ALIVE was the winner of BEST DOC FILM at the upcoming Dance & Music Festival. WATCH this film and an amazing lineup of shorts for FREE this Saturday: https://experimentalfilmfestival.com/next-los-angeles-event/

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About the film: A hybrid, experimental documentary which explores the issue of modern-day slavery perpetrated by the fast fashion industry. Through art, dance, and anthropology, Alive seeks to start the conversation of our individual role in the world, and our responsibility to fix its issues.

Braden chats about the process making this film and the unique location they shot the film in.

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THE DYING LIGHT was the winner of BEST FILM at the upcoming Dance & Music Festival. WATCH this film and an amazing lineup of shorts for FREE this Saturday: https://experimentalfilmfestival.com/next-los-angeles-event/

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Mr. Corazon chats candidly about the inspiration of making this music video as a support for Black Lives Matter. A true talent, he wrote, directed and did the music for this video.

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WATCH MY FRIEND, THE MAYOR: SMALL-TOWN POLITICS IN THE AGE OF TRUMP at our POLITICAL Film Festival this upcoming Friday: https://lafeedbackfilmfestival.com/virtual-cinema-screening/

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Candid conversation with the filmmaker and how this film came to be.

Summary of FILM: Among the first to be hit by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s, Sean Strub’s political ambitions took a backseat as he struggled to survive. Now 60, he is running for mayor of a conservative town in Pennsylvania. How will this liberal, openly gay ex-New Yorker and founder of POZ, a magazine for people with HIV, fare in a rural community that voted for Donald Trump?

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Director Toby Hayman & Producer/Editor Paige talk about the process of making their short DOC film THE BIRDER. Still time to watch the film and the festival now: https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/

Summary of film: J. Drew Lanham has lived his life vicariously through birds. As a boy in rural South Carolina they showed him a world beyond his backyard, and taught him how the places of the world are connected. Today as an ecology professor and ornithologist he watches birds to learn how our environment is changing. They provide a warning, but they also give us hope.

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The raw materials that go into most electronics today are mined from the Congo. This is how HEAR CONGO is helping. Playing at the Under 5 Minute Film Festival today. Watch/RSVP the festival: https://under5minutefilmfestival.com/next-festival-event/

See how HEAR CONGO got made and why it’s a very important subject and film.

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The art of the one-minute-movie. Great chat with the filmmaker of HOME BREAK IN, playing at the Under 5 Minute Film Festival on Friday. Watch/RSVP the festival: https://under5minutefilmfestival.com/next-festival-event/

How to tell the beginning, middle and give an amazing twist ending in just 60 seconds. Watch HOME BREAK IN:

“A mysterious woman breaks into a man’s apartment while he is showering. After some unknown events, the story ends unexpectedly.”

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2 WEEKS is a film about asexuality. Part of the LGBTQ+ Film Festival streaming today.

Watch the festival now: https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/

Great chat with the writer/producer/actor of the short film, Margarita Zhitnikova, on the process of making her short film. From crowdfunding, to prepping the film, to production, to post, to having to go back and re-shoot a scene. It was a long but rewarding process.

Summary of 2 WEEKS, 9min., USA, Drama

When 20-something-year-old Tanya begins to realize she’s asexual, the highly charged sexualized world she lives in as an actress and partner begins to fall apart and feels more and more like an unbearable nightmare.

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ON THE RIDE was the winner of BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the January 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival. There is a special screening streaming all day on Saturday January 9th.

You can RSVP/WATCH the festival at https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/next-film-festival-event/

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Summary of ON THE RIDE, 13min., USA, Drama:

On his morning bike ride, Scott grapples with the memories of a trauma he experienced with his husband Todd. When his route suddenly takes an unexpected turn, Scott finds himself on the doorstep of a stranger intimately connected to the past he can’t shake.

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CRACKSMEN is a terrific high concept feature screenplay written by comic book writer/screenwriter Daniel Corey:

“Cracksmen are a new class of criminal that specialize in slipping into an alternate dimension to commit crimes. Jake is one of the best, but to escape the mob, he has to strike a deal that will get him in trouble with syndicates on both sides of reality.”

Watch the Best Scene Screenplay Reading: https://vimeo.com/491979244

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Jake: Steve Rizzo
Leo: Sean Ballantyne
Isis: Allison Kampf

Writer Biography – Daniel Corey

Daniel Corey is a writer and content producer who has created for comics, live theatre and virtual reality.

Daniel’s projects include the graphic novels BLOODWORTH and PROPHET, which he wrote and distributed through his company, DangerKatt, as well as MORIARTY and RED CITY, which he published through Image Comics (home of THE WALKING DEAD). MORIARTY has been adapted into a VR comic book titled MORIARTY: ENDGAME VR, which earned him the #2 spot on Onalytica’s Top 100 VR Influencers list.

He has also worked in broadcast news for NPR and ABC, serves on the Creative Writing Program Advisory Committee at Full Sail University, and speaks at pop culture conventions around the country.

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Multi-talented actor/director/writer Stephen Keep Mills ends 2020 and begins 2021 for WILDsound as we chat with him about his fantastic feature film LOVE IS NOT LOVE.

“Love is Not Love” is streaming for free for 24 hours as part of the Black & White Film Festival on January 1st 2021. Watch it here: https://blackandwhitefilmfestival.com/

Stephen chats with Matthew about making a feature film on a budget. Finding the right cast & crew to carry out and add to his vision, and then putting it all together in post-production. He also chats about being trained as an actor by the legendary teacher Stella Adler, and shares some funny stories about that time in his life.

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The process of making the movie that you want to make and succeeding doing so. ODYSSEY OMEGA is a film that you’ve never seen before. It’s full of emotion and creativity. A must watch!

You can stream the exclusive screening all day Saturday by emailing the festival for the password here: https://thrillersuspensefestival.com/next-festival-event/

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DARK DAY is a must see 7 minute Thriller written & directed by the talented filmmaker Matt Szymanowski

You can stream the exclusive screening all day Saturday by emailing the festival for the password here: https://thrillersuspensefestival.com/next-festival-event/

Matt talks about how he found his sound team (designer and composer) by simply asking two very established people. Plus, how this film began as an demo reel idea for the lead actor and turned into one of the best Crime/Thriller short films of 2020.

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IMAGINARY FRIEND is the winner of BEST CRIME/THRILLER Film at the upcoming festival on Saturday December 26th.

You can stream the exclusive screening all day Saturday by emailing the festival for the password here: https://crimemysteryfestival.com/action-crime-mystery-festival/

Great chat with Jason Sanchez on the process of making this film. From casting. Working with child actors. Collaborating with his cinematographer on set. To piecing the picture and sound together in post-production.

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A double screenplay winner turned filmmaker, Carmine Bicchetti is bringing back the tone and style of 1950s cinema with a modern twist of important topics.

Great interview with the talented writer. Listen to the best scene reading of his screenplay “Halfway to Heaven” after the interview.

Watch the 1st Scene Reading of HALFWAY TO HEAVEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOVhIh9LXKQ

When Hollywood’s biggest director dies, his drunken ghost remains on Earth to help his best girl Friday complete one last picture.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Allison Kampf
Wadsworth – Shawn Devlin
Henry/Georgie: Geoff Mays
Cookie: Julie Sheppard

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The TV PILOT screenplay that needs to be turned into a series. It’s all about the down the middle perspective of guns in the US society.

Great interview with writer Rain Story about the process of writing this script and the change of perspective of growing from growing up in the South to living in Los Angeles. LISTEN to the best scene reading of GUNS AND GODS after the interview.

Watch 1st Scene Reading of GUNS AND GODS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlvryPFtzo

A powerful Bible-belt family protects its gun empire, cultural traditions, and constitutional right to bear arms not only from the liberals next door but also from changing gun laws.

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Colton/Activists/Willie : Steve Rizzo
Activists/Radio Host : Allan Michael Brunet
Catherine : Hannah Ehman

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The great screenplay within the screenplay. Patrick McGrath chats about finding out that he had a brother he never knew about living literally a few miles away from him that was the motivation to write this script.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE was the COMEDY Festival screenplay winner.

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCMWNci0QB0

A lonely young man from Upstate New York, finds love, friendship, and courage, as a female impersonator in a Greenwich Village follies show, while doubling as a snitch for the NYPD.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Kyana Teresa

Jeremy: Geoff Mays

Alex: Bill Poulin

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HOW HISTORY IS WRITTEN is playing at the December 2020 Documentary Film Festival. Great chat with the filmmaker on the process of making this deeply personal film.

Read the blog interview with the director: https://matthewtoffolo.com/2020/12/18/interview-with-director-tim-alberts-how-history-is-written/

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video of HOW HISTORY IS WRITTEN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJIXkWVJDFA

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WILDsound has performed a few of Joel Stern’s winning screenplays through the years. It was great to finally catch up with the sportscaster turned writer.

Joel is very candid with his passion for his work and is a terrific communicator & storyteller.. He saves the best story for last in this interview and shares a very personal story on how life could have changed if only got this one job.

Stay tuned for the audio best scene reading of his winning script THE WAITING ROOM.

Watch the best scene reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlLnkSlDU-0

In this suspense/comedy, Bill Egan, a crusty Alcatraz corrections officer, suddenly finds himself in a waiting room along with a one-armed Medal of Honor award winner-turned hitman, a ditzy bank teller and a Bronx street hoodlum. From different time periods, they try to piece together the events that brought them there.
Little do they know they are about to face the ultimate judgement.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

CAST LIST:

Linda: Cassandra Guthrie
Chuck: John Marcucci
Narrator: Kat Smiley
Bill: Shawn Devlin
Oscar: Sean Ballantyne
Reggie: Sam Fazli

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The first ever podcast done in a Hobbit Hole. Writer Brent Peterson made his “Own Private Hobbit Hole”. See it here: https://myownprivatehobbithole.com/

Star Wars: Rendezvous is a fan-fiction film set in the Star Wars universe with a cast of new characters as well as some more established ones. Matthew chats with the winner Fan Fiction writer Brent Peterson on the process of writing in the context of this legendary franchise.

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhZre_ceojo

A pair of do-gooders attempt to save a young girl wanted by the Empire.

CAST LIST:

Hologram Voice/Darth Maul: Sean Ballantyne

Mandalorian/Ashoka/Voice: Steve Rizzo

Rahn: Allan Michael Brunet

Qu’ra/R’iila/Zandara: Julie Sheppard

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Kurt T. Choate, PhD is an associate professor and department chair of psychology and counseling at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

He’s also a great screenwriter.

Listen to the interview with the professor/writer and after listen to the best scene reading of his screenplay INHERITANCE

Watch the Screenplay Reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnJF1NFTRcU

, by Kurt T. Choate

An F.B.I. agent turns to someone from his past to stop a serial killer, but healing the fractured relationship may prove to be the bigger challenge.

CAST LIST:

Narration: Allison Kampf

Caleb: Geoff Mays

Vaughn: Shawn Devlin

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