Month: November 2020

When the spirits of the Deadshot Girls — America’s legendary cowgirls throughout history — appear to a hot-headed, untrained bull rider, she sets out to take over the male-dominated world of rodeo with their help. CAST LIST: Narrator: Bill Poulin Lucy: Allison Kampf

Katie’s misbehaviour at her fifteenth birthday party causes her Mother to send her to West Side Academy, a boarding school for young ladies. However, Arnold Hemingworth, the headmaster, enforces strict rules over his pupils. Katie’s reluctance to follow these rules causes her to get into trouble and she becomes isolated from her submissive peers. One… Continue reading FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Reading: DOLLY DAYDREAM, by Natasha Langridge-Thorpe

After nearly a decade within the convent, Elizabeth stumbles upon an old friend, Sage. The two are instantly drawn back to the life they used to share. As Elizabeth spends more time with Sage, she realizes she must make the choice to stay in her vocation or to leave and be with Sage. CAST LIST… Continue reading FEMALE Festival Best Scene Reading: Holy Ground, by Brooke Burns

After ruining the virgin sacrifice by sleeping with the virgin, cult leader Michelle Wolfe is faced with an uphill battle to win over her disgruntled group of followers. She sets out to recruit as many followers as possible, hoping each new recruit will help generate more income and salvage the dwindling community. She’s Columbus on… Continue reading FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: WOLFE PACK, by Lindsay Heiman

Yorkshire-born Sheena has directed four shorts: A Plaster A Paper and a Cheese and Pickle Sandwich, 0800-FINALGIRL, Roseberry Road and The Ditch (official selection: London Short FF, Aesthetica FF, Sunderland Shorts, Carmarthen Bay FF). She also co-directed the first two seasons of PERSONA, the world’s first online soap designed for smartphones. She works extensively in… Continue reading Director Biography – Sheena Holliday (GIVE ME A NAME)

The United Kingdom, about ten years in the future. Jennifer, a senior intelligence officer, is briefing her deputy Kate about a new detainee who has been arrested for crimes against the state. But there is something different about this prisoner… As Kate conducts a ruthless interrogation, Jennifer, faced with her sense of duty on one… Continue reading Short Film: GIVE ME A NAME, 10min., UK, Sci-Fi/Thriller

Dunja and Jasna are traveling with their mother Jovana to visit their father who lives alone in the cottage. DUNJA and JASNA are convinced that he had abandoned their mother because of the affair with another woman. By exchanging impressions of his action, they remember the past and reveal the expectations of a meeting. DUNJA… Continue reading Short Film: WAY BACK, 15min., Serbia, Family Drama

Georgia Fort is a two time Emmy nominated Media Producer and Television Correspondent. Her reporting has been published on CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS affiliates. Her mission as a storyteller is to amplify truth, inspire, inform and agitate change. Most recently she produced a short documentary “George Floyd: It Happened Here”, which amplifies the… Continue reading Director Biography – Georgia Fort, Krysta Rayford (GEORGE FLOYD: IT HAPPENED HERE)

George Floyd cried out for help, begged for his life. A cry for help is a cry for humanity to be restored. In the midst of the uprising in Minneapolis, we captured raw thoughts and authentic truths from residents who live in the neighborhood where George Floyd took his final breath. Project Links  Website

Tonia Kempler lives in New York, though her roots run deep in a rural south still steeped in the occult traditions of the Gullah Geechee and the animism of the Cherokees. Surrounded and empowered by the lore and practices of these supernatural cultures, Tonia leans toward macabre worlds with isolated, damaged, and yet intensely capable… Continue reading Director Biography – Tonia Kempler (LEORA)