Watch Today’s FREE Festival: WILDsound Best of Shorts Festival

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AL RAWDAH, 7min., Saudi Arabia
Directed by Yasser Mohamed Abdelsalam
Al-Rawdah (الروضة) is a cinematic visual experience that invites viewers into the sacred serenity of Al-Rawdah Al-Sharifah, the revered space within the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. With no dialogue, the film relies entirely on immersive visuals and an evocative score to reflect the deep spiritual essence of one of Islam’s holiest sites.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-al-rawdah

THE NATURE OF DEATH, 16min., USA
Directed by Sean Cruser
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.
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Today’s Writing Deadlines: August 19, 2025

Submit to these exciting festivals today. Festivals that offer feedback from the industry, plus performance videos.

FANTASY/SCI-FI Screenplay Festival:

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


MYSTERY Short Story Festival:

Submit your MYSTERY Short Story to the Festival here and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.

HISTORY Novel Festival:

History is a narrative that describes, analyzes, and questions past events, and examines the patterns of cause and effect. It’s a collection of stories told by many different people, and is subject to constant revision and reinterpretation.

3 options to submit: 1st chapter. full novel. performance reading.

ENVIRONMENTAL Film & Screenplay Festival:

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: FEEDBACK Toronto COMEDY Film Festival

Deadline Today to submit to the festival:

Since 2016, the FEEDBACK Film Festival has been showcasing the best of COMEDY directors, producers, writers, and actors at the festival in Toronto.

In-person and hybrid multiple screenings.

The Toronto Comedy Festival occurs every single month.

Various options to submit to the festival. A hybrid model.

– Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.

– Blog and podcast interviews. And a bonus virtual screening (optional!) geared to create community over distance, PLUS, get your film seen by the right people.

– Also option for live screening in Toronto (always sold out!) where you can attend for Q&A and audience reactions.

For FILMS:

Submit your short or feature film.
– NEW OPTION for guaranteed submission.

For SCREENPLAYS:

Submit your screenplay (feature, TV, short) and get full feedback no matter what from the industry. Winners get their script performed by professional actors.

– Also option to submit a 1-page script (guaranteed winner).

Another option is to submit your screenplay for a 10 day or less turnaround for your feedback.

Get your short film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get an audience video.

Offers filmmakers to get their works showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Then the filmmaker will receive an audience reaction video for their film.

Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Comedy Festival.


– 0ffers screenwriters, novelists, and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS.

Happy Birthday Matthew Perry (1969-2023)

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When I did ‘Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip’ I would look over and see Aaron Sorkin pacing around in the corner of the stage, mumbling to himself. I thought, Well, he’s crazy. And then I realized what he was actually doing was playing out the next week’s scenes as he was writing them. And that was intriguing to me. So now I’ve become one of the people that mumbles in the corner of the room.

Turning 60 Today: Kyra Sedgwick

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Also everyone’s hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You’re not doing it for the money; you’re not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material.

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn’t do them. And I don’t want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.

We [her and her husband, Kevin Bacon] don’t do what we do for awards, we do it for the pleasure of acting. However, I’d love to win an Oscar. I went to Susan Sarandon‘s. Her office has a small bathroom. All over the wall, all the way up, are her awards.

I enjoy fans coming over. I don’t do this job and then look to run away from people and hide behind security. I love what I do. If a good play came along I’d grab it, but what I really want is more films. I’m a workhorse actor.

Watch Today’s FREE Film Festival: WILDsound EUROPEAN Shorts Showcase

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THE LAST WISH, 14min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
On the threshold of the Supreme Court, everyone anxiously awaits the Decision about their fate. And only one strives to return to where a part of their soul remains…

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-last-wish-film

DOBRINA, 5min., Germany
Directed by Hannes Rall
Lotte Reiniger meets Sergio Leone in this animated short, where desire burns as bright as the desert sun.

https://wildsound.vhx.tv/videos/audience-feedback-dobrina

SMOLDERING SMOLDERING, 5min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
This song is about the faith of the Ukrainian people in victory and a bright future, and illustrates our present.

https://www.instagram.com/anna_khanina/

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-smoldering-smoldering

BELONG TO YOU, 6min., Iceland
Directed by Ísak Magnússon, Óliver Sólberg
Belong to you follows a swimming pool employee who thinks about his relationship with his coworker on a quiet night.

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-belong-to-you

Watch AN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE, 52min., France, Experimental/Documentary

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52′ documentary film
original music : Pierre Yves LENIK
A film by Hervé MARCOTTE
In July 2022, I brought together two sixteen-year-olds, Jeanne and Romain, in a house by the sea.
They didn’t know each other yet.
I was determined to take them seriously,
and make them live
with all their uncertainties and reserves,
an experience

in the world of beauty.

http://verissimusfilms.com/

Directed by HERVE MARCOTTE

Watch TAKE YOUR ZEN, 1min., Dance (new film on the platform)

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A talented ballerina uses her headphones to escape and find her voice as a performer.

Directed by Travon Trammell

Dancers: Cori Emmanuel, Olivia Hernando, Tracey Allyn Cutler, Titos Trescak