Year: 2024

Watch Today’s Film Festival: BLACK & WHITE North American Shorts

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See the Full Lineup of Fims:

DEATH IN LAVENDER, 10min., USA
Directed by Tyler W. Moore
Secrets begin to unravel after the untimely passing of the patriarch of the Pennington family.

THE LESSON, 11min,. USA
Directed by Lindy Hudis
The tables are turned when a neurotic and abusive homeowner learns a hard lesson about manners and karma! After verbally abusing a supposedly inept housekeeper, Angela goes to an important business dinner meeting with the CEO of her company, seeking a promotion. The boss’s date and fiancé is Kelly, the young college student working part time as a maid to earn money for school. Somebody is about to learn a lesson!

https://thinkshorts.com/32773/the-lesson
https://www.facebook.com/LindyScribe
https://twitter.com/lindyscribe
https://www.instagram.com/lindys.hudis

AURORA, 30min., USA
Directed by Thomas Negovan, Aaron Sharps
The true story of the first documented UFO crash in American history. Written and directed by Thomas Negovan and Aaron Shaps.

http://www.cinando.com/cintamanifilms

https://www.facebook.com/cintamanifilms

KNOCKOUT, 33min,. USA
Directed by Ralph Giordano
Knockout is the story of a young man trying to find success in the competitive world of Boxing, only to face external conflict and confront inner demons.

https://www.facebook.com/Knockout-107387613987344

THE BIRDS, 5min., Canada
Directed by Joe Chang
Unspoken and free from any conventional set of characters, The Birds employs a unique ink washed style to offer a heartfelt, imploring of humankind to take the time to truly admire the beauty of birds and to connect with nature.

Río Monstruo, 6min,. USA
Directed by James Crowder
A monster in the LA River finds the music of a young girl soothing and needs her all to itself.

https://instagram.com/crowderfilms

Today’s Podcast EP. 1382 – Fifi Fleshwound/Erin Knitis & Little Mary Switchblade/Mary Hawkins (SKATE FAST TURN LEFT)

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SKATE FAST TURN LEFT, 1min., USA
Directed by Mary Hawkins
Two friends, Fifi Fleshwound and Little Mary Switchblade, have a quick conversation about their roller derby years…

http://tookaturn.com/
https://www.instagram.com/thngstookaturn/

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

My friend Andrea came up with Things Took a Turn, and I’d wanted to submit ever since I’d heard about it. It’s an animation anthology for women and gender minorities, and it just sounded like good weird fun… I told Fifi about it, since I’m not a writer-of-things and she is, and we chatted a bunch about ways to react to the prompt for that season: the End of the World. We’d meet in a diner, talk for about fifteen minutes about how we were going to approach the project and then veer off into old derby gossip. Eventually, I told her that we needed to nail things down and while we were at it… why didn’t we make the film about us and our experiences. We’d been coming up with little fictional scenarios, but our actual experience was better and more interesting. We’d put years of work into roller derby. It’s an all-consuming hobby and a really interesting community.

What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?

I loved the reactions! People put so much love and thought into their feedback and I really enjoyed hearing what they had to say, especially since most of the people who’ve talked to me about my film have been people I already have a connection to, either because they’re friends or also played roller derby or live in NYC. To see that total strangers were also interested in my film and really got what it was about really made my morning. My movie is only 45 seconds long. so nearly any description of the film is longer than the film itself.

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Today’s FilmFreeway Testimonial: Toronto/LA DOCUMENTARY Film Festival

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DEADLINE TODAY: Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:

“The Toronto & Los Angeles Documentary Festival will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s a platform that truly celebrates the power of storytelling and the beauty of authentic cinema. Having Made in Paradise voted as the BEST NATURE FILM at this incredible festival is an honor beyond words. Thank you for creating a space where filmmakers and their work can thrive.”

Today’s Short Story Deadline: FEMALE WRITERS Short Story Festival (everyone wins) 

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Submit your FEMALE Written 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.

Submit your Short Story on the Female Festival page here: https://femalefilmfestival.com/female-writers-short-story-festival/

Accept only stories that are written by female writers.

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Today’s Screenplay Deadline: ANIMATION Feedback Festival

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Submit your Animation Short, TV Pilot, or Feature screenplay and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival.

Submit your screenplay at the Animation Festival website: https://feedbackanimationfestival.com/

Screenplay Festivals occur every single month. Submit your animation geared script.

FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants. Get your entire script performed at the writing festival. SUBMIT your FEATURE, TV or SHORT SCREENPLAY.

Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays from all over the world.

Today’s Novel Deadline: FANTASY/SCI-FI Novel Festival

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SAVE $50 off the regular submission for full novel submissions. Garner FULL FEEDBACK on your novel by our committee of industry professionals. Get a transcript of your novel performed by professional actors at the Fantasy Sci-Fi Festival Festival.

Submit at the website here: https://fantasyscififestival.com/fantasysci-fi-novel-festival/

NEW OPTION: Just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published.

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Happy Birthday Frank Sinatra(1915-1998)

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Born
December 12, 1915 · Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Died
May 14, 1998 · Los Angeles, California, USA (bladder cancer, and heart and kidney disease)

Birth name
Francis Albert Sinatra

Spouses
Barbara Sinatra (July 11, 1976 – May 14, 1998) (his death)
Mia Farrow (July 19, 1966 – August 16, 1968) (divorced)
Ava Gardner (November 7, 1951 – July 5, 1957) (divorced)
Nancy Barbato Sinatra (February 4, 1939 – October 29, 1951) (divorced, 3 children)

QUOTES:

[when Dean Martin walked out on The Together Again Tour] You can’t put a gun to his head. He just didn’t want to do it.
Nothing anybody’s said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

[after the deaths of Sammy Davis Jr., Ava Gardner, Jilly Rizzo and Dean Martin] I’m next. I ain’t scared, either. Everybody I ever knew is already over there.

[on Elvis Presley in 1957] Sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons; and by means of its almost imbecilic reiterations and sly, lewd – in plain fact, dirty – lyrics it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the Earth. This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore. His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac . . . it fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.

[on Ava Gardner] I love her, and God damn me for it.

You better get busy living, because dying’s a pain in the ass.

[on Elvis Presley’s death in 1977] There have been many accolades uttered about his talent and performances through the years, all of which I agree to wholeheartedly, I shall mi

Happy Birthday Bill Nighy

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Born
December 12, 1949 · Caterham, Surrey, England, UK

Birth name
William Francis Nighy

QUOTES:

I don’t smoke now, which is marvellous. My only addictions are caffeine and sugar.

I even wear a suit for improvisation workshops, rolling around. Well, acting’s a white-collar job, you know? You wear a suit.

I hate design which has nothing to do with function. When I first went to work and had digs, I would arrange that there was nothing in my room, just a bed and a chair. It was like a cell. And I once saw this thing on the telly where there were these two guys who lived in a minimalist house. Absolutely nothing in it, but they had a deal that if they left their shoes on the stairs in an interesting shape, and they both agreed, they could leave them there. I understand that.

There was a time when you were supposed to question everything the director said, to create some kind of conflict, out of which creativity would be born. But I love it when they tell you what to do, you know: “Start there, walk over there, say the line and I’ll shout: Cut!” I think it’s groovy. When we were filming with Stephen Poliakoff, his first note to me – he prefaced it with: “That was marvellous”, which is always a good start – anyway, his note was: “Don’t wiggle your eyes about so much,” and you know, my heart leapt. Because I know that. I know how to not make my eyes wiggle about.

Happy Birthday Regina Hall

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Born
December 12, 1970 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Birth name
Regina Lee Hall

QUOTES:

I believe in reincarnation. I think that’s why I’m always on some sort of spiritual quest.

I remember there was a script that I read that I loved, and my agent told me, “They went after Amy Adams, and she’s not doing it.” And I said, “I’ll do it!” And he was like, “They love you, but they’re going to Natalie Portman.” “Oh, right.” There’s always another.

Black audiences are what I’ve considered my base, and I will always make movies for that base.

I don’t want to act like in every moment of flirtation I’ve always been the victim. We know the dynamics of what is alluring to the opposite sex but also know there has to be boundaries.

Happy Birthday Mayim Bialik

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Born
December 12, 1975 · San Diego, California, USA

Birth name
Mayim Hoya Bialik

QUOTES:

As a kid, I felt really weird.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

A lot of stuff I wear I’ve had since high school.

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things – they look like they should be on the catwalk.

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

Drama is what I did before ‘Blossom.’

I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

I don’t care much about conforming.

I don’t look like most women in the industry.