Watch Today’s FREE Film Festival: DRAMA Shorts Festival

Watch the festival NOW for the next 48 hours by signing up for the FREE 3-DAY trial using the link, or go to http://www.wildsound.ca

Watch today’s Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/drama-shorts-festival

Hug Me, 19min., Spain
Directed by M. Carmen Sánchez
Dalia lives on her birthday. Everyone hugs her, everyone ignores her…

https://www.instagram.com/mv.audiovisuales/

Therapy, 10min,. Spain
Directed by M. Carmen Sánchez
“Therapy” deals with the day-to-day life of a woman, Lola, who feels neglected by her husband, Manolo, and thinks that, through therapy with her psychologist, she can fix the situation.

Summer Turns to Fall, 1min., Canada
Directed by David Creighton
This micro-short, black and white animated film, is dedicated to suicide awareness, and those who are left behind.

The Touch, 13min., Croatia
Directed by Marko Visković, Erik Kyle Lončar
After just being informed about her sister’s death, Dolores spends the evening alone waiting for her husband to return home from a business trip. What was supposed to be a tear-soaked night turns into a surreal experience that will challenge our heroines view on life, death and family.

LOVEBIRDS, 4min., USA
Directed by Maria Corso
Betty and Ray, a wild couple on the run, live fast and love hard while staying one step ahead of the law. With their lives on the line and a clean getaway just out of reach, they attempt one more job — one which may cost them more than they can afford.

Watch ANIMATION Shorts Fest (in case you missed)

Watch the festival NOW for the next 48 hours by signing up for the FREE 3-DAY trial using the link, or go to http://www.wildsound.ca

Watch today’s Festival:  https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/animation-shorts-fest

INSIDE ALONE, 4min. Iran
Directed by Hossein Moradizadeh
Inside alone there is nothing. A black hole that smashes everything inside. Sometimes it’s a light star. Sometimes illusion and sometimes imagination. Such a world was created.

https://www.instagram.com/mora.films/

ONE GIANT WADDLE, 8min., USA
Directed by Kevin Jones
A group of penguins watching the moon landing gets jealous of the astronauts’ constant bragging about taking giant steps. While the penguins watching are stuck on Earth, with gravity keeping their steps so tiny that their walking style is mockingly referred to as waddling.

IF I WERE A PONY, 4min., USA
Directed by Leonard Eckhaus
If I Were a Pony by Leonard Eckhaus is the story of a boy and his pony told from the Pony’s perspective. The pony and the boy share many adventures. They ride across streams; they ride with friends and sometimes they just enjoy each other’s company.

VIPER PRODUCTS, 2min., Canada
Directed by David Creighton

Tornado: War of the world, 15min., Iran
Directed by Majid Frazolanhi
An alien race attacks another planet and after destroying it, attacks Earth with its spaceships. One of the ships destroys cities using a large tornado. In another place, the ships destroy buildings with lasers. The armies of countries fight against the aliens. While a gate opens and many spaceships attack Earth. Godzilla enters and calls on the superheroes of Earth.

https://www.instagram.com/majidfarzolahi

Today’s Submittable Deadines: August 13, 2025

See the full list of upcoming deadlines: https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit

BODY IMAGE Poetry Contest – Final Deadline – FREE

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/298440/body-image-poetry-contest-final-deadline


1pg. MUSICAL SCREENPLAY Contest (everyone wins)

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/331503/1pg-musical-screenplay-contest-everyone-wins


1pg. FEMALE WRITERS SHORT STORY Contest (everyone wins)
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/331447/1pg-female-writers-short-story-contest-everyone-wins


MELODRAMA STAGE PLAY Writing Contest (get play performed by professional actors)
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/331394/melodrama-stage-play-writing-contest-get-play-performed-by-professional-actors


BIOGRAPHY Short Story Contest 6000-8000 words (everyone wins)
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314822/biography-short-story-contest-6000-8000-words-everyone-wins


BIOGRAPHY Short Story Contest 0-2000 words (everyone wins)
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314818/biography-short-story-contest-0-2000-words-everyone-wins


BIOGRAPHY Short Story Contest 4000-6000 words (everyone wins)
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314820/biography-short-story-contest-4000-6000-words-everyone-wins


BIOGRAPHY Short Story Contest 2000-4000 words (everyone wins)
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314819/biography-short-story-contest-2000-4000-words-everyone-wins


LGBTQ+ Novel Video Transcript Reading
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314044/lgbtq-novel-video-transcript-reading


LGBTQ+ 1st Chapter Novel Festival
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314043/lgbtq-1st-chapter-novel-festival


LGBTQ+ Full Novel Festival
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/314041/lgbtq-full-novel-festival


Today’s Writing Deadlines: August 13, 2025

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

BIOGRAPHY Short Story Festival (everyone wins):

A biography is a written account of a person’s life that tells the story of their experiences, accomplishments, and challenges. The word “biography” comes from the medieval Greek words bios, meaning “life”, and graphia, meaning “writing”.

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.


LGBTQ+ Novel Festival (3 options to submit):

Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.

NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published.


LGBTQ+ 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.

Today’s 5 FIVE FilmFreeway Testimonial: ACTION/CRIME/MYSTERY Film & Screenplay Festival

Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:

I can’t express how glad I am that I submitted to The Action/ Crime/ Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival! It’s been a fantastic experience all around! The format and organization make it streamlined and simple to participate in, they offer benefits that I’ve never seen at other festivals, and their process and assessment are well-rounded and fair. This will be my go-to festival from here on out!

August 2025 ENVIRONMENTAL Film & Screenplay Festivals

Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:

Thank You – Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival

I’m honored that the Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival selected Polar Break.

This project was born out of a deep concern for what is unfolding in the Arctic.

Thank you for recognizing a story that’s as much about survival as it is about sacrifice. To be included alongside other filmmakers and screenwriters committed to telling urgent, grounded environmental narratives means a great deal to me as a screenwriter.

Grateful for your support and platform.


It was an amazing festival; I loved the screenplay, reading, and any festivals that supported the environment.


It was an honour to win best short here – Matthew and the team really care and take the time! The addition of the viewer feedback was great and something that you don’t really see elsewhere. Keep up the good work!


Thank you so much for showcasing (PLASTIK) – the team absolutely loved receiving all the feedback and we are so happy to win the BEST MICRO-SHORT! We hope that more people will be drawn to watch our “small but mighty” film and remember that people are the problem but also the solution to the plastic pollution crisis.

Turning 63 Today: John Slattery

  • My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.
  • I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.
  • Let’s face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
  • I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
  • I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

Turning 61 Today: Debi Mazar

About Madonna: “She’s a dear old friend, so seeing her at the Evita (1996) premiere was a high point. She never looked more beautiful, glamorous and happy” (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).

My mom had me at 16, and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock–it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother’s house…I had a little attitude.

Happy Birthday to Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980)

To me, Psycho (1960) was a big comedy. Had to be.

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

I don’t understand why we have to experiment with film. I think everything should be done on paper. A musician has to do it, a composer. He puts a lot of dots down and beautiful music comes out. And I think that students should be taught to visualize. That’s the one thing missing in all this. The one thing that the student has got to do is to learn that there is a rectangle up there – a white rectangle in a theater – and it has to be filled.