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Get your screenplay performed by professional actors at the Crime/Mystery Festival.
The Fastest Growing CRIME/MYSTERY Festival and Contest in the World today!
– 0ffers screenwriters at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).
– No matter what happens, you will receive full feedback on your work by our established committee. No other place in the world will you get coverage for the price you pay.
– Even if you’re just looking for feedback of your work, this is the festival for you.
– It’s there for all to see. The proof is in the viewership. These videos garner 1000s of views online. Some of the screenplay readings are more popular than actual studio films made!
– We specialize in showcasing Crime/Mystery stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.
SAVE $40 off the regular submission for full novel submissions. Garner FULL FEEDBACK on your novel by our committee of industry professionals. Get a transcript of your novel performed by professional actors at the Thriller/Suspense Festival.
The #1 Thriller/Suspense Festival and Contest in the World today!
– 0ffers novelists and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).
– One of the best places in the world for the writers to add sales to their self-published novel and/or obtain and agent.
– No matter what happens, you will receive full feedback on your work by our established committee. No other place in the world will you get coverage for the price you pay.
– Even if you’re just looking for feedback of your work, this is the festival for you.
– It’s there for all to see. The proof is in the viewership. These videos garner 1000s of views online.
– We specialize in showcasing Thriller/Suspense stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.
Submit your COMEDY short story to the festival! We will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
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.
In a midwest suburb, an aging radio enthusiast becomes suspicious that a lonely hispanic teenager is a response to his interstellar transmissions. As misunderstanding and coincidence collide, Mateo perceives Frank as a potential threat, while Frank becomes convinced Mateo is a response to his message that he transmits to the skies. Their misperceptions are flipped over when they are interrupted by a close encounter with an unexpected guest.
The polarization I’ve been experiencing in my country over the past decade has had me pondering what on Earth could drive humanity together…not saying “Others” is the answer, but I wanted to tell a story about two very different people misperceiving one another while experiencing the same isolation or loneliness. The sci fi alien stuff came from an experience I had in 2009 that left me very open minded, so I thought that might be a fun way to get us there in the film.
“The Boston Bulldogs” is a 90-minute documentary film interviewing 5 people from a running club for addiction recovery, interconnected by one woman’s story from finishing the Boston Marathon after her first full year of sobriety to her relapse 24 hours later, and now her recovery 10 years later.
Directed by Bryan Cote, Jack Cote
Review by Julie Sheppard:
For anyone “impacted by addiction”(which is many people in society at one point or another) this doc feature, The Boston Bulldogs, is a must see. It makes a convincing argument for promoting the activity of running together as a tool to help battle substance addiction.
The interviewer, largely off camera for most of the film which allows the viewer to focus on the central figures, asks some illuminating, intimate questions to bring out such candid answers. The most striking query is asking how the feelings associated with being high and intoxicated are like the emotions one experiences when running. This is an insightful way to promote the concept of staying active and building community that fills people with healthy pride and pleasure that was once filled with dangerous, alluring feelings coming from drug and alcohol abuse.
We do not need to see actual footage of these people when they were in the throes of their addictions, as the interviewer is able to get them to explain, in detail, their past journeys — from how the addictions began, to hitting rock bottom, and then to climbing back out of these dark phases to see the light. It is satisfying to witness the positive romantic, familial and platonic relationships that have resulted from joining this life-changing running club.
It is also interesting to see childhood footage of the various people involved to suggest that painful memories may have influenced the development of addictive personalities leading to substance abuse. In contrast, it is uplifting to witness a collection of inspiring stills and videos of successful running competitions.
The mellow piano soundtrack under most of the heartfelt interviews is suitably chosen for this type of moving doc. The swooning orchestral piece near the end of the film, as inspiring accomplishments of those involved in this running club are listed on the screen, helps pack an emotional punch.
This film proves that the impact of addiction can indeed be mitigated The Boston Bulldogs way!
Born January 3, 1996 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Birth name Florence Rose Pugh
QUOTES:
As an actor, it’s very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.
I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
I like a role where some of the character’s motivations are confusing or at least interesting.
There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
Raegan was born on January 3rd, 2008. This makes her approximately half a year older than her screen twin-brother, Iain Armitage (Sheldon), who was born in July of that year.
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Born January 3, 1975 · San Diego, California, USA
Birth name Danica Mae McKellar
Spouses
Scott Sveslosky (November 15, 2014 – present) Mike Verta (March 22, 2009 – February 2013) (divorced, 1 child)
QUOTES:
I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on The Wonder Years (1988) set spoke fluent French. My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there’s a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, ARE fun, and that’s the way I’d like to convey them myself.
When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, ’cause I missed them from high school!
[2014, on the common rumor of her ‘The Wonder Years’ co-star Josh Saviano] I get asked if he’s Marilyn Manson like every week.
[on Henry Fonda] I have never known an actor with such craft, with such professional seriousness; such a pleasant man, full of humor, so reserved and so keenly quick-witted.
[on Lee Van Cleef] His glance makes holes in the screen.
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life – in jeeps – and upset all my dreams. I found them very energetic, but also very deceptive. They were no longer the Americans of the West. They were soldiers like any others…materialists, possessive, keen on pleasures and earthly goods.
[on Clint Eastwood] As an actor, he has two expressions: with and without the hat.
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