Watch the August 2015 Short Screnplay Winner:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Wilson
DOCTOR – Charles Gordon
FEMALE – Maya Woloszyn

Get to know writer Piotr Jamróz:

1. What is your short film script about?

It’s a story about mental illness which, like a prison, takes away man’s freedom and tears people apart.

2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

It’s a short, low-budget and (I hope) emotionally appealing and thrilling story.

3. How would you describe this story in one sentence?

A man tries to escape from a prison no one has ever escaped from before.

4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?

It’s probably Coca-Cola Christmas commercial with a truck! When I was I child, I would see it every year 🙂 But seriously, it’s a really tough question. I don’t usually watch movies more than once.

5. This is a…

Submit your LOGLINE for FREE to the WILDsound network and its social networking centers.

http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html

A great way to increase your presence and get your story out to the world. This network averages over 90,000 unique visitors a day. Your logline will receive their own individual page, and linked from the various outlets on this network where many producers and agents venture. Then we will send you an email when someone is interested and you can go from there.

You can also pay $15 more and we’ll turn your pitch logline into a movie. Watch recent and past loglines made into a film:

LOGLINE BASICS

Brevity is an absolute necessity of creating a good logline. You should go through many drafts to make sure every adjective is the most perfect and evocative and above all accurate. Get out your thesaurus find the best words for the job. You can’t afford…

The Horror Film. No matter what you think of them, it is a powerful movie genre that makes a lot of money for the studios. It has a large fan base which seems to be getting more popular every year thanks in large part to the internet and countless blogs written about them. Other than perhaps Comic Book/Action movies, no other genre is talked about more online than the horror genre.

Recently, on my personal blog, I talked about this genre while promoting the Top 100 Horror Films of All-Time List:
http://matthewtoffolo.com/2014/11/12/top-100-horror-movies/

There is a large debate about how they impact people. Are they just harmless entertainment, or can they linger in a negative way in our dreams and subconscious? And is there a line that shouldn’t be crossed in terms of violence and abuse of women? Is some of it really just “torture porn?”

Either way, horror films are…

Watch HAUNTED HEART TV Pilot Performance Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Wilson
NIGEL – Robert Notman
ANNABELLE – Maya Woloszyn
LENORE – Rochelle Burke
EDGAR – Aieron Munro
SARAH – Antosia Fiedur
WILLIAM JAMES – Charles Gordon
CORPORAL – Paul Falkowski

Get to know writer Robert Herold:

1. What is your TV PILOT screenplay about?

Haunted Heart is about Nigel Pickford, a former Confederate officer, tortured by visions, who is recruited by a group of paranormal investigators and taken deep into a world of ghosts and supernatural beings threatening the life of the woman he loves.

2. Why should this screenplay be made into a television show?

Frankly, there is not enough good horror on television. Horror objectifies our nightmares and allows us to deal with them. When done right, we want to cover our eyes, but peer through our fingers. Haunted Heart is a horror television series set…

I frankly could not envision where a novelist would dismiss a chance at exposure such as this. The WILDsound Festival is on the cutting edge of literary innovation, something novelist need; exposure. I applaud their commitment, and willingness to think outside the box, by taking chances, in offering Novelist a platform.

– Fayton Hollington

Watch the 1st Chapter Reading of CONCEPTION OF A DIALYSIS PATIENT:


Novel transcript performed by Mark Sparks

Matthew Toffolo interviews writer Fayton Hollington:

Matthew: What is your novel about?

Fayton: Introducing you, and transporting you on this journey, is my attempt at shining a light, in hopes of moving you closer to where fate has led so many of us. Since the age of twelve, the Nephrology world has, and continues to have me tethered.

Thrust into the world of dialysis as an adult, it is from my chair, the unspoken truths are bared. The raw…

Submit your logline for FREE today (Any type. Any genre)

http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html

READ Sci-Fi Feature Film Pitches:

Title: THE TIME TO RESCUE HER IS NOW
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/the_time_to_rescue_her_is_now_by_steven_mars.html
Written by: Steven Mars
Genre: Sci-Fi
Type: Feature Screenplay

Title: MARS WANTS REVENGE
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/mars_wants_revenge_by_jason_spellman.html
Written by: Jason Spellman
Genre: Sci-Fi / Comedy
Type: Feature Screenplay

Title: NORTHERN LIGHTS
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/northern_lights_by_tony_rico.html
Written by: Tom Rico
Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Type: Feature Screenplay

Title: SPACE JUNK
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/space_junk_by_k_rowe.html
Written by: K. Rowe
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Type: Feature Screenplay

Title: WAVEFORM
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/waveform_by_fabrizio_bilotta.html
Written by: Fabrizio Bilotta
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Drama
Type: Feature Script

Title: …and miles to go before I sleep.
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/and_miles_to_go_before_i_sleep_by_dave_barak.html
Written by: Dave Barak
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Type: FEATURE SCRIPT

Title: ALIEN ANONYMOUS
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/alien_anonymous_by_michael_masley.html
Written by: Michael Masley (aka Artist General)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Type: FEATURE SCRIPT

Title: Martian Frontier
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/martian_frontier_by_jack_hoj.html
Written by: Jack Hoj
Genre: Sci-Fi
Type: FEATURE SCRIPT

Title: InvasionEarth.2055
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/invasion_earth_2055_by_travis_watkins.html
Written by: Travis Watkins
Genre:…

Read today’s TV PILOT pitches from writers from all over the world. Some of these stories coming to a television near you.

Do you have a logline pitch? Send it in for FREE to the Logline Festival. Any type or genre: http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html

Read Television Show Pitches and Loglines:

Title: The Republicans
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/the_republicans_by_doug_goodrich.html
Written by: Doug Goodrich
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Comedy/Sitcom

Title: We’re All a Lil Mad
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/were_all_a_lil_mad_by_kamala_thompson.html
Written by: Kamala Thompson
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery

Title: LIFE OF LIE
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/life_of_lie_by_ankana_joshi.html
Written by: Ankana Joshi
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Drama

Title: THIS IS MY DAY IN….
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/this_is_my_day_in_by_amin_elhag.html
Written by: Amin Elhag
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Travel, Music, Dance, Food, Tradition, History.

Title: A Recipe for Disaster
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/a_recipe_for_disaster_by_gary_brennan.html
Written by: Gary Brennan
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Dramedy

Title: Suite U
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/suite_u_by_matthew_lazin_and_kelli_allan.html
Written by: Matthew Lazin and Kelli Allan
Type: TV PILOT
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family…

Enclosed are the 25 winners for our inaugural “very short story” festival contest.

All 25 winners will now have their stories made into a movie using a professional voice over artist:

Submit your own Very Short Story to the Festival:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/140_characters.html

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Title: Where is the ‘Good’ in ‘Goodbye’?

by W. T. Paterson

At the airport gate she kissed him, and she cried, and he said “I clogged your toilet,” and she cried some more.

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Title: A New Home For You, Dear

by Ida Ayu Lestari

A woman in red gave a book to a little boy, before he’s gone missing. Later, the mother finds him inside a book in his room, with the woman.

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Title: The gentle sunset

by B.W.Shearer

A palm tree small but tall
Against the deepening sky
Sits at the centre of
The gentle sunset of
Subtle pink and rusty red
Slowly diminishing around

RSVP your FREE Tickets to the Festival
Thursday August 27th. 7pm. Carlton Cinemas in downtown Toronto
http://www.wildsound.ca/torontofilmfestivals.html

, Animation/Experimental, 2min, China
Directed by Tingting Liu

This is a short animation about a lonely ghost trying to find his identity. He wish could communicate with human beings and be loved but never succeed. Some day it comes true through some special media and art form.

Director’s Statement:

As a female animator original from China learning and working in North America animation film industry, there are lots of difficulties I need to face. For example the culture differences, and very tough industry competitions. Sometimes I can feel very strong isolation in my daily life, my family or friends have no idea what I am doing, and sometimes they even did not support or encourage me. But I was very lucky I found animation, which is such an unique art form and could…

RSVP your FREE Tickets to the Festival
Thursday August 27th. 7pm. Carlton Cinemas in downtown Toronto
http://www.wildsound.ca/torontofilmfestivals.html

KNOCKED DOWN, Animation/Action, 3min, Spain
Directed by Pepe Gomez

A young boxer ponders about the world of boxing while fighting for the championship belt.

Director’s Statement:

There are three main goals I wanted to achieve to this film. First of all, I aimed to capture in a film some of my own experiences in the world of boxing. Secondly, I wanted to play with the black and white, the light and the darkness. My last goal was to explore the movement of the human body, especially in slow motion, and to experiment and discover new techniques to recreate slow motion in animation.

The whole idea behind this film is to offer the viewer a first person, immersive experience of a boxing fight, and everything we see is designed to achieve that: the close…