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LA Festival BEST Scene Reading: 15, by Tim McClelland
As a child, Adrian experienced a horrific trauma resulting in 15 years of self-imposed solitude in his home, and now, his brother is sanctioning a radical new therapy that will push Adrian to his limits, forcing him to question his own sanity.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
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LGBTQ+ Festival BEST Scene Reading: The Man Who Didn't Exist, by Ivan Toth
Bruno Balz is a German songwriter, who rose to fame during the Nazi regime, and was found guilty of boosting morale during the war. Bruno navigates his lifestyle as a closeted gay man and gets married to a woman, in order to maintain his image.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
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Azilali: They Do Not Sleep Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 Experimental Film Festival
AZILALI: THEY DO NOT SLEEP, 12min., South Africa, Nature
Directed by Faine Loubser
The creatures of the sea are always awake to connect with you. Journeying through the life of a dark
shyshark foetus, this film is a deep cinematic and aural bowing to the sacredness of the kelp forests and
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BEST SCENE Script Reading: LIFE AFTER DEATH - THIS IS HELL, by Darsan Solomon
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Michael: Steve Rizzo
Ricky - Geoff Mays
Raphael/God - Sean Ballantyne
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WE ARE CONJOLA - OUR FIRE OUR STORY Feature Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 ENVIRONMEENTAL Film Festival
WE ARE CONJOLA - OUR FIRE OUR STORY, 105min, Australia, Documentary
Directed by Anthony Ash BrennanNYE 2019. Director and film maker Ash Brennan lost his house in the Conjola Park Bushfire which nearly killed his brother and many others who stayed to fight. From a Perth hotel room Ash saw the f...
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The Sun Inside Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 Experimental Film Festival
THE SUN INSIDE, 11min., UK, Experimental
Directed by Luca Silvestrini, Roswitha Chesher, Andy Pink
The Sun Inside is a participatory film reflecting upon the relevance of sunlight during lockdown that has been initiated as a collaboration between Luca Silvestrini, filmmaker Roswitha Chesher and c... -
Straight Into The Ocean Musical Video, Audience FEEDBACK from EXPERIMENTAL/MUSIC Festival May 2021
STRAIGHT INTO THE OCEAN, 6min., USA, Musc Video
Directed by Allen Ling
This visual and audio work is about heartbreak, closure, friendship and tragedy. We follow the journey of lovers, and witness two very different outcomes.
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene Reading: Advent, by Mark Allen
A reclusive Black ex-Special Forces operator turned novelist comes out of retirement to track down a radical neo-nazi splinter group and rescue their hostage -- his daughter, whom he has not seen in 14 years.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Dolan: Sean Ballantyne 7
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LA Festival TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading: NON-OFFICIAL COVER, by Jodi Shelton and Hudson Shelton
This is a modern, historic fiction 8-part series. When a former CIA operative who has worked under Non-Official Cover in political hotspots from the Soviet Union to Pakistan to Sudan is discovered to have been on Flight 11, the first plane to hit the World Trade Center on 9/11, her grieving husba...
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Hallucinated Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival
HALLUCINATED, 12min., Saudi Arabia, Thriller/Drama
Directed by Mohammed Omar
Moayd is a delivery man who has issues with sleeping and it gets worse and worse until he doesn’t know how to separate between real and hallucinations. -
COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mad Hadley, by Jodi Lustig
After a clash with a client goes viral, a lawyer infamous for defending despicable men volunteers at a women's legal aid clinic run by her uber-feminist mother, hoping to turn over a new leaf without tearing down the whole family tree.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Val Cole
Mad: Hannah Ehman
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BLACK & WHITE Festival 1st Scene Reading: Mr Buchman Goes To Washington, by Bill Baber
An intense courtroom docudrama that recreates the 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee hearing when Sidney Buchman, the Communist who wrote "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", was blacklisted. This is the day that Mr. Buchman, like Mr. Smith, learned that patriotism requires sacrifice.
CAST L...
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BEST SCENE Reading of Destiny Of Tar & Feathers, by Harold L. Brown
Estranged from his family Matis settlement, a corporate lawyer finds his loyalties torn when he's caught in the middle of a settlement dispute with the government and a powerful company over jobs and oil rights."
CAST LIST:
1. ARCHIE GLADUE - Sean Ballantyne
2. JAMES CARDINAL - Shawn Devlin
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Cant Kill Us All Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 BLACK Feedback Film Festival
CANT KILL US ALL, 8min., UK, Drama
Directed by Botis Seva, Ben Williams
Unravelling one man’s mental unrest as he navigates the turbulence of dealing with two global pandemics.
A theatrical experience combining Hip hop theatre and film from dance experimentalist Botis Seva, CAN’T KILL US ALL reve... -
MY YANG GANG DIARY Feature Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 DOCUMENTARY POLITICAL Film Festival
MY YANG GANG DIARY, 80min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Ching Juhl
Filmmaker Ching Juhl captures 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang 's campaign through the eyes of his supporters on the ground, known affectionately as the Yang Gang. Juhl documents her 10-month journey with member... -
LA Festival 1st Scene Reading: CITY BAND, by Ashley Rodbro
City Band is a hilarious coming-of-age story about a flute playing teenager named Amy, the newest member of an all-ages community band looking to fit in and find herself in the process
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Kayla: Hannah Ehman
Amy: Kyana Teresa
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Ready The Prince Musical Video, Audience FEEDBACK from EXPERIMENTAL/MUSIC Festival May 2021
READY THE PRINCE, 4min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Shuyler Nazareth
What happens when the land, air, and sea that a king has conquered, decides to fight back? This frenetic frame by frame animated music video captures the apocalyptic sound of the single “Regicide”, by Canadian rock group Rea...
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SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: INVERSION, by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Bowden: Sean Ballantyne
Reeves: Shawn Devlin
Fugitive: Andy Camp
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The Light Musical Video, Audience FEEDBACK from EXPERIMENTAL/MUSIC Festival May 2021
THE LIGHT, 4min., Peru, Music Video
Directed by Jhonatan López (LÓPZ)
“The light” a music video by peruvian band We The Lion, produced by Apaga Incendios Films and Directed and written by Jhonatan López (LÓPZ) is a fantasy story that mixed differents ways of present the concept of light, a very...
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Nosebleed Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from May 2021 LGBTQ+ Film Festival
NOSEBLEED, 7min., USA, Drama/Relationship
Directed by Elizabeth Callahan
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1st Scene TV PILOT Script Reading: NECROPOLIS, by Caledonia Hanson
Necropolis: A violent and seedy hell on earth, the part of the city everyone warns you about. When 18-year-old Eddie Soreno ventures into this insidious place to uncover the truth of his father's past, only his sister, Maria, holds hope that he will return alive. Against the clock, Maria goes in ...
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TV FESTIVAL 1st Scene Reading: JOE HOLLYWOOD, by Jane Henning
During the heyday of the 1920s, JOE KENNEDY, the patriarch of the Kennedy family, bullied for a lifetime in anti-Irish Boston sets his sights on Hollywood and the cash to support a run for the US Presidency, but Hollywood's glitz and glamour hide a dark underbelly - it doesn't like outsiders. Ins...
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: RETURN TO SENDER, by Tammy Klembith, George Klembith
When a young couple starts receiving mysterious boxes from an unknown sender, their lives spiral into a nightmare as they struggle to discover who or what is behind the packages.
(Supernatural Horror)
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Lexy: Hannah Ehman
Wyatt: Shawn Devlin
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HORROR Festival 1st Scene Reading: SWINE HEART, by Theresa Anne Carey , Bruce Stephen Brochtrup
In this modern-day Frankenstein story, a brilliant surgeon risks everything to save the man she loves by performing an illegal heart transplant using a pig heart; but when her lover begins experiencing unfamiliar slaughterhouse memories and violent personality changes, she fears she's created a m...