Month: July 2025

Watch the FEMALE Directors Shorts Festival (in case you missed it)

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Watch today’s Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/female-directors-shorts-festiv

AIRBORNE ABYSS, 3min., Bangladesh
Directed by Soumya Shah
As the world suffocates, a helpless father fights desperately to keep his family breathing.

Together with ALS: a wife’s perspective, 25min., USA
Directed by Kimber Leigh, Diane Dresback Dresback
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, affects thousands each year, but the true impact extends far beyond the diagnosis.

(French) Stories from my window, 4min., UK
Directed by Marie Chiriac
Super short poetry film about one possible end of the world and love.
Contemplative perspective on what makes this world beautiful and worth saving is love, as this realm being the backdrop and anchor of a universal love story.

https://www.instagram.com/addicted.to.lines

If I Were a Carpenter, 2min., Canada
Directed by Elizabeth Lewis
This hand drawn animated film is based on the classic song If I Were a Carpenter and sung by the great Bobby Darin. How can love conquer the social divide? This film is a tender slightly tongue in cheek story of how love can transform us and ultimately bridge our differences.

Wall unit, 10min., Poland
Directed by Joanna Polak
A ramshackle wall unit is a symbol of the monotonous life of a certain 40-year-old man living in a grey, dirty post-communist block of flats district. Right after his birthday, suffering from the midlife crisis, the man decides to change his dull and routine-based existence. Alas, his wife stands in the way

HOUSE, 6min., Afghanistan
Directed by Zainab Entezar
A female individual is actively seeking a residential property for rent within the Kabul region. However, despite her diligent efforts, she has not yet been able to secure a suitable dwelling for shelter.

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1551: Filmmaker/Musician Justin Gray (IMMERSED – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray)

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Immersed – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray, 60min,. Canada

Directed by Justin Gray, Michael Fisher

Justin Gray’s Immersed is a groundbreaking cinematic album that transforms how audiences experience music. Composed, recorded, and produced as an immersive audio experience, the album features 38 artists from Toronto and around the globe, placing listeners at the center of a three-dimensional global orchestra.

https://www.instagram.com/justingraysound/

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Today’s Writing Deadlines: July 30, 2025

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Submit to these exciting festivals today. Festivals that offer feedback from the industry, plus performance videos.

POLITICAL Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
https://politicalfeedbackfestival.events/political-novel-festival/

Political narrative is a term used in the humanities and political sciences to describe the way in which storytelling can shape fact and effect understandings of reality.

MYSTERY Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
https://crimemysteryfestival.com/crimemystery-novel-festival/

The Fastest Growing CRIME/MYSTERY Festival and Contest in the World today!

THRILLER/SUSPENSE Short Story Festival:
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com/thriller-short-story/

Submit your THRILLER/SUSPENSE 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.

FAMILY Screenplay Festival:
https://festivalforfamily.com/

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.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show

ROMANCE Screenplay Festival:
https://festivalforromance.com/

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.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show

Experimental/Dance/Music Festival:

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: HORROR Underground Film Festival

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Deadline Today to Submit via FilmFreeway:

Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. In-person screenings.

Cinema screenings for audience feedback video (this is NOT an online festival).

Blog and podcast interviews.

And bonus virtual screening (optional!) geared to create community over distance,

Also, option for 2nd in-person screening for filmmaking to attend to do audience Q&A and feedback session. Even is ALWAYS sold out.

PLUS, get your film seen by the right people.

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 within the horror genre.

Submit your Horror films and screenplays today to the festival.

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 use.

Our film festival occurs at least 10 times a year in Montreal and Los Angeles. Each accepted film receives 2 festival screenings (and an optional 3rd). Private cinema screening where they will receive their audience feedback video. And the virtual screening (4-6 weeks later) that is an industry showcase of the best HORROR films from around the world today.

Screenplay festivals occur once a month. We perform a transcript script video of the winners in a studio using professional actors and post them online for the entire world to see. (Great proof of concept video to use to promote your script.)

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

Watch THE WICKLOW’S WITCHES short film (new film on the platform)

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Watch Film Here: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch-the-wicklow-s-witches

The story talks about the bond between two women from different background and generation: an old witch and a little girl.

Submerged in a beautiful Irish landscape, the story is colored with magic potions, formulas, orations and picturesque scenario.

The story of the two protagonists, will transfer emotions through the common thread of a narrative voice and with the human and real voices of the 2 characters, emphasized by beautiful animated images generated with the Artificial Intelligence

Through this emotional video-tale, the author wants to focus the attention on the values that lay on true friendship and real respect among the people

https://instagram.com/frankyestan

Directed by Francesca Stangoni

Cast: Antonella Loi, Silvia Ambrosini, Silvia Sorrentino

WINNERS: July 2025 Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival

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AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Fantasy Film: Dante’s Inferno – The Ascension
Best Sci-Fi Film: Aeolus 15
Best Thriller Film: DIMENSIONS: The Interrogation
Best Student Film: Super Villain Coffee
Best Story: Wukong Couriers
Best Direction: Obsidian

Super Villain Coffee, 15min., USA
Directed by Leonard Frank Smith
“Supervillain Coffee” is a satirical comedy about Maximum “Chaos” Maxwell, a once-feared supervillain now slinging espresso in a hip downtown coffee shop. Max trades doomsday devices for latte art, grumbling about his past while perfecting milk foam with the precision of a mad scientist.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-super-villain-coffee

DIMENSIONS: The Interrogation, 8min., USA
Directed by Robert James Harden Jr.
During an interrogation for the murder of his mother, a man pleads for his release in fear of his life. Two special detectives grill him in order to solve their case. In the shadows of these men’s dimension, the answers to all their mysteries live.

https://instagram.com/dimensions_revealed

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dimensions

Aeolus 15, 11min., USA
Directed by Diego Ugalde
Haunted by his past, an old man waits for a cosmic phenomenon that could let him communicate with a young astronaut from the past – that astronaut is himself.

https://www.instagram.com/diego_ugpna/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-aeolus-15

Wukong Couriers, 15min., USA
Directed by Peter Gabriel Gagnon
An unwitting bicycle messenger is chosen as the mystical hero to save the city from an ancient horror.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-wukong-courier

Obsidian, 18min., Canada
Directed by Sohil Chhabra
David Smith, a deeply troubled detective grappling with a brutal murder case and the collapse of his personal life, finds himself spiraling into darkness-only to uncover a path to unexpected self-discovery.

https://www.instagram.com/abortedcinema/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-obsidian

Dante’s Inferno – The Ascension, 29min., UK
Directed by Sofian Francis
Dante, a regretful ex military contractor and his companion, his horse, search for his missing wife and daughter in the remnants of civilization decimated by thousands of malevolent entities known as ‘ Reapers ‘,

https://instagram.com/sofianfrancis

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dante

Watch Today’s FREE Festival: FEMALE Directors Shorts Festival

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FREE festival starts at 8pm EST tonight at http://www.wildsound.ca/browse

Watch the festival here: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/female-directors-shorts-festival

AIRBORNE ABYSS, 3min., Bangladesh
Directed by Soumya Shah
As the world suffocates, a helpless father fights desperately to keep his family breathing.

Together with ALS: a wife’s perspective, 25min., USA
Directed by Kimber Leigh, Diane Dresback Dresback
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, affects thousands each year, but the true impact extends far beyond the diagnosis.

(French) Stories from my window, 4min., UK
Directed by Marie Chiriac
Super short poetry film about one possible end of the world and love.
Contemplative perspective on what makes this world beautiful and worth saving is love, as this realm being the backdrop and anchor of a universal love story.

https://www.instagram.com/addicted.to.lines

If I Were a Carpenter, 2min., Canada
Directed by Elizabeth Lewis
This hand drawn animated film is based on the classic song If I Were a Carpenter and sung by the great Bobby Darin. How can love conquer the social divide? This film is a tender slightly tongue in cheek story of how love can transform us and ultimately bridge our differences.

Wall unit, 10min., Poland
Directed by Joanna Polak
A ramshackle wall unit is a symbol of the monotonous life of a certain 40-year-old man living in a grey, dirty post-communist block of flats district. Right after his birthday, suffering from the midlife crisis, the man decides to change his dull and routine-based existence. Alas, his wife stands in the way.

HOUSE, 6min., Afghanistan
Directed by Zainab Entezar
A female individual is actively seeking a residential property for rent within the Kabul region. However, despite her diligent efforts, she has not yet been able to secure a suitable dwelling for shelter.

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1550: Screenwriter Noah Zayn Mortier (BLUE IDAHO)

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Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDHl6jdZ3M4

Blue (formerly Logan) is a gifted transgender surgical nurse whose life spirals after a violent romance exposes her truth. Surviving a suicide attempt, she’s sent to an off-grid trauma retreat, where healing begins amid a web of broken souls, betrayal, and revelation. Returning home to confront family and memory, Logan reclaims his identity—detransitioning not in retreat, but in power. Blue Idaho is a raw, redemptive journey of self-forgiveness, queer identity, and the quiet strength it takes to choose yourself.


What is your screenplay about?

This screenplay is a bold, soul-stirring exploration of identity, redemption, and the courage to love one’s true self. At its heart is Blue (also known as Logan) — a precise, compassionate, and quietly suffering OR nurse who identifies as a trans woman. Behind her composed exterior lies a turbulent past: a childhood marred by neglect, abuse, and rejection. She inflicts harm on herself not for attention, but as a tragic ritual — a conversation with the inner child who was never allowed to speak.

Based on real memories, true events, and lived characters, this story is an emotional autopsy of shame, survival, and transformation. When Blue opens her heart to Connor, a young doctor who genuinely sees her, it shatters the rule she swore to live by: never mix vulnerability with proximity. When Connor uncovers her truth, the rejection that follows is brutal — familiar — and almost final.

Blue’s near-death suicide attempt leads her to an unconventional retreat, where healing unfolds in messy, unexpected ways. There, she finds not only herself, but also her voice — as Logan.

This story is not about being trans. It’s about being human in the aftermath of trauma. It’s about reclaiming dignity when the world has tried to erase it. It’s about survival — and the raw, beautiful work of learning to live again.

What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Drama and Coming-of-Age, with powerful psychological and emotional undercurrents that resonate universally.

Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Because it tells a story that has rarely — if ever — been told with such honesty, depth, and compassion.

Blue/Logan is a protagonist we haven’t seen before: a trans woman, a detransitioner, a medical caregiver, a wounded survivor, a human being whose experiences speak across lines of gender, politics, or identity. This is not a culture-war film. It’s a human story, and that is its power.

The screenplay holds a mirror up to all of us who have felt unworthy of love, who carry an injured inner child, who have learned to survive by shrinking. It dares to say: you are still here — and that matters. It is intimate yet universal, deeply personal yet painfully relatable.

This is not just an LGBTQIA+ story. It’s a redemptive character journey that speaks the emotional language of anyone who’s felt voiceless, invisible, or broken — and longs to heal.

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Today’s Writing Deadlines: July 29, 2025

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Submit to these exciting festivals today. Festivals that offer feedback from the industry, plus performance videos.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION Short Story Festival:
https://politicalfeedbackfestival.events/contemporary-fiction-short-story/

Submit your CONTEMPORARY FICTION Short Story to the festival, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.

Contemporary fiction is a literary genre that describes stories set in the present or recent past that could happen to real people. Contemporary fiction often explores the social, cultural, and political climate of the time.

BLACK & WHITE Screenplay Festival:
https://blackandwhitefilmfestival.com/black-white-screenplay-festivals/

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.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show

ENVIRONMENTAL Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
https://environmentalfestival.com/environmental-novel-festival/

An environmental novel, also known as eco-fiction, is a literary work that explores the relationship between humans and the natural world, or how humans impact the environment.

Toronto LGBTQ+ Film & Screenplay Festival: