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Born
December 9, 2004
Youngest daughter of Thandiwe Newton and Ol Parker.
Maternal grandmother was Zimbabwean.
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“This festival includes so much for the creators and is all about getting the word out about their work. It was an honor to be a part of the festival, and they made me feel like an A-lister right off the bat. Would highly recommend!”
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SEE THE FULL LINEUP OF FILMS:
DOLLARS THAT MAKE SENSE, 3min., USA
Directed by Richard Power Hoffmann
A fun, stop-motion animated film about how foundations need to align their endowments with their missions.
http://www.untoursfoundation.org/
https://www.instagram.com/untoursfoundation/
https://www.facebook.com/untoursfoundation/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dollars-that-make-sense
WHEN THE DEVIL SMOKED IN PARADISE, 10min., USA
Directed by Katherine Liao
In a city where the median home price is $1.8M and land costs $6M per acre because it is “The Safest City in America,” few know that tucked away in a hillock, a secret “All American Asphalt” plant is quietly belching 221 pounds of benzene and 1,800 pounds of formaldehyde every year. This is the tale of how a humble group of citizens (including normally quiet Asian Americans) found their voices to fight a Goliath corporation and its corrupt pocketed politicians for five years.
https://www.instagram.com/katherinebliao/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-when-the-devil-smoked-in-paradise
GHOSTS OF THE PACIFIC: A WHITE SEA BASS STORY, 63min., USA
Directed by Michael Raabe
Ghosts of the Pacific, a captivating and visually stunning documentary that delves into the mysterious world of the white sea bass, a prized and elusive species that has captured the imagination of spearfishermen along the Pacific coast. Through breathtaking underwater cinematography and intimate storytelling, the film explores the challenges and rewards of pursuing these “ghosts” of the deep.
http://www.raabephoto.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mike.raabe/
https://www.instagram.com/raabeproductions/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-ghosts-of-the-pacific
Submit your CRIME Short Story to the Festival here 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 CRIME genre.
Submit your SHORT STORY on the festival website: https://crimemysteryfestival.com/2024/12/08/crime-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.
Submit your ACTION/ADVENTURE Book by the deadline.
Submit your NOVEL at the site HERE: https://actionadventurefestival.ca/actionadventure-novel-festival/
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.
Environmental means relating to or caused by the surroundings in which someone lives or something exists.
Submit your Environmental Script HERE: https://environmentalfestival.com/environmenal-screenplay-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.
What this festival does is give the writer exposure. With our best scene video reading, plus the 2 interviews, this festival simply makes the screenwriter’s name and script searchable and out there to the world. Plus, submissions receive full feedback on their script no matter what.
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/
Get to know the filmmaker:
What motivated you to make this film?
I got the idea for it after watching other people’s love lives, and seeing all the emotionally immature and unaffectionate behaviours they encountered. I noticed that a lot of people fall into these kinds of relationships but it happens most commonly to the younger crowd. I wanted to depict some of those dynamics from an outside perspective and show what observing the dating culture can look like. I think that when you’re in your teens and early twenties, love and romance can be too serious of a thing for you to know how to navigate, so your early relationships will likely end badly. For that reason I think it can be difficult to find love in the world when you’re a hopeless romantic. At the same time, there’s societal pressure to begin dating at a young age, and that pressure’s just not necessary when it’s perfectly okay to be single and use that time to understand yourself. I wanted to tell people that they shouldn’t be disheartened by the hurtful or incompatible behaviour they may experience, and that they should wait for the person that satisfies the idea of romance they have.
What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?
I enjoyed hearing the audience’s thoughts and what they each took away from the film. I especially appreciated how a lot of them identified the types of relationships I was depicting and I hope that they understood the satirical nature of this film. It was fun to see them react to the conflicts and listen to how they perceived the surrealistic way the characters talked and behaved. I had speculated before what viewers would think of the semi-surrealism that I put into it so the feedback video is very helpful to me in gauging that. I really liked how each of them seemed to have their own favourite thing about the film and it’s nice to hear their opinions.
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Born
December 8, 1978 · Covington, Louisiana, USA
Birth name
Ian Joseph Somerhalder
Spouse
Nikki Reed (April 26, 2015 – present) (1 child)
QUOTES:
[About his co-star, Maggie Grace] “She’s hateable in Lost (2004), but really she’s the sweetest, most adorable thing on the planet”.
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can’t hide anything from them.
There are always decades that interest people. For me, that’s the Roaring Twenties.
Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.
I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
I can’t let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.
I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what’s unsustainable in their communities. That’s the future.
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Born
December 8, 1998 · Lima, Ohio, USA
[on feeling insecure about his physique due to the high standard set for men today] [My] biggest insecurity [is] how muscular I am though I’m usually not insecure about it. But I feel like being in the business that we are, [there’s] a standard, you feel this pressure on you to be in good shape. Specifically now with all the superhero movies, as much as I would love to do one. It’s a very high standard.
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Born
December 8, 1949 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth name
Nancy Jane Meyers
Spouse
Charles Shyer (1980 – 1999) (divorced, 2 children)
QUOTES:
Movies don’t look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody’s character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it’s creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn’t mean I know how to fix them.
I don’t diet, I don’t do fads, I’ve just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can’t live without chocolate, though. I’ve always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it’s too sweet, any more and it’s inedible. Like I said, I’m very particular.
I don’t shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it’s because I’m looking for something.
Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn’t have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.
I wasn’t the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn’t know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
We don’t want to be our own niche. We’re filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row are we going to talk about the fact that we make films and we are women? Enough already.
Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
