When a covert genetics project goes horribly wrong and two pathological serial killers are let loose on the streets of Dublin and Munich, a tough CIA Agent seems to be the only one capable of stopping their carnage. The only problem is he cannot do this without implicating himself in a massive coverup that goes to the very heart of government.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Nadja: Val Cole
Scar Thug/The Jogger: Steve Rizzo
Little Thug): Allan Michael Brunet
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Fantastic experience! Very thrilled to have our comedy screenplay “The Wreckers” selected and showcased ….and the feedback we received was above and beyond what we thought! So helpful and beneficial. 🙂 As well these guys are so active on Twitter promoting all the selected projects – its nice to see their commitment to helping new writers / filmmakers grow! Thanks again !
We accept online submissions through Film Freeway. Click on the link BELOW to submit online through this middle-man resource website.
ALL SUBMITTED SCRIPTS GET FULL FEEDBACK – The goal of the WILDsound Film and Screenplay Festival is to help everyone involved grow as an artist, so we will offer feedback to jump start you to your next draft. If you are not fully satisfied with the feedback you receive, we will send it off to new committee members until you are fully satisfied. We understand where new and mid-level writers are coming from and we want to help you as much as we can.
WATCH past and recent script winning readings! CLICK HERE and see what happens when your script wins.
I thought it would be absolutely brilliant to hear audience feedback. It’s so key to hear this and often you don’t hear it until the very end of the filming process (when it’s too late to change it!). The initial feedback we received from the festival readers was very encouraging.
A Film Freeway Preferred Festival:
Genre: Horror, Thriller
When a group of Instasnap addicted Crazy Rich Kids ignore warnings not to go to the haunted Gomen island, fun soon turns to horror when an deadly augmented reality game forces them to #PlayOrDie. We like to think of it as Super Rich Kids of Instagram meets The Hunger Games.
CAST LIST:
Narration: Xavier de Guzman
Sofia: Carina Cojeen
Lily: Angelica Alejandro
Archie: Anthony Yu
Slick: Fabio Abreu
Here are the TOP 10 winning readings for 2018 out of over 500 submissions.
 COMEDY 1st Scene Screenplay – THE WRECKERSJanuary 2018 Reading by Kristy Leigh Lussier |
 DRAMA 1st Scene Screenplay – SCUPPERNONGSJanuary 2018 Reading by Lynne Ashe |
 1st Scene TV Screenplay – FAT VS EVILFebruary 2018 Reading by Alex Sheldon |
 ROMANCE 1st Scene Screenplay – SOMETHING LIKE FATEFebruary 2018 Reading by Matt Huntington |
 DISCORDANT – 1st Scene ScreenplayApril 2018 Reading by Ferdinand W. Gernandt |
 LGBT 1st Scene Screenplay – DELIVERY GIRLFebruary 2018 Reading by Katherine Grant Krieger |
 Winning 1st Scene Script: UNTIL THE DAY by Craig Andrews
|  Winning 1st Scene Script: REMEMBERING LIZ by Joan Beilstein
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 Winning 1st Scene Script: EDEN by Jean Barker
|  1st Scene Screenplay: MARKED by Leah PollackSeptember 2018 |
I love this festival, good communication and the actors always do a brilliant job on the scripts.
Watch over 150 1st Scene Screenplay Festival Winners:
FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants.
Are you just starting off your screenplay and want immediate feedback on your first scenes/first moments of your script?
Send your first scene (or first moments – 10pg. limit) and get feedback. Winners (at least 40 a year) get their first scene read at the MONTHLY WILDsound Screenplay Festival (see video on right for example of what you’ll get when you win).
Great way to promote your script!
Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays
Why this is the #1 Screenplay Festival and Contest in the World today!
– 0ffers screenwriters at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their scripts read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS and showcased online for 1000s to see.
– This network currently averages over 90,000 unique visitors a day and growing.
– WATCH past and recent script winning readings! CLICK HERE and see what happens when your script wins. Now showcasing x5 more winners than in the past. At least 10 winners a month.
– One of the best places in the world for the writers to sell their script and/or obtain and agent. Over 80% of our winners obtain an agent.
– No matter what happens, you will receive full feedback on your script by our established WILDsound Reading Committee. No other place in the world will you get coverage for the price you pay.
– Even if you’re just looking for feedback on your script, this is the festival for you.
It’s there for all to see. The proof is in the viewership. These videos garner 1000s of views online. Some of the screenplay readings are more popular than actual studio films made!
– Also, all winners get to be a guest on WILDsound’s popular coast to coast radio show and promote your script and your career to the world!
SUBMIT the first scene/first moments (10 pages or less) of your screenplay
You will receive feedback on your script in 3-5 weeks
The RULES are simple:
1. Write your first scene/first moments. Edit the heck out of it.
2. Email your script to 1stscenescreenplay@wildsoundfestival.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format.
In the body in the email please add your:
– FULL NAME
– CITY AND COUNTRY
– TITLE OF SCRIPT
– TYPE OF SCRIPT (1st scene entry)
– (optional) and a 1-2 line synopsis of your screenplay.
OR if you like to mail us your script with a check, please email us and we’ll make arrangements.
PLEASE ADD YOUR FULL CONTACT INFO (especially email address) on the title page of your script!
3. Pay the $25 submission fee ($10 OFF regular submission) via the button below (credit card or payment account) or include a cheque payable to WILDsound Film Festival. Please put your full contact info (name, email address) on a title page
We also accept online submissions through Film Freeway. Click on the link BELOW to submit online through this middle-man resource website.
ALL SUBMITTED SCRIPTS GET FULL FEEDBACK – The goal of the WILDsound Film and Screenplay Festival is to help everyone involved grow as an artist, so we will offer feedback to jump start you to your next draft. If you are not fully satisfied with the feedback you receive, we will send it off to new committee members until you are fully satisfied. We understand where new and mid-level writers are coming from and we want to help you as much as we can.
WATCH past and recent script winning readings! CLICK HERE and see what happens when your script wins.
First Scene and Short Film Screenplay Festival is a unique, once in a life time opportunity. It has significantly increased the attention my screenplay receives from producers, while the feedback proved remarkably helpful and insightful. The attention to detail and idea behind basing a contest on the first ten pages is what sets it apart from other competitions, and the icing on the cake is seeing and hearing actual actors read the words you’ve written.
I cannot recommend it enough!
Watch over 150 1st Scene Screenplay Festival Winners:
FULL FEEDBACK on your screenplay from our committee of Professional Screenwriters, Production Heads and Script Consultants.
Are you just starting off your screenplay and want immediate feedback on your first scenes/first moments of your script?
Send your first scene (or first moments – 10pg. limit) and get feedback. Winners (at least 40 a year) get their first scene read at the MONTHLY WILDsound Screenplay Festival (see video on right for example of what you’ll get when you win).
Great way to promote your script!
Submissions take 3-5 weeks for evaluation. Looking for screenplays
Why this is the #1 Screenplay Festival and Contest in the World today!
– 0ffers screenwriters at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their scripts read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS and showcased online for 1000s to see.
– This network currently averages over 90,000 unique visitors a day and growing.
– WATCH past and recent script winning readings! CLICK HERE and see what happens when your script wins. Now showcasing x5 more winners than in the past. At least 10 winners a month.
– One of the best places in the world for the writers to sell their script and/or obtain and agent. Over 80% of our winners obtain an agent.
– No matter what happens, you will receive full feedback on your script by our established WILDsound Reading Committee. No other place in the world will you get coverage for the price you pay.
– Even if you’re just looking for feedback on your script, this is the festival for you.
It’s there for all to see. The proof is in the viewership. These videos garner 1000s of views online. Some of the screenplay readings are more popular than actual studio films made!
– Also, all winners get to be a guest on WILDsound’s popular coast to coast radio show and promote your script and your career to the world!
SUBMIT the first scene/first moments (10 pages or less) of your screenplay
You will receive feedback on your script in 3-5 weeks
The RULES are simple:
1. Write your first scene/first moments. Edit the heck out of it.
2. Email your script to 1stscenescreenplay@wildsoundfestival.com in .pdf, .doc, .wpd, .rtf, or .fdr format.
In the body in the email please add your:
– FULL NAME
– CITY AND COUNTRY
– TITLE OF SCRIPT
– TYPE OF SCRIPT (1st scene entry)
– (optional) and a 1-2 line synopsis of your screenplay.
OR if you like to mail us your script with a check, please email us and we’ll make arrangements.
PLEASE ADD YOUR FULL CONTACT INFO (especially email address) on the title page of your script!
3. Pay the $25 submission fee ($10 OFF regular submission) via the button below (credit card or payment account) or include a cheque payable to WILDsound Film Festival. Please put your full contact info (name, email address) on a title page
We also accept online submissions through Film Freeway. Click on the link BELOW to submit online through this middle-man resource website.
ALL SUBMITTED SCRIPTS GET FULL FEEDBACK – The goal of the WILDsound Film and Screenplay Festival is to help everyone involved grow as an artist, so we will offer feedback to jump start you to your next draft. If you are not fully satisfied with the feedback you receive, we will send it off to new committee members until you are fully satisfied. We understand where new and mid-level writers are coming from and we want to help you as much as we can.
WATCH past and recent script winning readings! CLICK HERE and see what happens when your script wins.
 HALFWAY TO MARS – 1st Scene LGBT ScreenplayJune 2018 Reading by Fabian Martin |
 PIANO LESSONS – 1st Scene LGBT ScreenplayJune 2018 Reading by Nevada McPherson |
 CROSSSING THE COWHOUSE – 1st Scene LGBT ScreenplayJune 2018 Reading by David Lykes Keenan |
 UNBALANCED LIFE – 1st Scene ScreenplayJune 2018 Reading by Kristy Leigh Lussier |
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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
Genre: Drama
A financially successful couple, seeking a combination of passive income and early retirement, take a trip from California to Florida at the invite of Miami businessman who is seeking investors in the financial recovery of the local real estate markets. Their business trip soon turns into a fight for survival as there is more to this trip than meets the eye.
CAST LIST:
Narrator: Carina Cojeen
John: Christopher Huron
Kathy: Carly Tisdall
Miguel: Peter Nelson
Jessica: Alicia Ryan
Driver: David Occhipinti
Get to know the writer:
1. What is your screenplay about?
An early 30’s couple is flown from California to Florida by a Real Estate Investor with an opportunity that appears too good to be true. Once they arrive the couple soon realizes they have fallen into the hands of a con man and his “Henchmen”. They are robbed, taken hostage and beaten as their journey to financial security soon becomes a fight for survival and terrifying encounters in an abandoned home development out in the middle of nowhere.
2. What genres does your screenplay fall under?
Suspense/Thriller
2. Why should this screenplay be made into a movie?
Preys on everyone’s fears of helplessness, out of contact and running out of options. A true roller coaster ride.
3. How would you describe this script in two words?
Page turner.
4. What movie have you seen the most times in your life?
John Carpenter’s Halloween.
5. How long have you been working on this screenplay?
Four months with multiple rewrites until I felt the story came to a believable ending.
6. How many stories have you written?
Multiple spec screenplays – Two Horror, Five Suspense/Thrillers, Three character studies, One Sci-fi, and three short screenplays all falling under the Suspense/Thriller genre.
7. What motivated you to write this screenplay?
Years ago I was watching many news broadcasts on the home foreclosure years and the effects it has on people. I was watching one in particular about some of the areas in Florida that were hit hardest. Watching the news footage of abandoned, looted homes and the overgrown yards made me think how scary it would be to drive through those areas wondering if squatters or some kind of criminal element is hiding in that house or that house?. At that time my wife and I were working with a Real Estate investor and one of his hobbies is camping and hunting. One day I sat down with a note pad and wrote an outline for the story based on all these scenarios, took it to the extreme and wrote the screenplay.
8. What obstacles did you face to finish this screenplay?
Coming up with a credible backstory on the protagonists and giving the “Bad guy” more motivation to become the type of criminal has has. Then after I realized the original ending was too “Sugar coated” I rewrote the ending several times until I came up with one that provided the reader with an opportunity to feel vindicated.
9. Apart from writing, what else are you passionate about?
Real Estate Investing, Photography, Travel and Music.
10. What influenced you to enter the festival? What were your feelings on the initial feedback you received?
The genre of scripts I was working on. The feedback has been both positive and encouraging. By the synopsis at the beginning of the feedback stage, I can tell the reader truly does a thorough job of reading the script and comes up with good ideas to add and delete certain scenes as well as giving some characters a bit more background. Has truly benefited me as a writer.
11. You entered your screenplay via FilmFreeway. What has been your experiences working with the submission platform site?
Great. In October 2017 a Spec I’d written (Nowhere-Ville) won the Action/Adventure feature script and got a table reading on YouTube which was really a kick. My first experience in the rewrite and “Production” phase of screenwriting. Truly exciting to see actors performing your written material.
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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 First Scene to the Festival: http://firstscenescreenplay.com
Watch the January 2017 1st Scene Script Winners:
 1st SCENE Script – INT. CAR – NIGHT January 2017 Reading Written by Martin Keady |
 1st SCENE Script – FAN SITE January 2017 Reading Written by Elisha Barnes |
 1st SCENE Script – OCD January 2017 Reading Written by Quyen Tran |
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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
 SUBMIT your TV PIOT Screenplay or TV SPEC ScriptVoted #1 TV Contest in North America. |
 SUBMIT your SHORT Screenplay or FEATURE ScriptFULL FEEDBACK on all entries. Get your script performed |
 FIRST SCENE (first 10pgs) Screenplay CONTESTSubmit the first stages of your film and get full feedback! |
Submit your First Scene to the Festival: http://firstscenescreenplay.com
Watch the November 2016 1st Scene Script Winners:
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THE BURIED MOON AND HER DAUGHTERCAST LIST:
NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne |
SYNOPSIS:
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Drama
About a clairvoyant eight year old who strikes out with her ghost friend Debbie to save the buried moon.
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GOD’S LITTLE GAGCAST LIST:
RANDY – Hugh Ritchie |
SYNOPSIS:
Genre: Drama, Romance, Action/Adventure, Thriller, Mystery
Plays from the perspective of a bedridden patient who – in the beginning – is unable to communicate his thoughts to the world.
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20/20: SEARCH FOR INDEPENDENCECAST LIST:
NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne |
SYNOPSIS:
Genre: Thriller, Political Drama
An inventor with a plan that would replace oil must survive while forces in China, Canada and the United States vie for the technology.
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Director/Producer: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com
Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne
Editor: John Johnson
First Scene Screenplay Festival 