Genre: Comedy
A worker in a cubicle is about to explode if she doesn’t get a break.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Steffi: Jane Smythe
Co-Worker: Rais Moui
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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Camera Op: Mary Cox
Genre: Comedy
This sitcom web series pilot features five quirky diverse millennials who work remotely for an international tech corporation. They struggle with online meetings, living on the road, and working from “wherever.” Each lone wolf must cooperate with the others, or everyone will be fired. Meanwhile, none of these independent co-dependents has a personal life that is even remotely working. (Single-camera TV-14)
CAST LIST:
Anna: Alicia Payne
Nav: Tim Paul McCarthy
Akihiro: Scott McCulloch
Narrator: Hugh Ritchie
Phil: Rais Moui
Kate: Jane Smythe
Chloe: Lara Amersey
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your TV Pilot screenplay about?
This is the pilot episode of the Remotely Working web series that satirizes our online world.
In the Pilot: Phil thinks the team’s conference call is audio only…. but it isn’t!
In the Series: Five quirky diverse millennials work remotely for an international tech corporation. They struggle with online meetings, living on the road, and working from “wherever.” Each lone wolf must cooperate with the others, or everyone will be fired. Meanwhile, none of these independent co-dependents has a personal life that is even remotely working.
2. Why should this screenplay be made into a TV show?
43% of global workers try, at least once, to work remotely. We hope there is an audience who will laugh at the inherent tensions in being a “professional” while fumbling with your laptop or phone in a bedroom, car, coffee-house, hotel bar, or many other inconvenient places. Plus, everyone knows, but won’t admit, that a virtual relationship lacks something essential. Can you truly love someone you can’t smell?
3. How would you describe this script in two words?
Millenial satire.
4. What TV show do you keep watching over and over again?
Silicon Valley, Brockmire, Entourage, Veep, Twilight Zone.
5. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
My creative partners (Scott Crosby and Dan Douglass) and I have worked on this particular script for seven months.
Thank you for the honor of a performance reading of our script.
6. How many stories have you written?
I’ve written the first season of Remotely Working (eight episodes) and six feature screenplays.
7. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
Hotel California.
8. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
It could not exceed 15 pages, so that meant: chop, chop, rewrite, and chop.
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
My wife and kids. Serving on the City Council in my town of La Mesa, California.
10. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
The opportunity for a performance reading is priceless. The initial feedback was helpful and we made many of the suggested changes.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
I have tried all the major platforms and Film Freeway is the best.
12. Any advice or tips you’d like to pass on to other writers?
If you can complete a screenplay, you have done something others only dream about. If your art is never read, or never produced, you still have made art.
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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: Kimberly Villarruel
Camera Op: Mary Cox
Genre: Comedy
Funny things happen on Wall Street.
CAST LIST:
Finn: Brogan Caulfield
Reporter: Emily Weir
Narrator: Peter Nelson
Wally: Daniel Cristofori
Atticus: Neil Bennett
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay 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.
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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
Camera Operator: Mary Cox
March 2018 WINNING Feature Screenplay!
Genre: Animation, Comedy
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.
CAST LIST:
Mr. Tee Pee: Daniel Cristofori
Lily: Emily Weir
Tootsie Roll: Brogan Caulfield
Narrator: Peter Nelson
Duke: Peter-Mark Raphael
Browneye: Neil Bennett
Floater: Regan Brown
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
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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Producer: Matthew Toffol – http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
Camera Op: Mary Cox
CAST LIST:
NARRATION: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Maria: Elizabeth Skidmore
Peter: Yehuda Fisher
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
CHARMER is at heart a love story about extreme opposites attracting. The Meet Cute occurs on Page 1, but the protagonists’ relationship evolves and deepens over the next 100 pages as they face life threatening obstacles at every turn of their hostage-rescue adventure.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
CHARMER is a road-trip script in the romantic-comedy/adventure genres.
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
More than one generation of moviegoers has had little exposure to the classic road-trip movie or the fast paced, sometimes witty dialogue of films from the 30’s and 40’s. Setting CHARMER” in a contemporary adventure/action setting could appeal to Millennials (ages 21-37) and up.
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
INFATUATION HAPPENS
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Probably Mr. and Mrs. Smith
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
4-5 years, on and off.
7. How many stories have you written?
Several, with CHARMER my only ‘finished’ full length feature script.
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the
most times in your life?)
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER (Carly Simon)
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
It took me years to learn how to format (as styles change) and how to edit.
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Family, then movies and cooking
11. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings
on the initial feedback you received?
The monthly competitions and fast feedback were appealing. Comments on my first entry were written enthusiastically.
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Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Director: Kierston Drier
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
Camera Operator: Mary Cox
Submit your Comedy Screenplay or Film to the Festival Today: http://festivalforcomedy.com
See the TV Screenplay Comedy Stories. Click the link and watch the winning videos:
 TV SPEC of the show RICK & MORTYDecember 2016 Reading Written by Matthew Feldman |
 TV PILOT – MIDLIFE CRISISDecember 2016 Reading Written by Erica Barfield Peterson |
 FAN FICTION Spec – HOW I MET YOUR MOTHERDecember 2016 Reading Written by Eugene Ramos |
 FAN FICTION Screenplay – GILLIGAN’S ISLAND OF THE DEADNovember 2016 Reading Written by Jerry Kokich |
 TV SPEC Screenplay – UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDTNovember 2016 Reading Written by Sarah Cassell |
 TV PILOT Screenplay: EMMETT IN PEOPLELAND October 2016 Reading Written by Larry Hankin |
 TV PILOT Screenplay: THE VISA October 2016 Reading Written by Conrad Haynes |  TV PILOT Screenplay: WILLOWWOOD October 2016 Reading Written by Christopher Locke |
| TV SPEC Screenplay: UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT Kimmy is a VIP October 2016 Reading Written by Mike Miller |  WEBSERIES Screenplay: TREVOR AND EVOR September 2016 Reading Written by Sasha Siljanovic |
 TV SPEC Screenplay: MODERN FAMILY September 2016 Reading Written by Chai Karve | TV PILOT Screenplay – RICK & MORTY “The Rickgotiator” August 2016 Reading Written by David Cryan |
 TV PILOT Screenplay – DIGITAL NATIVES August 2016 Reading Written by Adam Preston |  TV SPEC Screenplay – BROOKLYN NINE-NINE June 2016 Reading Written by Linsen Oyosa |
 TV PILOT Screenplay – WILD MAGIC June 2016 Reading Written by Julie Nichols |  TV PILOT Screenplay – SMITHEREENS May 2016 Reading Written by Hershel D. Rephun |
 TV SPEC Screenplay – THE MINDY PROJECT “Culture Club” May 2016 Reading Written by Katie Bero |  TV PILOT Screenplay – MARRIAGE EQUALITY April 2016 Reading Written by Jamie Pierce |
 TV PILOT Screenplay – MAILROOMIES April 2016 Reading Written by Jacques Edeline |  TV PILOT Screenplay – REC’D March 2016 Reading Written by Chris Courtney Martin |
 TV SPEC Screenplay – THE BIG BANG THEORY February 2016 Reading Written by David Minaskanian | TV SPEC – UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT January 2016 Reading Written by Jen Turriff |
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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
Submit your Comedy Screenplay or Film to the Festival Today: http://festivalforcomedy.com
See the FEATURE Screenplay Comedy Stories. Click the link and watch the winning videos:
 FEATURE Screenplay – TRIAL & ERINDecember 2016 Reading Written by Larry Shulruff |
 FEATURE Screenplay – DUE SOUTHNovember 2016 Reading Written by Even R. Schullery |
 FEATURE Screenplay: LAWN BOYS September 2016 Reading Written by Steve Cleary |  FEATURE Screenplay – THE CHARLOTTETOWN JACKHAMMER July 2016 Reading Written by Marc Lalonde |
 Feature Screenplay – DEAD NORTH April 2016 Reading Written by Alexander Nachaj |  Feature Screenplay – MISPRINTS April 2016 Reading Written by Adam Preston |
 Feature Screenplay – FOUR FOR THE BORDER February 2016 Reading Written by Toby Roberts |
 Feature Screenplay – HENRIETTA’S ODYSSEY February 2016 Reading Written by L.R. Whittinger |
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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
