Month: January 2018

HIGHLIGHTS & VIDEOS: Toronto November 2017 Film Festival

Originally posted on FEEDBACK Female Film Festival:
AUDIENCE FESTIVAL AWARDS Best Film: HEDDA NEEDS HELP Best Performances: THE BENEFACTION Best Cinematography: THE FOREST PRINCESS Best Music: The music from BETWEEN SECONDS Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos for each film:  POST NO BILLS, 5min, Canada, Animation/Adventure  WATCH Audience FEEDBACK THE FOREST PRINCESS, 5min, USA, Fantasy/Family  WATCH Audience FEEDBACK THE BENEFACTION,…

HIGHLIGHTS, WINNERS & VIDEOS: December 2017 DRAMA FEEDBACK Film Festival

Originally posted on Los Angeles feedback film festival:
AUDIENCE FESTIVAL AWARDS Best Film: DE GLACE Best Performances: MORNING AFTER Best Cinematography: CALL COHO Best Music: MORNING AFTER Watch Audience FEEDBACK Videos:  MORNING AFTER 15min, USA, Drama/Romance WATCH Audience FEEDBACK DE GLACE, 6min, France, Drama/Thriller WATCH Audience FEEDBACK LOSING CLAIRE, 6min, India, Drama/Relationship WATCH Audience FEEDBACK CALL COHO, 16min, South…

TELEVISION 1st Scene Screenplay Reading of SWIPE, by Jeff D. Opdyke & A. Katie Main

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZIUe67VheQ Genre: Comedy, Romance What began as private, social-media posts to her closest friends explodes into the Bumble-age equivalent of Dear Abby for New York City’s app-centric singles. But now Jaq Newsome, the anonymous girl behind Swipe, must recreate her magic (and her online dating hookups and heartbreaks)…

1st Scene Screenplay Reading of AMERICAN SNAKE PIT, by Dan Tomasulo

Originally posted on First Scene Screenplay Festival:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA8IOCWWpMM Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery Based on a true story a young doctor takes over an experimental program the government is trying to shut down to help save the most troubled patients out of Willowbrook, the worst asylum in American history CAST LIST: NARRATOR: Rachel Rain Packota Kate:…

Winning TV PILOT Reading of MINNIE NOIR, by Katie Grotzinger

Originally posted on TV Screenplay Festival. Submit Today.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiW6m8IoVXw CAST LIST: NARRATOR: Becky Shrimpton Minnie: Kate Varadi Nick: Scott Beaudin Dash: Merlin Simard Ms. Kirkpatrick: Mahtab Sabet Connor: Allan Brunet Lincoln: Anthony Tran Get to know the writer:  What is your TV Pilot screenplay about? Minnie Hughes is a hardboiled noir detective that also just…

Winning TV PILOT Reading of PSI-COM 5, by Ed Vela

Originally posted on TV Screenplay Festival. Submit Today.:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGUivrsF0UY CAST LIST: NARRATOR: Becky Shrimpton Lynx: Merlin Simard Lucien: Allan Brunet Joselyn: Mahtab Sabet Liticia: Kate Varadi Titansor: Anthony Tran Hadley: Scott Beaudin Cho: Salma Dharsee What is your TV Pilot screenplay about? At a secret government facility, young psychics are being trained and their…

Interview with Winning Screenwriter Carl F. Zimmermann (TOE TAG MURDERS)

1. What is your screenplay about? Clearwater, Florida rising-star homicide detective, Mike Carol gets the chance of a lifetime when he goes to New York to work a two-year stint as a liaison in the Queens 112 precinct. But, the day he arrives bodies start showing up pitting him against the hardcore NYPD detectives he… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Carl F. Zimmermann (TOE TAG MURDERS)

Interview with Winning Screenwriter JoAnn Hess (FRAMER)

1. What is your screenplay about? Simon Webber, intelligent with a high moral compass, exists on society’s edge, mostly forgotten and ignored. When his wife and child are killed by a distracted driver, the court shows an unecpected leniency in the case. Enraged by a justice system that fails to act, Simon retaliates, using his… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter JoAnn Hess (FRAMER)

Interview with Winning Screenwriter Robert Cox (DRAGONSONG)

What is your screenplay about? It’s the story of Tal, a young man with a magical heritage, the son of the Magician Merlin, who finds that after hiding his magic for most of his life, realizes that he must do battle with the sorceress that trapped his father and has tried throughout history to conquer… Continue reading Interview with Winning Screenwriter Robert Cox (DRAGONSONG)