Today we are in conversation with Zachary Jones, the Founder of FilmFreeway.com, the new alternative submission center for Film Festivals and Filmmakers/Screenwriters. A startup from Canada that launched in February 2014 that is already becoming stiff competition to the dominance of withoutabox for over 15 years.

Matthew Toffolo – First off, congrats on announcing 1250 Film Festivals in your database as of this interview. That’s amazing in such a short time. What has been the key to your success so far?

Zachary – Thank you so much! The secret is really quite simple. We set out to re-invent festival submissions with modern technology and a fair business model. FilmFreeway offers a simple, user-friendly service that is always 100% free to filmmakers and writers. We back that up with friendly, reliable customer service from real people who care and are happy to assist our customers anytime.

MT – What motivated you…

Read Today’s TV PILOT Loglines:

Title: Accidentally EnGAYged
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/accidentally_engayged_by_jake_parker.html
Written by: Jake Parker
Type: TV PILOT Webseries
Genre: Comedy

Title: Source
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/source_by_jessica_waters.html
Written by: Jessica Waters
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller

Title: Hands of the Bayou
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/hands_of_the_bayou_by_nichelle_walker.html
Written by: Nichelle Walker
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Fantasy/Drama

Title: Enforcement
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/enforcement_by_kevin_cantor.html
Written by: Kevin Cantor
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Crime

Read 1000s of TV PILOT Loglines
http://www.wildsound.ca/tv_pilot_loglines.html

Read 100s of COMEDY/SITCOM TV Loglines:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/comedy_tv_shows.html

Read 100s of DRAMA TV Loglines:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/drama_tv_shows.html

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Deadline June 30th: SUBMIT TV PILOT/SPEC Script – Get FULL FEEDBACK. Get script performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/tvscreenplaycontest.html

Watch WINNING TV PILOT Screenplay Readings
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/tv_pilot_readings.html

Watch WINNING TV SPEC Screenplay Readings
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/tv_spec_readings.html

READ 100s of testimonials for past submitters –
http://www.wildsound.ca/wildsound_festival_review.html

Watch the Winning TV PILOT Performance Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Lorry Ayers
LAURA – Marsha Mason
LITTLE LAURA – Victoria Kucher
GEOFF – Geoff Mays
MARTIN – Allan Brunet
RAJ – Dan Cristofori
MALE GUARD – Adam Martignetti

Matthew Toffolo interviews co-screenwriter Michelle Brezinski

Matthew: What is your TV PILOT about?

Michelle: A 1/2 hour comedy about a non-orgasmic sex therapist, who plunges into a midlife crisis, forcing her to take advice from an apparition of her eight year old self. All while a collection of colourful clients desperately seek her advice on how to attain a more blissfully satisfying sex life.

Matthew: Why should this script be made into a TV show?

Michelle: It’s time we shed some comical light on this TABOO subject and ease up on our ridiculous expectations. After all it only sex.

Matthew: How long have you been writing stories?

Michelle: I’ve told stories…

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video for the Short Film A MILE IN THESE HOOVES:

“A Mile In These Hooves” was awarded Best Film at the WILDsound May 2015 FEEDBACK Film Festival.

Follow the film’s progress on the facebook page- http://www.facebook.com/amileinthesehooves

Matthew Toffolo interviews director James Brylowski:

Matthew: What motivated you to make this film?

James: I knew that I wanted to make a film that encompassed my two passions, absurd and bizarre comedy and landscape cinematography. The idea of making a film about a couple of people in a 2-person donkey costume was kicking around in my head for a while. Eventually it hit me to incorporate my 2-person donkey costume idea into a road trip film, and so the journey began. I loved the idea of showing these majestic and beautiful landscapes juxtaposed by this ridiculous donkey costume walking through them.

Matthew: From the idea to the finished product…

Deadline June 30th: FEATURE Screenplay Festival – Get FULL FEEDBACK. Get script performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/screenplaycontest.html

Watch the Winning Feature Screenplays for 2015 (so far…)

Feature SCRIPT – I’M STILL HERE
June 2015 Reading
Written by Sean Elwood
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/im_still_here_feature_script.html

SYNOPSIS:

After a car accident nearly kills him, a young man begins to experience strange occurrences around his home, leaving him to believe that his near-death experience has opened the door between the living and the dead. As he attempts to uncover the truth, he discovers that his sanity might be at stake.

Feature Script: ORIGINS
May 2015 Reading
Written by Michael Panek & Guershon Moreno
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/origins.html

SYNOPSIS:

A small group of civilans and scientist flee their homeworld after an alien invasion, and take refuge on Earth.

Feature Script: GOD’S WILL
May 2015 Reading
Written by Jamison P. Derfler
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/gods_will.html

SYNOPSIS:

“God’s Will” tells the story of Ian, a man…

FAN FICTION Screenplay Festival. Deadline July 10th – Get your script performed
http://fanfictionfestival.com

Watch a RICK & MORTY TV Spec Screenplay Reading:

SYNOPSIS:

Rick and Morty must go head-to-head with a variety of space gangsters to raise the capital to build Rick’s latest invention. Meanwhile, Jerry gets mugged and struggles to cope with his sense of violation.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Wilson
MORTY – Adam McNamara
RICK – Roman Spera
JERRY – Nick Baillie
ROBOTS – Neil Kulin
BETH – Val Cole
SUMMER – Kerstin Bradler
PRINCIPAL – Elitsa Bako

Deadline: SUBMIT your TV PILOT/SPEC Script – Get FULL FEEDBACK. Get script performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/tvscreenplaycontest.html

Watch the TV PILOT Winners (so far) for 2015:

TV PILOT – ERASER
February 2015 Reading
Written by Kim Godfrey
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/eraser.html

SYNOPSIS:

Two psychology students practice an illegal form of hypnotherapy that allows for the erasure of traumatic memories. Driven by opposing motivations, their ambitions lead them into a violent and exploitative criminal underworld. As they spiral down, one man struggles to maintain his sense of morality while the other struggles to maintain sanity.

TV PILOT – NO LOVE DOVES
March 2015 Reading
Written by Alexandre Kounde
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/no_love_doves.html

SYNOPSIS:

An infidelity private investigator strives to maintain balance between his hectic job, his conjugal relationship and his dormant sex addiction.

TV PILOT – FAUST
April 2015 Reading
Written by Niel Thompson
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/faust.html

SYNOPSIS:

Detective Amelia Faust is a wizard, the last wizard. It is…

TURN your STORY into a MOVIE
Deadline June 30th

SUBMIT your story (both your 1st chapter, short story, or full novel accepted)
And we’ll make it into a movie.

http://www.wildsound.ca/audio_video_book.html

Watch Past Novels turned into a Movie:

Watch Diamond and the Fosters – Children’s Novel

75 minutes

Watch children’s novel made into a movie. by Michael David Weis

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

Narration by Becky Shrimpton

Watch SANDRO’S NOTEBOOK – EUR-AFRICAN EXILES Adventure Series

88min.

by Albert Russo

Produced by Matthew Toffolo

Narration by David Kinsman

Watch the Winning 10 page Stage Play by Katie Grotzinger:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Brett J. Kelly
HARDLY – Holly Sarchfield
O’NEIL – Danielle Nicole
PACHEO/PARKER – Maya Woloszyn

Get to know writer Katie Grotzinger:

1. What is your stage play about?

“Helen Reddy Would Be Ashamed” is about a group of teenagers at an all-girls’ school that have to pick a topic to work on for their social justice class. One of them suggests feminism, which the others feel is a pointless topic to bring up in their always pro-woman environment.

2. Why does this play need to be performed at the theatre?

The story takes place in a high school classroom and high school, to me, felt a lot like theatre. Everything was very high energy and the girls in the play are too. I think you can feel that best in a live performance.

3. How long…