Chatting with Howard Fridkin, WILDsound Feature Screenplay Winner

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I truly believe that a table read is the next best thing in seeing my script on the big screen — so I entered my new thriller “The Devil’s Larceny.”

– Howard Fridkin, On what influenced him to enter the WILDsound Screenplay Festival (Review)

Watch the entire feature script reading now:

NOTE: There is a TWIST in the end of this script. So pay attention!

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
KATIE – Kirsten Nolan
STEVEN – John Goodrich
PROF. ROTHBINE – Gabriel Dumas
DR. BURMAN – Roman Spera
SARAH – Stephanie Schmid
JUNE – Ida Jagaric
DET. DESMOND – David Schaap

Submit your own Feature Screenplay Today. Holiday Special: SAVE $15 off regular submission:
http://www.wildsound.ca/screenplaycontest.html

Watch past winning feature script readings performed at the WILDsound Featival:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/feature_script_readings.html

WILDsound’s Matthew Toffolo sat with Howard about his screenplay and writing career:

Matthew Toffolo: What is your FEATURE SCRIPT about?

HF: Elements…

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FANTASY Feature Films. Read over 140 pitches and loglines of new fantasy scripts

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LOGLINE PITCH:

Title: THE IRON MAIDEN

Written by: Don Unruh

Type: Feature Screenplay

Genre: Fantasy

Logline: Following a near-fatal accident, a world famous cycling champion begins to realize that she is living in an alternate reality, somewhere between Heaven and Earth.

This is an example of the 140 logline pitches on our network. Read them all here:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/fantasy_feature_film.html

Submit your own logline in any genre or type for FREE here:
http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html

There is a Holiday Special for Fantasy Screenplays. Submit your script formally to the festival and get it performed by professional actors. Garner FULL FEEDBACK:
http://www.wildsound.ca/fantasycontest.html

Fantasy Movies are defined as stories with fantastic themes and out of this world situations. They are plots and settings that are not reality, either in the world that the film take place, or the supernatural and magical events that take place on Earth. The genre is distinct from Sci-Fi films, but the…

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Family Feature Film Pitches – Read over 100 family loglines

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What is a family film?

First the difference between this genre and children’s movies: Children’s films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for the general audience, while family films are made for a wider appeal with a general audience in mind. They stick with a G or PG format. It’s basically a movie that can been seen by everyone that almost always has a feel-good or happy tone and ending.

This is a genre that will be around as long as families are around. Every week the studios will premiere a film that an entire family will be able to see.

Read now over 100 family film pitches and loglines. All original copyrighted stories:
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/family_feature_film.html

Send in your FREE Logline today to his network. Accept any story type or genre:
http://www.wildsound.ca/logline.html

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Here’s an example of a family film logline pitch:

Title: FLIES AND GUYS

Written by: Fred…

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WILDsound Announces its June 2016 Winning Feature Screenplay

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Submit your Feature Screenplay to the Festival Today: http://www.wildsound.ca/screenplaycontest.html

Watch the Winning Feature Screenplay Reading from June 2016. All screenplays performed by professional actors. Get to know the writer.

Feature Screenplay Reading: INKED IN BLOOD, by Paul Corricelli

Genre: Horror, Crime, Thriller

Synopsis:

A young man with a tortured past discovers that you really can go home again. To kill.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Marsha Mason
AESOP – Alan Shonfield
EDSALL/DW – Allan Michael Brunet
JASON/SEYMOUR – David Strauss
CANDICE – Roselie Williamson

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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson

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Writing Festival Deadlines June 15th: Novels, Screenplays (Feature, TV)

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DEADLINE June 15th: 1st CHAPTER/FULL NOVEL Festival. 

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

Get FULL FEEDBACK on either the 1st chapter or entire novel book from our committee of Professional Writers, and Writing Consultants. Get your novel performed by a professional actor at the festival.

NEW OPTION: Or, just submit for an actor performance reading transcript of your novel (any 5 pages of your book). Great way to promote the sales of your book if you’re already published. (see examples on the video playlist below)

Watch the May 2016 Winners. At least 3-10 winners every month:
May 2016 Novel & Short Story Winners

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Deadline June 15th: 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

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Deadline June 15th: TV PILOT/SPEC Script Festival – Get FULL FEEDBACK…

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WILDsound Announces its June 2016 Short Screenplay Winners

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Watch the 3 Winning Short Screenplay Readings from June 2016. All screenplays performed by professional actors. CLICK the links and get to know the writers.

#1 – Short Screenplay: DEATH’S LADY LOVE, by Stephen M. Hunt

Short Screenplay Reading: DEATH’S LADY LOVE, by Stephen M Hunt

Genre: Horror

Synopsis:

Death falls in love only to find that love is a killer.

#2 – Short Screenplay – LESS THAN HOMELESS, by Allan B. Hill

Short Screenplay Reading: LESS THAN HOMELESS, by Allan B Hill

Genre: Drama

Synopsis: The life of Henry, a sombre, homeless man living in the city. It explores ideas on how the public relate to the homeless community and also how the homeless community exists within itself.

#3 – Short Screenplay – OZARK, by Craig Mrock

Short Screenplay Reading: OZARK by Craig Mrock

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis: Roger, takes a chance at sitting next to the girl he’s madly in love with…

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Writing Festival Announces it June 2016 Winning Best Scene Screenplay Readings

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Watch the 7 Winning Best Scene Screenplay Readings from June 2016. All screenplays performed by professional actors. CLICK the links and get to know the writers.

#1 – Best Scene Screenplay: AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT by Philip Naiman

Best Scene Screenplay: AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, by Philip Naiman

Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

After being saddled with the care of a niece he has never met a gambler’s life becomes further complicated when he is unable to pay off his kid brother’s bad debt to a Vegas hood.

#2 – Best Scene Screenplay: QUEST FOR MIHTE LUGH by Ray Whittinger

Best Scene Screenplay: QUEST FOR MIHTE LUGH, by Ray Whittinger

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Synopsis:

Jack was thought a dreamer and a fool, until he was abducted into the Balor’s wintery kingdom. Through trial and wit he is recognised as the prophesied Fairy King returning to revive the world.

#3…

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Watch the June 2016 1st Scene Script Winners

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Submit your First Scene to the Festival: http://firstscenescreenplay.com

Watch the June 2016 1st Scene Script Winners:

Watch WHEN THERE WAS TIME  by James Gillard, Kevin McGruder

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis: When a drug dealer is killed in Harlem, NY, a corrupt cop is ordered to solve the case. A conscious witness in the community steps forward.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Val Cole
DIX – Deney Forrest
MURDOCH – John Lester Phillips
CARL – Christopher Huron
REVEREND – Jeff Sinasic
ANGELA – Tracey Beltrano

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STARBOUND, by Alex A  Kecskes

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action

Ancient, alien DNA turns a retarded teen into a powerful, gifted emissary to an advanced civilization that visited earth millennia ago.

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Tee Schneider
HECTOR – Geoff Mays
CHRISTINA – Kelci Stephenson
NAVARRO – Nathan Bragg
PRIEST – Julian Ford

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EXISTENTIAL QUANDARY, by Brandon Maline

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime

A serial…

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June 12, 2016 – Writing Festival Details

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This week’s writing festival is a showcase of the July 2016 winning feature screenplay. Plus, 8 winning short screenplay performance readings.

They will be performed by some of the top actors working in Toronto today.

Here are the details of the screenplays being performed:

Feature Screenplay – FIEND by Jeff York

Genre: Horror, Thriller

When famed Jekyll & Hyde author Robert Louis Stevenson turns out himself to be a dangerous split personality, the only one who can save him and London from his fiendish alter ego is a maverick American psychiatrist with daring, unconventional methods.

Short Screenplay – THE TRENCH by Chris Beadnell

Genre: Action

After successfully shelling the German trench on the Somme battlefield, the British soldiers move in to clear the area of any enemy survivors.

Short Screenplay – STRANGER by Jason Smith

Genre: Drama

A young girl wakes up in the passenger seat of a strangers car.

Short Screenplay –…

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Deadline TODAY (June 11th) for Comedy Film and Writing Festival (Save $15)

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A FilmFreeway preferred festival:

COMEDY Writings and Films showcased in 2015:
28 – Screenplays Performed
8 – Novels/Stories Performed
22 – Films Showcased at Festival
(Scroll down and watch winning performance videos)

Get your script and story performed by professional actors at the Comedy Festival. Get your Short Film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get a audience video.

The #1 Comedy Festival and Contest in the World today!

– 0ffers screenwriters, novelists and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS (see below for recent performance readings).

– Offers filmmakers to get their works showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Then the filmmaker will receive and audience reaction video on their film (see below for recent film festival videos)

– One of the best places in the world for the writers to sell their script and/or obtain and agent.

– No matter…

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