Year: 2024

Happy Birthday Teri Garr (1944-2024)

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Born
December 11, 1944 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died
October 29, 2024 · Los Angeles, California, USA (degenerative disease of the nervous system)

Spouse
John O’Neil(November 11, 1993 – 1996) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

I’ve always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials . . . I’d say things like, “Hi, Marge, how’s your laundry?” and “Hi, I’m a real nice Georgia peach”. Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

Any movie I’ve ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who’s the person to buy it [cocaine] from. Cher said they’re going to make two monuments to us–the two girls who lived through Hollywood and never had cocaine.

It’s different things at different times, you know? It’s like when you read a true crime story and think it’s really good, then the next book you pick up is a biography and you really like that. I don’t consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me: “What’s your favorite movie?” And I never know what to say. They’re just jobs to me, really. I take the part I’m lucky enough to get and do the best I can and then — I don’t know, they’re just jobs.

Happy Birthday Hailee Steinfeld

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Born
December 11, 1996 · Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Hailee Puring Steinfeld

Engaged to Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen

QUOTES:

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and… to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial – it’s one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls…one of those.

I don’t know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it’s crazy. It’s such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It’s like winning the lottery. I’m proud to be a member of such an amazing cast – that’s the best award of all.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it’s totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

[on True Grit, 2010] The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren’t like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

[in 2016] My grandfather, my mom’s dad, was half African-American, half Filipino. And Filipinos, I’ve learned, have many wonderful traits – the main ones being passion and pride. I went to the Philippines for the first time this spring, and it was amazing.

Watch Today’s Festival: LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival

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Watch Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/lgbtq-festival-shorts-december

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SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS:

CRAVE, 5min., UK
Directed by Lois Norman
Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past & parts of her: a lost truth drips through…

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-crave

12 ANGRY LESBIANS, 22min,. Canada
Directed by Patrice Leung
A comedic riff on ’12 Angry Men’ set in the early 1990s, featuring a group of lesbians stuck in their team’s annual softball meeting. This short film explores the diversity within ‘diversity’, and its tortuous need for democracy to triumph at all costs.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-12-angry-lesbians

WHAT ARE WE?, 15min., USA
Directed by Eileen Hanley
Jess and Kayley, two platonic queer bffs with benefits and unfortunately both bottoms, have a threesome with the top of their dreams and define their unorthodox relationship.

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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-what-are-we

Today’s FilmFreeway Testimonial: ENVIRONMENTAL Film & Screenplay Festival

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Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:

“What a privilege to be part of Wildsound’s Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival. For the crew and I, this was a unique experience, as we found the audience feedback insightful and worthwhile. Winning ‘Best Direction’ will help get our message out to more venues and as many people as possible. Gracias por todo.”

WILDsound Actors Podcast J.C. Williams (HOME SWISS HOME)

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Hannah Enhman chats with Canadian actor J.C. Williams about his leading role in the feature film “Home Swiss Home”.

HOME SWISS HOME, 72min., Switzerland
Directed by Geert Smets
Mike, a defiant New Yorker, is left by his girlfriend Julie, who argues that he doesn’t have the necessary means to provide for the future family she so desperately wants. Determined to win her back, he sets out to secure his long-awaited promotion.

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Today’s Novel Deadline: DRAMA Novel Festival 

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Submit your DRAMA Book by the deadline. 

A drama novel is a fictional story that centers around characters in conflict at a critical moment in their lives. Drama novels are often based on family dynamics and can have tragic or painful endings.

Submit on the submission page: https://festivalfordrama.com/drama-novel-festival/

Three Options to submit:

1. 1st CHAPTER of your novel

2. ENTIRE NOVEL feedback 

3. Transcript Novel Video Performance Reading 

ALL SUBMITTED STORIES and FILMS GET FULL FEEDBACK – The goal of the Novel Writing Festival is to help everyone involved grow as an artist, so we will offer some kind of constructive criticism whether or not we accept your entry for the formal festival.

Today’s Screenplay Festival: SPORTS, FITNESS, & RECREATION Festival

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Monthly Festival designed to showcase the best SPORTS/RECREATION Screenplays from around the world today.

Go to the submission page to submit your screenplay: https://sportsfilmfestival.video/

Submit your screenplay that’s a sports genre and/or plot line to the festival.

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.

Today’s Short Story Deadline: FAMILY & KIDS Contest (everyone wins)

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Submit your FAMILY or KIDS 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.

Go to the submission page: https://festivalforfamily.com/family-kids-short-story-contest-everyone-wins/

There is no festival like this!

Mainly what this contest does is give exposure to the writer. They will be able to obtain a solid agent, plus get notice by producers looking for writers like yourself. NOTE: The writer will always own 100% rights to their story. The only thing we do is help the writer. Either with notes on their next draft, or gain exposure by having their story showcased at our festival.

Happy Birthday Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012)

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Born
December 10, 1957 · Chicago, Illinois, USA

Died
September 3, 2012 · Los Angeles, California, USA (respiratory failure)

QUOTES:

My sister [Judith] used to say I had a frail chest and she’d beat me up all the time.

[on The Green Mile (1999)] I think the toughest scene for me to film was the two dead girls, simply because I had a lot of crying to do, a lot of howling to do, and it really drained me.