Watch the winning writing festival novels, stories, films, and screenplays for June 2016.

Submit your script, film, or story to the festival. – Full Feedback. Get film showcased at FEEDBACK Film Festival. Get script/stories performed by professional actors.

Watch the June 2016 Winning Readings

Upcoming Writing Festival Deadlines:

Deadline June 20th

SHORT SCRIPT CONTEST

FREE TWITTER SHORT STORY CONTEST

Deadline June 25th

SHORT STORY CONTEST

VIDEO PITCH FESTIVAL

Deadline June 30th

SUBMIT your TV PILOT or TV SPEC Script

SUBMIT your SHORT Film

1st CHAPTER or FULL NOVEL CONTEST

SUBMIT your FEATURE Script

Deadline July 5th

1st ACT or FULL PLAY CONTEST

FIRST SCENE (first 10pgs) SCREENPLAY CONTEST

Deadline July 10th

Submit your Favorite Scene

POETRY CONTEST

****

Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo

Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne

Editor: John Johnson

Today let’s get to know writer Jason Reeves. WILDsound just performed the best scene from his TV PILOT screenplay A THEATRE NEAR YOU.

Watch the reading of this best scene:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Wilson
DANNY – Neil Kulin
CILLIAN – Adam McNamara
SABRINA – Kerstin Bradler
BITCHY FEMALE – Elitsa Bako
STELLA – Val Cole
MARIA – Melinda Michael

7 Questions with the Writer:

1. What is your TV PILOT screenplay about?

A Theatre Near You is about Danny Stright, an associate manager of a movie theatre, who transfers from a theatre he’s been at way too long to another in hopes for a promotion. When at this new theatre, he finds out the possible promotion was a ploy to get him to transfer to a theatre in need of help before the upcoming winter season.

2. How should this script be made into a TV show?

Clerks…

For Hope is the February 2016 Winning Short Screenplay.

Watch FOR HOPE by Cindy Lee:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Susan Wilson
NIC – Elizabeth Rose Morriss
THEMBA – Mark Sparks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Drama

Get to know writer Cindy Lee:

Matthew Toffolo: What is your short screenplay about?

Cindy Lee: My short screenplay is about two rhino poachers who flip their car in the Kruger National Park. Even though their lives are literally hanging in the balance none of the locals who arrive on the scene will help them. The locals decide to take a stand and send a message. Enough is enough.

Matthew: Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?

Cindy: Rhino poaching will wipe out the Rhino population if it isn’t stopped soon. We need to get this message across in an interesting and dramatic way that will find a larger audience. Hope is a young…

March 2016 Winning Short Screenplay

Watch LEROY’S DREAM Table Reading:

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
LEROY – Ucal Shillingford
DARYL – Rob Notman
SONYA – Alicia Payne

Get to know writer Diarra McCormick:

1. What is your short screenplay about?

My screenplay is about a disgruntled hardworking father struggling to communicate with his combative alcoholic wife who must find the strength to pursue his true passion of becoming a world renowned painter.

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

This screenplay should be made into a film because this story needs to be told. It’s universal and inspirational. Everyone has a dream that they would like to come into fruition, whatever that dream may be. This story not only displays the harsh realities and struggle to get there, but also the satisfaction of making progress. It also continues to shed light on the struggles of living…

LEROY’S DREAM
Written by Diarra McCormick
Read 10 Questions with the writer

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
LEROY – Ucal Shillingford
DARYL – Rob Notman
SONYA – Alicia Payne

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Drama

A disgruntled hardworking father struggles to communicate with his combative alcoholic wife who must find the strength to pursue his true passion of becoming a world renowned painter.

BEST INTERESTS
Written by James M. Freeman
Read 10 Questions with the writer

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Action, History, Drama

To protest inhumane treatment and unfair rejection of his application for refugee status, a teenage Vietnamese asylum seeker challenges the authority of a Hong Kong detention camp commandant, resisting the commandant’s efforts to force him to repatriate.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Nadia Gigi Inara
ANN – Alicia Ryan
HIEU – Suchiththa DeSilva
MINH – Ryan Anning
UNHCR OFFICER – Steve Rizzo

GATES OF HELL
Written by Pamela Green and Everett House Sr.
Read 10 Questions with the writer

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Drama, Family

Entails the life of Everett House as he grows up in a poor, Christian home in a Midwest city following the Great Depression, portraying his passion for playing the steel guitar just as his invalid father had, and then, beginning at age 17, portraying Everett’s years in a mental asylum. While in the institution, Everett undergoes shock treatment and other psychiatric practices popular to that era. But through it all, Everett finds God to be his stable source of strength, hope, and deliverance, and he is left with a divine promise concerning his future that his testimony will one day be used to warn mankind of the mark in the forehead.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
EVERETT – Ryan Anning
MABEL – Alicia Ryan
VARIOUS – Steve Rizzo

MOTHS TO FLAME
Written by Fredric Maffei
Read 10 Questions with the writer

SYNOPSIS:

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Days from receiving his inheritance, young Nick hops in his truck and is California bound. Starved for a mentor/hero in his life, Nick hooks up with as canny a secret predator as ever was. One sizzling night on the town with babe-magnet Henry, and Nick flutters about him like a moth to flame. Enter Bunny! Smart and gorgeous, she’s an African-American filmmaker intent on making a documentary about Nick’s deceased dad, a little-known novelist of a bygone day. But when Bunny and Nick strike up a flame of their own, a jealous Henry looking on — there’s death to pay! Now Henry has not one but two moths to play with, to seduce, to cause to breathlessly hurl themselves against the deathly white heat of him. One delicate-winged little moth will break the…

Deadline to Submit your Twitter Short Story to the festival.

Watch the 10 Winning Twitter Short Story Winners for April 2016

Narrator: Steve Rizzo.

UNKNOWN DESTINATION by JaVonne Perry:

TWITTER SHORT STORY by Abraca Debra:

THE BREAK UP by Gwen Winegar:

OUT OUT DAMNED by Marielena

LOVE, UNACCOMPLISHED by Gemma Jones:

LOST AT SEA by Denise Walker:

HER NAME IS WINTER by Hannah Gabrielle More

HALF TWIT by Nick Westerman

BOOGEY by Adam Martin

BEAUTIFUL by Jennifer Mackindayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIHBTYd66Q

Watch winning stories and movies showcased at the Writing and Film Festival in from JANUARY of 2016: Short, Feature, TV Screenplays. Short Stories. Novels. Stage Plays. Poems. Stories from festival made into movies.

Written by Albert Lewis