are an amaziing 4.5 out of 5
http://www.moviebytes.com/ContestDetail.cfm?StoryID=4840&ContestNumber=2339&tab=tab3

On those pages you can read tons of testimonials, plus read interviews of past WILDsound screenplay winnersand their experiences with the contest.

Here are some examples:

WILDsound is a screenwriter’s…

Ah the Western. Perhaps replaced by Comic Book movies as the genre where we used to watch the “bad man” defeat the “badder men” and then become the “good man”. The man we want to be and who the women want on their arms.

In our list of logline genres, Western films are a distant last in the popularity poll. But we do have a list of 20 Western loglines for all to read:

http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/western_feature_film.html

These writers truly believe that these are solid stories to get this genre back to where it once was.

Back in the 1950s, horse racing, boxing, and baseball were the most popular sports in North America. And Westerns, Musicals, and Dramas were the most popular movies. Today, horse racing and boxing aren’t even on the map when it comes to popular sports, just like the Western and the Musical. Times and people change and you…

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. I think the actress who played Maggie (Marsha Mason) is amazing. From now on, I’ll only see her in the role!

– Gina Surles, on her reaction watching the PAPER WALL reading at the WILDsound Festival (Review)

Gina’s amazing play PAPER WALL was just performed at a recent WILDsound Festival. Watch it here:

SYNOPSIS:

A New York playwright who hasn’t produced anything in ten years, struggles to complete a new play while having major repairs done to a wall in her apartment, while alternately being helped and hindered by an ex-stripper, a priest, and a carpenter.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Amaka Umeh
MAGGIE…

It was terrific. I very much enjoyed seeing my script performed! It was helpful to hear & see my dialogue read out loud. Now I know where to make further improvements. 😛

– Ana R. Dominick, on watch her Short Script performed at the WILDsound Screenplay Festival (Review)

Ana’s short script was the November 2014 festival winner. Watch the reading here:

SYNOPSIS:

A lonely 9-year-old American girl embarks on a primal voyage across the Pacific Ocean to find her long-gone mama in Australia.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Amaka Umeh
BOOMERANG – Michelle Alexander
ROXY/WOMAN – Marsha Mason
NATHAN/DRIVER – Geoff Mays
SKATER/PASSENGER – Rob Notman

Learn more about this script: http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/boomerang_the_great.html

WILDsound’s Matthew Toffolo chatted with Ana R. Dominick about her short script win:

Matthew Toffolo: What’s your screenplay about?

A lonely and resourceful girl who, after her Grandpa dies, embarks on a tireless odyssey from the Mojave to Australia…

An adventure is an event or series of events that happens outside the course of the protagonist’s ordinary life, usually accompanied by danger, often by physical action. Adventure stories almost always move quickly, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting and other elements of a creative work.

– Critic Don D’Ammassa

That’s a perfect definition of what an adventure novel is all about. Of course, these books are crossovers for other genres, one of the more popular in the last 150 years is the Children’s and Teen Adventure series. The pace works for young readers as the plot moves the story quickly while they fall in love with the protagonists and imagine that they are them.

They are also many examples of crime, sci-fi, western, spy, and mystery series also adding this genre to the mix. While keeping those genres intact, the tone…

LOGLINE PITCH:

Title: Locked-In

Written by: Robert McBride

Type: Feature Film

Genre: Thriller, Crime

Logline: While rushing to save her dying son’t life, a desperate mother is taken hostage by a troubled teen on the run.

Interested in this logline, please email us at info@wildsound.ca and we’ll forward your email to the writer.

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LOGLINE PITCH:

Title: Panic-Attack

Written by: Felipe Herrera

Type: Feature Film

Genre: Thriller, Action

Logline: A father who has recently suffered a panic attack must find his daughter in the most chaotic night of his life.

Interested in this logline, please email us at info@wildsound.ca and we’ll forward your email to the writer.

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LOGLINE PITCH:

Title: Rambo Robinson

Written by: Purna Rai

Type: Feature Film

Genre: Thriller, Action

Logline: 28 year old homeless street fighter known as Rambo for his one-punch knock out history, pursues his dream to become best boxer on earth. He gets kidnapped and trapped in a private island in Thailand that is owned by multi-billionaire as revenge for an incident that happened 20 years back.

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Interested in this logline, please email us at info@wildsound.ca and we’ll forward your email to the writer.

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LOGLINE PITCH:

Title: BATTLE OF THE SHORT AND TALL PEOPLE

Written by: B.J. Samuel

Type: Feature Film

Genre: Adventure, History, Comedy

Logline: A 14TH CENTURY TALE WHEN SHORT AND TALL PEOPLE HATED EACH OTHER AND CRASHED FOR WORLD POWERS.

Interested in this logline, please email us at info@wildsound.ca and we’ll forward your email to the writer.

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LOGLINE PITCH:

Title: The City of Alvarez

Written by: Sonya Marshall

Type: Feature Film

Genre: Fantasy, Family

Logline: Two men possess a magic book that when written inside, the story comes to life.

Interested in this logline, please email us at info@wildsound.ca and we’ll forward your email to the writer.

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