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.
Submit your Literary Fiction Book by the deadline.
Literary fiction is a 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.
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. (see examples on the video playlist below)
SUBMIT your novel now (both your 1st chapter or full novel accepted) To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events. Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation./span>
A great festival that makes any submission worth it. They go out of their way to get eyes on your film and you the chance to advertise it. This festival will be the first one I submit to for any future films.
When Andy discovers mid-coitus that her new beaux has a micro-penis, she rushes to her roommates who remind her that he’s thoughtful, adventurous, and way too hot to let go of. Besides, he’s had this Little Issue his whole life: he must know how to use it!
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VOETRY, 28min., Canada Directed by Affrica Spence This project captures the depth of filmed day to day moments, and the poetic confessions within them. Each rendition of spoken word poetry paints the picture of individual poets through a series of intimate stand alone short films. Characters explore poetry that inspires, advises, seeks truths and breaks through ever changing life lessons. Despite the variation amongst each poem, stands an undeniable connection to the human experience. This year’s Voetry edition walks us through four major themes; identity, trauma, resilience and love.
Born January 16, 1975 · Crossville, Tennessee, USA
Spouse Kevin Earley (September 25, 2001 – present)
QUOTES:
It’s true: I married my college sweetheart. We were so lucky to find each other at such a young age.
I’m not so sure I ‘like’ to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.
I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they can be remotely objective.
There can be a lot of waiting around on any film set.
Born January 16, 1980 · New York City, New York, USA
Spouse Vanessa Nadal Miranda (September 5, 2010 – present) (2 children)
QUOTES:
Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That’s what happened to my parents; that’s what happened to me.
[his favorite episode of The Twilight Zone (1959)] Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He’s great at playing that “I’m the only one sane in the world” character. What “Twilight Zone” did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil. In the best works of fiction, there’s no mustache-twirling villain. I try to write shows where even the bad guy’s got his reasons.
[Miranda’s June 15, 2008, acceptance speech (in the form of a freestyle rap) after winning a Best Score Tony Award for “In the Heights.” The speech contained a reference to an earlier piece of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim’s 1984 show Sunday in the Park with George–specifically, its song “Finishing the Hat,” in which an artist relates the difficulties of creating art and balancing his personal life to the act of painting a hat.]
Things haven’t been going great lately. For a while now people haven’t really been getting my movies. Certainly the box office hasn’t been up to speed. Sure, some of my recent stuff hasn’t been perfect, but neither has it been the shit that many have said. Critically, it’s all become a bit of a crapshoot. The critics thought I was a bum when I started out and they think I’m a bum now.
[on why he passed on Fatal Attraction (1987)] There wasn’t a grain of originality in it – it was Play Misty for Me (1971) with Michael Douglas filling in for Clint Eastwood. Also, the original version, the script I read, had Glenn Close winning in the end by killing herself and thereby getting the moral upper hand. I knew the audience was never going to buy that. The audience was always gonna want to see the wife shoot the bitch. Sure enough, they shot the original script, previewed it, got booed off screen and went back and shot the ending you see today. That was a journey I couldn’t be bothered to go on.
