Year: 2025

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: FEEDBACK Film & Screenplay Festival

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Deadline to Submit to the Festival:

This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video you will receive, plus an optional virtual 2nd showcase to enhance the film’s exposure (optional).

Festival also conducts blog and podcast interviews with the filmmaker. We have also started a filmmaker’s WhatsApp group with over 150 joined to date to chat about next project and make contacts etc….

Monthly Festival designed to showcase the best of films (shorts, features, web series) and screenplays (short, feature, TV) in the world today.

This submission hub is for multiple FEEDBACK Film Festivals. Chose the best festivals for your film or screenplay to submit to.

– LOS ANGELES Feedback Festival (any genre)
– ANIMATION Feedback Festival
– ASIAN Filmmakers Feedback Festival
– BLACK Filmmakers Feedback Festival
– BLACK & WHITE Feedback Festival
– LATINO Filmmakers Feedback Festival
– POLITICAL Feedback Festival
– SPORTS Feedback Festival
– STUDENT Feedback Festival

Awards & Prizes

The FILM FESTIVAL Experience:

We are proud to announce a FOUR tier festival set up of your accepted film at the festival. Two screenings of your film at our festival, plus two separate interviews.

Screening #1 will take place and will be a private screening for a select group of people. They will then go home after the festival and record their comments of your film. Then we turn those comments into our regular FEEDBACK Festival Video.

For context, here is an example of a video from a recent festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EviO64sSbrA

Screening #2 takes place one time only (for FREE) VIRTUALLY for all to see on our online feed every single day. 365 festivals in 2022. Already these screenings are garnering an audience of 1000s each day.

So in the end you will have TWO showcases of your film and you’ll receive your audience feedback video a week before the Virtual Festival.

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 we will chat with you about the process of how the film was made.

We also have bonus in-person public screenings twice a month in Toronto. The filmmaker can attend and do a recorded Q&A with the audience.

The SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL experience:

Winning screenplays are performed by professional actors and made into a video each month.

FULL FEEDBACK on all screenplay submissions.

Turning 44 Today: Rachel Bilson 

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It was like second nature in a way, because I was familiar with the sets and stuff and it wasn’t like a strange world. It was like all things in life: You try it and if it makes you happy, it sticks. (On starting professional acting.)

I feel pretty strongly about it, morally. It’s not necessary to be exploited in that kind of way. I can’t say that I’ll never do it, but I don’t see a reason now, especially when you’re still trying to establish yourself. It’s just more important to be known for your acting and that you’re not willing to strip down for a scene. (On her refusal to film nude scenes.)

I hate it when people are like, ‘How do you stay thin?’ or ‘Do you work out? What’s your routine? What’s your diet?’ Then it’s like, ‘If I tell you I don’t, then are you going to give me a hard time?’

[favorite sexual position] I’ve learned that if you want to have an orgasm during sex, you have to be on top.

Turning 38 Today: Blake Lively

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With acting, I think half of it is just acting confident. We stand on these red carpets and pose in these dresses, but we’re all only so confident. It doesn’t mean we think we’re great looking or anything. It’s all a façade.

[on being cast as Carol Ferris in Green Lantern (2011)]: It was nice for me that this was a studio that wasn’t looking for some girl to have her legs greased up and her boobs out – and that was all that mattered. I imagined that no one else knew anything about Green Lantern. As soon as I got the role I was humbled about how naive I was. They were grilling me about StarSapphire and Hector Hammond and how many Green Lanterns are going to show up. All I could say was “What are you guys talking about?”.

I probably feel the most alive when I’m with my family and also when I’m cooking, and those normally coincide with each other. I love to cook for my family, that’s the best. I have all my nieces and nephews there, and you really use your hands and it’s such an experience for all the senses; for the touch, for the smell, for the sight, so you feel really alive.

I like to play someone who is unlike me and the character I play most often [Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl (2007)]. Time and again, I keep playing drug addicts with sexual issues! I never knew I had a dark side, but this is where I get it out of my system.



Turning 38 Today: Chloe Pirrie

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Chloe Pirrie (born 25 August 1987) is a Scottish actress. She has played main roles in the 2014 miniseries The Game, the 2012 film Shell, and the 2015 television film An Inspector Calls. She has also appeared in the 2016 miniseries War & Peace, the 2015 film Youth, the 2015 film Blood Cells and a 2013 episode of Black Mirror. In 2015 she also co-starred in the Academy Award winner for Best Live Action Short Film, Stutterer.

Turning 49 Today: Alexander Skarsgård

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I was fascinated by the male lion, the way he moved, the confidence. When he just sat down and looked straight at the cameraman, he did absolutely nothing, but for a second you didn’t know whether he was going to yawn and fall asleep or pounce. I thought it would be interesting to try to find that. You don’t show your teeth, you don’t say anything, you don’t show it. It’s the not knowing that’s interesting. Anything could happen. -on studying film of wild lions that helped inspire his performance as Eric Northman.

When I step into a project, I need to feel that there’s a challenge, something new, something fresh about it. That being said, I’m kind of attracted to characters with a darkness or a sadness that they carry with them.

Happy Birthday Sean Connery – 1930 – 2020 

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I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I’d like to kill him.

I’ve never kept a record of anything. I gave away everything: all the posters, the memorabilia that would have been helpful – and financially rewarding.

[on whether he would ever escape being identified as James Bond] It’s with me ’til I go in the box.

I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points.

Turning 67 Today: Tim Burton

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[suburbia] “I think the atmosphere that I grew up in, yes, there was a subtext of normalcy. I don’t even know what the word means, but it’s stuck in my brain. It’s weird. I don’t know if it’s specifically American, or American in the time I grew up, but there’s a very strong sense of categorization and conformity. I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious; it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that you’re living in.”

[the approach you have to take in movies] ” . . . you always have to feel like it’s gonna be the greatest, even if it’s a . . . you know . . . piece of crap.”

[Talking about the Batman characters]: “These are some of the wildest characters in comics and yet, they seem the most real to me.”

[About working with Jack Nicholson on Batman (1989)] “By the time Jack walks onto the set, he feels very clear and strong about the character. So when you’re shooting it’s great, because that’s when you toy around with the levels of how broad to go.”

Turning 42 Today: Caitlin FitzGerald

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Caitlin Fitzgerald at arrivals for THE FIXER Premiere at 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, The School of Visual Arts (SVA) Theatre, New York, NY April 16, 2016. Photo By: Steven Ferdman

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we’re actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you’re totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.

I’m kind of a control freak. I like to be really prepared.

The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.

In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can’t construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you’re shooting it two days later, and you don’t know what’s going to happen next. It’s one of the harder things that I’ve done.

WINNERS: August 2025 Toronto FEMALE Film Festival

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A showcase of the best Female Films from around the world today!

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Short Film: Obedience
Best Visual Design: Cycle of Emotions
Best Story: Dis-connected
Best Direction: The Taste of Pork Belly

Cycle Of Emotions, 6min, Greece
Directed by Natasha Smyrnaiou
In a hidden search…
In the complex stages of exploration that the Soul goes through…
Through the emotions…
Discovers…
Accepts…
Learns…
Evolves…
Getting Free…
Pictures, music and movement…
In a film art video performance of 6’.

https://instagram.com/natasha_smyrnaiou

Dis-connected, 10min., Spain
Directed by Estela del Carmen
Andrea is a girl addicted to her cell phone, until one day she is forced to live a day without him.

Obedience, 12min., Spain
Directed by Maria Carmen Sánchez
A girl is kidnapped by a couple of men, who claim to be vampires.

The Taste of Pork Belly, 20min., Taiwan
Directed by Sophie Shui
The preschooler A-Mao spends his days fooling around and exploring with his little sister and his buddy A-Bao. When they are hungry, there are sweet potatoes and snails to eat, and from time to time A-Mao can also eat some of the pork belly that his mother has gotten as a “gift.” A-Mao’s childhood is free and happy.

WINNERS: August 2025 Toronto FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival

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A showcase of the best fantasy/sci-fi films from around the world today.

AUDIENCE AWARDS:
Best Feature Film: APPology
Best Short Film: The Nest
Best Direction: Ekorts
Best Performances: Liquid Love

APPology, 105min., Switzerland
Directed by Marco von Moos
5 very different friends embark on a journey to create the ultimate app that turns you into your perfect self, all controlled by an Artificial Intelligence.

https://www.instagram.com/marcovonmoos/

The Nest, 7min., Spain
Directed by Ignacio Rodó
It’s the first night he’s bringing someone home. But they must be quiet.

https://www.instagram.com/ignacio.rodo

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.

https://reisenbauer-film.com/ekorts

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.