Submit your Religion or Spirituality SCREENPLAY to the Festival, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
Accept only stories that fit into the RELIGION or SPIRITUALITY genres.
Spiritual and religious stories are narratives that convey spiritual and religious themes, and can be found in sacred texts, oral traditions, and personal experiences.
Full Novel submission for guaranteed feedback, plus chance to have novel transcript performed and made into a video
1st Chapter of your novel submission for guaranteed feedback, plus chance to have novel transcript performed and made into a video
Novel Video Performance Reading – submit and we’ll set up a video performance reading of your novel right away (2000 works or less – around 8-10 minute video)
Submit your TRUE CRIME 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.
Accept only stories that fit into the TRUE CRIME genres.
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.
THE GAME RUDIMENTARY REEL, 3min., USA When Werewolves, Vampires, Zombies, Mutants and Serial Killers battle for the chance to rule the underworld! All will fight and some will die! The Game happens in and out the arena!
HALLUCINATIONS OF WAR, 1min., USA The story follows Emily as she returns home for her mother’s wake. Her estranged twin sister arrives with a new boyfriend, and together, they begin to gaslight Emily, pushing her to the edge as she’s forced to relive past traumas.
OUT-OF-SIGHT and OUT-OF-MIND, 2min., USA Trailer for Out of Sight Out of Mind What’s in Your Water? Clean drinking water is harder to maintain than you think. This film allows the public a very rare look inside municipal water tanks and towers. Did you know a water tank is the last stop drinking water makes before it is served at your tap? Watch a potable water dive crew plunge into municipal drinking water systems.
WAITING FOR THE RIVER, 3min., USA In 1944 a young girl escapes a deadly flood, only to discover years later the myth of a Phantom Bear that saved her.
MALDOROR, 1min., USA An aspiring author working on her new book summons a malevolent entity intent on consuming her soul.
CUT, 2min., Australia “CUT! Teaser Trailer Competition” – Sizzle reel for feature of Little Light – Multi-period vampire horror thriller
TIME WAS, 2min., UK Beth dives headfirst into homeownership, buying a fixer-upper that quickly becomes more than she bargained for. Between overwhelming renovation challenges and unexplainable events in the house, she’s at her wit’s end. A frustrated blog post brings an unexpected lifeline: Melissa.
MIDNIGHT IN PHOENIX, 2min., USA In “Midnight in Phoenix,” we follow Levi, a vibrant local drag queen known for her dazzling performances and infectious charm. One night after her show, she catches the eye of Ezra, a charismatic admirer who sweeps her off her feet. Their whirlwind romance ignites a passionate connection filled with laughter and adventure. However, their fairy-tale takes a dark turn when a chance encounter leads them to a store during a botched robbery. In the chaos, Levi and Ezra become unwitting witnesses, but a misunderstanding leads to them being implicated in the crime.
CHASING ZOMBIES, 3min., USA This documentary was shot at the George A. Romero Filmmaking Program, with special effects by Tom Savini’s Special Make-up Effects Program. The story involves iconic zombie extras from the original Dawn and Day of the Dead who, decades later, find themselves in demand at Pop Culture Comicons. We chase down these zombies to see why these early Romero films resonate so much with fans. Meanwhile, the crew shooting this film set out on a horrifying adventure of their own
STONEWALLS, 1min., USA Stonewalls is the story of a couple who have opposing views on how to help their son get through some extremely difficult life circumstances. At the center of the story are the topics of being your true self and forgiveness.
SILENT AISLES, 29 seconds, USA Two estranged survivalists in a post-apocalyptic world must fend off monsters while trapped in an abandoned grocery store.
THE LAMPLIGHTER, 2min., UK A despondent ship merchant struggles with rebuilding his life and finding resolve to sail passengers through the unlit and treacherous Scottish coast, weaving together three stories of 19th century lighthouse building, the grim realities of coastal wrecker life, and discovering a new reason to love.
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QUEEN OF SPADES, 14min., UK Directed by Shyla Lee This is the story of one woman’s lifelong struggle to feel free, and part of the natural world, despite the complicated restrictions and expectations of modern life. Like water, she needs to keep flowing and continually being her authentic self.
CHAN CAMP, 20min,. USA Directed by Hollie Seidel, Mark Bucknam Chan MacVeagh’s soccer camp has transformed girls’ soccer in Brookline, Massachusetts. The training is hard, but the environment is supportive, and the girls come together in a way that makes them all stronger. This film follows a group of players who attended the camp in the summer of 2023.
TETHER, 7min,. USA Directed by Kathy O Lofton A woman athlete is forced to see life differently, after an assault that leads to visual impairment.
The World Series of Bocce: A Celebration of Sport, Family and Community, 26min,. USA Directed by Francis DiClemente The World Series of Bocce: A Celebration of Sport, Family and Community is a documentary short that captures the intense competition at the annual World Series of Bocce tournament in Rome, New York, while highlighting the event’s economic, social and community impact.
Imagine, waking up being covered in third-degree burns, that’s what it’s like for the Burrunan dolphins in Australia. But why is this happening? That’s what Dr. Duignan, Director of Pathology at The Marine Mammal Center, Dr. Stephen’s from Murdoch University, and Dr. Robb from the Marine Mammal Foundation had to find out.
This film explores this international collaboration that proves for the first time that these lesions being found on cetaceans around the world are only caused by climate change.
After reading the paper that The Marine Mammal Center released, I just had to make this into a film. It needed to be seen, dolphins and whales are loved by so many including myself and if I could bring light to such important work I had to try, so this film was born.
As you get older, you learn what you can endure. And I know that I just can’t endure living in a trailer in Burbank anymore and saying things like “And what did forensics tell you?”.
[on aging as an actor, and having] …the horrible and frightening revelation that in order to be good at what you do, you have to go deeper and deeper with each part and have to eviscerate yourself in a way that the man in the audience would never dream of doing. It may be that I keep doing it because I’m afraid to die. It may be that simple fact. The idea of saying, “I did this, I won that, I didn’t win that, and now I’ll just stop.” – that isn’t me. I’m a worker. If I don’t pit myself against things that are larger than myself, I’m lost.
[on his portrayal of Count Dracula on Broadway] I don’t play him as a hair-raising ghoul. He is a nobleman, an elegant man with a difficult problem… a man with a unique and distinctive social problem: he has to have blood to live and he is immortal.
It’s hard when you see a scene where it’s raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that’s why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
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