November 2025 ACTION/FANTASY/SCI-FI/THRILLER Festival Testimonials

Awesome festival, can’t wait to see what you do in the future and how you grow! Very honored to have won best story!!!! Wukong Couriers!!!

Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway. Deadline Today:

What a fun festival! The whole team is extremely communicative and such lovely people to talk to! They absolutely made me feel welcomed and valued. Their enthusiasm for my project, and film in general, is so refreshing and amazing! Thank you for welcoming myself and Battle of LA into your festival. I PROUDLY accept Best Short for Battle of LA. Thank you!

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Thank you it was my first festival for this Films, Bloodhound and we won Best Action. Communication was great, can’t to discut the film during the podcast. Thank you

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Amazing opportunity to get professional feedback for free and a scene reading with pro actors! Great festival to showcase our work, and also providing additional services to improve it.
Thank you for the award!

HORROR Festval 1st Scene: HOW TO SAVE A DYING WORLD, by Ronnie Figueoa

It’s about an alien named Jophar whose ancestry is from Earth and his encounters while living here. Also, a higher evolved alien species is trying to help him save the planet from inevitable destruction due to an impending bio genetic mutation.

CAST LIST:
Narration: Sean Ballantyne
Jessy: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Laura: Hannah Ehman
Jason: Geoff Mays

Submit via FilmFreeway, the exclusive way the Horror Festival accepts submissions.:

Podcast: EP. 1614: Filmmaker Angy Antonios Akly (The Way Back Home)

The Way Back Home is a two-minute poetic film that unfolds underwater, where a woman’s expressive movements accompany a powerful monologue on identity, womanhood, and self-ownership — written, directed, and narrated by the filmmaker herself. As the performer drifts through silence and resistance, the voice rises against the weight of judgment and expectation — reclaiming scars, softness, and the right to become. A cinematic meditation on finding one’s way back to the self.

https://www.instagram.com/angyaklyjammal/

Director Statement

The Way Back Home is a film I created from a place of deep honesty — not just as a director, but as a mother, a woman, and a human being who has lived through motherhood, silence, pressure, and transformation.
After completing the film, I sat with my daughters and told them: “I want you to watch this film when you are 20, again when you are 30, and again when you are 40.” Because this is not just a short film — it’s a piece of my story that I want to leave behind for them. A reminder that pain, scars, and growth are part of becoming. That they are allowed to own their voice, their truth, their transformation — no matter what the world tries to impose.

With a single performer, a voiceover, and the silence of water as its backdrop, this film holds everything I wanted to say to them — and to the women who might need to hear it too.

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This Month’s FREE Film Festivals to submit to

Upcoming Deadlines for FREE Film Festivals to Submit to via FilmFreeway:

There’s also an option for GUARANTEED ACCEPTANCE submissions. Interviews, audience feedback video etc… Geared to help promote the filmmakers and their films!

LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTLosAngelesFilmFestival

ANIMATION Feedback Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/feedbackanimationfilmscreenplayfestival

DOCUMENTARY Feedback Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/DocumentaryFilmFestival

Style, Experimental, Fashion Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/stylefashionexperimental

POLITICAL Feedback Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/PoliticalFilmFestival

ACTION/ADVENTURE Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/LosAngelesFestival

STUDENT Feedback Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/StudentFestival

Toronto FANTASY/SCI-FI Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/torontoscifi

Los Angeles COMEDY Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/ComedyFilmScreenplayFestival

TELEVISION Screenplay & Web Series Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/TELEVISIONFEEDBACKScreenplayWebSeriesFestival

DIVERSITY Film & Screenplay Fetsival                                                                 https://filmfreeway.com/diversity

EUROPEAN Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/europeanfeedbackfestival

ASIAN Feedback Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/ASIANFeedbackFilmFestival

FAN FICTION Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/FanFictionFestival

DRAMA Film & Screenplay Festival
https://filmfreeway.com/dramafestival

SPORTS, Fitness, and Recreation Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/SportsFilmFestivalMonthly

LATINO Feedback Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/LatinoFEEDBACKFilmFestival

BLACK & WHITE Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/BlackandWhiteFilmFestival

Toronto FEMALE Film Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoFemaleFeedbackFilmFestivalTOFFFF

FAMILY Film & Screenplay Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/FAMILYFilmFest

BLACK Filmmakers & Screenwriters Festival:
https://filmfreeway.com/BlackFestival

Today’s Stage Play Festival Deadline: RELIGION Stage Play Festival

Submit via Submittable: https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/331387/religion-stage-play-writing-contest-get-play-performed-by-professional-actors

FULL FEEDBACK on your stage play from our committee of Professional Playwriters, Production Heads and Story Consultants. Get a best scene of your stage play performed at the writing festival and made into a video for the winner.

Submit your 10 Page Play, 1 Act Play, or Full Stage Play to the Festival.

SUBMIT your STAGE PLAY Today  You will receive feedback on your play in 3-5 weeks

Today’s Novel Festival: MEMOIR & AUTOBIGRAPHY Novel Contest

Submit via the Festival: https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/memoir-autobiography-novel-festival/

Submit your MEMOIR & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Book by the deadline.

A memoir is often written to share a personal story or theme, while an autobiography is more about sharing facts about the author’s life.

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.

Today’s Short Story Festival Deadline: PARANORMAL Short Story Contest

Submit via the site: https://fantasyscififestival.com/paranormal-short-story-festival/

A paranormal story is a work of fiction that explores phenomena and beings that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding. They include elements like ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches, and other entities that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. They can be set in the real world, but generally includes elements that defy scientific explanation.

See example of recent reading completed:

Today’s Screenplay Festival Deadline: WESTERN Screenplay Contest

Submit via the site: https://storypitches.com/western-screenplay-festival/

The Western is a film genre defined by the American Film Institute asfilms which are “set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier.” Generally set in the American frontier between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890.

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 a 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 will we will promote the winning writer and script.

(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.)