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 Deadline Today: STYLE, EXPERIMENTAL, FASHION Film Festival (FREE Submissions)

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Two options to submit your film: 

1) Automatic submission and garner audience feedback video. 

2) Submit for Free and have your film played at the Virtual Film Festival streaming service, with awards after the festival. 

Submit via FilmFreeway: 

https://filmfreeway.com/stylefashionexperimental

So…….let’s put on a film festival that showcases films & talent that no other festival does. Alternative films. Fashion films. Music Videos, Dance Pieces. Films without a plot. Films that let the visuals and sounds tell the emotions and let the audience interpret their own feelings.

A monthly festival!

What makes this festival unique is 4 fold!

1) Each accepted film gets a private viewing from a new audience in Los Angeles. Then that audience comments on your film and we make an Audience Feedback Video for you. Many use this video for their trailer and/or promotional purposes.

2) Then the filmmaker and team gets to do a blog interview with the festival where they can talk about their film and filmmaking life & career.

3) After that, the filmmaker and team can go on the Daily Filmmaking ITunes Podcast for an exclusive interview.

4) And finally, the film (optional) gets to show their film on the Daily Film Festival Streaming Service. Great way to get your film out to the industry.

OR

Simply submit your film for FREE at the Virtual Film Festival with awards.

All film submissions are FREE. Opportunity to have your film showcased on the popular streaming service for 48 hours.

(Other opportunities to garner a distribution deal with the company and have your film showcased always on the streaming service.)

OR

Submit your screenplay and get it made into a best scene video.

Over 50 5 star reviews on FilmFreeway!

Today’s Film Festival: SCI-FI/FANTASY Shorts Festival – May 17/18 event

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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-17-sci-fi-fantasy

See the Full Lineup of Films:

INCURSIO, 9min,. USA
Directed by Jonathan Sackman
On the day of Singularity, an ordinary man finds himself in the midst of an artificial intelligence attack.

http://jonathansackman.com/https://www.instagram.com/jsfilmandtv/

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/incursio-review

REBIRTH, 9min,. USA
Directed by Jamezz iaiahe Hampton
In this contemporary twist on the biblical tale, Adam and Eve are thrust into an unfamiliar world after being expelled from Eden. Struggling to discern what is truly good and evil in this complex environment, they embark on a journey of self-discovery in order to set them free.

https://www.1209productions.com/hampton-experience
https://www.facebook.com/Jamezzhampton
https://www.twitter.com/JamezzHampton
https://www.instagram.com/Jamezzhampton

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/rebirth-reviews

THREE AM, 22min., Canada
Directed by Jeff Wolverton
Sometimes when you pray, it isn’t God who answers.

http://threeamfilm.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556319635264
https://instagram.com/threeamfilm

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/three-am-review

OUTLANDS, 6min., UK
Directed by Mark Hampton
A band of warriors must navigate the uncharted woodlands of Barberia, but find trouble closing in all around..

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/outlands-review

GIFT, 19min,. USA
Directed by Graham Northrup
A young man escapes through the woods with his barely-conscious sister. Pursued by a warlord and his ruthless tracker, he must prevent her from falling into their hands again. But they will stop at nothing to control her unique gift – the ability heal others with touch.

http://www.northrupstudios.com/
https://facebook.com/northrupstudios
https://instagram.com/northupstudios

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/gift-reviews

SEED SPIRIT, 16min., USA
Directed by Marie-Noelle Marquis
When an ancient Native American doll shows up mysteriously, a clash begins, pitting money, fame and Spirit in a battle where only one will win.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/seed-spirit-review

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: ACTION/ADVENTURE Film & Screenplay Festival

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A showcase of the best Action/Adventure Films and Screenplays from around the world.

Submit on FilmFreeway:

Festival takes place every single month online.

Film Festival will be showcased at the monthly virtual film festival.

Screenplay submissions offers writers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using professional actors. Full feedback on all submissions as well by our team of professional screenwriters.

We have created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:

Tier #1 – Your film plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.

Tier #2 (optional) – Your film plays on the Film Festival streaming service for 30 hours and invite a select industry audience to watch it. With this system, some films have already received a distribution deal as many platforms are looking for solid feature and short documentaries. We can not guarantee anything of course but this has been very helpful to many in the past. (see testimonials below)

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.

Today’s Film Festival: Best of WILDsound Shorts Festival – May 16/17 event

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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-16-wildsound-shorts

See the Full Lineup of Films:

BENEATH THE SOIL, 4min., Australia
Directed by Peter Edward Hartwig
A deeply introspective experimental film, delving into the psyche of an eclectic artist on a quest to complete his most important art. In 4 minutes, we journey through the artist’s emotional landscape as he unveils a haunting collage of paintings that depict the darkest chapters of his life.

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

DISMISSING THE ENVELOPE, 10min., USA
Directed by Steven Wright Clarkson
A young girl enters the painting world of four prominent artists

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

THE SWEATER, 9min., Canada
Directed by Maziyar Khatam
Pressured into giving away his clothes, an emasculated young man obsessively attempts to reclaim his cherished sweater before it vanishes into the donation abyss.

https://www.instagram.com/funnybonepictures/

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

LEI, 12min., Canada
Directed by Huiru Shi
Our story follows S, a seamstress tormented by her dreams of a moth Yokai, as she navigates a literal and symbolic maze to confront the creature and free herself from the psychological labyrinth that mirrors her inner struggles. It’s a symbolic journey that represents the complex struggle many face when dealing with mental health issues, providing a fresh, metaphoric perspective on self-doubt and existential fear.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.instagram.com/shortfilmlei/

STEEL LIBIDO, 15min., USA
Directed by Bronwyn Cornelius
Spurred by her tween daughter’s assessment of her sex life (or lack thereof), a single mom goes on a journey to rediscover her own sexuality.

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

PEGASUS HIGHWAY, 15min., Australia
Directed by Ethan Grahek
Two Bronies (Adult male fans of small, collectable Pony toys) are out to buy weed for their first time. Unbeknown to them, it is also their dealers first deal. What should have been a simple transaction quickly devolves, forcing one of the Bronies to chauffeur the eccentric drug dealer on a psychotic road trip. But there is more to these Bronies than the dealer could ever fathom.

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/festival-audience-feedback-videos/videos/pegasus-highway-review

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

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The monthly festival that showcases the best of Thriller/Suspense Genre Stories and Films from around the world.

THRILLER festivals occur 12 times a year in Toronto & Los Angeles. Go to the website for information on the next events.

Submit via FilmFreeway:

This is a HYBRID film 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….

With THRILLER screenplays and films, there will always be a market. This is a genre that will always be popular. Agents and producers are always looking for the next great writer and the next great filmmakers who tell great THRILLER stories. So if that is you, we will showcase your script or short film and make sure the right people see your work.

All festival dates have been moved 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.

Submit your film or story and get it showcased at the Festival.

Screenplay Festival occurs monthly.

Today’s Film Festival: CHICAGO Shorts Festival – May 15/16 event

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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-15-chicago-festival

See the Full Lineup of Films:

WEEK 11: SLAPSTICK, 2min., USA
Directed by William (Sharp) Walker
After a little boy loses his ball on a roof, he tries increasingly outlandish strategies to get it back.

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

HALCYON, 7min,. Australia
Directed by Brenton McNally
David looks for his missing wife but struggles to get out of his own way.

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

WEEK 2: THRILLER, 1min., USA
Directed by Genus Griggs
Two brothers explore what appears to be an abandoned building. The older brother goes missing and the younger searches for him. He find’s his older brother bleeding out. The younger brother is then also captured.

https://www.instagram.com/genus.entertainment/

ASHES – CHAPTER 0, 4min., USA
Directed by Isaiah Matthew Griggs
In a mysterious facility, David, a captive, engineers his escape by tricking a guard. He evades pursuit through the building, discovering a lab and learning about his metahuman status. Outside the facility, he is captured by guards who mention his destructive potential. David wakes up in the lab, where his powers intensify and cause a powerful explosion. The short ends with David metaphysically floating in space, undergoing a transformative experience before unleashing a surge of energy.

https://www.instagram.com/genus.entertainment/

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

THE CAPSULE, 20min,. Poland
Directed by Kamil Keenan, Agnieszka ?aglewska
Two astronauts in a space capsule realize that they won’t have enough oxygen until help arrives. In this extreme situation, they suddenly have to face the ultimate questions. Accompanying the characters on their final journey, viewers begin to wonder what their answers would be.

http://kamilkeenan.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kamilkeenan

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/capsule-final-feedback

PUREBRED PASSION, 22min,. USA
Directed by Sam Powell
A documentary profiling two teams of competitors during the 2023 Great American Dog Show in Chicago.

https://www.samnpowell.com/
http://vimeo.com/sampowell

Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/purebred-passion-feedback

Today’s FilmFreeway Deadline: EXPERIMENTAL, DANCE, MUSIC Film Festival

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Festivals take place at various Cinemas in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.

Submit via FilmFreeway:

NOTE: The festival has created a hybrid festival with 4 tiers to enhance your film and your festival experience. All accepted films receive all four tier options:

Tier #1 – Your film plays at either a public live event where we will record the audience reactions of your short or feature and then send you the feedback video. Or, it plays at a private festival event where the audience will record their comments/reactions to your film on their camera or phone, then we edit them and send you a promotional video. No matter what you will receive a promotional video of your film of people commenting on your film.

Tier #2 – We put up your film live on the Film Festival Streaming Service for 30 hours and invite a select industry audience to watch it. With this system, some films have already received a distribution deal as many platforms are looking for solid feature and short films. We can not guarantee anything of course but this has been very helpful to many in the past. (see testimonials below)

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.

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The goal of this festival is to showcase the best of new experimental short films and independent music videos from around the world. Films that don’t get a fair shake from other film festivals because programmers don’t know where to “categorize” these films. There isn’t a typical linear story occurring so most festivals can’t truly understand the talent and beauty around these films.

We want to showcase films that showcase true originality and talent from filmmakers from every corner of the globe. And also showcase new musicians who have made a music video and want it to be shown.

Watch Today’s Film Festival: Best of LGBTQ+ Short Films

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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-11-lgbtq

See the Full Lineup of Films:

MY FIRST TIME – COMING OUT, 20min., Australia
Directed by Carolyn Cage
Made for queer people and their allies, ‘My First Time’ takes an unfiltered and heartfelt look at unforgettable first universal queer experiences from members from Australia’s LGBTQ+ community.

https://www.youtube.com/@WeArePride
https://www.facebook.com/WeArePrideNetwork/
https://www.instagram.com/we.arepride/

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

LAST DANCE, 12min., Mexico
Directed by Fernando Garzafox
Dance like everyone is watching, Love like nobody is.
When Diego meets Raúl, he finds love within.

https://www.instagram.com/fergarzafox

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

IN WAVES, 5min., UK
Directed by Shaohan Song
Ke the cinephile begins writing her first script in front of the computer, projecting her complex emotions towards her ex-girlfriend Blue onto the characters she is creating. The surrounding space starts to transform in tandem with her imagination…

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

THE TWO SPINSTERS, 9min., Italy
Directed by Ugo Lanzotti, Roberta Pia De Angelis
Two ladies have been living together for many years. One of them, Maria, has to face an old family hostility for having chosen to live love…

https://www.instagram.com/roberta_de_angelis

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

TRANS PUNK, 32min., USA
Directed by Margaret Anne Plumb
A member of the trans community explores the hateful rhetoric and hyperbole surrounding the “transgender issue.” This intimate conversation, featuring those spewing the hate and those most affected by it, will aim to thrash, bash, and smash, this so called “issue.”

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

AVE MARIE, 13min,. New Zealand
Directed by Celestina Louisa Marie Sumby
Set in 1984 suburban Aotearoa New Zealand, Ave Marie is about adopted siblings Marie and Xavier who use dance as a way to escape the day-to-day reality of their mother’s religious rants and the neighbourhood bullies. While tough and unforgiving Xavier insists on putting himself front and centre of every dance routine and fighting the BMX gang for his right to wear lycra, Marie decides she wants to shine too. When their staunchly Catholic mother leaves the kids home alone for another funeral, Marie gets her chance.

https://instagram.com/ave_marie_shortfilm

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

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.

Submit via FilmFreeway:

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.

SUBMIT NOW

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. 

SUBMIT NOW

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. 

SUBMIT NOW

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. 

SUBMIT NOW

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. 

SUBMIT NOW