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SHORT STORY Reading: The Risk, by Susie Arnett and Monica Burke
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Performed by Val Cole
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A Clockwork Heart Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from July 2021 FANTASY/SCI-FI Film Festival
A CLOCKWORK HEART, 14min., UK, Fantasy
Directed by David Lawson
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SHORT Story: Renovation, Probation and Life Lessons, by Donna Douglas Walchle
Performed by Val Cole
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POETRY Reading: VIOLENCE, by Fella Cederbaum
VIOLENCE
February 27, 2021Violence starts at home
Violence starts
When you are willing
To burn cherished friendships
On the altar of precious opinionsViolence starts
When you shut out and silence those
Who happen not to inhabit
The machinations
Of your mind
Of your convictions
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Tune Into The Future Feature Film, Audience FEEDBACK from DOCUMENTARY Film Festival
One hundred years before the internet, a self-declared tech guru started preaching the future to his flock of outsiders. Meet the most influential nerd you may never have heard of: Hugo Gernsback. Decades in advance he foresaw Skype, jetpacks, space mining and drones. But even though he would acc...
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POETRY Reading: DEAR GAELENE, by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
DEAR GAELENE, by Mercedes Webb-Pullman
I’m pitching a script about a journey
discovering new lands. A clever captain
but he’s shipwrecked. A remarkable
love-and-murder story illustrated
by the captain and his new navigator;
he is English, and she Polynesian.(Quick back-story about a Polynesia...
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Red Bean Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from July 2021 FANTASY/SCI-FI Film Festival
RED BEAN, 10min., China, Sci-Fi
Directed by Yu CHEN
An individual who is suffering from the obsessive-compulsive disorder and forced to migrate to outer space, he misses his mother and homeland. However, the only response to his calling his mother is an endless busy tone. -
Exodus Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from July 2021 DANCE Film Festival
EXODUS, 35min., Poland, Dance
Directed by Zbigniew Cierniak
Exodus - a phenomenon in which each participant of a multi-person journey undergoes individual challenges. This test reveals the deeply hidden secrets of the human personality thus forcing to make personal choices. Pulled into the vortex... -
By The River Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK Video from July 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival
BY THE RIVER, 35min., Poland, Drama
Directed by Agata Korycka
Film “By the river” talks about the courage necessary to live a life in harmony with yourself. The main character, Kinga, falls in love with a woman, which is a challenge for her way of thinking about herself. As a policewoman, she wo... -
Err Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from July 2021 DANCE Film Festival
ERR, 4min,. France, Dance
Directed by Axel Cosnefroy (fish tank) & Antoine Poulet (Giant)
This film seeks to be both a performance recording, and a visual experiment.
We want to show the power and grace of the/her body, and in parallel the effort and pain.
Marion Gautier De Charnacé is a dancer a... -
Lazarus Motel Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from July 2021 Film Festival
LAZARUS MOTEL, 11min., USA, Drama
Directed by Ben WadeDavid Gleeson, a desperate man haunted by the death of his four year old son, commits suicide in a lonely motel room. It is only after ingesting the pills that David discovers his commitment to death is an opportunity for life reborn.
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POETRY Reading: Crann Bethadh Song Messengers, by R.L. Stephenson-Read
Crann Bethadh Song Messengers, by R.L. Stephenson-Read
We embrace our Celtic ancestry
For that same time runs nigh
And seek the mystery from the Lake of Small Stones
Of a lost, ancient tribe’s practice.
Those magical Druid Holies droned, “Beannachtaí Dé”
In their sacred, Oaken Groves
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Codeswitch Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from July 2021 DANCE Film Festival
CODESWITCH, 2min., USA, Dance
Diirected by Tara Pixley
This piece reflects a day in the life of a black woman as she moves through Los Angeles environments from home, school, work and nightlife, codeswitching to fit in while she maintains her interior self (represented through dance) -
SHORT Story Reading: Morning Glory, by Wiam Mah'd Ahmad Najjar
Performed by Val Cole
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Hysterical Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Toronto Female Film Festival
HYSTERICAL, 20min, Denmark, Drama
Directed by Stine Breum FiskerA young, female film director struggles to balance her career and her private relations.
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SHORT STORY Reading: Up In Smoke, by Bruce Chapnick
Suspense Drama
It's a story about man who uses his smoking addiction to cheat at cards until he falls in love.
Performed by Val Cole
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LOGLINE Pitch: The Gloaming, by Robin Johnston
The Gloaming by Robin Johnston
Feature Film
Visiting a remote Scottish island to plan her fairy-tale wedding, a US heiress has seconds thoughts while separated from her fiancé by a mysterious fog bank.
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LOGLINE Video: Beyond Guilty, by Richard Brawer
Logline submission:
Title: Beyond Guilty
Written by Richard Brawer
Eileen Robinson, an African-American single mother of two, is wrongly convicted of murder. The prison doctor fakes her execution and she is taken to an island prison to be a guinea pig in experimental drug tests. She escapes a...
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NOVEL Transcript Reading: BULLETPROOF MASCARA, by Bethany Maines
BUY on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Bulletproof-Mascara-Novel-Bethany-Maines/dp/0743292774
In this comedic spy-adventure, red-headed linguist NIKKI LANIER and her team of brand new covert Carrie Mae agents take on VAL ROBINSON, a double-crossing—and far more experienced—agent
Performed by Val ...
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LOGLINE Video: Missing Clayton, by Bev Irwin
MISSING CLAYTON
by Bev IrvinFeature Screenplay
A five year old boy is missing. He was in his backyard moments ago. Will his single mother be able to find him when the police fail?
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1st Scene Script Reading: Soroban Impact, by Gregory Ranky
In a world like ours, where conscious robots are commonplace, a courageous female android enters a futuristic martial arts tournament to save her old neighborhood from developers.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Bill Poulin
Advertiser/Liz-217: Kyana Teresa
Meathead Kerel/Umar: Geoff Mays
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1st Scene Script Reading: Rails Run Parallel, by Orso Vesperini, Guy Laudereau , Aurèle N’Dja, Terry Newman, Carole Starcevic
1943. Four prisoners escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and undertake a grueling trip to France via Germany in an empty wine barrel wagon, while being chased by a Nazi Sherlock Holmes.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Kyana Teresa
Georges: Allan Michael Brunet
Louis: Bill Poulin
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SHORT Screenplay Reading: Bad Anne, by Jody Lebel
CAST LIST:
Narrration: Allison Kampf
Kate: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Anne: Kyana Teresa
Officer (M): Andy Camp
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LOGLNE Video: Neo-Noir, by Sarkes Yakhnis
NEO-NOIR
by Sarkes YakhnisFeature Film
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Neo-noir, MysteryA private detective and a working actress see their lives unravel when a famous screenwriter enters their lives.