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COMEDY Festival 1st Scene Reading: Gender Reveal Party, by Aaron James Sutch
A D List celebrity couple’s baby gender results go missing days before the corporate sponsored gender reveal party and they scramble to get the results back before their careers are ruined.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Cash: Geoff Mays
Blythe: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
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Writing On The Wall Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival
WRITING ON THE WALL, 6min., USA
Directed by Miya Matsumoto Lee
When thousands took to the streets of New York City in June 2020 to protest police brutality and systemic racism against Black people, the high-end stores in Soho responded by swiftly boarding up their windows and doors.
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FANTASY/SCI-FI FESTIVAL Best Scene Reading: Galaxy Chamber, by Patrick Hatten
After a cargo of cloned bodies on a starship rise up as blood-thirsty marauders, a young apprentice learns that some of the crew have reasons for planting the deadly disruptor virus -- even as he struggles with his own shattered past and empathy for the clones.
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Get Busy Living Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival
GET BUSY LIVING, 16min., USA
Directed by Chris Burket
GET BUSY LIVING is an inspiring new documentary following one thrill-seeking couple’s unique love story. He survived a crippling skydiving accident. She supported him through a painful recovery. Together they aspired to jump out of a plane a...
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SHORT FILM TRAILER: Behind the Music, Documentary, 9min., USA
BEHIND THE MUSIC, 9min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Charles Sapp
As an artist, this film shows the songwriting process through the expressions of youth and self-sufficing power of solitude.
“It takes courage to do what you love…to do what you believe in.” – Charles Sapp
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Shipwreck Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 Dance/Music/Experimental Film Festival
SHIPWRECK, 6min., Canada, Dance
Directed by Simon Alteen
Set against the urban and natural landscapes of St. John’s, Newfoundland during the Covid-19 lockdown, Shipwreck uses contemporary dance to highlight the tension between isolation and connection, and between confinement and possibility.
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SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: GRID, by Joshua Tywater
An altruistic engineer becomes a fugitive when he's accused of sabotaging the global power grid he helped create.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
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Reckoning With Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine Short Film, Audience Feedback from ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival Feb. 2021
RECKONING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GULF OF MAINE, 24min., Documentary
Directed by Sarah Delage, Christopher Rose, Philip Shelley
The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world’s oceans, making it the perfect microcosm for scientists studying the effects of climate change. Reckoning...
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1st Scene Screenplay Reading: And No One Mourned, by Ky Rogers
When a financial advisor is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he realizes that instead of wasting his time and money on flashy cars and fancy suits, he should’ve spent more on hookers.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Allison Kampf
Alec: Geoff Mays
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Alone Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 Dance/Music/Experimental Film Festival
ALONE, 3min., USA, Animation
Directed by BONZIE
Music video for BONZIE
“An abyss opens under the syncopated guitar picking and demurely isolated vocals of Bonzie — Nina Ferraro — as she captures a quintessential quarantine mood.”
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303: Endless Night Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from March 2021 LA Film Festival
Directed by Geena Jung
A girl who stays on the bus from one end to the other. She is nauseated by the exhausting, repeated long journey and is haunted by mysterious visions caused by her negligent guardians. White shadows are stalking her. "Experimental". A play.
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Out Of Ruin Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 Dance/Music/Experimental Film Festival
OUT OF RUIN, 15min., USA, Dance
Directed by Marta Renzi
The work shares a visually rich and kinetic allegory of individual clans in isolation who journey to discover their paths to a place of unity.
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SCRIPT TRAILER: Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?, by Stephen John Beyer
LOGLINE:
In July of 1977 during the Great New York City Black Out, an aspiring actress fights to survive until the next morning as she is chased by a masked killer who jeopardizes her way to fame.
Winner of 2021’s Hollywood Blood Horror Festival’s Best Original Screenplay
SYNOPSIS:
On the nig...
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The Last Rights Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from March 2021 LA Film Festival
Directed by Aastha Verma
A young Indian woman challenges her society’s patriarchal traditions in order to give her deceased grandmother her last rites.
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In Concert Short Film, Audience Feedback from ENVIRONMENTAL Film Festival Feb. 2021
IN CONCERT, 3min., USA, Experimental
Directed by Linda Girvin
3 screen experimental film about the human species ongoing troubled relationship with nature.
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1st Scene Screenplay Reading: Demonology, by Joseph Bronzi, Lindsay Gelfand, Buddy Fitzpatrick
Homicide Detective Harry Frye has a gift for infuriating women. His new partner Millie (who had rage issues before Harry) is pregnant, so working with her is like playing Twister in a minefield. His daughter is working off 'Daddy Issues' in a Strip club, and his AA Sponsor is so in love with Harr...
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River Plants Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival
RIVER PLANTS, 15min., Columbia
Directed by Daniel Ocampo Rincón
Rivers are one of the most diverse, dynamic, and threatened ecosystems in the world. When we study them, we get into the fascinating world of the organisms that inhabit them. A Colombian scientist created a deep affinity with water...
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Why NY Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 Dance/Music/Experimental Film Festival
WHY NY, 4min., USA, Music
Directed by Whitney Lockert, Miranda Sherman
WHY NY is a music video that captures the absurd magic of New York City as shot on iPhones and composed of crowd-sourced footage.
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SHORT STORY Reading: Ghosts Of Missouri, by Troy Morehouse
Performed by Val Cole
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TV Festival 1st Scene Script Reading; SECOND CROSSING, by James Howells
A rip into a Parallel Universe has opened above a small Colorado town dropping a corpse from the sky and dumping a German U-Boat into a forest. This rip has reinvigorated shady industrialist Frank DeWitt who rules the town with an iron fist. What a first day for new sheriff Jaimie and her new to ...
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ACTION Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: THE TALE OF JJJ & THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS, by Jacobo Fe
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
David: Allan Michael Brunet
Mick: Steve Rizzo
MALAYSIAN PROSTITUTE: Kyana Teresa -
Hockey 24 Feature Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 DOCUMENTARY Film Festival
HOCKEY 24, 90min,. Canada, Sports Documentary
Produced by Elsa Morena
Creative Directors: Kyle Scotland and Jason SweeneyOn November 17th, 2019, Canadians from coast to coast to coast joined award-winning documentary filmmakers for a once-in-a-lifetime event: to film a day in the life of commu...
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Tourists Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Feb. 2021 FEMALE Film Festival
TOURISTS, 11min., Israel, Drama
Directed by Sharon Israeli
Yael and Omer meet Omer’s good friend from Italy, Paulo. They enter a party and inside they experience a night they will never forget. Love, passion, trust, alcohol, drugs, techno, and euphoria.
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POETRY READING: Reflection, by Devin Layshon
Performed by Val Cole
Read Poem:
Continue being you
Continue to evolve with change
Continue being true
Some may believe it’s a stain to not follow the rules
So be it
They were not supposed to continue…
Continue to navigate through the cracks and ditches
Only God knows how many the enemy tried ...