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Today’s Podcast: EP. 1552: Filmmaker Peter Schackl-Horn & Anthony Graf (sustAIn)

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sustain, 5min., Austria
Directed by Peter Schakl
sustAIn is the Idea to combine sustainibility and artificial intelligence. Openess is to show generally ideas of sustainibility.

https://www.instagram.com/peter.shackl.horn

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Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?

First in 1994 I was awarded with this multifunctional furniture at a competition of 500 Architecture students named „Openess“ – called by the famous Architect and Designer Mark Mack from Los Angeles, USA!
In 2024 I was awarded by the jury of the Vienna Design Week and the furniture was presented at the exhibition! There occured the idea to show the multifunctionality and the idea of „Openess“ also as open minded, cradle to cradle, upcycling, so sustainability in general… with a short movie!

And then all together to show a senseful usage of AI!

From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

It took from the first Design in 1994, the exhibition at the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK in 2024 finally to the realized Short Film, the finished product, in 2025.

How would you describe your film in two words!?

Sustainability & AI

What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?

There haven`t been any obstacles at all!

What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?

Completely overwhelming and really touching!

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Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: FEEDBACK Film & Screenplay Festivals

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Deadline to Submit:

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.

Watch Today’s FREE Festival: Female Festival Feature Winner: PETTY THIEF GIRL

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FREE festival starts at 8pm EST tonight at http://www.wildsound.ca/browse

Watch the festival here: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/female-festival-feature-winner-petty-thief-girl

PETTY THIEF GIRL, 102min., Spain
Directed by Alicia Bel Benet
After losing her father, Isabel, a 17-year-old girl, must move and start from scratch at a high school where she suffers from bullying. There, she meets Lola, a troubled teenager forced by her family to sell drugs and commit crimes. Isabel and Lola must team up to get ahead. Together, they forge a close friendship and eventually discover love.

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Watch the FEMALE Directors Shorts Festival (in case you missed it)

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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/female-directors-shorts-festiv

AIRBORNE ABYSS, 3min., Bangladesh
Directed by Soumya Shah
As the world suffocates, a helpless father fights desperately to keep his family breathing.

Together with ALS: a wife’s perspective, 25min., USA
Directed by Kimber Leigh, Diane Dresback Dresback
ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, affects thousands each year, but the true impact extends far beyond the diagnosis.

(French) Stories from my window, 4min., UK
Directed by Marie Chiriac
Super short poetry film about one possible end of the world and love.
Contemplative perspective on what makes this world beautiful and worth saving is love, as this realm being the backdrop and anchor of a universal love story.

https://www.instagram.com/addicted.to.lines

If I Were a Carpenter, 2min., Canada
Directed by Elizabeth Lewis
This hand drawn animated film is based on the classic song If I Were a Carpenter and sung by the great Bobby Darin. How can love conquer the social divide? This film is a tender slightly tongue in cheek story of how love can transform us and ultimately bridge our differences.

Wall unit, 10min., Poland
Directed by Joanna Polak
A ramshackle wall unit is a symbol of the monotonous life of a certain 40-year-old man living in a grey, dirty post-communist block of flats district. Right after his birthday, suffering from the midlife crisis, the man decides to change his dull and routine-based existence. Alas, his wife stands in the way

HOUSE, 6min., Afghanistan
Directed by Zainab Entezar
A female individual is actively seeking a residential property for rent within the Kabul region. However, despite her diligent efforts, she has not yet been able to secure a suitable dwelling for shelter.

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1551: Filmmaker/Musician Justin Gray (IMMERSED – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray)

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Immersed – A Cinematic Immersive Album by Justin Gray, 60min,. Canada

Directed by Justin Gray, Michael Fisher

Justin Gray’s Immersed is a groundbreaking cinematic album that transforms how audiences experience music. Composed, recorded, and produced as an immersive audio experience, the album features 38 artists from Toronto and around the globe, placing listeners at the center of a three-dimensional global orchestra.

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Today’s Writing Deadlines: July 30, 2025

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

POLITICAL Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
https://politicalfeedbackfestival.events/political-novel-festival/

Political narrative is a term used in the humanities and political sciences to describe the way in which storytelling can shape fact and effect understandings of reality.

MYSTERY Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
https://crimemysteryfestival.com/crimemystery-novel-festival/

The Fastest Growing CRIME/MYSTERY Festival and Contest in the World today!

THRILLER/SUSPENSE Short Story Festival:
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com/thriller-short-story/

Submit your THRILLER/SUSPENSE 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.

FAMILY Screenplay Festival:
https://festivalforfamily.com/

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

ROMANCE Screenplay Festival:
https://festivalforromance.com/

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

Experimental/Dance/Music Festival:

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: HORROR Underground Film Festival

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Deadline Today to Submit via FilmFreeway:

Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. In-person screenings.

Cinema screenings for audience feedback video (this is NOT an online festival).

Blog and podcast interviews.

And bonus virtual screening (optional!) geared to create community over distance,

Also, option for 2nd in-person screening for filmmaking to attend to do audience Q&A and feedback session. Even is ALWAYS sold out.

PLUS, get your film seen by the right people.

Festival designed to expose and promote films and screenplays that work outside the system and break the boundaries in the horror genre. To bring a voice to the talented independent filmmakers & writers within the horror genre.

Submit your Horror films and screenplays today to the festival.

Our mission is to promote screenplays, films, and videos that dissent radically in form, technique, or content and challenge and transcend commercial and audience expectations using the audience FEEDBACK festival format that the flagship festivals use.

Our film festival occurs at least 10 times a year in Montreal and Los Angeles. Each accepted film receives 2 festival screenings (and an optional 3rd). Private cinema screening where they will receive their audience feedback video. And the virtual screening (4-6 weeks later) that is an industry showcase of the best HORROR films from around the world today.

Screenplay festivals occur once a month. We perform a transcript script video of the winners in a studio using professional actors and post them online for the entire world to see. (Great proof of concept video to use to promote your script.)

NOTE: Accepted works also get the opportunity to do two interviews: a blog interview and an iTunes Film Festival podcast interview.

Watch THE WICKLOW’S WITCHES short film (new film on the platform)

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Watch Film Here: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch-the-wicklow-s-witches

The story talks about the bond between two women from different background and generation: an old witch and a little girl.

Submerged in a beautiful Irish landscape, the story is colored with magic potions, formulas, orations and picturesque scenario.

The story of the two protagonists, will transfer emotions through the common thread of a narrative voice and with the human and real voices of the 2 characters, emphasized by beautiful animated images generated with the Artificial Intelligence

Through this emotional video-tale, the author wants to focus the attention on the values that lay on true friendship and real respect among the people

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Directed by Francesca Stangoni

Cast: Antonella Loi, Silvia Ambrosini, Silvia Sorrentino