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Submit to these exciting festivals today. Festivals that offer feedback from the industry, plus performance videos.
BIOGRAPHY Short Story Festival (everyone wins):
BIOGRAPHY Short Story Festival (everyone wins) – April 13th deadline
A biography is a written account of a person’s life that tells the story of their experiences, accomplishments, and challenges. The word “biography” comes from the medieval Greek words bios, meaning “life”, and graphia, meaning “writing”.
Submit your Short Story to the Festival and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
LGBTQ+ Novel Festival (3 options to submit):
LGBTQ+ Novel Festival. (3 options to submit). Deadline April 13th
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published.
LGBTQ+ Screenplay Festival:
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show.
BODY IMAGE Poetry Festival – FREE:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/318565/body-image-short-story-contest
Submit your poem for free and get it showcased on the platform. Other options for poetry video reading, and/or poetry movie.
FANTASY/SCI-FI Film & Screenplay Festival:
Deadline Today to submit to the festival:
Terrific read on my script, did a tremendous job!
Fantastic festival – the feedback was amazing in that it was detailed and intelligent. The reviewers really understood the bigger concepts and subtitles of the my film (Spot The Indifference). I was also delighted that it won Best Performances and I’m very proud for the actors involved. Thank you once again!!
Very impressed with the quality of the feedback, thanks so much everyone!
Thanks, Toronto. You have been a rock in my quest to get my screenplays produced. Your input is intelligent and always helpful.
A fantastic festival that gives you audience feedback through a video compilation – nothing I’ve ever experienced a festival do before! It was incredible hearing what people thought of our film and the depth the were able to get from it – it was even slightly emotional hearing what they had to say. A Brilliant festival!
Submit to these exciting festivals today. Festivals that offer feedback from the industry, plus performance videos.
TRAVEL Short Story Festival (everyone wins):
TRAVEL Short Story Festival (everyone wins) – Deadline April 11th
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.
Submit your TRAVEL short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video.
TRUE Crime Novel Festival:
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)
YOUNG ADULT Screenplay Festival:
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show.
EXPERIMENTAL, DANCE, MUSIC Festival:
Deadline Today to Submit to the Festival via FilmFreeway:
We love this festival! Restless Dance Theatre and our collaborators were thrilled to win ‘Best Performance’ for Counterpoise. The festival have shown so much care in supporting us and sharing audience feedback on the film.
The folks behind this festival really go out of their way to support the artists. They’re personal and involved, and I love their audience feedback videos. I’m really grateful to have been a part of this festival.
Excellent festival! So honored to have my Video Music « I don’t love my mother » be apart of it !
This was my first time submitting to this festival, and I was just so pleasantly surprised and excited of the professionalism, the communication, and also the feedback and opportunities! HIGHLY recommend hands down.
Thank you so much Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival for selecting us. This was our first submission and we are so happy we did. There are so many opportunities for exposure if you are selected into the festival. Very professional, and helpful in setting future filmmakers on the right path to discovery. We had such a great experience working with you. We were overjoyed to find out we won Best Performance. That wouldn’t have been possible without the opportunity they gave us by sharing our film with multiple audiences. Thank you again, we will be submitting again in the future!
Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPQ_695FAF8
Summary: Martin’s mother passes away after a two year battle with cancer and his long lost best friend Abe finally shows up after seven years. They have to catch up and fill each other in on what they have missed out on -only to realise that they might have missed out on being more than best friends.
Get to know the writer:
What is your screenplay about?
The logline for my script is about as basic of a summary as I could muster: “A reunion at a funeral between two friends who haven’t seen each other in seven years leads to conversations regarding loss, relationships, career, and family trauma.” Beyond that barebones description, within the span of the day these two guys will spend together, they realize how deeply impactful the other one was on their lives when they were younger.
What genres does your screenplay fall under?
The screenplay straddles back and forth between drama and comedy throughout.
Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
Man, that’s a tough question, and I’m not sure I can come up with an answer that isn’t self-congratulatory on some level – haha! But, I think one of the things I like so much about these characters is that, throughout the script, they have the chance to work through issues that I would hope are universal for so many people, regardless of how one identifies.
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FAMILY & KIDS Short Story Contest (everyone wins):
https://festivalforfamily.com/family-kids-short-story-contest-everyone-wins/
Submit your FAMILY short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video.
DRAMA Novel Festival:
https://festivalfordrama.com/drama-novel-festival/
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)
SPORTS Screenplay Festival:
https://sportsfilmfestival.video/
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show.
CINQUAIN Poetry Contest – FREE:
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/301195/cinquain-poetry-submission
Submit your poem for free and get it showcased on the platform. Other options for poetry video reading, and/or poetry movie.
ACTION, CRIME, MYSTERY Film & Screenplay Festival. Submit via FilmFreeway:
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WATER, 58min., USA
Directed by Gary Beeber
Like most people living in Ohio I never thought much about water because there s so much of it here. All I knew was that Ohio has large aquifers, but had no idea how we get our drinking water. I thought that the aquifer was a huge body of water underground, but it s not.
Submit to these exciting festivals today. Festivals that offer feedback from the industry, plus performance videos.
EROTICA Screenplay Festival:
This festival has a guaranteed 4-tier set up for each accepted script. (No matter what, all screenplays submitted receive FULL FEEDBACK on their work.)
1) Full Feedback on your script
2) Actors performance video reading of your script
3) Blog interview promotion.
4) Podcast interview on the Film Festival ITunes show
HISTORY Short Story Festival (everyone wins):
HISTORY Short Story Festival (everyone wins) – Deadline April 9th
Submit you HISTORY short story to the festival here, and we will automatically have it performed by a professional actor and turned into a promotional video for yourself.
History is a narrative that describes, analyzes, and questions past events, and examines the patterns of cause and effect. It’s a collection of stories told by many different people, and is subject to constant revision and reinterpretation. Accept only stories that fit into the HISTORY genre.
CONTEMPORARY FICTION Novel Festival:
CONTEMPORARY Novel Festival (3 options to submit): Deadline April 9th
Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.
NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)
SCI-FI/FANTASY Poetry Contest – FREE
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/submit/301194/sci-fi-fantasy-poetry-submission
Submit your poem for free and get it showcased on the platform. Other options for poetry video reading, and/or poetry movie.
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your novel about?
Somebody Else’s Life intertwines the personal histories of a convicted cold war spy, an East German intelligence officer who sets her up for entrapment, and the son of Holocaust survivors who takes her in following her release from prison. Themes of place and betrayal weave through the narrative, which involves echoes of the Spanish Civil War, the Shoah, the founding of the Village of Goose, spiritual cults, drug running cartels, and The World Trade Center on 9/11.
2. What genres would you say this story is in?
Somebody Else’s Life sits at the intersection between literary fiction and a book-club beach read.
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
History Rhymes.
4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?
The Big Lebowski
5. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
Hashkvieinu, the lullaby that’s part of the Sabbath liturgy on Friday nights.
6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
7. What motivated you to write this story?
It needed to get out.
8. If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?
Chaim Rumkowski
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
U.S. History, the Spanish Civil War, worker rights
10. What influenced you to enter your story to get performed?
Curious as to how it sounds in somebody else’s voice..
11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
None.
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