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MarriageFit Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 COMEDY Festival
Directed by Rob DiNinni, Jeffrey Palmer
A disconnected couple is alerted their marriage has three years remaining which sets in motion an artificial intelligence (AI) mobile app to reconnect the relationship puzzle pieces that truly make us human.
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LGBT Festival Best Scene Reading: Almost A Movement by Stephen Rea
Part Fictional / Part Real transformation drama that focuses on LGBT campaign side of the Irish 2015 same-sex marriage referendum interspersed with recent and historical lead-in events. Attention paid to how the coming out of prominent public figures during the campaign strengthened the strong po...
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ANIMATION Festival Screenplay Reading: A GIRL, A CAT, A SPIDER, by Kent Green
Eight-year-old Hope is sent to her estranged grandmother's house while her parents tend to their crumbling marriage. Can this eccentric old lady and her talking cat named Xavier help Hope find the strength and courage she needs to get her through these difficult times? Probably, but a spider the ...
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Poetry by AK Cola
Performed by Val Cole
Written POEM:
Dante had two objectives, Pleasure and Survival, with motivation derived to sustain the first often pushing the boundaries of how to maintain the last. His fatalities reciting, "what a wolf in sheep's clothing." But the wolf's hunt isn't causation for pain br...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: Belfast Connection, by John Donovan
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Big Freddie: Steve Rizzo
Raymond : Bill Poulin
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FEATURE SCREENPLAY Reading: PAST PRESENCE, by Kevin Mongelli
Professor STEPHEN EMERSON (50’s) is obsessed with a book, THE DNALYM RHAPSODY, written by EDGAR GRAVES. It explains his theory of past lives and the ability of man to tap into his consciousness to see his or her other lives. One of Dr. Emerson’s patients commits suicide after it is believed that ...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scenes Script Reading: COME ALIVE, by L. Andrew Cooper
A middle-aged gay couple’s attempt to rekindle their relationship turns into an absurd, hormone-fueled quest to defeat alien invaders and save a new LGBTQ society.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Alvy: Bill Poulin
Tim: Allan Michael Brunet
Ron: Steve Rizzo
Michelle: Julie Sheppard ... -
LA Festival BEST Scene Script Reading: Dropped Out, by Eric Smith and Mike Roberts
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Dunno: Andy Kamp
Maddy/Kiri: Julie Sheppard
Sam/Captain Ed: Shawn Devlin
Vigilante/Tucker: Allan Michael Brunet
Akmed/Colonel Parker: Bill Poulin
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SCREENPLAY TRAILER: An Absolute Mind Script Trailer
A young woman with a genetically evolved, cognitive ability is transported to a secret island, for her protection. But upon learning the real forces in charge of the island, she steps up and leads a revolution to take action against inaction.
Based on the novel of the same name by Lauren Lola.
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Fargate Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 COMEDY Festival
Directed by Sally Cancello
Fargate is a story about two women on a mission. One is Kelsey, a single mother to a baby boy, who needs to deal with her overdraft payments at the bank. The other is Maureen, Kelsey's mother, who believes her daughter is about to carry out a bank robbery. Maureen enli...
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Railway Map Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 Dance & Music Festival
RAILWAY MAP, 30min., Finland/Mexico, Dance
Directed by Amulio Jose Espinosa
“The Mayan Train” is a project to be built in the Yucatán Península, México. The construction has been fast-tracked to start in 2020 ignoring social and environmental concerns.
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HORROR Festival Best Scene Script Reading: Man In The Hat, by Phyllis Allison
Thirty years have passed since Beth’s sister vanished, believed to be taken by a child predator, but when a woman posts a tale on the internet eerily similar to Beth’s own experience, she is forced to admit THE MAN IN THE HAT is real, but not like us. This time around he’s playing tricks with her...
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LGBT Festival Best Scene Script Readng: Interpretation Of A Dream, by Farnoosh Dayyani
Logline: A young girl pursuing a forbidden romance tries to escape the overbearing village she resides in.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Maryam: Val Cole
Sarah: Julie Sheppard
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Forced Change Feature Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 Documentary Film Festival
Directed by Rennik Soholt
FORCED CHANGE is a feature documentary that uses the path of destruction left behind by Hurricane Katrina as a vehicle to bring to life unique human stories that shed light on what it means to be home. Filmed at critical moments over the last fourteen years, FORCED CHAN...
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FEMALE Festival 1st Scene TV Script Reading: Mad Hadley, by Jodi I 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: Julie Sheppard
Mad: Hannah Ehman
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Winning COMEDY Festival SHORT Screenplay: DIVORCE BY COMBAT, by Carl Huebner
A novice attorney must defend an adulterous queen against the king's champion in an unconventional legal proceeding where the courtroom is a gladiatorial arena.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss (6)
Larissa (F-20s built)/Queen Emirabla: Hannah Ehman (7)
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Winning LGBTQ+ Festival SHORT Screenplay Reading: IN THE CITY, by Adam Wilson
A teenage hustler and a cop have an encounter on the streets in 1970's New York City.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Cop: Allan Michael Brunet
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Sidecar Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan, 2021 FEEDBACK Film Festival
Directed by Rory Alexander Stewart
A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis can leave people to live a life full of uncertainty about their condition and future. It’s common for the conversation around the progression of MS to go untalked about, in clinic and around family and friends. It’s the elephan...
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Truth Hertz Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 COMEDY Festival
Directed by Shaun Majumder
When a father suspects his son is lying, he buys lie detector robot and gets more truth than he had hoped for.
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: Fair Dubs, by David Chambers
This is a comedy Sci-Fi/Dramedy. Aliens arrive in Earth orbit intending to take Earth back with them, to its place of origin – their star system, Sirius. Earth was previously used and then left where it is now by one of the ancestors of the same aliens, after similar past events. It is now wanted...
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LGBT Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: Big Girl, by Cyn Harris
In 1976 suburban Wisconsin, Tori, 14, is too big and awkward to be the cheerleader her mother demands. When field hockey coach Deb appears at Tori's Catholic school, her swagger, strength and acceptance sets fire to Tori’s repressed desires. Chaos swiftly ensues. Yet through Tori’s new found love...
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COMEDY Festival Best Scene Reading: ORSON WELLS ASHES, by Debra Knox
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Charlie: Allan Michael Brunet
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The Leaving Room Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 Dance & Music Festival
THE LEAVING ROOM, 14min., China, Dance
Directed by Aly Rose
While sitting comfortably in her living room, feet propped up on the coffee table, Star receives quite the shock. What ensues is a journey inward, accompanied by the faces and facets of her ego. This story is stylistically kitsch and t...
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Autonome- Mada Mada Short Film, Audience FEEDBACK from Jan. 2021 Dance & Music Festival
AUTONOME – MADA MADA, 5min., Canada, Music
Directed by Alexandre Richard
Montreal, 1954. An exiled author is thrown into a dance with his inner demons. Shaken by the unwavering tides of his life, a gentle touch comes to mind.