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Year: 2020
LGBT Film Festival Testimonial – May 15 2020
Joakim S. Hammond
Awesome festival, I love that they send an audience feedback video, I got some unexpected but interesting reactions.
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This festival is designed to showcase the best of LGBT stories from around the world. We accept screenplays (short, TV Pilot, feature) and short films from all corners of the world.
LGBT Festival Testimonial – May 16 2020
Screenwriter Christopher Willis (CAMOUFLAGE)
I wanted feedback from an LGBT perspective. The initial feedback fostered a significant rewrite and re-submission.
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A top-secret American unit uses inflatable tanks and phony artillery barrages to divert German resources away from actual Allied forces. Many in the unit are well suited to their mission of deception having lived in the shadows of homosexuality all their lives. Inspired by real men.
CAST LIST:
SS Major: Ted Powers
Henri: Gene Abella
Narrator: Laura Kyswaty
Pierre: Sean Ballatyne
Monique: Caroline Concordia
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Female Festival Best Scene Screenplay Reading of Dream by Randall Talton
In this scene Elliott, overcome with guilt, has a dream about the child he abandoned. Anais, the child’s Mother offers no sympathy
CAST LIST:
NARRATION – KAT SMILEY
Elliot – STEPHEN SANDQUIST
Anais – JESSICA BOWMER
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Kyle Drier, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Hugh Fraser, Andy Camp, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
Female Best Scene Reading of Uncelebrated Passing by Randall Talton
CAST LIST:
Waiter – SARAH-HAZEN BASK
NARRATION – STEVE SWITZMAN
Corey – KAT SMILEY
Mother – JULIE SHEPPARD
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Kyle Drier, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Hugh Fraser, Andy Camp, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
Female Best Scene Screenplay Reading of Headstrong by Tali Zingman
Alice, age 32, is a self-conscious girl with a bitter dilemma: what to do after catching her boyfriend of 5 years cheating. It’s up to her and the kooky sides of her personality in her head to decide. This is one epic inner battle.
CAST LIST:
Revenge – KAT SMILEY
NARRATION – STEPHEN SANDQUIST
Mother – JULIE SHEPPARD
Alice – JESSICA BOWMER
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Kyle Drier, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Hugh Fraser, Andy Camp, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
Female Festival Winning Feature Screenplay Reading: For Better Or For Worse, by Clara BIJL
An American-born woman who’s deemed to be an “illegal” attempts to avoid deportation at any cost, only to find that her seemingly fool-proof plan has backfired.
CAST LIST:
Various: Regan Brown
Phil: Dale Samms
Jane: Cassandra Guthrie
Narration: Kat Smiley
Edith: Melie Rondeau
Brad: Hugh Ritchie
Mike: Wayne Yuan
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch
Female Festival 1st Scene Reading: Steal The Light, by Whitney Stewart
After Hurricane Katrina destroys her home and career, a young journalist abandons everything to fulfill her German grandmother’s dying wish — to discover the fate of her brother who disappeared on the Russian Front of World War Two.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Sean Ballantyne
Charlotte: Hannah Ehman
Anna: Nkasi Ogbonnah
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Art Appreciation, by Jennifer Titus & Mark Provencher
A nice suburban couple own a painting. Desperate for cash, they wonder…how much is it worth if the artist dies suddenly?
CAST LIST:
Woman: Nadine Charleson
Ali: Tiffany Davidson
Narration: Esther Tribault
Joe: Scott Hilton
Sylvia: Elizabeth Erhart
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch
SHORT Female Festival Screenplay Reading: Discord, by Jax Smith & Helene Taylor
This short is about a female musician putting up with inappropriate advances from a senior male musician in order to secure a job.
CAST LIST:
Server: Daniel Jones
Narrator: Regan Brown
Meastro: Luke Robinson
Jane: Cassandra Guthrie
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Ryan Haines, John Johnson
Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: Ryan Haines, Temitope Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch
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