Month: January 2025

HORROR Screenplay Festival: Today’s Script Deadline

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Festival designed to expose and promote films and screenplays that work outside the system and break the boundaries in the horror genre. To bring a voice to the talented independent filmmakers & writers living in a world saturated with commercial entertainment.

Submit your HORROR screenplays today to the festival.

submit to the festival here: https://festivalforhorror.com/

Our mission is to promote screenplays, films and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content, and challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations using the audience FEEDBACK festival format that the flagship festivals uses.

Screenplay Festivals occur once a month. We perform the winners in a studio using professional Canadian actors and post them online for the entire world to see.

NOTE: Accepted works also get the opportunity to do two interviews: A blog interview and an ITunes Film Festival podcast interview.

WATCH Winning Horror Screenplay and Story Readings:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en&autohide=2&wmode=transparent&listType=playlist&list=PL-0CVDAfvxiq66NCYK5WkUt3GK7f9e05-

ROMANCE Book Festival (3 options to submit): Today’s Novel Deadline

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Get FULL FEEDBACK on your ROMANCE novel from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your ROMANCE novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.

Enter your ROMANCE Novel HERE: https://festivalforromance.com/romance-novel-festival-3rd-options-to-submit-deadline-dec-5th/

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

Just VOTED one of the top ROMANCE festivals in the world today!

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.

DYSTOPIAN Short Story Festival (everybody wins): Today’s Writing Deadline

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Dystopian stories are a type of speculative fiction that explore the darker aspects of human nature and the human mind. They often serve as a warning about what could happen to modern society if certain aspects grow out of control.

Accept only stories that fit into the DYSTOPIAN genre.

Submit your story here: https://thrillersuspensefestival.com/dystopian-short-story-festival/

Today’s FilmFreeway Testimonial: WILDsound DOCUMENTARY Feedback Film Festival

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Deadline to Submit to the Festival for an Automatic Acceptance:

Direct submission link: https://filmfreeway.com/DocumentaryFilmFestival

The Wildsound Documentary Feedback Film Festival uses an innovative model to get feedback to filmmakers. I so appreciated the feedback video, and the thoughtfulness of the audience comments. It is so helpful to get feedback without having to travel to festivals. We were able to share it with the “In the Grey Wild” documentary subjects. Thanks for the attention!

Today’s Podcast: Filmmaker Karin Isabelle Ochsner (SURVIVING TO THRIVING)

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SURVIVING TO THRIVING, 106min., Australia
Directed by Karin Isabelle Ochsner
As a fearless explorer with a disability, surfer and surf coach Karin Ochsner immerses herself in the raw beauty of nature. Her remarkable healing journey unfolds in the face of adversity.

http://www.surfingtosurvive.com/film2
https://www.instagram.com/surfingtosurvive/

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

This film is the sequel to a documentary about my health challenge, which has been organised by my friends. The purpose was to help me in my incredibly difficult struggles to survive with my countless severe allergies. During the filming, I was very sick and wasn’t able to put the messages in the documentary which I really wanted to pass on, hence I decided to do a second one to do so. The first documentary gave me so much support from my community and clarity in how to manage my disability, it improved my situation so much that I then could focus on filming my own story.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

Approximately 5 years

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?

Deep truth

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?

To find a camera person at the time where the surf and weather conditions lined up with my health to be able to perform enough to capture interesting surf footage

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

Extremely satisfied and bubbly. I felt this showed me so beautifully that I had achieved my life goal.

LISTEN to the podcast: http://www.wildsoundpodcast.com/the-film-podcast-by-wildsound/2024/8/16/ep-1300-filmmaker-karin-isabelle-ochsner-surviving-to-thriving

Subscribe to the podcast:

https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/

https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

Turning 94 Today: Robert Duvall. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1931 · San Diego, California, USA

Birth name
Robert Selden Duvall

Spouses
Luciana Pedraza(October 6, 2004 – present)
Sharon Brophy(May 1, 1991 – 1996) (divorced)
Gail Youngs(August 22, 1982 – 1986) (divorced)
Barbara Benjamin(December 31, 1964 – 1975) (divorced)

QUOTES:

[on the reason he did not appear in The Godfather Part III (1990)] If they paid Pacino twice what they paid me, that’s fine, but not three or four times, which is what they did. (Francis Ford Coppola) came to my farm, parked his car… went in the kitchen. (I) said: “I know you always wanted the crab cake recipe, let me cook it for you.” Oh, he loves to eat, so I cooked the crab cake… and he wrote it down… and he forgot it, so he called twice. He was… more concerned that he forgot the crab cake recipe than would I be in Godfather III. [January 8, 2004]

[on Hollywood political activists] They should keep their mouths shut.

Being a star is an agent’s dream, not an actor’s.

[on James Dean] I don’t think he was that great. He was good, but there was Brando, and there was founding member Steven Hill in the Actors Studio, those were the two guys. James Dean came in third. Dean was talented, obviously. But he died at a good time.

Turning 66 Today: Clancy Brown. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1959 · Urbana, Ohio, USA

Birth name
Clarence John Brown III

Spouse
Jeanne Johnson(June 26, 1993 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

If it’s something that reaches out and grabs me, I want to do it. I have a lot of trouble doing things that don’t grab me. So, I’m not a very good actor in that way. I can’t fake it.

Why should we change on stage? We’re not trying to be something big and fancy, it’s just us, doing what we do, we’d like to keep it that way.

When you see something that’s so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that’s going to be the greatest voice.

Atrocities are human nature – they don’t have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it’s human.
Can I, just one time, play the good guy?

Turning 50 Today: Bradley Cooper. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1975 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth name
Bradley Charles Cooper

Spouse
Jennifer Esposito (December 21, 2006 – November 10, 2007) (divorced)

QUOTES:

There was a lot of Sack Lodges at my high school. – Sack Lodge is his character from Wedding Crashers (2005).

[on getting the script for Kitchen Confidential (2005)] I was in New York shooting Law & Order (1990) and the script came along, and I completely connected to it. From the first page, when he says, “Ever since I was eight years old, I knew what I wanted to be.” When I was eight years old, I wanted to be a chef or an actor. I used to cook all the time. I worked in restaurants the first half of my life. (November 2005)

I had size 12 feet when I was 10, so I thought I was going to be 6′ 8″. My goal was to be able to dunk a basket. I wound up being 6′ 1″ with size 14 feet. I got the raw end of the deal.

[2010, on his younger years] I never lived the life of “Oh, you’re so good-looking.” People thought I was a girl when I was little, because I looked like a girl – maybe because my mother would keep my hair really long in a bowl cut. I was in a coffee shop once and the waitress was like “What do you want, Miss?” I was 10 or 11 – the worst age to have that happen. I had a jean jacket on and a Metallica pin. I thought I was really cool.

Turning 79 Today: Diane Keaton. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1946 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Diane Hall

QUOTES:

Of course I recognized myself in the roles [Woody Allen] wrote. I mean, in Annie Hall (1977) particularly. I was this sort of novice who had lots of feelings but didn’t know how to express herself, and I see that in Annie. I think Woody used a kind of essential quality that he found in me at that time, and I’m glad he did because it worked really well in the movie.

I build a wall around myself. I’m hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I think about dying every single day. I’ve lost lots of friends, and they die in the most bizarre ways. It’s like, “That can’t possibly be! How could that have happened?” And all I can think is, “That could have been me.”

It’s kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren’t looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Turning 47 Today: January Jones. Happy Birthday

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Born
January 5, 1978 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

Birth name
January Kristen Jones

QUOTES:

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in American Wedding (2003). I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

[on her Mad Men (2007) character]: I don’t judge Betty or necessarily understand her. The audience is passionate about her. After season one they wanted her to speak out against Don and his infidelities. Then in season two, when she did, there was a huge reaction against Betty. They want her to talk – just not too much.

[on moving to New York] I was excited to be independent, but I was also naive–I just wanted to be rich and famous. I lived in an apartment near the Empire State Building. There were a billion girls in New York City who wanted to be models. After a while I was immune to rejection, which helped when I went out to L.A. to become an actress. In modeling, the criteria is purely aesthetic. So when I got to L.A., I didn’t care if they said I was too small, too blonde, too pretty, or not pretty enough.