July, 1977. After reuniting with family in the backwoods town of Angel City, a young black man struggles to survive after sparking a chain of catastrophic events. A tale of Southern Gothic horror.
CAST LIST:
Marian: Vanessa Quagliara
Jamie: Daniel Jones
Jake: Luke Robinson
Narrator: Regan Brown
Carol: Cassandra Guthrie
Old Cook: Julie Sheppard
Latham: Scott McCullouch
A mild-manner computer virus help desk technician searches for the meaning of love and finds himself entangled in a battle for his soul against a super hacker inflicting emotional terrorism across the nation.
CAST LIST:
Kurietia (20s) – 3 – Barbara Bergeron
Auto Conductor – 1 – Steve Saet
Narration – David Occhipinti
Father (30s) – 13 – Michael Ruhs
Daughter (12) – 7 – Ella A
First you use machines; then you wear machines; then you… A message splattered on the subway walls fifty years ago and now, today, the battle cry of the anti-techno revolution.
CAST LIST:
Michael – Malcolm Allcorn
Male #2 – Brogan Caulfield
Narration – Bree Ali
Bromm – Ted Power
Female – Katelyn Varadi
Announcer – Danielle Nicole
It’s about a group of unscrupulous ghost-hunters that find what they’re looking for… and more.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Horror.
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
The screenplay embraces our favorite elements from Roger Corman and John Carpenter. We wanted to make a small film, single-location, but with enough drive and intrigue to keep the story moving forward. These types of films are very difficult to write effectively, but when they work… they’re magic.
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Lynch-Lite.
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Dr. Strangelove.
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
On and off for several years. Picking it up, here and there. Always came back to it because we were having so much fun.
7. How many stories have you written?
Stories? Too many to list. I published many in small literary magazines, back when I was fresh out of college. We’ve worked on probably ten screenplays together.
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
Cold Shot – Stevie Ray Vaughan.
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
There were no real obstacles, other than time constraints. It wasn’t a difficult process. As I said, we were having so much fun writing it, there weren’t any obstacles to speak of. When you like what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Film, of course. Travel. History. Museums.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
Seems very intuitive.
12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
Looking for exposure. As for feedback, we’re still neophytes.
A near-future dream expert with dream-reading technology, known professionally for her stance that “dreams mean nothing”, freaks when her husband’s dreams reveal an affair and a murder–hers.
Forty winks is about the struggle between knowledge and fear, belief and self-doubt. The main character is a scientist, supposedly unemotionally committed to conclusions drawn from years of research, her life’s work. But when this commitment comes into conflict with her beliefs about herself, her marriage and by extension her sense of self worth, it falters, because of a deep and very human insecurity, the possibility or “what if” that she is wrong, that she is unworthy, that she is unloved.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
It’s an erotic thriller and a mystery-drama, but the tension beneath the surface is often superseded by the comedy of life.
3. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
It’s exciting and really intriguing with the angle of looking into dreams, the realistic nature of their representation (random, mundane, absurd, frightening), the macabre turn they take in terms of adultery and murder, and the whodunit guessing game between multiple characters.
4. How would you describe this script in two words?
Waking Nightmare
5. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
Sunset Boulevard
6. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
A year
7. How many stories have you written?
Dozens
8. What is your favorite song? (Or, what song have you listened to the most times in your life?)
You Send Me
9. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Getting the third act right
10. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Women’s rights
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
Fine
12. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
I like readings. I thought the reader misunderstood my intentions a little.