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Today’s FilmFreeway Testimonial: WILDsound FEEDBACK Film & Screenplay Festival
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October 2025 ROMANCE/RELATIONSHIPS Festival Testimonials.
Submit via FilmFreeway. Deadline Today:
The FEEDBACK Romance & Relationships Festival was an extremely positive experience for me. The feedback I received for my screenplay The Art of the Matter was invaluable to me. The notes were clear and practical and easy to follow. I look forward to watching the performance of a scene from The Art of the Matter!
Original formula, very helpful for the communication. Congratulations
Relationships with the festival are amazing, Feedbacks are highly professional and helpful, Promotion is great. Feeling more home than home !
Hervé Marcotte, Verissimus Films – An ordinary experience, best documentary 2024
A lovely experience and very adrenalinic journey! Kudos, Feedback Romance & Relationships Festival!
Brilliant & super inspired idea to have genuine feedback from the audience – this fact connects the creators to their spectators in a very much desired way…
Great, keep it going, wonderful job!
we are thrilled to have participated and to have also won 🙂 people’s comments were exceptional, it’s wonderful to hear the opinion of someone who saw our short movie and managed to convey our message. We sincerely thank the festival for the commitment and joy it has given us
Today’s Podcast: EP. 1597: Screenwriter A.E. Guaaker (THE VILLAGE PHANTOM)
Watch the Best Scene Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew4yxfT2YUA
Fiona Haegerbergh, a journalist for The Metro Standard, arrives in a rural Norwegian town to investigate rising drug use. Officially, she’s there to produce a webcast— but Fiona has her own agenda: uncovering the truth behind the recent suspicious death of a local drug dealer. Fiona’s editor urges her to stay on task, as much is riding on the Metro Standard’s survival—now largely dependent on the recent success of its popular web series.
Get to know the writer:
What is your screenplay about?
My screenplay is about a journalist Fiona Haegerbergh, who travels to a remote Norwegian town to cover rising drug use for her paper’s popular web series, but she’s secretly investigating the suspicious death of a local dealer. She’s met with hostility from townsfolk and a wary sheriff, but she gradually earns his reluctant trust as she digs into the community’s hidden drug network. Her search leads to Jenny, a young mine worker with ties to Fiona’s brother, who may have inherited the operation. When Jenny is suddenly found drowned, Fiona’s investigation takes a darker turn and she is faced with a devastating choice: expose what she’s uncovered and risk her own secret being revealed—or stay silent and let the town’s shadows close in.
What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Thriller, Mystery
Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
Because it has a good mystery, loveable characters and an unexpected twist.
How would you describe this script in two words?
Powerful forces
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Watch Today’s FREE Festival: Best of EXPERIMENTAL Shorts Festival
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Watch today’s Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/events/best-of-experimental-shorts-festival
Resonance in the Castle, 17min., USA
Directed by Brandon Katcher
A mysterious castle breathes with light and color, drawing all who enter into its shifting embrace. Stained glass spills vivid hues across ancient stone, golden reflections dance over strange artifacts, and ethereal performances flare up like living paintings. Surreal, electric, and unbound by space or time. Musicians, dancers, and performance artists bring their visions to life, each performance casting a ripple, before fading into the ether. A place of mystery and spectacle, this living museum exists only in the moment it is seen, leaving behind only echoes. Here, the castle is not a place but a state of mind, a dream in motion, inviting us to lose ourselves within its walls.
http://www.lostsummitfilms.com/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-resonance-in-the-castle
Stamino, 11min., Czech Republic
Directed by Marie-Anna Šulc
Stamino drifts through fatigue and the quiet rituals of nourishment and recovery, always accompanied by vulnerability, the urge to heal, and a wry gaze toward a culture obsessed with the body and its perfection. It moves between closeness and distance, frustration and renewal, tracing the edges of what it means to live in a body that aches, adapts, and resists. Beneath it all runs a longing for meaning, for connection, for transformation, within the slow and uncertain struggle of becoming.
https://www.instagram.com/galerie_tic/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-stamino
The Afternoon of a Faun, 2min., Japan
Directed by Fuyubi Kusamori
“L’Après-midi d’un Faune” emerges as a contemporary digital meditation on Debussy’s timeless masterpiece, itself born from Stéphane Mallarmé’s symbolist poem of 1865. This music video transcends conventional boundaries, weaving electronica and noise music into a sonic tapestry that honors the impressionist legacy while boldly venturing into uncharted territories of sound.
https://www.instagram.com/iammyowncliche/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-afternoon-of-a-faun
Café Kuba: Who Dared to Awaken the Dead Memory, 28min,. Congo
Directed by David Shongo
At its core, Café Kuba explores Kinshasa through the silent presence of a mobile coffee vendor navigating the vibrant streets of the Bandal district. Filmed after the M23 rebel group’s capture of Goma, as they threatened Kinshasa, the film portrays a city on the brink of conflict. David Shongo avoids framing the vendor as a conventional protagonist. Instead, his silence becomes his strength—absorbing and reflecting the city’s tensions, frustrations, and private conversations.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cafe-kuba
Khimairas of the Kinesphere, 9min., USA
Directed by Eric Souther, Kelsey Paschich
Khimairas of the Kinesphere explores the extension of the mediated body. Human movement choreographed for digital avatars which work as sites for artificially generated images. The crises of climate change demands a hybridization and reexamination of the relationship between humans and nature, a redesign, a second nature. We are forced to reimagine our co-existence and our role in shaping the future.
https://www.instagram.com/phygital_dancelab/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-khimairas-of-the-kinesphere
The plaza of time, 11min., China
Directed by Xinyuan He
The Plaza of Time is an observational documentary directed by a teenage dancer, chronicling the lives of three elder performers—Auntie Yuan, Auntie Zhang, and Mr. Li—who each bring their own rhythm, resilience, and reason to dance on the public plazas of urban China.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-plaza-of-time-film
Watch the DANCE Shorts Festival (in case you missed it)
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Watch today’s Festival: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/best-of-dance-shorts-festival-october
The Moment I Said It, 3min., USA
Directed Ryn Deyo
This piece reflects the moment of introspective learning — where the quiet, unseen transformation that occurs when healing begins is explored. We don’t return to what was, but learn to live with what is.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-moment-i-said-it
Split Focus, 5min,. USA
Directed by Cherie Carson
“Split Focus” is a captivating dance film that delves into the intricate relationship between self-perception and external projection. Through mesmerizing shadow play, the film explores images of spirit and internal feelings versus outward appearances, prompting viewers to question which aspect demands more attention— the dancer herself or her shadow. Visually poetic, it offers a compelling examination of how we project ourselves into the world and the duality of inner and outer identities.
https://www.instagram.com/upswingaerial
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-split-focus
HALLWAYS, 2min., USA
Directed by Elizabeth Sears
Hallways is a dance film about independence and resilience in the midst of ambiguity. A mix of uncertainty and confidence permeates the choices we makes when navigating the external forces swirling around us.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-hallways
Acid Alone In The Woods, 5min., USA
Directed by Alec Gessert
A dance music video exploring fear, paranoia, and pleasure one experiences alone in a dark forest.
https://www.instagram.com/alecgessert/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-acid-alone-in-the-woods
MATTER, 21min., USA
Directed by Gabe Katz, Mike Murphy
A young woman enters into a journey of self-exploration, discovery, and identity. As she travels through the ephemeral, working through her understanding of self-perception, other travelers within the same universe try to join. These travelers soon realize that her story is not for them to mimic or assume, but to discover through their own experiences. They learn to accept that one can be empathetic to the experiences of others, without being central to the plot. These travelers become members of a creative community, observing and understanding a greater universal struggle: accepting oneself as a thread within the fabric of existence, and not the fabric itself. The young woman continues on her journey within the greater schema of reality. She endures everything and nothing all at once—accepting her present reality for its momentous nature, knowing it will be quickly lost to the vastness of time.
https://www.gabekatz.com/matter
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-matter
Today’s Novel Festival Deadline: TRUE CRIME Novel Contest
submit via the site: https://crimemysteryfestival.com/true-crime-novel-festival/
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.
Today’s Short Story Deadline (Oct. 11th): TRAVEL Short Story Contest
submit via the site: https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/travel-short-story-festival/
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.
Today’s Screenplay Festival Deadline (Oct. 11th): YOUNG ADULT Screenplay Contest
Submit via the site: https://festivalforfamily.com/young-adult-screenplay-festival/
Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the YOUNG ADULT Festival.
The top YOUNG ADULT Festival and Contest in the World today!
– 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).
October 11th – Today in History (SNL premiere, Famous Shatner “Twilight Zone” episode premieres)
Top moments in entertainment history today. October 11th.
#1 – 1963 William Shatner stars in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” episode of CBS anthology series “The Twilight Zone”.
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” is
a legendary horror story by Richard Matheson, adapted for television and film multiple times, most famously as an episode of the original Twilight Zone. The plot centers on a terrified passenger who is convinced that a monster on the wing of his airplane is trying to sabotage the flight.
#2 – 1975 “Saturday Night Live” created by Lorne Michaels premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host.
- Premiere: The show debuted on October 11, 1975, hosted by comedian George Carlin.
- Initial title: The program was originally called NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid confusion with a different show called Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on rival network ABC.
- Creator: The show was developed by Lorne Michaels and Dick Ebersol.
Today’s Stage Play Festival Deadline (Oct. 11th): EXPERIMENTAL Stage Play Contest
Submit via Submittable: https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/331392/experimental-stage-play-writing-contest-get-play-performed-by-professional-actor
This festival contest is brought to you by the Experimental/Music Festival: http://www.experimentalfilmfestival.com
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