MATCH DAY, 14min., USA, Family Directed by Clay Randel After watching her favorite team lose in dramatic fashion, a young soccer fan must navigate the stages of loss with the help of her recently divorced father.
MIRACLE IN MISSOULA, 39min,. USA, Documentary Directed by Dawson Ahrenstorff A documentary featuring the greatest comeback in Brawl of the Wild history and the unbridled passion for football between the University of Montana and Montana State.
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RAISING GLOBAL CITIZENS, 80min., Canada, Adventure Documentary Directed by Joel Primus A couple with two young children decide to embark on a year long journey across the world, travelling through Argentina, Colombia, The Yukon, Vietnam and Lebanon, in hopes of learning how parenting and world travel combine, and what it means to be a citizen of the world.
Director Statement Travel documentary is a popular and growing genre in film, yet often doesn’t delve into wider issues, like the effect of globalism and international tourism on the recipient…
Submit a screenplay that is only 1 page long and have it performed at the Writing Festival by professional actors.
(NOTE: The screenplay submission must be properly formatted.)
Submit for only $20. Most of the screenplays will be accepted and performed. If there is a beginning/middle/end, and the grammar is sound, we will perform it.
A great way to get your words out there, obtain the Agent you’re looking for or just get your story and work seen by more people. If you win, your story will be seen by 100,000s of people when it’s read online using top professional actors. It’s a rush you’ll never experience in your life seeing it come to life that way.
The RULES are simple:
1. Write a story that is 1pg. maximum. Edit the heck out of it. We accept all genres.
Submit a short story that is only 1 page long (maximum 400 words) and have it performed at the Writing Festival by a professional actor. Also garner FULL FEEDBACK on your work.
Submit for only $20. Most of the stories will be accepted and performed. If there is a beginning/middle/end, and the grammar is sound, we will perform it.
A great way to get your words out there, obtain the Agent you’re looking for or just get your story seen by more people. If you win, your story will be seen by 100,000s of people when it’s read online using a top professional actor. It’s a rush you’ll never experience in your life seeing it come to life that way.
The RULES are simple:
1. Write a story that is 1pg. maximum. Edit the heck out of it. We accept novels in all genres.
UNTIL DOWN, 73min., Spain, Ballet/Experimental Directed by Horacio Alcala Behind the scenes we are witnesses to Giselle’s misery: she sees her interior self broken and falling into a lonely and eternal dance that leads her to madness and death. She then descends to the underworld, leaving her soul forever dark in the eternal night.
Audience Award Winners: Best Short Film: THE HANDBOOK Best Cinematography: SCARLETT O. Best Performances: SALVAR Best Animationm: OM NOM NOM…., Best Direction: OKAY Best Crime Film: THE BETTER TO EAT WITH YOU
Best Drama Film: THE GUEST
Best Thriller Film: SCARED TO DEATH
Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:
SALVAR, 29min., South Korea, Horror
Directed by Sangwook Ahn
Su-hyeong, who visited the shrine after asking around to find his missing mother, meets Grandmother Shin, a shaman, there. She says he was possessed by an evil, so he needs a salpuri(exorcism). In the process, it turns out that he is being chased by debtors due to his mother’s surgery expenses. For finding his mother, he decides to exorcise. However, finding out that the salpuri was an organ extraction surgery performed in the name of saving the spirit in the body, he struggles to get out of it.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE HANDBOOK, 8min., USA, Horror
Directed by Brandon Carraway
Two Latter-day Saint missionaries visit the home of a wicked lady.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
OKAY, 22min., Egypt, Horror
Directed by Seif Sayed Abdel Raouf
A young man experiences strange events when his parents send him to their newly bought house.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
HELLSCAPE, 9min., USA, Horror
Directed by Sam Sorenson
A mother searches for the spiritual truth about where her daughter’s soul went after being murdered.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SCARLETT O., 6min., USA, Horror
Directed by Alexandra Tebano, Dale Johnson
A tortured woman is stuck in the purgatory in her own mind forced to relive the same excruciating moment over and over again.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE OLD MAN IN THE ROCKING CHAIR, 20min., USA, Horror
Directed by Niko El Santo Zavero
A young abusive house keeper and an elderly man in a rocking chair become involved in a series of mysterious murderous in an isolated mansion.
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OM NOM NOM…., 3min., Japan, Horror/Animation
Directed by Minato Matsuda, Haruna Ueno, Tomoko Taiga
One day, a hungry dinosaur came across a weird jumping egg in the forest. He swallowed it, and then felt some strange rumblings in his tummy. Well, well, well…
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
FINGER, 7min., Canada, Horror
Directed by Brandon Wickson
After killing his bride on the night of their wedding, a deranged man must come to terms with his guilt.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
THE BETTER TO EAT WITH YOU, 17min., USA, Crime/Thriller
Directed by Paolo Cerrino
A serial killer on the run has to face his own demons and decide if he’s going to turn himself to the police or continue his murderous rampage.
WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!
SCARED TO DEATH, 5min., UK, Drama
Directed by Flame Brewer Scared To Death is set in 2020 at the start of a pandemic. The psychological thriller/horror follows John Doe, a doomsday prepper. As death rates are starting to rise, John frantically gathers his belongings to rush to his bunker. Before leaving, he returns to grab his lucky charm. On reaching the car he fumbles and drops his mobile phone down a drain. More distraught than ever he rushes to his hidden bunker to lock himself away from the world outside.
THE GUEST, 15min., USA, Drama Directed by Vignesh ‘Kaushik’ Vaithyanathan A surprise guest arrives to remind a young Indian bride in America of all she has left behind.
Watch the Winning LGBTQ+ Feature Festival Today: FRANCHESKA: PRAIRIE QUEEN, 64min., Canada, Documentary Directed by Laura Lynn O’Grady
It’s hard to be a superstar when you have a midnight frontline shift to show up for. Francheska: Prairie Queen follows the journey of Filipino care worker Francis (Kiko) Yutrago, as he tries to achieve drag star superstardom while still financially supporting his family back in the Philippines. Adding complexity to his quest is where Kiko and his fiancé Cody choose live: a tiny bible belt town in southern Alberta, population 956.
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LIFE AFTER DEATH? – SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE, 50min., India
Directed by Iqbal Chand Malhotra
The most intriguing enigma of modern India is the disappearance of her most dynamic and daring freedom fighter, ‘Netaji’ Subhash Chandra Bose, in the middle of August, 1945. Though the goal of a free India was achieved in 1947, there was no trace of the man who had wanted this most passionately through armed struggle; inspired millions to contribute to his war effort and enthused thousands to join his Indian National Army, to fight alongside the Japanese against the British-Indian Forces in South and South-East Asia. Even 77 years later, the mystery stands unresolved with important documents in Russia, France, the UK, and even in India, hidden in top-secret classified archives. The conflicting stories and accounts of this disappearance remain and so do the myriad theories that point to diverse directions.
Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival 