Month: May 2024
Today’s Writing Festival Deadline: FAMILY Screenplay Contest
Today’s Writing Festival Deadline: FAMILY Screenplay Contest
Submit via Submittable:
https://manager.submittable.com/opportunities/discover/296311
FAMILY FESTIVAL takes place every single month. At least 2-4 winning screenplays. Winners get their script performed by professional actors and then made into a promotional best scene video.
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.)
1st Tier: FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay (all submissions)
2nd Tier: Accepted scripts (25% on average of submitted entries) get a best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
3rd Tier: We will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film.
4th Tier: Then we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we will promote the winning writer and script.
(BONUS: 5th Tier. A winning screenwriter’s WhatsApp group has just been formed. Over 50 writers to date. Great way to share ideas and contacts with people in the industry.)
What this festival does is give the writer exposure. With our best scene video reading, plus the 2 interviews, this festival simply makes the screenwriter’s name and script searchable and out there to the world. Plus, submissions receive full feedback on their script no matter what.
Upcoming Writing Festival Contests:
May 16th – X Story Contest (everyone wins) – Submit your 140 or 280 character story and have it performed by a professional actor. All entries win.
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May 17th – 1 Page Screenplay Contest (everyone wins) – Submit a one page screenplay and have it performed and made into a video by professional actors.
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May 19th – Short Story Performance Reading – Submit your Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
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June 10th – 1st Chapter Novel Contest – Get full feedback on your 1st chapter. Winners get their first chapter performed by a professional actors and made into a promotional video.
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June 11th – BODY IMAGE Poetry Contest – All submissions get their poem posted on the WILDsound network. Winning BODY IMAGE Poem gets made into a movie.
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June 12th – ROMANCE Short Story Contest (All submissions win!) – Get full feedback on your short stoory. Winner gets their short story made into a movie.
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June 13th – STAGE PLAY Writng Contest – Full feedback on your original stage play. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a video.
June 14th – 1 Page Short Story contest – (All submissions win!) – Submit a short story that is only 1 page long (maximum 400 words) and have it performed at the Writing Festival by a professional actor and made into a video.
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June 15th – FULL NOVEL Contest – Full feedback on your entire novel entry. Winners get a transcript of their novel performed by professional actors and made into a video.
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WILDsound Podcast EP. 1216 – Filmmaker Graham Northrup (GIFT)
GIFT, 19min,. USA
Directed by Graham Northrup
A young man escapes through the woods with his barely-conscious sister. Pursued by a warlord and his ruthless tracker, he must prevent her from falling into their hands again. But they will stop at nothing to control her unique gift – the ability heal others with touch.
http://www.northrupstudios.com/
https://facebook.com/northrupstudios
https://instagram.com/northupstudios
Get to know the filmmaker:
I love sci-fi and its ability to ask probing questions of humanity while couching them in a future or alternate reality. Although I have written and directed dramas, comedies, thrillers and more, sci-fi is my preferred genre, and I wanted to do a complete project, from script to screen. I knew I had a gap between productions, so I wrote a short that could be accomplished in that window, and possibly open up more opportunities once it was developed.
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Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: ACTION/ADVENTURE Film & Screenplay Festival
A showcase of the best Action/Adventure Films and Screenplays from around the world.
Submit on FilmFreeway:
Festival takes place every single month online.
Film Festival will be showcased at the monthly virtual film festival.
Screenplay submissions offers writers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using professional actors. Full feedback on all submissions as well by our team of professional screenwriters.
We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:
Tier #1 – Your film plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.
Tier #2 (optional) – Your film plays on the Film Festival streaming service for 30 hours and invite a select industry audience to watch it. With this system, some films have already received a distribution deal as many platforms are looking for solid feature and short documentaries. We can not guarantee anything of course but this has been very helpful to many in the past. (see testimonials below)
Then (Tier #3) we will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film. Then after that (Tier #4) we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we chat with you about the process of how the film was made.
Today’s Film Festival: Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival – May 16/17 event
Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.
Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/
Watch FILM: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/may-16-wildsound-shorts
See the Full Lineup of Films:
BENEATH THE SOIL, 4min., Australia
Directed by Peter Edward Hartwig
A deeply introspective experimental film, delving into the psyche of an eclectic artist on a quest to complete his most important art. In 4 minutes, we journey through the artist’s emotional landscape as he unveils a haunting collage of paintings that depict the darkest chapters of his life.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/beneath-the-soil-audience-feedback
DISMISSING THE ENVELOPE, 10min., USA
Directed by Steven Wright Clarkson
A young girl enters the painting world of four prominent artists
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/dismissing-the-envelope-audience-feedback-final
THE SWEATER, 9min., Canada
Directed by Maziyar Khatam
Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.
https://www.instagram.com/funnybonepictures/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/the-sweater-audience-feedback
LEI, 12min., Canada
Directed by Huiru Shi
Our story follows S, a seamstress tormented by her dreams of a moth Yokai, as she navigates a literal and symbolic maze to confront the creature and free herself from the psychological labyrinth that mirrors her inner struggles. It’s a symbolic journey that represents the complex struggle many face when dealing with mental health issues, providing a fresh, metaphoric perspective on self-doubt and existential fear.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.instagram.com/shortfilmlei/
STEEL LIBIDO, 15min., USA
Directed by Bronwyn Cornelius
Spurred by her tween daughter’s assessment of her sex life (or lack thereof), a single mom goes on a journey to rediscover her own sexuality.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/steel-libido-audience-feedback
PEGASUS HIGHWAY, 15min., Australia
Directed by Ethan Grahek
Two Bronies (Adult male fans of small, collectable Pony toys) are out to buy weed for their first time. Unbeknown to them, it is also their dealers first deal. What should have been a simple transaction quickly devolves, forcing one of the Bronies to chauffeur the eccentric drug dealer on a psychotic road trip. But there is more to these Bronies than the dealer could ever fathom.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/festival-audience-feedback-videos/videos/pegasus-highway-review
WILDsound Podcast: EP. 1217 – FILMMAKER KARL FALLON (GHOSTS MOVING FLOWERS AND PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP)
GHOSTS MOVING FLOWERS AND PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP, 60min., UK
Directed by Karl Fallon
This Ghostcircle film by Director Karl Fallon, is a thought provoking documentary about Physical Phenomena never captured before on film. The documentary is captures moments in time about modern day Physical Mediumship with Physical medium Patrick McNamara in which he explains that by providing the necessary conditions with people in a “Psychic Circle”, it will allow spirit entities the opportunity to move flowers in people’s hands. These Psychic or Physical Circles were demonstrated repeatedly and held in independent and reputedly haunted locations around the UK and Ireland. The film explores and captures the phenomena as he discusses the process around the demonstrations. All attendees were unknown to the medium and his team before turning up to see what they would get. The individual independent Psychic Circle sitters actually see and feel amazing phenomenon, and then give witness statements about that they experienced. See the strange and flower moving by the spirit entities with the sitters.
https://www.instagram.com/karl_fallon/
Get to know the filmmaker:
I originally made a TV series called “Ghostcircle” 5 individual Series now, and I have been filming our group of psychic mediums doing some pretty unique and amazing things, so I wanted to showcase some of the best of it from many different episodes. I selected the clips I wanted and put a narrative around it which was done by Patrick McNamara. Patrick explains what is actually going on in the filming from a spiritual or psychic side. It’s quite a complicated, and difficult to process because we never know how it’s going to turn out when we roll the camera, so to speak. The phenomena that we get is related to the conditions that we film in, and it’s affect by such things as the environment and the peoples energy that they bring. The more positive and excited people are, the more we get, and with that excitement there seems to be more energy created. How that all works I don’t know, but you know things are going well because it just feel good and the phenomena starts to happen. Some people don’t believe it, but you can’t argue when a flower moves in their hand and they are gripping it tightly too. So, if they aren’t doing it themselves and you can see that, who or what is doing it? That’s my motivation.
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Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival
The monthly festival that showcases the best of Thriller/Suspense Genre Stories and Films from around the world.
THRILLER festivals occur 12 times a year in Toronto & Los Angeles. Go to the website for information on the next events.
Submit via FilmFreeway:
This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video you will receive, plus an optional virtual 2nd showcase to enhance the film’s exposure. Festival also conducts blog and podcast interviews with the filmmaker. We have also started a filmmaker’s WhatsApp group with over 100 joined to date to chat about next project and make contacts etc….
With THRILLER screenplays and films, there will always be a market. This is a genre that will always be popular. Agents and producers are always looking for the next great writer and the next great filmmakers who tell great THRILLER stories. So if that is you, we will showcase your script or short film and make sure the right people see your work.
All festival dates have been moved to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.
Submit your film or story and get it showcased at the Festival.
Screenplay Festival occurs monthly.
Today’s Film Festival: CHICAGO Shorts Festival – May 15/16 event
Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.
Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/
Watch FILM: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/may-15-chicago-festival
See the Full Lineup of Films:
WEEK 11: SLAPSTICK, 2min., USA
Directed by William (Sharp) Walker
After a little boy loses his ball on a roof, he tries increasingly outlandish strategies to get it back.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/slapstick-feedback
HALCYON, 7min,. Australia
Directed by Brenton McNally
David looks for his missing wife but struggles to get out of his own way.
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/halcyon-feedback
WEEK 2: THRILLER, 1min., USA
Directed by Genus Griggs
Two brothers explore what appears to be an abandoned building. The older brother goes missing and the younger searches for him. He find’s his older brother bleeding out. The younger brother is then also captured.
https://www.instagram.com/genus.entertainment/
ASHES – CHAPTER 0, 4min., USA
Directed by Isaiah Matthew Griggs
In a mysterious facility, David, a captive, engineers his escape by tricking a guard. He evades pursuit through the building, discovering a lab and learning about his metahuman status. Outside the facility, he is captured by guards who mention his destructive potential. David wakes up in the lab, where his powers intensify and cause a powerful explosion. The short ends with David metaphysically floating in space, undergoing a transformative experience before unleashing a surge of energy.
https://www.instagram.com/genus.entertainment/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/ashes-feedback
THE CAPSULE, 20min,. Poland
Directed by Kamil Keenan, Agnieszka ?aglewska
Two astronauts in a space capsule realize that they won’t have enough oxygen until help arrives. In this extreme situation, they suddenly have to face the ultimate questions. Accompanying the characters on their final journey, viewers begin to wonder what their answers would be.
http://kamilkeenan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kamilkeenan
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/capsule-final-feedback
PUREBRED PASSION, 22min,. USA
Directed by Sam Powell
A documentary profiling two teams of competitors during the 2023 Great American Dog Show in Chicago.
https://www.samnpowell.com/
http://vimeo.com/sampowell
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/purebred-passion-feedback
Today’s Writing Festival Deadline: 1pg. Screenplay Contest
Submit a screenplay that is only 1 page long and have it performed at the Writing Festival by professional actors.
Submit today: https://novelwritingfestival.com/1pg-screenplay-contest/
(NOTE: The screenplay submission must be properly formatted.)
Submit for only $20. ALL of the screenplays will be accepted and performed. If there is a beginning/middle/end, and the grammar is sound, we will perform it.
A great way to get your words out there, obtain the Agent you’re looking for or just get your story and work seen by more people. Your story will be seen by 100,000s of people when it’s read online using top professional actors. It’s a rush you’ll never experience in your life seeing it come to life that way.
WILDsound Podcast EP. 1218 – SCREENWRITER NATE LEWINSKI (THE ANSWER)
Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKapX4h4I98
A film student makes a call, the answer changes his life.
Get to know the writer:
This one page script The Answer is about the moment I received the phone call that my father had died while I was at film school in New York. I wasn’t told at the moment he had committed suicide, but that was the moment I knew that the only real parent I had passed away.
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