Hey Everyone, so our regular deadline is a month away, so don't delay, get your film in before June 15th! www.fortyandoverfilmfestival.com
Frank
Festival Director
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Hello Film Makers, due to an overwhelming number of requests for us to accept feature length films we have decided to do just that!
Below are the new deadline dates and fees for our upcoming festival... submit away!!!
Forty and Over Film Festival (hereafter: “FOFF”) competition is open to the United States and International entries to writers or directors 40 years of age and over only. All other participants (i.e. actors, crew, producers, etc.) c...
Hey Film Makers,
As our Early Deadline approaches on March 15th just wanted to say how happy we are with all the entries we are receiving thus far! Such great storytelling and fantastic work on the screen! Keep 'em coming and take advantage of the Early Bird discount of $35 dollars...
Frank
Festival Director
www.fortyandoverfilmfestival.com
https://filmfreeway.com/FortyandOverFilmFestival
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truTV is returning to the NYTVF for the second annual truTV Comedy Breakout Initiative!
The network is looking for Talent/Creator-Driven Comedy Formats with Distinct POVs and High Production Quality. This competition is built to provide indie TV creators with a unique opportunity to create new, comedy-centric formats and unscripted/reality series for the network.
The winning creator(s) gets a shot to further hone their idea (with a budget of up to $25,000) in conjunction with...
truTV is partnering with the NYTVF to find the next generation of distinct comedic voices to create unscripted and scripted comedy-based formats. Through the truTV Comedy Breakout Initiative, an outstanding content creator will be chosen to develop a project in partnership with truTV.
Submission to the Comedy Breakout initiative is FREE for eligible creators, and all Finalists will be invited to attend the 2017 New York Television Festival as Official Artists.
For inspiration, ...
See the IMDb page.
Heather Weir is a typical teenage who can't seem to get her priorities right. In order to make her father proud, she wants to achieve academic success. However, she is hell bent on finding romance over the internet.
45 minutes (including credits) 2016
Stay tuned for more film - shorts and features, from MzM Productions
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The NYTVF and Just for Laughs invite you – the comics, writers, creators, and producers on the cutting edge of comedy – to present your show ideas in an open-pitch forum at the Just for Laughs ComedyPRO Conference in Montreal on July 29, 2016.
Concepts can be scripted or unscripted. Finalists in From Set to Screen: The TV Comedy Search will be selected to pitch their ideas LIVE at the ComedyPRO conference, the winner of which will be invited to participat...
"Games People Play" has been selected to the 5th annual Athens International Digital Film Fest in Greece for December 17-23, 2015. This is the 39th festival acceptance for the 2014 comedy noir helmed and written by Dawn Westlake. The film was shot on the CanonC500 and edited with Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects by Jon Carr. An Ennio Morricone-esque score was composed by GC Johnson of Acoustic Labs.
"Games People Play" stars David Razowsky, Mark Jacobson and Westlake, he...
"Games People Play" was accepted to another US festival this week. It will play the Johnstown Film Festival in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2015. Helmed and written by Dawn Westlake, the film stars David Razowsky, Mark Jacobson and Westlake herself. The film features an Ennio Morricone-esque score by Pennsylvania native GC Johnson of Acoustic Labs.
For more info on the film and to see a trailer, please visit: http://dawnwestlake.com/rondecana/films/gamespeopleplay/index....
"Games People Play" was selected to HorrorQuest Film Fest in Atlanta, Georgia, USA for October 16-18, 2015. A noir-comedy-thriller shot on the Canon C500 in the style of a spaghetti western, this is the FIRST horror fest for the hybrid short written and helmed by Dawn Westlake. "Games People Play" stars David Razowsky, Mark Jacobson, and Westlake herself. An Ennio-Morricone-esque score was provided by GC Johnson of Acoustic Labs.
http://www.thehorrorquest.com/
For more info...
Director: Lanza Manza.
Follow the struggles and the enigma of the mind of an unforgiven artist. Played by Bailey Jet Vaughn, this young danseuse has had enough of the tangible, semidimensional world. You see through the mind of a virtuoso like never before, as an outcry of emotional turbulence is finally acquitted.
"Games People Play", the 2014 comedy film from Ron de Cana Productions, Inc., will be projected at Awards Night on June 12th, 2015 at the Twickenham Alive Film Festival in Twickenham, UK as the Best International Comedy.
http://www.twickenhamfilmfestival.com/index.html
Helmed by Dawn Westlake, the film stars reknowned former Second City artistic director David Razowsky (from "Late Night with David Letterman" with Albert Brooks, etc.) and newcomer Mark Jacobson, along with W...
"Games People Play" will play India... again! This time in Kannur at the Plumeria Film Fest from Feb. 2-4, 2015. This is the 13th selection for "Games People Play", on 5 continents.
For more info about the film and to see a trailer, please visit: http://www.dawnwestlake.com
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Writers judge filmmakers and filmmakers judge writers. It’s that simple! We fund you to collaborate.
The writers review films and decide the best filmmaker. The filmmakers read scripts and decide the top 10 scripts. The winning filmmaker selects one of the top 10 scripts to shoot and we fund the production with the entry fees. The screenwriter gets paid and their script made. The filmmaker gets funded to shoot the script.
Imagine a community that reviews your work,, provides you with abu...
"Games People Play" is a finalist for the grand cash prize in the Riverside Saginaw Film Festival in Saginaw, Michigan, USA running November 6-9, 2014. Amongst the nine finalists with "Games People Play" are the multi-lauded international hits "Electric Indigo" from Jean-Julien Collette and the Oscar-nominated "Luminaris" from Juan Pablo Zaramella.
This is the US premiere for "Games People Play" which has been previously selected for festivals i...
Dawn Westlake, president of Ron de Cana Prods., Inc., was the guest of David Razowsky on the A.D.D. Comedy podcast, produced by Ian Foley, on August 4, 2014. David's chat with the LA-based independent filmmaker runs 50 minutes and can be listened to for free via iTunes, right here:
tinyurl.com/m9368l5
For more info on David Razowsky, please visit: davidrazowsky.com
For more info on the A.D.D. Comedy podcast, please visit: addcomedy.com
For mo...
Over the years, I'd had it. Having worked/volunteered for film festivals for more than a decade, it became increasingly clear that a cancer had reared its ugly head. The observation I made was nothing short of sycophant society hell bent on being seen and/or canoodling with some celebrity. To me, these over-stuffed bras, deluxe Botox, label wearing women and men show up at events like ugly girls accompanied to the prom by a paid-off neighbor. Everyone knows, but no one says anything.
I don&...
The IV International Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro starts soon in May in Rio de Janeiro. More than 60 movies, documentaries and animations about nuclear power, atomic bombs and uranium mining will be screened in the Cinemateca of Rio's Modern Art Museum MAM between May 14th and May 25th, 2014: From Hiroshima to Fukushima.
Rio's Uranium Film Festival is the "Atomic Cannes", the worlds biggest showcase for independent nuclear & atomic films. On the ...
FOXED! has won its 5th AWARD - Best International Animated Short at the Garden State Film festival in Atlantic City.
http://www.gsff.org
FOXED! continues its festival run this spring 2014 with screenings at:
Dead by Dawn, Edinburgh, Scotland http://www.deadbydawn.co.uk
NorthWest Animation Festival, Portland, OR http://www.nwanimationfest.com
Edinburgh 3D Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland http://edinburgh-3d-film-festival.com
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Director James Stewart has delivered a beguiling 3D stop-motion animated journey with FOXED! In this 4 minute cautionary tale, delicate Emily is found enslaved by foxes in a dank, hard-labour cave. When she thinks her freedom is within reach, she discovers a reality far more heart-breaking. Delivered with imagination, precision and the otherworld whimsy of a Grimm’s Fairy Tale, this Canadian short film leaves you wanting more, as only the best short films can. Collecting awards aro...
Director: Maria Veselinova.
Young girl wakes up in the middle of the night in a hotel elevator. The same hotel where she and her boyfriend were invited on a wedding last evening. Unfortunately she is naked… and has no idea which her room is. Do you think she could get across the whole hotel without anyone spotting her?
Although Canadian film offer usually lags behind others, Cottage Country, which had its North American premiere at the largest genre film festival in North America - extraordinary Fantasia Film Festival (Montreal, July 18 – August 7, 2013), is really worth of mentioning. The real gem of this year’s very strong Fantasia program was Peter Wellington’s Cottage Country, a highly inspiring satire written by successful Canadian writer Jeremy Boxen that blends well-balance...
