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.
The story of Gabriel Callahan’s life, beginning with his father’s abandonment when Gabriel was a child and tracing his ambivalent search for wholeness through adolescence and into adulthood.
The Global Fund is a parodical global economic institution, headquartered in Washington, whose Director and Staff attempt –and often fail– to rule over the various countries of the world. They clash and try to make an arrangement with the Presidenta of a country in debt.
Paul Bicker is the Director of the Global Fund, an international public institution that tries to prescribe what to do to the various countries of the world. In the pilot, Bicker pretends to address the huge debt of a South American country with an incompetent government. He reaches a deal with the ignorant and arrogant Presidenta of Platonia to trade off the economic policy dictated by the Global Fund with permission for the country to keep its domestic politics and elections, which generates a catastrophe.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Political satire. Comedy.
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a TV show?
The Trump’s presidency, Brexit, the rising of populist and nationalist movements, have opened a new golden era for political satire. But no sitcom has dealt yet with the global institutions, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and alike, which have recently become more and more powerful over the entire world economy and are now the main target of politicians’ and voters’ backlash in many countries.
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Globalization fun.
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Casablanca.
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
Several years doing academic research on the global institutions in Washington, and about a year to write the satirical version.
7. How many stories have you written?
I have published a dozen academic monographs, textbooks and non-fictions essays; I have also a satirical campus novel written; this is my first TV screenplay.
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
As time goes by.
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
I know the technocratic jargon and the political speech well, but I needed to give a different voice to every character, which I was not used to do.
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Movies.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
So far it has offered me this nice opportunity to have a video for promotion, which I didn’t find elsewhere.
12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
The initial feedback was very helpful, although the reviewers didn’t know much about the global institutions that I am satirizing and I had to clarify. This confirms that this TV show is necessary for the education of the public about the importance of the current governance of the world; I think a satirical comedy may be an effective way to explain how they work and to call the attention to the opportunities and perils they bring about.
You’re just one electric bill away from being Amish!
Finn Chandler is a jobless college graduate, loaded with debt, and living in his Dad’s basement. While at an Occupy Wall Street protest, Finn gets whacked in the head by a weird-looking coin that supernaturally predicts future stock prices.
Finn uses the coin’s picks to make $261,554.14 in his first week at home as a day trader.
The coin belonged to filthy-rich Walter Streetski and he begins a devious plan to put Finn through hell to get the coin back.
Finn fights back, but is just one step from going to prison.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Comedy, Action, Central Hero, High Concept
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
Cathartic relief if you’ve ever been screwed over by a rich person, business, or bank.
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Joyous revenge!
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Dirty Harry
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
A couple years
7. How many stories have you written?
Four screenplays
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the
most times in your life?)
I’m hooked on any form of Smooth Jazz and listen to it during most of my workouts.
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Getting to sleep because it was just too fun to write.
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
My wife, cycling, and triathlons.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your
experiences working with the submission platform site?
Excellent
12. What influenced you to enter the festival?
The ability to have access to actors reading the best scene of a screenplay is a fantastic idea.
See the world from the Poop’s point of view as a cowardly outcast discovers his courage and bravery when he battles the evil Toilet Paper Empire in this animated action adventure.
See the world from the Poop’s point of view as a cowardly outcast discovers his courage and bravery when he battles the evil Toilet Paper Empire in this animated action adventure.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Comedy / animated adventure
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
The laughter that it will bring to everyone that sees it!
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Holy Shit!
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
The Shining.
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
4 months
7. How many stories have you written?
Two dozen feature screenplays
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
96 Tears by Question Mark And The Mysterians
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Creating a spirit for the lead character that made him relatable to everyone. The first draft had him as cynical and pessimistic. That was the wrong way to go. It’s much funnier to watch a character with set goals and dreams and then witness them unravel at the seams.
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I am a film director who released his first feature film in theaters nationwide in 2009. Unfortunately, the film wasn’t very funny, so it did not do well. I went back to the drawing board and worked on my comedic elements – and this is the result.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
Film Freeway has been incredibly easy to use for me. Whether it is one of my film, or a screenplay, I simply upload the files, write a mini synopsis, and then I am set to start submitting. I found their search engine to be very user friendly and most festivals that I want to enter are available through their submission process.
12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
I found your festival after a brief search on Film Freeway. I looked up the reviews and submitted immediately. The feedback I received was incredibly inspirational. I think they nailed the weak spots. I was aware of them, but did not have the objective viewpoint to make the corrections. Sometimes, one gets so invested in the story that it is hard to see it from the outside. The feedback assisted me in finding the right tempo for the pacing in the problem spots and turned the script into something that I am very proud of. Most scripts that I have written are preconceived ideas that I flush out on the paper. This story was an inspiration that hit like a lightning bolt. It practically wrote itself. The first draft was completed in one week. What made it so easy? I only had one goal. Make everyone laugh!
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A GOOD BLINDER, 26min., USA, Documentary
YOURS FAITHFULLY EDNA WELTHORPE (MRS), UK, Animation/Comedy
GLOBAL FUN – TV Best Scene Screenplay
INFINITE NOT BEYOND – 1pg. Short Screenplay
ROMANCE Best Scene Screenplay – SHE’S A DREAM
COMEDY Best Scene Screenplay – CESAR & MAX
FANTASY Short Screenplay – AFTERLIFE ESTATES
LGBT 1st Scene Screenplay – DELIVERY GIRL
THE CRYING CHEF, 6min., USA, Comedy
THE FUTURE RICHARD DENISONS, 16min, USA, Comedy/Time Travel
AN ACTOR PREPARES, 4min., USA, Comedy
GF, 25min., USA, Comedy
VIOLET AND JUNE, 6min., Canada, Romance/Comedy
GOD CAME ‘ROUND, 5min, Italy, Romance/Comedy 
COMEDY 1st Scene TV Screenplay – CHARACTERS
1st Scene TV Screenplay – FAT VS EVIL
BIOGRAPHY Best Scene Screenplay – CATCH