The FEEDBACK Monthly Film Festival is back for 2018.. Our home is The Carlton Cinemas, located in the heart of downtown Toronto at 20 Carlton Street. The event runs from 9pm to 11pm.
Continuing to showcase the best of short films from around the world, while maintaining our audience feedback format moderated by Kierston Drier. Showcasing a festival twice a month in Toronto in 2018!
Tickets for 2018 are PAY WHAT YOU LIKE. Purchase your tickets online via Paypal or Credit Card. Tickets are first come first serve.
If you like to obtain seats in advance and pick them up on the day of the event (come for FREE, or make a donation), please email us at festivalevent@wildsoundfestival.com and we’ll reserve seats for you.
You can pick up the tickets on the day of the event at the cinema. Tickets are first come, first serve. This festival has sold out 70 out of its last 72 events!
You will be able to buy alcohol (beer, wine, liquor), popcorn, candy, and refreshments before the show.
Here is the full program of films. Festival starts at 9pm sharp!
FIRST ACT PROGRAM
THE FLOWER GATE, 15min., Israel, Fantasy
Directed by Kristin Gorell
‘The Flower Gate’ is a magical realist and feminist short film metaphorically exploring oppression and destruction by telling the story of an Israeli-expatriate woman returning to Jerusalem for a visit, only to be confronted by the impact of her choices. Inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, ‘The Shadow’.
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RENDEZ-VOUS, 2min., Canada, Fantasy
Directed by Jimmy Boutry
In a manor out of time, a man begins to paint a canevas.
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PHARMA LAB TRAINING VIDEO: 1, 9min., USA, Fantasy
Directed by Joseph David Bowes
A training video gone wrong for the government’s new pharmaceutical testing facility!
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TRUMPETS IN THE SKY, 12min., Belguim, Sci-Fi
Directed by Robin De Cock
In a near, dystopian future an earshattering sound has plagued the world for six months. Gabrielle and her deaf son Raphael struggle to survive in a a society on the brink of collapsing since the start of “The Horn”.
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SECOND ACT PROGRAM
METTA VIA, 12min., Canada, Sci-Fi
Directed by Warren Flanagan
Set in the future It tells the story of a young woman who wakes up in a mysterious ‘temple like’ room and must figure out what her purpose is there. This in turn leads to her memories being unlocked and the true purpose of the temple, the strange sentient machines that surround her, and ultimately her final destination.
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THE SUPER RECOGNISER, 11min., UK, Sci-Fi
Directed by Jennifer Sheridan
It tells the story of Scott (Jacob Anderson), a seemingly normal young man with a very special talent. Thanks to his exceptional skills of 90% facial recognition, Scott has been recruited to work in a secret government initiative. Under the watchful eye of his tough-talking supervisor Agent Williams (Ritu Arya), this Super Recogniser is over-worked and under pressure as he spends hours seeking terrorists and criminals captured on CCTV cameras. However, Scott starts to question everything after he believes he sees ‘himself’ on the monitors.
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SOLUK (BREATH), 5min., Turkey, Sci-Fi
Directed by H. Yagmur Kartal
In a dystopic future, there is a shortage of oxygen. People are breathing with gas masks. A thief sneaks into an old man’s house. The thief finds a plant in the house he enters. The old man realizes that he can get maskless oxygen at home thanks to this plant and special fan. The film deals with the struggle of two people for the sake of having this plant that supplies oxygen.
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AFTER WE HAVE LEFT OUR HOMES, 8min., UK, Sci-Fi
Directed by Marc Adamson
Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a recording until he is caught and imprisoned. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of confiscated items, leading to a series of events that will forever change the city.
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The event runs from 9pm to 11pm on Thursday May 31, 2018
Continuing to showcase the best of short films from around the world, while maintaining our audience feedback format moderated by Kierston Drier. Showcasing a festival twice a month in Toronto in 2017!
LUCIDAE is an epic action packed romp about supernatural contact with another world. There are no space ships or robots – this is a sci-fi story that has more to do with ancient unified beliefs in Astral travel, dream walking and out of body experiences – what limits could space and time have in this kind of contact?
What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
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Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
It is truly original. It is also not simply entertaining – it has many thought provoking elements.
How would you describe this script in two words?
Ground breaking.
What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Blade Runner
How long have you been working on this screenplay?
3 years
How many stories have you written?
6
What motivated you to write this screenplay?
A deep dissatisfaction with the limited imagination of sci-fi so far generally, with very few notable exceptions. But also the knowledge that this was a totally new approach that has the potential to impact heavily on a huge international audience hungry for something different.
What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Mainly time and financial – you have to pay your bills. Writing a screenplay on spec does not pay. So you are forced to balance it with a job that pays – this slows down progress and can be frustrating.
Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Loved ones. The wood where I live. Big issues like diminishing resources in an over human populated world, injustice. Cake 😉
Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Find an original story. Grow your sense of empathy to understand truly natural dialogue, use characters you know/witness and adapt/enhance them. Use small details to crystallise them. Don’t agonise and rewrite the same scenes over and over and get bogged down. Move on, get it all down, take a break then go back and do an entire polish. Lots of others but hell I am on a very steep learning curve myself…
Suppose a person from another planet discovered they were from Earth, that their planet was colonized by aliens? And discovering this, how would it reflect on the world in which they lived? Does history repeat itself and are we always destined to repeat our mistakes
2. What genres would you say this short story is in?
Science fiction, mystery, a moral tale
3. How would you describe this story in two words?
Begin Again
4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?
High Noon
5. How long have you been working on this story?
1 day, for this story and 10 weeks, since, 9 new episodes.
6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck
7. What motivated you to write this story?
I read a news story about three planets, 20 light years away, orbiting a dwarf star, discovered by astronomers working in a deep space observatory in Chile. I was listening to David Bowie while I read it. That same day I responded to a WP blog prompt, called Writers’ Quote Wednesday Writing Challenge. The verbal prompt for that week was ‘obsession’ and I chose David Bowie’s ‘Starman’ as my ‘writer’s quote’.
8. What artist would you love to have dinner with?
James Lee Burke
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Cinema
10. What influenced you to enter the 1pg. Short Story contest?
It came up in a Film Freeway email notice on the same day I finished writing it. I thought it was serendipitous.
11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Write short and true, so readers can walk with you, in the same world.
If anyone wants to read the ensuing eight episodes – the last one has yet to be written – they’ll find it on https://dermotthayes.com/
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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
ARTIFICIAL played to raves reviews from the audience at the January 2016 Film Festival. It was also awarded Best Cinematography at the Festival.
Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video:
ARTIFICIAL, 20min, Spain, Sci-Fi/Thriller
Directed by Luis Espinosa
A man goes to a job interview. What he doesn’t know is that he has already been selected. CORPSA offers to pay him 80,000 Euros if he agrees to be cloned. But more than just a lot of money depends on his decision.
On the day he plans to propose to his girlfriend, a lowly shipping clerk finds a fountain pen that cause objects to vanish. He embraces the strange phenomenon as a novelty, until it threatens to impede his romantic plans, and very existence.
Producers: Jon Silverberg, Andy Hodgson Cast: Mackenzie Gray, Philip Granger, Alayna Silverberg