Diarra McCormick – March 2016 Short Screenplay Winner

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LEROY’S DREAM
Written by Diarra McCormick
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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.

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James M. Freeman – March 2016 Short Screenplay Winner

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BEST INTERESTS
Written by James M. Freeman
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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

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Pamela Green – March 2016 Feature Screenplay Winner

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GATES OF HELL
Written by Pamela Green and Everett House Sr.
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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

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Fredric Maffei – March 2016 Feature Screenplay Winner

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MOTHS TO FLAME
Written by Fredric Maffei
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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…

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April 2016 TWITTER Short Story Winners

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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

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Watch the June 2016 TV Pilot/Spec Screenplay Winners

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Deadline for Television Pilot/Spec Screenplay Festival: https://tvfestival.org/

Watch the 3 TV Screenplay Winners for May 2016:

CIVILIAN  by Gina Scanlon – TV PILOT

Genre: Drama, Crime

Synopsis: A young marine returns to her small Texas town after a recent tour in the South Sudan to complete police academy.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
BRANDI – Laura Darby
AMOS/STOKER – Christopher Huron
DR. BURNS – Tracey Beltrano
SHANE – Deney Forrest
MARCUS – Jeff Sinasic
MARCEL – John Lester Phillips

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BROOKLYN NINE NINE  by Linsen Oyosa – TV SPEC

Genre: Sitcom, Comedy, Crime

Synopsis: Jake and Charles try to take down a drug dealer. Meanwhile, Terry deals with inter-precinct theft and Holt helps Rosa deal with her recent politeness.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
JAKE – Christopher Huron
ROSA – Tracey Beltrano
CHARLES – Jeff Sinasic
TERRY – Deney Forrest
HOLT – John Lester Phillips
GINA – Laura Darby
AMY – Hannah…

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Deadline TODAY: Screenplay Festival

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Deadline TODAY: Screenplay Festival – Get FULL FEEDBACK. Get script performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsound.ca/screenplaycontest.html

Watch WINNING Screenplay Readings – Watch videos of past winners performed by professional actors
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/feature_script_readings.html

READ 100s of testimonials from past submitters –
http://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/feature-screenplay-submission-testimonials-wildsound-screenplay-contest-review

Watch on YouTube the 100s of Past Winning Readings. Get your script performed:

Testmonials (updated weekly):

As usual, totally impressed by, and very appreciative of, the below critique! Thank you so much and I will work on the edits you speak of in my next draft.
– Michael Zamanis
Drive-Thru, Feature Screenplay

Thank you for the very informative feedback. I really appreciate the diverse perspective that was given. Again, thank you.
– Jamison Derfler
God’s Will, Feature Screenplay

Thank you so much for the very helpful feedback!
– JR
Not Another Vampire Story, Feature Script

Thanks very much for the feedback!! It was a bit brutal to read. But thanks again…

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Feature Screenplay Submission Testimonials from WILDsound Festival

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Read a WILDsound Festival Review. Various comments and opinions from writers who submitted to the festival.

FULL FEEDBACK on all submissions. Winners get their screenplay performed by professional actors.

Submit your feature screenplay today: http://www.wildsound.ca/screenplaycontest.html

Testmonials (updated weekly):

As usual, totally impressed by, and very appreciative of, the below critique! Thank you so much and I will work on the edits you speak of in my next draft.
– Michael Zamanis
Drive-Thru, Feature Screenplay

Thank you for the very informative feedback. I really appreciate the diverse perspective that was given. Again, thank you.
– Jamison Derfler
God’s Will, Feature Screenplay

 
Thank you so much for the very helpful feedback!
– JR
Not Another Vampire Story, Feature Script

 
Thanks very much for the feedback!! It was a bit brutal to read. But thanks again very much!! Now I have a bit more direction and certainly got more than my…

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