Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about?

Eliza Frakes: REMEMBRANCE DAY takes place in a near-future, radicalized America wherein Roe V. Wade has been overturned. It follows two female friends, Maggie and Bix, on their escape to seek out an illegal abortion from a doomsday prepper in Joshua Tree.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

I would classify REMEMBRANCE DAY as a dramedy or dark comedy, with elements of sci-fi.

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

I believe in this work because it is timely and poignant. I have tried to engage in a conversation about women’s rights and the direction we’re headed currently in this country through the lens of two very human characters, in the hope that their nuanced relationship provides a viewpoint into the deeper issues our nation faces.

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

War cry.

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about?

Debra Knox: Orson Welles Ashes is a dark comedy about the misadventures of a couple of Hollywood wannabes who steal his ashes and try to sell them: his chauffeur and an aging actress/writer who’s trying to fulfill her dreams and buck the Hollywood system.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Dramedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Because it speaks to the issues of being a woman over 40 who’s writing and striving to make her movies and stories be told and heard!

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Poignant-Zaniness

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?

5 years

7. How many stories have you written?

hundreds if not thousands.

8. What…

Matthew Toffolo: What is your screenplay about?

Devin Lofti; Well obviously you know the premise but my screenplay is really about unrequited love, which everyone can relate to but in this case the sometimes more hidden hardships of the LGBTQ+ community when falling for someone who does not share the same sexual orientation. Also themes of moving on and letting go without bitterness.

2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?

Comedy, Romantic Comedy

3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

It’s time for the gay sidekick supporting act to be the leading man.
And it’s also sweet and lots of fun 🙂

4. How would you describe this script in two words?

Hot sh*t. haha just kidding — um : Hopelessly happy.

5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?

Probably SCREAM (I also wrote a slasher before this, eek!)

6. How…

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST DRAMA FILM: REECE
BEST LATINO FILM: THE INITIATION
BEST STUDENT FILM: NATALIE
BEST PERFORMANCES: THE CLOSURE CENTER
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: FROM THE THUNDER
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: TIME DIFFERENCE

Theme of night: Feeling like an outsider.

NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private.

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The beginning of a (temporary) new era.

See you at the festivals. Whenever that happens!

– Matthew Toffolo

DAFFODIL, 18min., Hong Kong, Drama

Directed by Nicola Fan

A trip through the psyche of an apathetic workaholic in the sudden wake of her estranged mother’s death.

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NATALIE, 13min., Australia, Drama

Directed by Tess Emmerson

It is 2004. Natalie and Natalie are best friends, utterly inseparable and stuck in the awkward moment between high school and the rest of their lives. They are different in every way, though practically the same person. ‘Natalie’ is a story about coming-of-age, coming out and coming to terms with who you are.

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TIME DIFFERENCE, 3min., China, Animation/Drama

Directed by XUQIN SUN

This animation shows the different space people how to communicate. This story is that A and B get a video call. They enter the world of imagination together. And they spend lot of time to contact each other. But the they living environment is totally different. B is gone. A want to pursue, but the time obstruct her. she cannot do anything. Since on one can solve the problem of time. In the end, they left each other.

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CYRANO AUX TRANCHEES, 15min., USA, Fantasy/Drama

Directed by Edouard DOSSETTO

Verdun, 1917. In the night between the bombings, four Poilus heard a character fall from the Moon; an encounter of their reality with the historical fiction: Cyrano de Bergerac.
Based on the play by Joseph Suberville, a young gunner poet, written in 1918, and performed at the Théâtre des Armées a century ago.

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FROM THE THUNDER, 10min., Canada, Drama/War

Directed by Daniel Everitt-Lock

From The Thunder is a visually striking yet poignant depiction of the horrors of war on soldiers of all countries. Shown on a more personal scale than that of a large war piece, we follow three Canadian scouts as they come across a lone German deserter when looking for shelter from the impending storm. We share in the terrors of battle from both sides of the war and how these soldiers handle their shared trauma in very different ways…

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THE CLOSURE CENTER, 17min., USA, Drama/Fantasy

Directed by Chelsey d’Adesky

In a near future London, Cara is haunted by unresolved feelings from a past relationship with Peter. Her new partner, Adam, is about to move in with her, so she books an appointment at The Closure Center. In the session, Cara and Peter sort through the ending of their relationship and work towards acceptance in order to move on.

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