I have to really thank the actors for my reading, nothing short of terrific as they were, nothing short of incredibly smart, attractive, and perceptive as they were. They brought the script to life. – F. Maffai
FULL FEEDBACK on your stage play from our committee of Professional Playwriters, Production Heads and Story Consultants. Get a best scene of your stage play performed at the writing festival and made into a video for the winner.
Submit your 10 Page Play, 1 Act Play, or Full Stage Play to the Festival.
SUBMIT your STAGE PLAY Today You will receive feedback on your play in 3-5 weeks
Submit your PARANORMAL themed book by the deadlin.
A paranormal story is a work of fiction that explores phenomena and beings that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding. They include elements like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, and other entities that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. They can be set in the real world, but generally includes elements that defy scientific explanation.
Submit your EXPERIMENTAL Short Story 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 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 screenplay that’s a DYSTOPIAN genre and/or plot line to the festival.
Dystopian stories are a type of speculative fiction that explore the darker aspects of human nature and the human mind. They often serve as a warning about what could happen to modern society if certain aspects grow out of control.
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: Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:
IN-PERSON screenings and HYBRID Festival Mode: Entering its 9th year, the Toronto & Los Angeles Documentary Festival now gives filmmakers 5 tiers to showcase and promote their film. (All accepted films get all five tiers).
1) Screening #1: Where you will obtain your audience feedback video.
2) Screening #2: (optional) virtual festival (48-hour promotional showcase) on the film festival streaming service.
3) Screening #3 at a sold-out public screening at the Carlton Cinemas in Toronto OR the LA LIVE Regal Cinemas in downtown Los Angeles. (note: 3rd screening only for short films and also not guaranteed for the guaranteed submission option.)
4) Podcast interview at WILDsound Radio on ITunes
5) Blog interview promoting you and your film.
The first film festival screening gives you our award-winning audience feedback videos made for the short & feature films.
Since 2016, the FEEDBACK Film Festival has been showcasing the best of documentary short films. We now will be showcasing a documentary film festival every month in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.
I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell and laughs. But I do sometimes laugh when people fall down.
I just love bossy women. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It mans somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.
“Before I got Gilmore Girls (2000), I was modeling. I went in for a call and was told, “Sweetie, you need to lose two inches off those hips”. I was 14. So I just replied, “I have more jobs than I can do. I’m in high school. I can’t go to all the trouble of losing the two inches, so I’ll pass”. Someone might tell you to lose weight, but you can say no”.
I was at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for a year and I loved it. There are a lot of really creative people, there is a constant exchange of an ideas. We talk about what’s been done [in film] and all the rules for filmmaking and then we talk about how to break them.
Interior decorator Alice and college professor George have been married for fourteen years. They raise a son and a daughter together, and they are happily married in others’ eyes. One night, Alice waits at home for George to get back from work. What she gets is not only her husband, but also the news that he is going to leave them for an affair. The trivia of marriage life has used up all their passion; love burns into cinders in just a blink. And George is not sure about what is to come.
Review by Julie C. Sheppard:
The short film Cinders is a heart-rending story of communication breakdown. Off the top, the film uses a long silence of one the characters, the husband George, to make his eventual admission of infidelity even more dramatic and revelatory. He does not speak for over a minute of screentime with a one-sided conversation on the part of the wife, Alice. In advance of his first words, Alice’s lines and actions give clues to the husband’s reasoning for leaving her, such as her micromanaging him.
When dialogue between them finally starts and George admits to the affair, you get the sense that important topics have never been expressed between them before, such as acknowledgement of their sexual incompatibility, and the fact that Alice seems unaware of some of the things that have bothered him, like her lack of passion and playfulness, and her always trying to take care of him in a parent-child type of way.
The setting of the lovely residential home shows the external trappings of a together, well-heeled household. Both characters are neatly dressed and things seem tidy and organized. But looks are obviously deceiving. Even her admission that she always wanted to go to France, a place that George plans to take his new lover, shows how tuned out he is about his wife desires, and it seems like a fact that she has never told him before.
Other than evening crickets, there are no other sounds under the action, which gives this emotionally painful short verisimilitude. The camera work also mirrors this true-to-life essence, with the pace and editing being very deliberate. The use of these elements in a slow, methodic way matches the tone of the couple’s relationship, one that is obviously suffering from a lack of connection that, in turn, leads the husband astray.
A rock star bound by a devil’s pact drifts toward oblivion, haunted by forever regrets. Across the veil, a fallen angel mourns lost grace. Each seeks redemption—and in that search, confronts what they truly are, and what they might yet become.
This short film by Iwata Sam was inspired by the true events of Kurt Cobain’s untimely death with the names slightly altered due to legal reasons. Nirvana’s music has touched the lives of so many of us and Iwata Sam has given us a story that is intriguing and thought provoking. What would you do to fulfill your dreams? Would you make a deal with the devil?
I appreciated the attention to detail in the set dressing and the nod to Nirvana’s logo as graffiti on a wall. The cinematography was absolutely stunning, thank you Mark Kenfield. It had this beautiful, haunting quality about it that fit the storyline so incredibly well. There were several great practical effects, as well as the creative beauty in the text screen overlays.
One of the things that I adored was the casting. Andrew Steel as “Kurt” and Kym Jackson as “Courtney” – pardon me, “Lucy” was incredible. Their performances really captured the essence of both characters and the way they played off one another was simply spellbinding. Andrew also wrote and performed a couple of original songs within the film, so that was even more impressive.
This film serves as a cautionary tale but also one that would urge anyone who is experiencing depression, suicidal thoughts or substance dependancy to reach out for help. It reminds us all that we aren’t alone in our struggles.
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