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Today’s Writing Deadlines: April 18, 2025

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

HISTORICAL FICTION Short Story Festival (everyone wins):
https://festivalfordrama.com/historical-fiction-short-story-festival/

Submit your HISTORICAL FICTION 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.

A historical fiction story is a fictional story that takes place in the past and incorporates details about the time period to achieve authenticity. These details can include social norms, customs, traditions, and manners. Historical fiction stories can include actual historical figures or events, but the people and their actions are invented by the author.

CRIME/MYSTERY Novel Festival:
https://crimemysteryfestival.com/crimemystery-novel-festival/

Garner FULL FEEDBACK on your crime/mystery novel by our committee of industry professionals. Get a transcript reading of your book performed by professional actors at the Crime/Mystery Festival and made into a promotional video for your novel.

1st SCENE Screenplay Contest:
https://firstscenescreenplay.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.

HAIKU Poetry Contest – FREE:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/300711/haiku-poetry-contest

Also submit for a poetry video reading and/or poetry movie.

WILDsound Film & Screenplay Festival:

WILDsound Festival Testimonials: Voted Top 100 Festival in world today.

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Submit to the WILDsound Festival Today:

This festival was amazing. Wildsound is full of surprises is the best place to go if you want your script reviewed. They will even get actors to do a script read! Who does that! You rock WILDsound!!!! until next time:)
Best!

Thank you for the very helpful feedback on my screenplays.

Fantastic–particularly loved the audience feedback. It tracked so well with our positive Premiere screening feedback, and an area that was a little confusing, so we are tweaking just a bit to address. Thank you for the award also!

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According to reviews from real FilmFreeway users, your festival ranks in the top 1% of more than 14,000 film festivals and creative contests around the world. No doubt, this ranking is a testament to the countless hours of hard work and care that you and your staff have devoted to creating such a wonderful event.

We’re especially proud to be partnered with amazing events like yours that help independent film continue to thrive.

Thank you for the very helpful feedback on my screenplays.

Fantastic–particularly loved the audience feedback. It tracked so well with our positive Premiere screening feedback, and an area that was a little confusing, so we are tweaking just a bit to address. Thank you for the award also!

I am very satisfied with WILDsound FEEDBACK Film and Screenplay Festival and I would like to thank the audience of this festival for awarding my film The Story of Marjan the Bunny as the Best Micro-Short.

Today’s Writing Deadlines: April 17, 2025

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

PARANORMAL Screenplay Festival:

PARANORMAL Screenplay Festival – Deadline April 17th

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.

MAGICAL REALISM Short Story Festival (everyone wins):

MAGICAL REALISM Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance) – Deadline April 17th

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

Accept only stories that fit into the MAGICAL REALISM genre. Magical realism stories feature fantastical elements that seem ordinary and blend into the story.The focus is on what the magical elements mean for the characters, rather than the elements themselves.

LITERARY Fiction Novel Festival:

LITERARY FICTION Novel Festival (3 options to submit) – Deadline April 17th

Literary fiction isa category of novels that prioritize style, character, and theme over plot.It’s often considered to be more serious than genre fiction, which is commercial fiction written for entertainment.

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

1 Page Screenplay Contest (everyone wins):
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/297775/1pg-short-story-contest-everyone-wins

RHYME Poetry Contest – FREE:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/300710/rhyme-poetry-contest

Also submit for a poetry video reading and/or poetry movie.

ACTION/FANTASY/SCI-FI/THRILLER Festival:

Today’s Podcast: Actor/Writer Alexandre VU & Director Marc DAVID (PHANTOM QUARTZ)

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Phantom Quartz, 12min., France

Directed by Marc DAVID

Nolan Le, a former DGSE agent, aspires to lead an ordinary life with his daughter after several years of service, but fate intervened differently.

Interview with Alexandre VU (Writer/Actor) and Marc DAVID (Director)

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Watch Today’s Festival: SPELONK. 65min., South Africa, Fantasy/Sci-FI

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Watch Today’s Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/spelonk

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 3 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

Spelonk unfolds in a dystopian Cape Town in the year 2044, a world ravaged by climate collapse and social upheaval. At its heart is Dante, a disillusioned bounty hunter, grappling with the moral dilemmas of his task to hunt rebels fighting over scarce water supplies. His fateful encounter with Ophelia, a rebel leader with secrets that could change the world, sets the stage for a thrilling, emotional journey of redemption and revolution.

Inspired by South Africa’s “Day Zero” water crisis, the film’s themes resonate globally, addressing pressing issues like climate change, resource inequality, and moral leadership in times of crisis. Spelonk blends local folklore, steampunk aesthetics, and intense action to craft a narrative that is both culturally authentic and universally relevant.

http://www.splelonkfilm.com/https://www.instagram.com/directordes/

Director Statement
The world of Spelonk is one which we seldom see on
screens. The beautiful Cape Town that we know and
love, is transformed as the backdrop of the futuristic
apocalyptic film. The population has been broken
into tribes, clans, groups of people that stay
together to survive, based on functional needs.
Spelonk draws inspiration from diverse African
cultures, languages, and topical matters. I love the
African patterns, colours, and designs. Ancient
weapons, diverse fighting styles, unique costumes
and rich folk tales are the things I’m working with to
create the distant world of Spelonk. It is exciting to
create this action-packed futuristic movie, showing
for the first time post-apocalyptic South Africa.

Today’s Podcast: Screenwriter Maria Pearce (KAM60 The Butterfly Prince)

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Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xYkI__GTug

The butterfly prince is a story of a fictional character K.A.M.60 that attempt to honour the great French astronomer Charles Messier who developed the Messier catalogue and discovered many Messier objects in the sky in particular in the Virgo constellation. In the book K.A.M.60 real name is = Karlex Antoine Messier 60 and he is part of the Messier family. In real life The Messier 60 object is the twin/butterfly galaxies.

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What is your screenplay about?

The butterfly prince is a story of a fictional character K.A.M.60 that attempt to honour the great French astronomer Charles Messier who developed the Messier catalogue and discovered many Messier objects in the sky in particular in the Virgo constellation. K.A.M.60 real name is = Karlex Aristoteles Messier 60 and he is part of the Messier family. In real life The Messier 60 object is the twin/butterfly galaxies.

The plot is about jealousy, family feuds adventures and love. The constellations of Libra and Leo that are a couple have declared the war to the Virgo constellation just because of jealousy, they wiped out the Virgo constellation population. The only people left are the Messier family. They decided to send KAM60 (1) of their sons to the planet earth in a quest to find 10 virgins/maidens to married the 10 Messier brothers and repopulated the Virgo constellation again.

K.A.M.60 Embarks in a quest and very interested journey where he not only achieved his goals of find the correct Maidens whom married the Messier brothers, along the way he meets very interesting characters such as Centaurs, witches, Mythological creatures, Gods, zodiac constellations etc. He also lived the most amazing adventures rescuing, helping, curing, advising and even fighting for or with people once he lands in the planet Earth. Also, all the way the constellations of Libra and Leo (the bad guys on this plot) will do something to stop K.A.M.60 to achieve his goals but like a great hero he always defeats them.


Additional, despite that this is a fantasy book most of the heroes KAM60, the maidens etc are based in real people. People that inspired me and that I believe will inspire others. Example of these people are; Charles Messier, Juana Cruz the 1st female Spanish bullfighter, Magdalena Zeger the 1st female astronomer, Marie Jose Perec, the best French female sprinter, ancient civilizations such as the Mayans, the Olmecs, the Dahomey’s, the Vikings, The Amazon female warriors etc.

There are also some interesting twists in the story such as the inclusion of fake/false Maidens, the Emerald ring that determines which are the real maidens/virgins, the butterflies tattoos and character names (most maidens have a butterfly name and of course all of them must have a butterfly tattoo, like KHAM 60 also had one) there is plenty of adventures, magic, mysteries, suspense, drama, mystic, action, Love, friendship, team work etc Plus the stunning locations around the world where all these adventures occurs.

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Watch Today’s Festival: SCI-FI/FANTASY Shorts Festival. April 15/16 event

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Watch Film Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/scifi-fantasy-shorts-april-2025

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 3 day trial to watch a new and original festival every single day.

Go to the festival page directly and watch dozens of films:
https://www.wildsound.ca/todays-film-festival/

See the full lineup of films:

ELIZA, 11min., USA
Directed by Bianca Roth
After hitting rock bottom, 23 year old MIA, updates her home AI system to help turn her life around. What start out as small “life improvements” slowly begin to control her.

https://www.instagram.com/biancarothfilms

C-grade SF Movie, 3min., South Korea
Directed by Sangwook Ahn
Scoffing at prophecies of alien invasion, it wasn’t a grand space fleet that drove humanity to the brink of extinction. It was the cataclysm of Earth itself – skies choked with volcanic ash, mutant viruses running rampant – and the AI’s ruthless biochip surveillance network strangling survivors in ruined cities.

The Dandelion Girl, 19min., Canada
Directed by Rogan Loves
Mark, a middle-aged man encounters a young, mysterious woman, while staying at his cabin, who claims to be a time traveler from the future. Over the course of a few days, Mark and the young woman, Julie, begin to form a budding romance with one another. Mark is unhappy in his life, in a stale marriage, where he goes through the motions of living and work.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29895026/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

The Red Market, 9min., USA
Directed by Christopher Matthew Spencer
Zephyr Sage, drowning in debt, turns to the Global Organ Donor Exchange to sell his body parts. Facing ruthless creditors and a manipulative loan shark, Hyacinth, he treads a perilous path where each choice could cost more than money.

https://www.instagram.com/theredmarketfilm/

The Voice of Fear, 5min., Brazil
Directed by Henrique Arruda
In how many worlds has your fear trapped you? This film may not give you an answer, but it’ll show you some of mine.

https://instagram.com/filmesdemarte

April 2025 FEMALE Feedback Film Festival Testimonials!!

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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.

Deadline Today to submit via FilmFreeway:

You all are so much more than a film festival! You create a whole experience of getting “Hey Alexa” seen and reviewed. You share all of this, you have your podcast and blog…the list goes on and on in the ways that you help promote and inspire and keep up the positive experience! So glad I found you and applied, I had no idea what a fantastic experience it would be! Thank you!

There’s something very satisfying about hearing feedback from total strangers. It’s worth the submission fee to hear if the film is hitting the audience as intended. I’ve had 3 of my films in this festival, and will probably submit all future films. Thanks, FFFF, for providing this!

This is truly a remarkable and one of a kind film festival. It was so special and rewarding to receive and view the feedback video, and the communication from the festival team is outstanding. We have had a wonderful experience with FFFF. Thank you for voting A Life for Lily best short film at the festival! As an independent female filmmaker, I am so grateful for the support and encouragement. Thank you again.

What an amazing festival. To hear feedback directly from a real audience is just priceless. And so many opportunities to get yourself heard. Communication was excellent and I’m definitely going to submit my next film again with this team.

OMG, I won the Best Long Form Short Film!!!! Thank you FEEDBACK Female Film Festival for choosing my first film ‘True Believers At The Insurrection’ This unique festival gives you actual feedback from viewers!!!! Just watched the reel on youtube. I’m so moved that people took the time to watch my film validated the reason I made it. Inspires me to keep going. THANK YOU FROM NEW YORK!!!

Today’s Writing Deadlines: April 16, 2025

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

EXPERIMENTAL Short Story Festival (everyone wins):

EXPERIMENTAL Short Story Festival (automatic acceptance) – Deadline April 16th

Accept only stories that fit into the experimental genre. An experimental story is a narrative that challenges traditional storytelling conventions and explores new concepts and representations of the world. Experimental stories often use innovative language, non-traditional narrative structures, and metafiction to create unconventional and complex stories.

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.

DYSTOPIAN Screenplay Festival:

DYSTOPIAN Screenplay Festival – Deadline March 16th

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.

PARANORMAL Novel Festival:

PARANORMAL Novel Festival (3 ways to submit) – Deadline April 16th

A paranormal story is a work of fiction that explores phenomena and beings that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding. They include elements like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, and other entities that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. They can be set in the real world, but generally includes elements that defy scientific explanation.

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

COMEDY Poetry Contest – FREE to enter:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/300709/comedy-poetry-contest

Also submit for a poetry video reading and/or poetry movie.

FEMALE Feedback Film & Screenplay Festival: