Deadline Today (Sept. 17th): DIVERSITY Table Read Screenplay Festival

Submit on the Festival page: https://storypitches.com/diversity/

MISSION STATEMENT: To provide filmmakers & screenplay writers of diverse backgrounds and/or with diverse stories a place to showcase their voice to a large audience and help further their careers as an artist! Free of stereotypes and degradation. We will bring a true multicultural experience represented for the artist and for the audience who attends the festival.

FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants. Get your entire script performed at the writing festival.

SUBMIT your FEATURE, TV PILOT or SHORT SCREENPLAY.

Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays from all over the world.

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.)

1st Tier: FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay (all submissions)

2nd Tier: Accepted scripts (25% on average of submitted entries) get a best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.

3rd Tier: We will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film.

4th Tier: Then we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we will promote the winning writer and script.

(BONUS: 5th Tier. A winning screenwriter’s WhatsApp group has just been formed. Over 50 writers to date. Great way to share ideas and contacts with people in the industry.)

Deadline Today: FANTASY/SCI-FI Film & Screenplay Festival (85 FIVE STAR Reviews!)

September 17, 2025 festreviews filmfreeway, FilmFreeway Review FANTASY/SCI-FI Film & Screenplay Festival

Deadline Today to Submit via FilmFreeway:

FANTASY and SCI-FI Stories used to be a fringe market. Now they are in the mainstream and forever as movies, television shows, and stories in this genre are a multi-billion dollar market.

This is a HYBRID film festival (NOT an online festival) with live public screenings for the audience feedback video you will receive, plus an optional virtual 2nd showcase to enhance the film’s exposure. Festival also conducts blog and podcast interviews with the filmmaker. We have also started a filmmaker’s WhatsApp group with over 100 joined to date to chat about next project and make contacts etc….

Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival. WINNING reading every single month!

Get your short or feature film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get an audience video. Now a monthly festival taking place in either Chicago, Los Angeles, or Toronto

All festival dates have been updated to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.

We specialize in showcasing Fantasy/Sci-Fi stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1586: Filmmaker Heloísa Cardoso (SUBMERGED)

September 17, 2025 festreviews PODCASTS Today's Podcast: EP. 1586: Filmmaker Heloísa Cardoso (SUBMERGED)

A young woman waits for her lover for a secret trip. However, he does not show up and does not respond to her messages. That’s when strange and inexplicable events begin to happen in her house. She asks for help from her lover, who ignores her. Realizing that she is hopelessly alone, she gives up waiting for salvation and surrenders to her own shadow.

https://www.instagram.com/cardosohelo/?hl=en

Director Statement

“Submerged” is my graduation film from Academia Internacional de Cinema. This short film is an extension of the research I’ve been developing in theatre and literature, proposing a reflection on the tendency to wait, something encouraged in girls from a very young age. The wait for a great love, a hope for something external that will give life meaning. The horror surrounding this waiting evokes the idea of a monstrous femininity: when left alone, the protagonist of “Submerged” unconsciously materializes her shadow, which ultimately consumes her and breaks the cycle of passivity.

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Turning 60 Today: Kyle Chandler

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I grew up in Chicago, so I’ve always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we’d watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters – they were the biggest things I’ve ever seen!

Turning 36 Today: Danielle Brooks

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Received a Tony award nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical in 2016 for her performance in “The Color Purple”.

Turning 29 Today: Ella Purnell

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There’s a joke in my family that I’m going to make a career out of playing other people’s younger selves, I played the younger Keira [Keira Knightley], I’ve played the younger Angelina [Angelina Jolie] and more recently the young Margot Robbie.

Watch PEACE IN MY NIGHT, 13min., Canada, Documentary (new film on the platform)

September 16, 2025September 16, 2025 festreviews Watch Free Films, Watch Short Film of the Day 13min., Canada, Watch PEACE IN MY NIGHT

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DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS• 12m

“Peace in my Night” is a compelling documentary that follows the extraordinary life of Elsie Mascher, a woman whose unwavering faith in God guided her through the darkest chapters of World War II.

As a young child, Elsie witnessed the horrors of war firsthand, enduring the unimaginable as her family were forced into labor on their own farm. Eventually taking the chance to flee, Elsie and her family embarked on a frightening journey to freedom.

Their arrival in Canada brought new opportunities and it was there that Elsie found love, meeting her husband and embarking on a new chapter of life to East Africa.

Featuring intimate interviews, archival footage, and glimpses of who she is today, “Peace in my Night” offers a deeply personal and moving portrait of a woman whose faith carried her through the darkest of times. As Elsie Mascher reflects on her experiences and shares the wisdom gained from a life lived with purpose and determination, her story serves as a testament to the enduring power of faith, resilience, and peace.

Directed by Abigail Mascher

Died Today: Robert Redford (1936-2025)

September 16, 2025 festreviews Uncategorized

As a director, I wouldn’t like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn’t like me as a director.
I am perhaps the best-looking grandfather around, apart from Marlon Brando, of course!
Some people have analysis. I have Utah.
[on refusing the role of Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate (1967), the role that made Dustin Hoffman a star seven years before Redford obtained super-star status himself] I never did look like a 21-year-old just out of college who’d never been laid.

Watch Today’s FREE Festival: COMEDY Feature Film

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THE BARMY HORDE, 60min,. UK
Directed by Calvin O’Neill
Do you like silly little cartoons, but are too OLD and HAIRY to watch them without feelings of shame and fear that you are some kind of MENTALLY STUNTED BABY PERSON? Well, you are in for a right treat mate! Because these cartoons are SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED for hairy, mentally stunted freaks like yourself. It’s animated, it’s absurd, and it’s complete anarchy; a showcase of comical cartoons centered around a peculiar town named Barmy, based on the combined inspiration of Calvin O’Neill’s childhood entertainment and his experiences growing up in Croydon. Culminating in a multi-media collection of goofy characters and storylines that transport you into the wacky world of The Barmy Horde. So yeah…swing by, if that’s something you’re interested in.

https://www.instagram.com/calvin_oneill_/