Author: femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes.

Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival.

This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way.

When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival.

A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

CUBS Win World Series – 2016 Champs!

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It’s been 108 years. The Chicago Cubs are now World Series champions. WILDsound would like to congratulate the team from the North Side of Chicago. We are big fans of baseball and it was an amazing World Series, topped off with an incredible Game 7. Perhaps one of the greatest baseball…

Watch the October 2016 Winning Short Screenplays (15)

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CLICK the IMAGES and watch the winning short film screenplays for October 2016. 15 in Total. SHORT Screenplay – WHAT’S IN A NAME October 2016 Reading Written by Ted Stanley SHORT Screenplay – HAPPY LITTLE PILLS October 2016 Reading Written by Kennedy Erin SHORT Screenplay – SYMPATHY October 2016 Reading…

November 2016 Writing & Film Festival Deadlines (Submit Today)

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Upcoming Writing/Film/Screenplay Festival DeadlinesDeadline November 5th 1st ACT or FULL PLAY CONTEST Get full feedback! Get your Stage Play performed by professional actors. FIRST SCENE (first 10pgs) SCREENPLAY CONTEST Submit the first stages of your film and get full feedback! Deadline November 10th Submit your Favorite Scene And we’ll have…

Watch all of the October 2016 Winning Writing Festival Readings & Film Festival Videos

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Watch October 2016 Winning Readings and Films HIGHLIGHTS October 2016 ACTION/CRIME FEEDBACK Film Festival Best of the Oct. 20, 2016 Fest. FEATURE Screenplay: CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES October 2016 Reading Written by Cate Carson 1st SCENE Screenplay: NIGHT WIND TO BAHIA October 2016 Reading Written by Thomas Thorpe 1st SCENE Screenplay: CRIME…

Happy Birthday: Betsy Palmer (1926–2015)

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Betsy Palmer (1926–2015) Born: November 1, 1926 in East Chicago, Indiana, USA Died: May 29, 2015 (age 88) in Danbury, Connecticut, USA [Getting the role of Pamela Voorhees in Friday the 13th (1980)] My agent called and said “How’d you like to do a movie?” Great! I had not done…

Happy Birthday: Jenny McCarthy

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Jenny McCarthy Born: November 1, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois, USA Married to: Donnie Wahlberg (31 August 2014 – present) John Asher (11 September 1999 – 2005) (divorced) (1 child) “I think the whole computer geek thing is totally attractive…I mean, like all I’d get is total obedience.” On finding Mr.…

Happy Birthday: Toni Collette

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Toni Collette Born: November 1, 1972 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Married to: Dave Galafassi (11 January 2003 – present) (2 children) I’m an actor not a movie star. I prefer it that way. I think when you watch big stars on screen; it’s really difficult to look beyond…

Happy Birthday: Natalia Tena

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Natalia Tena Born: November 1, 1984 in London, England, UK My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4, she wanted to make sure I was serious and I wanted to be Chuck Berry…