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Watch Today’s Film Festival: ACTION/FANTASY/THRILLER Festival

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Watch Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/action-fantasy-thriller-festival-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 Fims:

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?

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

THE INTERNET OF EVERYTHING, 8min., Canada
Directed by Yusuf Begg
In a world where every click, swipe, and search is harvested, Bill, a paranoid middle-aged man, becomes increasingly alarmed by the intrusive reach of technology. As devices seem to predict his every move, Bill’s paranoia grows, and he devises a plan to disconnect from the digital grid entirely.

https://enfant-terrible.xyz/the-internet-of-everything/
https://www.instagram.com/enfantterrible2024/

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

STAR WARS: HEIR TO THE EMPIRE, 14min., UK
Directed by Damien Valentine
Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian arrive at Sluis Van for a much needed break. Instead, they walk into Grand Admiral Thrawn’s massive assault on the shipyards. The Millenium Falcon and Rogue Squadron are all that stand between the defenseless New Republic ships and the approaching Imperial fleet.

http://codedtransmission.com/htte/

https://www.instagram.com/damianvalentine/

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

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/

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

Today’s Novel Deadline: TRUE CRIME Festival

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Submit your TRUE CRIME Book by the deadline. 

True crime novels detail the actions of people affected by or associated with a crime. They often explore the motivations and psychological factors behind criminal behavior, as well as the consequences of those actions.

Submit your TRUE CRIME novel here: https://crimemysteryfestival.com/true-crime-novel-festival/

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: YOUNG ADULT Festival

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Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Young Adult Festival. Get your Short Film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get an audience video.

Submit your screenplay on the submission page: https://festivalforfamily.com/young-adult-screenplay-festival/

– 0ffers screenwriters, novelists and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).

– Offers filmmakers to get their works showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Then the filmmaker will receive and audience reaction video on their film (see below for recent film festival videos)

– One of the best places in the world for the writers to sell their script and/or obtain and agent.

– No matter what happens, you will receive full feedback on your work by our established committee. No other place in the world will you get coverage for the price you pay.

– Even if you’re just looking for feedback of your work, this is the festival for you.

– It’s there for all to see. The proof is in the viewership. These videos garner 1000s of views online. Some of the screenplay readings are more popular than actual studio films made!

– We specialize in showcasing Family stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.

Today’s Short Story Deadline: TRAVEL Festival

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A travel story is a piece of writing that describes a location, its people, culture, and customs. It can also be a narrative of a journey that provides information about the physical, biogeographic, and ethnographic characteristics of an area.

Accept only stories that fit into the TRAVEL genre.

Submit your SHORT STORY on the submission page: https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/travel-short-story-festival/

There is no festival like this!

Mainly what this contest does is give exposure to the writer. They will be able to obtain a solid agent, plus get notice by producers looking for writers like yourself. NOTE: The writer will always own 100% rights to their story. The only thing we do is help the writer. Either with notes on their next draft, or gain exposure by having their story showcased at our festival.

Happy Birthday Alexa Demie

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 20: Alexa Demie attends the HBO Max FYC event for ‘Euphoria’ at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/WireImage)

Born
December 11 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Was considered for the role of Tashi Duncan in Challengers (2024). The role went to Zendaya instead.

Her mother, Rose Mendez, is a celebrity make-up artist and writer, from Michoacán, Mexico. Her father is an American of Ashkenazi Jewish, German, and French-Canadian descent.

Happy Birthday Teri Garr (1944-2024)

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Born
December 11, 1944 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Died
October 29, 2024 · Los Angeles, California, USA (degenerative disease of the nervous system)

Spouse
John O’Neil(November 11, 1993 – 1996) (divorced, 1 child)

QUOTES:

I’ve always had this American-pie face that would get work in commercials . . . I’d say things like, “Hi, Marge, how’s your laundry?” and “Hi, I’m a real nice Georgia peach”. Sometimes this work is one step above being a cocktail waitress.

Any movie I’ve ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who’s the person to buy it [cocaine] from. Cher said they’re going to make two monuments to us–the two girls who lived through Hollywood and never had cocaine.

It’s different things at different times, you know? It’s like when you read a true crime story and think it’s really good, then the next book you pick up is a biography and you really like that. I don’t consider that I have to judge any of the movies I make all the time, but people are always asking me: “What’s your favorite movie?” And I never know what to say. They’re just jobs to me, really. I take the part I’m lucky enough to get and do the best I can and then — I don’t know, they’re just jobs.

Happy Birthday Hailee Steinfeld

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Born
December 11, 1996 · Tarzana, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Hailee Puring Steinfeld

Engaged to Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen

QUOTES:

Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and… to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial – it’s one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls…one of those.

I don’t know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it’s crazy. It’s such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It’s like winning the lottery. I’m proud to be a member of such an amazing cast – that’s the best award of all.

Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it’s totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.

[on True Grit, 2010] The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren’t like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

[in 2016] My grandfather, my mom’s dad, was half African-American, half Filipino. And Filipinos, I’ve learned, have many wonderful traits – the main ones being passion and pride. I went to the Philippines for the first time this spring, and it was amazing.

Watch Today’s Festival: LGBTQ+ Shorts Festival

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Watch Film Festival HERE: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/lgbtq-festival-shorts-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:

CRAVE, 5min., UK
Directed by Lois Norman
Late at night, her bed still warm from her lover leaving, a painter dips her brush into her own imperfect past & parts of her: a lost truth drips through…

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

12 ANGRY LESBIANS, 22min,. Canada
Directed by Patrice Leung
A comedic riff on ’12 Angry Men’ set in the early 1990s, featuring a group of lesbians stuck in their team’s annual softball meeting. This short film explores the diversity within ‘diversity’, and its tortuous need for democracy to triumph at all costs.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-12-angry-lesbians

WHAT ARE WE?, 15min., USA
Directed by Eileen Hanley
Jess and Kayley, two platonic queer bffs with benefits and unfortunately both bottoms, have a threesome with the top of their dreams and define their unorthodox relationship.

http://www.eileenhanley.com/https://instagram.com/glitterwrists

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