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LA Festival Feature Screenplay: Sunset In Kanungu, by Peter Kisiraga
A soldier questions his life decisions as he finds himself entangled in social and religious conflicts upon returning to his native home
SYNOPSIS
ACT 1
David Mukisa (28-32) an Inquisitive married man and a father to a boy child has just fought his last battle in the Second congo war, having spent his last few years with UN missions and Ugandan army he’s discharged. David has two options, either to move to Kampala and take a job he is offered or re-join his family, the family he left for years. He decides to come back home.
We are in the early months of the year 1999 in Kanungu Uganda most restoration churches are gaining the trust of Christians from other denominations. Having to keep up with his family, David is hired as a driver by an old friend Eric (28-30), now a successful businessman in kanungu.
David doesn’t seem…
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LA Festival Short Screenplay: DRIVER, by Adonis de la Cruz Vásquez
Four friends are in a car when they suffer a serious accident. The girls who go behind leave unharmed, but the boys, who go ahead, are in critical condition and with damaged internal organs, so the death of one could mean the salvation of the other.
- Project Title (Original Language):Driver (C)
- Script Type:Student, Screenplay, Short Script
- Genres:Drama, short film, student, traffic, city, Madrid, Spanish
- Number of Pages:15
- Country of Origin:Spain
LA Festival TV Screenplay: Hanging In There, by Cooper Tomlinson
After an ugly breakup with his longtime girlfriend, Scott—a local radio host— tries to navigate through a single life with the support of his two friends.
- Script Type:Student, Television Script
- Number of Pages:35
- Country of Origin:United States
- Script Language:English
LA Festival Short Screenplay: N.D.E., by Jean Galliano
After being shot while breaking into someone’s home, a Teen Addict has a Near Death Experience [N.D.E.] where he is confronted by a Demon and then by the LORD.
Jose’ is whisked away into a dark place. The Demon proceeds to beat him and knock him around in the darkness. Jose’ fights back unto exhaustion. Defeated, he falls remorseful and apologetic. His MOTHER’S PRAYERS can be heard, and light begins to illuminate the room. The light gathers into the shape of a being – a LIGHT BEING. The Light Being leads Jose’ out of the darkness and into a bountiful garden where the light is revealed to be an aura around the person of the LORD JESUS. The Lord gives Jose’ a new name and sends him back to his body to, “do the work he was sent to do.“ To everyone’s amazement, Jose’ awakens after being dead for nine…
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LA Festival Feature Screenplay: Away With My Heart, by Hoyt Richards, Lawrence Nelson II
Hoyt Richards – Award winning Actor/Writer/Filmmaker and Founder/Executive of Tortoise Entertainment
Originally from the Main Line area outside Philadelphia, Hoyt was a scholar-athlete who graduated from Princeton with a BA in Economics where he also played football. In his early career, Hoyt worked as a fashion model for Ford and Wihelmina Models and is considered by many to be the world’s first male supermodel. Over his fifteen-year career, Hoyt was the face of numerous campaigns for the industry’s top designers and he appeared in over three hundred commercials.
In 2000, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began working as an actor and now has…
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LA Festival Short Screenplay: From Dad, To Bobby, by Miguel “Mike” Medina
A son reminisces about a conversation he had with his father, about the memories they shared through Baseball.
Miguel “Mike” Medina is a Dominican-American actor, writer and filmmaker. Born and raised in Washington Heights neighborhood in he NYC borough of Manhattan.
Following his graduation from City College of New York, he has written four short films. They include: The Grade, Bittersweet Holiday, Torn Feelings and From Dad, To Bobby. His work in Torn Feelings, made him a finalist for Best Screenplay at the Oniros Film Awards.
LA Festival TV Screenplay: The Plague Boys, by Kristian Day
Kristian Day grew up in America’s heartland. At age 21 he broke in to the film industry as a foley artist and sound designer. By age 28 he started working as a production coordinator on major unscripted shows and slowly moved into commercials and branded content as a production manager and first assistant director.
At age 30, he couch surfed Los Angeles for 30 days with random strangers he had never met before. At the end of the 30 days, a feature in the Des Moines Register was written documenting both his 30 days surfing and then opening up his house to fellow travelers. Cityview Magazine then invited him to write a monthly column about the random travelers…
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LA Festival Feature Screenplay: Stealing Rock Back, by Danielle Givens
Ellie is an American writer and filmmakers.
Ellie does quite of dabbling. She has released the first eighty pages of her fantasy series on Wattpad simply because she loves to share her writing. In 2013, Ellie wrote and co-directed “Carry On” a silent short film. She is currently working on another short film, a visual poem, to be released in the summer of 2019. Ellie has a passion for the film festival circuit. She has volunteered and interned for several festivals over the years including SFFILM. In 2016 her passion for film festivals led her to the first annual Grand Foundation Student Film Festival. To this day she remains with a suspended spot…
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Female Festival Feature Script: Calber Island, by Kristen Butler & Jacob Johnston
Kristen Butler (Producer, Writer) began her career in the film industry as an editor, working on projects such as Mandie and the Cherokee Treasure, 77 Chances, and Summertime Christmas. At the same time, she began producing under Mirari Pictures, a film company that she co-founded. Under the Mirari Pictures brand, Kristen produced three award-winning short films, and the feature My House.
Kristen possesses a strong background in marketing, having worked in the internal marketing department at a large non-profit university, as well as dedicating five years to the service of an independent marketing firm.
In 2019, Kristen founded her second…
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