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Watch Today’s Film Festival: HORROR Shorts Festival

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Watch Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/november-horror-shorts

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:

REPLACED, 5min,. USA
Directed by Nicholas Campbell
Depressed college student Sam attempts to reach out to her mother in the afterlife but welcomes something else instead.

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

IVANIA, 12min., Spain
Directed by Luigi Abanto
Michael (45). He is a camera repair technician. One day an old Voightländer camera comes into his hands to repair it. When he turns it on, he discovers that the camera captures the presence of a woman who lives in the same space and time as Miguel, although in another dimension.

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

DARK ROOM, 11min., USA
Directed by Rogelio Robles
After losing everything, a man slowly and painfully loses his mind right before your eyes. Becoming the serial killer he was destined to be.

https://www.instagram.com/roy_horror_director/

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

THE APPARITION, 4min., Canada
Directed by Kieran Persaud
After receiving a call from a distressed mother, A priest goes to perform a house blessing in hopes to rid the home of intruding spirits.

https://www.instagram.com/kieran_persaud_/

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

CHERRY ON TOP, 15min., Brazil
Directed by Laura Reis
A girl with a bunny head tries to escape from her hunted reality when she discovers a group of colorful and hungry girls to be a part of…but things are not as sweet as it seems

https://www.instagram.com/cerejadobolofilme/

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

Watch BONUS Festival: International STUDENT Film Festival

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Watch Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/november-international-student-festival

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:

AXINOS, 5min., Greece
Directed by Anna Maria Kakona, Calliopi Villy Kotoula
A little girl tries her best to protect her beloved sand sea turtles from the busy summer beach.

THE SLAUGHTERHAUS, 9min., Chili
Directed by Gonzalo Sepulveda
Based on a Nicanor Parra poem, A dystopian thriller about Meat Consumption and Global Warming.

http://www.cinando.com/cintamanifilms
https://www.facebook.com/cintamanifilms
https://www.twitter.com/cintamanifilms

DISENTANGLE, 14min., Bolivia
Directed by Andrea Estéfany Caballero
“Paskay” is an animated short made in Stop Motion and digital Cut-Out, that tells the story of Candelaria (20) and José (21), young people from a community in the Andean highlands, whose friendship and possible romance is interrupted by the sudden death of José. One afternoon, Candelaria falls asleep. In her dream, Candelaria looks out into the lagoon and sees the soul of José inside the World of the Dead, but realizes that she can not reach it and José can not get out. Candelaria cries in frustration. An Andean belief says that one should not cry too much to the dead, or they will not be allowed to rest in peace and will be caused them suffering. How can Candelaria get over the death of José?

https://www.facebook.com/andrea.caballero.58152/

CYPRESS SLEEP, 15min., Turkey
Directed by Leila Norouzi Hasanbarough, Eren Uğur
PhD student Zechariah sets off to a historical cemetery in the countryside with his lover Seda for his thesis research. On the way, they bump into something they are not aware of. This creates an enigma between the two characters. Seda will make an important decision on this journey

https://www.instagram.com/cypress_sleep/

NO PLACE FOR REST, 15min,. Chili
Directed by Cristobal Lopez
Héctor, a villager in southern Chile disconnected from his family, avoids assisting Rosa, his mother who lies prostrate, leaving her in the care of her sister Elena, who neglects her own existence because she has to take care of her. From her bed Rosa sees how time passes and how her daughter is consumed with her. Rosa will devise a plan underground, which will change the roles of the house forever.

FORGOTTEN FLAME, 17min,. Serbia
Directed by Mike Somov
Two strangers accidentally meet each other near the metro station in the morning and start discussing the muzzled dog’s fate. Each one of these three is lonely, and their encounter can give them a chance to fill up holes in their lives. Nevertheless, some of them can lose this opportunity because of fear of getting lost in abandonment even more.

https://www.facebook.com/somov.is.me/
https://www.instagram.com/somov.is.me

NGEN, 23min., Chili
Directed by Jaime Bernardo Diaz Diaz
Ngen is a documentary that, through a contemplative and dreamlike journey, shows us the world of Rosa, a Mapuche machi from the town of Fin Fin Boroa, Araucanía Region. Through her story and the observation of her environment, she brings us closer to the deep relationship that exists between her, medicine and non-human beings called Ngen, owners of nature.

LA CHIMBA, 26min,. Chili
Directed by Víctor Villegas Campillo
Patrimonial ethnographic documentary that highlights our history, from the Pre-Columbian era, specifically how those territories were inhabited and how it was transformed into an important commercial sector until today.

Happy Birthday Stephanie Hsu

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Quote from Hollywood Reporter interview:

So it was 2019 and I was playing the female lead in this Broadway show called Be More Chill. And simultaneously, I was shooting season three of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. So it was a really crazy year for me. I was doing eight shows a week, and on Mondays, I was filming for Maisel, while on top of that, doing press. And then Maisel wrapped and Be More Chill closed around the same time. I had lived in New York for 11 years and I was starting to feel like, “Oh, I think I’m ready for some change.” But first, I knew that my friend Bowen Yang was doing a show called Nora from Queens, and this was before Bowen was announced on SNL. I don’t think he even got it yet, but he was doing Nora from Queens. And I was like, “Well, Bowen and I used to do comedy together in college. I’m sure there’s a dumb role available for me on that show…” So I did episode 108 and played a character named Shu Shu. And episode 108 just so happened to be directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert [Daniels]. Daniel Scheinert tells this story of when I walked into the audition room for that role, we all kept giggling as if we had been friends forever, and he was thinking in his head, “Stop embarrassing us, this is a work setting!” So even though we had only known each other for five minutes, we immediately had this very art-soulmate connection. And we had so much fun filming that episode. Simu Liu is in it. Jamie Chung, Harry Shum Jr.. We all had so much fun, so I was like, “I have to go to L.A. because I know that there are other young creatives who are just as weird as them and just as weird as me and are making cool things…” So I went to L.A. and within a week of me being there, the boys called me and said, “Hey, we’re working on [Everything Everywhere All at Once]. No pressure, but we think you’d be really great for it. Are you interested?” And without knowing Michelle Yeoh was attached, without knowing it was A24, I immediately was like, “Anything you guys do, I’m there.” I have always understood their sense of humor, but when I read the script, what really captured me was the depth and the soul of the family story, and also the very profound question of “What if?” or “Is the life that I’m living enough?” or “Could I have chosen a different path?”. So I’ve always believed in it, but I could’ve never imagined the response that we’re getting right now. It’s completely beyond any of our wildest dreams.

Happy Birthday Christina Applegate

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Born

November 25, 1971 · Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

QUOTES

  • [on her sitcom Married… with Children (1987)] The show definitely shocked and disgusted people. But privately, they enjoyed laughing at it. I think all too often people look at the perfect families on television and think, “Why can’t my family be like that?” In the case of “Married with Children”, people were able to say, “Thank God my family’s not like that!”
  • I’ve always been shy and sort of vulnerable. My mom says that when she would drop me off at school, I’d stand back and check out the situation–see if it was safe before I’d join the other kids.
  • [on how she coped with being a television star in her teens] I wasn’t one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.
  • [on her husband, actor Johnathon Schaech (they’ve since divorced)] We’re best friends. And that spark is always there. I can’t wait to see him, even though I saw him a few hours ago.
  • I started doing radio commercials for K-mart when I was four. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldn’t talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.

Happy Birthday Joel Kinnaman

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  • We all can relate to people’s weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
  • We don’t know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It’s something the human mind can’t really grasp. It’s statistically impossible that there’s not life on other planets.
  • ‘The Killing’ has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it’s very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it’s still exciting. It’s about real people and it doesn’t shy from the painful points of life.
  • It’s technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It’s an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these ‘Transformers’ monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.
  • I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

Happy Birthday Katie Cassidy

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QUOTES:

  • When I was younger, playing piano and guitar were all things that I wanted to do for a short period of time, like any kid.
  • My style during the day is very casual – boyfriend jeans, T-shirts, Converse, Uggs, whatever. At night, I love heels and thigh-highs, I like something fresh and new, and I’m not afraid to push the envelope.
  • I went to New York for Fashion Week and girls showed up waiting to see me. It’s funny because there’s a group of girls who I actually recognize because they always show up. It’s nice and I’m like, ‘Hi girls! I recognize your faces!’ It’s just like a feel-good experience.
  • I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn’t know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn’t think of it as a reality.
  • My first few jobs, people were like, “Oh, she only got hired because she’s so-and-so’s daughter.” But, at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter who your parents are. Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver and you have to be talented because they’re not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the 70’s. I have to go into those rooms and give it my best and work really hard. It’s not that I have to work extra hard, but sometimes it’s held against me because I feel like I have something to live up to. I just want to make my family proud, and I want to be known for me. I feel like I have to go the extra mile to do that, but I’m willing to do it and it’s fine. It’s nothing that I will complain about. It’s just another challenge that I will overcome.

Writer Richard Stimac (A GOOD-LOOKING WOMAN)

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Performed by Val Cole

genre: literary

1. What is your short story about?

A woman might or might not have staged a minor car accident as a pretense to leave her husband.

2. What genres would you say this story is in?

literary fiction

3. How would you describe this story in two words?

straight forward

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

“Blade Runner: Director’s Cut” Who isn’t touched by Rutger Houer’s “tears in rain” monologue, which he wrote himself?

5. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)

Literally, the first note of Glenn Gould’s J.S. Bach: “Two and Three Part Invesions” lifts my spriit each time I hear it.

6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?

I’ve read George Elito’s “Middlemarch” and Stendhal’s “The Red and the Black” both three times each.

7. What motivated you to write this story?

The WILDSound opportunity to have a one-page story read by a professional actor.

8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Since I’m a practising Buddhist, I feel obligated to say Shakyamuni Buddha.

9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

I dance Argentine tango. Give the time and money that I’ve spent over the years, maybe “obsessive” is a better word than “passionate.”

10. What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?

The novelty of it.

11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?

Just write, and when you do write, write for yourself. And if you want to publish, just submit. We can control the effort, but not the outcome.

Screenwriter Bernard Amador (CHOWER)

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CAST LIST:

Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Chief/Pedro: Steve Rizzo
Arlo: Sean Ballantyne
Thiago: Geoff Mays

Get to know the writer:

1. What is your screenplay about?

The story is about an exhibitionist addicted to chowers who grapples with a converging world of voyeuristic non-acceptance and risks losing it all including a potential love interest.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

It’s a pure Dramedy!

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

CHOWER is currently in production with the hopes of bringing a fun entertaining experience to audiences.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Tik-Tok Effect

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

I think the Wizzard of OZ.

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

A few months.

7. How many stories have you written?

Over seventeen including shorts and features.

8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)

Probably Mariah Cary’s Emotions! We are using it as the Theme song to pump up the Cast and Crew to get an emotional performance!

9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?

Getting the feedback from the WILDsound Team. It was an obstacle of love that drove me back to the re-writing and revision process.

10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?

Relationships. Cultivating relationships with others is key.

11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?

FilmFreeway is a friendly site to navigate. I submitted to other festivals that resulted is some success.

12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?

I really loved that the festival was LGBTIA+ focused and friendly. The initial feedback was real tough love but I am greatful the festival exists to better improve the craft in writers and the industry as a whole.

Filmmaker Jason Montgomery (TURNCOAT)

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TURNCOAT, 28min., South Korea
Directed by Jason Montgomery
A shrewd merciless crime boss must investigate the scene of his brother’s assassination for answers, revenge, and to avoid the same fate.

https://www.facebook.com/turncoattheshortfilm
https://www.instagram.com/turncoattheshortfilm/

Get to know the filmmaker:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I had spent the last several years living in South Korea; teaching English and writing screenplays. I got the itch to actually shoot something and direct it, as it had been way too long. Even though I didn’t have much of a network, few resources, and little money, I decided to use what I had and make something. My ex-teaching colleague and neighbor Maurice (Rob in the film) had left our teaching academy to pursue acting, and over some drinks in the local bar the film was shot in, we got the idea for me to write and direct something with him as the lead.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

About two and a half years. I started two other scripts that didn’t work out; one became too big to be a short and the other became so twisty and complex that even I didn’t know where it was going. On the third attempt, I came to the concept of Turncoat, then Maurice and I had to assemble the people and resources to do it, raise some money, and plan it out. Once we got it shot (at the tail end of COVID), one of our key postproduction people (Will, also the cinematographer) got stuck outside the country for about two years, so we had to handle a lot of post at a distance.

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?

Darkly introspective

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?

Coordinating such a big cast and crew for production. Most of them had other professional commitments that were higher-paying, and just life issues, that we had to work around. Luckily they all liked the material and were extremely dedicated getting it made.

5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?

It was kind of surreal. I’ve seen, heard, and given reactions like that many times, but to see people I’ve never met giving such deep and intelligent consideration to my film was amazing.

6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?

Around age 6 I started idolizing movie characters, which made me want to be an actor, then a few years later, maybe around 11 or 12, I developed a desire to take the helm and tell teh stories myself. That’s when I started writing scripts that I had no means to make, then finally pulled all my friends, family, money, and resources together and make a feature-length action thriller in my 20s.

7. What film have you seen the most in your life?

It’s between The Godfather and Back to the Future.

8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking career?

It’s aleady a fantastic festival experience, but maybe I would add

9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experiences been working on the festival platform site?

It’s been great. The platform makes it easy to view, compare, categorize, and apply to the most suitable festivals.

10. What is your favorite meal?

A medium-rare ribeye, mashed potatoes, broccoli with cheese, and an IPA.

11. What is next for you? A new film?

I’m writing a feature screenplay, also featuring Turncoat’s main character Rob. It was actually the first concept I tried for this project, but was too big for a short.

Filmmaker Dale Loon (WAKING CONUNDRUM)

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WAKING CONUNDRUM, 11min., Canada
Directed by Dale Loon, Alyssa-Rose Hunter
Waking up in a room with a ceiling that seems to never end. A man struggles with his memory of recent events but remembers everything else from the past. The man meets a woman and brings him down to great disbelief and shock that shakes every atom in his body. A scheme is planned to escape this room. But is the plan for real?

Get to know filmmaker Dale Loon:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

Your not gonna be so impressed, but at the time when I was in school. I came to a point where I needed a script in order to advance in the Toronto Film School program. And I only had one class, 4 hours to do it. 20 minutes was spent making beats of the story. Another 40 minutes character building. Then the last 3 hours was spend writing the script in a rush.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

When I wrote the idea I actually put the script on the back burner because the class was done. So, in between terms there is a 1 week reprieve for students. I got bored during that week and decided to shoot it. I grabbed the laptop and made a post online facebook for people. Then, 2 days after? We shot Waking Conundrum in one day.

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?

Unseen Betrayal

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?

The biggest obstacle in completing this film was the production design, I gave $2,900 and after all was shot I got $1,900 back. But we made things work with what we had.

5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?

The one thing I expected for sure was the unseen betrayal from Venora. The audience saw a connection sparking between them, then at the end? They were shocked and shooked. Everything I wrote is what I wanted in the audiences reactions, and it was puuuuurfect!

6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?

. I didn’t realize, I was actually a homeless drunk who drank everyday on the streets back at home. As I was drinking with my usual drinking buddies, I once stood up and said. “I’m going to film school!”. As I walked away, my drunk friends thought I was joking. Then next day i borded the bus and made the 53 hour bus ride to Toronto.

7. What film have you seen the most in your life?

The one film I have seen the most was Space Balls. I love to laugh. I also love to watch the reactions of people who never saw it before with the endless ship at the beginning. It will never get old!

8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking career?

I just want to say to the festivals that no matter where you come from and who you were. An idea can actually make people entertained and make them think or keep them at the edge of their seats.

9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experiences been working on the festival platform site?

Working on the film festival site was a very easy experience. Before my 11 years of being homeless and drunk, I was very handy with computers and repaired them. So point and click interfaces were clear instructions

10. What is your favorite meal?

Tacos. Always Tacos.

11. What is next for you? A new film?

The next move for me is to produce and direct waking conundrum 2 next year. And while waiting for the time, I’m going to be writing episodes 3-7 of Waking Conundrum. Gotta find out what is gonna happen to the handful of men, right?