Month: January 2025

TV PILOT & SPEC Contest: Today’s Screenplay Festival Deadline

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Deadline Today: https://tvfestival.org/

Submit your TV Show/Pilot on FilmFreeway via the WILDsound Platform (Under TV FESTIVAL):

Probably the best and most informative feedback I have ever gotten for this! Thank you so much I’ve been trying to figure out what isn’t quite right with the script – the notes make complete sense! Thank you again, now I know what to do to tighten it up
– Tania Penn, TV Pilot

TV SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL takes place every single month. At least 4-15 winning screenplays. Winners get their script performed by professional actors and then made into a promotional best scene video (see examples on the submission page). Submit via the site or via FilmFreeway.

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.

https://vimeo.com/showcase/8252522/embed

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.)

You can also take advantage of the Best Scene Screening Video Reading Deal:
https://tvfestival.org/best-scene-screenplay-deal/

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.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION Festival: Today’s Novel Festival Deadline

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Enter your CONTEMPORARY FICTION Book by the deadline.

A contemporary fiction novel is a work of prose that is set in the present or recent past and tells a story that could happen to real people.

Submit on the submission page: https://politicalfeedbackfestival.events/contemporary-fiction-novel-festival/

Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of professional writers and writing consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival. <

NEW OPTION: Or, 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. (see examples on the video playlist below.) <

SUBMIT your novel now (both your 1st chapter or full novel accepted) To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events. Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation.

Submit a novel book and get it seen by the world.

A great way to get your words out there, obtain the agent you’re looking for, or just get your story seen by more people. If you win, your story will be seen by 100,000s of people when it’s read online using a top professional actor. It’s a rush you’ll never experience in your life seeing it come to life that way.

HISTORY Short Story Festival (everyone wins): Today’s Writing Festival Deadline

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History is a narrative that describes, analyzes, and questions past events, and examines the patterns of cause and effect. It’s a collection of stories told by many different people, and is subject to constant revision and reinterpretation.

Submit your Short Story to the festival: https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/history-short-story-festival/

Accept only stories that fit into the HISTORY genre.

See example of recent reading completed:

Today’s FilmFreeway Testimonial: LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival

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Deadline to Submit to the Festival for an Automatic Acceptance:

Direct submission: https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTLosAngelesFilmFestival

It was great to participate in this festival and an incredible honor to be awarded with Best Performances for our film Last Dance. I love that you receive a video with audience reactions, I believe that is one of the best things about the festival, it is a nice touch and something you can keep for your records and social media ,etc. Communication was really clear with follow up prior and after the festival. Really really happy to have been part.

Today’s Podcast: Screenwriters Jamie Latta & Cristen Coppen (TRUTH FALLS)

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Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX7enK7_XQU

Amidst holiday chaos, Gaby and Fitz embark on a road trip to a spiritualist commune to confront Gaby’s estranged Aunt Tibby, leading to family revelations, spiritual meltdowns awakenings, and unexpected bonding.

https://www.instagram.com/cristencoppen

https://www.instagram.com/jamielattaluv

Get to know the writers:

What is your screenplay about? Truth Falls is a holiday film about a family secret slowly and hilariously coming to light during the most wonderful time of the year. When Gaby loses her parents in an accident, she learns that her new-age, enlightened Aunt Tibby has been made the executor of her estate. Gaby and her best friend Fitz are forced to leave their swanky Chicago lifestyle for a spiritualist camp, Truth Falls, in Oklahoma to confront Tibby and demand her inheritance.Gaby gets more than she bargained for when she learns there’s way more to her family story than she was told. Like, WAY more… We learn that Tibby is Gaby’s birth mother. This secret has been buried for decades. This is a Film about what happens when a family secret slowly, painfully, and hilariously comes to light causing spiritual meltdowns and epic holiday awakenings.

. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Christmas Comedy

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? We wanted to write a movie that dug into what the holidays are really about – Family DRAMA. All great stories are about family. The inspiration for Truth Falls was to have a comedy that stems from your deepest secrets and wounds because those are the best stories people can see themselves in. We love a frothy, fun holiday movie and we thought – hey let’s do both. It can be fun, sad, tragic, and hilarious. Most holiday movies don’t look anything like what people experience. We all have family secrets – what better time to unwrap them than at Christmas? Truth Falls is an anti Hallmark Movie.

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Turning 30 Today: Nicola Peltz Beckham. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 9, 1995 · Rye, New York, USA

Birth name
Nicola Anne Peltz

Spouse
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham(April 9, 2022 – present)

QUOTES:

My role is “Katara” in The Last Airbender (2010), I’m a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice-hockey player.

When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard – and now she’s super supportive.

You see people, you judge. It’s just the human thing to do – good or bad, it’s a fact. Like when you get a coffee at Starbucks and the person is rude to you. My mom always says, ‘Yeah, but you don’t know what kind of day they’re having.’ You don’t know the back-story, and that’s why it’s so fun to be an actor and to get into the back-story.

Turning 36 Today: Nina Dobrev. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 9, 1989 · Sofia, Bulgaria

Birth name
Nikolina Dobreva

QUOTES:

I did Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001) for four years. It was my constant; no matter what movie I would go on hiatus or whatever I would do elsewhere, every year I would always go back to “Degrassi”, to my family, and they really sort of taught me all the groundwork and got me started. Before that I was really green, I didn’t know what I was doing, so it kind of helped ease my path into the whole industry.

[on working on The Vampire Diaries (2009)] There were daily challenges, there were yearly challenges, there were character challenges. The whole show was challenging in different ways throughout the six years. The multiple characters, the hours, creating characters, deaths. I was constantly crying, it felt like. But for that reason it kept me occupied, I was never bored, it never felt stale. I always came to work excited, and looking forward to the next thing I got to do. It was almost like actor boot camp, or a college experience. I started college in real life, but I never finished. I went to high school in real life, and then went to “Degrassi” high school, and then four years as Elena–12 years is a long time to go to school. I need to graduate! I’m ready now. I’m ready to go into the real world. I’ve literally grown up on this show. I was a baby when I started, and now I’m a woman. I feel like I’ve learned so much and have grown so much because of every single person, and every single character, and person I’ve worked with. They made me who I am, and I’m excited to apply that to the next chapter.

People aren’t defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

Turning 38 Today: Nicola Coughlan. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 9, 1987 · Galway, Ireland

Birth name
Nicola Mary Coughlan

QUOTES:

It’s so reductive to women when we’re making great strides for diversity in the arts, but questions like that [regarding weight] just pull us backwards.

Every time I’m asked about my body in an interview it makes me deeply uncomfortable and so sad I’m not just allowed to just talk about the job I do that I so love.

I’m not a body-positivity activist, I’m an actor. I would lose or gain weight if an important role requirement. My body is the tool I use to tell stories, not what I define myself by.

You know, it is hard ’cause I think women with my body type, women with perfect breasts-we do not see ourselves onscreen enough. I am very proud as a member of the perfect-breasts community. I hope you enjoy seeing them.

Turning 42 Today: Kerry Condon. Happy Birthday

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA—OCT. 20, 2022—Actor Kerry Condon stars in the film “Banshees of Inisherin.” She plays a woman looking to leave behind her small Irish community, and the brother she lives with, for work and life in the city. Photograph taken on Oct. 20, 2022 in Los Angeles. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Born
January 9, 1983 · Tipperary, Ireland

QUOTES:

I’m not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I’m sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.

I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don’t think about people’s feelings, too.

I know it’s superficial, and you can’t measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I’ve watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.

Turning 70 Today: J.K. Simmons. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 9, 1955 · Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
Birth name
Jonathan Kimble Simmons

Spouse
Michelle Schumacher (1996 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

[on his career] If I had any other talent or salable commodity I probably would have gone into it. I mean, aside from the modelling, yeah.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

I’m not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it’s well done, I’m a fan.
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don’t notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the television show happens.