Month: July 2025

Audience Awards:Best Feature Film: Stratagem The MovieBest Direction: Tea TimeBest Short Film: Excess Baggage Stratagem The Movie, 111min.,Directed by Rick E. CuttsRellik and his girlfriend Nosaer witness a crime and are immediately on the run as they try and elude a killer who seems to always be one step ahead of them. Will they escape… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: July 2025 THRILLER/SUSPENSE Film Festival

After a wrongful execution sends rock star, John Santo to the morgue, he rises from the dead, thinking he has a second chance to clear his name, but when he’s thrust into a life-and-death struggle to rescue his kidnapped daughter, Angela from renegade pastor, Sonny Romeo — Satan stands in John’s way, demanding his soul… Continue reading THRILLER Best Scene Reading: EXECUTED AND RISEN, by Salvatore A. Bono

After being embedded with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, which ends in tragedy, a journalist heads to rural Maine to fully recover and finds herself on the frontlines of another battle, between a family of wolves and the ruthless land developer who wants them hunted down. After a comrade dies in a horrific incident on… Continue reading THRILLER/SUSPENSE Best Scene: THE LANGUAGE OF WOLVES, by Nan Schmid

Dr. Frank vows to climb Machu Picchu after his son is killed in Afghanistan and he suffers a major myocardial infarction. A feel-good story. https://www.machopicchu.movie/ CAST LIST: Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss Frank: Geoff Mays Mack: Sean Ballantyne Larry: Shawn Devlin