Year: 2024

Toronto/LA Documentary Festival – Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline

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NEW OPTION: For limited time – Option to submit and garner an automatic acceptance of your film. Agenda is to create exposure for the filmmaker and their film!

Submit via FilmFreeway:

With that acceptance, you will receive an audience feedback video, plus 2 interviews (blog and podcast) to promote the filmmaker and film.

Entering it’s 8th year, the Toronto & Los Angeles Documentary Festival now gives filmmakers 5 tiers to showcase and promote their film. (All accepted films get all five tiers).

1) Screening #1 (private screening) where you will obtain your audience feedback video.
2) Screening #2 virtually on the streaming service WILDsound TV (optional)
3) Screening #3 at a sold out public screening at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto, OR the LA LIVE Regal CInemas in downloat Los Angeles. (note: 3rd screening only for short films and also not guaranteed for the guaranteed submission option.)

4) Podcast interview at WILDsound Radio on ITunes
5) Blog interview promoting you and your film.

The first film festival screening gives you our award winning Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films.

Since 2016, the FEEDBACK Film Festival has been showcasing the best of Documentary Short Films. We now will be showcasing a Documentary Film Festival every month in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.

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We also will be showcasing winning documentary treatments at our festival every single month.

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1349 – Filmmaker Emma Grace Lukens (STUCK)

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STUCK, 13min., USA
Directed by Emma Grace Lukens
A couple’s ambiguous relationship becomes slightly more clear as they lie on their living room floor, discussing their dating lives.

https://www.instagram.com/stuck.short.film/

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

It started with the desire to direct Mary Frances Noser and Maximilien Blanc. Writing for the dynamic between such talented actors was a pleasure. As soon as I had a draft of the script I sent it to our cinematographer and editor, Raina Virginia. I am so lucky to have made this film with dear friends, including all those who would come on board to elevate our project.

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

I was so proud to hear the audience’s feedback. What an honor to hear encouragement from those who have spent time with my art. To see and be seen by an audience for my work is so thrilling. Thank you for this entire experience. It means a great deal.

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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film & Screenplay Festival – Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline

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Deadline Today: THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film & Screenplay Festival

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Deadline Today – Thriller/Suspense Screenplay Festival

The monthly festival that showcases the best of Thriller/Suspense Genre Stories and Films from around the world.

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.

Over 40 FIVE Star Reviews: 

I had a great experience with this festival and particularly loved getting the audience feedback video. Thank you for giving us the Best Story award.

– S. MacKie

I am glad that I entered the film in this festival. Particularly love the reviews done on the selected films. I truly hope it becomes bigger and better with time.

– A. Odera

thank you for the selection, amazing feedback and our win for best performances.

– A. Chang

Thank you so much for screening our film. The feedback video was such an amazing treat to have. We look forward to submitting more projects here in the future.

– A. Alfaro

Watch Today’s Film Festival: WORLD DOC Shorts Festival

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Watch Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/doc-world-shorts-november-2024

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/

See the Full Lineup of Films:

PLASTIC TOURISM, 18min., Indonesia
Directed by Ira Setiawati
“Plastic Tourism” is more than a documentary; it challenges viewers to confront uncomfortable truths. It is a call to action and testament of the delicate balance between human leisure and environmental responsibility.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/plastic-tourism-review

INDIA’S MEGA FESTIVALS, 45min., India
Directed by Umang Chaudhri, Vishal Chib
India’s glorious past, mysterious ancient kingdoms, colorful rituals and traditions, grand architectural marvels, rich culinary variety, and grand festivities have enchanted travelers through the ages. And one such traveler is legendary chef Gary Mehigan who’s back in India with something unique on his mind – to explore India’s mega festivals! On National Geographic’s new series ‘India’s Mega Festivals’ we go behind the scenes of India’s grandest and biggest festivals that have been celebrated over centuries across the land! Through six episodes, we follow Gary’s adventures as he gets unprecedented access to intimate rituals and spectacles of each festival, over multiple days! Through Gary’s fresh perspective of the pomp and show, we get to experience India and its bounty in an all-new light. In this series, Gary experiences the mega festivals of Holi, Onam, Ganesh Utsav, Eid, Hornbill, Durga Puja, Chithirai and Hemis festivals.

https://www.facebook.com/NA
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Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/indias-mega-festivals-review

PICNIC AND A LITTLE MUTINY, 39min., USA
Directed by Jacek W. Laskus
Aboard a sailboat crewed by four blind individuals and a sighted captain, we’re invited to their picnic in this part doc-part fantasy. Sharing experiences and observations of being sightless in a visual world the group collectively rebel.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/picnic-and-a-little-mutiny-review

Today’s Podcast EP. 1348 – Filmmaking team of QUITTING DRUGS – A Musical Documentary

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LISTEN to the podcast: http://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2024/11/6/ep-1348-filmmaking-team-of-quitting-drugs-a-musical-documentary

QUITTING DRUGS, 20min., USA

Directed by Ali Imran Ch, Fatima Mughal

Bumb Shah is a Pakistani rapper whose traumatic life experiences heavily influence his music. Like many artists, he began using drugs early in his career, hoping that they would fuel his creativity. Before long, he fell into a rabbit hole of addiction-centered depravity, something that was reflected in his music.

http://www.youreverydayheroes.com/

https://www.instagram.com/youreverydayheroes/

Conversation with:

Executive Producer Albert Crane

Co-Director Ali Imran Ch

Doc Subject/Musician Bumb Shah

Get to know Producer Albert Crane:

What motivated you to make this film?

Living in California at the time, there is a huge community of recovery institutions. I had learned about them and one of our Stories in Season 3 will be a Recovery doctor, so this story along with that one was an easy choice to make.

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

Listening to people enjoy our work is amazing. I love the candid approach this festival takes on the feedback. I liked how they commented on the use of the filters to showcase time.

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October 2024 – MOVIE Trailers GENRE Festival

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AUDIENCE AWARDS:

Best Short Trailer: PAPA HEAR ME
Best Comedy Trailer: THE GRANNY JJ ADVENTURES: GUYANA’S DAILY DETECTIVE
Best Coming of Age Trailer: IMMA/JESUS AND ME
Best Crime/Mystery Trailer: CARONTE
Best Direction: MAY, 25TH
Best Experimental Trailer: RESURGE
Best Family Trailer: A COMPLICATED EVENT
Best Fantasy Trailer: GHOSTED
Best Friendship Trailer: MOONLIGHT PEOPLE
Best Horror Trailer: JOLLY COLD SOUL
Best Human Interest Trailer: CONCRETE ROSE
Best Quest Trailer: THE JEWELED BIRD
Best Romance Trailer: I SWIPED THE WRONG ONE
Best Sci-Fi Trailer: WORDSPEAKER
Best Slasher Trailer: MCKENZIE
Best Society Trailer: SCHOOL BELL
Best Sports Trailer: ¡Indestructible!: Baseball on the Isthmus
Best Story: NICE TO MEET YOU, MOM
Best Sound & Music: FISHMAN ALLEN
Best Thriller/Suspense Trailer: NEVER

See Full Details of Every Film:

Concrete Rose
Directed by Amanda M. Ramírez
This documentary short follows Christina Green’s journey from incarceration to empowerment as she leads a supportive housing program, highlighting resilience and community in the face of systemic injustice.

MAY, 25TH, Italy
Directed by Antonio Montefalcone
“May 25” tells of Laura, a depressed and desperate wife and mother, whose life is turned upside down when a sudden, unpredictable and dramatic event related to her only son, plunges her family into anguish.

PAPA HEAR ME, South Korea
Directed by KiHwa Ei
Twenty-one years old, my father died as soon as I entered the university again.

SCHOOL BELL, India
Directed by B. Suresh Kumar
Importance of education is conveyed through a Child Laborer’s Point of View.

NICE TO MEET YOU, MOM, USA
Directed by Isaul Beltran
An imaginative eleven year old boy travels from Mexico to the U.S. to meet his mom for the first time. However, he starts to wonder what kind of a person she is, and becomes reluctant to meet her.

IMMA/JESUS AND ME, UK
Directed by Joshua Cartwright
AD32. An impulsive and opinionated twelve-year-old Jewish girl rejects Jesus as Messiah after suffering a personal tragedy which she thinks “he” could have prevented. Can “he” help her come to faith in Him before His time on earth is done?

NEVER, USA
Directed by Emma Ward, Janaun Melvin
When you hear “suspense”, naturally ‘Peter Pan’ is the first thing to come to mind, right? No? Just me, huh? Trust me: There is a LOT of things that are NOT ok with shadows running loose in children’s rooms and children trying to escape through 2nd story windows…

CARONTE, Spain
DIrected by Julen González
Asier has just moved into a new city where he meets a new group of friends. Together they decide to play an old board game that Asier has found in the house. This game will not rest until everyone finishes the game dead or alive.
https://www.instagram.com/zinesionfilms/

JOLLY COLD SOUL, USA
Directed by Robert Cunniff
Trailer / proof of concept teaser for a Christmas Horror film.

I SWIPED THE WRONG ONE, USA
Directed by Don Swanson
The trailer for the movie within the The Haunting of Prince Dom Pedro feature film, I Swiped the Wrong One is the story of four people who discover around the holiday season that dating in the physical world is much different than dating online. Their first dates begin and end in ways that they did not anticipate.
https://www.thehauntingofprincedompedro.com/
https://www.instagram.com/princedompedro/

RESURGE, Canada
Directed by Charles-Edouard Vasquez, Philippe Vasquez
“Do you see the animal?”
http://movartemstudios.com/
https://www.instagram.com/movartemstudios

MCKENZIE, USA
Directed by Gunnyone
A killer is slashing his way through the town of Shadow Hills in search for his missing arm.
https://www.instagram.com/mckenziekills/

FISHMAN ALLEN, Canada
Directed by Mingqian Zhang
This is a story about Allen’s “alien” secret got exposed and how he learned to embrace who he actually is.
https://www.instagram.com/miji_home/

WORDSPEAKER, USA
Directed by Dennis Sparks
WORDSPEAKER is a short Sci-Fi film in which an isolated radio talk show host makes his last stand as the world around him collapses.

A COMPLICATED EVENT, Iran
Directed by Reza Arzhang
A father comebacks from trip and adventures

GHOSTED, Canada
Directed by Eden Kannistan
A young man stuck in a depressed state has to pick up himself when a ghost suddenly sets him up for a date with his crush tonight.
https://www.instagram.com/ghosted.studentfilm/

THE GRANNY JJ ADVENTURES: GUYANA’S DAILY DETECTIVE, UK
Directed by Joshua Cartwright
A cantankerous old Creole woman takes up the role of local detective after finding the police can’t be bothered with ‘small’ problems.

MOONLIGHT PEOPLE, Russia
Directed by Dmitri Frolov
Two young men and two girls on a moonlit night confess to each other in their strange fantasies and loves that go beyond the usual standards..
http://dmitrfrolov.narod.ru/moonlight/people.html
https://www.instagram.com/moonlight_peopl/

¡Indestructible!: Baseball on the Isthmus. USA
Directed by Eric Soussanin
The mighty history and uncertain future of baseball in the Republic of Panamá, and those fighting to recapture the sport from the grips of crisis.
http://www.panamabaseballmovie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/panamabaseball/

THE JEWELED BIRD, USA
Directed by Suzy Sachs
A brothel madam tries to save her young daughter from a life of prostitution by stealing her away to a mission house, and secretly joins with its leader to rescue girls and bring down the most powerful man in the 1900’s San Francisco Chinatown sex trade–her pimp. A story still relevant today.

Action/Crime/Mystery Festival – Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline

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This festival now takes place every single month giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film (All accepted films get all four tiers).

Submit via FilmFreeway:

1) Screening #1 is held in Toronto or Los Angeles where you will also obtain your audience feedback video.
2) Screening #2 virtually on the Film Festival streaming service (optional)
3) Podcast interview on Film Festival Radio on ITunes
4) Blog interview promoting you and your film.

All festival dates have been promoted 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.

Monthly Deadlines

Short Film Festival – Occurs once a month in Los Angeles and Toronto

Your film will get screened in front of a large, broad audience.

– We are a feedback festival and you will actually hear what the industry and film lovers think of your film.

NEW Showcase: Submit your FEATURE FILM and receive an audience feedback promotional/testimonial video of your film. Great video to use to get into more festivals and/or promote your film. All submissions receive the committee’s feedback notes on their film no matter what, as per their request.

Today’s PODCAST: EP. 1347 – Filmmaker Cyril Durand-Gasselin (MIHI: At the center of our gaze)

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LISTEN to the podcast: http://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2024/11/5/ep-1347-filmmaker-cyril-durand-gasselin-mihi-at-the-center-of-our-gaze

MIHI: At the center of our gaze, 15min., France

Directed by Cyril Durand-Gasselin

Introspection is a mental activity which can be described metaphorically as the act of “looking inside” oneself, through a form of attention paid to one’s own sensations, states or thoughts. In psychology, this is the inner knowledge we have of our perceptions, actions, emotions and knowledge, which is different from that which an outside observer might have.

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Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

I wanted to show how important introspection has been for me in my life, and still is. It helped me grow so much. By giving this work to the world, I hope it will reminds everyone how important it is to take time to listen to yourself and to learn as much as you can from everything you can find inside.

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

Honestly, I’ve got really touched and smiled all the way through the video. The comments were so nice and good but mostly really interesting. And it is really satisfying to hear comments from people that you don’t know that are coming from another country.

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Watch Today’s Film Festival: ARTISTS DOC Shorts Festival

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Watch Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/artists-documentary-festival-november-2024

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/

See the Full Lineup of Films:

WHAT MAKES AN ARTIST?, 10min., Lebanon
Directed by Raafat Abou Daka
“What Makes an Artist” is an introspective documentary that delves into the lives of the internationally renowned sculptor brothers Assaf, exploring the unexpected paths that led them to their craft. The film peels back the layers of their fame to reveal the human side of their journey, offering a rare glimpse into their early struggles and the alternate careers they nearly pursued.

https://www.instagram.com/raafat.ad/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/what-makes-an-artist-review

BLACK & BLUE, 16min., Australia
Directed by Hamish MacGregory
When Rupert is “up” he paints himself blue and becomes Zarcon. Made by his son, Black & Blue is a character study of a person living with bipolar disorder.

https://www.instagram.com/ham_mac/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/black-blue-review

ROCK PAPER PAINT: ART OF THE PEOPLE, 34min,. USA
Directed by Audrey Daniel
This is a two part film, a story which documents the dynamic flood of public art which occurred during the social upheaval magnified by the pandemic and the history of Public Art and social justice in the Bay Area. This is an ode to the artists that have taken on the role of leaders using art to create awareness in murals, poster art, as well as ground breaking memorials, that have been created to address social change

http://rockpaperpaint.com/https://www.instagram.com/rock.paperpaint

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/rock-paper-paint-review

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: FANTASY/SCI-FI Film & Screenplay Festival

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Over 75 FIVE Star Reviews on FilmFreeway!

FANTASY and SCI-FI Stories used to be a fringe market. Now they are in the mainstream and forever as movies, television shows, and stories in this genre are a multi-billion dollar market.

Submit via FilmFreeway:

This is a HYBRID film festival (NOT an online 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….

Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival. WINNING reading every single month!

Get your short or feature film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get an audience video. Now a monthly festival taking place in either Chicago, Los Angeles, or Toronto

All festival dates have been updated 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.

We specialize in showcasing Fantasy/Sci-Fi stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.

Awards & Prizes

Accepted Films get their films showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Then you’ll garner an Audience Video on your film which is a great promotional vehicle, which will set you up to get submitted to future festivals.

Accepted Screenplays get their work performed by professional actors at the writing festival. 3-5 weeks after submitting, you will be sent an email with your full feedback and told if your script is ready to be performed at our festival. We do not have finalists etc.. It is either a winner or a rewrite is suggested and you have a chance to re-submit at a discount rate.