Theatre is liberating because it only works if it’s truthful, That’s what it requires. That’s not true of film: the camera does lie. You can be moved by a performance on set, but when you see it on screen, it does nothing. Yet there will be someone you simply didn’t notice on set that on screen: bam!
I was lucky to learn early in life that you need money for food and shelter, but there’s no ambition in having money in the bank for the sake of it!
I’m a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome. I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
Bookshelves with books for children. Educational library with literature for preschoolers and kids. Reading and studying. Fairy Tales, Encyclopedias and Dictionary. Cartoon flat vector illustration
Ekorts, 6min., Austria Directed by John Whitehand, Julia Hulle, Alexander Bachmayer Daniel finds himself locked in a deserted buliding, no way out. Something is going on, but he can’t explain it.
Liquid Love, 15min., USA Directed by Dave McGrath It’s New Year’s Eve, Jillian is about to make a monumental resolution. She is giving up one of her two favorite things: Wine or Coffee. As she struggles to make up her mind, Wine and Coffee try to convince her that the other should be the one to go. When Jillian is ready to leave for the party, she announces her decision.
Accept only stories that fit into the experimental genre. An experimental story is a narrative that challenges traditional storytelling conventions and explores new concepts and representations of the world. Experimental stories often use innovative language, non-traditional narrative structures, and metafiction to create unconventional and complex stories.
Submit your short story to the festival, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
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.
What is the theme of your poem? The theme of “The Beautiful Scar” is learning to find the beauty in the humanity we often rob ourselves of when we feel like the world is rejecting us.
What motivated you to write this poem? During the first year of the MFA program at UNR-Lake Tahoe, I was away at our winter residency, and I was so encapsulated by my colleagues’ vulnerability and the power they gave to their truth of the hardships they experienced in their own lives. One of them told me that my writing was already at that level but what held me back was withholding my own truth to protect those I was writing about. This poem was the turning point for me to be more honest and vulnerable, not just with my audience, but with myself. It was a difficult process to grasp and write through but for the first time in my 25 years [at the time] of life, I finally felt free.
How long have you been writing poetry? I was a slow-learner as a kid, so I caught on to reading and writing at a later age than my siblings did, but I began creative writing through free-writing in 1st grade when I was six years old. I began learning how to write poetry at eight years old and began writing my own poems at twelve years old, so I’ve been writing for about twenty-two years with seventeen years to this day of writing poetry and it’s a blessing I always remind myself to be grateful for.
More expensive than many festivals but more benefits to the film maker and their team. Looking forward to see what comes of this coordinated effort.
Out of all the festivals I submitted my short film to this has be the coolest one! The Festival Director is super communicative and sent several updates throughout the time the festival was going on. I was beyond excited to receive an “official selection” and stunned to win an audience award for Best Direction.
Afterwards, the fun really begins. You are giving several more opportunities to promote your film. I truly appreciated the audience feedback video and the podcast interview. Both were simply amazing!
Thank you to everyone, the judges and the audience at Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival! I had a great time! I’ll be back again with my next short film!
We feel greatly honoured to have been selected by Crime/Film Festival and granted an award. The whole experience was awesome and the Festival Team is really fantastic. Thanks again for your consideration and support
Great Festival! I loved! The audiencia feedback is fantastic!
This is the first festival where it’s online review from the audience felt like they really watched the film to understand, I liked that a lot. I’d definitely apply again for sure. Thank you so much for keeping my desire to make films alive
This festival really values and supports filmmaker’s work and I’m very thankful to be able to be apart of it!
You can’t seem to have any sort of inhibition. Or shame. Or absolute horror at your own physical presence. I know I’m not a woman’s fantasy man; I don’t have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that’s kind of a relief in a way.
(2005, on a pre-acting job) I worked the third shift at a convenience store for a few months. At four in the morning most people are looking for cigarettes, porn or one of those shriveled, angry-looking hot dogs from the rotating grill. One night, though, a woman came in during the wee hours. She looked a bit distraught as she paid at the counter. She paused for a moment, looked up at me and asked, “Do you think I’m pretty?” As it turned out, she had just walked in on her boyfriend with another woman. We proceeded to have a lengthy conversation about a person’s self-worth, fidelity, trust and relationships. And then I treated her to a slushy blue frozen drink.
[on his character from The Daily Show (1996)] In my mind, he was a guy who had done national news reporting but had fallen from grace somehow and was now relegated to this terrible cable news show and was very bitter about it and thought he was better, but he wasn’t.
[on his surprise at hearing so much laughter in Foxcatcher (2014)] The way Bennett [Miller] describes the humor is that it’s funny until it’s not anymore, and if this story didn’t have the outcome that it does, it could just be an absurd, ridiculous story. But the fact it ends up where it does, and that there’s this pall that hangs over the entire narrative, changes everything. But some of it so absurd you can’t help but laugh because it seems too strange to be true.
[on male bonding in Foxcatcher (2014)] It’s about offering up yourself to vulnerability. I think Bennett presents all this things in a very open way and allows the viewer to draw their own conclusion. He was finding it, as we were finding it, and I think that’s an extremely exciting aspect of working like this.
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[re role in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)] It’s a very fun role and I’m unrecognizable. I have a huge perm, acrylic tips, I’m spray-tanned and have a thick Queens accent. It’s a big role. Or at least I think it is. I constantly live in fear that I will show up to see it and they will have replaced me with Don Cheadle.
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