Month: August 2025

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: EXPERIMENTAL, DANCE, MUSIC Film Festival (198 FIVE Star Reviews)

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Deadline Today to Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:

Currently 198 FIVE star reviews on FilmFreeway!

In-person public screenings, plus other avenues to enhance the filmmaker’s film (audience feedback video, virtual festival, blog & podcast interview).

NOTE: The festival has created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:

Tier #1 – Your film plays at a public live event where we will record the audience reactions of your short or feature and then send you the feedback video. Or, it plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.

Tier #2 (optional) – We put up your film live on the Film Festival Streaming Service for 30 hours and invite a select industry audience to watch it. With this system, some films have already received a distribution deal, as many platforms are looking for solid feature and short films. We can not guarantee anything, of course but this has been very helpful to many in the past. (see testimonials below.)

Then (Tier #3) we will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film. Then after that (Tier #4) we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we chat with you about the process of how the film was made.

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The goal of this festival is to showcase the best of new experimental short films and independent music videos from around the world. Films that don’t get a fair shake from other film festivals because programmers don’t know where to “categorize” these films. There isn’t a typical linear story occurring so most festivals can’t truly understand the talent and beauty around these films.

We want to showcase films that showcase true originality and talent from filmmakers from every corner of the globe. And also showcase new musicians who have made a music video and want it to be shown.

Turning 76 Today: Richard Gere

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[in 1993] I’ve always maintained that actors are best when they find characters that are congruent with the emotions they’re going through at the moment. [in 1993] My wife doesn’t understand why I’m a sex symbol. She says I don’t look different from a guy on the street. [In 2012, reflecting on working with Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)] I was delighted, she was perfect for the part . . . She has a really interesting quality. Again, I haven’t seen this film in 30 years. But she is, she’s really a kind of true heart in the camera. It’s very hard to be as kind of open and unguarded and nice. You know, a nice person and kind of a genuine person and true heart on camera. That’s not an easy thing to do. She’s able to pull that off. I could never be that way. I was too complicated. There were too many things going on. Just the straightforward presence is an extremely difficult thing to do. There doesn’t appear to be any sort of basis for any of this. I have a feeling something hidden is at work here that will someday see the light of day. I keep asking myself where all this personal enmity between George Bush and Saddam Hussein comes from. It’s like the story of Captain Ahab and the great white whale from “Moby Dick”. We have to say, “Stop”. There’s no reason for a war. At the moment Hussein is not threatening anybody. It’d be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn’t seem to be any indications whatsoever that this man poses an immediate threat to anybody. America has never paid any attention to other people, so it’s absurd for Bush to say that it’s all in the best interests of the Iraqi people. If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

MOVIE REVIEW: The Nature of Death. 16min., Thriller/Drama

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When an eccentric park ranger crosses paths with a grieving hiker, he offers his help in finding the perfect spot to scatter the hiker’s father’s ashes. As they venture deeper into the remote wilderness, the ranger’s true intentions begin to blur.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31407285/

Review by Andie Kay:

When Alan’s father passes he is tasked with fulfilling his dad’s last wish by scattering his ashes in the Sierra National Forest. As Alan is taking a moment to grieve he encounters Ranger Dan, who offers to help him find the perfect spot…But not everything is what it seems.


Set in 1978 the Cinematographer and Director, Sean Cruser did an excellent job in making the entire film look like it was from the late 70’s. The attention to detail in the costuming, hair, and makeup was absolute perfection. Even the score added this nostalgia but also a sinister undercurrent.


Tyler Beveridge starred as Alan and wrote the screenplay for this film. The storyline is so engaging and written beautifully. Tyler understood how to build the suspense without giving the twist away. At the same time giving you a little morsel so you think you know what’s going on when you don’t. That in and of itself is next level writing, not to mention that Alan’s acting chops are also top notch! Murphy Patrick Martin portrays Ranger Dan and I must admit, the southern accent threw me and pulled me out of it for a moment especially when that accent started to fade but by the end, it made so much sense!


The entire cast did a wonderful job and everything about this short film is unbelievably clever, including the title. The Nature of Death – a smart play on words and a bit of foreshadowing. If national forests and parks didn’t make you feel uneasy before? They will now.

2000 MOVIE: BEDAZZLED. (Top 5 Reviews)

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2000 MOVIE: BEDAZZLED. (Top 5 Reviews)

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BEDAZZLED follows a computer company worker who makes a deal with the Devil to receive seven wishes in exchange for his soul so he can pursue the woman he loves, though the Devil twists the spirit of each wish to frustrate him.

A remake of the 1967 British film of the same name, written by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, itself a comic retelling of the Faust legend.

Directed by Harold Ramis
Screenplay by Larry Gelbart, Harold Ramis, Peter Tolan
Produced by Trevor Albert, Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O’Connor

Release dates: October 20, 2000
Running time 93 minutes
Budget $48 million
Box office $90.3 million

TOP 5 BEDAZZLED MOVIE REVIEWS:

#1) Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
Charming Fraser Faustian tale with lots of sexual innuendo.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/bedazzled

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#2) Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Hurley is great fun to watch, a Faustian powerhouse of curves, smoky eyes and big hair who sounds exactly like Jackie Collins doing an imitation of Madonna’s pan-European accent. It’s creepy, but effective.

http://www.weekinrewind.com/2007/10/bedazzled-movie-review-dvd-review-2000.html

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#3) Rob Gonsalves
Rob’s Movie Vault
Decent enough entertainment as written, though many will regret the movie’s eleventh-hour detour into pieties.

Bedazzled (2000)

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#4) Rob Blackwelder
SPLICEDWire
Has its flaws, but the laughs keep coming at a steady clip — and in a slight comedy such as this, that’s what matters most.

http://splicedwire.com/00reviews/bedazzled.html

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#5 – VIDEO MOVIE REVIEW:
Nitpick Critic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRwau4FxgJA

Submit exclusively to the TOP COMEDY FESTIVAL today:

2000 MOVIE: Meet the Parents (Top 5 Reviews)

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“Meet the Parents” stars Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse who suffers a series of unfortunate events while visiting his girlfriend’s parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner). Teri Polo stars as Greg’s girlfriend, and Owen Wilson stars as Pam’s ex-boyfriend.

Directed by Jay Roach

Screenplay by Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg

Story by Greg Glienna, Mary Ruth Clarke
Based on Meet the Parents (1992 film)

Produced by Nancy Tenenbaum, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro

Starring
Robert De Niro
Ben Stiller
Blythe Danner
Teri Polo
James Rebhorn
Jon Abrahams
Owen Wilson

Release date
October 6, 2000

Running time 108 minutes

Budget $55 million

Box office $330.4 million

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TOP 5 MOVIE REVIEWS:

#1 – Wendy Ide
The Times (UK)
It’s just that it’s the kind of comedy that’s as likely to have you gnawing your fist in an agony of embarrassment as it is to make you laugh.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whats-on-tv-and-radio-tonight-friday-february-9-bcfbtwrtp

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#2 – Bob Thomas
Associated Press
Meet the Parents isn’t as funny as There’s Something About Mary, nor as outrageous. But it confirms that Ben Stiller is the best of today’s young practitioners of frustration comedy.

https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2000/10-06/0076_weekend_movies__little_guy_agains.html

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#3 – Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
Star-driven comedy at times offensive and funny.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/Meet-Parents.html

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#4 – Richard Schickel
TIME Magazine
Alas, poor Focker. He can’t help himself. And we can’t help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=105903

#5 – VIDEO MOVIE REVIEW

“Meet the Parents” stars Ben Stiller as Greg Focker, a nurse who suffers a series of unfortunate events while visiting his girlfriend’s parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner). Teri Polo stars as Greg’s girlfriend, and Owen Wilson stars as Pam’s ex-boyfriend.

Directed by Jay Roach

Screenplay by Jim Herzfeld, John Hamburg

Story by Greg Glienna, Mary Ruth Clarke

Based on Meet the Parents (1992 film)

Produced by Nancy Tenenbaum, Jay Roach, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro

Starring

Robert De Niro

Ben Stiller

Blythe Danner

Teri Polo

James Rebhorn

Jon Abrahams

Owen Wilson

Release date

October 6, 2000

Running time 108 minutes

Budget $55 million

Box office $330.4 million

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TOP 5 MOVIE REVIEWS:

#1 – Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

It’s just that it’s the kind of comedy that’s as likely to have you gnawing your fist in an agony of embarrassment as it is to make you laugh.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/whats-on-tv-and-radio-tonight-friday-february-9-bcfbtwrtp

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#2 – Bob Thomas

Associated Press

Meet the Parents isn’t as funny as There’s Something About Mary, nor as outrageous. But it confirms that Ben Stiller is the best of today’s young practitioners of frustration comedy.

https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2000/10-06/0076_weekend_movies__little_guy_agains.html

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#3 – Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Star-driven comedy at times offensive and funny.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/Meet-Parents.html

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#4 – Richard Schickel

TIME Magazine

Alas, poor Focker. He can’t help himself. And we can’t help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.

http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=105903

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#5 – VIDEO MOVIE REVIEW:

https://www.youtube.com/@CinephileStudios

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Q&A After Screening: FANTASY Toronto August 2025 Festival

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Q&A After Screening: FANTASY Toronto August 2025 Festival

Question & answer session after the festival screening with filmmakers from the August 28, 2025 festival at the Carlton Cinemas, in downtown Toronto, Canada.

Conversation with directors:

  • Miguel Ángel Vives Ponzanelli Onámuh
  • Enrico Ferri Midnight Coachmen (with actors Michael Lake & Sarah Spencer

Onámuh, 22min., Mexico
Directed by Miguel Ángel Vives Ponzanelli
Onámuh, a humanoid marked by past abuses, searches for resources to survive. Árret, a deity of the earth, helps him and takes him to her lair, where Onámuh finds the energy he needed. However, his need turns into an addiction, leading him to abuse Árret and make her his prisoner. As the environment rapidly deteriorates, Onámuh must make a fatal decision due to his accumulated guilt.

Midnight Coachmen, 18min., Canada
Directed by Enrico Ferri
A reimagining of the classic fairytale of Cinderella, told from the perspective of a dog and mouse who live as humans until the stroke of midnight disrupts their world.

HIGHLIGHTS: August 2025 FANTASY Festival

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HIGHLIGHTS: August 2025 FANTASY Festival

A terrific festival where every single film showcased received multiple votes for BEST FILM. Each film is the best of the best of FANTASY films from around the world in the last year.

BEST FILM: Midnight Coachmen
BEST PERFORMANCES: A Princess’s Plea
BEST MIRO-SHORT: Paraland: The Prologue
BEST VISUAL DESIGN: Porcelain
BEST STORY: Dwindle
BEST DIRECTION: Onámuh

PORCELAIN, 16min., UK
Directed by Tim Wildgoose
Porcelain is the story of ‘Child’ – A street urchin who leaves behind the cold streets of a disparate city to discover mystery and wonder within the walls of the Porcelain makers mansion.

https://www.instagram.com/fnordcorps/

A Princess’s Plea, min., USA
Directed by Brooke Thornton, Madison Hubler
Princess Circe awaits in her tower when Vince Davenport, crown prince of a rich kingdom, comes to claim her as his wife. But with the beast left unslain and the princess left unimpressed, Vince’s quest takes a dark and unexpected turn.https://www.instagram.com/aprincesssplea

Onámuh, 22min., Mexico
Directed by Miguel Ángel Vives Ponzanelli
Onámuh, a humanoid marked by past abuses, searches for resources to survive. Árret, a deity of the earth, helps him and takes him to her lair, where Onámuh finds the energy he needed. However, his need turns into an addiction, leading him to abuse Árret and make her his prisoner. As the environment rapidly deteriorates, Onámuh must make a fatal decision due to his accumulated guilt.

DWINDLE, 17min, USA
Directed by John M. Broadhead
A young woman, traveling alongside her blind father in search of a new life, discovers that his chilling stories about an ancient forest creature will threaten their relationship in unforeseeable ways.

http://www.reflectionfilmsllc.com/

Paraland: The Prologue, 4min., USA
Directed by Patrick McCarthy
Paraland is an animated fantasy series about a trio of heroes who must unite the 12 incredibly different races of the land to keep the nation from falling apart. All while battling terrifying monsters, otherwordly calamities, and enduring the Gods’ twisted sense of humor.

https://instagram.com/paralandrealms

Midnight Coachmen, 18min., Canada
Directed by Enrico Ferri
A reimagining of the classic fairytale of Cinderella, told from the perspective of a dog and mouse who live as humans until the stroke of midnight disrupts their world.

https://instagram.com/stanleywoodfilms