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Deadline Today: ENVIRONMENTAL Film & Screenplay Festival (Top Festival)

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A festival designed to showcase the best of new environmentally themed films (shorts, features) and screenplays (shorts, features, TV pilots) from around the world. We accept any genre (animation, comedy, experimental, horror etc.) as long as it has an underlying environmental thematic. We seek to advance public understanding of the environment through the power of film and storytelling; which is why this festival has been created.

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Awards & Prizes

We will perform a winning Environmental screenplay(s) at our festival every single month using professional actors. Then we send the writer a video of the performance reading.

We will showcase a festival every month using our flagship FEEDBACK Film Festival format. All festival dates are private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.

Recent Testimonial:

I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt appreciation for the remarkable experience I had at the Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival.

The entire event was impeccably organized, and the selection of films and screenplays presented was not only enlightening but also inspiring. It was evident that each piece was chosen for its powerful message and its potential to provoke thought and stimulate discussion regarding our environment and sustainability.

What truly stood out to me was the audience engagement. The feedback and reactions during the screenings were profound, reflecting a diverse audience deeply invested in environmental issues. This interactive aspect of the festival enriched the experience, providing invaluable insights and fostering a community spirit that was truly special.

  • K. Jacobs

Today’s Writing Festival Deadline: RELATIONSHIP Poetry Contest

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RELATIONSHIP Poetry Contest

Also submit on Submittable: 

https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit

 Submit a poem that’s about RELATIONSHIPS and get it made into a movie. 

Accepting any poetry in any genre or length that’s about a relationship in any way.

All poems will be posted on this network. Over 95,000 unique visitors a day. The winning poem will have their poetry made into a movie.

The RULES are simple:

Write a POEM that’s about RELATIONSHIPS. Send it to this contest for $20 and it will be POSTED on this site guaranteed for 100,000s to see. (you own all rights to this poem).

UPCOMING Writing Festival Deadlines: 

 May 10th – 1st Chapter Novel Contest – Get full feedback on your 1st chapter. Winners get their first chapter performed by a professional actors and made into a promotional video.

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May 12th – CRIME/MYSYERY Short Story Contest (All submissions win!) – Get full feedback on your short stoory. Winner gets their short story made into a movie. 

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May 13th – STAGE PLAY Writng Contest – Full feedback on your original stage play. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a video. 

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May 14th – 1 Page Short Stort contest – (All submissions win!) – Submit a short story that is only 1 page long (maximum 400 words) and have it performed at the Writing Festival by a professional actor and made into a video. 

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May 15th – FULL NOVEL Contest – Full feedback on your entire novel entry. Winners get a transcript of their novel performed by professional actors and made into a video. 

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1st CHAPTER FESTIVAL. Deadline May 10th

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1st CHAPTER FESTIVAL.

Watch Novel Performance Readings:

Get FULL FEEDBACK on your 1st chapter novel. from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Winners get their novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.

Submit your Project via Submittable:

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SUBMIT your novel now (1st chapter) To be eligible for our Writing Festival Events. Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation

Just VOTED one of the top festivals in the world today!

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.

The RULES are simple:

1. Write a story. Edit the heck out of it. We accept novels in all genres.

NEW: All submissions to this contest also get a FREE LOGLINE listing on the Writing Festival site. Go to the LOGLINE submission page at http://www.storypitches.com and submit your logline information.

2. Email your story to novels@novelwritingfestival.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format.

In the body in the email please add your:
– FULL NAME
– CITY AND COUNTRY
– TITLE OF STORY
– TYPE OF STORY (genre, length)
– (optional) and a 1-2 line synopsis of your story.

3a. FOR 1st CHAPTER of your novel – Pay the $35 submission fee (Save $15 off regular fee) via the button here:
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ALL SUBMITTED STORIES GET FULL FEEDBACK – The goal of the Novel Writing Festival is to help everyone involved grow as an artist, so we will offer some kind of constructive criticism whether or not we accept your entry for the formal festival.

Watch Novels Made into a Movie:

Watch Poetry Made into a Movie:

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.

Deadline Today: FANTASY/SCI-FI Film & Screenplay Festival (over 70 FIVE STAR Reviews!)

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FANTASY and SCI-FI Stories used to be a fringe market. Now they are in the mainstream now and forever as movies, television shows, and stories in fantasy/sci-fi are a gigantic multi-billion dollar market. This portion of the Film & Writing Festival serves the Fantasy and Sci-Fi filmmakers and writers from all over the world.

Submit via FilmFreeway:

This is a HYBRID film festival (NOT an online festival) with live screenings for the audience feedback video you will receive, plus an optional virtual 2nd showcase to enhance the film’s exposure. Festival also conducts blog and podcast interviews with the filmmaker. We have also started a filmmaker’s WhatsApp group with over 100 joined to date to chat about next project and make contacts etc….

Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Festival. WINNING reading every single month!

Get your short or feature film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get an audience video. Now a monthly festival taking place in either Chicago, Los Angeles, or Toronto

All festival dates have been updated to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.

We specialize in showcasing Fantasy/Sci-Fi stories and making sure that when the work is ready, the writer will benefit by at least obtaining a solid agent.

Watch Today’s Film Festival: GHOST MOVING FLOWERS feature film – DOC Festival

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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/

Watch FILM: https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/ghost-moving-flowers

DOC Festival – May 8/9 event

Documentary, Independent

GHOSTS MOVING FLOWING AND PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP, 60min., UK
Directed by Karl Fallon
This Ghostcircle film by Director Karl Fallon, is a thought provoking documentary about Physical Phenomena never captured before on film. The documentary is captures moments in time about modern day Physical Mediumship with Physical medium Patrick McNamara in which he explains that by providing the necessary conditions with people in a “Psychic Circle”, it will allow spirit entities the opportunity to move flowers in people’s hands. These Psychic or Physical Circles were demonstrated repeatedly and held in independent and reputedly haunted locations around the UK and Ireland. The film explores and captures the phenomena as he discusses the process around the demonstrations. All attendees were unknown to the medium and his team before turning up to see what they would get. The individual independent Psychic Circle sitters actually see and feel amazing phenomenon, and then give witness statements about that they experienced. See the strange and flower moving by the spirit entities with the sitters.

https://www.instagram.com/karl_fallon/

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

Filmmaker Podcast: EP. 1204 – ANIMATOR DAVID CALDERÓN (I AM MORE)

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I AM MORE, 3min., USA Directed by David Calderon

I am more is an initiative by Animagic Studios to create a conversation around self-esteem and body confidence among young women, their families and social circles.

http://animagic.io/

https://www.instagram.com/iammoreproject/

You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at http://www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it’s only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

New York SCIENCE & NATURE Film & Screenplay Festival – Deadline Today

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New York SCIENCE & NATURE Film & Screenplay Festival – Deadline Today

NEW OPTION: Submit for a GUARANTEED Acceptance.

https://filmfreeway.com/NewYorkScienceNature

Monthly Festival designed to showcase the best of SCIENCE and NATURE films (shorts, features, web series) and screenplays (short, feature, TV) in the world.

Any film & screenplay with a science and/or nature thematic and plot is eligible to be showcased at this festival.

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FILM FESTIVAL:

We are proud to announce a FOUR tier festival set up of your accepted film at the festival. Two screenings of your film at our festival, plus two separate interviews.

Screening #1 will take place in NYC and will be a private screening for a select group of people. They will then go home after the festival and record their comments of your film. Then we turn those comments into our regular FEEDBACK Festival Video

Screening #2 takes place one time only (for FREE) VIRTUALLY for all to see on our online feed every single day. 365 festivals in 2022. Already these screenings are garnering an audience of 1000s each day.

So in the end you will have TWO showcases of your film and you’ll receive your audience feedback video a week before the Virtual Festival.

Then (Tier #3) we will send you a list of questions to answer for our blog interview that will promote you and your film. Then after that (Tier #4) we will set up a podcast interview on our popular ITunes show where will we chat with you about the process of how the film was made.

SCREENPLAY FESTIVAL:

Winning screenplays performed by professional actors and made into a video each month. Film festival also occurs each month.

FULL FEEDBACK on all screenplay submissions. Film submissions can also request the committee’s feedback notes on their film.

Watch Today’s Film Festival: Best of INSPIRATIONAL Documentary Shorts

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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/

Watch FILM:

https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/may-7-docs

See the Full Lineup of Films:

STORIES OF REPEAL & REUNION, 16min., Canada
Directed by Ky Kim
Canada’s 1923 Chinese Exclusion Act was a dark and unprecedented period in Canadian history. It is also a mostly forgotten period of Canadian history that lasted for almost a quarter century and had a devastating impact on one community: the Chinese. Even after the law was repealed in 1947, the trauma continued for years. Told through eye-witness testimony, this documentary explores the repercussions on families who were separated and forced to spend most of their lives an ocean apart. To this day, the pain and suffering of this period is reflected in the stories of its survivors. This is a lesser known part of Canadian history.

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

SPACE FOR ART, 15min., USA
Directed by Maclovia G Martel
Space for Art is an extraordinary documentary film on the power of hope, courage, and healing. Featuring astronatut, and artist, Nicole Stott the film follows her on perhaps her most important mission of uniting a planetary community of children through the awe and wonder of space exploration and the healing power of art. Meet some of the young children who are wise beyond their years.

https://www.spaceforartfoundation.org/space-for-art-film

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

RORQUAL, 43min., France
Directed by Hugo Hebbe
Have you ever wondered what creatures might be hiding in the Mediterranean?

http://rorqual-lefilm.com/

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

Feature Film Review: GROUP. Writer/Director William R.A. Rush

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Synopsis:

At a group meeting for recovering drug addicts, not everyone is revealing the full truth.

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Review by Andie Karvelis:

Group centers around a variety of addicts and the moderator as we journey through their individual stories and discover the personal anguish each member has. Struggling with addiction of any kind is always hard, being in therapy is something much more accepted now than it was years ago.

However, this isn’t your typical NA meeting. Written and Directed by William R.A. Rush, this story is a slow burn where our group leader Tommy, portrayed by Tommy Malek, is welcoming everyone to another group session and thanking Dan, portrayed by Don Scribner, for hosting.

You get the feeling all of these people have been in this group together for a while. At one point Joe, played by Joe Montoya, even calls Tommy out about something he said 2 weeks prior. The audience gets the benefit of listening to how each person’s addiction started but it seems like everyone in the room would already know this information. It would explain Joe’s hilarious outbursts as he calls several addicts out with perfect comedic timing. Tommy’s absolute frustration when the session is going off the rails is pure, sensational comedy.

For only using one room to film in, the Cinematographer, Michael Joseph Murray did a wonderful job. The creativity with using a projector to show past images while the actors described what they were going through was brilliant. It helped draw you into their individual stories. I have to commend William R.A. Rush for a twist ending that no one would ever see coming

Short Film Review: MANIFESTATION. Denmark. Dir. Danny Germansen

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Synopsis:

Manifestation is an semi-autobiographical art-house short film about a mentally ill person who takes revenge on society because he feels neglected by his family, the social system, the community around him, and Society in general. He was mentally abused as a kid and adult by a psychopathic father. The film draws parallels to the environmental issues of the present and to the white supremacy that created our capitalist society that we live in today. It’s a tale of a social outcast who suffered weltschmerz and lived a life of loneliness, alienation and isolation in a society that is emotionally desolated. During the 17-minute film, the viewer experiences a nihilistic view of the world from the social outcast’s point of view.

Review by Victoria Angelique:

Mental health is rarely depicted from inside the head of the individual suffering. MANIFESTATION gets into the head of the main character through a voice over and symbolism to show how this man has gotten to his breaking point. It begins with a text giving an analysis of the tortured soul by giving necessary background information that most films never give for complex characters.

Symbolism is quite strong throughout this short film. The use of a broken mirror to symbolize a fractured soul is quite strong. The affirmations in the man’s head are trying to make him feel like he is worth more than voices from his past echo within his brain. The idea that the masks that individuals wear prohibits them from seeing the pain of others, making everyone seem the same. Humanity is ignored, destroying the psyche of those who would like just one person to acknowledge their pain rather than utter harsh judgements.

The voice over portrays the invisible scars warring inside the man’s head. It’s reminiscent of the inner voice that everyone has at some point that people fight to silence the negative thoughts. Eventually for the abused and mentally ill, the negative thoughts often wins as the past begins to haunt the present. The inner conflict can break a soul to do the unthinkable in desperation and anger when the acknowledgement from one person could have stopped a tragedy.

This film by filmmaker Danny Germansen is a poignant reminder of what could make some commit mass murder. Rarely is a killer seen as a sympathetic character. This is a stark reminder of how brutal the fight against mental illness can really be when proper help cannot be attained.

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