After the meeting between him and his Chinese girlfriend’s strict parents goes terribly wrong, one average white man is forced to win her parents respect, while trying to defeat her handsome suitor and former flame, all during her sister’s traditional Chinese wedding. CAST LIST: NARRATION – DIANA FRANZ Evy (29) – 7 – SARAH DESOUZA-COELHO […]
via COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Playing with Chopsticks, by James Abney — Comedy FESTIVAL
Hotshot Silicon Valley lawyer, Nina Khan, must confront the trauma of her first generation Canadian upbringing and the ghosts of boyfriends past, with the help of Dr. Lata Sharma. As Dr Sharma sets off on the journey with Nina, she discovers that she has ghosts of her own to confront. CAST LIST: NARRATION – DIANA […]
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When the cameras stop rolling and the princess dresses get put away, life in YouTube kids fantasy land isn’t quite what its cracked up to be. Aspiring actors trying to make it in the biz, Jessica and her other Princess Pals are just trying to get through each day without quitting their oh-so-wonderful jobs, pretending […]
via COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Princess Pals, by Jenn Barlow, Lindsey Jean Roetzel — Comedy FESTIVAL
An intolerable Republican candidate is voted in as President of the United States, but he seems more interested in partying than running the country, or taking orders from his ominous overlord. CAST LIST: NARRATION – SARAH DESOUZA-COELHO Buzz – 5 – SEAN BALLANTYNE Hope – 6 – JULIE C. SHEPPARD Carson – 5 – GENE […]
via COMEDY Best Scene Reading: PARTY OVER COUNTRY, by Tim Gale — Comedy FESTIVAL
A struggling comedian with an unsuccessful dating life finds compatibility in a woman nearly twenty years his senior, but their difference in age triggers insecurities that he lacks the wisdom to manage. CAST LIST: Tara: Justine Christensen Narrator: Jordan Boscariol Andrew: Gabriel Darku Lance: Fabio Abrue — Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, […]
via COMEDY Best Scene Reading: Age-Dive, by Ryan Mutama — Comedy FESTIVAL
Two artists from NYC become disillusioned by their urban existence and decide to escape to rural New Hampshire to start an art collective in an effort to shift the current paradigm of consciousness – yet what they didn’t anticipate was how differing ideologies would impact their naive idealistic vision. CAST LIST: Faith: Jordan Boscariol Narrator: […]
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It is said that writing exposes what we care about. That might be true, though I’d love to deflect it. In High School, my most active writing started out as love letters to a girl who turned out to be the last person on earth who should ever read those notes. I looked them over […]
Spending so much time at home during the pandemic, I’ve finally opened some storage boxes and plastic bins of odds and ends with mixed results. Listening to an audio book or a commentary track, I’ve been able to get into the groove of this tedious task of deciding what can be thrown out and what […]
The biggest hitch to the #CormanChallenge is to shoot a short on a cell phone. I have a cheap Samsung Galaxy J3 which I would replace in a minute if I could just walk into the store instead of trying to order on the phone itself through the website and get caught in the loop […]
Y’see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I’ll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I’m wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn’t write them as […]
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