Emily Eaglin is a film major and art history minor at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County. In addition to being an actor and filmmaker, she is passionate about activism regarding race relations, gender equality, LGBT+ rights, and access to education. In her spare time she babysits and organizes with Baltimore frontline activists, both inspired her to write the short Sweeter.
A precocious six-year-old switches places with her young mother for a day to discover the true meaning of working twice as hard for half as much.
Diana Losen graduated with her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage from Northwestern University in June 2016. Immediately after graduating, Diana acted in A Red Orchid’s production of Sick by Seven and was named a 2016 Academy Awards Nicholls Fellowship semifinalist for her screenplay The Brief & Brilliant Reign of Billy Tread. She went on to produce the world premiere of the play Taught by Mercedes Lake at the American Theater of Actors in New York City. Priest to Priest is her first short film.
I write and direct coming-of-age screenplays and teleplays navigated by protagonists who wield humor like a weapon as they fight to survive, find purpose, and grow up. I craft worlds that mirror our own but also veer off into the fantastical, using supernatural situations to provide escape and metaphor. My stories emphasize the value of the unconventional families we create for ourselves and explore the darker side of young love with romances of the forbidden or doomed variety. I’m interested in examining The Big Things such as meaning and our human obsession with it, the kaleidoscope of identity, and what sets us free. I write stories that capture the strangeness of adolescence, the melancholy of childhood, and the irony of adulthood.
LOGLINE: A nine-year-old priest seeks a mentor to help him defeat the antichrist, a devious middle-school bully.
SYNOPSIS:
Billy Tread (9) delivers a passionate prayer and is overheard by the unconventional, wise Father Williams. Billy introduces himself to Father Williams as a fellow priest but before he can ask for his counsel in defeating the antichrist (Axel Greene, grade 7) he must listen to Father William’s strange confession.
1983 – 1986
Self-taught learning and experimenting with Super-8 film.
1987 – 1992
Teacher education in Lucerne
1994 – 2001
The hobby becomes a profession by a professional Videoproducer
2001 – 2002
Marketing and image communication by an agency
2002 – 2004
Preparation course at the School of Design, Bern and eidg. Diploma Examination Multimedia Coordinator.
Since 2002
independent video producer
It’s about believing in yourself. You have to stay true to your goals and ideas.
It is about assertiveness, one’s own will, it is about self-realization, about the development of one’s own strengths and unequal prerequisites. And also to promote the acceptance of partial performance weaknesses against the background of today’s school situation.
The topic is global and timeless.
I want to see children laughing!
He scores goals like Ronaldo. Though reading out loud or writing doesn’t work as well. But as shy Noah falls in love with a girl, neither nimble feet nor a quick tongue matter and the key to fortune is something else: patience.
I am a 12 year old student film maker, I go to Millikan Middle school and I am in the Cinematic Arts Academy. This film is special to me because my grandmother is suffering from slight memory loss, and I got to take her reality and make it into an art for many people to see. I also have been taking piano for eight years and I enjoy composing to my own short films.
I believe we have film to send out a powerful message to people. I make films to send the message. I want people to finish my film with emotion, and a thought that can help the world. I am an animal advocate, and went to a school with inclusion called CHIME, where special needs kids work in the same classroom.
The prompt for this film was “ever since that day, things will never be the same”. The story of a girl, Julia, and her grandfather. Julia grows up with a fierce bond with her grandfather, and as she gets older, so does he – and his memory is disappearing. One day he sees Julia as a complete stranger, and that devastates her, and must learn how to cope the best way she can.
Submit your Family Film or Screenplay to the Festival: http://festivalforfamily.com
 TV FAN FICTION PILOT: SCOOBY DOO: AGE OF AQUARIUSApril 2018 Reading by Katie Grotzinger |
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 INDIAN COUNTRY – 1st Scene ScreenplayApril 2018 Reading by Troy Kelly |
 IN THE WOODS – Short ScreenplayApril 2018 Reading by Rachel Greenhoe |
 SEEKER – Family Short ScreenplayApril 2018 Reading by Kaitlyn Kowalski |
 RETURN TO FREEDOM – FEMALE Best Scene ScreenplayApril 2018 Reading by Bristol MacDonald |
 SADIE SASQUASH – FEMALE Best Scene ScreenplayApril 2018 Reading by Frank Vespe |
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Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Festival Moderators: Kierston Drier, Shepsut Wilson
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Festival Directors: Mary Cox, Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy
Camera Operators: John Johnson, Isabal Cupryn, Aser Santos Jr., Zack Arch
List of Under 5 Minute Short Films that were showcased at the festival for the 2nd half of 2017. Click the links and watch the Audience FEEDBACK videos, plus learn more about the films.
 ECSTASY BOULEVARD, 5min, USA, Fantasy/Sci-FiWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |  SUICIDE NOTE, 5min, UK, Fantasy/ThrillerWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 TYSVAER WARS – A STAR WARS STORY, 4min, Norway, Comedy/ActionWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |  STAR WARS: TRIALS, 5min, USA, Action/AdventureWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
| BODY WITHOUT ORGANS, 2min, USA, Experimental WATCH Audience FEEDBACK |  NOVEMBER UNDER ASHES, 3min, France, Music VideoWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 HOPE, 4min, Iceland, ExperimentalWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |  STRANGE BEASTS, 5min, UK, ExperimentalWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 DIE YOUNG, 3min, USA, Music VideoWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |  DON’T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN, 4min, UK, ExperimentalWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 GOLDEN LIGHT, 3min, Italy, Music VideoWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |  DOMESTICITY, 4min, UK, Thriller/DramaWATCH Audience FEEDBACK |
 UKA, 3min, Spain, Animation/FamilyWATCH Audience… |
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I PROMISED HER LIFE, 15min., Drama/Family
DAUGHTER, 3min., Canada, Drama/Family
SUNDAY DINNER, 15min., USA, Documentary
A GOOD BLINDER, 26min., USA, Documentary
MATTHEW, 6min., USA, LGBT/Family
FESTIVAL for FAMILY 