AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Film: FARGATE Best Cinematography: PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!!!…TOMORROW Best Performances:MARRIAGEFIT Best Funniest Film: TRUTH HERTZ Theme of night: Need to act. NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: FARGATE, 18min., UK, Comedy PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!!! …TOMORROW, 3min. India, Animation/Comedy 100… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS – JANUARY 2021 COMEDY Short Film Festival
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Film and Writing Festival for Comedy. Showcasing best of comedy short films at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Plus, showcasing best of comedy novels, short stories, poems, screenplays (TV, short, feature) at the festival performed by professional actors.
COMEDY Festival TV PILOT Best Scene: Nervous Rex, by Sean Sullivan
CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Wendy: Kyana Teresa Jesus: Shawn Devlin
COMEDY Festival SHORT Screenplay: Bad Karma, by Caleb Parazette, Jarret Rosenblatt
Emina is a war crimes victim who is having trouble accepting her horrific past. In her desperation, she seeks the counsel of Starchild who is all too happy to put her suffering into cosmic perspective. CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Starchild: Julie Sheppard Emina: Hannah Ehman Betty: Allison Kampf
Director Biography – Sally Cancello (FARGATE)
Sally Cancello is an award winning actor, writer, director and producer based in Sheffield. Sally studied acting and theatre directing in London before progressing onto film. She started writing and filming her own comedy in 2014, going on to film 10 comedy shorts/sketches over the next 18 months. Sally entered The Funny Women Awards with… Continue reading Director Biography – Sally Cancello (FARGATE)
Short Film: FARGATE, 18min., UK, Comedy
This short British action comedy is a story of two women on a mission – one to pay to her overdraft, the other to stop a bank robbery. The adventure begins. Fargate is a story about two women on a mission. One is Kelsey, a single mother to a baby boy, who needs to deal… Continue reading Short Film: FARGATE, 18min., UK, Comedy
Director Biography – Rob DiNinni, Jeffrey Palmer (MARRIAGEFIT)
Rob DiNinni is an award-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer, director, and coach. As a founding member of StageCoach Improv, Rob performs improv and sketch comedy and facilitates improv for business, team building, and interactive entertainment for organizations nation-wide. Rob also works closely with executives, clinicians, and medical schools providing communication skills training as an actor… Continue reading Director Biography – Rob DiNinni, Jeffrey Palmer (MARRIAGEFIT)
Short Film: MARRIAGEFIT, 13min,. USA, Comedy
A disconnected couple is alerted their marriage has three years remaining which sets in motion an artificial intelligence (AI) mobile app to reconnect the relationship puzzle pieces that truly make us human. Project Links Website
Director Biography – Shaun Majumder (TRUTH HERTZ)
Shaun Majumder is a Canadian born, LA based Actor/Writer/Director. He has done a bunch of stuff. Some good some bad and some in between. He’s the new father of a human child named Mattis. He created her with his incredible wife Shelby Fenner. He also has two Boston Terriers, but one is really old and… Continue reading Director Biography – Shaun Majumder (TRUTH HERTZ)
Short Film: TRUTH HERTZ, 3min., USA, Comedy
When a father suspects his son is lying, he buys lie detector robot and gets more truth than he had hoped for.
Director Biography – Chandni Srivastava (PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!!!…TOMORROW)
Chandni Srivastava is an independent filmmaker from Delhi, India. She is a post-graduate in film and TV production from St. Xavier’s, Mumbai. She has an experience of 10 years in the film making field. Her documentary “Ravanayana” (2015) bagged two awards and got recognition in many national and international film festivals. Her short experimental film… Continue reading Director Biography – Chandni Srivastava (PROCRASTINATORS UNITE!!!…TOMORROW)