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Deadline TODAY: Feature/Short Screenplay Festival

Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
WILDsound is a screenwriter’s treasure! They take enormous time to provide the most expert, detailed feedback, even allowing my choice to incorporate all the committee’s ideas or stay with my draft. With caring support, they’ve honored each deadline and every award they promised, and I’m forever grateful for their right-on…

Movie Review: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) Directed by Steven Spielberg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the story of a small town electrician named Roy, played by Richard Dreyfuss, who experiences a seemingly random encounter with a UFO. After the experience, Roy becomes obsessed with aliens and UFOs. His behavior becomes extremely strange and erratic, including drawing the same mountain over and over. When he is unable to explain his behavior to his wife, she leaves him, and only then does he realize that he is drawing Devils Tower in Wyoming, the site where the UFOs are about to make contact with humans. As he races to get there, the government, having made a list of people who will be allowed to visit the aliens, apprehends him. After being questioned, Roy is added to the list, the aliens return the numerous people who had been abducted over the years, Roy and the others on the list enter the spaceship and are taken away to make contact with the friendly aliens.

Movie Review: JAWS (1975)

Originally posted on Thriller/Suspense Film and Writing Festival:
Submit your Thriller/Suspense Film & Screenplay to the Festival: http://thrillersuspensefestival.com JAWS, 1975 Movie Reviews Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb Review by Steven Loeb SYNOPSIS: When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small…

Read Best of NEW Fantasy/Sci-Fi Movie Pitches

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How to Write a Screenplay. Tips for everyone

Originally posted on Matthew Toffolo's Summary:
HOW TO WRITE A SCREENPLAY FILMMAKING NOTES SCREENPLAY WRITING When writing a SCREENPLAY, it’s all about CHARACTER, PLOT, and THEME – the three cornerstones to telling a great story. Below is Part One of NOTES you need to think about when writing a script. Whether you’re a seasoned…

WILDsound Announces its February 2016 Feature Screenplay Winners

Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
Watch the winning feature screenplay performance readings for February 2016. Script #1 – HENRIETTA’S ODYSSEY by L R  Whittinger http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/henriettas_odyssey.html SYNOPSIS: Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy To save her Henrietta’s life, she is left on an earthling’s doorstep by Geegle one of the most untrustworthy characters in the plot.…

Short Screenplay Table Reading – TURN ON DESIRE by Lauren Hoekstra

Originally posted on WILDsound Festival:
TURN ON DESIRE is the February 2016 Short Screenplay Winner. Watch TURN ON DESIRE by Lauren Hoekstra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ObcHJq9NjM CAST LIST: NARRATOR – Susan Wilson LUKE – Mark Sparks PIMP – Neil Kulin BOY – Gabriel Darku LOUDSPEAKER – Elizabeth Rose Morriss Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Get to know writer Lauren Hoekstra: Matthew Toffolo: What…

January 2016 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Films/Screenplays/Stories

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