Today’s Screenplay Deadline: BLACK Screenwriters Festival

Submit your screenplay that’s written by a black writer and/or the main character(s) are black, to the festival.

Submit your screenplay here: https://blackfeedbackfilmfestival.com/black-screenwriters-festival/

FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants. Get your entire script performed at the writing festival.

SUBMIT your FEATURE, TV PILOT or SHORT SCREENPLAY.

Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays from all over the world.


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.)

1st Tier: FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay (all submissions)

2nd Tier: Accepted scripts (25% on average of submitted entries) get the best scene of their screenplay performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.

3rd Tier: We will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film.

4th Tier: Then we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where we will promote the winning writer and script./p>

(BONUS: 5th Tier. A winning screenwriter’s WhatsApp group has just been formed. Over 50 writers to date. Great way to share ideas and contacts with people in the industry.)

Today’s Podcast: EP. 1389 – Screenwriters Drew Henriksen, Ken Hewski (BOZ: Bikers of Oz)

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After a twister rips a biker bar from its foundation, two rival biker gangs crash land in the mythical land of L. Frank Baum’s tales. Thinking they know the story, the two foes quickly unite, but encounter forces that they don’t know as well as they thought. In this Adult Swim style animated show, think of Sons of Anarchy surviving the twisted land of Oz. May also be live action.


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Watch Today’s Festival: Documentary Feature Film, SKATEGOAT, 84min., Australia

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SKATEGOAT, 84min., Australia
Directed by Van Alpert
Leandre Sanders was born in Venice Beach, LA, into a world of gangs and crime. While his older brothers joined the family gang life, Leandre spent his time at Venice Beach skatepark with his younger brother Leontay. He caught the eye of filmmaker Van
Alpert.

https://www.skategoatfilm.com/

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Turning 62 Today: Ralph Fiennes. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1962 · Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Birth name
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

Spouse
Alex Kingston(September 5, 1993 – October 28, 1997) (divorced)

QUOTES:

My parents were very financially-challenged. All of us children have the memory of being told that there was no money, we have to sell this, there’s no presents for Christmas. Of being in the front line of that constant worry; the atmosphere in the home always charged with anxiety. ‘What do we do? What do we do?’

[on directing himself in The Invisible Woman (2013)] I’ve loved being able to be, as it were, the puppet master of my own performance. I love that. But you need people to give you good, constructive, critical feedback. It’s crazy. It’s very, very hard. I don’t know how people do it consistently and do it well – like Orson Welles did, or Laurence Olivier did, Clint Eastwood does. Kevin Costner’s done it. There’s no question that you’ve got two often opposing headspaces which you have to balance.

[on doing full frontal nudity in A Bigger Splash (2015)] I liked [the nudity] because it was in the service of illustrating extreme spontaneity in Harry’s character. All my nude scenes are extremely spontaneous and appropriate for the situations in which my character is. My nudity is a function of the film’s plot. I knew I’d run around naked, so I had to physically prepare, to tighten the muscles.

[on A Bigger Splash (2015)] I’d never been asked to play a guy who dances and gets naked and sings karaoke! I don’t believe I ever played a part like Harry… It was a very special kind of film.

When you meet women, don’t pretend to be anything that you’re not.

Turning 46 Today: Joanne Kelly. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22 · Bay d’Espoir, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

QUOTES:

I’m a troglodyte. I think that’s the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

I’m a child of the literary bent. I don’t want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

I watch ‘House of Cards,’ which was great. I don’t watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it.

It’s a fine line we walk on ‘Warehouse 13.’ We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble.

I try to stay away from all the blogs and messages boards.

Happy Birthday: Peggie Castle(1927-1973)

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Born
December 22, 1927 · Appalachia, Virginia, USA

Died
August 11, 1973 · Hollywood, California, USA (cirrhosis of the liver)

Birth name
Peggy Thomas Blair

Spouses
Arthur Sylvan Morgenstern Sr.(October 17, 1970 – April 30, 1973) (his death)
William McGarry(July 24, 1955 – January 1970) (divorced, 1 child)
Robert Hilton Rains(January 4, 1951 – April 29, 1954) (divorced)
Revis T. Call(August 19, 1945 – 1951) (divorced)

Turning 42 Today: Shioli Kutsuna. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1992 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Shioli won the 11th Japan Bishojo Contest in 2006. This award honors the most beautiful young girl in Japan. Her first role came the following year when she was a member of the cast of 3 Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei 8, which was a TBD TV school drama. Two years later she achieved a main character role for the serial Tsugumi Nitobe in 7 Mannin Tantei Nitobe. In that year she also appeared in her first movie, Guardian Angel. Her appearance in Back Pages garnered her the 85th Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress in 2010.

Turning 42 Today: Brooke Nevin. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1982 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birth name
Brooke Candice Nevin

QUOTES:

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There’s a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it’s definitely an escapist form of entertainment.

I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.