Today’s Writing Deadlines: July 23, 2025

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

BIOGRAPHY Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
https://storypitches.com/biography-novel-festival/

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”.

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


New York SCIENCE & NATURE Screenplay Festival:
https://environmentalfestival.com/science-and-nature-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


DEATH Short Story Festival – everyone wins:
https://storypitches.com/death-short-story-festival/

Submit your DEATH short story to the festival and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.

A death story is a narrative that describes how a loved one died, and may also include other parts of their life story. Death stories can be a way to uncover significant life events and are part of a person’s larger life story.

HORROR Underground Film & Screenplay Festival:

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: Female FEEDBACK Film Festival – 86 FIVE Star Reviews!

Deadline Today to submit via FilmFreeway. 86 FIVE Star Reviews!

The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent in film & TV from around the world.

In-person and hybrid screenings geared to enhance the exposure of the artists and their work.

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Film Festival (short & feature) occurs 12 times a year (every month) in Los Angeles and Toronto.

Accepted films get their films screened at 2 festivals. The Audience Feedback Festival, where you will receive a video of people’s reactions to your film. (Great asset to promote your movie.) Plus, the Film Festival Streaming Service Festival, where it will be seen by people in the industry and film fans.

We give each film and filmmaker their audience feedback video. An example is this year’s Oscar winner for Best Short Film, which played at our festival, I’m Not a Robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vApv7P3j3yM

With that, it’s a great promotion for your film and it helps you get into other festivals.

Plus, each filmmaker gets the opportunity to do two interviews to further promote them and their work. A blog interview and a podcast interview on the Film Festival iTunes show.

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Screenplay readings also take place EVERY SINGLE MONTH.

Every submission received full feedback on their script from an industry professional. Winning scripts get their script performed by professional actors and made into a video for you.


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THRILLER/SUSPENSE Festival 1st Scene: THE GARBAGE PATCH, by Jonathan Fear

A grieving oceanographer and his fearless research partner discover a rogue North Korean general has built a hidden nuclear missile base beneath the Pacific’s Great Garbage Patch and must outwit his deadly forces and sabotage the launch before millions die in an undetectable first strike.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morris
The Crowd/Man: Geoff Mays
Yoon: Steve Rizzo

THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: THE LANGUAGE OF WOLVES, by Nan Schmid

After being embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, which ends in tragedy, a journalist heads to rural Maine to fully recover and finds herself on the frontlines of another battle, between a family of wolves and the ruthless land developer who wants them hunted down.

After a comrade dies in a horrific incident on the frontlines in Afghanistan, a war correspondent, forced to take time off, travels to Maine, only to stumble upon a exotic-animal hunting resort that threatens the local wolf population. When two wolf pups come under her care, she risks everything to stop the corruption and return the wolves to their pack.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Joey: Val Cole
Mrs. Petrona/Wren: Hannah Ehman
David: Sean Ballantyne

THRILLER Best Scene Reading: EXECUTED AND RISEN, by Salvatore A. Bono

After a wrongful execution sends rock star, John Santo to the morgue, he rises from the dead, thinking he has a second chance to clear his name, but when he’s thrust into a life-and-death struggle to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Angela from renegade pastor, Sonny Romeo — Satan stands in John’s way, demanding his soul as recompense.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
John: Geoff Mays
Vicente: Shawn Devlin
Newscaster: Hannah Ehman

FANTASY/SCI-FI Festival Best Scene: OLIVER, AGAIN, by Robert Benjamin

After using a cutting-edge “memory machine” to relive the best moments of his past, Oliver Parks wakes in a timeline where he never met his wife and his daughter no longer exists — and to undo it, he must outsmart a rival genius, manipulate time itself, and convince the machine’s washed-up inventor — who no longer remembers building it — to help him undo the devastating consequences of a device that was actually a time machine.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Erica: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Oliver: Geoff Mays