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Watch Today’s Film Festival: Best of WILDsound Shorts December

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Watch the Film Festival HERE:  https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/best-of-wildsound-december

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 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:

HONORABLE, 16min., USA
Directed by Zachary Scott Clark, Mariah L. Richardson
Two months after he denounces the Nation of Islam and nine months before his assassination, MALCOLM X SHABAZZ has a chance encounter with his estranged brother and mentee MUHAMMAD ALI.

https://linktr.ee/Honorablefilm
https://www.facebook.com/Honorablefilm
https://www.instagram.com/honorablefilm/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-honorable


ALISHER’S GIFT, 16min,. USA
Directed by J Matt Wallace
An Uzbek and Kyrgyz blended family learns there are more than ethnic issues behind their historic misfortune. The recent death of their uncle Alisher prompts the delivery of gifts to a nephew and niece who learn important truths about both their recent and ancient past.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-alishers-gift

HEALING FOR THE NATIONS, 3min., Canada
Directed by Christopher Angus
An animated vignette built on dreams and visions for the nation of Canada.

http://www.attic-films.ca/https://twitter.com/attic_films

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-healing-for-the-nations


HOME SWEET HOME, 31min., USA
Directed by Stephan Looney
30 minute short-film documenting a group of close friends traveling to the director’s home state of West Virginia. An intimate and nostalgic look into friendship and roots.

https://www.youtube.com/@jpegstephan
https://instagram.com/jpegstephan

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-home-sweet-home

TRUE ROMANCE, 29min., Canada
Directed by Katherine Costal
A lovesick teenager tries to rekindle her relationship with a past boyfriend by inviting him to a surprise party, only to discover the harsh truth behind their romance and the love lives of the guests.

https://www.instagram.com/kat_costal/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-true-romance

GROCERY SHOPPING, 38min., USA
Directed by Harry Roseman
I am at the grocery store three to five times a week. It has become a ritual, picking out the items, going over the shopping list, interacting with the same people year after year. It seems to me, an important aspect of my and many other people’s lives. Something utterly familiar. Though filmed it becomes somewhat mysterious, seen anew, to be rethought about.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-grocery-shopping

Today’s Novel Deadline: WOMEN’S FICTION Festival

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Submit your WOMEN’S FICTION Book by the deadline.

Submit on the submission page here: https://femalefilmfestival.com/womens-fiction-novel-festival/

Women’s fiction is a broad term for books that center on women’s experiences and are marketed to female readers.

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.

Submit a novel book and get it seen by the world.

A great way to get your words out there, obtain the agent you’re looking for, or just get your story seen by more people. If you win, your story will be seen by 100,000s of people when it’s read online using a top professional actor. It’s a rush you’ll never experience in your life seeing it come to life that way.

Today’s Screenplay Deadline: BLACK Screenwriters Festival

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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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Watch the 1st scene script reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urypTjeGVRY

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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Watch the Film Festival HERE:  https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/watch-skategoat-doc-feature

Go to the Daily Film Festival Platform http://www.wildsound.ca and sign up for the free 7 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/

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/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-skategoat

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)