Month: January 2025

Turning 45 Today: Rachel Nichols. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 8, 1980 · Augusta, Maine, USA

Birth name
Rachel Emily Nichols

Spouses
Michael Kershaw (September 27, 2014 – present)
Scott Stuber (July 26, 2008 – 2009) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[on playing the role of Tamara in Conan the Barbarian (2011)] It was really important that she not be the damsel-in-distress. We wanted to update and empower her, and the best way to do that is to go toe-to-toe with Conan. So I give him attitude in the beginning, and there really is a hostile relationship.

[on her first sex scene in a movie] They were nice enough to shoot the scene at the end of filming, so by then Jason [Jason Momoa] and I had become friends. But it still is awkward, especially when you have the director saying, “Grab her neck and bite her.”.

History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust. I’m concerned about the future. I think many people acknowledge we’re on a path that can’t be sustained.

I love the physicality side of roles, I really do. And when I get to do my own stunts, it’s that much cooler. I’ll do anything the production safety people will let me.

Turning 43 Today: Gaby Hoffmann. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 8, 1982 · New York City, New York, USA

Birth name
Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann

Spouse
Chris Dapkins(? – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

[re her childhood growing up in and around the Chelsea Hotel] We lived in a classless society. We’d spend a summer at Gore Vidal’s house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare…

I love Beyoncé, I do. But I was walking down the street and saw this huge billboard for the documentary, she made about herself called, Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream (2013). Underneath the billboard is this homeless guy, then there’s me with $2 in my bank account, and I’m thinking, Life is but a dream? I mean, I love you, B, but really?

[re other child stars] I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren’t celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they’re basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they’re not getting one.

[re childhood days with friend Claire Danes] Growing up in downtown New York City in the ’80s, we were ensconced in art and progressive thinking,Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we – kids and grown-ups – all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator. We never felt patronized.

Turning 38 Today: Cynthia Erivo. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 8, 1987 · Stockwell, London, England, UK

Birth name
Cynthia Onyedinmanasu Chinasaokwu Erivo

QUOTES:

We’re in a dangerous place right now when people who have nothing to do with us are making decisions about our lives and our bodies. We’re watching changes that were made for our freedom getting rolled back.

Sometimes showing your faith brings embarrassment because of where we are in the world now.

I vividly remember my first time on stage. I was five years old and I played a shepherd [in the school Nativity]. They made me sing ‘Silent Night’ solo. I saw my mum smiling, maybe crying, and I remember knowing that people were really happy. That was the first time that I thought, ‘ooh, this might be what I’m supposed to do’.

I grew up in Stockwell, south London. We had a humble upbringing and my mum raised my sister and I on her own.

Today’s Submittable Deadlines – January 7th, 2025

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FASHION Poetry – FREE submission or pay for a reading or movie

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/303081/fashion-poetry-festival

LITERARY FICTION Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance)

Submit your short story 0-2000 words:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314715/literary-fiction-short-story-festival-0-2000-words-everyone-wins

Submit your short story 2000-4000 words:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314716/literary-fiction-short-story-festival-2000-4000-words-everyone-wins

Submit your short story 6000-8000 words:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314719/literary-fiction-short-story-festival-6000-8000-words-everyone-wins

MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Novel Festival

Full Novel Reading:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314018/memoir-autobiography-full-novel-festival

1st Chapter Novel Submission:

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314019/memoir-autobiography-1st-chapter-novel-festival

Novel Video Transcript Reading:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314020/memoir-autobiography-novel-video-transcript-reading

STUDENT Screenplay Festival

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/301216/student-screenplay-contest

STUDENT Screenplay Festival: Today’s Screenplay Deadline

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NOTE: Submissions must be done by a STUDENT (college, university, high school, trade school etc…)!

Submit to the Festival HERE: https://studentfeedbackfestival.com/student-screenplay-festival-2/

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 PILOT or SHORT SCREENPLAY.

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

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.)

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.

LITERARY FICTION Short Story Festival: Today’s Writing Festival Deadline

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Submit your LITERARY FICTION 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 HERE: https://festivalfordrama.com/literary-fiction-short-story/

Accept only stories that fit into the LITERARY FICTION genres.

Watch Today’s Festival: BLACK Filmmakers Festival

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Watch the Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/black-filmmakers-festival-january-2025

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:

AGOGO, 30min., Nigeria
Directed by Chloe Coko
In an era, where having only girl children or educating girl children was frowned upon by the community, a father defiles culture and religious doctrines to home school his daughters.

https://facebook.com/ChloeCoko
https://twitter.com/chloecokofilms
https://instagram.com/chloecokofilms

SALVO, 16min., France
Directed by Severine ROINSSARD, Julio Lisboa de Souza
Our HIV-positive couple, our family, our friends, society.
A socio-political documentary made with the power of love to deconstruct prejudice and free speech.

GIVE ME YOUR PHONE, 12min., UK
Directed by Itunu Olowo
A mugger on the streets of London is faced with a tough decision when his victim offers an unexpected proposal. The film follows two Black men from different socio-economic backgrounds as they navigate the dynamics of crime and compassion.

HAITI TO TIJUANA, 10min., USA
Directed by Jared Jacobsen
A Historian, the Director of an immigrant shelter, and a Haitian refugee cross paths in Tijuana, Mexico.

http://www.stephenjakevideo.com/
https://www.facebook.com/StephenJakeProductions/
https://www.instagram.com/sjakeproductions/

Filmmaker Podcast EP. 1398: Filmmaker Ira Setiawati (PLASTIC TOURISM)

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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.

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

There are many plastic trashes on beaches & we have tried hard to solve it by many ways but not effective enough to solve it. So we hope this movie can open eyes of many tourists, business people on beaches, government & local people to be aware more about these plastic trashes & together solve it well.

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

I was so touched & happy that other people in other part of earth appreciate this movie well & pay attention to the earth’s critical condition at this moment.

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Turning 61 Today: Nicolas Cage. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 7, 1964 · Long Beach, California, USA

Birth name
Nicholas Kim Coppola

Spouses
Riko Shibata (February 16, 2021 – present) (1 child)
Erika Koike (March 23, 2019 – May 31, 2019) (divorced)
Alice Kim Cage (July 30, 2004 – January 2016) (divorced, 1 child)
Lisa Marie Presley (August 10, 2002 – May 24, 2004) (divorced)
Patricia Arquette (April 8, 1995 – May 18, 2001) (divorced)

QUOTES:

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

[about his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley] I’m sad about this, but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place.
Hollywood didn’t know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.