History is a narrative that describes, analyzes, and questions past events, and examines the patterns of cause and effect. It’s a collection of stories told by many different people, and is subject to constant revision and reinterpretation.
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Accept only stories that fit into the HISTORY genre.
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It was great to participate in this festival and an incredible honor to be awarded with Best Performances for our film Last Dance. I love that you receive a video with audience reactions, I believe that is one of the best things about the festival, it is a nice touch and something you can keep for your records and social media ,etc. Communication was really clear with follow up prior and after the festival. Really really happy to have been part.
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Amidst holiday chaos, Gaby and Fitz embark on a road trip to a spiritualist commune to confront Gaby’s estranged Aunt Tibby, leading to family revelations, spiritual meltdowns awakenings, and unexpected bonding.
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Get to know the writers:
What is your screenplay about? Truth Falls is a holiday film about a family secret slowly and hilariously coming to light during the most wonderful time of the year. When Gaby loses her parents in an accident, she learns that her new-age, enlightened Aunt Tibby has been made the executor of her estate. Gaby and her best friend Fitz are forced to leave their swanky Chicago lifestyle for a spiritualist camp, Truth Falls, in Oklahoma to confront Tibby and demand her inheritance.Gaby gets more than she bargained for when she learns there’s way more to her family story than she was told. Like, WAY more… We learn that Tibby is Gaby’s birth mother. This secret has been buried for decades. This is a Film about what happens when a family secret slowly, painfully, and hilariously comes to light causing spiritual meltdowns and epic holiday awakenings.
. What genres does your screenplay fall under? Christmas Comedy
Why should this screenplay be made into a movie? We wanted to write a movie that dug into what the holidays are really about – Family DRAMA. All great stories are about family. The inspiration for Truth Falls was to have a comedy that stems from your deepest secrets and wounds because those are the best stories people can see themselves in. We love a frothy, fun holiday movie and we thought – hey let’s do both. It can be fun, sad, tragic, and hilarious. Most holiday movies don’t look anything like what people experience. We all have family secrets – what better time to unwrap them than at Christmas? Truth Falls is an anti Hallmark Movie.
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Born
January 9, 1995 · Rye, New York, USA
Birth name
Nicola Anne Peltz
Spouse
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham(April 9, 2022 – present)
QUOTES:
My role is “Katara” in The Last Airbender (2010), I’m a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that’s what I thought I was going to do – be an ice-hockey player.
When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard – and now she’s super supportive.
You see people, you judge. It’s just the human thing to do – good or bad, it’s a fact. Like when you get a coffee at Starbucks and the person is rude to you. My mom always says, ‘Yeah, but you don’t know what kind of day they’re having.’ You don’t know the back-story, and that’s why it’s so fun to be an actor and to get into the back-story.
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Born
January 9, 1989 · Sofia, Bulgaria
Birth name
Nikolina Dobreva
QUOTES:
I did Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001) for four years. It was my constant; no matter what movie I would go on hiatus or whatever I would do elsewhere, every year I would always go back to “Degrassi”, to my family, and they really sort of taught me all the groundwork and got me started. Before that I was really green, I didn’t know what I was doing, so it kind of helped ease my path into the whole industry.
[on working on The Vampire Diaries (2009)] There were daily challenges, there were yearly challenges, there were character challenges. The whole show was challenging in different ways throughout the six years. The multiple characters, the hours, creating characters, deaths. I was constantly crying, it felt like. But for that reason it kept me occupied, I was never bored, it never felt stale. I always came to work excited, and looking forward to the next thing I got to do. It was almost like actor boot camp, or a college experience. I started college in real life, but I never finished. I went to high school in real life, and then went to “Degrassi” high school, and then four years as Elena–12 years is a long time to go to school. I need to graduate! I’m ready now. I’m ready to go into the real world. I’ve literally grown up on this show. I was a baby when I started, and now I’m a woman. I feel like I’ve learned so much and have grown so much because of every single person, and every single character, and person I’ve worked with. They made me who I am, and I’m excited to apply that to the next chapter.
People aren’t defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.
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Born
January 9, 1987 · Galway, Ireland
Birth name
Nicola Mary Coughlan
QUOTES:
It’s so reductive to women when we’re making great strides for diversity in the arts, but questions like that [regarding weight] just pull us backwards.
Every time I’m asked about my body in an interview it makes me deeply uncomfortable and so sad I’m not just allowed to just talk about the job I do that I so love.
I’m not a body-positivity activist, I’m an actor. I would lose or gain weight if an important role requirement. My body is the tool I use to tell stories, not what I define myself by.
You know, it is hard ’cause I think women with my body type, women with perfect breasts-we do not see ourselves onscreen enough. I am very proud as a member of the perfect-breasts community. I hope you enjoy seeing them.
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Born
January 9, 1983 · Tipperary, Ireland
QUOTES:
I’m not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.
Everyone at home thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to be an actress, and I’m sure they were just trying to protect me from disappointment.
I am an animal rights campaigner myself, and I donate money and time to those charities, but I think sometimes the problem with animal rights campaigners, including myself, is that we don’t think about people’s feelings, too.
I know it’s superficial, and you can’t measure art, which is supposed to be up to the individual, but I’ve watched the Oscars since I was a baby with my mother.
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Born
January 9, 1955 · Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
Birth name
Jonathan Kimble Simmons
Spouse
Michelle Schumacher (1996 – present) (2 children)
QUOTES:
[on his career] If I had any other talent or salable commodity I probably would have gone into it. I mean, aside from the modelling, yeah.
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
I’m not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it’s well done, I’m a fan.
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become the character and they don’t notice me and that the play happens or the movie happens or the television show happens.
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See the Full Lineup of Films:
THE FIRST NIGHT, 21min., Czech Republic
Directed by Silvia Gregorova
A tragicomedy based on the eponymous short story by Luigi Pirandello, which was first published in 1900. While the original story takes place in Sicily, the plot of this film adaptation is set in a contemporary Czech village. Due to various family interests, the young violinist Ani?ka and the widowed, aging gravedigger František are forced into an unwanted marriage by their relatives. We thus follow a story about loneliness, about love beyond the grave, but also about trying not to resent life and learning to move on, even though the loss of our loved ones still hurts.
HORROR NIGHT, 9min., Greece
Directed by Natasha Smyrnaiou
Emily is watching a thriller movie. She is influenced and identifies so much that confused with reality.
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EKATERINA – DAYS OF CHANGE, 30min,. Bulgaria
Directed by Teodora Petrova
The significant and outstanding women in our history are rarely mentioned in textbooks, while their actions are greatly inspiring and deserve to be remembered.
https://www.facebook.com/ekaterina.karavelova.film
FENCE, 13min., Iraq
Directed by Sakar Othman Hassan
A Kurdish survivor of the “Anfal” Genocide returns to his village to rebuild his life, confronting haunting memories of his past.
https://instagram.com/sakar_osman_
BEWILDERNESS, 4min., South Africa
Directed by Nkhensane Mhishi
Bert, a lumberjack, works hard at chopping down the new forest before him. Between chopping down trees, he piles his lumber sky high, disturbs the natural wildlife, and desecrates the clean land with litter and trash. As he gets closer to the forest’s core, he sees a flower that blasts hallucinogenic pollen into his face. Bert loses his bearing on reality and is lured deeper into the forest he sought to destroy through an intense, psychedelic drug trip.
MASKS OF SANITY, 10min., Egypt
Directed by J.S. Wolfe, Juditta Salem
A film that depicts individuals with Cluster B Personality Disorders, how they impact each other, and themselves. The film acts as a space for them to share their inner dialogue.
https://involutionpublishing.com/
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TETHER, 7min,. USA
Directed by Kathy O Lofton
A woman athlete is forced to see life differently, after an assault that leads to visual impairment.
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“Really glad to be a part of this festival. My film The Story of Marjan The Bunny was chosen as the winner of Best Micro-Short. I like the communication of the festival team and that my film was screened online.”
