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.
On Christmas Eve, the ne’er do well owner of Detroit’s Santa Franchise teams up with a local bus driver to find lost reindeer, save the holiday and win back his family.
CAST LIST:
Regina: Victoria Urquart
Abe Simms: Dan Cristofori
Narrator: Esther Thibault
Jesse: : Isaiah Kolundzic
Kevin: Peter Mark Raphael
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Kamran, along with his friend Faramarz, decides to rob his grandmother’s house. Aided by his friend, Kamran plans the robbery and his grandmother’s murder. After killing the grandmother and finding her money and jewelry, he also murders Faramarz. The robbery and the murder are both repeated at different ages. At the end, we see the bodies of the old woman, Kamran and Faramarz with different murders in different parts of the house.
Get to know the writer:
What is your screenplay about?
About conscientious people who can not be released from the cycle of behavior.
What genres does your screenplay fall under?
mystery,crime,thriller
Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
For most people life you are involved in a vicious circle.
How would you describe this script in two words?
Kamran, along with his friend Faramarz, decides to rob his grandmother’s house. Aided by his friend, Kamran plans the robbery and his grandmother’s murder. After killing the grandmother and finding her money and jewelry, he also murders Faramarz. The robbery and the murder are both repeated at different ages. At the end, we see the bodies of the old woman, Kamran and Faramarz with different murders in different parts of the house.
What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
My favorite director Quentin Jerome Tarantino
I saw all his films.
How long have you been working on this screenplay?
Over 8 years
How many stories have you written?
More than 20 scripts
What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
good ye my lover , James Blunt
Yiannis Chryssomallis
Mohammad Reza Shajarian
and…
What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
In our country there’s filmmaking career.
And the script is often in social discourse.
And I would love to work in other genres.
There are no independent producer. And have worked to the desired style.
Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
director
Acting
Photography
What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
I met with the elders of cinema.
And you get experience in different fields of filmmaking
When a pretentious ad man levels down to work on his best friend’s landscaping crew, he must sharpen his new skills in order to prevent a rival lawn service from ruining their hometown’s natural beauty with artificial grass. CAST LIST:
‘Lawn Boys’ is about a city guy who learns to bloom where he’s planted by taking a job on his buddy’s landscaping crew back in his South Jersey hometown.
What genres does your screenplay fall under?
‘Lawn Boys’ is a broad comedy.
Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
‘Lawn Boys’ is outrageously funny, while being grounded in reality and has a lot of heart. It’s refreshingly original and sure to leave anyone who watches it with a smile.
How would you describe this script in two words?
Outrageously Funny!
What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
That would have to be ‘A Christmas Story’, by default.
How long have you been working on this screenplay?
I first came up with the idea way back in 2009 and picked at it over the years since. I fully committed to writing it last fall and it took me about six months to get it fully polished.
How many stories have you written?
I’ve written a couple dozen or so, but only six have made it into fully realized screenplays. I’m currently working on two other screenplay ideas and have several more in the pipeline.
What motivated you to write this screenplay?
I kept having situations and lines of dialogue coming to mind as if they were from a movie I’ve seen several times. This is the comedy movie I’ve always wanted to have playing on a lazy hungover Saturday afternoon.
What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
The ideal being to write full-time, I had to tear myself away from it in order to find freelance work to pay the bills.
Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
I’m passionate about living a life of radical self-expression and freedom to explore the wonders of nature and mankind.
Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Yes! Get coverage wherever you can find it. When I posted an early draft of ‘Lawn Boys’ to a couple of listing sites, the feedback from reviewers and other writers helped me improve the script immeasurably.
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Investigative reporters, Jean Burbank and Robert Ibsen, explore the highly controversial game of Bowling for Concubines in this satirical mockumentary. Involving bowling balls and actual human concubines as pins, B.F.C. forces a nation to question its own morals. Should fun come at any cost? Some say yes. These questions and more will be answered via variously dubious testimonies.
Watch the July 2016 Comedy Short Screenplay Winner.
Bowling for Concubines by Vanessa Marlowe
SYNOPSIS:
Genre: Mockumentary, Comedy
Investigative reporters, Jean Burbank and Robert Ibsen, explore the highly controversial game of Bowling for Concubines in this satirical mockumentary. Involving bowling balls and actual human concubines as pins, B.F.C. forces a nation to question its own morals. Should fun come at any cost? Some say yes. These questions and more will be answered via variously dubious testimonies.
It’s about people’s fascination with violence and sex – somethings some of us can’t get enough of – expressed in the form of a violent game that releases humanity’s own repressed and erratic nature by breaking all the rules.
2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
“Bowling for Concubines” would make a very compelling film because the issues addressed – violence, sex, religion and our very own moral values – are forever relevant. Also, the story expressed as a satire helps us to not only evaluate the absurdity of our own warped behavior, but hopefully, laugh at it as well.
3. How would you describe this script in two words?
Sexual Revolution!!
4. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
It’s a tie between Back To The Future and Wizard of Oz.
5. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
I worked on it for six months.
6. How many stories have you written?
Many short stories…one feature screenplay and 3 features in-process, two unpublished novels that I’m adapting into additional screenplays… A handful of short films, and a few sketches as well. The hope is the writer finishes his/her projects and doesn’t let them all collect dust! 😛
7. What motivated you to write this screenplay?
The film “Bowling for Columbine” had such a unique title when I first heard it that I immediately went to “Bowling for Concubines” (As the comedic mind corrupts all.) which I thought was a strange notion, then feeling passionately about the topic of sex trafficking, women’s rights, violence and sexual abuse, decided to tie it in there somehow.
8. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Just trying to end it. A strong ending is very challenging for me.
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Creatively speaking…acting. Comedy. Dancing. Filmmaking. Art. Interior Design. Colors. Textures…Personally…Exercise. Nature. Meditation. Nutrition. Love. Globally…Women and children’s rights. Water access, health care access, education. Treating the earth with respect and helping to heal it and ourselves in the process. World peace.
10. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
Just trying to get my work out there. I think the concern is always wanting it to be polished as possible but sometimes you just gotta put it out there and hope for the best. I will always continue to work on my material as best I can in the time that I can focus on it. The feedback was helpful, constructive. I always feel like everyone has a different perception of what can be interpreted as offensive. Writing comedy you’re going to offend people at some point but comedy doesn’t apologize, so neither can I. You can’t make everyone happy, but you can try to convey a solid message and make some people laugh, and maybe give them food for thought as they get into bed at night or as they criticize some aspect in irritation. I’d rather my work made people angry than inspired them to just go home and eat potato chips and completely forget about what they just saw or read. I mean if I’m not moving someone to feeling something, than I’m not doing my job.
11. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
Get yourself into a quiet, peaceful place of rigid discipline and routine when it comes to writing. If your mind isn’t at peace, than it’s hard to concentrate. Finding the discipline I think to do it is easier than being able to concentrate if, as most writers and artists at some point have experienced, times are tough and you’re struggling financially or whatever. But, as Charles Dickens wrote, “It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times…” Through it all, the truly dedicated, determined prevail in completing their work and seeing it through. If you want to start a revolution, it starts with that first word on that magical paper.
Find what inspires you and light that fire I say! 🙂
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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
‘The Gang Commits Espionage’ is an Always Sunny in Philadelphia spec about the tumultuous management of the bar and the group as a whole. Desperate for order, they seek out different political practices in hopes of organizing their chaos, and proving who is best fit as their leader.
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